04 March 2011

BUSTARHYMES - DANGEROUS (SLUGABON REMAX)



Super Fat and Siriouuuuuuuuuus Busta Rhyme Remax by SlugaBeast. Oh boy, this guy knows how to operate his gear. Bowel-twisting shit!

BUSTARHYMES - DANGEROUS (SLUGABON REMAX) by SLUGABED

03 March 2011

EPROM - Pipe Dream EP (RWINA415)



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!

Listen to the preview and check the artwork, which is simply amazing!
Eprom - Pipe Dream EP - RWINA415 by rwina_records

02 March 2011

Damscray - Bug Detector


Damscray (1/2 of Demokracy duo), heavy-weight champion of deep cosmic mumbo jumbo hailing from Siberia posted another killing tune on his soundcloud. Good joint to start off my blog after a short hiatus (yeah, skiing in - 20 Degrees was new, yet totally amazining experience!). Rave on!

Bug Detector by Damscray

18 February 2011

Top Tracks of 2011 (so far)


Top tracks of 2011 which made it into the first mixtape for my car this year. Thanks guys!

1. Lower Entrance - Unknown Variation feat. Natalia Grosiak
2. CEX - Trumpetflower (Scrubber Fox Remix)
3. Damscray - Warrior (Lakritze Remix)
4. Virtual Boy - Mass
5. Juakali - Freak you back
6. Th'Mole - I Love Unicorns (Bit-Turner Remix)
7. Gucci Mane - Dollar Sign (Duke Dumont Remix)
8. Demokracy - Zeroth Law
9. GoldRush - SuperSymmetry
10. Damscray - Stay High
11. Take - Begin End Begin (Falty DL Remix)
12. AEED - Electricity pt. 2
13. krojc - Kid 7+8 (PTR1 Remix)
14. Pixelord - Fish Touch
15. Sneaky - Toytown Elegy (Danny Drive Thru Remix)
16. Smokey and Casper - Red Pop
17. Lunice - Freaky
18. Forensics - Midnight Planet
19. krojc - Kid 7+8 (MCQ Remix)
20. Schlachthofbronx - Nasty Bass f. Spoek Mathambo & Bigspace
21. Salva - Icey
22. + verb - Luv U (Extended Heart Mix)
23. Spooky Jones - Starship Ping-Pong.

17 February 2011

Damscray - Make Me Juke


I have ambivalent feelings about the juke (house) as such, never know how to do a proper footwork on the dancefloor - ha ha. The sound patterns used by producers seem to be too repetitious in a longer run. There are of course some interesting artists hailing e.g. from France or Benelux (Moveltraxx family) and I like ghetto house / bastard juke aesthetics when combined with some other form of contemporary IDM music into a more variable music textures (e.g.: Schlachthofbronx, many producers from tigerbeat6). But something changed recently and in 2010 juke sound started gradually leaking into Europe / UK scene adding up another flavor to already twisted underground urban patchwork there (even ending up on some comp released by Planet Mu!!). Will Juke replace another stomping heavy-bass genre which now seems to be dead - I mean Bassline? Will we soon talk and write about UK J as an equal sibling to UK G or UK F? Honestly, I doubt it but trying new avenues in music is always better then copying others, me thinks. There are more and more examples of successful flirts with juke recently. Damscray is one of them definitely.  

Damscray (representing 1/2 of my favorite duo of synth slayers from Alfa Centauri ) has just released a super-duper juke EP featuring 6 original tracks and 2 absolutely gorgeous remixes (one of them totally mental!). Just listen to a super fat Stay High sounding like seriously accelerated glitch hop joint with dark, underlying bassline - a dancefloor killer for sure! One of the most powerful and straight-in-yer-face tunes I've heard this year! My personal highlight of the entire release. Clearly, Damscray uses juke aesthetics to experiment with his fancy gear moving from mutant beatz, dubstep and wonky to juke, mixing it all like a devil in one big post-post-something cauldron, like in sick Warriors or Itz Darkness or extremely dubstep'ish - Make Me Juke.  A 'cannonical' juke tune - Smellin Feelin  has been robo- reslipped by +verb into wobbley affair with amazing crispy synths. TUNE! But the real gut-twisting, totally mental trip awaits the listener in Lakritze's remix of Warriors. Though I heard this tune before it never ceases to grip my neurons and give me creeps! I'll play this tune to my wife next time she pisses me off :)  All in all, a very refreshing release, definitely worth checking even if you are not a big fan of ghetto / juke sound. Highly recommended by Doktor Krank.

Damscray - Make Me Juke (bandcamp $3 only!)