On Wednesday March 25, 2009, Special Blend and 2K Deep Present a WMC 2009 Exclusive Event at Jazid called … DUB AND BASS … This event will be a celebration of all things bass. The big bass movement is here. Ravers, junglists, bass enthusiasts unite! This night will feature some of the worlds most renowned drum and bass and dubstep DJs and producers split between two separate areas of sound. If you can’t wait until Viram to see most of these guys throw down, then come out and party in the up close and personal setting of Jazid on Wednesday night. Both rooms will bang from 8pm until 5am with non stop bass heavy music. The drum and bass area will be hosted by MC Diggadee and will feature DJs: Ink, Marcus Visionary, A Sides, Mason & D Star, Will Miles, Chino, Stereotype, and an opening tag set by the promotors Redshift and Haitian. The dubstep area will feature the selections of MRK-1, Infiltrata w/ a special dubstep set, Trill Bass w/ DJ Lord of Public Enemy, Noah D, Mundo, Juan Basshead, Liondub, and Sleezy D vs Logo. MC’s for the nigh are Diggaddee, Dino, Question Mark, Zezo-One. GoGo dancing from Ash-Hole and friends of the Tampa Rave Krew. Come to Dub and Bass to get as much bass in your face as you can handle!
Today’s Essential Mix featured the prolific powerhouse producer known as Hervé. Taken from the BBC website: “Two hours of house, electro, dubstep, jungle, drum & bass and all points in between from The Count, aka Hervé. He’s the man behind Cheap & Cheaper Thrills Records. He’s just collaborated with DJ Sneak on ‘Droppin’ Kisses’ for CR2 and has his Ghetto Bass CD dropping this month. Listen out for remixes and refixes on the likes of Lily Allen, The Prodigy, Metallica, La Roux and Fake Blood. “
Animal Collective ‘Summertime Clothes’ (Domino)
The Clubqueen DJ K Swift feat Blaqstarr ‘Get Your Hands Up (Blaqstarr Remix)’ (Unruly Productions)
Ricco Tubbs ‘Hip Rave Anthem’ (Cheap Thrills Records)
Kill Frenzy ‘54321’ (CDR)
Daniel Merriweather feat Wale ‘Change’ (Columbia)
Project Bassline ‘Drop The Pressure (Count Of Monte Cristal Remix)’ (Cheap Thrills Records)
Rockwell D Feat Gappy Ranks ‘Girls Meltdown’ (CDR)
Fake Blood ‘Mars (Hervé’s Fake Hervé Refix) (Cheap Thrills)
Mr Oizo ‘Gay Dentist’ (Ed Banger Records)
His Majesty Andre ‘Peep Thong’ (Cheaper Thrills Records)
Don Diablo ‘Rock Rock Rock (Trevor Loveys Remix)’ (CDR)
Machines Don’t Care ‘Drop It To The Floor’ (Machines Don’t Care Records/Cheap Thrills Records)
Human Resource ‘Dominator (Hervé Remix)‘ (R&S Records)
Lady Sovereign ‘I Got You Dancing (Jack Beats Remix)’ (Midget Records)
Machines Don’t Care (Beat Band (Acti On Mans Remix)’ (Machines Don’t Care Records/Cheap Thrills Records)
Action Man ‘Alarm Bell’ (Cheap Thrills Records)
Kidda ‘Under The Sun (Hervé’s Remix)’ (Skint)
Prodigy ‘Omen (Hervé’s End Of The World Remix)’ (Take Me To The Hospital)
Metallica ‘Enter Sandman (Hervé’s On The Rocks Refix)’ (CDR)
La Roux ‘In For The Kill (Skream Remix)’ (Polydor)
Zomby ‘Rumours And Revolutions’ (Cheap Thrills)
Darqwan ‘Jayrassik’ (Bingo Beats Records)
Skream ‘Filth’ (Tempa)
Jokers Of The Scene ‘Baggy Bottom Boys (DZ Remix)’ (Fools Gold)
Lily Allen ‘Fear (Hervé (Aka The Count) Saves Lily From The Fear)’ (EMI)
Magnetic Man ‘Cybermen’ (Tempa)
Buraka Som Sistema ‘Sound Of Kuduro’ (Fabric Records)
Toddla T And Hervé ‘Shake It (Wittyboy Remix)’ (1965 Records)
The Count And Sinden ‘Hardcore Girls (Project Bassline Remix)’ (Domino Records)
Hi Rankin’ ‘Bubble And Squeak’ (CDR)
TC ‘Where’s My Money (Jack Beats Re-Edit)’ (Valve)
Skream ‘Fick’ (Tempa Records)
Hervé Vs The Count ‘Jungle Steppas’ (Cheap Thrills Records)
Here are three different remixes of Katy Perry’s song ‘I Kissed A Girl.’ The first one is a dubstep ball crusher from Rusko, which is unreleased and featured in his Essential Mix. The second comes from the boys of Boston Hot Pink Delorean, who remix the song into a nice electro roller. The third remix is a drum and bass tune done by Receptor from The Russian Federation, who has a few solid bootlegs under his belt. Three different mixes, three different genres.
Subscape is no n00b. Quality releases on heavyweight labels such as Sub Way and Dub Police prove that he is here to stay. His remix of The Qemist’s ‘Dem Na Like Me’ is due out in 10 days so preview it here now before you pick up it off Amazon. Great tune with a nasty bassline and nice guitar samples. Definitely a smasher.
One of the most important PC games of all time and a foundation to my modern gaming abuse, Commander Keen, as a title turns 19 this year. In other news, Dopefish (from CK Episode 4: Secret of the Oracle) drops a brand new EP on Dopefish Audio. Three remixes of the classic track Jamrock by Damian Marley do not disappoint. There is something for everyone with a breaks, fidget, and dubstep mix of the song.
Reso is one of my favorite dubstep producers. Here are two tracks from the man. ‘If Ya Can’t Beat Em’ was released earlier this month and his remix of Mike Lennon’s track ‘Brass Eye’ is an older track but still very wicked. As a side note, be on the look out for Mike Lennon’s remix of Bar 9’s track ‘Murda Sound’ to be relased in early 2009!
I definitely want to give Z Audio a nod here, because they are experts on releasing a variety of musical styles. They have put out drum and bass, house, breaks, and dubstep all under the Z Audio stamp. That is something you don’t see very often with labels. Released back in November, the ‘Coming to Represent Part 1 EP’ features dubstep smashers from label wonderboys Hektagon, Bar 9, Quantum Soul, and Riskotheque. Hektagon and Bar 9 throw down two diesel bangers with Quantum Soul and Riskotheque pitching in some bassy rollers.
The sound quality of this track isn’t great because it was ripped from a live show. However, the track itself is awesome. This is still unreleased but I wanted to share it because it is something I am eagerly awaiting to become available to the public. Chase & Status are as good at producting dubstep as they are at drum and bass. A sure floorburner here.
The first tune ‘Opium’ is a great example of a tune that is completely blurring the boundaries between genres. This type of creativity is something I always look for and love to stumble across randomly when selecting music. With ‘motherfucking Rudder on the remix,’ the tune mashes bassline, electro, and dubstep into one six minute saga. Rudder has been making big moves in the past year and their twisted and goofy style of house music (proudly referred to as “Drunken House”) is a refreshing change, and is guaranteed to have you dancing with a smile on your face, and a drink in your hand.
I’ll post a brand new Calvertron remix as well since we are on the subject. Dirty Freek does the duty here, using samples from the track ‘Can’t Deny It’ by Fabolous and Nate Dogg. Its pretty sick, and keep your eyes open for upcoming releases from DF.
This is an excerpt from Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Notes from Underground:
…. And what is it that civilisation softens in us? The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations—and absolutely nothing more. And through the development of this many- sidedness man may come to finding enjoyment in bloodshed. In fact, this has already happened to him. Have you noticed that it is the most civilised gentlemen who have been the subtlest slaughterers… In any case civilisation has made mankind if not more bloodthirsty, at least more vilely, more loathsomely bloodthirsty. … Now we do think bloodshed abominable and yet we engage in this abomination, and with more energy than ever. Which is worse? Decide that for yourselves. They say that Cleopatra (excuse an instance from Roman history) was fond of sticking gold pins into her slave-girls’ breasts and derived gratification from their screams and writhings. You will say that that was in the comparatively barbarous times; that these are barbarous times too, because also, comparatively speaking, pins are stuck in even now; that though man has now learned to see more clearly than in barbarous ages, he is still far from having learnt to act as reason and science would dictate.
+22 comes correct with a thick android funk-dub-glitch-step remix of DJ Haitian’s Far From Having Learned. The refix sounds like dubstep being pulled through razor wire. Very heavy business here.
