February 2010
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MONDAY MIXES
LV // OKZHARP Mix for Blackdown
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Amazing mix for Blackdown’s ever excellent blog to coincide with a characteristically lengthy interview about Gerv LV’s trip to South Africa. Chock full of excellent South African kwaito/house hybrid music, for me the mix emphasises the greatness of the internet for crossing otherwise unassailable boundaries. True, the tunes are still going...
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EVENT // CRAZY LEGS // FRIDAY 12 FEBRUARY
Continuing to be the most on-the-pulse party music promoters in Bristol, Crazy Legs return with a slew of new allies to host a who’s who of hybrid bass music producers. Teaming up with like minded nights Donuts, Focus, Pollen, UFO and Work, the ante’s been upped to allow even more ridiculous line ups than last year: and that’s no mean feat. Two of the UK’s most promising...
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SLUGABED // ULTRA HEAT TREATED EP
Planet Mu
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Describing beats with invocations of outer space is a well worn cliche at this point- one of which I am almost definitely guilty. Perhaps its the exploratory nature of the experimental beats scene being tenuously analogous with the pursuit of pastures yet undiscovered. Perhaps when you want to articulate the full gravity of a beat’s magnitude, you have to extend your...
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MONDAY MIXES
AUTECHRE // FACT MIX
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Warped and wonked out beats from the legendary Autechre on a rare mix tip ahead of a new album/tour/Bloc Weekend headlining business. No tracklisting, but its chock full of broken industrial electronics, bombastic hip hop verses and.. metal riffs? Essential listening.
Month Of Love : Valentine Mix 2010 by Oneman on Mixcloud
ONEMAN // VALENTINES MIX...
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FEBRUARY MIX
A new mix. Its not super up-to-date or rammed with exclusives, but its full of great jams. Sometimes its nice to have mixes that aren’t chasing the horizon, old jams are still jams regardless.
Always Everything February Mix by Always Everything on Mixcloud
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Computer Jay - Distance Heralds Of Change - Work That Rustie - Tar Bullion - Get Familiar Jackson & His Computer...
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BAOBINGA // RIDE IT (w/ UNTOLD REMIX)
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Back when Anaconda dropped in the middle of last year, people (justifiably) freaked out. Not only was this bizarre, skeletal eskibeat upgrade jittering its way into the record bags of everyone from Kode 9 to Crookers, dancefloors positively ignited every single time those weird percussive slithers unassumingly sneaked out. What was particularly striking about the record was...
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OM UNIT // LIGHTGRIDS / LAVENDER
All City
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All City bringing the heat twice over this fortnight! As if LA 1/10 wasn’t enough on its own, here comes the debut 7” from the excellent Om Unit, continuing a steady stream of righteous instrumental hip hop from the Irish label. Under the 2tall alias, he helped contribute to what I’ve begun to hyperbolically herald one-of-the-best-goddamn-mixes-ever-made,...
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MONDAY MIXES
LONE // FACT MIX
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Gorgeous, hypnagogic hip hop vibes from the Notts beatsmith.
Tracklisting:
Kona Triangle – Mauna Loa Ghostface Killah – Clipse of Doom Samiyam – Cheesecake Backslap Bibio – Lovers Carvings (Letherette Mix) Mike Slott – SunTan Black Dog Productions – Caz Prophet – You Really Turn Me On Prince – Erotic City Lone – Once in a While Sweet Exorcist – Track Jack...