Shed’s has been responsible for some of the most interesting berlin & detroit influenced house/techno and dubstep over the past few years, his output never seems to fault always bringing out top quality product. For those of you who didn’t manage to grab hold of all of his Equalized project on wax, today’s your lucky day, as it’s being released on convenient CD compilation called Equalized #111. Only the bestd deep detroit style 909 grooves and delay and reverb soaked analogue synth stabs to sooth you into your late night dancing schedule.
 
Cop a listen here.

 
Recently we were lucky enough to catch up with Manni Dee a talented young leftfield producer out of Brighton for the second installment of our “Have you heard my mixtape?” mix series. His own works are glitchy, wonky, bent and deeply cosmic explorations into your 8bit psyche, sounding something like the love child of an MPC 1000 and your old broken NES that always seemed to freeze on the last level. And with the guys behind Lucky Me calling his sound “Big” and with plenty of backing online backing 2011 is going to be a massive year for this talent young Producer/DJ.
…continue reading Have you heard my mixtape? 002 : Manni Dee

 
There’s no doubt 2010 was an absolutely massive year for electronic music Dubstep, UK Funky and Techno had all kinds of inbred mutating babies who don’t really have bionafied names yet, garage and off beat wonky hip hop continued to flourish and evolve as influences spread across the globe. Not to mention an almost final nail was hammered into the coffin of vinyl records with the official death of the industry standard Technics SL-1200 turntable just 38 years after it’s birth by Panasonic in 1972 (despite increasing sales of vinyls in the UK in alone), tear jerking stuff!!
 
Now it’s not my intention to summarize “the best” tracks of 2010 as many other blogs/magazine and website do but rather to share with you 20 of my favourite forward thinking electronics tracks of 2010.
 
So here goes …
 
1. Ramadanman – Work Them
2. Deadboy – If You Want
3. Shed – Wax 3003
4. James Blake – Limit To Your Love
5. Funkineven – Heart Pound
6. Eskamon – Fine Objects
7. Four Tet – Plastic People
8. Ramadanman – Glut
9. Redinho – Nuff Prang
10. Gold Panda – You
11. Addison Groove – Footcrab
12. Flying Lotus – Do the Astral Plane
13. Scuba – You got me
14. Redlight – MDMA
15. Mount Kimbie – Blind Night Errand
16. Pangea – Sunset Yellow
17. Lorn – Void I
18. Debruit – It’s Bigger Than Kom-Pa
19. Roots Manuva – Witness (Slugabed Remix)
20. Fantastic Mr Fox – Evelyn
 

 
Naturally there is going to be many tracks I’ve missed in 2010 some of which you might think belong in your top 20 to feel free to share any other out standing tracks in the comments below!!

Just when you thought the lazy streets and bars of Berlin were only home to the worlds best Techno there are forward thinking producers like Robot Koch bluring the boundaries of Dubstep, Hip Hop, and Electronica, walking the same streets and rocking the same squat parties. Songs for Trees and Cyborgs is in my mind one of the best albums of 2010, a perfect snap shot of where the constantly merging bass music generation is heading. …continue reading Bleeding basslines and cosmic kick drums

To celebrate 20 years of Ninja Tune over the past 2 weeks Ninja have been giving away free tracks from an all star showcase of their signed artists, and you still have times to get your hands on the remaining 7 tracks at Ninja Tune XX . Black Dog Publishing have also just released a paperback in their Unlimited Labels series named “Ninja Tune: 20 Years of Beats & Pieces” with a London exhibition to compliment it showing off the last 20 years of paintings, posters, cover art, 3D models, LPs and promotional art some never before seen outside Ninja Tune’s office space.
 
The Herbaliser – Something Wicked (Roots Manuva’s Haunted House Dub Mix)
 
 

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…continue reading Ninja Tuning

As preludes to spring and summer shine through the clouds of London I can’t help but get a little bit excited. So it seems as good a time as any to share with you a couple of the summery releases I’ve been mulling over the last month.

Bonobo is a UK musician/producer currently signed to Ninja Tune who has been doing Downtempo, Trip Hop-esk beats for the last ten years. He’s a multi instrumentalist and producer and is one of the only downtempo artists to succesfully transfer his music to the live arena in an interesting and exciting way. …continue reading Preludes to sweaty streets

With Wu-tang releasing a hip hop/dubstep crossbreed album, Hudson Mohawke bringing us his unique style of electro-crunky-wonk-hop with hit debut album Butter and Raekwon the Chef bringing us yet another awesome album, 2009 hasn’t just been a huge year for electronic music it’s been a massive year for hip hop too (that’s right folks it’s not dead yet!).

On that note a talented UK DJ by the name of Chris P Cuts has put together a mix to mark closing of yet another decade of hip hop. Chris P has been active in the London scene for a number of years now, his latest mix is called “Going in 2009″ and it sure is tasty stuff. It’s got all the best hip hop joints from 2009 with a few leftfield electronic numbers thrown in for good measure. Enjoy it!

…continue reading This goes out to all my hiphop heads

From the cats who brought you the Box of Dub series and the original Steppa’s Delight, Soul Jazz Records have just released another dubstep compliation, Steppa’s Delight 2 : Dubstep Present to Future. It’s a compilation that brings together a bunch of scene defining tracks from both originators of the scene and up and coming artists pushing bass music in a new and interesting direction. For fans of the label, it definitely lives up to the standard of the first installment.

Soul Jazz the London based label have been pressing and releasing music since the mid 1990s, originally specializing in reggae, dub, funk, hip hop and soul they have since broadened their musical repertoire to include more electronic releases but often still staying true to more organically formed beats.
…continue reading Jazzin’

I’m not going to dwell on Flying Lotus for too long, as everyone probably already knows just how interesting and varied his productions are and has no doubt seen him live at some point in the last few years, if not I highly recommend checking out his shows.

…continue reading A Decade of Cali beats

I’m not gonna make a big thing about the best tracks of 2009 just yet…..

But over the last week with Rage against the machine performing live on BBC5 and eventually winning their battle against the evil Simon Cowell by topping the UK charts for christmas ’09 as well as talk going around about the best songs of the last decade I feel empowered to share a few tracks with you.
…continue reading Top of the pops!