Moduloktopus was quite possibly our favourite Bass music producer of last year with more killer bootlegs then we could keep up with, mixing up Grime, Trap, Dubstep, Drum N Bass, Jungle and Juke influences but managing to make it sound more soulful and exciting than many of the others in those fields. Now he's offering his whole back catalogue of work for free download, so we suggest you grab it quick from the link below before he changes his mind.
Just saw a Tweet from Kastle saying that Bodhi's new Justin Timberlake booty has been smashing up SXSW. Exciting news, somebody invite them over for next year! Grab yourselves a copy if you don't have it already.
I recently made this Frank Ocean remix, and upon gaining 2,000 followers on Twitter, I decided to give it away for free. The original version was awesome, but I felt it could have been beefed up a little bit, you know?
Oh, it's a .wav file too, so all you DJs/audiophiles will be happy :)
For all those of you snowed in at the moment or simply can't move cos you stuffed yourselves too much over Christmas, here's a bumper blog post of new music that should see your speakers through to the new year in fine style.
First up, if you haven't picked up a copy of the Stagga single 'Genik Riddim' yet, get involved! The track featuring Skamma & Joe Blow from Squid Ninjaz is beastly and the release carries killer remixes from Starkey, Distal and HavocNdeed. Not for the faint hearted though, this is definitely on the grimier side. Here's a copy of the Starkey Remix (Radio Version just in case you want to play it to your mum or jam it on the airwaves).
Next up is a fresh bootie from our boy Parker. as expected he's smashed it again with a beefed up Glitch hop take on a funk / soul club classic. Shall definitely be jamming this on New Years Eve this year. You can pick up a whole album of remixed classics (including this one) by registering over at Ghetto Funk.
Central Spillz shall be dropping their long awaited album 'Space Travel' next month. Everything we've heard from it so far is great and to celebrate they're giving away the original version of their rowdy calling card track 'What Ya Know About'.
Been jamming the remix and 'tribute' version of Cassie's 'Skydiver' album hard recently and didn't even realise it's been given away as a free download. Some incredible Future Garage, Post-step, Glitch hop type remixes from the likes of Brackles, Altered Native and The Blessings. Pick up the whole album here or grab a little taster from Lunice and 8Bitch below.
We've posted a couple of Kill Light tracks up here before but pretty sure we haven't put this one up yet. It's from their new EP on Black Butter Records and is a great fusion of deep tribal Future Garage vibes and more jump up Funky-esque flavours. Also if you haven't got the Rack N Ruin download from Black Butter yet, grab it here and check out their 'Skanker Riddim' below.
Foreign Beggars have been killing it this year and their Dented Records label continues to drop top quslity Hip-hop from their extended family also. The latest release is the Brainstorm Mixtape from LDZ (London Zoo) and is probably the best from the crew yet. To be honest we generally check for the guest spots which as always here includes dope spitters such as Dubbledge and Stig but this stands up the whole way through despite being rather too lengthy at 24 tracks.
Bossasaurus have been on our radar for a while but they have just dropped their first official album and by jove I think they've got it. Thoughtful journeys off the beaten track, epic journeys in space and funk excursions into the future. An all round winner for any fans of Glitch hop, Future Boogie or Instrumental Beats in general and all for free from their Bandcamp page.
Back on the laid back and broody vibe, it's been a while since we heard from Inaudiblebut he's back with this dope double headed Glitch hop / Dubstep release on Bandcamp, which is rather openly entitled 'Feed Me Your Email'. Seems a small price to pay but if you're really not down with joining any kind of mailing list at all then hit him up on Soundcloud and he'll pass you a link anyway.
Something to brighten these rainy days. Originally aired on Magical Bass - Episode #6, DJ 0.000001's remix of "Girls Ain't Nothing But Trouble" by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, was re-released today on Fresh yO! as a free single.
Wasn’t until we hopped on this electric jelly train of a track from George Lenton, chugging and wobbling all the way to Glitchsville that we realised there’s a fair few tracks we appear to have missed from him recently, obviously this choo choo’s faster than we figured. Here’s a bit of a catch up so you can keep up to date. If you have doubles you can do swapsies in the playground later.
So many tunes, so little time. Was going to put these up yesterday as a tribute to Remix Sunday from the Palm's Out blog which I have sorely missed, until I realised 2 things. One - Remix Sunday is alive and well and in no need of a tribute and Two - it was Monday and I was a day late. Luckily most of these guys should need little to no introduction to our regulars so let's not waste time talking, get downloading!
Due to the crazy last drops of summer, we've been shamefully sitting on this remix of the Deftones track Prince from the big bad Bassnectar camp for a little while. We have however, been moshing out hard to it since then, so thought it only fair to share it with those of you yet to pick it up. As with the CLAW remix of Change, it seems the Californian rock mongers suit the heavier side of Dubstep perfectly. Perhaps a new direction for their next album is due, there's certainly space for more Rockstep tracks.
Speaking of Bassnectar, keep an eye out for the new EP dropping on October 19th, with 6 brand new songs, plus remixes. Also, Mister Gray from South Florida hit us up with this dope little bootleg mixing up Teach Me How To Dougie by Cali Swag District with Bassnectar's Basshead. It's kinda fun, check it out.
Our amigo Parker has followed up killer bootlegs such as Where's My Monkey and his Dubstep version of It's A Man's World with another stormer. Taking Iron Man from Black Sabbath and building it up with some extra beefed up armour. Ready to take out anything in it's path with a hefty new Dubstep / Breaks makeover.
Twas only whilst we were pissing ourselves laughing over High Rankin's new 'novelty' track Don't Carry On Like A Rudeboy When Daddy's Got A Yacht that we noticed that him and Evolve Or Diehave cooked up this beastly but beautiful fix of Ian Brown's classic FEAR.
We posted up some amazing new George Lenton tracks recently, however the powers that be over at the DMCA chose to chop them down... twice. However Lenton is coming like a Hydra at the moment and has grown back many more new tracks with extra teeth.
First up is his remix of The Dream, turning an R'n'B smoocher into a filthy crunked up grind fest... and rightly so.
And finally, MIA enters a strange paradox as she puts out a track that sounds like a bad Lady Gaga rip off, which is ironic in the fact that Lady Gaga first came out sounding like a bad MIA rip off. Thankfully George manages to restore some of her credibility back with his heavyweight, almost Bhangraesque remix.
Still feeling fairly Glastonburied after our festival weekend but sure we shall come alive long enough to tell you all about it some day soon. In the meantime here's a couple of Gorillaz remixes from our London dwelling compadre The Last Skeptik. I managed to catch them live just before our set (Monky and Stagga arrived about 30 seconds before we played thanks to Easyjet, but that's another story) and was mightily impressed with the guests they managed to pull together for it: Lou Reed; Mark E Smith; Bobby Womack; Shaun Ryder; Yukimi Nagano (Little Dragon); Bootie Brown(The Pharcyde);Kano; Bashy; Snoop Dogg; and De La Soul amongst others. Shame no Mos Def or Gruff Rhys but then there's not much room for complaining with that kind of line up.
Our good friend, DJ Moneyshot, shows no sign of letting off the pressure as he supplies us with another exclusive dope track. This time he's upped the ante of mid nineties Wu-Banger, C.R.E.A.M, with the original piano lick sample, washes of sub and some neck snap uptempo breaks. He's dubbed it 'The Travesty Remix' 'cos as he says himself, "It's a bloody travesty that people mess with the classics, but it's gotta be done."
Plus if you want to hear the track in full context, check his latest show for Solid Steel Radio, which shows us that the best way up is definitely sideways.
George Lenton - Island Dunks - Bass Around The Rock A Teens - Woo-hoo Mooqee - Rippin' Up Freddy Pimms - Bounce Is In Mana's Heart Tape Loops - Never Do That (Parker Remix) Count Basie - Reach Out Mashed Up Funk - Cramp Rakim Eric B & Rakim - Let The Rhythm Hit Em Dj Moneyshot - Give It Up, Shucks J-roc - Rock The Funk The Kleptones - Voodoo Sabotage Rugged Vinyl - Cocaine Kenny Loggins - I'm Alright Queen - We Will Rock You (Acapella) Lordz Of Brooklyn - Saturday Nite Fever Dave Wrangler - Party & Bullshit/Nothing To Worry About Capleton - Capleton Medley (Al Fingers Pass Out Refix) George Harrison & James Ray Vs Bobby Lost - Mind, Set, Match Arabesque - In The Heat Of The Disco Night Fake Blood - I Think I Like It Wu Tang Clan - CREAM (DJ Moneyshot's Travesty Mix). The Third Degree - Mercy (Russ Cuban Edit) Dj Moneyshot - Yeast, Mi Babeh The Beatnuts - Watch Out Now (Hot Damn Remix) Louis Boston - As I Enter
Kaptinand Moneyshotwill be having another head to head / back to back session on Friday 9th July, this time back over in sunny Wales at the Cardiff Arts Institute, come along and throw words of encouragment / bottles / knickers at them.
If you happen to be in San Diego you may have caught Monky doing his thing over the weekend already but he's not done with the West Coast of the USA just yet. He will be playing out above Paradise Lounge in San Francisco tomorrow (Wednesday 9th)and The Airliner in LA on Saturday 12th. It's his first trip out there to DJ so if you're any place close make sure you reach out and show him some love.
In true exchange student fashion, back here in Chrome Mansions we've been listening to two of our favourite West Coast amigos. Bassnectar and Troublemaker (or rather his crew King Fantastic and their new album which is....erm... fantastic).
With less wobble but just as much weight as his club destroyers, Lorin from Bassnectar hit us up with his new remix for Sleigh Bells that carries off a summer floaty vibe but with a rather menacing undercurrent.
You'll have to wait a few more days before you can get your hands on the full album from King Fantastic(June 15th to be precise) but here one of their tracks gets the full HavocNdeeD treatment, flipping their 'Westcoastsynthesizerbeachbumgangstermusic' into Stompindubstepbutstillgangstermusic
Finally a special treat as the two forces combine for this King Fantastic remix of Bass Head by Bassnectar. Killer Reese One's West Coast gangster rhymin' style suits the stank as hell beat just perfectly.
Also, whilst Monky has been off trapsing the States, Stagga has been making his way round the other side of the world and will be finishing off in Melbourne on Saturday. Here's the flyer with the info...
Despite these travels, everyone will be making it back to the UK for a full Chrome Kids line up at Glastonbury this year. Friday night 1am at the Bassline Dome in Shangri La.
As Tinie Tempahenters down a dodgy but possibly lucrative path, trying to pass out an inferior doppelganger of his massive hit as the next single, we can be thankful for small mercies such as this little flex over the absolutly monsterous new Nas & Damian Marley single... plus he's got his other voice back too.
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