One of my favorite young producers of filthy, glitchy and crunky tunes, NastyNasty has just released on xlr8r for free download his sick edit of the totally mental Huarache by another young gun on the heavy bass / dubstep scene - Loops Haunt, hailing from UK. I'm a total sucker for Loops Haunt seriously twisted synths and off-the-hook non-synchronous beat or crispy industrial pads and snares. Don't know how, but NastyNasty somehow managed to turn this tune into even nastier business!
Filthy, drug-peddling midgets attack decent citizens in a highly entertaining, crunky track by Glitchy & Scratchy from the best Canadian crew of Integrated Grime Unit, including a few nice samples and the beat you should recognize. More jokes of this type, please :))
I'm a big fan of Robot Koch and his Death Star Droid was the best album of 2009 in Doktor Krank's ranking. Some time ago Robot Koch released an EP with remixes of the tracks from that album, plus one new tune - Blind again featuring Grace who was a guest vocalist on DSD. A powerful, yet fragile, voice of Grace laced with the Robert's fluid beat and a few layers of synths builds up to heavy bass culmination in this much-too-short journey. Another new work is Robot Koch's remix of New Day, by the Brooklyn-based Body Language (they release stuff on Machine Drum's Normrex). I don't know the original but this remix has a peculiar neon quality, reminding me strongly of sunny LuckyMe stuff.
Then, fLako steps in with a heavily glitched up edit of the title track Death Star Droid - for me the highlight of the entire release next to the Phon.o's remix. Loops Haunt mercilessly throws his sick drums, kicks, pads, bass or whatever he seems to have at hand into one boiling and twisting off-beat syncopation in his very unique vision of Gorom Sen. Another remix of Gorom Sen by young, talanted beatmaker from LA - Shlohmo, has already made some rounds in the blogosphere before the release. Future beat par excellence!!
Blue Daisy takes the listener to a dreamy fairyland for a trippy ride through etheric sonic landscape which virtually desintegrates into nothingness 'in front of our ears'. TUNE!!
Gorom Sen's remixes by Body Language from NYC and Beat Laden from Portugal (props for the name!!!!) are more 'classic' joints for dancefloors, whereas Talen introduced quite a nice pumping, oldschool, electro vibe which reminds me of the late 90's parties. This track has some vintage quality it's really hard for me to verbalize :)
The successful release is crowned with fantastic Phon.o's remix of Gorom Sen. It's a great dancefloor-oriented roller with beautiful synths and pumping beats. You will be hooked up instantly with infectious '8-bit meets oldschool garage in Berlin' type of aesthetics. Cop it and blast it looouuud!
Starting from a preview of the second single from the forthcoming Starkey's full-length Ear Drums and Black Holes feat. Anneka. The same girl with whom Starkey created the track from a scratch in a fantastic beat building show in Mary Anne Hobbs Experimental (read more here) ... and a remix by Slugabed on top. Can't wait!
Then moving to the best track on the not-so-stark Fabric's compilation Elevator Music vol.1, namely Starkey's Black Monolith. I really like the vibe and flow of this beautiful track.
You all probably heard about a new fat and dope pack of Bassnectar remixes of his highly acclaimed Cozza Frenzy album. The remixers include Stagga, DJ Vadim, Noah D, Roommate, J.Boogie, RJD2, and finally Robot Koch. The master of twisted beats, bleeps and vintage sound treats from Berlin has proved his fantastic production skills again offering one of the best reworks in the pack, next to crazy Stagga's trademark wobbly bassline joint. Robot Koch totally abandoned the characteristic Bassnectar melodic synths-driven bassline of the original adding more stomping, fast drums, pads and changing the bassline into heavy, whompy biznis. Serious head-nodding highly required in this case. Gimme more mister!
That's not all from Robot Koch. On 26th February he will release the EP with remixes of his fantastic debut full-lenth album Death Star Droid. For me personally it was the record of 2009, thus I'm very very anxhiously waiting for this pack to drop. The more so, as remixers include a few of the super hot names on the future beat circuit, like e.g. UK's wunderkid Loops Haunt or SF-based youngster Shlohmo!!!! As a foretaste, and as a gift for for a free dowload, here is a Phon.o refix of Gorom Sen. It's a great dancefloor-oriented roller with beautiful synths and pumping beats. Cop it and blast it looouuud!
