October 2011
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Calibre - Condition LP [320] →
D&B superhero delivers his latest opus. ‘Condition’ is concerned with achieving a “more light hearted approach” but he couldn’t stop “making the deeper material” so you get thirteen tracks of deep-but-light emosh D&B. Highlights have to be the darting ruffige of ‘Garbage Man’, his gruff, stubbly hardstepper ‘Schlager’,...
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Versa - 5am [320] →
Buttered 2-Step Garage soul from Versa on his debut platter. There’s a warm soul percolating through all three tracks but the standout has to be ‘5AM’, a rolling Garage groove flushed with sweet Joy O vibes and buoyed by rich Reese bass. Support from Laurent Garnier, Beezy, Nihal BBC Radio1 and Synkro.
Johnny Osbourne / V.I.V.E.K. - Fally Ranking... →
Greensleeves’ excellent dubstep series hands the Johnny Osborne classic to Deep Medi souljah, V.I.V.E.K. for two faithful, powerful remixes. In a reserved fashion, V.I.V.E.K tuffens the 4/4 rhythm of the original with HD-criss FX, adding a bowling weight to the pneumatic subs for genuine steppers’ delight. Flipside, the ‘Southall Community Dub Mix’ gives an extra lick...
Horsepower Productions - The Lost Tapes EP [320] →
Sizzling EP of previously unreleased archive tracks from one of UK dance music’s most influential outfits, the mighty Horsepower Productions. As you all surely know by now, In their inspired toughening and teching out of UK Garage, Horsepower effectively brought dubstep into being. In recent years they’ve favoured a pretty sludgy dubstep sound of their own, but this 12”...
Still Pee & Ru - Still Pee & Ru [2011] [320] →
Om någon i Sverige har ett tydligt arv från hiphopens gyllene 90-tal att förvalta är det Peewee och Rusiak. Tillsammans utgör de halva den banbrytande och legendariska kvartetten Sherlock som 1997 släppte det numera kultförklarade albumet ”Made To Measure” och satte en ny standard för hur svensk hiphop kunde låta. Ett drygt år senare var de båda pionjärerna i allra högsta grad inblandade i...
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ST Files & Calibre - Falling Down (GA001) [2011]... →
Brand new music from ST Files, if you haven’t heard of him before check out some of the stuff he’s done with Marcus Intalex under the alias MIST especially a song called ‘Midnight’. This ones forthcoming on a new label started by ST Files himself called Grey Audio and will be the flip to a tune called ‘Falling Down’ featuring the talents of Calibre.
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Icebird [rjd2 & Aaron Livingston] - The Abandoned... →
Hip-hop producer rjd2 isn’t taking the money he made from doing the “Mad Men” theme and retiring. Rather, he’s launching a new project. It’s a duo called Icebird, which also features Philly soul vocalist Aaron Livingston, who has previously collaborated with the Roots and appeared on rjd2’s album The Colossus. The duo’s debut album The Abandoned...
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Getz & Nuage - Music Is Life [320] →
A Debut release from brand new label - Interactive Recordings will be represent as second Getz & Nuage album called Music Is Life!
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Radikal Guru - The Rootstepa →
Tracklist: 01. Dread Commandments (05:48) 02. Fire (feat. Brother Culture) (05:05) 03. King Kong (04:14) 04. Wisdom Dub (04:39) 05. Babylon Sky (feat. Cian Finn) (04:34) 06. The Rootstepa (06:13) 07. Eu Ja Lhe Disse (feat. Monkey Jhayam) (04:19) 08. Tundra Dub (04:02) 09. Kali (05:37) 10. Ethnic (05:42) 11. This Applies (feat. Cian Finn) (05:16) 12. Conquering Dub (05:16)
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James Blake - Enough Thunder EP [320] →
When asked to give his definition of dubstep in an interview last month, James Blake said, “There’s a very broad template, but it largely focuses on a bassline and the intricacies of drum patterns and it has an intense focus on a feeling— and I think that’s a separation from some other dance music.” Ostensibly, the feeling Blake is talking about is that of heady...
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Erik L - On Display [320] →
You might have heard Erik L’s (Erik Lidén) melodic music played by tastemaking radio DJ’s like Gilles Peterson and Benji B, both from BBC Radio. Erik L has worked with artists such as Frank n Dank, Kissey Asplund, Dynamite MC and Hezekiah to name a few, creating a buzz in the underground scene and on sites like 2dopeboyz and Okayplayer etc. His song Soul Symphony was ranked as one of ...
