Huuuuuge package of free tunes courtesty of forward looking German label Robox Neotech is up for grabs at their bandcamp. This is absolutely the MUST for any fan of intelligent contemporary beatz. For years Robox Neotech has been putting out quality mutant music, introducing to the masses great beatmakers like P-Fang, Cryptical, Demokracy or Planet Terror, releasing wicked tunes by NastyNasty, +verb, Stagga, Lakritze, Doshy, Powell or Monky. They were always generous with free gifts to their listeners and now collected all of them into one gigantic package. Highly recommended by Doktor Krank!
Posting of Sector7G mixes has become a permanent feature on my blog. This DJ, hailing from Athens (Ohio) has music taste nearly perfectly aligned with mine. The selection in his latest Apocalypse Nigh set covers the majority of my personal best artists and productions of 2011 on nu beat / West Coast / heavy bass / post hip-hop scene. From e.g. Dimlite, Young Montana? and Mussck through Slugabed, Motem and Coco Bryce to Kramfphaft, Dailon, Fancy Mike or Damscray and much much more, this is a 2-hour sonic orgy of the best that ingelligent, contemporary electronic music could offer in 2011. Best mix this year so far. Highly recommended!
I'm a great fan of Fulgeance, the champion of MPC's and live acts. A few weeks ago I had a pleasure to enjoy his live performance in Warsaw... and this was really amazing. Now, Fulgeance released a Beat Tape produced by his side project called Connecticut (never heard of them!) This is a duo consiting of Fulgeance and DJ Blockbass. The Beat Tape is a collection of unreleased, often unmixed tracks with tons of great samples, showing a more adventurous and off-kilter side of this talented producer. The sound fluctates from midtempo electronic excursions a'la Prefuse 73 or Dabrye and twisted hip-hop beats through laidback jazzy passages to experimental electronica. A lot is going on, you'll never get bored listening to this stuff. I love such unpolished, raw, fat and unrestrained beat orgies. A real POWER! Fulgeance writes that these are old tracks and beats, but they kick ass nonetheless. If you like music presented by Fulgeance on his blog Musique Large you know what to expect. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BY DOKTOR KRANK.
YES! Let's start another calendar year of DK's blogging with eclectic and ass-kicking mix Moral Panic! by Tom Encore, one of the best and versatile producers / DJ's on the dubstep / glitch / twisted 'wot u call it' scene in Poland. Just look at the tracklist, from B.Bravo and Dimlite thrugh Skrillex (!!) and Nero to Slugabed and NastyNasty. Ear candy par excellence. Great for boosting your mental skills at boring work.
Fizyk - Overcontrolled (Intro)
B.Bravo - Midnite (Broken Haze Version)
K-Theory & Frost Raven - 18th Century Gangster
Opiuo - Robo Booty
Break & Die - Slow Down VIP
DCarls - Flavorhythm
DCarls - All In
Marek Biliński - Ucieczka z Tropiku (Temat)
Skrillex - Kill Everybody (Koan Sound Remix)
Magnetic Man - Fire (feat. Ms. Dynamite)
Opiuo - Patchouli Dump Truck
Take - Paper Garden (Low Limit Remix)
AK Kids - Rock On (feat. Argyle Pimps)
Opiuo - Monkey Crunk (ill Gates & Samples Crunky Monk Remix)
Freestylers & Pendulum feat. MC Sirreal - Painkiller (Kouncilhouse Remix)
Freestylers & Pendulum feat. MC Sirreal - Painkiller (Noisia Remix)
Camo & Krooked - Breezeblock
Nero - My Eyes
Knife Party - Destroy Them With Lazers
Instra:Mental - User
DJ Wildchild - Renegade Master (Fatboy Slim Old Skool Mix)
Noisia - Red Heat
Dimlite - Can't Get Used To Those (Afterlude)
Wolfgang Gartner & Skrillex - The Devil's Den
Drums of Death - Cold Lazarus
Chemical Brothers - It Doesn't Matter
Drums of Death - Cold Lazarus (Starkey Remix)
J:Kenzo - Therapy
Dark Sky - Be Myself
Benga - Baltimore Clap
Chuckie - Who Is Ready To Jump (Dillon Francis Remix)
Benga - Buzzin'
Phrantic - God Of Terror
Wolfgang Gartner - Forever (16bit Remix)
12th Planet, Kill The Noise & Skrillex - Right On Time
Muffler - Controller (Tom Encore Remix)
SebastiAn feat. M.I.A - C.T.F.O. (Nero Remix)
Rob D - Clubbed To Death (Kurayamino Variation)
John Creamer & Stephane K - Forget The World (Acappella Mix)
Syrebral - Broken Angels
TC Crew feat. Eddie, Mike Dunn & Tyree - No More Mr. Nice Guy
Flux Pavillion - Got 2 Know (Squnto Remix)
Tom Encore & Paszczak - Lazer Fetish (feat. Kaspa)
Dakosa & Anile - Settle The Score
NastyNasty - Jelly
Kromestar - In 2 Minds
Slugabed - The System
One of my favorite providers of fresh music in 2011, a Canadian based label King Deluxe celebrates one year with the release of Year One compilation (in two parts). It includes a few highlights of quite a fruitful 12 months along with new interpretations by forward-thinking beatshmiths from across the globe including Fancy Mike, Ghost Mutt, Alphabets Heaven, I.D., Subp Yao, Option Command, Muta, Vaetxh, Acre and others. Stylistically this release offers diverse and wide-ranging beatz aesthetics with producers freely experimenting with sound, often quite successfully. This is not your typical easy-listening, ump ump sub sub UKG, Dubstep or Future Garage ting. Which is good, cause at the moment I'm really fed up with all this UK* scene. These tracks require some effort on the part of the listener, but trust me - you will be rewarded in the end :) If I am to name a few higlights I'd include: a fantastic Subp Yao's remix of equally great Aether by I.D., Zack Christ's angry, off-kilter refix of Aleph's Sulphozinum orGhost Mutt's uplifting remix of Alphabets Heaven's Woman. Don't hesitate peeps, grab this nice package, you won't be disappointed.
Ha! A very, very nice Christmas gift from my personal Label of the Year. Saturate Records has just released the second V.A. compilation showcasing the works by talented producers from across the globe (though mainly from the Old Continent) under one common denominator - Super Quality Beatz in Abundance. If you are wondering what directions, paths or angles the nu beatz / twisted hip-hop / experimental dance music scene will follow next year, in Saturated! VOL 2 you'll find fine examples. Just listen to the tracks on this compilation and you'll catch the vibe. My personal highlights include, among others, mind-bending tunes by oneone, Subp Yao & Bios, Racoon X, Phokus & Grapes, Microburst or Kijk Een Ster. Never heard of them ?? Time to catch up with the names, 2012 will belong to them. Definitely, one of the best releases this year!!!! Highly recommended by Doktor Krank.
Grab it on Pay-What-You-Want basis through bandcamp.
Robox Neotech has been a constant vendor of top-notch future robotic beats full of dark, deep and heavy artificial life. Here are a few latest releases worth checking. 2011 was great, guys. Keep up the good work in the year of final Armageddon!
P-Fang in his The Crypt EP offers Halloween experience like no other. I have been a fan of this mysterious producer hailing from SF since the first time I've heard his mixtape. I've been waiting for this release anxiously and I have not been disappointed a bit. This is the perfect music to enter the (apparantely) apocalyptic 2012. My personal highlights of this EP - Midnight, Devil and Graveyard2010 are full of totally unique, dark vibe which goes so well with my neurons and emotions. Hightly recommended by Doktor Krank! Grab this release on Beatport, Digital Tunes and at other digital retailers.
Then comes an old homie + Verb from US, the owner of supersexy lazer bass, in another winning Fragments EP for Robox Neotech. I've been his fan for years and as usual I'm totally impressed with the groovy, warm, bleepy heavens he creates on his machines doing his fantastic button work. Perfect music for home parties in any robot universe. The title track is a slowed-down, mutated robotic juke, a great tool for cerebral exercises in contemporary electronic music. The rest rides on a super solid hyper-bass and great synth improvisations with lots of action in the background plus great vocal samples. Impecabbly produced this is the music I hope hearing more and more in the future. Grab it exclusively on Beatportand elsewhere in a few weeks.
As a pre-Christmas gift Robox Neotech has recently released a nice package of 4 free downloads by the artists from their rooster. Ghetto Robots includes four juke ghetto-tech bombs by Damscray, Stagga, Doshy and + Verb. Smack a Blackbird boasts a fantastic melody line and Damscray becomes more and more The Juke Champion of 2011 in my ears :) It is a fu fu fuc fuck fu fuc fucking banger! I'd really like to smack a few heads with dat tjun! + Verb in Godzilla is again at the forefront of the music scene, applying his great skills quite successfully to a new Juke'ish territory. All his typical elements are there, but sped up and cut up a bit more than usual :) Good job man! Doshy's Shunt sounds quite ok, whereas the track by Stagga somehow did not convince me at all. Anyway, the package that cannot be missed!
Finally, next great release from Robox Neotech in which, Giallo meets Wij in the nasty collab project by Italian Planet Soap and a Russian whizz-kid Damscray. Planet Terror will terrorize your speakers and torment your soul with four merciless, stomping, heavy-bass booms. It's even hard to highlight one tune, this unholoy package should be consumed in full with all their smacking gory details. Highly recommended by Doktor Krank.
Kosmos run by a producer and promoter Maceo Wyro is the best radio show in Poland, where the host always serves refreshing and eclectic selection of future twisted hip hop beats, heavy bass and whatnot :) Vol. 36 even brings a couple of ass-kicking Moombathon tunes!! The absolutely smashing highlight of this volume are howerver live recorded sets by Oddisee - an East Coast rapper hailing from Washington and TOKiMONSTA - representing mighty Brainfeeder, lady of beats best known for her crazy live sets. They f...g delivered even more than I expected. I'm kicking myself in the shins for not attending their performance from a week back. They visited my hometown and I was out of town :( What a shame.
Don't hesitate, load diz beatz to your player and enjoy the ride.
Although I do this very rarely, I simply had to nick this from the messengers of good bass truth, i.e. Generation Bass blog, which once more proved to be a mine of real gems and which heralded this as "mixtape of the year". I agree 100%!! I post this in case you don't know / check generation bass (which I highly recommend, always) and to write a few comments, being blown to smithereens by the music I hear.
If zombies had their electronic music scene, GRIM would be their creepy f...g kings. Faded (chapter 1) is definitely the most unique and bizarre mixtape I've heard this year. It's like entering a new territory, where you have no idea what awaits you around the corner, except for the feeling that it must be something seriously scary but worth risking nonetheless. I love when music hits me sooooo hard emotionally. They call it post-trap, I'd call it post-trip :) as this sounds like coming down from a serious DMT trip, when the external reality is out of sync with your mental processes. Devilish, gripping, unnerving and with the vibe which would make Satan jelaous. I feel like dying ... I feel like dying ...
FADED Chapter 1 is the first series, featuring all exclusive re-edit material, from Voodoo Village (a label hailing from Memhpis, US) creep kings - GRIM. Faded comes in advance of the release of GRIM’s EP, 7sins, coming from Voodoo Village before the end of 2011. I've never heard about either of them, but after this mixtape I'm instantly hooked up and virtually dying to hear their EP.
Tracklist:
Diamond Bass – Nomada/All That
Three Six Mafia – South Memphis Bitch
Clicks & Whistles – Hello
Lil Daggers – Pair of Lives
Lil Wayne – I Feel Like Dying
Project Pat – I Keep That
Courtesy – Life, Man
Wiz Khalifa – On My Level
Com Truise – Colorvision
Koreless – Made In
Cities Aviv – Sixsixsixes
Gorillaz – Empire Ants
Kidkanevil with another surprising release! This time it is a collection of 27 electronic scraps and beats, in a tribute to famous Raymond Scott, composer, audio engineer, a cooky scientist inventing early electronic devices such as polyphonic sequencer, or first self-composing synthetizer called Electronium. He has influenced many big names of the early electronic music era. His music also inspired naughty Londoner, Kidkanevil, to produce a fantastic, funny and highly entertaining beat tape using Scott's samples as source material. Kidkanevil vs. Scott offers pure sonic pleasure for any beathead. I personally had great time listening to these short sonic sketches. Grab it for free via bandcamp.
Usually I do not post early soundcloud previews on my blog, I rather tend to review things in their final form, but I couldn't help myself with this preview of Hermutt Lobby & NON material forthcoming soon on the French netlabel Jarring Effects. Herrmutt Lobby is a collective of musicians, producers, 'scratch composers' & more from Brussels, but if I'm not mistaken, most of them currently reside in Berlin? I really dig Hermutt Lobby's music, in particular that published on Eat Concrete (check their Bussfudge Powerscones EP), but this preview of new tracks literally blew my mind! Best, most solid, coherent, and neck-straining beats, with a dash of experimental electronica, I've heard in a while. It really twisted my neurons, hard. Definitely, most eagearly awaited release this year.
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!
I'm going for holidays proper next week. Guaranteed sun, trekking in the mountains, sea swimming, drinks by the pool and doing nothing :)))) The blog goes into hiatus till the end of August. Before I go I would like to share with you my personal best mix this summer. Streets Ahead mix has been prepared by Sector 7G, hailing from Athens, Ohio, for The Find Magazine. I really dig this guy's musical taste and selection, if you follow my blog you know this is not the first feature about hime. You'll find all the usual suspects of the electronic scene here. Grab this fantastic collage of future beatz and enjoy the neon sunny ride.
Jakub "NOX" Abroziak is a talented 20-year old beatmaker from Poland. On his Atom EP he offers a fresh mix of spacey post hip-hop beats, strange vocal samples with plethora of bleeps and off-kilter sound effects. Diversity is the key when describing the music of this youngster who explores various paths of electronic landscape, in the end knitting them together into quite interesting and developed compositions. His production skills still leave room for improvement, but he already knows how to build intriguing atmosphere and ear-catching passages ("Atom", "Free Electron" or "Women in Hiroshima") and is not afraid of more experimental excercises ("Proton Decay" of "Neutron/Altai"). As a deliciously tasty dessert come two remixes by heavy-weight champions of new beatz from Germany and Poland. Proton Decay's remix by one of my favorite producers, Robot Koch from Berlin, is my personal highlight of the entire release. This guy never disappoints! His music imagination and sensitivity along with the immaculate production always work soooooo well with my emotions. His tunes are simply "touching" for the lack of the better word, and this remix is definitely one of the best I've heard from Robot this year. Teielte from Poland keeps pace with Robert, delivering a nice up-beat refix of Quarks. All in all Atom EP by Nox is definitely worth checking and I'm really proud that more and more artists from my country hit the global (if niche) electronic music circuit with quality stuff.
Jakub 'Nox' Ambroziak, is another interesting producer emerging from Poland (hailing from Słupsk in northern part of our beautiful country). Some time ago he released a very interesting No Album EP and is currently working on the new material for his forthcoming Atom EP. No Album EP offers five compositions of experimental, twisted, instrumental hip-hop with quite dynamic beatz, drums and pads, and nicely embedded voice samples. Each track tells a different story, attracting the listener to explore this sonic landscape. A name to watch for the future definitely!
I highly recommend checking Nox's mix he did for the best mutant beat radio show in Poland - i.e. Kosmos hosted by Maceo Wyro. Nox's selection in this mix is absolutely top-notch and he creates great vibe all across the journey he takes his listeners for.
Moa Pillar - The Moon And Thunder Dance (G5 Music)
1. The Moon And Thunder Dance
2. Water Lily
3. Haema
4. Flying Low
5. Red In Rainbow
6. Lake Mystery
All music by Feodor Pereverzev
Mastered by Evgeny Schukin
Worldwide digital distribution: Alpha Pup Records
DOKTOR KRANK'S RELEASE OF THE MONTH
9 / ***10
Russian beatmakers are unstoppable. They are young, talented and bring their unique sensitivity and 'soul' to the contemporary electronic music. They don't care about fashion and hype which is quite prevalent also in non-mainstram music nowadays (see: future garage or uk funky I am really fed up with at the moment), they simply do their thing. 19-year old (sic!), Feodor Pereverzev from Moscow, a.k.a. Moa Pillar is the prime example of this new wave of fascinating artists from Russia. He has just released a fantastic The Moon and Thunder Dance EP on the new Russian imprint G5 Music (part of the respected Gimme5 community), supported worldwide by the American Alpha Pup Records.
Many of you probably heard Water Lilly - one of the biggest anthems and bangers and one of my personal top tracks of 2010. When I first heard this tune I felt as if someone had slapped me in the face and then pushed me off the cliff. But I did not crash. On the contrary, this was a great flight! The raw power of Moa Pillar's sonic assault instantly increased my interest in music made in Russia tenfold. Though other tracks do not attack the listener with equally brute and beautiful force, this EP proves that Moa Pillar like no other artist can very skilfully combine regional, ethnic soundscape with ultra modern heavy bass & mutant beatz, creating synth-driven compositions, weaving through the listener's mind like good stories told by old shamans at the fireworks in the dark woods. I feel particularly attuned to this feeling of atavistic yearning and archaic undercurrent richly distributed in Moa Pillar's music, as in enchanting Red in Rainbow or Flying Low. Such soulful moments are so sorely missing from the music I hear nowadays, that I cannot remove a big smile from my face. Female vocals in Heama with fantastic, spacey synth improvisations simply turn me on!Lake Mystery starts like a typical oriental, arabic song to suddenly twist into cut-up ethnic chants with lots of beautiful bleeps and bits in the background building up to absolutely mesmerizing trip! As in the case of many artists from Eastern Europe I heard recently I really wonder how come such youngsters are able to produce such a mature music?
For years, I've been a strong adherent of Entheogenic Reformation in oppossition to the Pharmacratic Inquisition we face daily in our fucked up reality and my mind is really satisfied listening to such a beautiful, modern yet archaic and in the end - psychedelic stuff. We all know the stories of Siberian shamans, don't we? This is the music these wizards would definitely incorporate in their ceremonies with ease :))
I am deeply sorry, for my far too-long stream of consciousness, but somehow this music has inspired me to creative (I hope) writing which unfortunately you have been now exposed to... Anyway, check this music and let yourself be attracted to the tribal world of Mr. Moa Pillar:
For the time being you can grab this EP on iTunes only, which is kinda sad, as I don't use and have no intention of using Steve Jobs' greedy tool. Fortunately, soon this release will appear in other, more user-friendly places in the interweb (Boomkat, Juno etc.).
Apart from great music content, this EP shows more amazing talents, as the artwork by Hargi Csik & Erik Kirtley is the best thing in this department I've seen in months! Simple but extremely effective and emotional, the way I like :)
You better memorize the name of G5 Music, this imprint has more amazing music from Russia in the pipeline. Moa Pillar's is just the beginning, trust my werd!
Ultra Heavy Bass Champion - Eprom will drop in April another super bombastic and stomping release on RWINA, following his mighty Humanoid EP (Humanoid is still one of my top heavy bass anthems of all times). Pipe Dream, Chromium Decay, and The Symbiote are a rollercoaster of one-of-a-kind EPROM glitchy basslines rolling through the sonic landscape like a slow, but heavy armed, tank through the modern battlefield methodically clearing the terrain in front of it with mind-twisting stabs of pure digital fiiiiiiiiiiiireeeeeeee! I also have my favorite roller out of the three killing tracks. The Symbiote with its 21st century, twisted and distorted, robotic organs, could easily become a part of music score of some post-apocalyptic steam-punk thriller. Can't wait for this release. A must for any fan of straight-in-yer-face dancefloor smashers!
Starting the day with some gangsta bizniz is quite a good idea, innit? The more so as Dr.Knobz did quite a good job overlaying Bil Bless tune with Coolio's acapella. If you haven't heard about Bil Bless - Shame on you! - go check his music on Addictech and name your price and downlad the latest wonderful The Life Mechanism vol. 2. Dr.Knobz remix is harsh, glitchy and the twisted Gangsta's Paradise vocals are pure gold.
