Punch Drunk launches into 2010 with colourful cuts to beat the freeze in the form of two hot collaborations from Hyetal & Shortstuff. The hyper synth frenzy of Don’t Sleep and the technicolour visions of Ice Cream have been heavily rotated by Jackmaster, Brackles, Untold, Gemmy, Ben UFO, 2562, Oneman, Starkey and more.
A flurry of releases in 2009 put Hyetal at the centre of a Bristol second wave of producers. Having caught the ear of Mary Anne Hobbs and subsequently appearing on her Planet Mu compilation ‘Wild Angels’, Hyetal has also seen releases for Bristollian labels Reduction and Soul Motive, and also for Texas based Formant Recordings.
Releases on Planet Mu, Ramp Recordings, Berkane Sol and Pollen throughout 2009 have seen Shortstuff assert himself as a key mover in the new wave of grime, garage, funky and hip hop influenced hybrid beats and basslines infiltrating the UK underground.
With shared roots in the forward thinking Nottingham Futureproof and Wigflex scenes, Shortstuff has recently launched his own imprint, Blunted Robots, alongside Brackles.
Im linking this from Joe Mugg’s new website ‘Very Very Much’, and that it certainly is shaping up to be! Highly recommend you bookmark this one – click here
Lewis Beadle – El-B – occupies a unique position in UK dance music. His productions with Noodles as Groove Chronicles crystallised all the potential of UK garage, and his own Ghost work after that was vital in creating the bass sounds and sinister spaciousness that would define dubstep. He has never sat still, and although operating stealthily since the early 2000s has had a hand in London’s hip hop and latterly UK funky scenes as well as playing “classics” sets in dubstep nights. However his real passion, and what has always given his own productions a unique syncopation, is Colombian music. As Lewis himself says in the interview I did with him for the Wire (incidentally, the interview which inspired me to start this site) “you might not even like it but you can’t help it, you have to move a hip or an elbow or something… it’s infectiously bouncy… just really fucking dancey”. This unique mix is Colombian music pure and uncut, no electronic trickery, just Salsa, Merengue and Cumbia sequenced with El-B’s unique skills and keen ear, with only his own radio jingles and drops for embellishment. If you thought Salsa was for middle-aged people to go to dance classes and try to cop off with the instructors, here is your wake-up call: this is living, vivid, dangerous dance music. Get it now!
Description: Dam-Funk’s full-length debut, an epic modern funk album containing over 2 hours of music.
Double-disc CD is available now. Contains two songs not on the vinyl release.
5LP box set is available for pre-order. The 5 volumes of Toeachizown are packaged together in a box. This contains five songs which are not on the CD version. The expected ship date is Jan. 4, 2010.
Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone
as we’re approaching this new year, I felt it was time to let go of some things that have been gathering dust. Some old things, and some new things, I tried to pick out tracks that I know yall haven’t heard yet so there should be surprises around every turn.
can’t believe i’ve been making tracks for over 10 years now..That said, there’s so much to learn still.
I hope you all enjoy this mix. Thanks to the Gaslamp Killer for doing an incredible job on this.
Can’t wait for you all to hear my album ‘Cosmogramma’ coming out April 20th 2010 on Warp Records.
Mr. Dunning continuing Rob Booth’s exceptionally tasteful podcast in fine style;
A Made Up Sound – Sun touch (Unreleased)
Cooly G – Weekend fly (Hyperdub)
Martyn – Hear me (Zomby mix) (Forthcoming 3024)
Mosca – Square one (L-Vis 1990 remix) (Forthcoming Night Slugs)
Julio Bashmore – Batak groove (Unreleased)
Roska and Untold – Long range (Unreleased)
Marlon D – Jesus Creates Sound (Strictly Rhythm)
Thommy Davis – Mars Needs women (Code red)
Roska and Untold – Myth (Unreleased)
Mark Henning – The right time (Chris Simmonds remix) (Forthcoming Hypercolour)
Justin Drake – Gotta let me know (Dj Sneak remix) (Tsuba)
Reboot – Enjoy music (Defected)
Deadboy – If you want me (Forthcoming Numbers)
Julio Bashmore – Banda 2 (Unreleased)
Plasmik – Retune (Forthcoming Hypercolour)
Ation – Lovers dub (Forthcoming ABUCS)
“I wanted to do something a bit different to the other mixes I’ve done recently. This one tries to join the dots between some of the housey UK tunes that have come out of dubstep and funky with US house that sounds like dubstep. (well it does to me anyway) There’s some recent collabs from me and Roska in there too” UNTOLD
So if you want free entry all you gotta do is pre-order the CD before 6pm on 8th of January! Its £10.00, bargain.
1: Hot City – If That’s How I Feel
2: xxxy – Sing With Us
3: Doc Daneeka – Drums In The Deep
4: Hackman – Pistol. In Your Pocket
5: Julio Bashmore – The Moth
6: Untold – Bad Girls
7: Octa Push – Doctor Bayard
8: Shortstuff – Behave
9: Skinnz – Ukraine
10: Mosca – Gold Bricks, I See You
11: Martyn – Friedrichstrasse
12: Vista – Elixir
13: Caspa & Rusko – One Of The Same
14: Om Unit – Encoded
15: Starkey – Black Monolith
16: Shortstuff & Brackles – Melvin Blue (Digital Bonus Track)
1. ? 2. ? 3. ? 4. ? 5. ? 6. Ed Rush – Gangster Hardstep (No U Turn) 7. Danny Breaks – Step Off (Droppin’ Science) 8. Family of Intelligence – Nice Time (Kemet) 9. D’Cruze – Chronic Breaks (Suburban Base) 10. Dillinja and Bert – Lion Heart (Bert) 11. DJ Gunshot – Wheel and Deal (No U Turn) 12. Johhny (dunno which version) 13. Photek – Complex (Photek) 14. Run Tings and Liftin Spirits – Come Easy (Suburban Base) 15. DJ Trace – After Hours (Deejay) 16. ? 17. origin unknown? 18. ? 19. ? 20. ?HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA WAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA dj boobytrap special 21. Deependance – Broke My Heart (Emotif) 22. Inner Visions – Digital Readout (Reinforced) 23. Danny Breaks – Modes (Droppin’ Science) 24. Digital and Spirit – Cool Out (Phantom Audio) 25. DJ Die – Achilles Heel (Full Cycle) 26. Roni Size and Die – Music Box (Full Cycle) 27. ? 28. ? kemet thing that sounds like pangaea. deep pianos 29. Hidden Agenda – Dispatches (Metalheadz) 30. Source Direct – Snake Style (SD) 31. Ed Rush – What’s Up (No U Turn) 32. 33. Peshay – Predator (Metalheadz) 34. Studio Pressure Presha III (Certificate 18) 35. Higher Sense – Out There (Moving Shadow) 36. Sileni – Twitchy Droid Leg (Offshore) 37. Amit – L Plates (Erazor) 38. Andy C and Randall – Sound Control (RAM) 39. Krome and Time – The License (Tearin Vinyl) 40. Scotty. dunno which version 41. Instra:mental – Thugtronik (Exit) 42. Dissident – Blind Viewer (Counter Intelligence)
here’s what i’ve got tracklist wise, the blanks are because untold’s a happy hardcore loving piano breakdown scrooge, but it’s more fun this way (Ben UFO)
Im really excited to see what 2010 has in store for these guys. The sound is so refreshing.
Solar Man- “Light and Dark”
Solar Man- “Life Rhythms (Babylon Must Burn)”
No Fixed Abode- “Beginners Mind”
“Do For Self” (SKIT)
Amen-Ra- “Mountain Top Guru”
Double Helix- “Voyages”
Double Helix- “Eastern Philosophies”
Low Density Matter- “Bright Sparks”
Double Helix- “TSR-1″
No Fixed Abode- “Touch n Go 2″
Amen-Ra- “Boiling Point”
Low Density Matter- “Reach out 2010″
Double Helix- “96 Flavas (No More Games)”
Amen-Ra- “Fragments of a Love Story”
“Grit Skit” (SKIT)
Amen-Ra- “Final Chapter”
Amen-Ra- “Trifle”
Low Density Matter- “Midnight Oil”
Amen Ra feat. No Fixed Abode- “Gradual Alignment”
harry craze – wa6
kromestar – technique
vivek – meditation rock
peverelist – esperanto
mala – level nine
headhunter – experience
newham generals – hard
kryptic minds – code 46
ikonika – sahara michael
four tet – love cry (joy orbison remix)
sigha – hold your heart up to the light
peverelist – yesterday i saw the future
burial – endorphin
photek – the rain
krust – jazz note
peshay – psychosis
Imagine Dizzee Rascal’s “I Luv U” being covered by Phil Elverum and you have Becoming Real’s “Get Hype.” It’s not exactly dubstep nor is it creepy folk but it definitely is not neither of them either. Like Salem’s crusted crunk simulacra, this music is a bad idea made good by someone both really smart and fortunately talented. And judging by our recent interview with the man behind the project, we should expect a lot more measured weirdness in the future. Get “Get Hype” on Becoming Real’s new EP on Tough Love right now.
For a limited time you can download “Get Hype” from thefader’s website (click here)
Golau Glau sprung up out of nowhere this summer with a bundle of refreshingly listenable “Silverpop” tracks which have since been causing quite a stir everywhere from The Guardian, countless blogs, websites aswell as several BBC Radio stations.
For good reason too. Their Christmas single, the Foolstide EP demonstrates exactly what all the fuss is about. It also marks their 6th month anniversary as a collective.
Here is what Wendy Roby of Drowned in Sound has to say about the A side…
“When Welshers Golau Glau wrote to me this week (it means ‘light quickly’ and is pronounced ‘Goll Eye Gly’ – it being an amalgam of “normal Welsh” and “superarchaic odd Welsh” [THEIR WORDS]) , they tole me they had a Christmas song. And I was a-feared it would be something plain dreary about Why Christmas Is Like Really Bad? Not that I had reason to suspect this, for me and my new Welsh internet friends have previously corresbonded over amusement parks – which means they are fun sorts. Anyway as it turns out ‘Foolstide’ is the sort of thing that brings a smile to your face even if you are in Tesco’s of a Thursday evening crap-hounding your way to the cheapest drinkable bottle of Rose known to humanity. Naturally I found it (£3.20, yes), and all the way to the self-service tills I thrilled at a record that – even though it has slightly rubbish beatmatching – sounds like a Christmas madrigal gone two-step – with all the delightful silliness that implies. It’s a homemade wreath of a thing – all wonky holly wound around a coathanger and the red berries are made of plastic. And yet, it really is quite lovely.”
They have been kind enough to make the whole EP available for free download, which you can grab at the link below. The zip file also includes artwork plus a songsheet for the title track (preview here)
