Donky Pitch Radio - Donky X Hivemind vol. 3

Great Donky Pitch radio show recorded in December 2010 by Grinel & Nameless Pete (aka Donky Pitch DJs) - Donky X Hivemind Volume 3. Plenty of exclusives and upfront heat, incl. monster hip hop bash (a totally 'osom Lloyd Banks in Start it Up), cold skwee bonanza, synth-driven bass orgy and future, broken - wot u call it - sound and experimental trips.  Starting from mutant beats by West Coast newcomer to the scene - Jon Wayne, through tunes by Tokimonsta, Lunice, Motem, Randy Barracuda (sick sick!), Beatbully with 8-bit Drom - another skweentastic shit, beautiful dBridge remix, top quality Rudi Zygadlo, fantastic, forthcoming Black Acre release by 1000 Names - Before Sunrise or crazy synth improvisations by  Romanian wizzkid - Montgomery Clunk in a bonus track from his, great Superbas EP. Plus tons of other equally goods treats. Some of them, I've never heard of, it's haight time to catch up, Doktor :). Eclectic, educational and highly entertaining show offers two hours of hot, FUTURE electronic music with top selection. Yes, I am not afraid of using this over-used adjective, there is so much fresh juice in there - yummy! Don't sleep on this.

Donky Pitch Radio - Donky X Hivemind vol. 3 (direct download)

Donky X Hivemind Vol 3 by Donky_Pitch on Mixcloud

OSCILLATIONS PT. 1

Juslikemusic  me and Apple Juice Break released a fantastic compilation Oscillations pt. 1

"Oscillations is a FREE digital compilation presented by Jus Like Music and Apple Juice Break designed to help spread the word of amazing music by amazing artists from the genres of hip-hop, electronica, neo-soul, dubstep and anywhere in between! Featuring primarily exclusive, or at least previously unreleased material, each of the two parts contains around 20 tracks. The release will also come packaged with a pdf booklet full of info on the artists, plus a showcase of art by an array of incredibly talented visual artists"

This is an absolute must for any fan of future hip-hop / EDM / glitch hop/ beatz and heavy bass. Honestly speaking, I don't recognize more than half of the artists, but this just adds to the charm of this quality compilation. The package starts from a real bomb by Broken Haze hailing from Tokyo, Japan. Block will take your breath away with the sheer power of unrestrained beat and synths, sounding like a joint jam by Glitch Mob and Rustie. Om Unit from UK (well this name you definitely heard!) in equally successful tune goes deeper and darker, while Chairman Kato from London again rides the path of neon synths and heavy bass with lots of bleeps and occasional lazers. Well there are too many tracks to describe them in detail, but an overall quality is really astounding for this type of compilation. Apart from the three above mentioned killers, other highlights were provided by Vital, Decepticon Bootleg Machine, le N?KO, Bluntspeakers and BUG. Great food for your mind and body, already stoked to hear pt. 2!! Go to the bandcamp site and download the entire package for free.

Tracklist of pt.1:


01. Broken Haze – Block
02. Om Unit – Neptune
03. Chairman Kato – No Coincidence
04. Vital – Gaffer Tape
05. T.Hemingway – Dirty
06. le N?KO – Crushed Universes
07. Decepticon Bootleg Machine – Orbit162
08. Lunice – Perpetual Leisure
09. Invisible Inc – Paradise
10. Paper Tiger – Good Feelings feat. Sabira Jade
11. Ocuban – Favela feat. Kit
12. Cohoba – Caltri
13. Dza – Shifty
14. East Winston Lake – Indigo’s Wah Wah (prod. Akello Light)
15. Grillo – Fronting The Weekend
16. Bluntspeakers – 1000 Miles
17. Sampology – Mamaye
18. Dipak Chand – Nurse, Hello
19. BUG – Indica
20. Jesse Futerman – I Love You So

FREE BUNDLE OF 10 TRACKS FROM LUCKY ME CREW

The Skinny Magazine, the Scotland's largest independent listings and events magazine celebrates its 4th Birthday and has offered a bundle of 10 free tracks from Lucky Me, the Scottish-based acqua-crunk / wonky / wot u call it music and arts collective. Laidback neon beats and electronic freestyle in diverse formats. My favorites are Lunice, Mike Slott and Jay Prada but the rest is also quite solid.

LUCKY ME FREE BUNDLE

Track by track description by The Skinny:

Claude Speed
Dub will often make you think of basslines. But imagine if you flipped it so you get trembling peaks of treble, not echoing gulfs of reverb. That's what you get when you antagonize the horn.

The Blessings (Go Girl)
Sultry rnb pop, with a satisfyingly smackin' beat. One for dirty fun dancing with your loved one, grinning wide 'cause you know what's coming.

Mike Slott
We had a debate as to whether this'd be difficult or brilliant to dance to. Imagine you had ten seconds to save the planet, and the only way to do it was to authentically lose your balance... And you're dancing! Easy!

Jay Prada
A solid slow beat is like having a few drinks at lunchtime: it feels indulgent, but actually life depends on these occasional pleasure-stases. Bunk is lunchtime drinking, in space.

Respite (Pang)
A pang implies a short sharp pain, but usually actually involves quite a lot of staring out of windows or at walls, or walking around not-especially scenic parts of cities. Respite seem to get this, offering a bleep-sweet soundtrack to the experience.

American Men
A post-rock kids' TV show theme, with the sort of lilting synth anticlimaxes that'd send most kids insane; though then they'd grow up and run the world better than we do.

Dema
A funky, electrified love song, making insouciant pronunciation of 'feeling' as - almost - 'filling' (as in, 'you give me a really good ... all day long'). Nice.

Respite (Hundreds and Millions)
Back in the early 90s folk called music like this trance: before trance was Castles in the Sky it was a skyscape of nebulous tech swells and vaporous tweeting loops. Long live dead trance.

The Blessings (Explicit American Cinema)
Filmic towers of dub: see yourself as part of a slo-mo chase scene across Kansas, dodging technicolour tornados while out-driving the catharsis cops.

Lunice
Something about layered music suggests a questioning attitude to reality and the self. Nice, then, that Lunice has paired this style with a natural swagger and call routine: hangin' onto the ego never sounded so fresh

LUNICE - LAZER REMIX VOL. 2

You know you want this. If you don't yet you will soon. Lunice associated with Montreal's Turbo Crunk crew (e.g. Megasoid, Hovatron, Bearmod) has just dropped a delicious remix pack. Grab it for free:

LUNICE - LAZER REMIX VOL. 2

Stanky Stanky Leg = the best remix I've heard this year! Lunice is ILL!

P>S> Glitch hop / heavy bass seems to f...g explode this Autumn, I absolutely fail to properly listen to all the stuff coming my way, without even mentioning the time required to post just a fraction of QUALITY music I hear recently. What a shame :(

SAMPLES – PU$$Y POPPIN MIXTAPE

Ben Samples is definitely one of my favorite producers I came to know through the mighty Glitch Hop Forum. His tight production and mixing skills combined with heavy, straight-in-year face aesthetics always do the trick for me. On the simplest level, I am never bored listening to his stuff and this is what music should be about – entertainment, but properly ill one!

In his newest mix Samples delivers mega ill acapellas in a totally glitched out sauce with proper heavy bass and pounding basslines. Solid and tight shit especially from 18:45 mark and on with my personal best Samples’ track Players Anthem through great Skanky Legg remix by Lunice (this is another f…g enormous track by Lunice – Europeans catch him and Novatron in Europe, they are on tour right now) and PantyRaid mash-up to the very end. Definitely the glitch hop mix of the month!

According to Samples: “Pretty much inappropriate for all ages, unless you're doing coke off some strippers tits backstage of a Queensyrche show. 35 minutes, heavily influenced by strip clubs, Enjoy!” Thanks, I have enjoyed myself a lot!

SAMPLES – PU$$Y POPPIN MIXTAPE (SS)

TRACKLIST AFTER THE JUMP

Tracklisting:
Intro - P Poppin @0:00
2. Samples - Right Now vs Ying Yang Twins - Badd @0:34
3. Samples - Microphones vs Bangers & Cash - Loose @3:50
4. Too Short - Gangster's & Strippers Clip @5:35
5. DJ Felli Fel - Get Buck in Here Clip @6:10
6. Juvenile - Nolia Clap (Samples Caribbean Heat Remix) @7:05
7. Samples - Outta Control (Vocal Edit) @11:05
8. Mario - Let Me Love You @15:50
9. Juvenile - Slow Motion @16:50
10. Ying Yang Twins - Jigglin @18:45
11. Samples - Players Anthem @19:45
12. GS Boys - Stanky Legg (Lunice Remix) @24:13
13. PantyRaid - Get the Money vs Bonecrusher - Take Ya Clothes Off @25:58
14. Savage - Swing vs Samples - Zulu Bass @29:10
Outro - 36 Mafia - Da Summer @34:00

DefinatelyMaybe- Bass to Crush your Face in a Dubwise Style! – by Taliesin

DefinatelyMaybe - Bass to Crush your Face in a Dubwise Style! – by Taliesin

I’m on holidays. This means lots of sun, beer, swimming and playing in the sand with my kids. Unfortunately this also means shitty wireless net connection so I am out of touch with blogosphere in a hundred-new-downloads-per-day sense. Fortunately I have so much stuff sitting on my hard drive that I can easily feed my blog beast.

Today, more lazers in a great mix by Taliesin representing Dutty Artz crew. This is what I call a proper eclectic mix of bass-heavy music, going beyond the limits of one genre formula while simply focusing on the QUALITY in track selection. Taliesin has really cooked a delicious meal with some obvious anthems from Sukh Night, Raffertie or Joker (quite accidentally I love all these young guns!!), dancehall bomb of Lexie Lee in a fantastic remix by Paceface and Sticky, dubby killer by LionDub and Shadetek from Dutty Artz or twisted synth work by one of my favorite south american producers - Cardopusher. But the absolute killing lazer thang shizz is Montrealian’s Lunice lazer remix of Don’t Trip. F…g best acqua crunk / glitch hop refix I’ve heard in a while. A sure winner for all the lazer sword or megasoid fans out there (I’m one of them, a very devoted one!).


BTW. Lunice and Novatron will invade Europe soon, they are actually looking for dates in August. Thus, I appeal to any pimp promoters out there – book’em and let them kill European dancefloors with the best lazer show this side of Atlantic. (holler at Lunicefp2@gmail.com).

Finally some fresh news regarding forthcoming releases from the Dutty Artz family: !K7/Gold Dust Will be releasing the Jahdan Blakkamoore full length in September... Jahdan is in fine form throughout singing and chatting over riddims from diverse producers including homegrown tunes by Shadetek and Rupture, ragga techno dons Modeselektor, grime super hero Jammer, the Zizek crew’s Chancha via Circuito and globe trotter Maga Bo. Dutty Artz extended family 77Klash appears twice on guest vocal duties and provides the gorgeous uncategorizable beat for ‘She Said’ while top grime boy Durrty Goodz goes in hard with JD on ‘Mesmerized’ and Abena Koomson joins in to bring us slowly down on closer ‘Rise Again’.

Nov 10th will see the Agriculture records put out "Solar Life Raft" a fucking incredible new project from Matt Shadetek and /Rupture- future visions from a submerged world...This ones gonna step the bar up considerably for anyone working with global bass sounds!

TRACKLIST AFTER THE JUMP

Colleen- The Happy Sea
8 Ball and MJH- Relax and Take Notes
Sukh Knight - Diesel Not Petrol
Raffertie - AntiSocial (B. Rich Remix)
Lexie Lee- Warlord's Daughter (Paceface and Sticky Rmx)
Joker- Purple City
Trina Ft. Lil Wayne- Dont Trip (Lunice Lazer Rmx)
Fused Forces- Cock Back and Blast
Fused Forces- Footsteps
LionDub and Shadetek Ft. Jahdan- General (Marcus Visionary Rmx)
Timbaland- Pony Inst.
Cardopusher- Lacra
Salem – Trapdoor

Lunice & Al Ripken Jr. - Janes Addiction cut

The collaboration project of Lunice & Al Ripken Jr's "Paper Spray" will be available digitally on June 26th!!! Watch out for this release from Turbo Crunk guy. I really dig his remixes thus I was glad to lift a free track from his blogspot. Trademark Weaponhouse' glitch landscapes spread over contagious melody - I LIKE!!!


Lunice & Al Ripken Jr. - Janes Addiction