Riding on the coat-tails of Kittens‘ post on Photek, I couldn’t help but put something up about Dieselboy’s latest mix CD, ‘Substance D’, (A reference to Philip K. Dick’s novel, ‘A Scanner Darkly’) as I’ve been bumping this HARD in my car since its release a few months back.
A 2-disc compilation of unrelenting drum and bass not for the faint of heart, the first is a mix featuring the likes of Technical Itch, Evol Intent, SPKTRM, as well as remixes of MSTRKRFT & Computer Club. The second disc is unmixed.
This first track here is a fuckin’ SLAPPER. Knuckle up & jump up, you’re in for some shit. If you’re a DJ, the breakdown is perfect if you wanna transition your set into some electro or techno…
The first minute of this track is the calm before the storm, then the bassline hits and you know something isn’t right, something bad is gonna happen…soon…’Step up if you wanna get HURT!’
Riding on the coattails of the last post, where we shared a remix from British producer Photek of electronic-punkers The Faint, I’d like to share another from the crates—A dusty 1996 gem known as ‘Single (Photek Remix)’ for archetypal electronic-pop group Everything But The Girl. Lead singer Tracy Thorn (perhaps known to our readership as the voice on Massive Attack’s 1994 single ‘Protection’), gives a heartwrenching delivery perfect for Photek’s moody producion.
Photek gained fans for his work in under the drum & bass banner—but with arms outreached into other areas, creating a career with not only d&b accolades, but numerous accomplishments in house, ambient, electronica, and film scoring. An active remixer through the ’90s, I consider Photek’s remix for EBTG his best—I come back to this song every time I get my heart broke (or at least I would if it weren’t for my stone cold pimpin’).
Digging deeper, sample some other variety of Photek. Different flavours of drum & bass: Serving up the ambient side on ‘Ni Ten Ichi Pyo’ (Two Swords Technique)’, which found a wide circulation on MTV’s original AMP compilation. Serving up a rare 2004 techy d&B B-side, ‘Baltimore’. Even a year 2000 Billboard Dance Chart topping house track, ‘Mine To Give’:
And just when you thought this post wouldn’t get all bloggy, we have a contemporary remix from Photek’s 2007 Drum & Bass album, ‘Form & Function Vol. 2′ from blogtown favorites, LA Riots—who, as drum & bass expatriates, make a logical and experienced pair to take on a Photek production for the official B-side.
Not intended to feature the latest music out there, my ‘Pick of the Week’ is to simply share & highlight music i personally enjoy regardless of timeframe. This weeks featured artist is Ceephax Acid Crew (Andy Jenkinson). Firmly rooted in all things electronic, particularly acid & drum and bass, Ceephax can be compared to many of the acts on Aphex Twin’s record label, Rephlex, as well as his brother Squarepusher. I’d describe his music as being rhythmically erratic and energetic with melodies that can sometimes detach you from reality…
Dance party time! Santa Barbara’s DJ Magneto and Montreal QB’s DJ Mayday come with a hodgepodge of club jams, flawlessly moving from house to Bmore, to electro, to hip hop, to jungle, to dubstep, to electro to friggin’ Peter Gabriel & Phil Collins. Trust me on this one—the stew is good.
You’ll notice guest intro from Portland’s Spinnaface (dude’s got a spinner…for his face!), and some hype party raps and drops from L.A.’s Whiskey Pete (whom you should remember from the Villains ‘Vol. 1′ Mix which we unleashed on the world last year) alongside MC Dino (arguably one of the America’s best jungle MCs crosses over to the neonside).
Tracklist:
Intro by Spinnaface on Vocododing
DJ Magneto - The Party Don’t Stop (DJ Magneto Refix)
Bugz in the Attic - Don’t Stop The Music (Switch Remix)
D Ramirez - Bodyrox (Alkoholix Chic Edit) (with Whiskey Pete guest drop)
Chemical Brothers - Boot It Again (Mowgli Remix) (Soundclash Edit)
Loot - Click Clack (feat. Whiskey Pete & MC Dino)
Alan Braxe - Addicted (Hoodrat and Spruce’s Assssssedit)
Maestro Fresh Wes - Let Your Backbone Slide (DJ Mayday Remix)
[Magnum]
Diplo & Eli Escobar - U Used to Hold Me
DJ Roctakon - Jet Rink Sunglasses
Goldrocc - The Breaks
Sam & Dave - Hold On, I’m Comin’ (DJ Nature Remix)
Top Billin’ - Money for Nothing
Proper Villains - Big Booty Bounce
Depeche Mode - Stretch Can’t Get Enough (Bmore Bandwagon Remix)
Mr. Suitcase - You Don’t Smile Anymore (Magsch Remix) [Break]
Expansions - Move Your Body
Awsome3 - Don’t Go (Kicks Like a Mule Mix)
Jordan Dare - Throwrocks
Armand Van Helden - NYC Beat (MSTRKRFT Remix)
Hostage - Gluttony
Proxy - Ready 2 Watching
Surkin - Ghetto Obsession
Drop the Lime - This is the Way
MSTRKRFT - Neon Knights
6BLOCC - LODUBS dubplate (MC Polly big up)
Morcheeba - World Looking In (LODUBS DZ Remix)
Loefah - System
Peter Gabriel & Phil Collins - Take Me Home (DJ Mayday Masher)
Kid Sister - Switch Board
Count of Monte Cristal - Ghetto Bitches (Sinden Remix)
Justice - Let There Be Light (DJ Funk Remix)
DJ C & Zulu - Bodyjuke (Murderbot Refix)
Cupid - Cupid Shuffle (DJ Nehpets Juke Remix)
Dude & Nem - Watch My Feet (DJ Gant-Man Crunk Juke Remix)
D.M.S. - S.O.S.
Raziek - Hi it (Magneto Amen Edit)
SL2 - Jude on a Ragga Tip (Mix 2)
Krazyfiesta - Stilletto Pumps It Up
Green Velvet - Shake & Pop (Gant-Man’s Juke Remix) (Edit)
Gucci Mane & Ludacris x Mano - Freaky Girl (Mano Juke Remix)
In support of their successful pay-what-you-will digital album release, ‘In Rainbows’, last October, Radiohead have announced the first leg of their North America tour! And coincidentally our boy, N.Y.-come-L.A. Drum ‘n’ Bass producer Jo-S, has dropped this new ‘Weird Fishes’ remix on us. It’s true to the morose and “weird” nature of the original with just enough jump-up to get your neck workin’.
More dates to be announced. Tickets for the above dates go on pre-sale Valentines Day, February 14th, through the W.A.S.T.E. website and through other online channels beginning February 16th. Your lover doesn’t want candy & flowers, so give the gift of Radiohead! Radiohead is love.
After a week of downtime guess who’s back in the internet house?! That’s right, we’ve pretty much squared away all the server nonsense and we’re back in full effect. If you tried to email us last night between 8-10 and the mail bounced back it’s because we were re-configuring the mail server. Send it again!
But other than that, you’d better make some room on those ipod’s cuz we’ve got a lot of catching up to do. To quote the always relevant Fugees ‘Ready Or Not Here We Come’.
‘Ready or Not’ is off The Fugees 1996 ‘The Score’. If your copy of the CD got lost, stolen or spent too much time on the floor of your backseat you can pick up a fresh copy here. Visit Luca a.k.a. Drop Lime Lime on his M-space to partake in some more drum n bass’d up work.
UK’s John B is one of my favorite DJs. He is the electro-rocker-glam boy of Drum & Bass. Over the past 11 years, his records have cycled through the jazzy, the dark and the techy through the first half of his career, then his signature Electro/Drum&Bass sound was defined with his 2002 LP, ‘Brain Storm’ and has continued on since. His sound is sometimes called ‘Electrostep’ Drum & Bass—it combines the sounds of sounds and themes associated with Trance, ‘Electroclash’ and New Wave with Drum & Bass. Often adding humorous tongue-in-cheek topics in his songs and employing some of my favorite low-key rapper chicks, including stand out performances by Star Eyes of Syrup Girls. It all makes for one very fun package.
John B. found cult status in 2005 via MySpace with his laugh out loud ode to internet stalkerdom titled, ‘I’ve Been Stalking You On MySpace’. This song exists in several forms and mixes, but this is my favorite. It isn’t new, but it’s still relevant and it’s certified banger, so turn the volume to 11:
I must confess that a motivating factor for this post was so we could tack on the fact that we just added links to our profiles on our favorite networking sites for you to get your stalk on. Please get at us though MySpace, Virb, Facebook or join our group on Last.fm, and while you’re there you can check my personal Last.fm and Disaster’s personal Last.fm and applaud and/or snicker at our listening habits. Stalk us!
Now back to John B.! Here’s another one from 2003’s ‘In:Transit’ LP that features Star Eyes and she talks like my dream date, or something:
John B. released his latest LP, ‘Electrostep’ in 2006. The title, of course, is borrowed from the term that was coined to define his unique sound (buy the album from Amazon). On it John B. tackles a pair epic 80s tracks for some interesting cover versions. Hear John B.’s take on Toni Basil’s ‘Hey Mickey’ and Soft Cell’s ‘Tainted Love’:
The ‘Tainted Love’ vocals are provided by Marcy Meow, a former go-go dancer from S.F. (namely BootieSF), turned stripper, turned Spanish-language video-vixen. How’s that for multi-talented!
John B does remixes too, re-vamping my favorite Dirty Sanchez track, and slapping it on ‘Electrostep’.
John B. tours a grip and he’s about to roll through Europe and the US with dates in L.A., N.Y., Hawaii, and Dallas in the near future. You can can peep the details about the upcoming tour and stream more tracks on John B.’s MySpace. John B. owns several record labels, most prominently Beta Recordings. This label also serves as his personal website. You can cop many of his records from the Beta Recordings website. Also, view the official I Been Stalking You on MySpace profile and his more complete discography on Discogs.
Want lots of lots of free John B mixes? Get your’ Electrostep’ D’n'B O.D. starting with this 2.5 hour set from April on his site, available for free, with even more to be heard by clicking around the ‘audio’ and ‘news’ links in the sidebar.
Yeah we just posted some Drop The Lime the other day & we’re posting some mo’. But we just gotsta. We’ve had the ‘Let’s Lasertag Sometime’ compilation from Tigerbeat6 for some time now, we even wrote a post on it.
But you know how you buy a shitload of cd’s and once and you give them all a few listens, then they get lost among the masses. Well, that happened with this CD. From the tracklist I knew it was gonna be an awesome comp & it is, but I was cleaning up the apartment the other day & found CD again & threw it in the stereo & I’m hooked. So this weeks Mad Repeaterz track is DTL’s Butterscotch.
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