I’ve kind of been neglecting my posting duties recently, which is a bit shit… I’d hoped to get back in the swing of things with an uber-lazy post of the decent things that landed in my inbox over the past few days. Sad times, though, when I found that I haven’t really been sent anything recently (Meredith, come back, all is forgiven!), never mind something of that satisfies the greatness-conditions required to be written about here. As a consequence, I’m forced to write about things that I like that I’ve found for myself. Who thought blogging would come to this?
Ok, first up is a little viddy-video, created by L-Vis 1990 for the latest release on Erol’s Phantasy Sound label. The track is called AA 24/7, by Dance Area. It is fantastic. I think it is a fair comment to say that the genius lies in the sort of naive production… it’s hard to describe, just listen. It’s on Beatport over here in the UK, with remixes from Skull Juice (photo above, credit: Badger) and a couple of others that I can’t remember.
Hmmm… what else. I’m silly-late on this, but here is a fantastic remix by up and coming producer Kid Cola… this one is of Secret Machines, IIRC it’s already been played on Radio 1 by Kissy Sell Out. Check out his myspace/hypem for others. Have a download here.
Finally, one of the most important Dubstep producers of recent years, Rusko, got to do a Radio 1 Essential mix the other week… I have no idea how big the genre is in Australia, but it is becoming more and more mainsteam over here in the UK, which is a good thing… Whilst I’m all for going to see your Ed Banger crew bash out banger after banger, there is something about the atmosphere at a garage/dubstep night that is missing from your average electro shindig… Go explore.
As you might expect (if you’re into this kind of thing), the mix itself is brilliant. You can find it
here, and be sure to check out NewMixes.com for a lot of other good shit.
Until next time,
Matt.
xx
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i have been absolutely eating up dubstep of late. off to see skream and benga on the 2nd of jan, and i’m mightily excited. think it’s time for a second edition of my dubstep digest…
It’s such a good genre… I think it’s a natural progression for people after electro, especially if you come at it from a ‘fidget’ perspective…
Skream and Benga will be awesome… I’m pretty lucky to be in Bristol, we get these guys all the time.
I can’t get the download link to work for that Rusko essential mix…any ear-saving tips?
Works fine for me… the actually link is it at the bottom of the page that we link to, it says Play/Download…