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None of us have fully recovered from the launch party of Snowskull's new online enriched arts project (and our first official release in a long time). Ridiculous fun was had in Cardiff that night, and for some nights afterwards, not to mention the incredible sets from Jauge, Blured, Dubs, Owls and Daniel Avery.

The release is the soundtrack to Snowskull's exhibition and was created by some of the above alongside Snowskull himself. There's a link to the music below but you'd be foolish not to experience the whole exhibition 'All Great Thoughts Are Conceived By Walking'.

http://Snowskullart.com

Also XLR8R are giving away a free instrumental copy of the Snowskull & Jauge track.

Future Classic release a sinister video for this beautiful but brooding tune from fellow Sydney dwellers, Seekae.

To further prove their impeccable taste, on October 7th, Future Classic are also releasing an EP from our boys Bodhi. You can preorder the vinyl here.

Chrome Kids Radio Show - September 2013 by Chrome Kids on Mixcloud

Here's the latest instalment of our Chrome Kids Radio Show from Radio Cardiff 98.7fm. For those of you without the patience for a whole show (or for those with commitment issues), here's some of the separate tracks, but we promise it's worth investing an hour of your time... in fact we'll guarantee it, or your money back.

I'm not sure who was behind this mini remix album for Italian composer Ludovico Einaudi, but top marks to them because there are some stunning collaborations. The album came out this week and includes contributions from Starkey, Phaeleh, Steven Siegel and Robert Lippok. You can buy a copy here.

Also, speaking of Phaeleh, he can be found guesting on the new album from our fellow Cardiff lad Lung, which is out now on Hospital off shoot, Med School. You can stream the whole thing below.

Until The Ribbon Breaks will be no stranger to regular readers of the blog in some shape or form, we've seen him in a few incarnations but every metamorphosis brings an even stronger identity. Since 'Pressure' popped up a little while back there have been some great remixes for the likes of Laura Mvula, Tegan & Sara and of course The Weeknd, and now recently there have been a couple of killer refixes for 'Pressure' from Ta-ku and Burns (which features one of our favourite NY rappers of the moment Mr MF Exquire) and now this new tune just popped up a few minutes ago. This has got us excited that maybe an album may follow - we had a sneaky peek at what it might sound like a little while back and have been eagerly waiting since.

and in case you missed some of the others...

We've just been told there are but a few tickets remaining for one of our favourite annual parties and this year the whole Chrome Kids family shall be there as we host the Bank Holiday Sunday in the 'Was I There?' room of Troyfest at Baskerville Hall which takes place from Friday 3rd to Monday 6th May.

As I said the whole family shall be repping with...

Stagga
Bodhi
elmono
Kaptin Is Dead
SnowSkull
Falcon Lake
Jauge

all playing plus on our line up we also have...

Mr Healan
Blured
Ratcatcher
The Kreamy Kat
Mr Ben

Basically our room is ridiculously tight with undoubtedly some of the finest talent that Wales has to offer. Not to be outdone though Delete who are hosting the Saturday night have some tasty House DJs for you too with some of our favourites alongside the cream of Welsh residents and a headline slot from Jeremy Underground Paris.

Jeremy Underground Paris (My Love Is Underground)
Chesus aka Earl Jeffers (CRST / Darkhouse Fam / Metabeats)
The Organ Grinder
Clare James
Andrew Hill
Matt Owen
Lee Graves
Marc Parsons
Dave Little
Joey P
Soul Rebel
Rikki Humphrey
James Christopher and Scott Mantle
Dave Llewellyn
Ryan Housemasters Brown

Plus there are tons of other incredible party bands and DJs, for the price and size of the festival it's pretty damn impressive. For the whole line up check their website. If you're real quick you might even snatch those last few tickets. Trust us last year was serious fun with the friendliest crowd ever... and this year the line up is that much better.

Those of you who actually read these posts may remember us mentioning one of our family members called elmono the other day. Well we can now let you know that his 'debut' outing will be the first release on Pinch's new Cold Recordings label and that he shall be playing in the Tectonic hosted Room 2 at Fabric this Friday. For a taster of what to expect, check out his Fabriclive Promo mix below and a mini interview with him over on the Fabric site.

From our extended family comes Blured. A compadre of the Chrome Kids for many years, he has just released a vinyl only monster of a Techno tune in the shape of 'It's Quite'. It provides the 1st outing for label YCO, which is run by another group of our boys from back in Cardiff (also the crew behind the excellent City Bass nights). You seriously need to check the swagger on this track. It's already been getting heavy rotation from Martyn, Jackmaster, Boddika, Gingy and Bordello.

Individually, our boys Stagga & Monky are two of the country's finest producers. Together they're insane... literally. Before Monky finally drops his lifelong moniker to become elmono, the pair have released a new 4 track EP of bass heavy, glitched up goodness. In Stagga's words "its a bit mental but does have its more soft and romantic moments."

Well looks like we've got a load of catching up to do in regards to the Bodhi boys, can't keep up with them! So just in case you haven't been keeping an eye, here's a few things they've been up to recently.

First of all is their new single 'Culture / Deliquesce' on Sinden's 'Grizzly' label which dropped this week along with this video for 'Culture'. The video is a collaboration with Chrome Kids resident artiste, Snowskull and the EP itself has been getting some major love from the likes of Skream, FaltyDL, Giles Peterson, Machinedrum and Rob Da Bank (who has booked them for his incredible Bestival festival which we rocked a Chrome Kids set at a couple of years back).

Then of course there's this free download from XLR8R of the Bambanou remix. There's also a wicked Ifan Dafydd remix which you might have caught on our last Radio Show.

Finally there's this mix they cooked up for Mixmag, who gave a glowing review to the EP (big ups to Joe Muggs).

I'm sure there's something we've missed but that should keep you lot busy for now.

Kaptin Is Dead - Reflections 2012 by Kaptinisdead on Mixcloud

We haven't done any 'best of' this year but Kaptin has put together a 'reflection selection' for 2012. Here's what he said about it.

"As I enter the final stages of the roller coaster ride that was 2012 I've left little time to consider a 'best of mix' really, with such a good year for music it might possibly last til 2014 anyway. However whilst in Studio 2 of Radio Cardiff I put together this selection of tunes that owe more to the reflective nature of the year's end. No fancy mixing or tricks just some incredible tunes from 2012 played pretty much in their entirety. Hope you enjoy them as much as I have."

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?skjb71rthba32d9

Actually the Tensnake remix of Ritual Union came out in 2011 but we'll let him off this once because it was still a great tune in 2012.

Tracklisting:

Metabeats feat. Dubbledge - EyeSeeYou

Lulu James - Be Safe / Maribou State feat. Saint Saviour - Scarlett Groove / Polkadot Feat. Wonda - We Got History / Alt-J - Something Good (Chesslo Junior Remix) / Amin Payne feat. K-SABA - Extraordinary / Heems feat. Safe - Medium Green Eyes / The Guild - The Calling (Xaphoon Jones Rework) / Mowgli - Carbon / Apollo Campbell & David Vangel - Forgetting to Remember / We Sink feat. Andrea - Inside / Little Dragon Sunshine (Shlohmo Remix) / Deech - (Slugabed Remix) / Kuhn - I Quit (Pixelord Remix) / Starkey - G V Star (Part 2) / Brandy - Do U Know.. (ill-esha Remix) / DELS - Bird Milk

Jesse Boykins III & MeLo-X - Broken Wings / Low Leaf - Paradise II / KRTS feat. Jon Hairston - Something New / Stubborn Heart - Starting Block (Something New Remix) / Capeface - Drownin / A. Chal - Roses On Your Silhouette / Tropics - Popup Cinema / Staygold featuring Style Of Eye and Pow - Wallpaper (Video) / The xx - Fiction (Druid Cloak Blood Magick Remix) / Julien Mier - When Will They Wake Up? (Jauge Remix) / Chris Malinchak - So Good To Me / My Dry Wet Mess - Clappin' Ears / Ossie feat Tilz - Ignore (Yes I Did)

WE ARE 3 AND WE HAVE SOME FRIENDS AND FAMILY COMING OVER FOR A CELEBRATION!

STAGGA & MONKY
Undoubtedly the leading force of Bass music in Wales and a killer combo since their Optimas Prime days. Also both card carrying members of the Chrome Kids family.

Friday 12th August: Stagga + Monky - The Chillski by cardiffartsinstitute

LANDSLIDE
Been a little quiet for a while but now based here in Cardiff, the original Fwd>> Resident is back with a stunning new soulful, bass heavy album called ‘Peak’ which drops very soon.

Friday 12th August: Landslide - World Keeps Spining by cardiffartsinstitute

ITAL LION
One of the founding fathers of the dance music scene in Cardiff especially for the Dubstep / 2Step generation. Ever evolving and ever progressing, he’s still one of the best in the city.

Friday 12th August: Ital Lion - Free Africa by cardiffartsinstitute



RATCATCHER
Since riding solo from the CRST crew, the artist formerly known as Rodski has pursued his premier love of House to great achievement, with some of the best sets / tunes we’ve heard.

Friday 12th August: Ratcatcher - Music Maker by cardiffartsinstitute

MR HEALAN
Not necessarily a newcomer to the scene but definitely making a lot of noise right now after reinventing himself using updated, forward thinking Electronic parts, like a Cyber(bad)man.

Friday 12th August: Mr Healan - Youngstar's by cardiffartsinstitute

10pm - 4am
£2 before 11pm

Good Monday people, hopefully you will have recovered from this Weekend's festivities in tine for the coming Bank Holdiay weekend, as we are programming an event at Cardiff Arts Institute from Friday to Sunday. Many of the acts playing will be recognisable to our regular readers and if you are anywhere near the vicinity would be great to see you all. Here's the info...



ELECTRIC SHEEP WEEKENDER
Friday 27th - Sunday 29th May 2011 (Bank Holiday Weekend)
Cardiff Arts Institute, 29 Park Place. CF10 3BA
£4 per day (limited £6 passes for all 3 days)


3 SECRET HEADLINERS // DOC DANEEKA + BENJAMIN DAMAGE (LIVE) // MONKY (HOYA HOYA / ROBOX NEOTECH) // DIDZ & CHICO (TEN THOUSAND YEN) // RATCATCHER // TELEGRAM FROM THE QUEEN (JUVENILE SCUM) // MR HEALAN // DAI VERSE (DIVERSE CONCEPTS) // CHROME KIDS // ZWOLF // OWAIN K // STD // DISCORD // KOVAS (64 BARS) // MAXX ROACH //


The Welsh Electronic scene has truly coming into it’s own over the past few years. As musical genres overlap and intertwine, particularly after the Bass music scene in general’s mass migration from formulaic Dubstep, so Wales’ tight knit community of producers and DJs become ever closer, more open and undoubtedly stronger. As celebration of this fact we have brought some of the top artists from the scene together for a long Bank Holiday weekend of showcases, secret sets and a whole lot of drinking and dancing.



We have 3 Secret headliners, all well established acts at the top of their game, plus: Modeselektor’s label signings Doc Daneeka and Ben Damage showcase their new live set ahead of their Melt! Festival debut in Berlin; one of the city’s most forward thinking producers, Monky gets set to show why his future blend of bass heavy beats have been getting so much love across the electronic music world; Cardiff 2 Step tearaways Didz & Chico bring a little ‘something new’ to the table; Chrome Kids drop a rare appearance ahead of shows in Glastonbury and Bestival over the summer; experimental circuit benders Zwolf, STD and Mr Healan step out of the Hip-hop shadows into something altogether more interesting; former CRST member Ratcatcher (Rodski) and Owain K hold it down for the current generation of House producers; whilst Juvenile Scum head honchos and Dirty Sanchez DJs Telegram From The Queen, to quote Redman, ‘come to throw a little mud in this mother**ker’ and make sure proceedings don’t get too serious. With many more up and coming DJs and producers, just starting to cement their reputations as ones to watch also on the bill, this is undoubtedly going to be a great marker on where the scene is now and where it’s heading. There’s plenty more information on each act, as well as free downloads, streaming tracks and videos over at the Cardiff Arts Institute blog http://cardiffartsinstitute.org


More info can be found on the Cardiff Arts Institute Website.

Downloads:

Monky - Hypa Nova (via Robox Neotech)

CHRIS COCO - BUTTERFLY HEART (DIDZ & CHICO REMIX) by chris coco

Crystal Fighters - At Home (Ratcatcher Repercussion) by Ratcatcher

Electric Sheep: Friday 27th May: STD - Nobody Tells Ron Swanson What To Do by cardiffartsinstitute

Electric Sheep: Sunday 29th May: Discord - Sunday Dub by cardiffartsinstitute

Electric Sheep: Saturday 28th May: The Gentle Good - Dawel Disgyn (Zwolf Remix) by cardiffartsinstitute