MARTYN — MASKS / VIPER
If you ask me, Martyn is a don is this game and always will be, one of the most hypnotic and considered sets I have ever heard was when I saw him play at Deviation a few years ago. You didn’t need to be taking anything to get high to that. He has an evolving...
BIAS & GURLEY – ROLL
Two pioneers from the UK underground – Steve Gurley and Zed Bias combine with devastating effect. Keysound have come up with the goods in spectacular fashion here. The track references the sounds that earn’t them their respective statuses, while at the same time sounding fresh. Meanwhile on the flip, Blackdown’s ‘Debt Repaid’ remix points firmly...
NEW TALENT: iO
This guy iO cropped up on our radar recently. To start off with there’s a great 2-step mix you can download. Keep going though and he has some tight productions, Patchwork being my favourite. One to watch… Vol 1: by iO. Patchwork by iO. Twitter Facebook
JON CONVEX — CONVEXSATIONS EP
Coming off the back off a sustained period of acclaim as one half of Instramental, Damon Kirkham‘s first solo material as Jon Convex debuts on the legendary Martyn‘s label 3024 with a sound that strikes off in a direction entirely of its own. I am really digging this mix of sounds and styles, this is...
EL-B FEAT. WILEY – ROMP (VIP)
WOW. This is the kind of beat that starts fights on the dancefloor. Big Up EL-B. This is the VIP with Eskiboy touching mic, I hope someone does a 20 minute version with all the top MC’s going in, Stageshow style.
MAHNI – DECKARD (FREE DOWNLOAD)
After Ouzo bought Mahni to our attention last month – we’ve been keeping an eye on thier soundcloud. He hit us up to say he was giving this track away fro free. Check it out… Deckard [FREE DOWNLOAD] by Mahni
NEAT + SUBMERSE — CLOSE (FALTY DL REMIX / JACK DIXON REMIX)
I don’t know much about Neat, I’m assuming it’s not MC NEAT, but I do know about Submerse, one of the front runners in new garage. ‘Close‘ is a great vocal track which lends itself to a more dubby version of 2-Step with great synths. For once, i’m glad to say, it is not about...
BURIAL – STREET HALO/STOLEN DOG
I expect you will have heard these already, such is the speed at which things move these days. But if you’ve been lying under a rock for the past 24 hours, last night Kode 9 previewed two tracks from Burial’s forthcoming Hyperdub release. Still Burial, still relevant. Burial – Street Halo by ListenBeforeYouBuy Burial –...
JAMIE GRIND — FOOTWORK EP
This is the kind of Footwork I could get down to! Leeds based producer Jamie Grind has found a balance between the hectic, sometimes insane genre that took everyone by storm last year, and the more familiar 2-Step/House sound we are accustomed to hearing on a daily here in the UK and created a very...