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Dusk & Blackdown: September 2010 – Rinse FM

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

THIS IS SO FCKING FRESH. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

TRACKLIST:

Darkstar “Two Chords” [forthcoming Hyperdub]

Hackman “Untitled” [unreleased]
El-B ft Natasha “I Feel (Maddslinky’s 4×4 remix)” [unreleased]
Velour “She Wore Velour” [Night Slugs]
Bias & Gurley “Roll (Blackdown remix)” [unreleased Keysound]
Damu “Crystal Gae” [unreleased]
Doc Daneeka “Cops” [Ramp]
Brackles and Shortstuff “Good Foundations (Martin Kemp remix)” [forthcoming Ramp]
MJ Cole ft Wiley “From the Drop (LViz 1990 remix)” [unreleased Prolific]
Raffertie “Rank Functions (Ital Tek remix)” [forthcoming Planet Mu]
The Fives ft Hayley Miller “It’s What You Do (Hottest By Far)” [unreleased]

Ghostek “Barricades” [unreleased]
Sully “It’s Your Love” [unreleased]
Nehuen “Time after Time” [unreleased]
Mickey Pearce “What’s Mickey Talking About?” [unreleased]
Nehuen “80s” [unreleased]
Price “Touched” [L2S]
The Bug ft Warrior Queen “Poison Dart (Scratcha DVA remix)” [forthcoming Ninja Tune]

***Zomby Showcase September 2010***

Zomby “Tear Zero”
Zomby “TX1″
Zomby “Untitled”
Zomby “Zebra”
Zomby “Zebra 2″
Zomby “Untitled”
Zomby “Control”

Damu “Karolina’s Magic J” [unreleased]
Amen Ra “Candy Rain” [forthcoming Keysound]
VC Moon “Bragging (Desto remix)” [unreleased]
Becoming Real ft Trim “Showdown in Chinatown” [forthcoming Not Even]
Teeth “Frequencies” [unreleased]
Dusk “Fraction (Kowton remix)” [unreleased Keysound]
VVV “Across the Sea” [unreleased]
Double Helix “Chamber of Light” [forthcoming Keysound]

Udachi “Swagger (Baobinga RMX)” [Palms Out Sounds]
Jamie Woon “Night Air (Ramadanman remix)” [Candent Songs]
Falty DL “Voyager” [unreleased Planet Mu]
Darkstar “Deadness” [forthcoming Hyperdub]
The Count and Sinden “You Make Me Feel So Good” [Domino]

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“It’s like the Barcelona FC of Grime stations…”

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

Interview with Martin Clark also known as Blackdown. Click here

Blackdown interviews Kode 9.

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

B: In the last 5 years, we’ve seen a seismic shift in the accessibility of online music and podcasts/MP3 recordings are now one of, if not the primary medium to carry new musical ideas. To me it seems to form a continuum where podcasts sit at one end, where their financial value has tended to zero, their audio quality is low, they ignore copyright and their accessibility is potentially unlimited. At the other end of that scale you have a physical mix CDs, which have a financial cost, are high audio quality, and can’t be easily distributed unless digitized. Given they respect copyright (and therefore incur all the financial barriers that creates) and given so many regular(non-producer) music fans are fairly oblivious to audio quality, what
makes you want to invest time and ideas a mix CD in 2010?

To read the full article click here

SBTRKT Interview

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

conducted by Martin ‘Blackdown’ Clark – click here

#Pipedown02 – 31st March ’10

Friday, March 26th, 2010

Next Wednesday is the return of Pipedown’s residency at Rhythm Factory in Whitechapel. After their mega impressive line up at #01 they have definitely delivered again with #02 which is being taken over by Keysound Recordings , the night will feature…

Dusk & Blackdown (Rinse FM)

LHF (Sub FM)

Kowton (Narcossist)

+ Pipedown residents SDUK, Cntrst, Simon Says + The Juliets

Entrance is just £4.00

Check out this exclusive mix provided by Amen Ra of LHF to get you in the mood ;)

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DJ Oneman interview…

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

over on Blackdown’s blog, click here for the full article

Dusk & Blackdown / Rinse.FM (January)

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Dusk + Blackdown Rinse FM January 2010 – Tracklist…

Roxy “Breakbeat Science” (Bison) *Roxy tribute, RIP Roxy, fallen Ghost soldier**

D1 “Lazerquest” (unreleased)
Aswad ft Sweetie Irie “City Lock” [Roska remix] (unreleased)
Grievous Angel “Bee and Cee remix” (unreleased)
Slackk “Marching” (unreleased)
Mosca “Square One” [Roska remix]” (forthcoming Night Slugs)
DJ Zinc and Ms Dynamite “Wile Out” (unreleased)
Emvee “Windrush” (unreleased)
Maxwell D “Snow Man” (unreleased)
DVA “Natty” (Hyperdub)
DJ Dom “London” (unreleased)
Baobinga “Ride It” (unreleased Build)

Grievous Angel “Still On It remix” (unreleased)
VVV + Phaeleh “Reconcile” (unreleased)
Sbtrkt “Dazed” (unreleased)
Kuoyah “Angels Dub [ Sully remix]” (unreleased)

LV “Lost” (unreleased Keysound)
LV “Early Mob” (unreleased Keysound)
Ramadanman “Tempest” (forthcoming Hemlock)
Untold “Come Follow We” (unreleased)
Seven and Elvee “Breakdown” (unreleased)

Vibzin “Mad Sick” (unreleased)
LHF “Chamber of Light” (unreleased Keysound)
LHF “Ashakic Visons” (unreleased Keysound)
Sbtrkt “Minusthree” (unreleased)
Filtercutter “1UP [Ramadanman remix]” (unreleased)

James Blake “Saying” (unreleased)
James Blake “the Bells Sketch” (unreleased)
D1 “Dr” (unreleased)
Starkey ft P Money “Numb” (forthcoming Planet Mu)
Zomby “Maxamillion” (unreleased)
Zomby “Rooftops” (unreleased)

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Fck the grid!

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Blackdown discusses off beat drum sequencing, garage shuffles, and all that business over on his blog. With tips from the kings of swing such as  El-B, Sully, MJ Cole et al.

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Dusk & Blackdown present….

Monday, December 21st, 2009

… via their Rinse.fm show, a very special xmas edition featuring Dusk + Blackdown v LHF v Kowton v El-B v Joy Orbison…..

Tracklist;

Endgames “Ecstacy (Jam City remix)” [unreleased]
Slide Bros “2-step Lover” [Confetti Records]
Roska “I Need Love” [unreleased]
Hanuman “Bola (Atki2 remix)” [Idle Hands]
Mutaburaka “Dis Poem” [Guidance]
Mood II Swing “All Night Long” [Groove On]
Nubian Mindz “Be Alright” [Neroli Records]
Nu Birth “Anytime” [XL]
Gant “Sound Bwoy Burial (187 Lockdown Dancehall Mix)” [Positiva]
Wbeeza “Heavy Stuff” [Third ear]
Dusk + Blackdown “Dasaflex” [unrleased]
DNG 2 “DNG 2″ [white Label]
Joy Orbison “GR Etiquette” [unreleased]
Fuzzy Logic “In The Morning” [white label]
Jammin’ “Kinda Funky (Wookie Mix)” [Bingo]
Allstars (Steve Gurley) “What About Us (Crazy Dub)” [Allstars]
Maxine “Crazy” (Sky Joose Remix)” [0181 Records]
El-B ft Mirikal “We Don’t Play” [unreleased]
Geiom “Reminissin’” [Berkane Sol]
Zed Bias “Keep it Moving” [Ghost]
El-B “untitled” [Ghost]
Joy Orbison “Waxes & Wanes”[unreleased]
Hard House Banton “Reign” [Spoilt Rotten]
Geeneus feat. Ms Dynamite: “Get Low (Crackish)” [unreleased]
Lil Silva ft Maxwell D “Blackberry Hype” [unreleased]
Steve Gurley “Power” [Power Records]
Mosca “Gold Bricks, I see Ya” [unreleased]
Suburban Lick “Here Comes the Lick (original dub)” [Locked On]
Modeselektor “Art & Cash (Sbtrkt Broke mix)” [unreleased]
Basic Channel “Phylyps Trak II” [Basic Channel]
F. Off Productions “unknown” [F. Off Records]
Joy Orbison “Untitled” [unreleased]
Kowton “Countryman” [Keysound Recordings]
Chiapet “WestWorld” (YoshiToshi)
Burial “True Love VIP” [unreleased]

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Hatcha mix…

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

From somewhere around abouts 2002, early roots of Dubstep right here;

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Click here for the full article that I found this link on – big up Blackdown, never a dull post.

The roots do run deep…

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

available now at dubplate.net

During 2000-2002, a brief but influential window opened in urban music. Drum & Bass moved out of its London heartland and UK garage imploded under the weight of commercial expectation. Between these forces one man, Lewis Beadle aka El-B, assembled a production crew in Streatham, south London. The Ghost Camp took a little from both scenes – the bassy masculine edge from drum & bass and the sexy feminine swing from UKG – and made a new mutation, later to be named dubstep. “The Roots of El-B” is the first retrospective to pull together all the ultra rare white labels, lost remixes and dusty DAT tapes, to preserve for posterity the output of this transient but seminal moment. The roots of dubstep were sewn in a shed at the end of a winding garden path in Streatham. Paid for by the funds of a failed album deal and built by hand by the crew themselves, the shed contained Ghost studios, where during the night hours, El-B and the camp built a sound all of their own. Edgier than UK garage but sexier than the cold onslaught drum & bass was moving into, the Ghost sound was unique. At its core were El-B’s incredible talents as a producer. Having rolled on the edge of the Metalheadz camp as a teenager, never getting a “let in,” he’d gained fame in UK garage as one half of UK garage outfit Groove Chronicles. Out of the ashes of this partnership grew El-B’s signature sound of sharp woodblock snares, ghostly edgy textures, dark bass combined with a little black secret technology: the dark art of swing. Even at that time, the effect of this sound was self evident, as producer after local producer, from Skream to Kode9 and later Burial, became influenced by it. “The thing about those drums: they’re still the future” Burial insisted before his first album. “It’s not a lost art – people still don’t know how to do those drums. It’s an unknown thing. It’s like the last fucking secret left in music: how you do those drums. I’ve tried…” Eight years later, as dubstep blossoms into an international phenomenon, the El-B sound remains peerless. It’s perhaps fitting now that, for the first time, El-B’s seminal work is lifted from treasured record collections and lost vaults. These are the roots of El-B: they run deep