‘This goes out to all my players in the back sippin’ yak…’
Strictly club bangers from me this weekend for which I make no apologies for.
First up. A welcome return to form for one half Outkast, Big Boi. Tune is dope. Video is sick. Check out the thick thighed thang at 1.46!
Next, wicked house and funky mix from Rinse FM’s Scratcha for Fabriclive. Bang this while you get your drink on before hittin’ the club. Scratcha DVA – FABRICLIVE Promo Mix by fabric
And finally, pop a bottle of Ciroc and bump this out the Veyron. New Diddy, T.I. and Rick Ross. That is a fuck load of fireworks.
Oh yeah and if you don’t know by now, we are rocking the Queen of Hoxton on Sunday night with the Monorex crew. See you there.
Happy Friday people, the weather is good, bank holiday coming, GET SOME takeover Sunday, life is sweet, right? I have been playing around on Soundcloud and I stumbled across this young chap, Submerse, no not the label, the artist. Don’t know much about him, or where he is from but the boy is making some very nice UKG/Future Garage. Have a listen…
Kashmir Kid is a new artist on Gut Instinct records, a label headed up by the formidable Goldielocks. All in all I think this track a nice debut. ONI is a total roller with a bass line so low I can’t pick it up on my headphones listening to this on Soundcloud. The more interesting of the two tracks in my opinion is MY TIME. I think it has has fresh take on the glitchy half step stuff that has been around for a while now, also incorporating what I think is a TLC vocal sample in there (I may be wrong on that), but none the less a nice track. According to Goldielocks there is lot more to come form Kashmir Kid, so keep your ears peeled!
This is EP by Blawan, a 22-year-old producer from Barnsley, Yorkshire, is Hessle Audio’s thirteenth and another for record bag in my opinion! Blawan’s debut release continues the extremely high standard set by Ben UFO and the Hessle crew and should not be taken lightly. The B side, ‘Iddy’, is the stand out of the two for me, unorthodox percussion, rolling B-Line, warm synths and some ghostly vocal snippets really set this one off! Totally fresh, headphone or dance floor ready, all round big release! A producer who isn’t from London, Bristol or Berlin really making shit happen, Blawan will definitely be a big hitter by the end of the year. You decide for yourself…
Todd Edaward’s has a new EP out and it follows the template we have come to expect from the seasoned veteran of dance music. Legend, yes, sometimes a little monotonous, also yes. The EP is free from Scion and you can get it from here, DOWNLOAD I MIGHT BE. It features remixes from FEADZ, My Dear Disco, Joy Orbison (which for once isn’t my favourite track where he has been commissioned to do his stuff) and MJ Cole. For me, this is a giant leap forward for MJ Cole as his name has been everywhere in 2010 but his releases have left much to be desired. Slightly lost, or still getting his head around a scene which he left in very good shape almost 10 years ago to make house music, he has definitely found his feet again and I for one am happy to see the man back as he is someone who has influenced my musical life so much. Here it is, check it out.
This Sunday, Monorex have kindly offered up a room at ONE OF TEN at The Queen Of Hoxton. If you are free, come have some drinks and get involved with us as we deliver our usual mix of UK Bass, underground classics, dancefloor bangers and more. We are proud to welcome Tunetourist and pictures music to the fold who I am sure you will be hearing a lot more of in the next few months. If you haven’t GOT SOME before, come and GET SOME this Sunday…
Black and whites in music are irresistible. Indie and dance. Rhythm and melody. 4-4 and broken beats. Even though some of the above are arguably the same meta category (the big one, er, ‘Africa versus Europe’, ‘black versus white’ if you’d rather) they’re still useful in defining some sort of polarity that tells us who we are, what we like.
Problem is, increasingly the black and whites that I used to depend upon are deserting me in favour of a confusing agenda of preferences made up of other prejudices: memory and nostalgia, shock and awe, plain old quality. When you no longer fall into any of the camps around which popular music forms its allegiances you need to find an agenda for every circumstance. The one on my mind right now is head vs body. This one I reserve these days for nightclubs, particularly Berlin’s Berghain (a body club in every definition).
On last visit I was struck by how listless the crowd at the club’s top room house outpost, Panoramabar, seemed compared to the ruthless clarity of purpose evident on the main Berghain dancefloor. I’ve always enjoyed Panoramabar; it does housey decadence with more class and intelligence than most places. At its best it’s a place where hetros happily rub shoulders with exhibitionists, muscle Marys and the club’s obligatory weirdos. Where you can sashay around with a rum and coke at some ridiculous hour, get offered fresh fruit at the bar, exchange beatific grins with fellow late night travelers and whoop and holler your way into the next evening. All this listening to sets by Carl Craig, Andre Galluzzi, Efdemin. Bliss.
But nonetheless, it’s always been a more blood-pumping experience for me plunging into the quadrant of Function One piled high in Berghain. Down here you don’t just sashay around elegantly wasted, you tend to jump up and down or stand mesmerised in the mist. The music isn’t appealing to your head, your waist, your ego. It’s after your body, your Id. It’s primal. It’s body music. And the body music that thunders through you from that incredible soundsystem is, of course, largely driven by pile-driver 4-4s.
Increasingly, though, the DJs entrusted with that floor – the Marcels, Ben Klock, Norman Nodge – are looking to the broken grooves of dubstep to punctuate their strain of intensely reduced techno, finding in it the scale and physicality the space demands. Scuba, who runs Berghain’s regular dubstep night, Sub.stance, is charting a perverse mirror of their journey as his production and sets become more and more pinned around the metronomic 4-4. Surely it’s no coincidence that this dancefloor is the common ground of all these experiences.
So, with the polarities slowly dissolving but dubstep and techno still just flirting with each other, trying to figure out how to reconcile their differences from Bristol to Berlin, it may be a safe bet that the answers reside in the body and not the head.
I haven’t got any videos of Wayne Rooney to post, but I do have this from new Planet-Mu signing Oriol. As I’m writing this I’m listening to his debut album ‘Night And Day’ which, only 4 tracks in, has already effortlessly jumped between funk, house and fusion whilst still remaining very fresh. Whilst heavily synth-based and evoking a sound of decades gone by, don’t think that Oriol could be put in the same bracket as someone like Dam-Funk (because Oriol is actually good) – this is upbeat, textured, soulful music for the sunny days ahead; somewhere between Chick Corea and Theo Parish. You can stream the album over on Planet-Mu, or check out his single “Coconut Coast” below.
We are back with another event and can’t wait for it to happen!!!!
GET SOME
19.06.10
THE GRAMAPHONE
Spitalfields,
60-62 Commercial Street,
London, E1 6LT
2100 – 0330
£3 before 12, £5 after
Girls free before 11!
GREYMATTER
With a full length LP release under his belt and subsequent remixes from TRG, Illum Sphere and Karizma; Greymatter is steadily forging a solid reputation for himself. His deep and soulful 2-step sound has been getting props from Zed Bias, Will Saul, Jay Scarlett, Blue Daisy, Subeena and Laurent Garnier. Our first fifty party goers will receive a free copy of Greymatter’s CD LP, incentive if more were need to get down early!
PARIAH (R&S/Black Acre)
Blurring the lines between house, techno and garage, Pariah immediately grabbed listeners’ attention with some excellent remix work for Ellie Goulding and The XX. These have been followed up with a debut 12″ release (Detroit Falls) on legendary dance music label R&S records. Demand for this kid has soared, securing him sets across the UK and as far afield as Amsterdam and the Netherlands. His Sonic Router mix (http://fairtilizer.com/track/81775) encompassed what we are all about, upfront new sounds alongside club classics.
R1 RYDERS
Since dropping their debut EP Burnout last year DJ/Producer Karnak and MC Skeelo have been tearing up show after show. Through their unique funkitek sound you can hear all the underground scenes that have influenced the group, house, hardcore, jungle and rave coming together form something new. If you’ve caught an R1 Ryders set before, you know that these boys are live and if not then you’re in for a treat.
GET SOME resident selector Ouzo (http://soundcloud.com/ouzo) will be providing the goods as always and we are pleased to welcome Pictures to the roster.
On Saturday night I popped down to Corsica studios with a few peeps to see the Black Acre records show case. It was good to catch up with some heads that were lingering around and some that were playing on the night that you will see VERY soon playing for us too. The line up was ace and included Pariah, Greymatter, R1 Ryder, Dark Sky, Doc Daneeka and Julio Bashmore, very exciting indeed. One thing I wasn’t expecting was what I got from Blue Daisy.
I saw the engineers setting up on stage a couple of hours earlier and couldn’t believe my eyes, they were setting up an MPC (fairly normal) and a desktop PC, WTF?!?!?!? Later I realised it was for the guy in the gas mask, enter Blue Daisy.If you have ever seen any old school WARP acts and love Electronica or Techno then his performance would have been right up your street. He literally blew me and everyone else at Corsica away. I can’t tell you what he was playing or whether you will ever hear that set again but what I can tell you is he is officially my new favourite live act!
I love his productions and have been following him on Soundcloud for a long time, so if you don’t know his track, here they are…Well worth a listen.
