Mix concepts for 2013
About one year ago, in my Morally Diminished 3 post, I said: Every mix I do starts with an idea. Not a big idea, not a complicated idea, but a simple idea, one that can generally can be boiled down to...
View ArticleTuesday Time Machine: The Two G’s ‘Energy’ (Vintage Goldie and A Guy Called...
Evening! Here’s a new feature I’ll be doing from now on (hopefully) … the Tuesday Time Machine! Every Tuesday I will reach into my record shelves and pull out one vintage tune from yester-year to...
View ArticlePearsall presents Squat Rocking 5 + Bangingtunes.com Forum Memories
Pearsall presents Squat Rocking 5 right-click on the title and save as to download Mixed in London in March 2012, using 100% vinyl on two Technics 1210′s and a Pioneer DJM600 mixer (63:08, 144 MB, 320...
View ArticleSunday Sounds: Chicago Drill Music
Young girl playing in a South Side Chicago back yard. Photo by Justin Maxon One thing I’ve been listening to a little bit on YouTube recently is quote-unquote drill music, Chicago’s take on the trap...
View ArticleFreeform Friday: Unreleased Freeform
New York City by night – photo by alifewortheating Happy Friday! This week’s edition of Freeform Friday is all about celebrating those classic bits of freeform that never saw wax, for whatever reason....
View ArticleSunday Sounds: New School Jungle from Liondub’s Street Series
Amazon Jungle – Original image found on reddit.com/r/earthporn Boom! Happy Sunday! Here’s some excellent new school jungle sounds from Brooklyn/Toronto label Liondub. This Street Series of releases...
View ArticleTuesday Time Machine: Undercover Dom & Roland
Hong Kong Hello Tuesday! Here’s three tracks from the almighty Dom Angas, aka Dom & Roland, aka one of the finest techstep producers of them all (check his recent banger Unofficial Jah here) – but...
View ArticleFreeform Friday: Freeformatted – The Remix EP
Crossrail Tunnel Digging, London – Image from The Atlantic InFocus Last weekend, Dyzphazia and DJ Hellfury released FFMEP001, the first Freeformatted EP, as a follow up from the excellent Freeformatted...
View ArticleSunday Sounds: Chicago Juke & Footwork
The West Side of Chicago – image from here Two weeks ago, Sunday Sounds looked at Chicago’s drill music scene, it’s own particular local spin on the trap sound that has dominated American hip-hop over...
View ArticleFreeform Friday: Substanced’s The Second Collapse
Substanced – The Second Collapse The remix EP for Substanced’s killer 2011 album When The World Collapses is here … and it’s amazing! It’s an exciting taster for his forthcoming second album,...
View ArticleSunday Sounds: Machinedrum, the King of Juke/Jungle/Dubstep/IDM Fusion
Berlin Winter Sun; image by Paul Sullivan For some bizarre reason, it’s taken me a long time to get into the amazing music of Machinedrum, aka Travis Stewart. If you are unaware of him, he is an...
View ArticleTuesday Time Machine: Vibes & Wishdokta
Ice on the Spree (image by Sandra Juto) Today in the Tuesday Time Machine we are looking back at a few tracks by two of the finest producers from the ’94/’95 glory daze of happy hardcore … Vibes &...
View ArticleSunday Sounds: Metalheadz Platinum Breakz 4
Karl Marx Allee, Berlin So, the mighty Metalheadz are going to be dropping Platinum Breakz 4 soon. One of the finest compilation series in drum n’ bass history is getting a reboot. Fuck. Yeah. Check...
View ArticleTuesday Time Machine: Doc Scott Remixes
Graffiti in Berlin OK, yes, this is one day late. That’s life. Here are three quality remixes from one of my favorite drum n’ bass dj/producers, the legendary Doc Scott of Metalheadz and 31 Records...
View ArticleFreeform Friday: Pearsall – Dreaming of Berlin (Le Dos-On Remix)
Koreanischer Garten, Garten der Welt, Marzahn, Berlin So, I’ve been a bit slack in mentioning this, but Freeformatted have recently released Japanese freeform purveyor of awesomeness Le Dos-On’s remix...
View ArticleSunday Sounds: Boddika & Joy Orbison – Tricky’s Team
Sure, this is one day late. But appropriate given my Boddika mix that I posted on Saturday! This (excellent) tune has just hit wax in time for Record Store Day, with the sad result that the usual...
View ArticleSunday Sounds: RIP DJ Rashad
Sad news this morning, as it has been announced that pioneering Chicago footwork dj/producer DJ Rashad has passed away at his Chicago home: Chicago footwork pioneer DJ Rashad has died. While an...
View ArticleMix Ideas for 2014
Here are some of my ideas for mixes for 2014, across acid, house, techno, bass, dubstep, drum n’ bass, hard trance and freeform! I meant to write this, but I have failed to do so by now, hence I just...
View ArticlePearsall presents Rampage Turbo 21 (Specially Substanced)
Pearsall presents Rampage Turbo 21 (Specially Substanced) right-click, save as to download this free mp3 mix Mixed in Berlin, June 2014 (32:12, 74 MB, 320 kbps MP3) Zip file (split into separate...
View ArticleSunday Sounds: #SixtyMinutesLive Grime Takeover feat Dizzee Rascal, BBK,...
The bit where General Levy comes in and does jungle classic ‘Incredible’ is a real goosebumps moment. Awesome to see so many of the biggest names in UK urban music jumping around with huge grins like...
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