I'm back from holidays and still full of energy, I'd like to share with you a nice bundle of bass-heavy hip-hop remixes by Andrew Thaggard a.k.a. BoomBaptist, hailing from Austin USA (BTW, I hope you're safe man amidst fire apocalypse raging outside your city). BoomBaptist decided ot give away his favorite remixes in preparation to his first ever West Coast tour, including the gig at infamous Low End Theory. The highlights of this package include the remix of one of my all-time anthems, i.e. Throw Some D's by Rich Boy, with mesmerizing synths and great dreamy vibe, next to Lucifer's Lullaby featuring sick sub-bass and great vocalizations by M.O.P. The rest is equally good. Grab this music for free, definitely worth checking.
Watch out for this guy's official Guilty Simpson's remix, on Fat Beats and his split 7" with Dibiase on Mummed record coming soon!
Fancy some proper heavy-bass, glitch hop mix? MiHKAL, a Symbiosis artist hailing from Oakland (CA), has delivered great, spacey bass-meditation in his SNUGLiFE. Very concise subs all across the board and lots lots of sick drops and fantastic synths. Great listening pleasure. Highly recommended.
SNUGLiFE by MiHKAL
Tracklist:
1. Rigzin & Knowa Knowone ~ Dedication
2. Telepopmusik ~ Breathe (MiMOSA Remix)
3. Phaeleh ~ Afterglow (Akira Kiteshi Remix)
4. Eastern Sun & Oscure ~ Third Eye High (R/D Remix)
5. MiMOSA vs. PANTyRAiD vs. Widdler vs. Art of Noise ~ Fine Day On That Kryptonite (MiHKAL MA$HUP)
6. Sharps ~ The Growth
7. Joker & TC ~ It Ain't Got A Name
8. NiT GRiT ~ Grit Shifter
9. ChrisB. ~ Redshift
10. Guttstar ~ Lunar Stick Shift
11. MiMOSA ~ Your Love
12. Massive Attack ~ Teardrop (Knight Riderz Remix)
13. Gladkill ~ That Girl Is Trouble
14. MIA ~ Caps Lock (MiHKAL REMiXXX)
15. Portishead + PANTyRAiD + Glitch Mob + Marty Party + Emalkay + Bassnectar ~ Enter The Whateva (MiHKAL MA$HUP)
16. Mix n' Blend ft. Rayelle ~ First Light
17. John Lennon ~ Imagine (NiCo LuMinouS Remix)
artwork by Marty Kenney
...Infinite Love & Gratitude to all of the artists featured on this mix...
The king of lazers n bass n bounce + verb has just released 2 synthetic goodies of impecabble production quality and crispy clean sound. His music output is so huge recently, I wonder when this guy sleeps? After very well received remix on the latest Starkey's EP - Space Traitor vol. 1, + verb does not stop and graces us with more of his famous beautiful distortions. And hey, in his case quantity comes with quality, which you can prove by listening to these two heavy-bass meditations with Problemz being my favorite.
You should also check a recent Xmas Mini Miz by +verb including his originals and two collaborations with Richard Sweat and Stephan Jacobs. Great soundtrack to an SF thriller: "Help! I've been abducted by vicious, robotic aliens who love to torture their victims with sick, devilish music" :)))
The "Labyrinth" EP by Kraddy is coming (Alpha Pup, Nov 8). Yep, finally! I have been waiting for this quite anxiously, not only to compare his new material to that of his former mates from The Glitch Mob, but to hear some extra bass heavy bombs which I'm sure will be there :) To sweeten up the waiting time for the release Kraddy prepared dirty'n'soul mix full of ill tunes. Highly recommended!
The word from the man himself: I put together something heavy and soulful for you. A few choice tracks from some of my favorite artists. Every track in this mix is a standout to me. These are tracks that aren’t afraid to get grimey with it – tracks that push the envelope and do it with style. Turn it on and turn it up. And don’t be afraid to get dirty, cause dirty got soul.
TRACKLISTING:
1. MILANESE – BILLY HOLOGRAM
2. BEN SAMPLES – BLOOD ON THE HANDLE
3. TWO DOLLAR HOOKER – BREATH SO NEAR [FINE CUT BODIES PSYCHOSTEP MOD]
4. R/D – TEH REMIX
5. TOM BURBANK – STICKY FUNK
6. MISSILL – INVINCIBLE [MOCHIPET REMIX]
7. ALEX B – AT CHANNEL ONE
8. STAR SLINGER – GIMMIE
9. KRADDY – MONO
10. KRADDY – NO COMPLY
Let me please introduce mutant glitch hop par excellence. A f****g banger, I tell you. Zarkov -a homie from Glitch Hop Forum and a part of new, interesting collective of beatmakers Tape Death hailing from Australia - remixed the first single of the debut release One Way Ticket by Adelaide's leading hip-hop crew Pagan Elypsis. Zarkov created a banging monster of midtempo bass heaven. I can't wait to feed this beast to my car's sound system and cruise the streets with subs pumped up full turning my car into one big boombox on wheels :)) Ride ooooooon!
Eprom has posted on his bandcamp a very nice collection of his unreleased bangers, with super faaaaaaaaat bass. You know you want this badly!! Great slow-burning rollers to make your subwoofers happy :)
The word from the man himself: The Bay Area EP is a collection of unsigned, previously unreleased EPROM bangers from a period where I was heavily influenced by the bass-heavy trunk rattling sounds coming from the SF Bay. This is for all my bay heads and for lovers of bass worldwide. Pay what you like!
Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !! This is the shit I've been waiting to put my ears on! EPROM finally drops his mixtape which you can download from his bandcamp. His legendary 2009 Mixtape has been on constant rewind in my soundystem for months. RobotSexTape will follow the same path, I'm sure. It is sickness all across the beats, bleeps, pieces and sick basslines. EPROM rulez. No tracklist yet. Peeps in Europe beware - in September EPROM will (or already invaded) a city near you - definitely Manchester, Amsterdam and some more. Sadly, not a city near me :(
NastyNasty is baaad, filthy and beautiful in this mind-twisting, bass-heavy way. I am his devoted fan and has never been disappointed with the quality of his music which combines robotic machines on one hand and a lot of deep feelings and emotions on the other. He has recently released an EP Puke Paint on FriteNiteshowcasing his absolutely unique mastering of distorted synths and ultra heavy basslines. The EP includes the track I fell in law from the first hearing, i.e. Toxenne. It is an absolute banger of enormous heat and the synths will burn big holes in your brain. Trust my werd! The rest of the material is equally good. One of the best releases this year without a doubt. I attach one free track for your listening pleasure.
That's not all from the lazer boy :) SF Weekly Blog has published an exclusive Lazer Soul Mini Mix by NastyNasty. 22 minutes of absolute bass-heavy heaven. NastyNasty himself provided insightful descriptions to the tracks in his mix :)
NastyNasty "Priceless (Edit)"
The live edit of one of my staple openers. It's a lonely city we live in, so on the rare occasion that you meet someone worth spending time with, you'd better tell them. If you're bad with words like I am, this is how you tell them.
NastyNasty "Choker (Dub)"
I had the biggest crush on this girl. I actually told myself last February that I wouldn't date until 2010, but I broke down in December for her. The vocal snippets borrowed from Usher's "You Got it Bad" were synonymous with the sentiments I felt at the time.
NastyNasty "Melting You (Dub)"
It's really no wonder this track mixes so well with "Choker," as they're about the same girl. Once I finally had the nerve to tell her about my crush, I then began the process of breaking down all of our silly, guarded boundaries. "Melting You" is a song about breaking down little walls to see what lies beneath.
NastyNasty "No Names V.I.P. (Dub)"
After a year of playing the original a few times a week, I was bored with this one. After another six months, I was downright annoyed by it. Undoubtedly my most popular song to date, I knew it'd be cruel to eject it from the sets altogether, so I made this V.I.P. edit of "No Names" both to keep me interested and give the audience something special. Fun fact: "No Names" is about the furthest thing from a love song. The vocal samples were originally intended as painfully tongue-in-cheek. I was in the wake of one of my most painful breakups when writing the original, and I would have given the left side of my face just to speak to her again.
NastyNasty "West Coast Hardcore (Dub)"
I didn't grow up on electronic music by any means. I listened to a lot more Misfits and Black Flag than Stockhausen or Kraftwerk. I made a series of short tracks that took aesthetics from my roots in punk and applied them to bass music. I sort of took punk's minimalistic effectiveness and simple structure and wrapped loud bass and synthesizers around it. Due in no small part to its simplicity, this track has proven itself to be one of the most effective tracks in my repertoire. Almost instantly resonating with people, this one rips through dancefloors like a slithering cattle prod.
NastyNasty "DEAD STAR"
A good portion of the stars we see at night are, in fact, dead. They have actually been dead for hundreds of thousands of years, and their light is just now reaching us. Comparatively, a good portion of the stars we see on TMZ are dead. They have also been dead for years, and are simply hollow shells of former individuals kept inflated by teams of media moguls until they lose their tabloid usefulness. Deep shit, yo.
Nit GriT & NastyNasty "Say My Name (Dub)"
Both outsiders to the scene, more or less, Nit GriT and I frequently bounce ideas off of each other. When we finally sat down in the studio together, it was sheer mayhem. Like Rusko, Danny (a.k.a Nit GriT) has a flare for pairing melodies with aggressive dubstep sounds, so I knew when we sat down together we'd have quite a pairing on our hands. Also for the record, I totally love Destiny's Child. "I'm a survivor, I'm not gon' give up..."
The Knife "Behind the Bushes (NastyNasty Remix)"
When I first started NastyNasty, I did alot of mainstream rap and R&B remixes. I got to a point where I realized that, while it got me alot of attention early on, it would undoubtedly become a crutch, and if I wanted any sort of longevity in this game, I would need to stand on my own two legs. Having put a ban on doing full-fledged remixes of any mainstream rap or R&B, I now look to other sources when it comes time to pretty up my live sets or color a blog with a remix. The Knife is pretty much awesome. Initially, I was gearing up to remix "Heartbeats," but in all truth, I'd be hard pressed to make that song any better than it already is. "Behind the Bushes" (the closing number on The Knife's Deep Cuts album), however, struck me as the perfect number to re-appropriate and incorporate into my sound.
NastyNasty "Out Here (Dub)"
In the words of Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, "I am trying to break your heart." I'd say about 75 to 85 percent of the songs I make are about love or the lack thereof, and I feel like I'm failing if I don't rip your heart directly through your ears at some point during my set. One of the beautiful things about music is that it can make us feel less alone in our moments of darkness. I find most of my best music comes in times of loneliness because -- contrary to the definition of the term -- it is a universal feeling that we all take part in at some point; we are more or less unified as humans by the sense that we are alone in the world.
NastyNasty "Pictures (Dub)"
I'm not famous by any stretch of the imagination, but I have managed to make a bit of a name for myself in the last year or so. As my music travels, my name travels with it, and as my name travels, so does interest in the person behind the name. This is all kind of abrupt and a bit jarring for somebody like me, who is, by nature, a bit of a hermit. People want bios, pictures, stories, and gossip. All I want is a secluded space with some speakers and my laptop. There is a delicate dance going on between my actual person and my professional self.
NastyNasty "Bad Scene (Dub)"
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." --Hunter S. Thompson
NastyNasty "Sore Loser"
I am not a perfect person by any means, but I do want better for myself and for others. Hope paired with activity is what makes humans so special in my opinion. And not just the fact that we can wish for good, but our willingness to execute those ideas.
NastyNasty "Perforate (Dub)"
[London-based electronic music label] Planet Mu contacted me about doing a release earlier this year, and, being the longtime Planet Mu fan that I am, I was ecstatic. I instantly sent them a catalog of what I considered to be my best work. [Label head] Mike Paradinas rejected a large body of my work, and encouraged me to keep sending tracks as I finished them so long as they were "in a different musical key." It was the first time I had been called out for my endless use of G minor, and I was a bit angry, to be quite honest. I made "Perforate" as a keyless track to transition between keys during my live set, as I set out to expand my key range, and also as a kind of abrasive 'Eff you, I can totally work in other keys, dude,' track. [It's a] mean little bugger to boot.
Starkey "Robot Hands (NastyNasty Remix)"
Starkey has been a favorite of mine for quite some time now, so when I was asked to do a remix for his release for Civil Music, I jumped on the opportunity. The original is quite a weird tune even by my standards, and if anything, my remix stands to normal it out a bit. Although, it's still rather leftfield.
This man never does wrong! Mochipet blasts your speakers / earphones again! The tracks he have been steadily unleashing on the public recently grow into 'epic' trips, each and every of them. I can barely wait for his two releases coming soon.
Yo, Dubliners. It's Friday 13th, great time to get scared by proper heavy bass and broken beat. On behalf of the Idle Gravity Slaves crew let me invite you to the new regular nite in Dub City, a double feature treat taking place tonite @ Murrays Top Floor (33/34 Upper O'Connel Street). And then regularly every Friday.
My brother (Boytek Smitchuk), who currently lives in Dublin, with the support of heavy-weight members of his crew will start chilling you from 6 p.m. just to prepare you for a 10 p.m. head-on dive into the deepest pits of heavy bass hell. You know you can't miss such an opportunity. You better remember this name and tell others that the notorious Dk Krank was the guy from whom you learnt about this new, successfull (I hope) regular event in your beautiful city. Roight??
"We'll bounce, and we'll pump, and we'll blow your house". So they bounced, and they pumped, and they pumped, and they bounced, and at last they blew a f...g hole in my head with their frigging music!! I love oldschool rave frenzy and sheer no-limit approach to production of Clever Dick + Smart Alec from the Squire of Gothos. Therefore I grabbed this stuff and immediately fed it to my player, while at first switching off a few million neurons and immersing head-on in the sick mix of S.O.G. own tunes and remixes. Chewing Minnows, Old Skool Shit and a remix of Bruce Stallion's track are simply amazing! Take the rollercoaster ride without any restraints and reset your mind before the weekend. Refreshing...
To celebrate his appearance in Fabric on 12 June 2009, Dj Craze invites all of you to listen to his brand-spanking-new mix. He will play alongside Scratch Perverts, Klever, Patchwork Pirates with other big names represented in other rooms.
The tracklist of this mix is stellar. I will just use three words: eclectic, bouncy and bass-heavy. He somehow managed to combine all the best tracks and remixes flying high (my subjective view at least) recently in the blogosphere and prepared a tasty mish-mash of electronic soundz, starting from the best electro track in history (again my subjective view) - i.e. Dominator, here in Herve's refix, through artists you'd see regularly on the roll in such mixes, i.e. Major Lazer, L-Vis 1990, Jack Beats Jack, Hostage, DZ, Foamo to Buraka Som Sistema. Don't sleep on it.
