It’s been far too long since I released a Dubstep mix, probably close to 3 or 4 months. Surrounded by a world of Brostep I had almost lost faith in Dubstep until I went to see N-type & Hatcha at Bassmentality in Toronto a little while back. I came back from that show with a new found joy for Dubstep and how powerful it can be without being over the top & desperate for attention.

So I took it upon myself on Valentine’s Day to bust out a set of pure dubstep love for anyone in early attendance, too bad the PK subs didnt come on until the Headliners cause I think I could have knocked the place down with these tunes.

Enjoy the mix. It turned out great considering that the sound tech kept unplugging my booth monitor and turning the sound on and off trying to trouble shoot the insane amount of gear on the stage.

As always, big thanks to the Dub Cartel Recordings crew for supplying me with the illest tracks around.

Recorded Live Feb 14th 2012 at Le Belmont as an opening set to 12th Planet’s End is Near Tour 2012 with 12th Planet, Flinch & Crizzly – Big ups to all involved!

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TRACK LIST:
DubChild – Mount Zion – Distance Remix
Benton – Sleepless
Killawatt & Thelem – Joom
Dr Pytor – The Interlace
Distance – New Outlook
DJG & Headhunter – Spacecakes
Infra – Rupture
Porkchop – Boogiemon
Daisy-Chain – Duppy (Forthcoming Dub Cartel)
John Matrix – Ain’t Changing
Mr. Levi – Gyal Skank (Forthcoming Dub Cartel)
Goli & Ashburner – Alarm
Daisy-Chain – Mista Monster (Forthcoming Dub Cartel)
J:Kenzo – Ruffhouse
Goth-Trad – Air Breaker
Jakes & Beezy – Nightmares
Megalodon – Goblin Shark
The S.K. – Dare You (Forthcoming Dub Cartel)
Truth – Direct Blow
Gumnaam – Take Control
Acre – Golbat
6Blocc – Gang Bangin
Goth-Trad – Anti Grid
Chimpo – Blowfish
Collie Buddz – Come Around – L Nix Remix
Mr. Levi – John Wayne (Forthcoming Dub Cartel)
p0gman – Jigglin
Philthkids – For The Booty – HxdB & Cure Remix
Sines – Money Girl
Rustie – City Star – Skratch Bastid Blend

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TRACK LIST:
01. DZ – Stomp [Badman Digital X-Mas Sampler]
02. Bommer – Skank (Grizzstep VIP) [Unreleased]
03. Sinkro Dan – Gummy Drops [Badman Digital]
04. Squalid Squad – I’m Really Hot [Dub Cartel]
05. Bukez Finezt – Shatter [Freebie]
06. Datsik – Stand Still [Unreleased]
07. Subscape – Screw Up (Matty G Remix) [Dub Police]
08. KLRGRM – Get Funky [Unreleased?]
09. DZ & David Besplug – Welcome II Poundtown (L Nix Remix) [forth. Badman Digital]
10. Trigon, Dave Gee ft. Jahdan Blakkamoore, Armanni Reign & Diggadee MC – Murda Style (Von D Remix) [Profound Audio]
11. 50 Carrot – Liquid Acid (Bukez Finezt VIP) [Freebie] vs. 50 Carrot – Burial [Freebie]
12. Supreme – Prototype WIP [Unreleased]
13. Squalid Squad – Haters (50 Carrot Remix) [Supreme Hustle]
14. Surpass – Reckless (Rusty Meeks Remix) [Basshound]
15. The Stock Holders – Nebulous [Badman Digital]
16. Euby, Moise – Cuts Run Deep [Second to None]
17. Megalodon – Heavyweight (Supreme Remix) [forth. Brap Dem!]
18. DZ – Erthkwake [Badman Digital X-Mas Sampler]
19. DZ – In the cut (Dubstep Mix) [Badman Digital X-Mas Sampler]
20. D-Jahsta – Transmorph (Biometrix Shapeshifter Remix) [Betamorph Freebie]
21. Trolley Snatcha – Nasty Shit [forth. Dub Police]
22. Phatcat – In my own zone [Unreleased]
23. Supreme, Chewie – Snaggletooth WIP [Unreleased] vs. Bare – Clips [Freebie]

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Another week, another great mix to add to the podcast. This time around we have RadioFrequency.FM DJ and UK bass head Rush in the mix for JLD #162. This mix is a great blend of deep & dark with a mixture of super wet and heavy riddims from names such as p0gman, Benton, Formless and of course Megalodon. Personally, I think this sound and mixture of influences is a great place to be in Dubstep right now. It keeps the essence of OG Dubstep but still brings the heat to the ears and dancefloors. No electro in this mix, and that’s a great feeling.

Keep your eyes on this site, cause we’ll be releasing another podcast at the end of the week featuring a hot up and coming duo from the UK.

BIO BLIPS:

Rush bring’s you the best variety of dubstep with clean blending and cutting and crossfader action throughout the set, playing out live around the UK or straight from the radio on The Rush Dubstep Show on Leeds Radio Frequency, bringing you the best forthcoming tracks from the biggest labels blended with brand new and old classic dubstep all the way from deepest dark dubs to the new school sound and wobbles.

Brought up around the Huddersfield and Leeds music scene this dj set out to perform to please the masses with the highest level of quality mixing you’ll hear. Early 2009 Huddersfield’s event Powah was quick to notice one of its hometowns upcoming talents and quickly gave the DJ a residency playing the best dubs alongside the best names monthly, touring and meeting other nights from Sheffield to Nottingham which sadly closed down 2011. 

Since then Rush has been playing far and wide with names such as: Excision, Sukh Knight & P-Money, Trolley Snatcha, Silkie, Seven, Exodus, Bar9, Kryptic Minds, Youngsta & many moreand has only just started his voyage. Be sure to check him out as the future has alot in store for this skill full DJ.

LINKAGE:
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TRACK LIST:
Plastician – Japan
P0gman – Chain Gang
P0gman – DSFG
Requake – Apple Juice
Devilman – F***ed up formula
P0gman – Jiggling
Benton – Sinners
Benny Page – Judgement ft Flowdan
Distance – Meanstreak
Vylex – Abduct You
Unknown – Disturbing Toys
Formless & Lokian – Mislead
Formless – Hidden Realm
Formless – Lucid
Vibez – Two by Two
Megalodon – Dark Carnival
Soap Dodgers – No 6

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Riding on the heels of Outlook, a second, slightly smaller festival is being held the following weekend specifically engineered to appeal to those that enjoy steady beat experimentation. Just like it’s older brother Outlook, Dimensions‘ line up is nothing short of epic. Might as well move to Croatia soon.

The official wordage:

The team behind Outlook launch their newest festival Dimensions. Set in the same location as it’s older brother, Dimensions boasts a deeper end of the electronic music spectrum. Featuring the likes of…

Moodymann, Dyed Soundorom, Marcel Dettmann, Ben Klock, Scuba, Shackleton, Joy Orbison, Levon Vincent, Kassem Mosse, Gold Panda, Theo Parrish, Pangaea, Loefah, Boddika, Midland, Floating Points,Surgeon, Kyle Hall, 2562, Benji B, Andrew Weatherall, Motor City Drum Ensemble, Mala, Pearson Sound, Ben UFO, Blawan, Sigha, Locked Groove, Space Dimension Controller, Pariah, Untold, Alexander Nut, Funkineven, Fatima (live), Iration Steppas, Mungo’s Hifi, Author, Pinch, Deadbeat, Anstam, dBridge, Dub Phizix, Consequence, SP:MC, Synkro, Paul Spymania

DIMENSIONS FESTIVAL 6-9TH SEPTEMBER 2012
FORT PUNTA CHRISTO, PULA, CROATIA
www.dimensionsfestival.com

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO PURCHASE TICKETS

Dimensions Festival has arrived! Set on the picturesque Adriatic, Dimensions hijacks Fort Punta Christo the weekend after its older brother Outlook. Having made this location a Mecca for bass music lovers, Dimensions makes use of the beautiful surroundings with a smaller capacity; a slightly different take on sound focusing its time on House, Techno and the deeper end of the electronic spectrum.

Keeping themes from its originator, Dimensions will be set against the backdrop of the breathtaking abandoned fort. Located on a peninsular surrounded by crystal clear Adriatic waters, Dimensions combines sun-soaked beach parties by day and all night raving up at the fort until sun rise! The legendary Outlook boat parties also get a revamp as Dimensions takes command for the weekend.

With a higher technical specification of sound systems than you will find at any other festival of its size, Dimensions is the perfect place to enjoy the deep end of the electronic spectrum.

Dimensions will focus its energy on the foundational sound of House and Techno. In Europe, House Music found its home in the Island of Ibiza and Techno firmly laying its foundations in the city of Berlin. Anyone that has visited Berlin should be aware of the electronic beat that pumps beneath its streets.

Representing the mature and industrious sound of clubs like Berhain, Panorama Bar and Watergate, Dimensions is proud to welcome the magnificent Marcel Dettman! Along side Dettman we find Ben Klock a Dj who has made his mark on Techno as a resident at Berghain since its doors first opened in 2004. New kids on the block Kassem Mosse and Motor City Drum Ensemble join the German clique hot on the heels of their piers. Berlin also houses new talent, supplying a sturdy roof for other exciting new DJ’s in Europe. Leading the migration from London, Hotflush Recordings label boss and SUB:STANCE founder Scuba joins Skull Disco expat Shackelton on the Dimensions lineup.

Recent years has seen UK House evolve into a widely recognised sound. Many will be happy to see the well known British DJ’s Pearson Sound, Pangaea and Ben UFO of Hessle Audio. Other acts championing the UK sound will be Joy Orbison, Sigha and Space Dimension Controller. Joining these great names are up and coming producers Blawan and Midland along side future garage newcomer Pariah whose sounds are set to dominate 2012. Broadening the British Platform is an artist who we are very excited to be hosting Gold Panda. With a significant body of work having been released on American label Ghostly International, Golden Panda is confirmed for his much greatly awaited performance.

Familiar names such as Alexander Nut, Floating Points from Eglo records, dBridge and Boddika representing the sound of Autonomic
have been confirmed for this festivals maiden voyage. Radio presenter Benji B joins the bill with long running figure head in Dubstep Mala of DMZ and Swamp 81 label boss Loefah.

Representing the birth place of Techno, Dimensions are thankful to host some great names from Detroit. Known best for his warm, organic and soul inspired take on techno, Moodyman is very highly respected. Expect to see Theo Parrish, one of the longest running DJs on the scene performing with the likes of Detroit young blood, Kyle Hall.

French dance music has always had a distinctive stamp when compared to other scenes in the global community. Dyed Soundorom brings an unforgettable rough, disco lead take on Techno from Paris with help from New York resident Levon Vincent. One of the longest running and most celebrated DJs in British music Andrew Weatherall joins forces to get Dimensions off to a magnificently strong start.

Keeping family ties stronger than ever Mungo’s HiFi supply their legendary sound system for the likes of Iration Steppas, the sideways bass of Untold, Tectonic label boss Pinch and new comer to Locked Groove.

With all the experience and success of Outlook behind them Dimensions is set make its mark on the European Dance Music scene. Additions to this lineup and information on boat parties to be released very soon

In the adventurous land of Croatia, in an old fort overlooking the endless Adriatic, we find the world’s largest bass music festival. A festival that wants to do nothing other than celebrate soundsystem culture with those that care. Among the icons present are Fat Freddy’s Drop, Jah Shaka, Phife (A Tribe Called Quest), Digital Mystikz – Mala & Coki, Scuba, The Beatnuts, Gold Panda, Congo Natty & Family, Goldie, Kode 9, Joker, Hatcha, N-Type, Pearson Sound, Loefah, The Bug, Flowdan & Daddy Freddy, Iration Steppas, Mungos Hifi, Gentleman’s Dub Club, Zion Train, and a whole lot more.

Here’s what they have to say:

The success of last years Outlook festival paid off when the UK Festival Awards crowned us “BEST OVERSEAS FESTIVAL”. Now in its fifth year, Outlook presents the most diverse and interesting line up you will find anywhere in Europe this summer!

Set in the breathtaking abandoned Fort Punta Christo, the Outlook site looks like something from another world. By far one of the most unique festival sites in Europe, Outlook is located on the northern coast of Croatia and is surrounded by crystal clear Adriatic waters. Outlook boasts the best location for sun soaked beach parties and all night raving till sunrise in the Fort. The legendary Outlook boat parties will also be setting sail with some of the most exciting names in Bass Music and Soundsystem Culture!

Those that joined us last year will remember our new additions to the festival. The Moat, The Dockside and The Harbour will all return with the same amazingly crisp soundsystems and stunning visuals as last year!

Showcasing everything from original Dub Reggae pioneers to the new school masters of electronic music, the line up is already starting to take shape and with hundreds more acts yet to be revealed, the 2012 line looks set to be the biggest to date!

Amongst those already confirmed are names synonymous with Outlook that have seen it grow over the years. Dubstep heavy-weights such as Hatcha, Loefah, Mala & Coki see their residency renewed on the Outlook lineup.

Remaining true to the origins of the music, Outlook will also be supplying some of the biggest names in Dub and Reggae this year. Far from the shores of the Caribbean, hailing from the far reaches of New Zealand, Outlook are proud to announce Fat Freddy’s Drop will be headlining the Harbour Stage this year and we can’t wait. This fantastic seven piece band from Wellington effortlessly combine elements from Dub, Reggae, Soul and Jazz with soothing vocals. Perfect for the Outlook vibe.

Joining forces on the Dub and Reggae bill we find other greats such as Jah Shaka, Outlook family friends Iration Steppas and the sought after sound of Mungos HiFi. With their roots deep in soundsystem cluture, expect to see performances from Gentleman’s Dub Club who have never failed to impress with high-energy performances.

The Jungle pioneer Congo Natty will return to Outlook in 2012. As always the enigmatic performer will be accompanied on stage with many of the talented MC’s he is known for working with. MC’s Flowdan & Daddy Freddy have been confirmed for Outlook and will no doubt be backed by the dark, Dub heavy sounds The Bug.

A first timer to the Outlook but by no means a stranger to the music; a
truly influential artist who defined the sound of the 90’s with his ground breaking album Timeless and prolific label Metalheadz, Outlook welcome Goldie to the stage. Other popular names in DnB like Norwiegan DJ Teebee and production partner Calyx also make their way to the stage for the first time.

As ever Hip Hop will have a strong presence. This year we are welcoming some real classic acts onto the Outlook shores; with a wealth of work behind him, Malik Taylor aka Phife Dog comes to Outlook to perform tracks from classic albums ‘Low End Theroy and Beats’ and ‘Rhymes and Life’. Joining this timeless artist is another classic name in Hip Hop, representing the west coast sound, Souls Of Mischief bring the noise of Oakland in the mid 90’s. Looking now to modern movers in the Hip Hop scene we call on France’s finest beat smith, Onra who will be crash-landing for a seriously colourful live performance.

Outlook would be nothing if not for the wealth of emerging artists it brings to the rave. Pushing the now widely recognised UK sound we present an artist with releases on R & S Records, the rising star Blawan. Another artist we’re excited about is Mosca who rose to fame with his single Bax released on Glasgow based label, Numbers. Another artist gaining pace at the moment is XXXY who has seen releases on Ten Thousand Yen and Orca Recordings. In a similar vain we also bring you the wonder boy of Hotflush Recordings, George Fitzgerald.

Purchase tickets and find more information at www.outlookfestival.com.

OUTLOOK 2012 LINE UP SO FAR:

FAT FREDDY’S DROP, JAH SHAKA,
PHIFE (A TRIBE CALLED QUEST),
DIGITAL MYSTIKZ – MALA & COKI, SCUBA, THE BEATNUTS,
GOLD PANDA, CONGO NATTY & FAMILY, GOLDIE, KODE
9, JOKER, HATCHA, N-TYPE, PEARSON SOUND, LOEFAH,
THE BUG, FLOWDAN & DADDY FREDDY, IRATION STEPPAS,
MUNGOS HIFI, GENTLEMAN’S DUB CLUB, ZION TRAIN,
SOULS OF MISCHIEF, DBRIDGE, CALIBRE, YOUNGSTA,
TRUE TIGER – SUKH KNIGHT, STANZA, BLUE BEAR, ZED BIAS,
BODDIKA, ADDISON GROOVE, TEEBEE, CALYX, DISTANCE,
BEN UFO, APPLEBLIM, BLAWAN, ICICLE, MARCUS INTALEX,
KLUTE, JACK SPARROW,
PHAELEH, ONRA (Live), THE HEATWAVE, CHANNEL ONE,
THE DISCIPLES
FEAT JONAH DAN, CONSCIOUS SOUNDS + KING
GENERAL, REMARC, GIRL
UNIT, GUSSIE P, SOOM T, DISRUPT, KUEDO, AUTHOR (Live),
MOSCA, KRYPTIC MINDS, SUBMOTION ORCHESTRA,
STAMINA MC, YT, GEORGE FITZGERALD, THE PROTOTYPES,
QUEST, DARKSKY, MARCUS
NASTY, PANGAEA, NAVIGATOR, SP:MC, VIVEK, LENZMAN,
BROTHER
CULTURE, OBF, MICKEY PEARCE, BLACKS, TUNNIDGE,
MENSAH, JUBEI, XXXY, DUB PHIZIX, ILLUM SPHERE,
BROKE’N’£NGLISH, AKALA, SKITTLES, EARL GATESHEAD
(TROJAN SOUNDSYSTEM), STAND HIGH
PATROL, RSD, KIDKANEVIL, BLUE DAISY, FANTASTIC MR
FOX, ELIPHINO, FLAKO, T WILLIAMS, JACKY MURDA, ANT
TC1, MC DRS, LIONDUB, J:KENZO, OCTANE & DLR, SERUM,
LX ONE, MC CRAZY D, OSSIE, ARIES, DIGITRON, DANMAN,
MC LOWQUI, COMMODO, BIOME, HYETAL, RUCKSPIN,
PLANAS, RIDDIM TUFFA, JAY 5IVE, STEPPA
& KITCHA, DAUWD, DUB BOY, LURKA, RICH REASON, ALBY
DANIELS, INSPIRATIONAL SOUNDS, GORGON SOUND, DJ
FU, ADAM PRESCOTT, HYPEMAN SAGE, G DOUBLE,
THINKING, LUD DUB, EARTHPIPE, FINWA.

Zoom – (ACRE033) by Dark Sky

Dj Eastwood – U aint ready (Untold remix) (Unreleased 2010) by Untold

My guilty pleasure: BASSLINE!

Jon Phonics – Grid Games EP Clips – PRISM001 – Vinyl OUT NOW by prismtracks

Dark Keys SOUNDCLOUD by SKREAMIZM

PREVIEW ”Below” (Boddika Acid Refix) SKUDGE005R by Skudge

Jam City – The Courts from night slugs on Vimeo.

D2 Recondite – Jaded – Scuba remix (Snip) by Absurd

Kastle – I Know (King Remix) (FREE DOWNLOAD) by KING

Rusko – Somebody To Love (Remix)

Changes (Appleblim’s Bristol soul mix) by 2020VisionRecordings

Dear Theo / All Change [Subdepth] by DFRNT

Running – Jessie Ware (Disclosure Remix) by Disclosure.

And this is Thom Yorke’s new alias:

A recent classic:
Let You by Sully Harmitage

Make sure to give Sonkin a good ol’ fashioned “LIKE”
Sonkin and Rx – Flu Season (Preview Only) by Sonkin

Ital Tek – Up (Free download) by ITAL TEK

Mekha – Conscious (Teaser) Forthcoming C/C/S by Mekha

Julio Bashmore-The Horn That Time Forgot Bootleg by Sines

Boogie With Me by Tanka

Another Valentine day coming up, meaning J’aime Le Dubstep is one year older – flipping over to year number 3! To celebrate another great year, we’ve got another super sweet swanky mix from Jamie Sho and his better half Jams as Master-Faders. These two are serious on the deck and slayed just recently opening the night for Friction here in Montreal.

Check out the links below and keep up!
Another great year to come.

LINKAGE:
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Jams – Soundcloud

TRACK LIST:
Author Ft Ben Glass – Green & Blue
ReLeece – West Coast Killer
Terror Danjah – You Make Me Feel
Kidnap Kid – No One Else (Tete De Tigre Remix)
Stagga – Wild For The Night (Doshy Remix)
French Fries Ft Banbounou – Hugz
The Widdler Ft Mary P – Exposed
Ill-Esha – Slide Over
DEFO – Awareness
Wholestick – A Little Louder (First Down Remix)
Wholestick – A Little Louder (Arcade Remix)
Zeds Dead – Hit Me
MartyParty – Just Because of You
NEOS- Half Life
Sublo – Soma Dub
Bobosaw – Abundance of Love
Stinkahbell – In Your Eyes
MartyParty – Cape Cod
Coki – Ruff Lovin
Minor Rain – Desert Road
MartyParty – Can A Brutha Get a Lil Peace
Joker – On My Mind
Joker – On My Mind (Rustie Remix)
Rob Sparx – Walk On
Ooohh Baby – Matty G
Four Leaf Clover – (Von D Remix)
DFRNT – True
Sugarpill – Delirious
Oh Tebins – Tickle Parts
JPOD – Bamboo Juice
Vibesquad – Shine
Both Face – Raw Style (Instrumental mix)
Minnesota – Hold Up

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In case ya’ll don’t know the deal, this here’s The Beat Sheet, a breakdown of the latest and greatest in EDM. If you missed it, you can catch up on #1 here. Onwards!

“Eski Tech” – DJ Soulja Man – Body High

I’ll be honest, to this day I’m not quite sure what “eski” was or is, and I would consider myself a person generally in the know about this sort of thing. As such, I cannot really account for the title of DJ Soulja Man’s recent debut on Body High; but I can attest for its uncanny ability to make everyone on the floor go absolutely nuts. With the first thirty filled with pan pipes, police sirens, and gun sound effects, I’m already sold. The beat is something resembling sped-up dance-hall, with furious kicks and unrelenting claps. The bassline, though, is the centerpiece, a bobbling madman set on beating the most indignant of wallflowers into full-body freakouts. This is dance music at its most effective.

“Blame” – Distance vs. Tunnidge – Chestplate

2012 started with the exciting announcement from Chestplate that the label was kicking up its release schedule, blessing the ‘heads with a single every month. The 16^th installment sees the man himself stepping up on the flip to tag-team a proper destroyer with label-mate and all-around badman Tunnidge (if you think his beats are good, check his artwork for Mala’s Deep Medi imprint). “Blame” is the best of both worlds, setting the tone with galactic pads and that crisp hat-work we’ve come to expect from Sanders, while a bone-crunching bassline from Tunnidge and a menacing sample via Watchmen ensure you’ll be watching your back on the floor. A little fear never hurt anybody, yeah?

“Funky Steppa” – GoldFFinch – Saigon Recordings

GoldFFinch has been getting praise from all the right people lately, and for good reason. His productions showcase some of the best synthesis of UK house, throwback electro, and futurist techno I’ve heard. “Funky Steppa” is perhaps his best tune to date, hyped by Boddika himself. Built on a bumpy 808 rhythm, the tune revs up for awhile with filtered bass stabs and terse vocal samples, before unleashing some serious pressure. GoldFFinch outdoes himself with the percussion, namely the rimshot and syn-tom, whose stuttering swings jack this track to a must. Play this one out with caution—you may find yourself rewinding it a few times.

I’d just like to say that my absolute pick from this week is HES019, but everyone’s mom has already done a write-up for that outstanding release. I leave you with a bonus dub from 2006, by Hyperdub’s own Kode9.

Long live bass.

Coming out hard and heavy is Distance new EP surfacing onto digital format today from Tectonic Records. Adept fans of this dubstep pioneer will most likely have already ordered the vinyl version when it was released last week. This latest imprint for Tectonic keeps their streak of killer releases going into 2012 and definitely gives Distance the attention needed for an artist of such caliber and strength.

If your new to Dubstep, this might be a good time to look back and see how this artist has been shaking walls in clubs since day one. Full support from myself on this release. Enjoy.

PR WORDS:

As one of the original pioneering forces in dubstep, Distance has unleashed a series of hard-hitting, no compromise singles over the last 7 years, and 2 highly acclaimed albums on the respected electronica imprint Planet Mu, ‘My Demons’ and more recently, ‘Repercussions’. 2011 saw Distance release a single with major label Island Records (‘Falling’) as well as delivering a precision mix for the esteemed Tempa ‘Dubstep All Stars’ DJ mix series. Taking a rare excursion away from releasing on his own excellent Chestplate Recordings, Tectonic is very happy to welcome Distance back for this fine release.

‘Reboot’ has been tearing up clubs over the latter part of 2011 – restrained but ruff-nek and most definitely ready for action. Chiming in with a riff that sounds like a demented modem being fed through a hungry distortion pedal, Distance builds the tension all the way to the drop… Then in comes the Distance subs – perfectly formed and totally powerful – charging the rhythm with a deadly purpose. Big support from Youngsta, Mala, Pinch and many more..

Flip then for the devastating ‘Bazurk’. Swinging into action with a chattering, wonky hi-hat line, this beast soon mutates into its full form, ripping the clothing from its chest and letting out a deafening metallic roar! Korn may well be experimenting with dubstep a-la-Skrillex, but ‘Bazurk’ makes their efforts sound like music for little girls who get scared easily.

DJ Support :: Pinch, Youngsta, N-Type, Roska, Photek, Starkey, Tunnidge, Cyrus, Peverelist, Chef, Kryptic Minds, J Kenzo

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Yesterday relative newcomer Push & Run debuted the official music video for Welsh producer Ifan Dafydd’s latest success, the critically-lauded Treehouse. Ifan gained international attention last year with his chopped & screwed take on Amy Winehouse in the song No Good. With no information on the artist anywhere there was a short stint of speculation that Ifan was actually James Blake (true enough, they both utilize similar pads…but then again so does Disclosure and Mount Kimbie) but turns out they were actually college roommates – makes sense.

The video is laden with the iconic grey skies and the chilly (yet oddly inviting) leafless trees of the English country side and the subtle drizzle of London. From a vine-covered graveyard, Ifan dons a stuffed panda head and travels inward to the city where his own voice laments being unable to have any real impact on the greater world around him. Perhaps the panda head is meant to represent how unique we all perceive ourselves to be yet the lack of attention he receives with it reinforces the lyrical theme of the song that we’re all ultimate just a small part – my own interpretation, take from it as you will. The video ends with Ifan at one of the coolest nitrous parties I’ve ever seen, despite the overall sense of exclusion. See for yourself below.

Don’t miss the free download of Miranda, the b-side to No Good, provided by NME Magazine:
Ifan Dafydd, ‘Miranda’ by nmemagazine

And, for good measure, my favorite work of his to-date:
Emeli Sande – Daddy (Ifan Dafydd Remix) by pushandrun

Our good friend Jamie Sho has just release his set from Shambhala 2011 and ohhhh man, is it ever great! Coming up next week we have Jamie Sho and Jams special Valentine’s Day JLD mix, so click on below to get familiar and get ready for yet another great Vday mix for another great year!

TRACK LIST:
Benton – It’s Whatever
C.R.S.T. – Jam For You
Distal & HxdB – Booyant
Caspa – Fulham 2 Waterloo
RSS – Wife Her Up (Jack Sparrow Remix)
Baobinga – Make Me Feel
Rusko – You’re On My Mind Baby
Supra 1 – Still Believe ft. Amy Douglas (Boogaloo Crew Remix)
Tessela – You Give Me Something
Keyedup -Arp Girl
Bandicoot – In A Moment
Guido & Baobinga – Ballin’
Joker ft. Jessie Ware – The Vision (Let Me Breathe)
501 – Black & Blue
The Others – First Flight
501 – Can’t Touch Me
NastyNasty – The Goalie
Devlin ft. Labrinth – Let it Go (Joker Remix)
Starkey ft. Charli XC – Lost In Space (VIP)
Kavsrave – Illicit Dreaming
Baxta – Power House
Henry & Louis – Rise Up (RSD Remix)
Una Murthera – JingBong Ting
Kito ft. Reija Lee – LFO
K Theory – Air
Flight Facilities – Crave You (Adventure Club Remix)
Doshy – Milky Way
Riskoteque & Marshmellow – I Need Ya
Silkie – Planet X
Deco & Linker – Greenthumb Funk
Von D ft. Phephe – You’re The One
Nocturnal Sunshine – Can’t Hide The Way I Feel
Gravious – Cascade
Unsub – Silk Button
Afrowhitey & Sporty-O – Down For Whatever
The Others – Say To You
Mensah – Big Up The Goons
Okota – Justice
Kito & Reija Lee – Sweet Talk
Kavsrave – Your Love
Debruit – Pony

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Disclosure – Tenderly (Melé Remix) by Annie Mac Presents

Canblaster & Nightwave – Power Up by Red Bull Music Academy

Goth-Trad – Anti Grid (Official Video) Deep Medi Musik 2012 from Deep Medi Musik on Vimeo.

Mak & Pasteman – Playboy EP Clips (Forthcoming Hot N Heavy Recordings) by Mak & Pasteman

C.R.S.T Free Downloads. by C.R.S.T

Disclosure – Tenderly (Kidnap Remix) by Kidnap kid

Unknown Remixes by BrEaCh

MOCK THE ZUMA – Black Puddle (FRIDG006) by Fullfridge Music

Tessela – Let Up – CLIP by 2nd Drop Records

4TH005 / Presk by Fourth Wave

Pusherman – Perforate (C.R.S.T Remix) by C.R.S.T

Beat Inc. – Just Remember (Om Unit remix) – Original Cultures by omunit

Portico Quartet Ft. Cornelia – Steepless by RealWorldRecords

inertial by tr4ns1ent

Lorca ‘Can’t See Higher / Missed Me’ (single) by Dummy Records

Vit Drowning/Through Your Gills I Breathe (5kinAndBone5 Remix) – Future Sound Of London by 5kinAndBone5

DNM027 – SHOOTING HORSES – LEKKER EP W/ CHAOS IN THE CBD REMIX (DUBNOIR) OUT NOW by DubNoir Music

Coming out just in time to break some hearts is Carrier‘s freshly made 3 track “Left Coast” EP on MalLabel Music. A serious combination of dubstep with a twist of glitch hop flair makes this EP a must get for any heavy yet colourful dubstep fan. I personally can’t wait to work this into a set of mine. It’s gonna be fire!

To makes things even sweeter, MalLabel has offered a free exclusive download for JLD fans from Carrier which isn’t featured on the upcoming EP. So grab it here, and get those ears ready for impact once Left Coast hits the stores this upcoming February 14th!

FREE EXCLUSIVE DOWNLOAD:
Carrier – Dancing on Eggshells (right click to save, but you know that)

PR WORDS:

From one of the most innovative, original dubstep producers in North America comes the strongly musical and energetic Left Coast EP, three powerful and intricately programmed tunes from San Francisco whiz kid Carrier. From start to finish, each of the three original tunes on the EP showcase Carrier’s masterful, commanding production ability with rich, evolving synth tones, sparkling, clear drum kits, and a inimitably dark, menacing tone to the release. Finding a bountiful groove distant from the average, overplayed, raunchy bass sounds permeating today’s dubstep market, Carrier uses brain and brawn in equal portions to hatch a distinctly unique breed of tune, texturally sculpted, refined, and sharply cerebral.
            Left Coast (featuring Turf Dubs), the title track, opens up the EP with a dark, dramatic urgency. Whistling West Coast gangster synthesizer melodies clash with futuristic, dystopic, sludgy bass rips, creating a smoldering, ultramodern opus. The next track on the release is Deathtouch, a sprawling and dark roller, packed with ominous and assaultive bass runs and Castlevania-esque leads. And finally, NTBFW (also featuring Turf Dubs) closes the EP out with gutted, raw, and rude saw wave midrange synths amid luscious, spacious, dubby atmosphere.
            Carrier, formerly of NTRLD infamy, has a pure, original talent unmarred by the over-saturated backdrop of mechanized similitude in current musical trends. The Left Coast EP is a beacon of individuality, and it is overflowing with a distinctive and special vibe of its own. It’s not hard to see why MalLabel Music is proud to support such a stupendous effort in their second release of 2012.

Artwork by Skulltrane.

GET MORE CARRIER:

LINKAGE:
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FREE EXCLUSIVE DOWNLOAD:
Carrier – Dancing on Eggshells (right click to save, but you know that)

Tell you what, since Sinjin Hawke exploded all over the map in the past few months I’ve been aching to find other producers with a similar sound. A mixture of Hudson Mohawke, Sinkin Hawke with some Girl Unit for good measure, boiled down and re-engineered is probably how I would describe this upcoming EP from Illegitimate Children on DubPorn Records. Reaching worldwide February 13th, this beautiful 6 track EP titled Frosty Tits will make you flip out I’m sure…. well that’s if you like the artist mentioned above.

My only regret is that I only have one track to preview for you guys, but trust me… the remainder of the EP is beyond great. Check out the links below and get ready to gnab your copy of Illegitimate Children‘s Frosty Tits.

PR WORDS:

Illegitimate Children is a musical experiment started by Derek Janni, a real-life math nerd and electronic music producer whose taste for weirdness has garnered him respect in a crowded and often homogenous scene. His music cannot be easily pigeonholed: taking sounds from electronic music’s past and warping them into a new framework, his music is both future-oriented and nostalgic at the same time. Constantly morphing rhythms propel his tracks and blasts of 80′s synthesizers, droning space sounds and reverberating vocals add layers of unique weirdness to them.

As a classically-trained a music student and self-taught drum machine maniac, his productions balance the knowledge of a band geek with the sensibility of a hip-hop beat maker; combining creative chord progressions with bombasts of crunk beats, mid 90′s R&B samples and woozy synths he creates music that is both technical, yet with pop sensibility and goofiness that defies the possibility of ever being called “pretentious”. If there is one thing to always expect from Illegitimate Children it’s change: his music never treads the same path twice and each song is a new mix of future thought and familiar foundations that defies the label-readiness we’ve all come to expect from electronic music.

The Frosty Tits EP is Illegitimate Children’s first official release on Dubporn Records and will be available February 13th at one of many fine online retailers worldwide.

LINKAGE:
DubpornRecords.com
Soundcloud
Facebook

Cool little video from a recent performance by Skywalkerr in Boulder, Colorado as he touched down at the Fox to unleash some heaviness. Say what you want about the original track he’s remixing, this looks like a damn fun party! I’ve really been feeling the glitch hop vibes lately and Colorado seems to be producing some of the best in the low end frequency spectrum, Fresh2Death and Samples immediately come to mind. Must be something in the water….

If you wanna get some more info on Skywalkerr, including some of the other dope glitch style tracks he’s produced, check him out on his facebook page.

Back online, and it feels good. We hope that this super sick mix featuring all original tracks from these talented producers from Belgium help you forget about the website being down for 2 days. You know it’s gonna be sick, tight and packed with mad skills when Ganja White Night gets together and deliver us JLD mix #160! I’ve been a fan for a while of GWN, so I won’t waste any more of your time. Read up below, click the links and enjoy the mix. It’s a banger!

BIO BLIPS:

After composing different electronic styles like Hip Hop, Breaks and Drum&Bass, the two group members have been extremely influenced by a musical style in a fully emergence at the time : dubstep, music centre on “Bass Wobbling” while trying to stay away as much as possible from clichés that this style may impose.

For their live performance the group decided to plan a live arrangements allowing them to be creative and efficient combining machines, laptops, midi master keybords, all kinds of regulators, samplers, sequencers, processing effects and recently IPads. Yet the ground is bound to develop their skills as DJ’s in order to diversify and be more flexible. Thanks to this the group is now more approachable for all types of scenes throughout the world.

All two members are self-taught, and they’ve studied electro-acoustic with Annette Vande Gorne at Le Conservatoire Royal of Mons (Belgium). Learning about Musique Concrète and sound design completely shaped Ganja White Night’s music in a totally unique way.

Their first album; which digitally came out in February of 2010 is a compilation of all the LP’s they had previously released, along with a couple exclusive new songs. They’ve self released everything they’ve ever recorder, label that goes under the name of Subcarbon Records.

LeBelgeElectrod was in the band until he left in february 2012. The album is featured in many online stores around the world such as iTunes (US, EUR, CAN, AU, UK, JAP), Amaon, Juno Download, Napster or Rhapsody; with the US being the country where it’s been the most successful. The songs Peace By Fear and Blueberry are the best selling tracks.

Ganja White Night is a shout in the dark in this noisy world…

Make sure you grab the FREE Download of Endless Sky in the soundcloud player.

LINKAGE:
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Soundcloud
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TRACK LIST:
Ganja White Night – Endless Sky (JLD Edit)
Ganja White Night – Blueberry (JLD Edit)
Ganja White Night (Ft Mc Xander) – Kali Mist
Ganja White Night – Peace By Fear
Ganja White Night – Many Voices
Ganja White Night – Strawberry Cough
Ganja White Night – Gayfish
Ganja White Night – Global Warming
Ganja White Night – I Smile When I Kill

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If you’re not familiar with this weekly post, please check out the first one here

Sessions (Clip) by Wachs Lyrical

Schlachthofbronx – Slowine / Dickie Riddim ft Warrior Queen by schlachthofbronx

Addison Groove “Beeps” (50WEAPONSCD06) – Out on March 30 by Modeselektor

Palms Out Sound // POS035 – HxdB & Self Evident Hoof Hearted EP by ΗxdB

The man that coined my new favorite genre name “Goombawave”:

and in case you missed the free download of his collaberation with the one & only Sinjin Hawke: One Kiss

And some more Goombawave:
Leisure Is A Science *FREE DOWNLOAD* by ∑NRON HUBB∆RD

Tom Richman-92 Hardcore by get flavor records

Evian Christ – Kings And Them by TriAngleRecords

Randomer ‘Scruff Box’ / ‘Get Yourself Together’ Hemlock Recordings [HEK015] by stholdings

C.R.S.T – Valve EP (Pressure! \\ What I Want ft. Jessy Allen)) by C.R.S.T

Alien Titchmarsh Riddim w/ Mark Pritchard & Om Unit by Danny Breaks

Much love to the west coast Canadian bass music community:
Max Ulis ft. Westerley- Rain Sound by Max Ulis

Korma – All American Girl by *Korma

One of my favorite releases of January:
Orphan 101 – Itchin EP (Out Now) by Decarhythm

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3ieme Anniversaire / 3rd Anniversary Party

This year we wanted to bring you the biggest sound we can offer with an artist of impressive caliber, so we are very happy to team up with Massive Disruption to present this years JLD Birthday celebration on a Function One system at Circus Afterhours.

Thanks for all the support.
- Construct.
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with Mega Smash International Dubstep Artist
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✚ ✚ ✚ HULK ✚ ✚ ✚
Saratoga Springs, NY || Chicago, IL
SUBHUMAN || BROTOWN || PLAY ME || POTTY MOUTH ||

http://soundcloud.com/hulk

JLD #73 – HULK

Hulk is the impulsive, bone-breaking alter ego of audio-scientists Claw and Richie August. They combined their creative powers for the common good after meeting at the 2009 Winter Music Conference in Miami, exchanging research and data in the fields of Dubstep, Hip Hop and Drum & Bass. But after an experimental dubstep drop exposed them to gamma radiation, their talents fused into the raging, supreme beast that is Hulk.

The deadly duo then began to tear through the music world, crushing all in their path without pity or mercy. Notable heroes have been alerted to and crossed paths with Hulk, including Modestep, Reid Speed, Excision, iwrestledabearonce, Mrk1, Downlink, Dieselboy, Caliban, Bare, The Gaslamp Killer, Emmure, Messinian and DJ Lord of Public Enemy.

Hulk’s first official release was home based in 2010 on Reid Speed’s Play Me Records as a Beatport Exclusive. The duo recently dropped the bomb known as “The Brotorious EP” on Dieselboy’s, SubHuman Records. Unfortunately, Hulk has shown no signs of stopping.

Prepare for mass Hulking Out around the world as Claw and Richie August combine their super-brains to bust out of convention and SMASH competition.

You’ll like them better when they’re angry.

w/ Local support from:
CONSTRUCT • HARMSWORTH • MARC REMILLARD • SUBTONE

ALL INFO AVAILABLE ON FACEBOOK:
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Compa is not a name that has been thrown around very much in these parts, however, this producer/DJ has shared stage with big names such as Mala, Coki, Breakage, Cluekid, The Others and Silkie just to name a few. He first broke out on the airwaves when Joe Nice brought him in for his GetDarker TV show.

A wax enthusiast at heart, Compa makes a point of investing in a sub culture that has come back in the past couple of years. However, it is important to note that this is one man and not a major record label funding the appetite for wax.

He took things to a new level when he played his “Dem A Talk,” a refix of Mavado’s original track calling the tune “alright, I guess.” Instead of being “alright,” the refix embodies influence from older Dubstep tunes, the likes of Loefah. It will hopefully be released later in February and distributed through ST Holdings as a one-sided 12″.

It’s nice to see Compa getting more attention, especially now. Definitely looking forward to seeing more from him in the future!

Compa’s sounds
ST Holdings

Hello, JLD community! Welcome to The Beat Sheet, a track review and release recommendation series. Since I have no friends and no car, I can listen to music all day and find you the best of the best! I have been listening to bass music since 2007, turned on to dubstep by Distance’s classic, “My Demons.” Since then, I have branched out into every corner of the EDM world, and would like nothing more than to open a few ears to the vast world of underground beats. From the broken hip-hop of Los Angeles to the mutated UKG-techno hybrids of Central Europe, everything is fair game–as long as it’s fresh. Please, feel free to ask questions in the comments. Long live bass.

“Untroubled” – 123Mrk – Squelch & Clap

Kicking off his recent EP for Squelch & Clap, “Untroubled” sets the stage with a bubbling progression and soft stabs of white noise. As pitch shifted vocal snippets join the fray, the tune threatens to collapse into another pleasant “future garage” number, the formula for which we’ve all become too familiar with over the past year. Luckily, the drop reveals something completely different—a staggering skeleton of a beat, a craftily muted FM synth and enough swing to satisfy the most militant of broken beat-heads. Unlike many producers at the moment, who are content to crowd the mix with as many saccharine sounds as possible, Mrk practices restraint. It’s almost as if he took a tune and gutted it, leaving only the absolutely essential bits. This sense of space pervades the EP, proving that “future garage” doesn’t have to be predictable. Tipped.

“Come Between” – Jim-E Stack – Good Years

The man known as Jim E-Stack has been making the remix rounds for a year now, and has finally graced us with a debut of his own, the second release on UKF legend Lil Silva’s Good Years imprint. The title track is the strongest offering on the EP, wasting no time in laying down some impressive programming, complete with crisp pan-work and a tightly chopped break. A wordless sample choruses to maximum effect, and again, the “future garage” formula seems unchallenged. It’s then that Jim-E brings out the big guns, riding a lead that would make Jam City jealous as a piano plays call and response. The icing is the automation, highlighting the break and never allowing the mix to become too crowded. While it may fly a bit under the radar, the attention to detail on this track (and the rest of the EP) is astonishing. Sleeping on this is not recommended, unless of course you like being that kid who’s late to every party.

“Saved” – Clicks & Whistles

The name should not be new, as 2011 saw the well-deserved rise of North Carolina’s premiere production duo. Their synthesis of dirty south hip-hop and modern EDM is just as comfortable shaking the subs in your brother’s Celica as playing backdrop to summer roof parties. “Saved” epitomizes the C&W aesthetic, complete with a soaring Hoover-esque lead, airy brass stabs, and a low-end seemingly taken from Thug Motivation 103. The result is one of the most unabashedly celebratory tunes I’ve heard in awhile, and one that’s certain to make even the grumpiest of EDM purists crack a smile.

Lastly I’d like to plug two links. First up is my friend’s Tumblr, where he tracks forthcoming releases. He does all the work for you!

Bass Releases on Tumblr

Second is the best room on the ever-growing Turntable.FM. You can catch me spinning as “cakeplz,” along with tons of other great people with an appetite for the freshest productions in EDM.

Future Garage / 2-step / UK Dubstep on Turntable.FM

This next mix is from a new(ish) artist who is causing quite a ruckus in the dubstep scene (read: non-brostep) with his own signature dark and somber sounds which hits you like massive bass waves. A guy who definitely ended the year on my list of artist to watch in 2012 – JLD #159 by Benton is ready and served with a side of extra heavy bass, a little Garage, some Grime and a few classics to kick up the spice!

I suggest you roll one up, grab a coffee and start off your day in a dubstep haze (if applicable… not suggested at the office, or police station, or funeral homes) Personally, I’m keeping this mix on repeat until we unleash JLD #160.

Cheers, and enjoy this very well crafted mix by Benton!

BIO BLIPS:

Undoubtedly one of the most talked about new artists, Benton receives support from the likes of Skream, Benga & Youngsta plus stations such as Kiss 100, BBC Radio 1 and Rinse FM.
With releases on Blackbox and NType’s label, ‘Wheel’n’Deal’ & an eagerly awaited album on the same imprint, Benton’s success is forever expanding.
Arguably most well known for his deep and dark ‘dungeon sounds’ on the contrary,Benton’s sets fuse a variety of sounds, encompassing the soundscape of Dubstep consistently filled with dubs from the Wheel’n’Deal camp, his own original material and from the leading names of the game.

LINKAGE:
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K-Mag Interview

GET MORE BENTON:

TRACK LIST:
Breakage & Burial – Vial
Kryptic Minds – Arcane
Benton – Skeptics
Widowmaker – Tunneling Wurm
Skream – Blipstream
Shredexx – Transporta
Content – Quantum
Sleeper – Narrow
Benton – 2020
Sleeper – Untitled
Kryptic Minds – Talisman
District – Sceamers
Benton – Blind
Mala – Lean FWD
Dizzee Rascal – Hoe
Wiley – Eskimo
Beatfreaks – Speakerbox
Dj Narrows – Saved Soul VIP
Wiley – Igloo
Wiley – Morgue
Agent X – Killahurtz
Xmen – Little Man Instrumental
Jammin – Kinda Funky
Musical Mob – Pulse X
Boddika – When i dip
Mark Ryder – Joy Instrumental
Pangea – Hex
Boddika – Soul What
DJ Wire – Believe Me
Plastician – Cha
Wiley – It’s Wiley (Mickey peace remix)
Mala – Level Nine
DJ Target – Poltergeist
DJ target – Poltergeist (devils mix)
Dizzee Rascal – Strings Hoe

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Don’t Ask, Don’t Get by Mickey Pearce

Ice Black – Baobinga & Guido by guido productions

Dominique Young Unique – Stupid Pretty (Machinedrum Remix) by machinedrum

No Sleep EP – forthcoming Rwina Records by Desto

Torus – Torus EP Preview [SRR001] by sonicrouter

Colo – Never Again (George FitzGerald remix) – TAKE005 by George FitzGerald

Distal & HxdB – Booyant (Tectonic) by Distal

Distance ‘Reboot / Bazurk’ :: TEC054 PREVIEW by Multiverse

Black Ice by Moldy

UNKNOWN ARTIST – REMIXES 2012 by pets_recordings

Pusherman – Still Feel (Forthcoming Dench! Recordings) by Pusherman.

DJ Q – Brandy & Coke by DJ Q Music

Koloah-Bulletproof 6 track album [Out now on Hyperboloid records] by KOLOAH

Admin – Hustle Me by ∆dmin

Fancy Restaurant (MachineDrum Remix) by Gang Colours

And this one isn’t new, but it’s still so good:

Ram Records own Delta Heavy have served up one of the finest Nero reworkings of recent memory. The 80′s infused track that synths around and launches into a breakdown complete with lazers, sensual vocals and heavy bass. With an almost moombahton feel to the beat, clocking it at a full six minutes, this Delta Heavy remix is going to be on heavy rotation.

The downloads are maxed but it’s still streamable, check it out below.

Nero – Must Be The Feeling (Delta Heavy Remix) by MTA Records

One of 2012′s most anticipated new labels, ATOM Recordings, is launching their debut album with an arsenal of badass tunes from a squadron of some of the heaviest producers and up-and-comers from around the globe.

No surprise the roster is so savage, being a label founded by F3tch (AU), a well recognized dubstep producer, enthusiast, and true connoisseur of the heavy side of the genre. This incredibly powerful album features some of the latest heavyweights, namely xKore (UK), Captain Panic (US), and Romania’s own youngin, Bong. There’s even some Canadian heat in there from yours truly

Here’s a short description of the upcoming release snatched from ATOM Recordings…

The first installment from Atom Recordings is a prodigious 11 track album of sonic debauchery, rancid basslines and twisted melodies. Definitely an album to set the standard for things to come.

The action-packed compilation featuring a diverse line up of talent including Bong ,Xkore, F3tch, Au5, Captain Panic, Static Function, Elliot Mars, Subdue, Geoff Bukk, Big Sips, Melamin and Wicked Sway, Vortek and Endboss, with Styles ranging from filth to neuro to melodic. There is definitely something for the most seasoned critic.

The tracks on the Nucleus album are currently being supported by dubstep’s elite producers and DJ’s such as Excison, Datsik, Downlink, Quartus Saul, Numbernin6, Reid Speed, Borgore, Skream and Benga.

This explosive package detonates next Tuesday, 31st of January, and will be exclusive on Beatport.

Until then, check out this teaser clip, which demonstrates just how vibrant, versatile and towering this release is expected to be…

Links…

ARTISTS
xKore
Bong
Elliot Mars
F3Tch
Geoff Bukk
Vortek
Big Sips
Subdue
Static Function
Captain Panic
Au5
Melamin and Wicked Sway
Endboss

ATOM Recordings – Facebook

This year was filled with a lot of bass. So many great tunes were released this year but only so many can go on the list! It pains me to say so but it’s also the reason for “top” lists. New producers, old producers, they all had something to bring to the table this year.

After flipping through a lot of tunes, I finally came to my conclusions on what my “Top 5”s were for 2011.

Bye bye 2011, it was a great year.

And hello 2012.

Top 5 LPs:

1) Pinch and Shackleton – Pinch & Shackleton: Tracks like “Burning Blood” send shivers down the spine with it’s soft percussion and the reminiscent sounds of early dubstep while “Levitation” bridges between dance and experimental music.
Pinch + Shackleton : Burning Blood [Clip] : Out now on Honest Jons by DJ PINCH

2) Silkie – City Limits Volume 2: Silkie delivers an extremely upbeat album. With tracks like “Untitled” (collab with Skream) as well as “Only 4 U,” it is easy to see that Silkie’s production belongs to both the headphone listener and the party junky. “Feel” (collab with Truth) remains my favourite with its deep kick, loud claps and eery synth.

3) Zomby – Dedication: Zomby has some of the creepiest productions I have ever heard mixing 16bit-like sounds with soft drums and piano arrangements that tie everything together. A lot of mystery surrounds this album and like many of his productions, it proves to be an avant-garde step with tracks such as “Witch Hunt.”

4) Sully – Carrier: Carrier is an album that perfectly describes where my head is with regards to bass music. For a year now, I have been seeing more and more juke tunes gaining popularity. Sully keeps a very playful UK Funky feel but “Scram” and “I Know” in particular are very subtle tunes filled with low hats and low sub levels at 160BPM.

5) VA – Mosaic Volume 1: This compilation from dBridge’s Exit label is one album that could not be missed this year. It’s filled with soft, easy listening tracks that perhaps best exemplify autonomic as a genre. “Open Arms” from Synkro remains the most “feel-good-in-the-morning” track I have ever heard. Other artists on the compilation include Distance, Indigo, Skream, Skeptical and Instra:mental to name a few.

Top 5 Singles:

1) Dub Phizix & Skeptical feat. MC Strategy – Marka/Rags: The best tune to end 2011. With almost chant-like emceeing by Strategy and the half-time surrounding it, this tune makes me think that 2012 will be a great year. “Rags” is an amalgamation of sounds everywhere, however maintains a hypnotic head bobbing feel.
Dub Phizix & Skeptical – Marka Feat. Strategy (Exit Records) by Skeptical

2) Royal-T – Orangeade VIP: Royal-T has greatly contributed to the UK grime scene especially with a tune as insane as this. The claps keep the listener attentive amongst the catchy synth. I think by now I can recognize it as soon as the volume is brought up to mix it in. Definitely one of the most played tunes I’ve heard this year (but not overplayed!).
Orangeade VIP Limited Edition (SHIPPING NOW!! W/SWINDLE – MOOD SWINGS VIP) by Royal-T

3) Distal & Mite – Attempt at Yellow/Chocolate Circuit: With the Embassy Recordings label, Atlanta-based Mite and Distal have delivered banger after banger. “Attempt at Yellow” has soft synths, but a heavily present sub to contrast. “Chocolate Circuit” reminds me of sounds used by Salva and takes it to a new level in a half-time beat.
EMB001B DISTAL – Attempt at Yellow by Embassy Recordings

4) Starkey – PC (feat. Merky Ace & Kozzie)/PC (Instrumental)/Peacekeeper: As a huge fan of the “purple” sound, Starkey’s single screams grime with bars by both Merky Ace (with a new EP) and Kozzie. The beat matches to these emcees more aggressive tones and having the instrumental gives a DJ a lot of leg room. The B-side, “Peacekeeper” has a heavy purple synth with that grime beat. P Money freestyled over it on Elijah and Skilliam’s Rinse.FM show.
NHNH015 Starkey feat Kozzie + Merky Ace – PC by Nohatsnohoods

5) Koreless – 4D/MTI: I do not know many future garage enthusiasts, however, I can say with certainty that this release from Koreless is exactly what I see the genre to be like. Using eery vocals, beautiful and subtle bass as well as the intricacies in between everything, Koreless’ release can be seen as an example of what future garage sounds like.
4D by Koreless

Honourable Mention: Cedaa – Justine: Though unreleased, Cedaa’s “Justine” is too great of a tune to leave unnoticed. Cedaa released his Jasmin EP on B.YOURSELF Division but this tune was a giveaway that makes me think that there is a lot coming from him for 2012. To have used a Justin Timberlake song and make into such a clean, minimal juke tune seems to me quite accomplishing.

Top 5 EPs

1) Krampfthaft – Makin’ Magic: This Dutch producer has pumped two very successful EPs so far. With tune’s at 160bpm, Krampfthaft adds his personal touch to the juke phenomena. A tune like “Carl Sagan The Man” rattles speakers with its immense bass kicks and “I Needed You” takes its listener to a new world with enchanting vocals (until it drops).
Carl Sagan The Man (Out now on Rwina Records) by Kr∆mpfh∆ft

2) Burial – Street Halo: What more is there to say about Burial that hasn’t been said already. This three track EP contains haunting yet uplifting vocal bits surrounded by the ambiance that Burial’s sound is known for. As always, Burial remains a mysterious personae and seems to keep his audience begging for more.

3) Hudson Mohawke – Satin Panthers: I didn’t know much about HudMo until this year with their EP release. There is a lot of ground covered in this one similarly to the Krampfthaft. “Thunder Bay” bombards listeners with single shot horns and a hip-hop-like drum pattern which compliments their 160bpm tune “Cbat:” a weird synth playing on top of a drummer-boy sounding snare.
Hudson Mohawke – Thunder Bay by Hudson Mohawke

4) Wheez-ie – Keep Yer Chin Up: “Keep Yer Chin Up” alone is a track to be reckoned with. Wheez-ie’s EP ranges from heavy (“House Ball“) to more catchy sounds (“Barefoot Billy“) and feels totally complete with remixes from Salva and Dj Assault.

5) Kingdom – Dreama: Brooklyn-based Kingdom never ceases to amaze with his versatile productions and “Let You No” proves it. The beats are relaxed making this EP easy to listen to and well worth playing out.

Top 5 Remixes

1) Sicko Cell (Pusherman Remix) – Joy Orbison: “Sicko Cell” was already a sought after tune when it mysteriously appeared on Youtube. Pusherman takes the tune to a new front with a deep sub that emphasizes the rather dark sample.
Sicko Cell (Pusherman Remix) by Pusherman.

2) I Am (Kid Smpl Remix) – Trim: Kid Smpl’s take on Trim’s “I Am” is a nice touch for a grime tune. Reminds me of “Numb” on Starkey’s album.
Trim – Notice Now (Kid Smpl Remix) by Kid Smpl

3) Ray Ban Vision (Luckybeard Remix) – A-Trak ft. Cyhi Da Prynce: This tune is super catchy…almost too catchy. It also has an amazing breakdown which changes the songs vibe completely.
A-Trak – Ray Ban Vision (Feat. Cyhi Da Prynce) (LuckyBeard Remix) by Lucky Beard Rec

4) I See You (Girl Unit Remix) – Lunice: Lunice’s “One Hunned EP” as well as trips overseas has earned this hometown producer a lot of attention this year. Girl Unit’s energetic touch to “I See You” makes for a great remix especially with the high note sub.

5) Be Like Me (Official Remix) – D Double E, Snoop Dogg, P Money and Professor Green: This “official” remix for D Double’s “Be Like Me” features fellow grime emcees P Money and Professor Green but the big surprise is Snoop Dogg on the first verse.

So, a new year. New energy. New radio station.

Wally and myself have decided to jump ship at Nasty.FM and makes moves over at Dubplate.FM, a Canadian owned and run web station. We had lots of great times over at Nasty.FM and we wish them all the best. The Nasty Crew runs things and I was honoured to be part of the FM crew. We hope that you guys will enjoy the new station and follow us in our journey into the world of Bass music and everything which touches it.

Now, here is a little info about Dubplate.FM:

Streaming electronic radio | dubstep, future bass, jungle, downtempo, house, juke, footwork, electro, techno, hip hop, & More

Dubplate.fm is an online radio station and content service for dj’s and producers. We value Canadian artists and pride ourselves on maintaining over 50% Canadian dj’s. Based in Toronto and Vancouver Dubplate.fm places a focus on streaming live events from the club. Offering you a VIP booth in the comfort of your home.

Most recently offering 4 unique audio streams and a place for upcoming and established artists to post music for on demand playback and download. Dubplate.fm is continually working to enhance its platform.

Currently Dubplate.fm broadcasts over 20,000 listener hours a month. (That’s over 2.5 terabytes of traffic a month!)

Currently listed on iTunes and hundreds of other radio directories, Dubplate.fm has achieved a great level of visibility which is constantly increasing.

We are always looking for new content and talent so please don’t hesitate to contact us and get involved. If you are a DJ or producer, apply for a DJ account at http://dubplate.fm/apply.

They offers 4 live streams of music:
1- Dub & Bass: Dubstep / Future Bass / Next Step / Downtempo
2- Urban Boogie: House / Juke / Street / Hip Hop <<< our Wednesday night show is here
3- Heavy: Dubstep / Electro / Wub / Stepcore
4- Double Drop: Drum ‘n’ Bass / Jungle / Darkstep / Drumstep

OUR SHOW INFO:
DUBPLATE.FM – Urban Boogie Channel
Wednesday Nights
7-9pm EST/ 4-6pm PST/ 12-2am GMT

ON THE MENU:
808s, Bass, UK Funky, Grime, Juke, Footwork and anything that makes us move.

LINKS:
Dubplate.FM
iPhone APP
Facebook

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And of course, Dubstep.FM is still every Tuesday night !!!

Keeping form and exploring the low end in dubstep, next mix coming up is from Benton! So keep this one of repeat till then.

*EDIT*
Check out Forenscis recent interview & mix with Kmag

BIO BLIPS:

Electronic musician, best known for producing moody, haunting dubstep. Also known for for pioneering the ‘111’ movement. Owner of Methodology Recordings. Releases on a range of other labels, including Eight:FX & DubKraft. Co-founder of the Ruffnek Diskotek club night.

Featured on BBC Radio 1, BBC Asian Network, Rinse FM, Ministry Of Sound Radio etc. And in magazines such as Mixmag, ATM, Knowledge, FACT, XLR8R. Recorded mixes for BBC Radio, Knowledge Magazine and many others. Tracks played by Aquasky, Plastician, MRK1, Horsepower, Bobby Friction, Macabre Unit, Joe Nice, Pathaan, Crises, Kion, Jus Wan.

Collaborated with Kulture, Phaeleh, DZ, Juakali, Indi Kaur, Atki2, Be-1ne, Threnody, Kuoyah, Demon, Substep Infrabass, king slaFF, Alien Pimp, Wrexile, China~, Grooki, This One, Two Oh One, Tommy Lexxus, Not In My Name, Paul Domino, MrJo, Rhythmical Thinker & Patchwerk Man.

DJ’d alongside Loefah, Benga, Kode9, Plastician & Skepta, Hatcha, Distance, MRK1 & Virus Syndicate, Joker, N Type, V.I.V.E.K, Geeneus, Pinch, RSD, Gemmy, Elemental, Scuba, Ital Tek, Peverelist, Drop the Lime & Mathhead, Bass Clef, Headhunter, Appleblim, Rossi B, Cluekid, Synkro, Oneman, Jakes, Mungo’s Hi Fi, Moving Ninja, Sukh Knight, Geiom, Milanese….

LINKAGE:
Soundcloud
Myspace
Twitter
Facebook

GET MORE FORENSICS:
Latest tracks by Forensics

FREE DOWNLOAD:
Midnight Planet by Forensics
Forensics – God’s Hands by Methodology Recordings

TRACK LIST:
01 : Loefah – Horrorshow [DMZ]
02 : Krytikal – Cleric [Unreleased]
03 : Perverse – Cluster [Unreleased]
04 : Collision – Glare [Unreleased]
05 : Benton – Sleepless [Wheel & Deal]
06 : Biome – Propaganda [Osiris]
07 : Forensics & Grooki – Spirits, prototype version [Unreleased]
08 : Trashbat – 7 Years VIP [Unreleased]
09 : Vivek – Diablo [Deep Medi]
10 : Fused Forces – Horizons [Unreleased]
11 : Basic A – That Weight [Unreleased]
12 : Commodo – Dokument [Origin Audio]
13 : Fused Forces – Start Of Something [Unreleased]
14 : Krytikal – Selfish Ways [Area]
15 : Dr Pytor – TOYS [F4T]
16 : Icicle & Distance – Exhale [Shogun Audio]
17 : Species & Infra – Grizzly [Unreleased]

DOWNLOAD LINK

This little lady needs no introduction, so I’ll get right to it. This Friday, Katy B will be performing live in Montreal’s Le Belmont club – her first show ever in Canada. Luckily I’ll have a great view of things to come as I warm up the room before the performance and blow things up afterwards so we can dance till 3am. Get ready for some smooth UK beats from myself to start and heavy 808s and bass vibes to close.

Check out the links below and all the information you’ll need to make sure you’re not left outside.

A FEW PR WORDS:

KATY B, the popstar from the UK undergrounds comes for the very first time in Canada. She stops by in Montreal for a one-single show!

JANUARY FRIDAY the 27th 2012, 10pm
Le Belmont, 4483 St-Laurent Boulevard

Somewhere between Dubstep, Grime and UK Funky House, Katy B came out in 2011 with something crucially different: a girl’s voice, soulful and sexy! Confidently seizing the middle ground between the totally on-point lyricism of Lily Allen, the swagger of Ms Dynamite and Neneh Cherry, Katy ’s killer combination of natural pop sass, uniquely powerful voice and total immersion in London’s club culture makes her the perfect popstar.

Katy B encapsulates the sound, spirit and unrestrained energy of British youth culture right now. Surrounded by a stellar cast of producers including Benga, Zinc, Magnetic Man and Geeneuus, founder of dubstep pionner radio station Rinse FM, ‘on a Mission’, her debut album, launched the 21-years girl to the top of UK charts within a couple of weeks. Some of videos, such as ‘Katy on a mission’ produced by Benga, have been watched more than 15 million times.

Katy B is the first bona fide pop star to emerge from the dubstep and UK funky undergrounds, she is definitely this fresh new pop star that really has it all! So, Montreal clubbers and music lovers, are you ready to warmly welcome her for her first Canadian appearance?

Before katy’s show, another concert is scheduled. More intimate, the support band is a unique voice, alone with her loop pedals: A K U A. Sensual and soulful, the London-born singer lives now in Montreal. AKUA’s charming voice is surrounded by R&B synths, folk tones or electronic beats. Between Erykah Badu, Jill Scott and Beyoncé, she will offer hot vibrations to the audience with her ethereal voice and her confident presence.

The night will be hosted by Montreal well-known Dj Construct. Founder of the dubstep events, Brassdrive Wednesday, alongside with Vilify, he also hosts several UK Bass radio shows. He will open up for Katy B, and then drop massive UK Funky and Dubstep bombs until 3 in the morning!

LINKS:
Facebook Event
HighFood.org

Swanky, purple laced synths with a nice deep bass to create a wicked atmosphere is how I’d describe Guido‘s latest EP just released on State of Joy – a 2 track EP which carries beautiful melodies throughout. Both are definitely mood builders which will be in my arsenal of tracks for the dance floor for quite some time. State of joy indeed. Check it out and keep up with the sound. Guido’s links below.

Guido “Micro X / Vessel Dogs” :: JOY001 :: OUT NOW by Multiverse

PR WORDS:

State Of Joy is the latest imprint to join the label collective Multiverse Music – alongside Tectonic, Kapsize, Subtext, W.O.W and Build. At the forefront of the new label is Bristol-born purple pioneer and all-round melody master – the one and only Guido!

‘Micro X’ leads the plate with its intoxicating blend of fluttering melodic bleeps, shards of sitar, sharp precision drum programming and rippling synth oscillations. Once again, Guido effortlessly blends organic elements with a timeless, computerised bleep track – and injects it with Bristolian soul !

Flip then for the deeply involving ‘Vessel Dogs’. Laden with shuffling hats and crunchy snares, plucking harps, rising pads and interspersed with snippets of distorted guitars – this rolling beat delivers pure quality throughout.

LINKAGE:
Soundcloud
Facebook
Twitter

ONLINE STORES:
BOOMKAT – DIGITAL – VINYL
iTunes

First, I suppose, an introduction is in order. My name is Nick and I DJ under the moniker The Orator. I have been heading up this event production company and DJ crew in Burlington, Vermont called Mushpost.

What started in 2009 as a local resource for the internationally burgeoning Dubstep community (a sound largely unfamiliar to the region at that time – hell, even Bass Drive Wednesdays in Montréal was still at tiny ol’ Koi Bar) has since evolved and developed into, if I do say so myself, a pillar of experimental and forward-thinking, bass-driven dance music for the Northeast of North America. A sound so un-insular that it can best be described as incorporating the best elements of every other genre ever. I’ve heard my fair share of proposed genre names but it appears the most recognizable is Future Bass (although the vastitude of issues with using the word “Future” have spawned an equal amount of self-deprecating jokes – we’re so ftr/fwd). My personal favorites are Fringe House and Goombawave. I did not make those up. There’s also Bashment, Warehouse and UK House. All different but all similar.

With that said, the amount of forthcoming music from this broadly-defined bass community is, at times, overwhelming… in a very good way. While many of these tunes you can find on Mushpost’s Facebook page or on I Love Bass Music throughout the week, I felt it best to save them all for one single blog post to come out at the end of the week, every week. Without further ado, here is some awesome music:

GIRL COMPLEX EP – PREVIEW by jean-nipon

UMBA – So-Socialize ( forthcoming BYRSLF010 ) by B.YRSLF division

Synkro – Progression / Progression (Indigo Remix) [EXIT034] Exit Records by Surus

Eleven Tigers ‘Stableface’ (Peverelist Remix) CLIP (Forthcoming Soul Motive Records) by Peverelist

No Symbols 001 by Beneath

123Mrk – Refined Madness EP [Squelch&Clap] by 123Mrk

01 Flux (Martyn’s Electromagnetic Mix) by Turbo Recordings

D Jane/Channel (Punch Drunk FEB 2012) by Tessela

GoldFFinch Arabian Prince by 877records

GoldFFinch Point Of Entry by 877records

MMAKEM003 – Trikk – Jointly / I Fall Down (clips) by ManMakeMusic

Peaking Lights – Amazing and Wonderful (Damu Remix) by Damu

Sinterklaas Society by Youngunz

Magnum – All Over Me EP PNTS002 Preview (Vinyl Audio) by MAGNUM BASS

Benjamin Damage & Doc Daneeka “They!Live” (50WEAPONSCD05) OUT JAN 27 2012 by Modeselektor

One man recently on a consistent roll with his non-stop paced productions is none other than that evil one-eyed teddy guy… Kannamix! He’s at it again with his brand spankin’ Madness Descension EP, which is appropriately titled given the content in this one. It’s a pretty varied EP in terms of moods and individual originality; they all have their own charm, which is definitely something I can appreciate.

His own recently-born label Gawa Recordings is delivering this one to the masses, and if you’re slightly impatient, asking yourself when the hell does this come out? … TODAY! NOW! GO GET IT!

Check the clips out and see for yourself:

…and now proceed to the expansion of your bass-heavy playlist by grabbing them off of Beatport.

Not only is Kannamix providing you with 4 new great tunes which features a collaboration from a very talented and under-rated producer, Alan Waves (see links below), he’s also giving you a 5th one which happens to be a pretty original remix of 2pac’s ”Thug 4 Life”. Definitely dig his approach on this one as it’s not a typical huge buildup leading to a brief pause right before an over-powering drop… seems like that’s what it tends to be in most 2Pac or Biggie remixes. See it as a big thank you to all his fans and supporters.

Download his FREE remix here.

All in all, BIG release right here! I was told by Kannamix himself that a lot more is on the way, so hold tight. If you haven’t already heard and snatched some of his previous work, you can check out my post on his Consentual Rape EP released last November here.

In the meantime, enjoy!

Links…
Kannamix:
Facebook
Soundcloud

Alan Waves:
Facebook
Soundcloud

Gawa Recordings:
Facebook
Soundcloud

For our latest podcast we’ve got a double feature with not only a mix but an interview with the man of the hour; Seven. If you’re a fan of the deep UK Dubstep sounds, Seven will likely be a familiar name for you. With releases on Wheel n Deal, Tempa and Black Box records, to name just a few, Seven is on the cusp of releasing a brand new album and has mixed in some of his latest sounds in this fresh new JLD exclusive mix. Dub Selekta got up close and personal with Seven in this interview and picked his brain about everything from the new album, to his last big tour plus who you can expect to see him collaborating with in 2012! Get it in ya!

Seven sits down with Dub Selekta for J’aime le Dubstep

Dub Selekta: Firstly, thanks very much for chatting! Always good to get a word in. We’ll start with some big exciting news for you in the form of a new LP via Black Box Records dropping here pretty quick. What can you tell us about the new album? Whens it drop?

Seven: The album will consist of 12 or maybe 13 (if they will all fit) of what I believe to be my greatest works so far. It takes you on a journey through the whole spectrum of dubstep and the way I present it to my audience .
It was due for release around October/November last year. But I just made some new tracks that I have included on it. So I am gonna put the album out around February this year, so I can give the tracks time to get airplay and gain some attention.

DS: With the album all wrapped up, do you feel you achieved all of your initial production goals with it?

S: Most definitely but it’s such a tough question to say yes to because I feel like I’m still learning new things every day and making bigger and better tunes. If I had stuck to the original 12 tunes I made for it. Then it would have been out months ago. But I want it to be as close to perfect as I can achieve. I am very happy with it. It’s been a long time coming and an incredible achievement for me. I hope people like it and feel it was worth the wait.

DS: That’s always a great feeling after everything is all said and done. Gotta say that I’m really feeling Twilight Horizon’s as a fave track off the new album. Do you have a particular track on the album that stands out as a favourite?

S: Well I have made this track recently called Bounce to This which I just cant stop listening to. It’s not the normal kinda vibe I would make either, but it’s almost been like a missing link on the album and rightfully has its place on there.

DS: I understand you’re hot off a tour through Australia as well. How’d the tour go? Was it your first run downunder?

S: I love Australia. It was my second tour. It’s always a great place to visit and I had a great time.
I played Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Perth. I feel I got to experience more of the country this time as I was sightseeing a lot between gigs. I look forward to going back there again. Hopefully sometime next year maybe?!?

DS: Maybe! Positive thoughts! Did you hit any particularly fun cities along the tour that stood out?

S: They are all fun cities. I loved Melbourne. I got to go to the zoo and also see a lot of the city area too. Adelaide is a lot more laid-back then the other 3 cities i played. So it was nice to relax there and get some rays on the beach and hang out with friends and relax between gigs. Perth was great too, although my luck ran out with the weather by then, but the gig was great.

DS: Ah well, glad it went well otherwise. You’re also fresh off a stint on GetDarkerTV with Proximas, Imperial and DJ Muggs from Cypress Hill. Wanted to ask how that was for you? Also too since it included DJ Muggs who I understand on the cusp of releasing a “west coast ‘dubstep’ album” [in his words].

S: The team at Get Darker are good friends of mine, so its nice to catch up with them all. Unfortunately Muggz couldn’t make it. But never the less, as always I really enjoyed playing that night… They have such a huge following/community in which they have built and those people seem to receive me really well. I like to go and showcase new tunes and play stuff i know people are anticipating.

DS: Now, in terms of music that you’re really liking right now, which artists have you excited?

S: J:Kenzo, Biome, Chewie, Razor Rekta and DJ Madd. If you don’t know about any of these guys yet, then you need to look them up. This is the future right here.

DS: And lastly, looking ahead, what’s going to be keeping you busy throughout the winter?

S: Making album number two and hopefully gigging and touring lots in the midst of it all. Finishing the first album is not the end of the process for me. It’s the beginning. And hopefully when we can all find the time I’m going to do some collabs with Youngsta, N Type, Biome and J:Kenzo too.

Big ups to Seven for taking time to not only chat with us, but also provide a mix full of solid tunes from front to back. Be sure to surf over and pick up a copy for youself, lots of big UK bass vibes on it. Also be sure to checkout Seven on his soundcloud and facebook pages, give him some likes and stuff!

Well, well… Our servers are back up and we are now ready to unleash one of the biggest mixes if not the biggest one of 2012; a good way to start off the year I might add. Ready to shake your desk apart, rumble your eardrums and remind you that you need to replace that muffled old subwoofer in our office or home (yeah, my sub is busted… this mix definitely drove the point home) – We’ve got JLD #157 by none other then SEVEN !!!

Now this guy is as serious about creating basswaves as he is at making them when he touches the ones and twos. Seems like dust and rubble must start flying up in the air when he enters a room. Check out these clips below if you’re not already convinced. We’ve also got an exclusive interview with the man himself to help you expand your knowledge. All links are below.

In a side note, I’d like to add that this is the last mix coordinated by Matt Hali who is moving on. Matt was the first person to join onto the project with me back at mix #44, bringing in our most downloaded mix ever from Dopelabs. Throughout the two following years, Matt lined up some of the best and biggest mixes to have touched down on JLD. Names likes Subvert, DFRNT, Von D, Orien, Cotti, Darkside, Mochipet, DZ, Fused Forces and the list goes on. So I’d like to send to Matt a big thank you from all of us, and best of luck in all your projects, mainly Crude Records which is a label to keep your eyes on!

Enjoy the mix!

JLD Exclusive Interview

BIO BLIPS:

Based in London, UK. Seven is an artist in high demand both for his DJ skills and production. His distinctive sound is original, versatile and recognised across the globe. Seven already has impressive discography featured on Tempa, Blackbox records, One Gun Salute, Wheel n Deal and Subway Recordings and his anticipated debut album is due for release in Autumn/Winter of 2011.

Seven is also one of the most technical and crowd friendly DJ’s on the dubstep scene today. Double dropping highly anticipated dub plates for non stop in your face vibes. Quoted from his fellow established artists; “Seven is a headliner DJ to make your event, his energetic performances, orchestrating euphoric vibes and big crowd reaction sums this up”…

LINKAGE:
Soundcloud
Facebook

GET MORE SEVEN:
Latest tracks by Seven – Dubstep

TRACK LIST:
biome – space
kryptic minds – cant sleep
truth – fully baked
j:kenzo – roteks VIP
Benton – skeptics
Biome – Raven
DJ Madd feat. Phaeleh – Ritual
Seven – Twilight Horizons
J:Kenzo – Ruff House
Seven – Demons
J:Kenzo – Therapy
Seven – Sinister
Dj Madd – Someone – Breakage rmx
dj madd – good old days
kutz – the volt
Seven & N Type – Unity

DOWNLOAD LINK

Finally available for your fingers and not just your hears is the long awaited compilation from one of North America’s leading label, Badman Digital (a subdivision of Badman Press). I’ve been rubbing elbows with the crew at Badman for quite a while now, cause they’re like family but don’t let this fool you. I’m not writing this cause we’re friends. I’m writing about this release cause it’s like a cancer in my play list… No matter how hard I try to not play DZ‘s Better in every one of my live sets, I can just feel the crowd’s yearning to wildout to this prime-time dancefloor bomb once they’ve been exposed to it once.

It doesnt stop there, the compilation is packed with 16 tracks from names such as L Nix ( half of Orbatrak) Phaded, Dirt Monkey, AaA, Atom Bass and one of my new favourites The Stock Holders. You can even kick it into hyper overdrive with a handful of Drumstep tempo tunes sprinkled throughout the LP.

Gnab this LP now from Beatport as it’s an exclusive for the first week or two. Available everywhere else in not too long. Oh, and cause we like to play nice… There is a little free download below from the LP for you to kick start your day.

Sonar (Badman Digital) by Dirt Monkey

LINKAGE:
Badmanpress.com

ONLINE STORES:
BEATPORT LINK
Various Badmen II (<---- this one is super hype too!)

FREE DOWNLOAD:
DZ – A.I. Remix

Beautiful and smooth is probably the best way to describe this forthcoming Life Act EP from Fau & Deam on the Dubporn outfit. Pretty much what is to be expected from this pair after the release of Square Love. I think this preview track, Blank Faces will set the mood for the release. I personally can’t wait to play it out.

Fau & Deam: Blank Faces by Dubporn Records

To spice things up a little bit more, we’ve got an exclusive free download for you all to enjoy.

Fau & Deam – Tomorrow is Always Better:
DOWNLOAD LINK

PR WORDS:

Warsaw based producer and DJ Fau who’s roots lie in abstract hip hop and trip hop has been producing dubstep, future garage, techno and ambient tracks for Subtopia Recordings and Apparition Recordings. He is also a member of the ‘Mustnotsleep’ DJ collective. Deam, residing in Zielonka, Poland, has received much praise from Xlr8r and the like for his amazing ‘Square Love’ EP, release on Concrete Cut Records. His sounds, both organic and robotic, are winning over the presses ears.

Together Fau & Deam have produced the ‘Life Act’ EP. They began working together both live and in the studio in the spring of 2011. Life Act, comprised of six deep dubstep and future bass tracks, is lush, beautiful and unforgiving. The EP is set to be release on January 30th, can be purchased at one of many fine online retailers and on vinyl in select record stores worldwide.

Recently voted one of the top 5 Electronic music labels by the Miami New Times, Dubporn records continues to put out releases that challenge and push the envelope in deep dubstep, future bass, garage and downtempo.

This past saturday, I had the pleasure of playing along side Vilify, and Henward for SJU & Neon presenting Gramatik at Le Belmont. It was a sweet night, sick music, packed house… and I mean packed! Big ups to all involved. Definitely a sick way to finish a week packed with crazy events.

Don’t miss out on the next big SJU jam, Feb 24th at Le Belmont for BLOCKHEAD !! Facebook Event

This live mix isn’t a dubstep mix, but a mix which focuses on a new project Harmsworth & myself are taking on for 2012. Heads Up is a new series of event in Montreal which we’ll be exploring a variety of style of electronic music such has Electronic Hip Hop, Wonky, Glitch Hop, Acid Crunk or whatever is dope. A few of my recent past mixes posted here have already been in this mind set.

Our next Heads Up event will be February 16th at Le Belmont. The headliner will be announced very soon. So hold tight, and keep up with our FaceBook Page.

TRACK LIST:
Mosca – The Way We Are
Nanda – Calling The Allism
> Beastie Boys – Root Down
Blockhead – The Music Scene
Poirier – East Montreal Riddim
Glitchy & Scratchy – Spead Ego
> Beastie Boys – Nonstop Disco Powerpack
Fatboy Slim – Talking Bout My Baby
Fulgeance – Revenge Of The Nerd
Rustie – Tar
Poirier ft. Mr Lee – Dem Nah Like Me (Remix)
Baconhead – Blaze Out
El Diablo – Slash
Glitchy & Scratchy – That Look
Lunice – Purp Walk
Samiyam – Turtles
Flying Lotus – Shifty
Slugabed – Slugabed Sez
NastyNasty – Traps
Faze Miyake – Take Off
Lucid – Run’s The World
Faze Miyake – Bawse
DS1 – Lost Memories (Forthcoming Seclusiasis)
MEAT1 – Skinnydip (Krueger Remix)
Elo-Q – Why Don’t You (Lucid Remix)
NastyNasty – No Names VIP
Hudson Mohawke – FUSE
Microburst – Gonglut
Kuhn – Slime Beach

DOWNLOAD LINK

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LOCATION: That place on St-Laurent Next to Muzique.

HOW TO BE NINJA:
You must use the back entrance located on St-Dominique between Roy St, and Pine.

The door will have a “Wiener Town” Poster on it (hopefully all night)
Once you open the door, you have to go up some straight, and VOILA !!!!! PARTYYYYYY.

BYOB, so remember to stock up before IGLOOFEST.
Energy drinks, water and some other juices will be available for purchase.

PLEASE SAVE YOUR IGLOOFEST PROOF OF PURCHASE TONIGHT TO SAVE 1/2 OFF THE DOOR FOR THE AFTER PARTY !!!!

Pour les francophones, je suis désolé que les info sans tous en anglais. Je vous aimes bien gros.

IF YOUR LOST, SHOOT ME A TXT AND I’LL TRY TO HELP
514 442 7047

<3 Construct

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FACEBOOK EVENT

I would like to first and foremost thank all the supporters of J’aime le Dubstep. Whether you’ve been on board since the beginning or just recently, the growth as a community and the positive feedback over the last couple years has been outstanding. So thank you for continuously revisiting us, and enjoying the mixes wherever you happen to be listening to them! I’ve done my best with this series to reach all types of heads, and to not favor my preferred end of the spectrum.
So whatever your sound may be, hopefully there was something in the series that suited your taste.

To all the Dj’s that got down, I respect you all, and the greatest reward in this has been the ability to network and build relationships, business and personal, with artists around the globe. That’s what this is all about, a community. Linking heads to new artists, and helping artists expand their fanbase. With a Blog & mix series, theres something in it for everyone. And that’s what drew me to join on with Contruct a couple years back.

Its been a great 100 and some mixes coordinated with Construct, as I joined on at mix no.44. With the new year here, it’s about closing and opening chapters. I just turned 25, just moved back to the west coast of Canada and am pursuing some new project ideas and will be dedicating much more time to my label, Crude Records.

If you’re not in it fully, why be in it at all? I’d prefer to now focus all of my energy into my own projects. My official last coordinated mix will be coming up very soon, so keep your eyes peeled for Seven’s exclusive Blackbox studio mix! And maybe a few more surprises.

There is zero hard feelings anywhere. All members of JLD are extremely close personal friends, nothing has changed other than my taste in music and direction I feel I’m heading.

Thank you,

Matt Hali.

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Artists that impressed me:
Kastle, Machinedrum, Salva, presk, Krampfhaft, Mosca, Blawan, Phaeleh, DJG, XI.

Favorite artists:
Presk & George Fitzgerald.

Favorite label:
Tectonic is smashing it. Hotflush, AUS, Planet Mu.

Artists to watch out for:
Max Ulis (Vancouver). Prison Garde (Vancouver). Kevin McPhee (Toronto). Dan Solo (Calgary).

Bigup Magazine had such great taste in mixes in 2011. Really impressive mix series.

Favorite mix of the year is Phaeleh ‘s Bigup.

Best albums:
Zomby-Dedication. AUTHOR.

Biggest breakout producer:
J.Kenzo.

Favorite tunes of the year:
Anything from any of those artists listed above, go hunting!

Best of luck to everyone with your 2012 adventures and endeavors.

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Featured Artist :
Max Ulis
Soudcloud

It’s no secret I support Vancouver’s music scene. My label, Crude Records, is almost solely Vancouver Producers. And expect that trend to continue in 2012. Without a shadow of a doubt, it’s Max Ulis’ day. He’s had a steady rise to the very top of Canada’s, and even North America’s list of Heavyweights. If you ask Western Canadians about the beginning, and who was making it happen… His name, aswell as the Lighta! Crew is sure to be named at the top. “Dark underground rooms with one light and a whack of subs, playing the good deep stuff.” Although I’m not from Vancouver, I’ve lived there. And these are the things original Vancouver heads remember. Max has been doing it proper since day 1. Promoting, DJing, Producing and now owns a label, 10Pin, with Calgary’s Lorne B. He’s been getting recent nods from highly respected sources such as XLR8R, and in my opinion, alongside Toronto’s Kevin McPhee, are the next two Canadians to really blow on an international scale. And of course they would join HxdB (Vancouver) and XI (Toronto), who have both clearly made their mark as a cut above most. Yes, it’s clear now that Canada has more to offer than Rotten Records. Our country is extremely diverse, and artists such as Max are very present, very involved and it’s only a matter of time before the rest of the world realizes how much of a flourishing Bass Music scene we have. Check out Max’ top picks of the year, and read his FutureProofing interview to learn more!

Latest tracks by Max Ulis

Max Ulis’ Top Pick of 2011:
julio bashmore-battle for middle you
breach-fatherless
khan-way mi defend
objekt-tinderbox
sbtrkt-wildfire/right thing to do
blawan-getting me down
boddika-synchron
max ulis+self evident-eastsiders
girl unit-wut +remixes
justin martin-lezgo
T. williams-Heartbeat (Paul Woolford Rewurq)
addison groove-this is it
taal mala-output your insides
cadenza-the darkest hype (philip d kick remix)
nippon-cedaa (myrryrs dub)
x rhythm-danny corn
salva-(everything he touches)
The Grizzl & J. Phlip-Bakupgrl (Grizzl Detroit Dub)
kingdom-fogs
Machinedrum-(everything he touches)
214-(everything he touches)
Dexter-Great Northern Diver
Martyn+Mike Slott-All Nights

Best DJ Set:
ikonika

Best Labels:
swamp 81, dirtybird, naked lunch

Vaski is back on the map with his new Dreamworld (Nightmare) EP which just came out recently on Rottun Records. Strong of the decks live, Vaski is even better on the buttons pushing his sound and sick production style to the masses since his very first release. Definitely a pleasure to see him whenever he comes around, don’t miss his show. Trust.

Now that the romancing of the reader is over, time for some serious music that might knock you straight out of your seat. So hold on to your ipad, laptops, tube-tops, or whatever. Vaski + Rottun, always a win.

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Coming hard and heavy, we’ve got JLD #156 by Colorado’s OMEGA to start off this very hectic week which I think this mix is well suited to explain the chaos and full on party which is about to rein over Montreal. A frozen event on the port of Montreal that we call Igloofest. To follow this, we’ll have a strong deep mix to warm you back up at the end of the week.

Anyway back to Omega… cause this mix is hectic, and packed with all his own production and sprinkled with remixes of his. And not to worry cause it definitely delivers on all ends. Keep a close eye on this guy as his Burn EP comes out tomorrow on MalLabel Music, more info about it tomorrow on JLD.

BURN EP PREVIEW – OUT JAN 10th 2012
Omega – Burn EP (Preview) by OmegaDubstep

BIO BLIPS:

Omega is a bass music producer and DJ, currently residing in Denver, Colorado, US. He first discovered electronic music through the big beat, IDM, and industrial scenes during the late ’90s, and bought his first pair of turntables in 2000. Over the years his tastes have also included jungle, progressive breaks, psychedelic trance, and dub – and in the last couple of years have settled into dubstep and related forms of bass music. Though DJing will always hold a special place in his heart, recently writing and producing tunes has become Omega’s primary obsession.

Omega performances are a hybrid between a DJ set and a live performance – using a laptop running Ableton Live, with several MIDI controllers, effects processors, and synths. An Omega set will always include many original tunes, remixes, edits, and mashes, with a heavy emphasis on live improvisation and manipulation. His energy and stage presence, combined with his monster tunes, inevitably whip a crowd into a frenzy of bassed out bliss. He has shared the stage with: EOTO, Liquid Stranger, Vaski, Eskmo, The Malah, Cold Blank, Bird of Prey, Trillbass, Roksonix, Virus Syndicate, NiT GriT, Calvertron, and many more.

Omega tunes blend the most raw and aggressive aspects of dubstep – snarling synth sounds and organ churning sub-bass – with a careful attention to sound design and elegant use of melody, creating a sound that is at once primal, funky, and psychedelic. Racking up nearly half a million plays on his Soundcloud profile, and getting DJ support from the likes of Liquid Stranger, Jantsen, Samples, Sugarpill, Love + Light, Future Simple Project, The Crystal Method, Zeno, and many others, it’s clear that Omega is a force to be reckoned with in the bass music scene.

2010 saw numerous original and remix releases on various labels, including an Omega remix on The Crystal Method’s “Sine Language” Remix EP. 2011 will bring many more official remixes and singles, several EPs, his first vinyl release, some epic collaborations, and an extensive touring schedule.

LINKAGE:
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Soundcloud
MalLabel Music – BURN EP
Facebook

TRACK LIST
Shotgun Radio Feat. Mimi Page – A Bad Place (Omega Remix)
Von Ukuf & DJ Thee-O – Calle (Omega Remix)
The Digital Connection – Your Brain (Omega Remix)
Painting the Prototype – 8bitstyl3 (Omega Remix)
Breakage – Justified (Omega vs. Dublic Remix)
Omega – To Be
Omega – Suspension of Disbelief
Omega – Point 50
Omega – False Vacuum
Omega – Bedtime Stories
Omega – The Happy Plant
Omega – Diencephalon
Samples – Viricapnity (Omega Remix)
K Theory – Roll Out (Omega Remix)
Excision – Subsonic (Omega Remix)
Omega – Without Control
Omega – Supersymmetry
Opus 3 – Fine Day (Omega Remix)
Omega – Belly
Omega – Burn
Omega – DADstep VIP
Natalia Kills – Mirrors (Omega Remix)
AWOLNATION – Sail (Omega Remix)

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Not many embellishments and made up words needed here to sell you on this first LP from Slit Jockey Records, the first artist ablum from spaced out synth cowboy Sduk here to grab you by the ear and drag you into outer space. This outfit definitely know how you keep sounds fresh. Joining Sduk on the LP is Starkey of course and a well deserved lyrical rework of the stellar hit YouNyt featuring Karizma.

Gnab that shit. Show your friends what’s cool…

YouNyt (ft. Karizma) by Sduk

PR WORDS:

Slit Jockey Records is starting off the new year with their first ever artist album on the label, which is also Sduk’s first full length release!

On Anything Could Happen we hear Sduk explore a variety of tempos yet there is a clear stylistic thread that ties it all together as a cohesive and diverse collection of forward thinking bass music.

West London’s Sduk has been buzzing on the internet and the streets every since his debut on Slit Jockey with 2010’s Clunge 12” and digital release (remixes by NastyNasty, Grievous Angel, Phaseone and more). In the summer of ’11 Slit Jockey released the YouNyt EP (remixes by Talk, Hellfire Machina and Halp). Now the world is ready for the young producer’s debut album!

Guest appearances sprinkle extra flavor on this already excellent package, with Bristol’s rave rap group Central Spillz tearing down a heartfelt anthem for “Fire,” Starkey’s co-production on “Oahshens” gets everyone epic on the dancefloor and Sduk’s previously released instrumental “YouNyt” gets reworked as a grime banger featuring Nottingham MC Karizma.

Sduk and his previous Slit Jockey works have been featured in XLR8R, Pitchfork, Knowledge Magazine, Symbiosis, Bass Music Blog, Squeegie Sounds, Doktor Krank and many other blogs/media. Sduk is a member of the UK based Pipedown crew as well as being a talented graphic designer (he did the cover art).

Anything Could Happen LP by Sduk

LINKAGE:
anythingcouldhappen.net
Soundcloud
Slitjockey.com
Pipedownson.com
Sdukproductions.net

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MalLabel Music is no stranger to JLD fans i’m sure. I’ve been steadily supporting their music in my sets, on the radio and on the blog for more then a minute… and this Platinum Unicorn Collection will show you exactly why this is justified. After 25 solid releases under their belt featuring the sounds of some of the tastiest and nasties beat makers, such as DZ, 6 Blocc, The Widdler, HD4000, Mochipet, Downlink and many more including their own crew of producers such as Skulltrane, El Diablo, Blackheart and many many more.

So, if you don’t already own all these releases, now is the best time to catch up and keep up!

Here is a FREE DOWNLOAD to get you started:
Rollin with My Crew feat. Mal Irie – El Diablo by MalLabel Music

PR WORDS:

In commemoration of their 25th release and two amazing, action-packed years of peddling some of the most original and diverse underground bass music artists from around the globe, MalLabel Music, founded by former music promoter and San Francisco resident Mal Harper, has created an amazing anthology of their most successful work. Boasting a rather hefty 15 tunes, the compilation sports some of the industry’s most recognizable artists and a name that rolls right off the tongue: The Platinum Unicorn Collection, a nod to label owner Mal Harper’s favorite mythological creature.

The Platinum Unicorn Collection rolls tough right out of the gate, starting off with a new west coast classic, “Purple Gangsta,” remixed by the one and only don of dubstep, DZ. Next on the hit list is Minnesota’s “Meow.” Minnesota has had quite a year in the industry, and should be recognized by anyone following the game. LA veteran 6Blocc’s “Bad Boy,” reworked by San Francisco’s Blackheart, drives home anthem basslines that keep the release flowing. “This One Called Dub” by Skulltrane, MalLabel’s first single, follows next and then comes Bass master Downlink’s “Deep Space,” which carries the distinction of being one of two tunes the label has made videos for.

Udachi’s banging remix of the incomparable Mochipet’s “For When The World Ends” weighs in and continues the directory of dominating production. The Widdler’s spaced-out and rocking tune “Flexstar” makes an appearance next, followed by Bakersfield duo HD4000 with their dark and sinister “Jekal.” Toledo, Ohio bad man Ceeker’s “Body Rocker,” refixed by Colorado great Zeno, is next on the comp.

Helicopter Showdown follows with their signature beefcake sound on a banger called “Get Tuff.” This San Francisco quartet has made a huge splash in the pool of the bass music industry in the last year. Konekta, one half of up-and-comer duo Free Crush, hits hard on the next tune with his remix of Mycho Pan Cocoa’s “Drugs in My Pocket,” followed up by Zombie-J’s massive crusher “Gristle.”

Next up on the bill is Germany’s funky bass technician Mr. Boogie’s solid banger “Woodpecker,” followed by East Coast killer The Frim’s remix of Free Crush’s “Hammer Down.” Finally, closing out the compilation is “Rolling With My Crew” by El Diablo featuring vocals written by Mal herself. This tune has the distinction of being the first video MalLabel released, and has become a veritable theme song for the label.

In the world of underground dance music, labels come and labels go. Some forever change the face of the game, while some fizzle and fade away without so much as a hit.

“The Platinum Unicorn Collection is a celebration of my first two years and 25 releases,” explains Mal, who spent her early 20s snowboarding and promoting parties in the Bay before starting her own label. “I want to continue to fill dance halls with a distinctive and commendable catalog of killer tunes for years to come!”

LINKAGE:
Mallabelmusic.com
Facebook
Twitter: @MalLabelMusic
Soundcloud

ONLINE STORES:
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He’s out to get you, he might even know where you live, so you best watch out for this West Coast zombie roaming the earth for wild wicked beats and brains. You know it, Yan Zombie is the type of undead you want at your party. Fresh off his recent podcast mix JLD #153, Yan Zombie is here to deliver us an album of short, colourful hip hop infused tracks which smell fresher then a pile of new born babies waiting to be devoured by a hord of zombies. Woooh-ha!

Click on below, and gnab this free album to spice up your life.

LINKAGE:
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In no particular order, here are my top picks from 2011.

Top 5 Producers

Teknian
Formerly known as Tek9, this dude is always about quality with his distinct approach to production.

Static Function
UK producer who definitely knows how to make a banger… deep and catchy melodies, heavy drops, powerful snares, and top notch synthesis.

Culprate
Whether it’s heavy or soothing, Culprate never seizes to impress with his attention to detail and creative presence. A true mastermind.

A3
I’ve only recently discovered A3, but he’s in my top 5 for a reason. I hear solid influences from the likes of Megalodon, P0gman, and Badklaat.

Bwana
Such a fantastic producer. Extremely chilled out beats, deep bass and always full of emotion.

Top 5 Switch-Ups

Reso – Ishimura
[Civil Music] I doubt I’m the only one who finds this tune easy to leave on repeat. The dubstep-to-105bpm switch-up is just ridiculously amazing.

KPC – Devastate
[Play Me] A drumstep tune that is simply downright badass. And just when you thought the second half of the tune was going to be a repetition of the first…

Dayn & Daladubz – Warheads
[Chronos Records] Wow… I tend to think robotic and transformer-style tracks nowadays mostly sound generic. Thanks guys for proving me wrong.

Bratkilla & Bong – Shockwave
[unreleased] Might not be released yet, but in this case it’s a tune I’ve been waiting for since 2011. A different approach to switch-ups, and one that I can appreciate a lot. The use of time signature alterations aren’t very common these days in electronic music. This one works well and is simply awesome.

Bjork – Crystalline
[One Little Indian] Last October Bjork released her latest album which, just as I expected, was down right tasty. In what I think is the album’s hit, ‘Crystalline’ stuns the listener with a chaotic intense transition from delicate chimes and smooth electronic percussion, to mean and ever-so well placed Amen breaks packed with fuel-injected triplets. One of my favorites from 2011.

Top 5 Remixes

The End Is Part Of The Dance – No Place For Us (Blokhe4d remix)
[Tuff Love Dubs] Heavyweight Drum & Bass duo Blokhe4d does this track justice on The End Is Part Of The Dance’s debute EP ‘No Place For Us’

Qualmsound – Breath (Blynk Remix)
[Soulstep] Quality tune that gives me shivers all while having a super relaxing ambient feel. The percussion fits perfectly, and every element has it’s place and role in the mix.

Filth Collins and Pop The Hatch – Let Me Go (Phatman Remix)
[Betamorph Recordings] Hands down would have given Phatman the #1 spot on Filth Collin’s “Let Me Go” remix album. A straight up banger.

Enigma Dubz – Badness (Sub Antix remix)
[Dank 'N' Dirty Dubz] One of the deepest and certainly heaviest tunes I’ve ever purchased. I’m addicted to rinsing this one out.

Vaetxh – Clipper (Culprate’s Water Witch Remix)
[King Deluxe] Such an intricate production. Needless to say that any Culprate remix is intricate, Vaetxh alone is certainly the type of artist I call ‘organic’.

Top 5 Collaborations

G-A & Pubman – Rough With The Smooth
[free dub] A perfect duo, and the title speaks for itself. Brilliant tune.

Dark Elixir & Trampa – Bag Of Weed
[Play Me 2] Two extremely polished producers with some of the heaviest sounds and drops, this collab always sets a powerful and angry vibe. A must-have for any hip-hop/metal-head combo dubstep fan.

Foreign Beggars – LDN feat. Alix Perez
[Never Say Die] Being a fan of their jaw-dropping work with Alix Perez on the track “The Cut Deepens” released back in 2009, this track on Foreign Beggars “Harder They Fall” album was my personal favorite.

Noisia & Phace – Program
[Vision Recordings] Man do i have a weak spot for Neurofunk. This collab between Noisia and Phace is a god damn beast.

Top 5 “That’s Some Next Level Sh!t!”

Phear Phace – Speculate (TeK9 Remix)
[2 Much Bass Records] It seems like 2011 was the year that the 100(ish)bpm tracks emerged, and rightfully so. Tek9′s monster basses and grooves compliment Phear Phace’s distinct edge on mean bass-music.

Culprate – Green (Urbain Rain Forest)
[dub] I often ask myself if this guy is even human. This song is a gem. Total gem. I’m not sure what else to say… you just have to listen to it if you haven’t already done so.

Eptic – Fools
[Chronos Records] Eptic is simply a game changer. Sure, this style of banger seems easy to formulate these days, but no one really has it down like Eptic. He definitely raised the bar of the “Circus” sound in 2011, and in my opinion blasts all the Circus boys out of the water. Wouldn’t be surprised if Eptic was originally a typo trying to spell Epic.

Amon Tobin – Surge (16 Bit remix)
[Ninja Tune] With another demonstration of exceptional sound design, Amon Tobin’s “Surge” remixed by the almighty duo, 16 bit, crushes the hell out of any mimickers challenging their status.
Amon Tobin = next level.
16 Bit = next level.
Amon Tobin + 16 Bit = whole other level.

Benga – Smack Your Bitch Up
[free] I always get a jitter of excitement when I hear new Benga material. Unfortunately I am never sure anymore what to expect, but on the contrary that can also be a great thing. Not only is this track free, but I also had a hard time speaking after hearing this piece of art. Plus, the video is pretty dope too.

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Well, all in all, 2011 was a great year with great discoveries. It’s sorta hard, if not, impossible to come up with accurate top 5s because there is sooooooo much good and brilliant music out there, but these were all artists and tunes that I found stood out amongst the mass. New talent seems to be popping up out of no where, all over the place, which is ironic in a way. With 7 billion people on this planet, there’s no risk of running out of great music from all kinds of audio geniuses. 2012 surely won’t be any less I’m sure, and I’m looking forward to slowly unwrapping what the next year has in store for all of us bass music enthusiasts. If you search hard enough, and dig deep enough, it can be Christmas every day!

Happy 2k12!

PropaTingz just dropped his aptly named Strong EP on Play Me Too Records kicking 2012 off with a bang. This release dose not disappoint, masterfully mixing sublime melodies with heavy metal like riffs to produce some serious dance floor smashers. Get it on Beatport NOW!

A little about PropaTingz

Bored of the glut of Dubstep out there Propa has been working onexpanding the genre, adding elements of musicality and pushing away from theusual formula. Enter stage left John Jamin, a classicaly trained madman from VancouverBC. John and Propa teamed up to thread elements of light and dark, nasty and beautifull to producesomething completely epic.

Latest tracks by PropaTingz

A new year, new project, lots of freshness… That’s pretty much the bases of Heads Up, a new series of event happening in Montreal which focuses on styles of music which it seems that only people on the west coast get to enjoy. Mainly Glitch Hop, Wonky, Electronic Experimental Hip Hop, illbiant, Turbo Crunk and whatever else we think is dope. You won’t be hearing any Dubstep at these events cause, frankly Montreal has Dubstep events coming out the ears at the moment. Something fresh is what we’re about to offer.

Presented by myself (Construct) & fellow JLD crew member Harmsworth under the banner of the WYLD STALLYNS, this event has support from some of the best crews around. Big love and respect to Mook Life, L O W – L I F E, and of course Wickedbad.net our main branch which JLD is part of.

Get focused and get together, cause it all starts next week Thursday January 12th with our special guest LEXIS (MIMS) and WOLFEY (LOW-LIFE.ca)

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FRIENDLY LINKS:

❤ MOOK-LIFE
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❤ WICKEDBAD.net
❤ MusicIsMySanctuary.com
❤ Le Belmont
❤ BASS DRIVE Wednesdays

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First mix of 2012 and this one is packing some serious rudeboy attitude. So get ready to start off your year with JLD #155 by Blakey. Lots of great tracks in this mix, starting off with some serious dungeon bass and working its way up to some seriously grimey bass lines. It just makes me wanna merk someone. Enjoy.

BIO BLIPS:

I’m a DJ from Luton, Bedfordshire. Signed to dubstep label ‘Bassclash‘ as an A&R, DJ and Designer. We’ve had releases from Dream, Requake, Badklaat,, Megalodon to name a few. I got hooked on the scene around 2007 hearing tracks such as Midnight Request Line, 26 Basslines etc… 
Currently co-running a night in a town called Dunstable near my hometown Luton, pushing the scene as much as i can around my local area. Also doing sets for a night at The Nest, London called ‘Short Back And Sides’. As well as playing in clubs i’m currently involved in a weekly radio show on FilthFM with Bassclash Records.

LINKAGE:
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Twitter: @BlakeyBass
Facebook

TRACK LIST:
Requake & Badklaat – Surface
50 Hz – Alive
Disonata & Muk – Swamp Men
Phatman – Signal
Vermin ft Gravity – Dubplate 2
Requake – Klipto VIP
Vodex & Young Kay – Grim
Vylex – Hostage
Vodex – Shake
Badklaat – Buh
The Strangers – Clank
Soap Dodgers – Spaceweight
BadKlaat – Poultry Geist
Phatman – In The Club
Megalodon – Runtime Error
V & Emz – Evil Monkey
Disonata – Shadow Catchers
Sinkro Dan – Emergency Overide (Supreme Remix)
Phatman – Bruck Out
The Strangers – Fire
Jakes – Originate
Klepto – Sentury Gun
AKIRA – Tin Dog
Latvian – Western Sound
Hurley – Epilepsy
Goth-Trad – Itinerant Priest
Badklaat – Freq Skanker (Blakey Spesh)

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Harmsworth and Bassgyrnder team up to give you a non stop action packed thrill ride through this heavy hitting mix of Glitch-Hop, Dub Step, Electro, Breaks, D’n'b, and Drumstep. truly the soundtrack to the apocalypse.

Enjoy!

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It’s taken me a few days to shake the fog in my head and capture a clear picture of what 2011 was for me musically and as a result I’ve almost written a book with my Top 5s. While it was hard to narrow down the Top 5 in anything (especially tracks) I think I’ve pulled together the best of what made 2011 a great year for music.

I was going to say how 2011 was a growing year for me and blah blah but you’d be hard pressed to find someone who didn’t experience a bit of development over the past year. But that being said there were some major developments in my musical tastes. I got over my drum and bass grudge, moved onto more of the post-dubstep sound and started to really shake the idea that music has to fit within the confines of a genre. I started to branch out with my writing, including taking on roles at both sub|division and here at J’aime le Dubstep, as well as completely revamping my fledgling website into a full on bass music blog in it’s current Dub Selekta format.

In regards to my Top 5s, I’ve tried my best to put links in where I could so you can go checkout the release/artist/track for yourself. Most of the mixes you can still download if you’re feelin them, hopefully you find something awesome in amongst everything mentioned here that makes you just as excited as I was when I discovered it.

If you wanna keep tabs on the music I write about you can follow me here at J’aime le Dubstep or on Dub Selekta. Likewise we’re on facebook, twitter, soundcloud…you know the deal.

Big ups to Construct and the rest of the JLD fam, looking forward to continuing to provide that west coast connection going forward in 2012!

Top Mixes:

LOWPASS TV (GroundedTV) Exclusive Mini Mix – DJ Cure
I had this mix on repeate for 2 months straight; it flows well, mixing is amazingly tight and track selection is prime. Cure knows his stuff.

Solar Chrome Mix – Tusk
This mix forever reminds me of the west coast. Tusk played an awesome set in Victoria when he came for Theory Thursdays, he’s got a great sense of tunes and as he so accurately points out about this mix; “warning may contain: mutated footwork / juke, hyper-sexuality, abrupt tonal shifts, scattered shards of uk funky, disorienting speed adjustments, post genre liminality, blazing sunlight, nocturnal bliss…” etc etc etc

RA.259 – Skream
Aaaah Skream. He’s managed to withstand the mainstream explosion of dubstep while still producing great music and curating mixes that make me squirm with excitement.

Opposites Attract: Dub Selekta Podcast 6.0 – Neon Steve
I hate to be bias but this mix was such a big one, had some of the biggest hits we ever had on Dub Selekta, and was made by a good homie. The Opposites Attract title was not given to it lightly and with the tracks hitting the middle road between so many genres it makes my list.

Dazed – 16bit
Came out a bit later in the year but its definitely a big one as well. 16bit incorporates so many genres and many big tracks from 2011, although very few of their own, to pull together a great showcasing of bass.

Top Live Performances:

Machinedrum at Rifflandia Music Festival (Victoria)
It was one of the best (if not THE best) set of live Juke/Footwork I’ve ever seen. Everyone in that place was losing their biscuits, the music blew my mind and I danced like a mad women.

Night Slugs Decibel Festival Showcase – Kingdom, Bok Bok, Girl Unit, Monolithium (Seattle)
The sub|div family took over the spot and the last 20minutes of back to back mixing between Kingdom, Bok Bok and Girl Unit was a well welcomed surprise.

Benga (Vancouver)
The last show for me before Shambhala this year and after hearing mixed things about Benga’s live show I was happy to report that I was a gross, sweaty mess afterwords and quite pleased with his performance.

Cut Chemist (Victoria)
I’d been waiting almost 10 years to see Cut Chemist, it was like a dream come true. Although he’s not really where he once was, it was still a monumental moment.

Andy C (Victoria)
Best drum and bass show I’ve ever seen. Vinyl+Jungle, Drum&Bass+club loosing their minds = amazing time.

Top Albums:

5000 Followers EP – S-X
This kid is changing the production game in the UK. His free EP 5,000 Followers was easily one of the best produced beat albums of 2011 and his tracks have been remixed by P Money, DJ Q, Toddla T, Dizzee Rascal, D Double E, Tempa T and Skepta (but that’s not all, the list goes on!) I’m stoked to see what S-X comes up with in 2012.

Levitate – Paper Diamond
I had this album on repeat for so long that I had to consciously put it away so I didn’t overplay it. Paper Diamond is housed under the Pretty Lights label and you can sense PL’s influence without being a direct rip off. This album crosses so many genres, stealing the best from all, and pulls it together to form a high energy release from front to back. Glitch lovers will delight.

Rinse 17: Elijah+Skilliam
One of my favourite mixes from Rinse this year as well as the best one in Grime, these two have given a much needed injection of life into the genre. The mix is easily played over and over and is completely different than much of the aggressive front that stereotypically comes with the genre. I regularly tune into their show on RinseFM and feel like these guys are so much more accessible and down to earth so gold stars for them on this release.

Cross the Line – Camo & Krooked
You truly can hear that Camo & Krooked went into the studio determined to make a smash hit. And so it’s no surprise at the album that they delivered. With a steady blend of club appropriate tracks coupled with the bass heavy smashers Camo & Krooked delivers an album that appeals to many across the bass spectrum. While I’m not in love with every single one of the tracks (e.g TC singing on tracks doesn’t work for me), there are enough gems in this album to make the list.

Tron: Legacy R3configur3d – Various
I feel in love with this movie more for the music and visual than the story and can say without a doubt, this movie excelled due to the great soundtrack provided by Daft Punk. It hit all the right buttons for me regardless of what folks say about Daft Punk’s current production. The R3configur3d album is a step towards a more glitched out, bass heavy soundtrack filled with some of my favourite folks. Highly recommend checking it out if you haven’t already.

Top Tracks:

Take it Back – Toddla T (Dillon Francis Remix)
A great first introduction to Moombahton, this reworking of Toddla T’s track energizes the original to the point of electrification.

Fabrication – Emalkay
Easily my favourite Dubstep song of 2011, Emalkay smashes it without tearing off faces and it works so well. Coupled with an eerie but eclectic music video, Fabrication flexes major muscle.

Noisia & Hybris – Crystalline
It’s a classic example of autonomic Drum and Bass and it’s dark tone makes it extra sexy, Drum and Bass at it’s best. Yet another track that I had to consciously stop playing to prevent myself from overdoing it.

Me & You – Nero (Dirtyphonics remix)
Nero+Dirtyphonics=winning combination. With the epicness of Nero’s production combined with Dirtyphonics aggressive and thunderous sound, one of THE tracks rinsed out at festivals this past summer.

Ride It Every Time – Kingdom/Girl Unit
Kingdom, Girl Unit and Cierra are nothing but a winning combination on this sensual r&b fused track. The Night Slugs boys bring it hard with this track that will have you shufflin your shoulders in no time.

Top Artists:

Elijah+Skilliam
They are keeping Grime alive and well in the UK, their Rinse album was also da bomb. See above.

AraabMUZIK
Two words: Electronic Dream.

S-X
See above.

Kingdom

I absolutely love Kingdom; his music is well produced and borrows from all my favourite genres. His live shows are always great spectacles and he is a very on point person who speaks well in interviews. Plus! the fact that he’s constantly reworking and editing tunes and seems to have a stockpile of insanely well produced track. 3 stars in my book

My Top Interviews:

Gramatik
Besides being one of the easiest artists to work with, he was openly candid with me and was very receptive to my questions. And his last words? “Start your day off with a fat ass joint”….we’ll take it!

Caspa
Who wouldn’t want to interview the Don and one of the leading originators in Dubstep? I pulled out all the stops to make this interview happen and no one could wipe the shit eating grin off my face when Caspa told me ” I knew my stuff” and he’d recommend me to others.

Samples
Besides being an awesome dude and chill guy, he was one of the most professional artists I’ve ever worked with and was quite candid in our interview. Stoked to see what 2012 holds for him!

DJG
I absolutely love DJG, and am a big fan of his live show which has been amazing each time I’ve seen him, so naturally jumped on the chance to interview him pre-BassCoast Festival. He also responded quite positively to some of my hard hitting questions, which not all artists do and his responses were very refreshing. Kudos!

Kingdom
Ah Kingdom, he will forever be one of my favourites. Another very intellectual artist who was very open with me and told me straight how he felt about music, genres and such. Makes me love his music that much more. 

New label White Peach Records, who’s mantra is to push quality produced dance floor music, released Culprate’s – Curious George VIP / Bside.They most defiantly lived up to their goal, these two fantastic tracks that both satisfies the dance floor and well as all the head bangers out there. Now available on Vinyl direct from White Peach or at Chemical Records and Redeye Records. Also digitally on JunoDownload and AmazonMP3.

More about Giant Peach:

There is a huge amount of skill and precision in creating good quality dance floor music and at White Peach we want to push producers that understand how to create music with incredible technical detail, riveting synthesis and perfect low end. At the moment we feel that the scene is not being represented as well as it could be with quality releases from the harder style of Dubstep, House & Drum&Bass. There is a clear lack of innovation and this can be seen by the saturation in the digital market place with 100′s of releases a week. There is an explosion of generic bass music and we think a combination of detailed quality control, talented artists and peaches, we can have our input in improving the quality of dance floor music in this scene.

WPR001 – Culprate – Curious George VIP / Bside – OUT NOW ON 12″ DIGI RELEASE DATE: 19/12/11 by White Peach Records

The last podcast mix of 2011 and this one is for the sub-bass enthusiast! Racking up #154 with an extra heavy helping of murked out bass is spaceBass coming out strong from Chicago. Personally, I think this mix is a great recap from the deeper, somber side of Dubstep, where bass was still the main area of focus. So now is the time to leave your family aside, twist up some trees and turn up the sound system for a brain bass massage.

See you all in 2012!

BIO BLIPS:

Traversing the depths of the underground, the sentient being known as spaceBass has amassed an eclectic collection of deep and dark dubplates. Join Ambient/Drone/Dub producer spaceBass as he leaves the confines of reality and takes you on a journey into sound where pounding drums, pulsating rhythms, and earth rumbling sub-bass are interwoven to create enigmatic experiences, enlighten feelings, and above all elevate the mind.

LINKAGE:
Soundcloud
Dubaddicts.net
Facebook

TRACK LIST:
01 spaceBass – Intro
02 Dubtro – Liftin Off [Mindstep]
03 Bandicoot – Dawn [Mindstep]
04 LX One – Not Good For Me [Wheel & Deal]
05 Biome – Fear Of The Future [Sub Pressure]
06 District – 3.5 Grams [Chestplate]
07 Biome – Space [Blackbox]
08 Kahn – Way Mi Defend [Box Clever]
09 SFR & Mr. Boogie – Moments In Time [Stoke Audio]
10 Ben Verse – Inhale [Wheel & Deal]
11 Subterra – Desecrated 909 [Proximity]
12 Triple Sickz – The Ether [Mass Abduction]
13 S & D (Search & Destroy) – Transcend [Destructive]
14 Ceeker & Blackheart – True Blood [Filthy Digital]
15 Ceeker & Blackheart – True Blood VIP [Filthy Digital]
16 Code071 – A London Sumtin (Seven Remix) [One Gun Salute]
17 Killawatt – Selenium [Wheel & Deal]
18 Kutz – The Warning [Biscuit Factory]
19 SPL & Geno Cochino – Medusa [Subway]
20 Matt U – Compass [Biscuit Factory]
21 Vax – Bass Corner [Gradient Audio]
22 Hecq – Suture (with Matta) [Hymen]
23 The Eerier Child – Macabre [Black Sunday]

DOWNLOAD LINK

Obscure, soulful and dripping wet with bass is probably how I would start to describe this debut EP from Montreal based beat producer Wolfey. Sleep Country weights in with 3 solidly produced tracks which carry you threw a variety emotions. At the moment, the title track Sleep Country is pretty much on repeat in my headphones. Enough said.

PR WORDS:

With this project, Alexander Wolfe (a.k.a. Wolfey) aimed to capture the fear and uncertainty that hung quietly like a shadow over North America in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Musically, he draws on a diverse array of influences ranging from artists such as Burial, DJ Shadow, and early James Blake to Radiohead, Boards of Canada, and Miles Davis.

Wolfey re-contextualizes classic soul vocals from the likes of Nina Simone and Billy Withers, whose mournful performances compliment the ominous vibes established by his use of atmospheric field recordings, and speech samples taken from Harmony Korine’s films Julien Donkey-boy and Gummo.

This is Wolfey’s first release on Blenheim & Celtic (Montreal, CAN). He originally planned to include four tracks on this release; however, upon the recommendation of a friend, (LA-based beat-maker & mc, Jonwayne), Wolfey decided to withhold the fourth track from the release in order to develop it a bit further. It may or may not be released in the future–

The Sleep Country EP was mastered at Transition Studios, (London, UK). The artwork is by Lincoln Clarkes (Vancouver, CAN).

Wolfey is an electronic musician based in Montreal, Canada. He studied electronic music production through Berklee College of Music (Boston, US). He is currrently finishing up undergraduate work in Philosophy and History at McGill (Montreal, CAN). As a dj, Wolfey has been quietly establishing a reputation performing in support of such forward-thinking artists as Eskmo (Warp, Ninja Tune) and Jonwayne (Stones Throw, Alpha Pup).

LINKAGE:
BlenheimAndCeltic.net
Soundcloud
low-life.ca
Bandcamp

It feels like I’ve been waiting forever for Geoff Bukk & Big Sips to release an EP out to the world… but that’s because I’ve been lucky enough to hear them develop from their first collab which was already impressive to this powerful, well tuned team that goes right for the throat. “First Offerings” is just that, the first EP to combine Geoff Bukk‘s earth scorching sound production and riddims with Big Sips tremendous vocal attacks on the mic, all packaged into a 5 track EP from big bad ass American label Betamorph Recordings (whad’up fam!) To top that, we’ve got a FREE download from the EP for you all to enjoy, while the remainder will be available everywhere January 4th, 2012.

For all you Montrealers, don’t miss your chance to catch Geoff Bukk with Harmsworth & myself (Construct) at this year’s Igloofest! Friday, Jan 13th 2012

IGLOOFEST – EVENT PAGE & AFTER PARTY

PR WORDS:

Bukk Bukk Bukkstep!!! The cold weather and holiday season seems to have put artists Geoff Bukk and Big Sips into very giving moods, as they bless the Dubstep universe with five scorching offerings that are sure to drop jaws and change minds as the descent into 2012 begins. Montreal’s bad bwoi with the mile-long discography, Geoff Bukk, has never been a slouch in the studio as his many selections leave listeners with squinty eyes, clenched teeth, and racing hearts. This latest endeavor seems to show an even more refined and focused character that shines through even in the darkest tracks. The overall feel of “First Offerings” is that of a real hip hop album based in the Dubstep world, made with a machine-trash sensibility and a cyber-grime mentality. The many metamorphous metaphors Big Sips lays out make him the perfect fit to this ultra-futuristic smash fest.

Starting off with “514” Big Sips lays the foundation for this humungous track in the first few lines, listing for the audience a few of his favorite things. The music behind him, an ominous atmosphere of impending calamity, swells to the boiling point accompanied by Sips’ machine-gun like intro. When the track takes off, his delivery is not spoken…. it’s discharged like a weapon. Whether fast and bouncing, or slow and deliberate, his words follow the beat flawlessly, and with both intensity and clarity, hit the listener’s ear with pinpoint accuracy and full force. The effect, in this and the other tracks on “First Offerings” is a perfectly balanced symbiosis of lyric and sound, amplified by Geoff Bukk’s signature organic, yet grimy, style. Huge drums coupled with growling bass and atmospheres that fill every orifice, convey a feeling of importance and intensity track after Earth-shattering track. Seamless tempo changes are pleasantly unexpected, and give the tracks another level of depth. One song on the E.P. that really stands out from the others with respect to tonal quality and style is “Nothing Like This”. It begins with what sounds like a chime ringing out into a misty night sky, meeting a muffled kick and coming together to form a glitch-infused fantasy soundscape that is made solid by Big Sips’ haunting voice coming through the darkness to bring light to a grim reality.

Whether you’re in it for the larger-than-life sounds, the aggressive bass lines, or the razor-sharp lyrics, “First Offerings” from Geoff Bukk and Big Sips will give every cyber-grime enthusiast something to rave about well into the New Year.

Geoff Bukk & Big Syps – 514 by Betamorph Recordings
Geoff Bukk & Big Sips – Wrecking Ball by Betamorph Recordings
Geoff Bukk & Big Sips – Off With Their Heads by Betamorph Recordings
Geoff Bukk & Big Sips – Track Affair by Betamorph Recordings

FREE DOWNLOAD:
Geoff Bukk & Big Sips – Nothing Like This [FREE DOWNLOAD] by Betamorph Recordings

LINKAGE:
GEOFF BUKK – SOUNDCLOUD – FACEBOOK
Betamorph Recordings – SOUNDCLOUD

Out right on time to finish off the year in style is Brap Dem Recordings latest offering. An EP from Ki Smpl & Sublo featuring 3 tracks including a free download for you all to enjoy at the bottom of the post. I’m super stoked about this release so i’m gonna let you guys get to the links and write ups.

Enjoy, and happy holidays!!! (off to go snowboarding!!!)

PR WORDS:

SUBLO & KID SMPL present a 3 track EP of dark, melancholy, futuristic, bass music. Both upcoming producers originally hail from Seattle. KID SMPL is known for darker, soundscape, found sample driven tunes and SUBLO makes purple tinged synth heavy tunes with tight drum programming. They both have DJ support stateside and in the UK on Sub FM, Rinse FM and Electric Soundstage.
DIONYSIS creates a spacey, multi synth filled, percussive journey, with minimal stepping elements, bathed in goddess like bass.
CONFESSION paints a tender audio picture of crucial eerie pads and playful drums all dubbed out like a reoccurring dream.
ECCO has lots of elements of both these young producers, plenty of soundscapes by KID SMPL and great drum work and programming by SUBLO closing out the ep on a deeper subconscious high note.

LINKAGE:
brapdem.com
Soundcloud
Facebook

01 – Kid Smpl & Sublo – Dionysis – OUT DEC 27TH by Brap Dem Rec
02 – Kid Smpl & Sublo – Confession – OUT DEC 27TH by Brap Dem Rec
03 – Kid Smpl & Sublo – Ecco – OUT DEC 27TH by Brap Dem Rec

ONLINE STORES:
TO COME SOON

FREE DOWNLOAD:
KID SMPL & SUBLO – WISPS
DOWNLOAD LINK

Some great information about an upcoming West Coast American tour by Rwina Records. I simply can’t put it in better words then XLR8R, so i’m gonna link you up real good with the info, orignal links, and of course the link for the FREE remix EP featuring remixes by Desto, OM Unit and Presk from Krampfhaft‘s super sick Making Magic EP.

WORDS STOLEN FROM XLR8R: (OG LINK)

Amsterdam-based record label Rwina is getting into the holiday spirit this week by giving away an EP by Krampfhaft, with remixes by Desto, Presk, and our most recent XLR8R podcast creator, Om Unit. Rwina has had a busy 2011, releasing material from the likes of Eprom, NastyNasty, Taz, and Doshy, and has a busy 2012 planned already, beginning with a label night in Amsterdam on January 21. The label night will be thrown in conjunction with Green Room at the Studio/K nightclub, and will feature a slew of artists from Rwina’s roster, as well as other like-minded DJs and producers. Check out full details for the party here. The label is also planning an US West Coast tour from January 30 to February 6, including stops in Sacramento, Arcata, San Francisco (at Low End Theory), and Los Angeles. As for the free EP, which can be downloaded here or here, it’s a three-song remix EP of Krampfhaft’s Makin’ Magic, aptly titled Re-Makin’ Magic, in which two songs from the original record have been remixed by three Rwina-associated artists for a short romp through UK garage and glitch-hop-flavored dubstep.

FREE REMIX EP:
Dropbox link
Alternative DL Link

LINKAGE:
RwinaRecords.com
Soundcloud
Twitter: @rwina_records
Facebook

JLD x Rwina Records Label mix by Akkachar

Rwina Records have had a big year! Lining up releases by some of my favourite producers in the game with so much style it might hurt your ego (NastyNasty, Krampfhaft, Desto, Doshy, EPROM, Terror Danjah and Starkey to name a few). This latest offering from this outfit does nothing but deliver the freshest sounds once again, with Taz a.k.a Taz Buckfaster dropping a 4 track EP on 12″ and digital format which includes a bonus 5th tracks for the digital downloaders.

Seems like I said this quite a few times already in 2011, but seriously expect lots more to come from this wonderful label. Until then, read on below and click them links.

Oh, and surf over to XLR8R.com to gnab a free download from TAZ
XLR8R.com

PR WORDS:

Glasgow’s Taz Buckfaster – or just ‘Taz’ – was one of Rwina’s earliest discoveries. His two EPs on Rwina have leaned towards the dubstep side of things, imbuing them with the playful hip-hop inspired mischief that remains the Rwina trademark, playing with dub skank on “Kingston Bridge” and sending off firecrackers of concentrated synth melody in nearly uncontrollable bursts on “20 Red”. He now makes a welcome return to the label at the end of 2011 with the Neurotica EP with four brand new tracks of uncompromising Glaswegian heat.

With a reputation as a bit of a musical chameleon, having made his name across various labels and styles, this new release for Rwina sees Taz being quite neurotic in his hard-to-pin-down production approach – as the EP name might already given away! And while this could sound like a negative thing for most producers, in the hands and imagination of the young Scottish talent it’s a recipe for forward thinking dancefloor success.

The self titled opener for the Neurotica EP sets the bar high with a production that twists, turns and shifts without ever sounding forced or unpleasant. Going straight for the jugular, Taz unleashes a combo of colourful, catchy and bouncy synth melodies and chest-pummeling bass laced wiry grime-funk with just the right amount of editing trickery to keep the listeners and dancers engaged and sweating. “Hedge Your Bets” starts with some serious headnod swing before transforming itself into a seriously hypercolour beat manifesto with a driving rhythm and melodies that could be the perfect soundtrack for a remake of the classic Outrun. An out and out retro futuristic jam where Taz proves to be the earthly vessel for perfect execution of all sorts of styles.
The energy doesn’t let loose as you flip to the B side. “Stamma” keeps things popping with hectic nightmarish vocal loops and a rhythmic foundation that manages to alternate seamlessly between straight dancefloor energy and looser, crunk inspired swing held together by more pummeling bass. “Ebb Flow” closes the proceedings, unpredictable as he is, with a mellower vibe that soon enough morphs and drops into a hands-in-the-air club vibe that fuses 2step-inspired, swinging drum patterns and a swirling bassline resulting in yet more dancefloor fire.

Taz’s Neurotica EP further proves Glasgow’s supremacy in providing future minded dancefloor jams, regardless of genre or style. This is the sound of a young producer coming into his own and playing with templates and ideas in a way that makes it impossible not to get down and join in.

Taz – Neurotica EP [RWINA016] by rwina_records

LINKAGE:
RwinaRecords.com
Soundcloud
Twitter: @rwina_records
Facebook

ONLINE SHOPS:
TripleVision.NL – 12″
JunoDownload

Part 3 of 3 promo mixes we’ve prepared for our very special night at IGLOOFEST. Learn more at the links below.

PURCHASE TICKETS
IGLOO FESTIVAL PASSES

FACEBOOK EVENT
OFFICIAL IGLOOFEST FB EVENT
IGLOOFEST.ca
JLD EVENT POST

Harmsworth – Purple Jesus Igloofest Promo Mix by Piknic / Igloofest

TRACK LIST:
L-Nix – Purple People Eater
Es Ha – Hindu Dub
Joker – City Hopper
Gemmy – Too Far
Sduk – YouNyt (Hellfire Machina Remix)
S-X – Bricks
Starkey f. Curly Castro – Bricks
Pretty Lights – How We Do
Knight Riderz – Synthetic Seduction
Johnny Polygon vs Joker vs Rustie – There Go Joker N Rustie (Ale Fillman mashup)
SebastiAn – H.A.L.
NastyNasty – Huarache
Nina Samone – I Put A Spell On You (MiMOSA Remix)

DOWNLOAD LINK

Part 2 of 3 promo mixes we’ve prepared for our very special night at IGLOOFEST. Learn more at the links below.

PURCHASE TICKETS
IGLOO FESTIVAL PASSES

FACEBOOK EVENT
OFFICIAL IGLOOFEST FB EVENT
IGLOOFEST.ca
JLD EVENT POST

Geoff Bukk – Saucy Swag Strumpet by Piknic / Igloofest

TRACK LIST:
Geoff Bukk – Sporatic
Bombaman – Some Swell View
Balkanski & Loop Stepwalker – 8.9
Bukez Finest – Macho
Kursa – On The Edge
N’Chyx – Skankin Shoes (Enigma Dubz Remix)
Tallan – Unafraid
D-Jahsta – Slug Bass
Enigma Dubz – Badness (Sub Antix Remix)
J Vandal – Wig Dance
Reso – Tik Tak
Level 67 – Still Ballin (Bratkilla Remix)
Geoff Bukk – Be Good
Depone – Gravity
Trampa – No Mercy
Reso – Ishimura
Phear Phace – Speculate (TeK9 Remix)
Kannamix – Uppercut (Geoff Bukk Remix)

DOWNLOAD LINK

Part 1 of 3 promo mixes we’ve prepared for our very special night at IGLOOFEST. Learn more at the links below.

PURCHASE TICKETS
IGLOO FESTIVAL PASSES

FACEBOOK EVENT
OFFICIAL IGLOOFEST FB EVENT
IGLOOFEST.ca
JLD EVENT POST

CONSTRUCT-Tuques and Helmets JLD Igloofest Promo by Piknic / Igloofest

TRACK LIST:
The Quest – Swirl
Lunice – I See U (Girl Unit Remix)
Razzler Man – Get Low
George Fitzgerald – Hearts
Distal – Apple Bottom
DJ Tameil – Back It Up & Dump It (Bmore Remix)
Justin Martin, Ardalan – Lezgo
Boddika – Acid Battery
Blawan – What You Do With What You Have
Pearson Sound – Working With
Wachs Lyrical – What You Say
Teeth – SW
Viers – Werk (dub)

DOWNLOAD LINK

JLD is taking over the Virgin Mobile Igloo tent for one night at this year’s IGLOOFEST.

JANUARY 13th 2012 – Don’t miss out!

IGLOO VIRGIN MOBILE x J’AIME LE DUBSTEP
JaimeLeDubstep.com is very proud to present a night dedicated to dubstep and everything bass ; an exploration of current trends and forward thinking music. At the helm, JLD’s Montreal crew of writers team up to showcase the best sounds and newest trends in the world of bass music. Get warmed up with Harmsworth’s synth driven purple dubstep and glitch hop aesthetic. Undo your snowsuit for the Deep & Dark sounds of Montreal’s biggest dubstep producer, Geoff Bukk. Finally, set fire to your feet and step up to the future bass vibes & post-step riddims of Construct.

CONSTRUCT:
/JLD / Twerkit.net /Dubstep.FM /Nasty.FM
Construct works too much and must perform on stage to survive. Founder of international podcast & blog, J’aime Le Dubstep. He is a definitive source of cutting edge Bass Music that pleases the heads to the haters every time he blows up a party. Catch him live on air every Tuesday Nights on Dubstep.FM and Wednesday Nights on Nasty.FM.

DUBSTEP.FM ARCHIVE

CONSTRUCT-Tuques and Helmets JLD Igloofest Promo by Piknic / Igloofest

GEOFF BUKK:
/JLD /Tuff Love Dubs /Brotown /Betamorph
With releases clocking in on labels such as Tuff Love Dubs, Betamorph, Filthy Digital, BroTown, Monkey Dub, Heavy Artillery and more, Geoff Bukk is skillfully and rowdily repping Montreal like no other. Producing his own brand of distinctly heavy and neuro-like dubstep, he also helps other artists reach the masses as a member of the JaimeLeDubstep.com crew.

Geoff Bukk – Saucy Swag Strumpet by Piknic / Igloofest

HARMSWORTH:
/JLD /Wickedbad.net /DubMachine
Be it with jungle, breaks, glitch hop, electro, dubstep or a combination of all five, Harmsworth he is no stranger to making a dance floor get busy. A resident with Dub-Machine and Bass Drive nights at Le Belmont, he writes for JaimeLeDubstep.com and guest hosts J’aime Le Dubstep radio on Dubstep.FM with Construct.

Harmsworth – Purple Jesus Igloofest Promo Mix by Piknic / Igloofest

MAIN STAGE: SCÈNE SAPPORO
Week-end presented by V
Night presented in collaboration with EXCLAIM.CA
- TIEFSCHWARZ (DE)
- TANNER ROSS (US) – (wolf + lamb, no. 19, culprit)
- EZLV (CA)

PURCHASE TICKETS
IGLOO FESTIVAL PASSES

FACEBOOK EVENT
OFFICIAL IGLOOFEST FB EVENT
IGLOOFEST.ca

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AFTER PARTY FOR JLD’s at IGLOOFEST
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We’re so excited about having our night at Igloofest that we don’t want the fun to stop at midnight…. Instead we’re gonna kick it up a notch by throwing an after party which will rage long into the night.

Not only that, we’ve got some of our favourite DJs and best of friends in town for the occasion.

From Toronto

LAZERFACE
- king of swag
nicklazerface.tumblr.com

TAKEaBATH
light years ahead of the curve
Facebook

JLD #31 – JLD #18 – JLD #07

From Halifax

BUCK BANGER
our home boy with 4 JLD mixes!!!
JLD #58 – JLD #30 – JLD #16 – JLD #11

and a few more TBC.

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FACEBOOK EVENT

B.Y.O.B.

LOCATION
TBA 48h in advance

DOOR: 12am
ENDS LATE

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Helping to spread some holiday cheer, Slugabed is giving away six free tracks for you all to enjoy. Not much more to say then, way to go Slugabed… You rock!

LINKAGE:
Soundcloud
Facebook

MOTHERFUCKEEEEEEEEEEEEEER (FREE DL!!) by SLUGABED
THE SYSTEM (FREE DL!!) by SLUGABED
BARBARA (FREE DL!!) by SLUGABED
BARBARA VIP (FREE DL!!) by SLUGABED
GETOBONK! (FREE DL!!) by SLUGABED
KITTENS (FREE DL!!) by SLUGABED

Ramping up to the holiday period, we’ve got Nelson B.C.’s Yan Zombie delivering us a super sweet, swanky, purple, hyphy, bass heavy mix which clocks in as JLD #153. Read up on the bio below to learn more, and click the mix for some sonic pleasure.

SWANK.

BIO BLIPS:

Yan Zombie, member of the “REALLY GOOD” family and producer/mc for future-rap crew Cyphanex; is a musical enigma and modern day renaissance man whose audio influences and explorations cross many styles and genres. Everything from quick-mix funk, soul and hip hop, to the baddest dub and glitch-step to heavy metal electro to futuristic badman dancehall grime and bashment; sometimes in the same song. His live PA/Ableton electronic shows consist of original cutting edge crunk production, combined with on the fly mashups and micro mixing – sometimes dropping parts of almost 100 songs in a 90 minute set.

His latest mixes have been posted on San Francisco’s avant glitch imprint Daly City Records blog site and Yan is referred to by Ninja Tune heavyweight DJ Vadim as “A Bad Motherfucker cooking up crack with the Moog synthesizer.” Able to count world class DJs like Mat The Alien, Mochipet and Vadim as fans and collaborators, the Zombie’s buzz is starting to build. 10 years deep in the producing game; having toured 7 countries with acts such as Abstract Rude, Mat The Alien and Emotionz – with whom they became the first Canadian hip hop/grime unit to play Romania, Austria and Hungary in 2007.

In June 2011, Yan Zombie releases his full length instrumental album ‘THE HOLD-ON TIGHT: ANALOGUE SLICES OF LOVE AND CONFUSION’ (Digital Punchout!), smashing genre boundaries between glitch, soul and hip hop. Look for an upcoming EP on Propa Tingz’ & The Outlier’s imprint True Movement: ‘Habitual Line-Stepper,’ a heavy dose of raw psychedelic crunk and futuristic purple. There will also be a release for Daly City in the next 6 months… as well as remixes of/collabs with MC ZULU, Neighbor, Emotionz, Stylust, DJ Vadim, Bassnectar, Ill Gates, Mat The Alien, Mochipet, Chad Van Gaalen, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and a slew of bootlegs for dancefloor mayhem and psychedelic headphone candy. Known for bringing unexpected and capitivating elements to the Shambhala stage; this year’s Zombie Apocalypse will push it to the next level.

Join the Zombie army Friday night at Shambhala’s Living Room Stage…. and bring that big juicy brain of yours….

LINKAGE:
Soundcloud
Facebook

GET MORE YAN ZOMBIE:
Latest tracks by Yan Zombie

TRACK LIST
Intro – yan zombie
Army of Fear – Lorn(brainfeeder)
Enter the Zombie –  yan zombie
Hellraiser – Ill-eesha
Twelve (ft Emotionz and Vs) – yan zombie
Twelve (SELF EVIDENT REMIX) – yan zombie
Very Ape – Little Roy
Purple LIghts in the Sky – Neighbour and yan zombie
Thunder Bay – Hudson Mohawke
Thoroughbred – Ghost Mutt
Ballers (accapella) – Project Pat
A King – Self Evident
Slaughterhouse – Joker
On and on (acapella) – Erykah Badu
Full Attention – Terror Danjah
2 for 1 (vip) – El-b ft Wiley
Heavy- Dizzee Rascal
Wooly Mammoth – Mochipet
Timeless ft MC ZULU – Liquid Stranger

DOWNLOAD LINK

We are quite excited to be bringing you one of the first in a series of Q&A’s here on J’aime le Dubstep and to get things moving Amy from DubSelekta.com had the pleasure of siting down with a lovely lady that recently dropped a heafty podcast up on the site.

If you haven’t caught Reed Speed’s newest mix, then you’re severly missing out. A pure talent in every way, Speed has been holding her own with the big boys as a beautiful bombshell known for unlearshing some of the gnarliest and ferocious basslines. As a DJ she is one of the best; having withstood the ebs and flows of bass music’s progression while still managing to come out top in class in all genres. She is the head honcho at Play Me Records and Play Me Too and in between everything keeping her busy she still managed to squeeze in a little bit of face time with us.

DubSelekta: Firstly, thanks very much for sitting and chatting with us! It’s always good to chat with a fellow female bass head. I wanted to start at the beginning because I understand that previous to DJing you used to do work as a model for brands like Triple5Soul. How did you move from that over to DJing and producing?

Reid Speed: Hmm, that’s kinda mixed up. I was a touring DJ /producer before I did the Triple 5 soul ad…they wanted up & coming musicians for that campaign. That’s the only “modeling” I have ever done. I find the new paradigm of DJ-as-rockstar to be foreign to me, I got into it for the very opposite…DJing used to be a very anonymous affair where the reward was feeling the crowd move together and knowing I was controlling them to ecstasy.

DS: Hmm, ya very good point. Ok, so you’re also the main gal behind Play Me Records and Play Me Too but I’m curious, with all the growth the labels have experienced, are you still fairly hands?

RS: Hands on? Yes I personally listen to all the submissions, work directly with the artists on their releases and advise them on career moves, and make most of the release art as well as run the soundcloud and promotions. Alex (my partner in crime) does most of the mastering and media management. We have a couple of trusted friends who we occasionally count on to help out as well, which is invaluable. Next year we are bringing on a pro licensing manager to handle more of the business side of things so we can continue to grow and help as many artists as we can.

DS: Sweet! So when choosing artists to release on either of the labels, what are some qualities you look for to determine whether they’re going to be a good fit for the label?

RS: We look for interesting new artists with a distinct creative point of view and healthy ability to self- promote alongside impeccably engineered, full frequency range bass music that sounds as good as or better than our current releases. We also look for more creative and melodically interesting songs than the “standard filth” that is popular today, as much as we love heavy bangers, we also love music!

DS: Play Me Records also just wrapped up the big Bass Monster tour for 2011. Wondering how the tour went, did you have any outstanding moments you won’t soon forget?

RS: The first round of the Bass Monster Tour was incredible! It felt so good to be able to bring FS & Cyberoptics out and expose them to new audiences. We had a great run and look forward to doing it again, which we will be doing when we take the tour to Europe in May of 2012. One of the best moments of this round was in Baltimore, where FS & I both did epic crowd surfs. It was my first real crowdsurf and what a thrill that was!

DS: I hear it’a pretty addicting once you get started! So your sound has morphed and shifted quite a bit since your inception as a DJ. Do you think that being able to not pigeonhole yourself into a certain sound has been able for you to remain a dynamic part of the bass music community?

RS: I have always been a fan of many genres of dance music, and have worked hard throughout my career to push the stuff I’m feeling, even when most people were not feeling it. I think it has helped me greatly to remain fluid, never throwing my lot in with any one genre. We are an ADD generation and I embrace that chaos. It does feel good to know that the world caught on to multi-genre DJ sets as something acceptable and fun.. for many years it felt like I was forcing medicine down instead of treating my fans to the candy that is music.

DS: Speaking of musical candy, do you have any particular tracks that you rinse out regularly when you play live that are guaranteed to go off?

RS: Bass Monster and its remixes usually get the kids going, and the Terravita remix of Sexy Party never fails to do the trick!

DS: And In terms of music that you’re personally listening to, what are some artists that you’d recommend we go and checkout?

RS: Some New Artists I can’t get enough of right now include Dirt Monkey, The Bolivian Marching Affair, Devin Martin, Nostalgia, The McMash Clan and Addergrbroed, to name a very select few…

DS: With 2011 drawing to a close fairly quick, what’s going to be keeping you busy throughout 2012?

RS: 2012 will see Play Me continue to grow, the Bass Monster Tour will hit Europe in May, and we have a few of our core artists working on albums that we are really excited for: FS, Cyberoptics, Quartus Saul, and Run DMT, we will be expanding the depth of our promotions to reach new audiences, and there will definitely be many, many bike rides!

DS: And last question; if you could give an up and coming producer one piece of advice, what would it be?

RS: One piece of advice: Stay humble, no matter how big the people around you tell you you are getting. Stay focused on improving your work, never buy into your own hype! Nothing rubs fans the wrong way more than arrogant mediocrity.

Big thank-you to Reid Speed for taking the time to chat with us. To get more Reid Speed be sure to follow her on soundcloud, like her on facebook or follow her on twitter.  Also be sure to checkout some of the forthcoming releases from Play Me Records by keeping it locked on their facebook page. Enjoy!

Working with a distribution model of “Name Your Price”, Saturated Records have been releasing some surprisingly good electronic music in a great variety of styles but always saturated in bass. Quite a few tracks from their catalogue have been beefing up my sets recently and with good effect. So i recommend you don’t stop at this compilation and keep clicking down at their bandcamp page.

Don’t forget to give back a little so these artist can get some coins.

Saturaterecords.com

Cato‘s been making creating some buzz lately, but really caught my ear with this release on Prime Dub Records. The Jeez and Bread EP was just release this week featuring four original tunes by Cato himself. The title track is pretty swanky, filled with purple synths with lots of drive. Check out the links below, and get to know.

PR WORDS:

Badman Cato, straight out of Kent, is breaking ground with his debut EP on Prime Dub. This huge release really shows the ingenuity coming from the England native. Showcasing his original powerful synths and deep sub-heavy basslines, Jeez and Bread, is a melodic release that’s sure to delight. Cato has received support from DJs the likes of Plastician and Hatcha and has a previous release on Hatcha’s Label. Continually showing the ability to remain creative and fresh in his productions, Cato, is really an artist that cannot disappoint.

Cato – Jeez & Bread EP by Prime Dub Entertainment

LINKAGE:
CATO – Facebook – Soundcloud
Prime Dub – Facebook – Soundcloud

GET MORE PRIME DUB RECS:
Latest tracks by Prime Dub Entertainment

DIGITAL STORES:
Beatport
JunoDownload

At the beginning of the month, Slit Jockey Records release a killer pack of grime tracks featuring an original J-Sweet track “Can’t Stop My Grime” and four remixes by Starkey, Dev79, Mr Mitch & Kaiser. It’s a sweet release which has been getting quite a bit of play from myself and many others. To make things even sweeter, they decided to give away the Kaiser remix for free. Check out some words below, and gnab that download.

PR WORDS:

As winter hits we turn up the heat to unleash another J-Sweet grime instrumental monster backed up with serious remix firepower – “CAN’T STOP MY GRIME”

If the original tune wasn’t enough damage, we have 4 finely crafted remixes to finish you off. Fresh from his Ninja Tune debut, Starkey drops a thick n bubbly 8-bar remix. London’s Gobstopper main man Mr. Mitch cooks up an evolving and absolutely sick dancefloor track. Philly’s Dev79 amps it up with a juke infused headbanger and up and coming Bristol producer, Kaiser, gives his lazer guided perspective to close out the EP.

J-Sweet, the respected and accomplished DJ, producer and remixer, has been integral to the grime scene since its creation. He produced the timeless anthem “Kerb” as well as working with artists such as Lethal B, Wiley, JME, Usher, Craig David, Kele Le roc, NASTY Crew, Ms. Dynamite and Chris Brown. He’s established his own labels – Sweetbeatz and Marxmen Dubs. 2011 has seen J-Sweet launch a full frontal attack on the grime scene by taking it in his palms and propelling the sound to the forefront of the industry and making people pay attention!

J-Sweet – Can’t Stop My Grime (Kaiser Remix) by Slit Jockey Records
MEDIAFIRE DOWNLOAD LINK

LINKS:
slitjockey.com
Soundcloud
Facebook
Twitter: @slitjockey

DIGITAL STORE:
JUNODOWNLOAD.com

Ready to set off the weekend is San Francisco’s Kid Kameleon on deck for JLD #152. This mix is packed with sweet tunes by some of my favourite producers of 2011, so it’s easy to say: Enjoy the mix and have a great weekend! Let’s get to it.

BIO BLIPS:

Super-eclecticist. Champion of the new. Dreadbass ambassador. Experimentalist. Long time nerd. Surya Dubber. Blogournalist. Nocturnalist. Curious creature. Complexity lover. Jungle and hip-hop head. Low end appreciator. Soundboy. Traveler. Scholar. Digital activist.

LINKAGE:
KidKameleon.com
Facebook
Soundcloud
Twitter: @kidkameleon

GET MORE KID KAMELEON:
Latest tracks by kidkameleon

TRACK LIST:
01 Ill Blu – Meltdown
02 Blawan – Bohla
03 Randomer – Dope
04 Randomer – Obtuse (VIP)
05 Randomer – Brunk
06 Oni Ayhun – Oni Ayhun Meets Shangaan Electro
07 Jim-E Stack – Do U
08 Gun Selectah – Villa Ghetto (LOL Boys Rmx)
09 Buraka Som Sistema – Hangover (BaBaBa) (Tony Senghore Rmx)
10 Lone – All Those Weird Things
11 Randomer – Lost Everything
12 Canblaster – Clockworks (Teki Latex & Para One Rmx)
13 Ed Chamberlain – Zarathustra
14 Kuedo – Take Off (Rmx)
15 Baobinga & I.D – Want It
16 Pangaea – Hex
17 XXXY – Body Movin’
18 LV – Nothern Line
19 Graphics – Wiping The Eye
20 Pixelord – Dominator
21 Lando Kal – Rhythm (Version)
22 LV & Joshua Idehen – Primary Colours (Extended Mix)
23 Don Froth – Von
24 Mumdance – Smasher (Melé Rmx)
25 Steve Starks – Git Em (Munchi’s Kuduro Rmx)
26 Cardopusher – Tu Bizcochito
27 Magnum – Juracan (Randomer Rmx)
28 Kuhn – Slime Beach
29 Landslide – Gone Today Here Tomorow (Miyagi Rmx)
30 Naive Machine – The Night Stalker
31 D.O.K – West Coast VIP
32 Walton – Aggy
33 Kahn – Illy
34 DZA – Zoo Keeper (Salva Rmx)
35 Comma – Mezcal Hologram
36 Moa Pillar – Haema
37 Hudson Mohawke – Thank You

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Marty Party just put out a sick new mix thats full of original tracks, exclusive collaborations and sick remixes and has been the primary job from my iphone during that last few days.

He explains his process here:

It’s all about experimentation and invention – that’s why I make music the way I do. The new tooling in digital music production allows me to sit alone in my room on my iMac with two KRK Rockit monitors and a subwoofer, and produce original music from the first chord, right through to mastering and release on the internet – in one day. This freedom and power make it easy to explore the limits of the audible sound spectrum, including sub bass, poly-melodic harmonics and sound design, with incredible speed, productivity and without complying to any convention. My mission is to change the way people think about electronic music and to bring the art of musical composition back into popular music. My dream is that I inspire others to do the same. We live in a digital world, I’m not interested in emulating anything that has been done before.
-MartyParty

TRACK LIST
MartyParty- Just Because Of You
Crime Mobb – Knuck If You Buck
MartyParty and Mimosa – No Names
PANTyRAiD – JailBait
MartyParty – Bully
PANTyRAiD – Superior
MartyParty – Lookin For Trouble
MartyParty – Hard In Da Paint Remix (feat. Waka Flaka Flame)
MartyParty and Mimosa – Skate
MartyParty – Trick Quit Talking
MartyParty – We Know Who We Are
MartyParty and Minnesota (DeathStar) – Adele Rolling In The Deep Remix
MartyParty – I Need You
PANTyRAiD – Dirty Vegas Lil White Doves Remix
DeathStar – Wiz Khalifa On My Level Remix
MartyParty – Im The Shit Bitch
Travis Porter – Make It Rain
Flux Pavilion – Bass Cannon
MartyParty – Pretty Thoughts

MARTYPARTY-PURPLE RAGE AT 140 ONE HOUR MIXTAPE by MartyParty

Download it HERE

Let’s spice up the cold month of December with a slamming mini-mix by Filth Collins packed with unreleased rippers… Not much more to say about this. Enjoy.

LINKS:
Soundcloud
filthcollins.net
Facebook

GET MORE FILTH COLLINS:
Latest tracks by Filth Collins

DECEMBER MINI-MIX:
Filth Collins – December Minimix by Filth Collins

Tracklisting –
1. Kill The Noise – Dying (Brown and Gammon Remix) [OWSLA]
2. Habstrakt – Future Swag [Forthcoming Buygore]
3. AFK & DKS – Shining [DUB]
4. Joker – Back In The Day [Instrumental]
5. Filth Collins – Fatboy Riddim [Forthcoming Azlan Entertainment]
6. Antiserum & Ill-Esha – Overflow [DUB]
7. Habstrakt – Rough (Brown and Gammon Remix) [Forthcoming Chateau Bruyant]
8. Doctor & Megalodon – Like This [DUB]
9. Filth Collins – Levels [Forthcoming Second To None]
10. Supreme & Chewie – Snaggletooth [DUB]
11. DKS – Leave The World Behind [Betamorph]
12. The Others – Get Outta Here
13. Filth Collins – Just Don’t Care [Forthcoming Azlan Entertainment]
14. Trolley Snatcha – Pass Me By [Dub Police]
15. Flux Pavilion & Skism – Jump Back [Circus]
16. Caspa – Fulham 2 Waterloo [Dub Police]
17. Filth Collins – Ruffneck Sound VIP [Azlan Entertainment Dub]
18. Filth Collins – Like You Do [Forthcoming Azlan Entertainment]

King Deluxe have just recently (December 1st) celebrated their 1st anniversary, and what a year it was! Any avid reader of the site I’m sure have taken notice of this label, I’ve been a fan pretty much since the start. They’ve release a slew of great EPs blurring the lines between popular electronic music and experimental IDM/HipHop with artist such as Liar, Aleph, Muta, Fancy Mike and Vaethx to name a few.

I suggest you take a few minutes to listen to this 1yr compilations. The songs are complicated, well crafted and make my brain happy. All links are listed below.

Congratulation PK at King Deluxe for the success and hard work. Keep them wise beats coming!

A FEW WORDS:

On December 1st King Deluxe turned one year old, and to celebrate we’ve gathered just a few highlights from a very eventful freshman season and featured them next to brand new interpretations of those songs, thanks to some very deluxe friends.

kingdeluxe.ca/year-one

King Deluxe Presents: Year One – Set One

King Deluxe Presents: Year One – Set Two

LINKAGE:
KingDeluxe.ca

Young UK-based producer Static Function has without a doubt been one of my favorites recently, with a steady momentum of banging releases that cease to disappoint. His killer tunes have been released by bad-ass labels such as Abducted Records, eight:fx, and the all-mighty Tuff Love Dubs.

This single is comprised of two very different tracks, in style and mood, although still complimenting each-other seamlessly creating a very strong duo, which I’m expecting to see pierce through the Beatport charts.

”All I Want” features the beautiful voice of Avielle Breen, whom I’ve never heard of before this track, and I’m honestly thankful for this discovery while crossing my fingers that we’ll all be hearing more of her. This one will definitely be a hit, as I have been playing it out frequently. Everyone seems to go nuts… such strong and powerful emotion.

The second track, ”Final Message” is as powerful of a track, though a lot more inclined on the heavy and mean side. This one will definitely get the crowd jumping, kicking, headbanging etc. Don’t be so quick to anticipate the track though, a genius ‘breather’ bridge definitely provokes goosebumps. You’ll just have to check it out for yourself with the clips below, followed by a trip to the Beatport shop.

A note from Tuff Love:

BIGGER BADER, RUFFER TUFFER! STATIC FUNCTION RETURNS!

Brighton UK’s 19 year old dubstep golden child returns to Tuff Love Dubs with a two track single to wet your appetite in advance of his full length “BANG BANG” remixes LP set for 2012! Until then he’s sculpted a stadium rattling “ALL I WANT” featuring the luscious vocals of Avielle Breen and the basement level dark-stepper “FINAL MESSAGE” which is currently slaying it in the sets of serious sonic bad boys Geoff Bukk, Downlink, Point.Blank, Sluggo, Nerd Rage, F3tch, We Bang, Itchy Robot, CLRH2O & CANO, DAVR, GETTER and sooo many more of the masters of the game!

These songs are unstoppable juggernauts and TUFF LOVE DUBS is stoked to bring you another heaping helping of STATIC FUNCTION!

-Tuff Love Dubs

Listen:

Static Function – All I Want feat. Avielle Breen

Static Function – Final Message

Click HERE to buy release. You know you want to.

Links:
Static Function: Facebook – Soundcloud
Tuff Love Dubs: Facebook – Soundcloud – Website

With that said, Static Function is a ticking time-bomb… run for cover!

Keep it vicious.

Back on track this week with two new podcast mixes ready to be unleashed. First up, we’ve got JLD #151 coming in from the U.K. as Love Sick Recordings label co-owner, Riskotheque slams down a sweet mix for us; just check out the track list and you’ll be convinced. I won’t even waste anymore of your time, just get to the downloading.

BIO SNIP:

Bass music producer (whatever that means), Love Sick Recordings label co-owner and general busy body from Brighton, UK.

Tracks and remixes out and forthcoming on Ninja Tune, Disfigured Dubz, Get Darker, Love Sick Recordings, Boka, Audio Freaks, Suicide Dub, ZAudio, 3.5 Recs, Wicky Lindows, Dark Circles, Platter, Sequence, Lutetia Dubs, Paradise Lost and loads more……

LINKAGE:
Facebook
Soundcloud
Twitter: @riskotheque

GET MORE RISKOTHEQUE:
Latest tracks by riskotheque

TRACKLIST:
1. Riskotheque & Marchmellow – All Alone (Love Sick Recordings)
2. Boddika – Electron (Swamp81)
3. Pasteman – Chakra (Dub)
4. Southbound Hangers – You Don’t Understand (Love Sick Recordings)
5. Vandera – Carbon 11 (Forecast/Bassism Records)
6. Southbound Hangers- Aftersun (Love Sick Recordings Dub)
7. Matt U – Something About You (Dub)
8. Marchmellow – Infatuation (Love Sick Recordings Dub)
9. Riskotheque & Marchmellow – I Need Ya (Lutetia Dubs)
10. Von D & Riskotheque – Save Me ft Alys B (Get Darker)
11. Truth – Don’t Explain (Riskotheque & Marchmellow Remix) (Love Sick Recordings Dub)
12. Von D & Mr Lager – You’re My… ft Phephe (Riskotheque Remix) (Dub)
13. Nanobyte – Bloodshed (Sequence Records)
14. Aeolho – Catalyse (Dub)
15. Sook – Dead Star (Dub)
16. Riskotheque & Aeolho – The Force (Dub)
17. Chewie – Survival (Riskotheque Remix) (Paradise Lost Dub)
18. Disonata – Falling (Dub)
19. Flatmate – Aube (Gradient Audio)

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Last Friday, I was very pleased to be opening for the mighty Bonobo of Ninja Tunes as part of SJU’s 2nd anniversary at Le Belmont. For this occasion I reached out and dropped some weird ass heavy west coast leftfield experimental electronic hip hop, with a little UK twist near the end. Now that’s some music categorization or what!

Big ups SJU and many more good shows to come. Such as DJ Craze, this upcoming friday Dec 17th, and Blockhead February 24th 2012. Event links below.

DJ CRAZE – Dec 17-11
BLOCKHEAD LIVE – Feb 24-12

TRACK LIST:
Samiyam – Wonton Special
Ambassadeurs – M.O.P.E
Cy6erSlut – Nb 39
Blockhead – It’s Raining Clouds
King Midas Sound – Lost (Flying Lotus Rework)
Muta – Lock Jaw
Nicoluminous ft. Luz Elena Mendoza – Y La Bass Box
Flying Lotus – …and The World Laughs With You
DJ Shadow – Walking Talking (Extended Radio Edit)
DJ Shadow – Six Days (Remix ft. Mos Def)
Fancy Mike – Ramachandran #Japan (Bugseed’s Sequel)
Zomby – Sens
Sinjin Hawke – Crusade
Blackwax – Offkey
Guy Andrews – Textures
Infra – Pulsar
Shawalski – Getting Hi

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Checkout this fresh new video of Flux Pavillion during one of his recent sets at KOKO in London when he opened up for Skrillex last month.

The track is eclectic; with a saxophone squeal is used as one of the primary dubstep wobbles and is a fresh change from tear out bass. An experimental progression that is certainly a welcome hit. The video is pretty good as well, gives good insight into a Flux Pavillion show if you haven’t had a change to check one.

Flux also recently announced on twitter/facebook that he’s working on a new album and is currently in the studio with Nero! Watch for big things out of him in 2012.

Alright, time to get back to action! After a week or some without internet and an office move we’re back online and ready to unleash this killer mix from none other then the current North American queen of Dubstep, the beautiful Reid Speed delivers JLD #150 !!

Now if you haven’t heard of Reid Speed or of her bigger then life labels Play Me Records and Play Me Too you’ve must of literally skipped over 2011. They are so big that I won’t even say anything more about them. I’ll let you guys discover for yourselves… You can’t miss’em. We’ll soon have an interview with Reid in the next coming days, so you guys can get to know her a little more. Until then you can read up on the bio down below.

Enjoy the mix…. it was well worth a week without a podcast mix.
(Big up Reid, your wicked!)

BIO BLIPS:

Reid Speed has been a dancefloor destroyer for over a decade and is recognized worldwide for her skillful ability to throw down all genres of bass music in transcendental manner. Since 2001 she has released a consistent stream of well received mix compilations and a slew of well charting original and group productions and remixes of many genres: drum & bass, 2 step, breaks, fidget house, electro, dubstep and even moombahcore. She is now most known for helming the Play Me Records and Play Me Too brands. 2011 saw her produce and co-headline the US portion of the groundbreaking Play Me Records Bass Monster Tour with FS & Cyberoptics, which received a tremendous Stateside response and was sponsored by Beatport. The tour spawned a #2 charting hit of the same name (“Bass Monster”) by Reid & FS as well as their “Pussy Weed Money” Remix of “Die Famous” for Burn the Fire which also clocked in at #2. The success of the US portion of the tour has resulted in an upcoming Play Me Bass Monster Europe Tour, which will lead the brand and Speed to Europe in 2012 with Dubsidia, The Unik and Tha Trickaz.
In just over 2 years, Play Me Records and Play Me Too have indisputably taken the Beatport charts by storm, with a string of #1, top 10s, and nearly every release charting in the top 100. They have broken more new artists than any other label of its kind, helping to launch the careers of artists like Cyberoptics, FS, J. Rabbit, Run DMT, Twist, Bassex, Dubsidia, and Bare, to name just a few. 2010 saw Play Me Records voted Dubstep Label of the Year by Beatport and Symphonic Distribution.
Reid got her start in the New York City underground working behind the counter at the legendary Breakbeat Science record store. A chance trip to the UK in the summer of ’97 led to her love affair with 2 step and speed garage. As one of the first US DJs to champion these genres (which morphed into todays’s fidget house and dubstep), both Reid and Play Me’s steady climb come as no surprise to those who know her history. Soon after she began DJing full time she was holding residencies with Stuck on Earth, Direct Drive & Camouflage while in college at the School of Visual Arts. Producing tracks for and with likes of Ming & FS and Le Tigre came along soon after, along with involvement in a seminal series of parties that introduced artists like Deekline, MJ Cole, & Stanton Warriors to the NYC underground. Signing to Breakbeat Science’s label in 2001, she released her first mix “Resonance” to much critical acclaim, and successfully followed it up with 2003′s “Life After Dark.” On subsequent tours with Om artists Ming & FS and Colette, and on her own CD release tours, she has honed her precise genre mashing mixing skills and developed a synergy with her crowds that is unmatched. Those who have listened to her mixes or seen her live agree, whether controlling the floor, in the studio, or behind the decks, Reid pushes the music forward every step she takes.

LINKAGE:
soundcloud.com/reidspeed
facebook.com/djreidspeed
twitter.com/reidspeed

soundcloud.com/playmerecords
facebook.com/playmerecords
twitter.com/playmerecords

TRACK LIST:
1. Tanka- LesGo (Hot & Heavy)
2. Kastle- I Know
3. Benny Page- Tempo (High Culture)
4. MJ Cole- Sincere (Nero Remix) (Prolific)
5. Nostalgia feat Aami- Say
6. The Bolivian Marching Affair- The Transporter (Play Me)
7. Kimia- Is This Love (Metaphase Remix feat. Splitbreed)
8. Addergrbroed- Science (Tsunami Audio)
9. Dirty Talk & Boy Kid Cloud feat. Messinian- Unruly (Play Me Too)
10. Addergrbroed- Fragile Hearts (Mechanoid Audio)
11. Cyberoptics & D-Jahsta- TX-55 (Play Me)
12, Dirt Monkey- Chicken Leg Riddem
13. Natty Bang- Shockproof (Play Me)
14. Bassist & Triage- Fat Sack (Play Me)
15. Liquid Stranger- Snap Crackle and Pop
16. Addergrbroed- Don’t Panic (Bovinyl Moosick)
17. Eptic- Jealousy (Chronos)
18. Dark Elixir- Retro Rejects
19. KTheory- I Feel You (Muffler Remix) (Dim Mak)
20. Kutz- Superman (Wheel and Deal)
21. Tyler Blue- Statement (Manufactured Music)
22. Kill The Noise- Kill The Noise Pt. 1 (OWSLA)
23. Adam Freeland- We Want Your Soul (Bassist & Triage Remix)
24. Playma- Destroy
25. Modestep- To The Stars (Break The Noise & Autobots Remix)
26. Steve Aoki & Rivers Cuomo- Earthquakey People (Alvin Risk Remix) (Dim Mak)
27. Denoiserzs- The Sun (Elektroskok Records)
28. Knife Party- Tourniquet
29. Zed’s Dead- Ruckus The Jam (Dim Mak)
30. Troublegum- Grain Damage (Play Me Too)
31. Duck Sauce- Barbra Windsor (Senseproof Dubstep Mix) (Hot Cakes)
32. Skit- Calling (Coalition Audio)
33. Shockone- Relapse feat. Sam Nafie (Viper)
34. Oiki- Get It Now
35. Kezwik- Gravity (Simplify)
36. Subfocus- Falling Down
37. Kill The Noise feat. Ultraviolet Sound & Emily Hudson- Dying (OWSLA)

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Last weekend I was very pleased to take part in Montreal’s Renaissance Festival. A 4 day electronic music and visual arts event celebrating Chromosome Syndicate & Ad Noiseam‘s 10th anniversary.The festival featured none other then End.User among many other artist, a long time favourite of mine.

A little End.User:
Latest tracks by end.user

The mix contains all Ad Noiseam label tracks, including a few old End.User track of course.
Enjoy the mix, it’s dark, moody and builds in tempo.

Recorded Live at Renaissance Festival, 10th year Ad Noiseam Set
Montreal – Nov 26, 2011

TRACK LIST
Cakebuilder – Walk in Shadows (Ad Noiseam)
DJ Hidden – Unturned Stones (Ad Noiseam)
Cakebuilder – Dark Beast (Ad Noiseam)
DJ Hidden – I’ve Always Missed You (Ad Noiseam)
Cakebuilder – Mohyla (Ad Noiseam)
Mad EP – Team Awesome VIP (Ad Noiseam)
Broken Note – Mortal Bass (Ad Noiseam)
Cardopusher – Gaan A Bed (Ad Noiseam)
Detritus – U(s) (Ad Noiseam)
Enduser – Dissing Monks (Ad Noiseam)
Submerged – Oppressor (Ad Noiseam)
Math Head – Last (Ad Noiseam)
Bong-Ra – Yeti (Ad Noiseam)
Enduser – Pushing Chaos (Bong-Ra remix) (Ad Noiseam)
Sickbot – Doofemilius (Ad Noiseam)
Enduser – Choppin Lambs (Ad Noiseam)
Az-Rotator – Dexter Random (Ad Noiseam)
DJ Hidden – Death Seer (Ad Noiseam)

DOWNLOAD LINK

I can say with confidence that this is my favourite release to date from both Wicked Fat Noize and Dub Cartel Recordings. Two names I often affiliate myself with, so the combination of both is very exciting and you’ll hear why soon… Well actually, if you listen to our DUBSTEP.FM show (Tuesdays 8pm EST/ 1am GMT) you must have heard GunSmoke play atleast 10 times, simply cause i’m addicted to it. Wicked Fat Noize is gonna be a force to reckon with! At only 18th, this young Montreal producer has already released on a hand full of labels including ABAGA Records, Hazardous Sounds and BassBong to name a few.

These songs are gonna catch on fire, so grab them now. Exclusive only on Beatport until December 24. Hurry up!

Wicked Fat Noize-gunsmoke by Dub Cartel recordings