Whereas the album version of Jimmy Edgar’s “Hot, Raw, Sex” is straight up sweaty funk, Brooklyn producer Machinedrum retains some of the slick keys and vintage synth sounds of the original, but cranks up the BPMs for a bass-heavy workout. Skittering garage funk doesn’t get much better than this!
The single Hot, Raw, Sex is available now. XXX will be released digitally on July 27 and physically on September 14 on !K7 Records
Hyperdub does not mess around when it comes to bass music and neither does this lady from the bumping streets of the UK. Not only did Ikonika treat us to an an exclusive podcast for XLR8R that was mixed live and filled with unreleased goodies, she is following up her debut album Contact, Love, Want, Have with a North American tour to New York, Canada, and California. We recommend that you listen repeatedly and find yourself a way to get to one of those shows in the weeks ahead.
We’ve been working with Claremont 56 for quite a while now and it’s great and well deserved to see them featured on the mighty Resident Advisor as label of the month. Have a read here.
“Almost every release of this British cottage label, be it a 12-inch or an entry in the Originals series (now at volume 4 and counting), imparts a distinct feeling of environment, of ease, of vacationing in beatific climes.” - Resident Advisor
There’s also a mix they made for the feature you can grab from here (right click, save target as).
Tracklist
01. Holger Czukay – Ode to Perfume
02. Bison – Soup Fiction
03. Mudd & Pollard – Vincent (Mark E remix)
04. Mudd & Pollard – Scaffold
05. Mudd & Ahmed Fakroun – Drago (Mudd’s Teriwala mix)
06. Smith & Mudd – Shulme
07. Smith & Mudd – Enos
08. Bison – Way to LA (Day)
09. Icasol – Ongou (Idjut Boys mix)
10. Mudd & Pollard – Vincent
11. Smith & Mudd – 24/7 (Recloose mix).
Infectiously fun pop from Lucky Numbers’ DARWIN DEEZ. The New York quirkster turns it up in this rather fresh video. Its depiction of colourful cut and stick fun in the sun might even take you back to childhood for a minute or three…
Pre-order the seven from Rough Trade here, oh and check out the European tour dates.
We’ve just started working with the mighty Punch Drunk records. Pushing the Bristol dubstep sound, these bass heavy releases hit way above their weight, how apt that their latest release Hyetal & Shortstuff – Ice Cream/Don’t Sleep 12″ is RECOMMENDED on Sonic Router!
There’s a great write-up on the Resident Advisor too.
Out on BOKA on the 18th January 2010, these remixes of 16bit‘s Chainsaw Caligraphy hit hard taking the sampled chainsaw hook and making it even nastier. I supose calling up Jakes, Kanji Kinetic and PropaTingz to make remix tracks for a 45 featuring the original(aa) was always going to be big…
You know it’s christmas when the snowman theme tune drifts through the lounge to the crackle of a roaring log fire. Except this time the beat drops and you’re ravin’ UK dubstep style… This is Hereldeduke’s christmas gift to the world.
Hereldeduke main man Ollie Brown has been creating quite a stir recently. The single ‘Shudda’ received massive support from radio earlier in the year and the ten musician strong live show is not to be missed. Releasing on Brown’s own label “Rife Records” Hereldeduke refuses to be held down. Influences come from all over, oh and did I mention the track Helm Blues (a humorous take on the troubles of a Cumbrian Farmer) was on the final shortlist for the Tuborg Musical Comedy Awards.
Liam Mclean, aka JOKER, is Bristol’s boy-wonder of dubstep currently on “one of those 18-month runs of one-classic-single-after-another” for Hyperdub and Kapsize among others. At only 20 years old Joker started making beats because he “wanted to make the thing that was missing, that I wanted to hear” as he says in an interview from FACT Magazine. He has also been an in-demand remixer, taking on The Heavy “How You Like Me Now?”, Zero 7 “Everything Up”, Simian Mobile Disco “Cruel intentions” and Basement Jaxx “Raindrops.”
He’ll be making a rare live appearance in LA this Saturday dropping ill beats alongside hometown hero Nosaj Thing… Check out his set from Sonar this year as part of the Mary Anne Hobbs showcase to know what destruction to expect.
His tracks “Digidesign” and “Stash” appear on the current Five Years of Hyperdub compilation, alongside new tracks from Burial, Zomby (also on RAMP), and label head-honcho Kode9. Hit us up for your copy!
DC Recordings artist Kelpe drops his new album Cambio Wechsel on October 19th… In the words of Resident Advisor, “the [album] contains a mix of downtempo and dance floor-oriented material, with McKeown attempting to blur the lines between his nu-disco, wonky instrumental hip-hop and post-rock influences.”
In celebration of the release, Kelpe has made a mix with music from his likeminded contemporaries such as Gaslamp Killer, Nosaj Thing, and Koushik for the great UK blog Drowned in Sound… The tracklist and soundcloud link are here or direct link here (zshare).
Enjoy and let us know if you’d like a copy of the album.
