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.
I'm drowning with nasty, ugly, boring loan/legal work. I wouldn't have survived this horrible week without incjections of nasty global bass and similar. Here is absolutely fantastic Middle Eastern global bass mix by a DJ from Israel - Ido Wido. By Internet standards this stuff is old (one month he he) and has been already posted to a few sites, but it is so daaaaaamn good I have to give props to this guy mixing beautiful arabic melodies with hip hop / dancehall / cumbia / moombathon and whatnot. I really really dig this selection. Eh, all those arabic tambourines, drums, violins and vocals I definitely miss them.
