Early Autumn Charts

Early Autumn was a good time for fans of contemporary electronic music (preferrably with lots of bass in it). We saw a few heavy releases, which more or less lived up to the expectations (Robot Koch, Rustie, Modeselektor, Martyn, ill.Gates, Zomby), my pet labels, Saturate! Records and Robox Neotech released fantastic debut EP's (Raadsel, P-Fang), many quality tracks floated around the interweb. Meanwhile on my local scene, U Know Me Records confirmed their status of the best label for contemporary, twisted hip-hop beats made in Poland with very fresh and 'vintage' release Futura by a talented producer Galus. I hope my next charts will be equally rich with interesting contents.

Dr. Krank's Top Tracks (Early Autumn)

1. Kidkanevil – Robot Carnival (First Word Records)
2. Robot Koch - Nitesky  (Project Mooncircle)
3. Raadsel – Resurrection (Saturate! Records)  
4. Zomby – Things Fall Apart (f. Panda Bear)  (4AD)
5. Galus – Futura (U Know Me Records)
6. P-Fang - Graveyard (Damscray remix) (Robox Neotech)
7. Starkey – Eris (Adult Swim)
8. Cardopusher feat. Sensational – Papusa (kid606 remix) (Tigerbeat6)  
9. Rustie – City Star (Warp)
10. Raadsel & Luisterwaar – Tissue Box (Saturate! Records)
11. SaBBo – I’m Ready (ft. Onili) (Generation Bass Records)
12. Modeselektor – Pretentious Friends (Monkeytown Records)
13. Tilman Ehrhorn - Sat (Himuro Yoshiteru remix) (Mad Hop vol. 3)
14. Ill.Gates, Mat the Alien & Dash – Otoro (Muti Music) 
15. Kraddy – Black Box 
16. Martyn – Ghost People (Brainfeeder)
17. Speaker for the Dead – Illusionaire (Digital Self Release) 
18. Ott – Squirrel and Buiscuits (Autonomous Music)
19. Ugress – Coffee (Pushwanger edit) (Uncanny Planet) 
20. MC Zulu – Festival Madness (Perception 2020 Recordings) 

Previews: Starkey, Jillian Ann, Dj Tameil

I always welcome new stuff by Starkey with great excitement and anticipation. Judging by the preview, his forthcoming "Space Traitor vol. 2" to be released in June on Civil Music will be huuuuuge. Master of heavy miasmatic bass'n'synths squeezes all juices out of his machines. The sound of e.g. "Street Rockers" simply kills and "Bricks ft. Curly Castro" is the best what street bass can offer. The remixes accompanying the originals (Monky, The Elementz, to name my favorite ones) create really explosive package. Excited!

Starkey - Space Traitor Vol. 2 (Preview) by starkey

Jillian Ann from L.A., a DJ, producer, singer & song-writer releases today on Olaris Records a package of three remixes of her spacey and touching "King of Solitude".  You can easily skip techno remix of Royal Sapien, and move to quite nicely rolling and smooth Artette's remix but the real treat awaits in a glitchy breakbeat remix by Great Scott, a producer and notorious head of Glitch.Fm radio. WARNING: I really encourage you listening to this track on a proper soundsystem with good subwoofer, otherwise you won't hear da Bass :)

Jillian Ann - King of Solitude Remixes - Out April 13 2011 on Olaris Records by olaris

And now something completely different - for those of you who are into juke / footwork / ghettotech  shit. 

DJ TAMEIL has just released a 5-track Tek 9 EP on Moveltraxx. This music is pretty simple & 'silly' (not 'stupid' silly but 'goofy' silly if you know what I mean), but I still like it. Good enough to rock some bottoms and force you to make a fool of yourself at the dancefloor.

DJ TAMEIL - TEK 9 EP [MTXLT111] out April 12th by Moveltraxx

Tinie Tempah "Written In The Stars (Starkey Remix)"

Uber massive remix by Starkey in the best street bass fashion with allmighty synths and heavy bassline and boosted vocals. Great tune to start the week off!

Tinie Tempah "Written In The Stars (Starkey Remix)" by starkey

Monsters in Action

Monster no. 1: NastyNasty:  The filthiest, nastiest and dopest monster in the pack. "Help! Monster basslines attack me. Somebody help me pleeassseeee"

Monsters by NastyNasty

Monster no. 2: Starkey: The creator of monstrous, unrivaled and one-of-the-kind synth symphonies you cannot confuse with anything else. Very good news is I'll see Starkey playing live at the forthcoming Audioriver Festival in Płock in a few days! Super stoked I am :))

CoRoT-9b by starkey

Monster(s) no. 3: Stephan Jacobs vs Die Antwoord: Another monster remix by Stephan Jacobs, this time reworking the original by RSA's most famous monsters - Die Antwoord.

Die Antwoord - Fish Paste (Stephan Jacobs Remix) by Stephan Jacobs

Monster no. 4: Schlachtchofbronx in a much too short monster edit of Phat Punany. I want phat punany too!

Leftside - Phat Punany (schlachthofbronx edit) by schlachthofbronx

Finally the Mash-up Monster: Weekid representing Łódź, Poland, mashed up great PANTyRAiD tune with voice samples of very concerned and angry people talking in Polish about a missing cross (or "krzyż" in Polish - you hear this repeated over and over in various contexts - most clearly when a guy screams Gdzie Jest Krzyż - (eng. Where is the cross) like at 1'23" and on). A clear allusion to the current political situation too complicated to describe on a music blog :) Absolutely fantastic patchwork!!

Pantyraid - Enter the Krzyż (Weekid Krzyżstep Mashup) by weekid

Starkey - Seclusiasis Radio June 2010

The don of street bass Starkey in his monthly Sub.fm show. Tons of absolutely amazing tracks, including great new stuff and remixes from the man himself. Download a great Starkey remix for free from rcrdlbl site:

Innerpartysystem "American Trash (Starkey remix) 

You should definintely check June's show to hear new tunage by Slugabed (Sex !!), Stagga, Swede:art, Monky, NastyNasty (Apologies !!) and many many more or acquaint yourself with new mind-boggling sick shit from newcomers like Philly-based Speaker for the Dead (never heard of him). His Illusionaire is HEAVY. Plus a few totally sick remixes by e.g. NastyNasty, Marty Party or Kastle. One of the best shows from Starkey in a while. Don't sleep on this.

Starkey - Seclusiasis Radio June 2010

Tracklist:
01 - Starkey "Alienstyles"
02 - Drake ft. the Dream "Shut It Down"
03 - Soulja Boy "Pretty Boy Swag"
04 - Grum "Can't Shake This Feeling"
05 - Kano "Get Wild"
06 - Egyptrixx "Rooks Theme"
07 - Helix "Untitled"
08 - Sheba "Serious (Starkey remix)"
09 - Halp "Leek (Astroposer remix)"
10 - Speaker For the Dead "illusioNaire"
11 - Mestizo "Let It Spray"
12 - Teddy "Devil's Mansion"
13 - Royal-T "Damn It"
14 - Clairvoyants "Modern Day Slavery (Wonder remix)"
15 - Monky "Hypa Nova"
16 - SDUK "InValid"
17 - Gemmy "Jah Kno"
18 - Verb "Drank It All"
19 - Stagga "Ghetto Yutes"
20 - P-Money "Woo Riddim Freestyle"
21 - Slugabed "PO"
22 - Siren "Summer Time in Oakland"
23 - NastyNasty "Apologies"
24 - Stagga"Beyond"
25 - Miki Grems "J'Thumilie"
26 - DJ Nate "See Into My Eyes"
27 - Kastle "Better Off Alone (NastyNasty remix)"
28 - Kanye West "Power (ft. Dwele)"
29 - By Proxy "Under Ground"
30 - Epcot "Bad Dreamcatcher"
31 - DJ Nate "Footwurk Homocide"
32 - Mr. Scruff vs Kirsty Almeida "Pickled Spider"
33 - Swede:art "Wonkybikez"
34 - Amp Live "Turn It Up (Marty Party remix)"
35 - Brisco "On the Wall ft. Lil Wayne (instrumental)"
36 - Range "Ghetto Dance ft. Rick Ross"
37 - Reso & Starkey "Untitled New Thing"
38 - Innerpartysystem "American Trash (Starkey remix)"
39 - Siyoung "Eros"
40 - 8Bitch "G41 (Rustie remix)"
41 - Terror Danjah "Air Bubble (Starkey remix)"
42 - Slugabed "Sex"
43 - Drums of Death "Everything All At Once"
44 - Numan "Quezt"
45 - Mr Healan "Mad Love For Zaggins"
46 - Nelly Furtado "Turn Off the Lights (Dro Carey remix)"
47 - Grimelock ft. Rose T "Balance"
48 - Distal "Coke Bottle"
49 - Cassie "Me & U (Kastle remix)"
50 - Chrissy Murderbot "Poison"
51 - Monky "Hey Miss"
52 - Ghost Mutt "Thouroughbred"

EPROM - FELDSPAR (SubFM Starkey show radio rip)

Sander EPROM, the perpetrator of filthy dancefloor destroyers like e.g. Humanoid or Shoplifter, hits the airwaves with another monster tune - Feldspar which you can here in a radio-rip format from the latests Seclusiasis show by Sarkey. I only wish he released them faster faster faster ....

Feldspar (Starkey SUBFM Radio Rip) by eprom

STARKEY - Resident Advisor Podcast .204

Well, I listen to Starkey a lot and still can't get enough of his extended, spacey synths, out-of-this-planet melodies and sick bass. This guy really brings dubstep (and a few other genres in it) to the next level, maybe not for all tastes but my neural set-up seems to get a perfect rapport with Mr. Street Bass music offering. I don't know whether he is a pioneer of the so-called "2nd wave dubstep producers" (the term coined in this article), but I do now he eascapes easy pigeonholing, showing immense creativity and music sensitivity. The mixtape selection is killing as usual and includes a few of my favorite recent tunes. Apart from Starkey's solo work and remixes, I'd mention Knight Riderz remix of a killing Schlachthofbronx anthem Ayoba, Grimelock's remix of Let the Bass by a Belgian producer Alchemyst, filthy tunage by NastyNasty or absolutely, ridiculously senseless Zombies by Kanji Kinetic. There is more, just listen.

It's great that Starkey's podcast appeared on the Resident Advisor's portal, which is rather associated with more minimal, techno, house or possibly dub-tech vibe. New outlet for exposing Starkbots's sound may only bring new converts, even if some hardcore fans of 'minimal sound' (??) were slightly or quite straight-in-yer-face disappointed (see the comments section for the podcast).

STARKEY - Resident Advisor Podcast .204


Tracklist
Starkey - 11th Hour - Planet Mu
Kaiser - Polyphonic Pressure
Terror Danjah - Reinforced
Mensah - Acid Dub - HENCH
Spooky - The Devil Within - Oil Gang
Numan - Skull Crusher (Sduk remix) - Slit Jockey
Starkey - Robot Hands
Scratcha DVA - Bullet Dub - Keysound Recordings
Zeno - Test1
Mr. Rogers - Birdbox (Starkey remix) - Innerflight
Starkey - Fourth Dimension - Planet Mu
Stagga - The Park (Draw remix) - Subdepth
Dream McLean - Woo Riddem Freestyle
Gemmy - Da Dodge
Tayo meets Acid Rockers ft. Pupajim - Vampayaa (Starkey remix) - Cool & Deadly
Skinnz & ID - Shimmy - Double Science
Magic Mash - Give Me Some More
Starkey - OK Luv ft. Badness (Eprom's Alternate Mix) - Planet Mu
Alchemyst - Let the Bass (Grimelock remix) - Stainage
Starkey ft. Anneka - Stars - Planet Mu
Foals - This Orient (Starkey remix) - Transgressive
Drake - Over - Cash Money
Baconhead - Ghetto Buffet - Acroplane
Rod Azlan - Jah Live (Starkey remix) - Scion AV
NastyNasty - Damn Girl
SchlachtofBronx - Ayoba (Knight Riderz remix)
Camp Lo - Luchini (Instrumental) - Profile
Kanji Kinetic - Zombies - Senseless
Halp - Leek - Seclusiasis
Starkey ft. Cerebral Vortex & Buddy Leezle - Club Games - Planet Mu
Swindle - Molly - Planet Mu
Numan - Skull Crusher (Capricorn One remix) - Slit Jockey
Starkey - Numb ft. P-Money - Planet Mu

Stars (feat. Anneka) by Starkey (video)

Stars (feat. Anneka) by Starkey from Ben Curzon on Vimeo.

STARKEY - STARS (SLUGABED DID A REMIX) + STARKEY NME RADAR MIX

Oh boy, what a great way to start this snowy and cold Friday. Two of my favorite producers at the moment, i.e. Starkey and Slugabed will ease my corpo drudgery with absolutely fantastic music.

In a matter of days, the Starkey's new EP - Stars will drop on Planet Mu. The EP featuring a mesmerizing vocal of Anneka, includes the remixes by heavy-weight music champions like Slugabed, Raffertie or Ital Tek. On this occasion Starkey not only did a mix for NME but also released one remix for free download. And the remix by SLUGABED it is !!!! Yippie. It's a work of ART. Words are superflous, let the music speak:

STARKEY - STARS f. ANNEKA (SLUGABED DID A REMIX)

But the main treat of the sonic orgy comes with the Starkey's NME RADAR MIX. Without a doubt this is the best mix I had a chance to hear this year. It is worth downloading just for EPROM's Humanoid VIP alone, ha ha. But seriously, the tracklist is just dripping street bass heaviness all over my ears, including presentation of the Starkey's music from the Stars EP and forth-coming full-length.  E.g. Capsule  has a f...g fantastic bassline and great synth while Spacecraft is simply an all-encompasing heavy bass orgy!  A few dubs from his extensive music buddies are as usual top-notch, like DNAEBeats and NastyNasty collab of lovely title Aqua Bubble Hash. This mix is tight as hell and I not only recommend it, I DEMAND you listened to it! Such a good start to this day, I wish Fact Magazine released already the next instalment in the FACT Mix series - this time by none other than electro future blap crunky warriors of Lazer Sword!!

STARKEY - NME RADAR MIX

Tracklist:
01 - Starkey ft. Cerebral Vortex & Buddy Leezle "Club Games" (planet mu)
02 - Starkey "OK Luv" (planet mu)
03 - Starkey "Millennia" (planet mu)
04 - Tayo meets Acid Rockers ft. Pupajim "Vampayaa (Starkey remix)" (cool & deadly)
05 - Swindle "Airmiles" (planet mu)
06 - Grems ft. Foreign Beggars "Brokabilly" (dub)
07 - Mensah "Pulse 80's" (hench)
08 - Kingdom "DPM / Juke Ya Girl Remix (Extended)" (dub)
09 - Starkey "Capsule" (planet mu)
10 - Numan "Skull Crusher (Bombaman remix)" (slit jockey)
11 - DNAEBEATS ft. NastyNasty "Aqua Bubble Hash" (seclusiasis)
12 - Rudi Zygadlo "Resealable Friendship (Slugabed's Special Friends Deepest Holes remix)" (planet mu)
13 - EPROM "Humanoid VIP" (dub)
14 - Starkey "Spacecraft" (planet mu)
15 - Kaiser "Lost in an Analogue Dream" (slit jockey)
16 - 8Bitch "G41" (slit jockey)
17 - Starkey ft. Anneka "Stars" (planet mu)

Soundcloud Harvest pt. 1 - Starkey, NastyNasty, Robot Koch, Mimosa

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!

Starkey ft. Anneka "Stars" (12", digital single) Preview by starkbot

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.

Black Monolith by starkbot


Then changing the mood and dropping some NastyNasty grime dirt:


Dirty Money by NastyNasty


.... and dirty NastyNasty edit. Oh boy...


Loops Haunt - Huarache (NastyNasty edit) by NastyNasty

One more remix from the highly anticipated Robot Koch's remix EP, dreamy and spaced out, a perfect score of the 21st century Twin Peaks series.

Robot Koch - While feat. Manya (Blue Daisy Remix) by robot koch


Fnally, to nicely crown up this set of tracks, Mimosa in search of the higher consciousness.


TheHigherConsciousness by TigranMiMoSA

BEAT BUILDING PROJECT - STARKEY, RESO AND ANNEKA in Mary Anne Hobbs' Experimental show

Hectic, messy, intense, and very funny special show with Philly's Street Bass don, Starkey racing against the clock to build a totally new tune from scratch with the suport of a well-known dubstep producer and percussionist, Reso, and vocalist Anneka, plus hundreds of samples sent for this particular endevour by friends, Radio 1 stuff, producers and listerners. WOW!!  It was Roni Size who originally came up with this fantastic idea 10 years ago, he tested this in the studio with MC Dynamite.

 

While Starkey and crew are busy working and tension builds up in the world famous BBC's Maida Vale studios, Mary Anne Hobbs plays, as usual, great and eclectic selection of fantastic tracks with one of my faves from Starkey - Fidelio, great new Reso, N-type shit, beautiful Mizz Beats' Deep Medi - tradamerak sound, Mosca's Square One remix (Mosca will be on the show on Feb2)  or great future beats from collaboration of P.U.D.G.E & Dibiase or Shlomo.  

Then finally, after two hours of growing tension, the built track drops! Was it worth waiting? Downlad the created track and check for yourselves.

Starkey (feat. Reso and Anneka) — Moments Of Mine

10 years ago, Ronis Size had 4 hours, in 2010 Starkey and co. had just 2! Gosh, techhnology is one thing but time-pressure creative beat making is quite another. And you know what (to use MAH famous phrase) - Starkey, Reso and Anneka f....g did it succesfully in barely 2h. People are working on such tunes for weeks ...

I post here two links to this fantastic show:

Beat Building with Starkey, Reso and Anneka (Radio 1 streaming)

If you can, please listen to this show online (active till next Thursday) to support Mary Anne Hobbs and her fantastic program. Also check incredible photos there and watch out for the film footage on her youtube channel soon!

Beat Building with Starkey, Reso and Anneka - M.A.H. (Hotfile download) 

Unfortunately, I've always had enormous problems with streaming her shows from Radio 1's site (never succeeded as a matter of fact?). I believe there are more of such listeners out there. I could not resist myself this time - for all of you I post a downloadable version of this breath-taking show.

Tracklist:
1. Starkey — Fidelio (from the LP Ear Drums & Black Holes) (Planet Mu)
2. Joy Orbison Joy Orbison — So Derobe (from the EP The Shrew Would Have Cushioned The Blow EP) (Aus)
3. Rudi Zygadlo — Miss Per Brevis (from the LP Great Western Laymen) (Planet Mu)
4. Mizz Beats — My World (Deep Medi)
5. Paul Harris vs The Eurythmics — I Want You (Bar9 remix) (Cr2)
6. Hyetal & Shortstuff — Don’t Sleep (Punch Drunk)
7. Reso — Otacon (from the Tremjin EP) (Civil Music)
8. Untold & LV — Beacon (Mount Kimbie remix) (Hemlock)
9. Roni Size — New Forms – (Taklin’ Loud)
10. Steve Mason — All Come Down (Dubplate)
11. Blue Daisy & Anneka — Blood Petals & Roses (Black Acre)
12. Mosca — Square One (Greena mix) (Dubplate)
13. P.U.D.G.E & Dibiase — Smoke It Over All City
14. System — Peach Fuzz Exit
15. FaltyDL — St Marks Rush Hour
16. Geeneus —Ultrafunkular (From the LP North South East West) (Bleep)
17. Shlohmo — Tomato Squeeze
18. Pangaea — Sunset Yellow (Hessle Audio)
19. Zinc & Nolay — Killa Sound (Bingo Bass)
20. N-Type — Simples (Buiscuit Factory)
21. Nuearz — Spiral Ramp (from the LP Saturation Point) (Skam)
22. Illum Sphere — Psycho (from the LP Long Live The Pain) (Fat City)

THE FINISHED BEAT! (HA The Track no. 23 of the show!!!!)


Starkey (feat. Reso & Anneka) — Moments Of Mine

STARKEY - 1xtra Mix and gig at Fabric

Starkey, the Street Bass Don from Philly will heat up the mighty sound system of Fabric's Room 1 Friday, 15th of January (did I mention before that a working Warsaw - London teleporter would be a good idea? Send your prototypes to Dok Krank). You lucky Londoners! 

As a warm up to his show listen to the most recent mix he did for BBC's 1xtra. Quality as usual, tons of originals and unreleased stuff and remixes from the man (Fidelio is sick sick sick !!!) plus glitchy dubs by my favorite young blood, i.e. NastyNasty and Slugabed, totally infectious Kaiser's Lost in an analouge dream or very fresh Bok Bok's remix of Night Slug's recent release of Mosca's Square One. (Check this shit out - future garage of top quality with remixes by L-vis 1990, Roska, Julio Bashmore, Greena (grab this one for fre via The Fader). All in all Starkey you know and luv! OK?

STARKEY - 1XTRA MIX   

TRACKLIST AFTER THE JUMP

01 - Starkey "Fidelio" (planet mu)
02 - SDUK "Clunge" (slit jockey)
03 - Slugabed "Ultra Heat Treated" (planet mu)
04 - Kuedo "Glow" (planet mu)
05 - NastyNasty "Four Letter Word" (dub)
06 - Starkey "Rain City" (rwina)
07 - R. Kelly "Bangin the Headboard" (jive)
08 - Mosca "Square One (Bok Bok remix)" (night slugs)
09 - Kaiser "Lost in an Analogue Dream" (slit jockey)
10 - Gorilla Zoe "Lost (Starkey remix)" (adult swim/bad boy south)
11 - Starkey "Capsule" (planet mu)
12 - Starkey ft. Badness "OK Luv" (planet mu)
13 - Gemmy "The Midnite Drive" (dub)
14 - Kano "Rock N Roller (Starkey remix)" (bpm)
15 - Bon Iver "Woods (Starkey remix)" (dub)

Street Bass Anthems 4 Vinyl (Seclusiasis) - Review

Title: Street Bass Anthems 4 Vinyl

Label: Seclusiasis
Format: 12” EP
Tracklisting:
A1. Starkey - Starkvillain
A2. Starkey - Starkvillain (Instrumental)
B1. Pacheko - Lockdown (6Blocc Remix)
B2. DNAEBeats - Razur Kut

ESSENTIAL PURCHASE 8 / 10

Starkey's Street Bass strikes back. This time Seclusiasis will soon release the 4th volume of the unique bass heavy urban music. The first three volumes and the associated singles were heavily rinsed across the clubs spreading havoc on the dancefloors. As a preview to the CD and digital format to be released later this Fall, the street bass crew has just dropped an EP on vinyl. Everything Starkey touches bears the QUALITY mark all across the board, this release is no exception to this rule. After such an interesting preview I am very eagerly anticipating the “Street Bass Anthems Volume 4” mixtape compilation which will feature exclusive material from Starkey, Slugabed (YEEEESSSSSS!!!), Dev79, Stagga, BD1982, Si Young (of Plastic Little), Kotchy, Buddy Leezle, and more!!!

Starkey - Starkvillain (160kbps)

The A side of this record features Starkey’s Starkvillain in vocal and instrumental versions. Starkvillain (Inst) is exclusive to this 12” and will not be on the mixtape, so you better grab this shit now. Starkvillain is a kind of badman uptempo 2-step tune with pumping beat which I can imagine will be welcomed enthusiastically by the club crowds, at least by its female part. In particular the version with pretty cheesy R&B vocals on top :)) I'm not a big fan of this type of 'singing', yet in Starkey's twisted interpretation, this shit gains proper depth and will definitely find its way to the crates of many DJ's. The beat is very crispy!!

Pacheko - Lockdown (6Blocc remix) (160kbps)

For me personally, the real highligths of this release can be found on the flipside, starting off with the f...g mental remix of Pacheko's Lockdown by 6Blocc (aka R.A.W. aka B-Boy 3000 - the legendary drum n’ bass turntablist). The original version of Lockdown is soon to be released on the Japanese label Murder Channel. I've always been a big fan of Pacheko's stuff since the first time I heard some old tranquera mixtapes (in this context another name comes to mind - Cardopusher). 6Blocc leaves the mega groovy 4X4 bassline more or less unchanged, except for a few cut-up beats thrown in, but what makes this really stand apart from the original is sick sick sick dancehall vocals on top making the track an absolute killer on any dancefloor. This ragga ranting combined with super sleek synths has been haunting my player for weeks now :))

DNAEBeats - Razor Kut (160kbps)

Razor Kut by San Francisco‘s DNAEBeats is another bomb on the B-side. One word comes to mind immediately when hearing this track - dirty. A dirty combination of distorted grimey beats and vocals with glitchy and crunky synths and the bassline which twists with a speed of the snail yet the agility of a snake. Extremely infectious stuff, I've listened this track on repeat like 30 times when I first heard it. For me personally - numero uno on this release. Rustie's fans should not miss this joint definitely.

In general, I highly recommend this release. 8 out of 10***. Essential purchase. Grab it on Boomkat or Juno or Turntable Lab.


Bonus:

A great podcast by DNAEBeats for xlr8r.

Mochipet - VNecks (DNAEBEATS - Reptilian Hybrid Remix)

The Brown Acid - Try Humanity (Zomby & Starkey Remixes) [via rcrdlbl]

What a double feature! Two of my top produces joining forces to produce a remix of the Try Humanity tune by the Belgium's electro outfit The Brown Acid (never heard of them).

The Brown Acid - Try Humanity (Zomb's Vitamine E Remix)


Zomby applies his typical old-school garage beats plus ravey air-horns and stuff. Retro and good! Nothing fancy, but quite a nice little joint.


The Brown Acid - Try Humanity (Starkey Remix)


Philly's street bass king Starkey delivers a spacey and ravey dubstep tune relying heavily on neon synths (twisted in a typical Starkey's way, which I really really like) and wonky bassline. This edit wins the direct clash against Zomby, or rather complements the former one.

STARKEY - FACT MIX VOL. 91

STARKEY - FACT MIX VOL. 91

Although I don't share Starkey's fondness of autotune at all, I definitely share his music taste and really dig the aesthetics of his tracks and mixes. His peculiar kind of heavy bass instrumental grime called Street Bass with fantastic use of synths and multi-layerd sonic structures always works for me. Fact Mix just confirms the strength of the stark man. The mix includes a few super dope Starkey productions and remixes with my personal numero uno which is actually an opening track (after this irritating autotune bot) - namely Fourth Dimension. Without a doubt, the best Starkey tune since Gutter Music!! Rain City and Knob Twiddler are also excellent. Next highlight is Starkey's collaboration with Budy Lezlee and Cerebral Vortex. Slugabed remix of Space Boots is another hottie. Pacheko in 6Blocc treatment will freeze your ass with cold robotic bassline and sick riddim. PANTyRAiD, Misk, Stagga, Ebola ... I could actually mention the entire tracklist. One of the most solid and entertaining mixes I've heard recently.

TRACKLIST AFTER THE JUMP

Tracklisting:

01- Starkey 'Fourth Dimension'
02 - Starkey 'Multidial'
03 - Nasty Nasty 'The Reef'
04 - Starkey 'Knob Twiddler'
05 - Wale 'Ice & Rain' (Skrewed by Starkey)
06 - Humble Dinosaur 'D-Communication Dungeon'
07 - Dev79 'Live N Die 4 Tha Street Bass'
08 - Merciless 'Time Machine'
09 - Starkey ft. Badness 'OK Luv'
10 - BD1982 'Space Boots' (Slugabed remix)
11 - Misk 'Subterranean Crawlspace'
12 - Monkey & Stagga 'Moog Lightning'
13 - Kid Simple 'Fresh Like'
14 - Wollom 'Serenade'
15 - SRC 'Halloucinatin'
16 - Subeena ft. Jamie Woon & Om'Mas Keith 'Solidify'
17 - Ebola 'Alpha Paw'
18 - Pacheko 'Lockdown' (6Blocc remix)
19 - Starkey ft. Cerebral Vortex & Buddy Leezle 'Club Games'
20 - PANTyRAID 'Beba'
21 - Rx 'Torture'
22 - Drake ft. Travis McCoy & Mickey Factz 'Overdose'
23 - Starkey 'Rain City'
24 - Kano 'Rock N Roller' (Starkey remix)
25 - Starkey 'Lenses'
26 - Shortstuff & Hyetal 'Don't Sleep'
27 - Monkey 'Cygnas X1'
28 - Ital Tek 'Chemical Temple'
29 - Bon Iver 'Woods' (Starkey remix)

DRUMS OF DEATH - GOT YR THING (STARKEY REMIX)

TUNE OF THE WEEK:

DRUMS OF DEATH - GOT YR THING (STARKEY REMIX)

What a great remix of Drums of Death! Starkey applies his well-known street bass manners, tweaking and distorting the already sharp synths thus creating an ultra heavy bass banger in which vocal goes hand in hand with tough bassline. Believe me, this track will get lots of publicity. Another surefire killer from Philly's Don!

Dev79 - Live from Full Service at Club Love NYC + Donaeo - Party Hard (Dev79 Refix)

I still have vivid recollections of the brainsmashing Contra Bass party during which the ratio of killing bangers per minute went through the roof. That's why I more than welcomed the stuff hitting my mailbox from none other than Dev79 - Philly's Street Bass and Seclusiasis crew posse (Starkey, Kotchy - you all know them right??). Banging beats mood continues and Dev79 delivers what I'm craving for - namely bass-heavy ass-ripping ravey live set from Full Service at Love Club, NYC.

Live from Full Service at Club Love NYC 7-31-09 (zshare)

The tracklist is simply stellar. No exaggeration. Really. The mix starts from the earthquake and continues in the same spirit till the end. It's even hard to mention a few highlights as the whole set soaks with consistent and merciless energy downpour ranging from ravey anthems through deep breakdowns, distorted drops, punches and sick basslines to low frequency dubstep tunes, and grimey rants. Refixed, remixed and reprocessed but with one common denominator - lotsa heavy bass (or should I write street bass?). I wish I was at this party.

Well, I have to mention at least a few tracks.
Dev79 - In Ya Face (Willy Joy Remix) - smashing anthem, I've danced my ass off last Saturday to similar shit, arghhh. No f...g mercy to all beard-strokers and bar flies. Move your joints or scram.
BD1982 - Space Boots (Slugabed Remix) - f..g mental track! Slugabed has just recently released a few heavy glitched tracks and remixes and is fast gaining on appreciation. You should definitely memorize this name. Check the entire EP by BD1982 now on Seclusiasis with more great remixes by Hovatron (my fave on this release next to Slugabed), Starkey, Tayo and more.
Playdoe - Freeze Step (Starkey Remix). Philly's don Starkey never falters and delivers only quality tunnage and his remixes are class in themselves.
Backlash (Raffertie Remix) - Crazy, sick Raffertie at his best. I love this man.
Kudos to Dev79 for including Pacheko, Various Production, Dnae Beats in his mix. Great producers all of them.

Shit, I will soon list all the tracks on the mix. And music speaks better than 1000 words. You better listen for yourself.

Finally check gunky (Dev79's own term to describe this type of ruffed up funky music) bass refix of pretty infectious funky house / 2-step'ish track by Donaeo - Party Hard cooked by Dev79. The remix is definitely heavier, deeper and I would even risk saying more "funky" than the original :)

Donaeo - Party Hard (Dev79 refix)

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www.dev79.com
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www.seclusiasis.com


TRACKLIST AFTER THE JUMP

tracklist:
01. Blaqstarr - Get Off (Jack Beats Remix / Micro Genius Edit)
02. Dev79 - Live N Die 4 Tha Street Bass
03. Prodigy - Take Me To The Hospital (Hostage Remix)
04. Dev79 - In Ya Face (Willy Joy Remix)
05. Dizzee Rascal & Armand Van Heldan - Bonkers (Doorly Remix)
06. Flufftronix - This Is Heavy
07. AC Slater - Hello (B. Rich Remix)
08. Don Diablo & Example - Hooligans (A1 Bassline Remix)
09. Pirate Soundsystem - Rush Around (Chrissy Murderbot Remix)
10. Jakwob - Wild Pitch
11. Pacheko - Lockdown (6Blocc Remix)
12. Raffertie - Antisocial (B. Rich Remix)
13. Scarlet Harlots - Backlash (Raffertie Remix)
14. Playdoe - Freeze Step (Starkey Remix)
15. Siyoung - Fire!
16. Bird Peterson - Zutopong
17. Mad Lion ft. KRS-1 - Double Trouble (Chop Shop Remix)
18. BD1982 - Space Boots (Slugabed Remix)
19. Ginuine - Pony (Sharps Remix)
20. Lil Jon ft. Fabo - I'm a J (Dev79 Remix)
21. Dnae Beats - Razur Kut
22. Erykah Badu - (BD1982 Remix)
23. Dre Skull - I Want You (Bok Bok Remix)
24. Crystal Fighters - Xstatic Truth (L-Vis 1990 Remix)
25. Tempa T - Next Hype (Mosca Remix)
26. Tomb Crew - Bigger Than Hip Hop
27. Madox - Duckalicious (Baobinga Thug Remix)
28. Mangled Bass! - Thats Kinky
29. Burgaboy vs. Mavado - Inna Di Car
30. Sonic 86 ft. Syntonics - Milk (Monksee Remix)
31. Sonic 86 ft. Syntonics - Milk (Dev79 Remix)
32. Riton & Primary 1 - Who's There (Doorly Remix)
33. Ruff Sqwad - War
34. Major Lazer - Hold the Line (DZ Remix)
35. Various Production - MKC

24th of July 2009 - mega party at Fabric!! plus 16bit remix

Oh my, Londoners you lucky bastards. Again. On 24th of July Room 3 in Fabric will be taken over by a mega crew of crunky bass terrorists namely Drop the Lime, Starkey, 16bit and Tayo. What a ridiculous line-up! I wish I was there (well, the only consolation for me is the fact that Drop the Lime will play in Warsaw on 25th). I am totally positive the guys will destroy the dancefloor with their banger bass and weird beat bombs. What is more - Room 1 will see the performance by Adam Freeland .... eh, I hate you ..... Just listen to this fantastic remix of Borgore's Foes by 16bit!

Borgore - Foes (16bit fuck hoes remix)

Rouge's Foam fantastic article on aesthetics of "wonky" and much much more

Loving Wonky by Rouge's Foam

Through Zomby's myspace I caught an absolutely amazing, (if a bit too academic - not a criticism, but rather a statement of fact) article about wonky / acquafresh / psych-dubstep by Rouge's Foam. The premises for the article are very interesting and really work: to make an attempt to show the phenomena in its various shades, approach it from a theoretical angle, yet without trying to explain everytyhing (which always assumes some form of taking sides or pigeonholing). The author asks the dear readers to digest the contents and synthesize their own opinions out of the ocean of threads presented there. Although the sheer volume of details and diverse clues made my head spinning when reading this fantastic piece of music criticism.

The following paragraph is probably the best introduction to the enormous text awaiting you on Rouges' Foam blog.

As ‘wonky’ (also known as ‘w***y’ - I’d suggest ‘the music formerly known as wonky’) is one of the main fronts in the aesthetic-generational value war that rages on, I thought I might try out some of that ‘magnified listening’ on the music involved to find out what can be described as going on in it with a view to exploring the sorts of aesthetic significance (value, if you like) that it can afford. More than just an exercise in appreciation, this could shed some light on differences among the value-judgment criteria that pull the strings in discourse of/on UK popular music (that is, popular in production rather than destination) and put ‘wonky’s’ adherents and detractors into a cultural and ideological context.

Loving Wonky takes Zomby, Hyperdub, Rustie, Lucky Me crew, Ikonika, Gemini, Joker and dissects them into in an extremely comprehensive way while putting the entire avant-garde movement into so many contexts that simple listing of them would be the size of an average post on a typical music blog.

The musical characteristics of ‘wonky’, is my favorite part, which is quite obvious as being a fan and avid listener of this type of stuff, too many times had I made futile attempts at grasping the essence of my listening experience and trying to verbalize it into some coherent and comprehensible written form. Fortunately, now I have a solid basis and a reference for my future streams-of-consciousness rants about purple wonky universe.

"Simply put, ‘wonky’ features a wider range of moods and styles than the mono-mood of classic dubstep and other genres in the nuum or popular music at large. Joker really brings this aspect to life with his eloquent mood-music (I’d love to see him do a film soundtrack), and played through, collections such as the Zomby EP and Starkey’s Ephemeral Exhibits take us on a tour of assorted affects and stylistic configurations. The latter’s exquisite contemplation ‘Miracles’, bringing to mind different-ball-park acts like Boards of Canada, seems to be our chillout room - but there’s a subtly ill look on the faces of the punters gathered there. Such stylistic cornucopias/smorgasbords (oh me, I just can’t decide between those two deliciously pretentious words) seem to point to IDM’s ‘home listening’ illustrated encyclopaedias of style, suites such as Aphex Twin’s Drukqs being a prime example. "

And the real killer comes in the comments section by the author himself where he makes a sort of aesthetic associations between music and visual arts, assigning painters to each main icon of the wonky scene :)) I think I see the direction in which this comparison goes. Check it out:

Zomby - Kandinsky (agree 100%!!!)

Ikonika - Picasso

Darkstar - Paul Klee

Joker - Edward Hopper

Starkey - Boccioni

Burial - JMW Turner

And don't forget to check numerous links of the article, in particular the ones referring to "hardcore continuum" debate started by Simon Reynolds. But this is a subject for another discussion.

Finally, to all the Twitter Headz out there: BEWARE - this article is definitely not for your short-attention-span minds!!!! You cannot skim or scour through it, you have to go deeply, which means wasting your precious time. Just don't complain I have not warned you....