Mary Tale - Empress Relentless (Mary Melt) Mix

Hi all, Peachi ahoy after a long absence - forgive me. I guess I just haven't been listening to much new music recently apart from chasing up Morbjits MM updates. He's gona all glitch hop though, so I think its time to get back to some heavy tech funk breaks and who better to kick things of with than a favourite of the MM blog Mary Tale (artist formerly known as Mary Miss Fairy and treasured Ra-family member). Tis another belter from her with the kind of epic build-ups and drops remiscent of her legendary Paris Burners - Moulan Rouge set, [made it into Morbjits top three for 2011] - that set nearly took the roof off and fried a few onion garlands and burnt the bagettes!! [to be slightly racialistical - forgive me Monsieur Polo OohlaRa]

Before reveiwing Mary Tale's new mix, just a heads up to some SOPA and PIPA goings-on in the USA, to do with piracy and copyright infringment and freedom of the internet, that might seriously affect the whole internet by closing down sites like this. And I don't mean just this blog, but the host company for this site and any other media sharing sites, like: youtube, wikipedia and wordpress. To find out why check out this TED video that explains how they may become liable for user copyright infringments and managing that may become prohibitive. Then get informed and then get active, If you're from the US then get intouch with your government representative, if your not an Amerkan (mmmgay) then hassle your Amerkan friends to do so. It seems this bill wont pass, but a similar one may do soon, so stay informed and get active where necessary. Cheers!



Now onto the main event. Mary Tale's 'Empress Relentless Mix' is a corker, check it out:

Empress Relentless Mix by MaryMissFairy

I particularly like the first third as there as some really good build up tracks that drop into some massive drops. Mary has a great ear for tracks that do this and this makes listening to her set really high energy because you're on a roller coaster ride the whole way through. Although it seems to go a bit happy hardcore at around 13mins for a bit, it bounces back with some real brain melters in the mid section too. Very hard to describe the high energy tracks in there, but the best compliment I can give Mary's mixes is that I save them for special occassions and I have to be full on to listen to them. Not for the faint of heart and beware yee who wander across the mix half arsed, cause you will be dominated by the fembots of hard bass!! Which reminds me that I loved the tagline that comes with this mix:
"Like being beaten up by dominatrix robots whilst watching cute as a button anime characters Carlton dance for you...essentially"
- obvious innit, once you've listened to it!! I wasn't so sure about the drum and bass dessert at the end from about 47mins onwards but it wasn't too bad and you know, by now, she can do what she wants as you kneel before the Temple of the Empress Relentless taking it like the bass slut you are.... ehem... cough cough... OK, maybe that's just me then! ;-)


So Mary didn't make it freely donwloadeable on Soundcloud, sort of by mistake, but she said its OK for you to get your versions of the full mix via this blog. So here's the link and ENJOY!

Thanks for a great set MMF-Ra. Looking forward to hearing you live again sometime x

Wonderland Burning Night Paris: Melting the Moulin Rouge with pure hot awesomesauce

So this weekend Polo-la-ra invited me, Peachi and the rest of the Musical Mana / Ra Family over to Paris for a French Burners party at La Machine de Moulin Rouge. I was asked to DJ alongside OshJ, Burning Max and other Nowhere/burner/French DJs, while the girls were lined up to hoop onstage. Then, at the last minute, we needed a stand in for Seanan who got blocked by passport control... booo.... but step in MaryMissMary!

Although we never doubted them, it turns out that Polo and the other French Burners know how to throw THE BEST PARTY EVER! The art was incredible, from vacuum packed humans to lush VJing and all the DJs and stage performers totally rocked it, Mary in particular blowing quite a few socks off. It was literally awesome.

If you didn't make it, no worries; just get dressed up like a nutter, invite loads of cool people over and blast out these mixes at full volume while grinning like La Vache qui Rit!

Morbidly Obese Midget (London) – Glitch Hop

  Morbidly Obese Midget - Burning Night Paris (Wobble Till You Bounce) by Morbidly Obese Midget

Maxime HK (Paris) - ElectroSwing

  Deep in July by Maxim HK

Balza (Paris) - Electro/Funk/Rock

  Thony Ritz "What I Am" (Dj BALZA Remix) by I'mDjBALZA

OshJ (London) – Electro / Dub Step

  Electro mix 14/12/10 by OshJ

DJ Cocceline

DJ MaryMissFairy (London) – Flithy Electro 

  Smarter than the average bear by MaryMissFairy

In Polo's words:

"(Mary) melted ALL the available brains on the dancefloor. People were extatic. (Her Burning Night) set is in my top 3 sets of all times. And I have been listening to electronic music for over 20 years. She deserves every single bit of applause she got on stage... pure magical aural delight. It was a precious moment for everyone present. Pure hot awesomesauce!"

Burningmax (Roma) – Whatever was most suitable (and it was)

  Burningmix 02 :: Rave in your head by burningmax

For a full list of DJs, VJs, artists and performers, check out the French Burners website here!

Big love to all who organised, performed, helped out and had fun x

In Mary's words:

The bestest weekend ever!!!! Paris was amazing!! Awesome journey with awesome people to meet more awesome people and play at the most awesome party ever to the most awesome crowd ever!! My cheeks hurt from smiling! Burner nights rock! Paris rocks! Team awesome rocks!! he he ♥ (MaryMissFairy)

Go team!

Mr. Mirra & Mary Miss Fairy - Evil Fembot & Robot Whores - and Bang My Ear new MMF mix

LO Peachi ere: Had to be careful how to write that title without suggesting anything :) Anyway, just a quicky to give you the links to two phat new tracks to buy and a new free mix from Mary Miss Fairy.... and I'll take any excuse to post sexy fembot pics!! [I enjoyed the research on this entry]

The two new tracks both have great names: "Evil Fembot" and "Robot Whores" and the former is produced by Mr. Mirra and Mary Miss Fairy, the latter just by Mr. Mirra - they both have a stunningly pounding bass and a phat driving beat and some good fembot samples in there (one from the top SciFi film Surrogates I believe). I really loved them both and will be using them in future mixes. You can buy both for a measly £3.46 on Beatport (not sure why it's categorised as 'trance' though?). Anyway, please support the artist if you enjoy all the free stuff!!

Next up a new mix from MMF at a recent gig at Bang My Ear in France (15/11/2011) - you can listen to it on soundcloud below or download it on her DJ page here. Wall to wall bangers and once again a good driving beat and pounding bass all the way through.

Mary Miss Fairy @ Bang My Ear! #8 by BeatSuckerZ

OUR WORLD HAS INDEED BECOME A SAFER PLACE!

Finally a bit of related comedy - a video clip from the excellent Black Books series - linked here.... enjoy!

OshJ - Josh Forrester - Electro Mix

Peachi here - Well it is with much aural pleasure that I present to you a link or two to a veritable plethora of deliciously dirty and driving dubstep DeehJay mixes - by none other than the man himself Josh. This is the gent that melted my brain at Nowhere Festival several times and had me blowing synapses all over the place. He also worked his arse off and put together the 'Jungle is Massive' Ubertown camp that was the centre of several of my top moments of Nowhere (great name for a camp too!). See previous post about the Badicals for edivence... Thanks Josh!

Nowhere Festival is the European Regional Burning Man gathering and he also DJ's at the associated London Decompression Parties (an indoor winter Burning Man'esque ra-union party) and he regularly makes socks dissapear there too ;)

Electro mix 14/12/10 by OshJ

So I'm just gonna give you the link to his soundcloud page where there are 9 mixes to choose from: 5 dubstep, 2 glitch, 1 drum & bass and one electro. I have to say the Electro Mix included above is my favourite, although there are moments in the other dubstep mixes that got me drooling. As hoped for, Josh remembered to press record and added two more mixes from playing out last weekend (15-16th Jan 2011), which I am still working my way through. So the mixes at the top of the page on his soundcloud page are fresh out the packet ladies and gents... mmmmm!

If I was gonna give some constructive feedback, I'd say that dubstep gets a bad name for sometimes just putting some womp bass behind a well known track without really meshing it in well or making it into something new and improved (it can get a bit samey and formulaic). Which is why I think I tend to veer towards dubstep producers who mainly create original tracks rather than just remixes (e.g. Mimosa, NitGrit). That said, some remixes are better than others and there are some less good selections in the Josh mixes in my opinion. But that's just my opinion - different peeps will probably like different ones, so I guess it's hard to predict what's gonna work as a supasta DeehJay. The main thing is that most of the time they are just full power inspiringly PHAT tracks!! Enjoy!

Best Sunrise Eva - Nowhere 2010

TRACK LISTINGS
Josh has a unique way of tagging his tracks on Soundcloud as comments within the track soundwave. Which I find really useful cause then you know exactly which track is which. Nice work Josh! Lets hope it catches on ;)

My favourites:
Feed me - The Spell
I'm Not Your Boyfriend (Please Don't Touch Me) [Original Mix]
Nneka - Heartbeat (Chase & Status remix)

For comedy samples:
Birdy - Gay on Toast
Penny for the DJ - Ninjas (Ninja Man Raga Party)

but this is my favouritest:
Feed Me - Mordez Moi (Original) - WOW!

I'll be avin those on download thankyou very much ;)

Finally you may notice some new names appearing and posting on the blog. Very much looking forward to reading those blogs from fresh ears and I welcome my fellow muzik lovers to the MM blog!

Happy New Ye-Ra: Musical Mana mixtape party!

New Year's Eve Peachi and I went for the house party option this year over the club/free party and had a great piss up at DevKev Spinning@'s new pad in Am I Bovingdoned? Wanting to just have fun with friends we went for the mixtape option over djing and were able to join the whole party rocking to these Musical Mana mixes from last year.

RaFlux by Peachimpy-Ra

   Ra Power! Mix by Morbidly Obese Midget

We also bounced to some phat tunes selected by our mate Oli, including the JPOD mixtape below. Not only is Oli a sick-ass juggler, he's got an impeccable taste in music too, so we've asked him to join the Musical Mana team. Get ready for even more funkin good $hit coming your way in 2011!

Morbidly Obese Midget: Mega Meal Deal

I've been spending more time actually mixing and playing myself lately. The result is this collection of Morbidly Obese Midget mixtapes bundled together here for your listening pleasure. A late festive pressie for your ears! Thanks to Peachi for keeping Musical Mana going over the last few months with a fat selection of mixtapes while I've been otherwise distracted...

London Spinners Party Mix by Morbidly Obese Midget

This is a condensed version of a set I played at the Spinning@ London Jugglers Christmas Party, recorded the following week at the Synergy Spinners Solstice Party. I get a lot of my practice playing for spinners, twirlers and jugglers who are a great audience because if they like what you're playing they'll play harder to it and the floor will become a frenzy of activity, even if there's only five people in the room anyway. The set moves from bass loaded breaks into more straight 4/4 driving electro. The electro almost always gets people moving more, but the breaks is a nice warm up.

TRACKLIST:
Tittsworth - WTF (Deekline and Ed Solo Remix)
The Fort Knox Five - Shift (Deekline and Dustin Hulton Remix)
Sporty-O - International Wingman (DJ Fixx And ILL DJ Chris B Original Mix)
Slyde - Move ya Body
Beat Assasins - Put Em Up (NAPT remix)
Nick Thayer - Let it Go (Cutline remix)
Neurodriver and Atomic Drop - What You Gonna Do?
Far Too Loud - We Want to Dance
Dirty Loud - What U Think
Neelix - Disco Decay (Felguk remix)
Tegma - David's Song
Perfect Stranger - Stardust (Felguk remix)

  Morbidly Obese Midget - Droppin bombs on ya glitch - Nov 2010 by Morbidly Obese Midget 

Bass bombs straight outta tha suburban jungle! I've been trying to nail a good glitch-hop mix for a while - getting the right balance between bass, glitch and bounce. Drawing from a whole bunch of tunes I've been enjoying over the last few years this comes pretty close to the sound I've been aiming for, keeping the tempo up, the bass whomping and the beats popping. While it gets my head bobbing and my body swaying, I'm not sure it translates too well to the dancefloor, but I'm hoping the Opiuo's more bouncy sound is going to open a whole new range of mid-tempo breaks and glitch-hop next year that will do just that!

TRACKLIST
Mimosa - Pandora's Box
SubverT - Speaker Humpin' (Knight Riderz Remix)
Blunt Instrument - Battle Toad
Nasty Ways - The Good The Bad The Squishy
DJ Vadim - Maximum feat La Methode (Bassnectar & ill.gates remix)
Opiuo - King Prawn
ill.gates & Filastine - Pharma Sutra
SubverT - Curbstomper
Glitchy & Scratchy - Midgets
edIT - Battling Go-Go Yubari in Downtown L.A.

Morbidly Obese Midget - West Coast Of The Thames (Is Stained With Purple Crunk) by Musicalmana on Mixcloud

This one's a downtempo dubstep mix. It's an attempt to find the blurred lines between Bristolian 'purple wow' sounds and West Coast whomp and dubstep influenced crunk. The mixing could be better but this was on the fly and I've not had the time to re-do. This is a streaming mix on soundcloud, but hopefully soon I'll find some time to re-work it for a Soundcloud DL.

TRACKLIST
Nastynasty - Priceless
Gemmy - 1987 Bounce
Guido - You Do It Right
Professor Green & Lilly Allen - Just Be Good To Green (Joker Vocal Remix)
Luniz Vs Joker - Kraddy's Next Level Mash Up
Joker - Tron
Nit Grit - Love Songs
Nastynasty Vs. Nit Grit - Say My Name
Mimosa - F.T.A.M.F.
Nit Grit - Grit Shifter
Mimosa - 140bpm On That Kriptonite (Point Of No Return Remix)
Pantyraid - Enter The Machine

If you like what you're hearing follow me on some of these sites for more regular updates and recommends:

soundcloud.com/musicalmana
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Ninja Tune XX: XLR8R Podcasts from Coldcut, DJ Food, DK and Toddla T

For one reason or another I've missed most of the Ninja Tune XX anniversary celebrations this autumn / weekend, but for those of us that did these two XLR8R podcasts are a pretty good way to celebrate.

 
The first, mixed and compiled by label founder Coldcut and stalwarts DJ Food and MK, is an epic combo of original Ninja classics from Scruff, Food, Hextatic, Amon Tobin, Kid Koala and more recent highpoints from Diplo, Shuttle, Andreya Triana, Daedalus, Toddla T. With plenty of sick remixes from both fresh UK newbloods - Warrior One, Benga, Rustie - and US future hoppers - Gaslamp Killer and Flying Lotus - it shows just how much the label has influenced and kept up with the progress of beats over the decade since their last milestone.

XLR8R Podcast 170: DJ Food & DK vs. Coldcut (click through for DL and tracklist)

The second is one of the best mixtapes I've downloaded this year from 2010 Ninja Tune signing Toddla T, who landed a massive three album deal with them earlier this year. The mix is so varied you never have time to pin it down - full of dancehall fire, but packed with both evocative old rave skool samples and future beats. Reminiscent of NY label Nightshifters (AC Slater, Hostage, Proper Villans) at their best, with flavours of Diplo, Zinc's Crack House, Buraka and Zomby, it's right on the money and shows how Ninja Tune remain so even after 20 years. I can see myself buying a lot of these tunes...

XLR8R Podcast 168: Toddla T (click through for DL and tracklist)

If you like what you hear Ninja Tune have got two double compilations out to celebrate their anniversary, which include many of the cuts from that first mixtape. Going by the Zen Cuts X CDs which still sound as fresh 10 years on, they're going to be well worth the effort. I've certainly got 'em both on my Xmas list.

Smarter than the average bear - Mary Miss Fairy

Peachi here: Well here it is - after a little wait and some last minute technical issues - we finally have the latest MMF mix - Smarter than the Average Bear.

Smarter than the average bear by MaryMissFairy

No longer an anticipation, but now an actually astounding amalgamation of aural altercations - this is a journey into some of the most filthy driving electro sounds you'll find this side of Pooh Corner. Make sure you download it fast while you still can!! Yes unbelievably its FREE!

This mix reminds me alot of 'Wonk This Way' (my other favourite MMF mix) but is definately much MUCH phatter in alot of places! Similar progression from more minimalist stuff to a rocking Dirty Disco Filth section in the middle, with some real mind melters making mince meat of your mind at the end! So heavy are the tracks towards the end and I have to admit I was a bit scared (luckily I'd eaten my hedonistic-porridge this morning so I was OK) ;)

Actually towards the end of the mix it reminded me of her set at Matter earlier in the year, which at the time was right on the edge of my 'heavy-techno' radar. But since then my tastes have changed to appreciate this flavour much more... I think it comes across better on headphones also! Its also much less playful on the dance floor than the more dirty disco tracks. But then its also great to hear the heavy bass with your whole body at a club on massif speakers.... so it seems there are many different ways and moods to access this mix in! So my advice is to keep coming back to it and different tracks will stand out at different times. This is a sign of a good mix in my books (but thats just my humble opinion - but I'm usually right (in my mind!)).

Here's a 'random' picture I selected of Mary on her obviously-a-less-than-smart bear skin rug, thinking about her new set list (probably!). Shame really, if she made a bit of effort she could actually look all right ;)


Top mix Mary, thanks so much for persevering through the technical issues. It Roxs so much - I have no soxs left! RRRAAAAAaaaaaaaaaa!


TRACK LISTING

Dirty disco filth for the discerning hedonist
1) Undertaker - Wolgang Gartner
2) Overdrive - Mac and Lewis - Gustavo assis remix
3) Ask the right question - Neelix (Dirty Loud remix)
4) Beaut - Sub Beat project - David Vade remix
5) Operator - DJ Dan & Uberzone - Miles Dyson Dub
6) Brighton Bass - Atomic drop
7) Right here right now - Digital Freq
8)Apes from Space - Aaren San - Dirty Loud remix
9)21st Centuary Disco Shit - The Soulbrothers - Miles Dyson remix
10)Mumble - Pance party
11)) Girls Speak Louder - Costello - Donique remix
12) Tricks - Cul;prit 1 - Rogue element remix
13) Rox Sox - Uppermost

Morbidly Obese Midget: Ra Power Mix

 

For five years now I've been playing around with a crappy old version of Mix Vibes mp3 mixer, inspired by the mixtapes and sets that I love to listen and dance to. Two weeks ago, after an unexpected bonus and much deliberation, I finally took the plunge and bought my own bottom-end MP3 controller - a Reloop Digital Jockey 2 running with Traktor LE.


The plunge coincided with a mixtape I'd been working on for our mates' Beards and Vikings houseparty a couple of weeks ago. It starts off with some party breaks and moves through some fat-electro into more progressive house. Enjoy!

  Ra Power! Mix by Morbidly Obese Midget
Alt link / http://soundcloud.com/musicalmana/ra-power-mix

Tracklisting:
Beat Assasins - We Run Tings
Dj Fixx - Shake it Naughty
Splitloop - Ghetto UK
Plump Djs - Put Em Up (NAPT Remix)
Fort Knox Five - Party Pushers (Krafty Cuts Remix)
Felguk - Buzz Me (Re-Work)
Calvin Harris - Stars Come Out (Rektchordz Remix)
The Beatpusherz - Muzik
Wunderbar - Gustavo Assis and Thiago Sian
Dibby Dougherty - Arizona
Talisman & Hudson - Leaving planet Earth (Dousk Remix)

FatPimp - hairy woman mixes

Peachi here: So this entry is a bit more mainstream than usual, but bear with me. Contained in this blog post are three very fine mixes of music of varying styles. Me-mate Alex (aka. Fatpimp - soon 2B a stag) is da master of blending mainstream tunes with the odd comedy blinder which always cheers me up... and who doesn't need that at some point! Save these for fun silly evenings where the mood is light ;)




... sense of humour-Ra is important in music, same as everywhere else innit! Thus'ly I present to thee three lovely mixes as follows:

The Rest is Noise - is the most recent with some unexpected complex electro bits (see 31.30 for brain spaz) in amongst the seemingly mainstream gumf. I've pointed my fave bits out with my comments on SoundCloud. Also watch out for the comedy interludes of Ivor Cutler at 14.45 (a favourite I must say) and 'I am a very stylish girl' (18.15)...

Well Seasoned - is the the next most recent with comedy interludes coutesy of the 'Salmon Dance' (7mins) and 'I like Apples and Oranges' (38mins). Nice HotChip mix in there too...

Revenge of the Long Haired Freaky People - well you get the idea.... but this one is a bit more of a JAZZ style mix... gotta be in the right silly mood for this.... or just on in the background for up-tempo relaxed moozik! (NB: hosted on my soundcloud page for now)

Anyway, enjoy those as a bit of change from the usual BANG BANG BANG!!

Knoxious Dave (aka. Zinger) - Swing Electro

Just a quick one to flag up this mix by a friend of ours in the electro-swing category. Great sample to start with and a first track that chimes well here ;)

Good tunes, although a learner mixer... but full of heart!
I know Chris - Morbjit is well into his electro swing so this might get the ball rolling....


Keep on keeping on Zinger-Knox man (he's the one on the right with the Big-E on his head)
its all about the pink glittery love... and the neck ache afterwards ;)

The things we do for money aye! x

Jungo Road: Undecided, Raydeus, Fort Knox Five and Robosapiens

What with all the flat hunting, working and partying lately, I haven't found much time to blog. I do now have an iPhone though, so that might all change! Here's the first attempt:

One of the things that's been keeping me going through January is the brilliant Jungo Road podcast. These boys, Chad North and Dale Purrough, now joined by Raydeus, select the finest fidget, glitch, tech funk, breaks and techno from both sides of the pond and deliver it straight to your mp3 player. You can't ask for more than that really...

Here's a few of my favourites from the end of last year:

Undecided (Sacramento) 26 October 2009

Fort Knox Five (DC) 7 Dec 2009

Raydeus (SF) 15 Dec 2009

Robosapiens (UK) 8 Feb 2010

Raydeus at Decompression 2009 - Photo by Deven Sezgen

- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone (anyone know how to embed links and tags?!)

Breakz R Boss Records: Mr. Bassline Junk-E

My mate Len's recently come back over from Canada for a short stay in the UK. He went out there to follow a girl who promptly dumped him... what a bitch! He's still enjoying life in Calgary though....

Something slightly more positive to come out of Canada lately is this free web EP from a new label, Breakz R Boss Records. The original contains a sample from the 1974 hit single "Dreamer " by Supertramp's, which to be honest I find pretty pretty annoying, but the underlying tunes are phat. I particularly recommend Proton and Grateful's funky electro breaks remix, which doesn't have the awful singing on it. They're apparently from Russia, which I'd never known before for it's breaks music, so I'll be looking those two up now for sure!

Mr. Bassline Junk-E - Dreamer + Remixes (BRB-P01) 2010 (Rick click save as)
FREE WEB E.P. from Breakz R Boss Records

Tracklisting:

Mr. Bassline Junk-E - Dreamer (Original)
Mr. Bassline Junk-E - Dreamer (Dave Dialect Dubstep Remix)
Mr. Bassline Junk-E - Dreamer (Proton & Grateful Remix)
Mr. Bassline Junk-E - Dreamer (Toy Quantize Remix)
Mr. Bassline Junk-E - Dreamer (N.Filtr8 Remix)
Mr. Bassline Junk-E - Dreamer (Dj Chaos Remix)
Mr. Bassline Junk-E - Dreamer (Jprime Remix)



Annoying twats get dubstep makeover:

BREAKZ R BOSS RECORDS is a New Digital Label from Western Canada, owned and operated by Bass Charger and the Breakz R Boss Crew. Their 1st release will be out in February 2010 which is a Dj Somsay original with Remixes by Breakz R Boss artist Dreamthief & Mr. Bassline Junk-E. This should be followed by Tech, Tearout, Funky, & Electro Breakz, Bassline, Fidget & Electro 4x4 styles, DubStep & DNB.

Sounds like my kinda label - good luck to ya boys!

Euro-burners: London Decompression 2009

Having experienced Burning Man vicariously this year, through my girl D and our other friends that went out, on Saturday I joined them at the London Decompression party – a re-union for UK based burners to reconnect and reminisce over the seven days at Black Rock City, run by a group of playa vetrans Euro-burners .

Like Burning Man itself, it’s all about participation - all the performers, DJs and crew are volunteers who have bought tickets - so ahead of the event I sent a dubstep and glitch-hop demo over to Justin aka VJ Meno who was curating the sound and visuals for the night. I didn't expect to be selected, so it was a nice surprise when I checked my emails on Thursday to find out I was on first... followed by a mild panic.


The plan was to bring some of that West Coast, playa dust coated, bass flavour to East London and warm up the room with some heavy dubstep, reggae and glitch-hop. In the end my set got cut short due to a late start, but you can listen to it here in it's entirety:

Decompression Glitch-Hop by Morbgit

Tracklisting:

Edit - Ants
Freeland - Do You (Pantyraid rmx)
Don G - Mrs U (Zeno Goddess Rmx)
Liondub ft. Jah Dan & Sotto Bless - Heartbroken
Spystep - Portomental
Eskmo - San Francisco (The Rhythm)
Larytta - You Got Nothing (Lazer Sword Rmx)
Ooah - Tuesday Again
Good Buddha - Part Preserve (Tipper rmx)
Vibesquad - Snagglespuss
Knowa Knowonet feat. Seasunz, Firewater, Wiseproof & New Eon - Free Energy
Subvert - Size Matters
Alborosie - Kingston Town
X-Clan feat. Damian Marley - Culture United
Oaah - Heat up the night
Defcon - Knock Knock
Beats Antique - Roustabout (Bassnectar rmx)
Me & You - Last Night (Bassnectar rmx)
ediT - The Game Is Not Over
Matty G - West Coast Rocks (The Glitch Mob rmx)
Nalepa - Monday (The Glitch Mob rmx)


Also playing on the night was Jurassik (Ben Child - above) who runs London breaks night and record label Supatronix and the awesome resource that is ThisIsBreaks.com. He was really enjoying himself, pumping the dancefloor with funky party breaks and, when we met later on, he turned out to be a really nice guy as well. You can check out the mix below and have a listen to his own tunes on Soundloud.

Jurassik’s Deep as the Thames Boat Party Mix

Tracklist

Si Begg – The Bleeps [Unique 3 mix] (Mutate Records)
Shut Up and Dance – Cream (Shut Up and Dance)
Refracture – Energy Flow (Noobish Records)
Breakzhead – Goin’ On [Jurassik mix] (Dusted Breaks)
The Prodigy – Warriors’ Dance [Future Funk Squad's Rave Soldier mix] (Take Me to the Hospital)
Flack.Su – T-Break [Aeron Aether remix] (Glack Audio)
Robosapiens – Infected [LuQas mix] (Dead Famous)
Digital Bass – White Lines [Robosapiens mix] (Dead Famous)
Rennie Pilgrem – Rich Rule Us [BSD remix] (TCR)
Future Funk Squad ft Mojo – Blow (En:Vision)
BSD – Intoxicated (iBreaks)
Jurassik – How to Pick Up Chicks (Supatronix)
9BO – Antilightbulb (Glack Audio)

Toby Lyons was up after Ben. A bit of a wizard at the controls, he was mashing up some bad boy electro and breaks before pulling out into party style d’n’b, much to the joy of the crowd. Have a look at Toby's Myspace for mini-mixes.

I've reviewed the whole night for Spoonfed.co.uk - you can read the full write up here. Much love to my surrogate burning crew (below - me looking like a twat in the middle)!

Rektchordz: November mixtape + U&A recordings

Still on the tech-funk vibe at the moment. Been really digging a few tunes by Rektchordz, a guy from Cornwall by the name of Jamie Smithson who makes some pretty tasty tech funk breaks and techno. In particular really loving Meat Katie's remix of 'These Girls' and Elite Force's rework of 'Feed Your Head', both on Elite Force's record label U&A.

For a flavour of Rektchordz DJ sets, listen to his November promo on his Soundcloud page below, or download it from the link below that!

Rektchordz November mix soundcloud by rektchordz

Download mix (Mediafire link from the ever essential Breakzlinkz)

Tracklisting:

sebastian ledger-bubbly
mike hulme-100mg(stupid freh remix) (U&A)
Zodiac cartel-beyond the dancefloor(warehouse music)
lee coombes & uberzone-right now (lot 49)
Rektchordz-Feed your head(elite force remix) (U&A)
backbeat soundsystem-daily grime (rektchordz remix) (free give away)
Rektchordz-speaker bump (U&A)
the subs-dusk till dawn (zodiac cartel remix)(lektroluv)
Rektchordz-these girls(U&A)
Dave spoon-lumox (plump djs remix)(television)

If you like that, you'll probably want to check out Tech:Funk (U&A recordings volume 1) just released on U&A and compiled by Aussie duo Loops of Fury. Read a review of the mix here, then buy it (for only 5 squid in UK!) using one of the links below:

CD (UK-only) : £4.99 (inc P+P)
CD (EU-only) : £5.99 (inc P+P)
CD (Rest of World) : £6.49 (inc P+P)

You'll also want to make sure you check out Elite Force's awesome Tech Funk Manifesto blog, for free tunes mixes and more.

Disco of Doom: Rising up from the gurgling belly of the underworld

Disco of Doom's dawn set on the Arcadia stage at Glade this year is going to go down as one of my musical highlights of 2009. There was just something perfect about the marriage of their awesome sonic barrage in the grey morning light and this flame-throwing post-apocaylptic setting, with Tom Real hanging the top half of his body out of the DJ tower and gesturing at the dancing masses like a man possed.

Disco of Doom is a collaboration between Tom Real and The Rogue Element, longtime respected electro breaks producers, who are pushing new buttons with a sound that can't quite be described as techno, electro bass or fidget house. It's more like twisting, writhing, grinding house and techno - laced with electro poison and acid 303 - that winds you round it's little finger, pounds you into submission, then spits you out the other side.

The initially came together for a Samurai Fm radio show through their 'shared appetite for destruction and a love of loose women'. I first noticed their crunchy electro breaks collaborations on Passenger in about 2007 and they put out their first release as Disco of Doom in 2008. Since then they've released a number of tunes and remixes over the summer, most notably their already classic remix of Chemical Brothers 'Do It Again' (click for free download) and the filthy 'Warpig' (check the Foamo remix below!). The duo are currently 'locked in the studio working towards delivering their debut artist album'.



One thing these boys have done well is tap the new electro bass sound being championed by the likes of Andy George and Jaymo on radio one, and make it something much dirtier. For a full flavour, click the link below to download their November 09 Promo Mix featuring cuts from Vitalic, Boys Noize, Passion Pit, Doorly, Claude Von Stroke + new and exclusive new Disco of Doom tracks:

Disco of Doom - November 09 Promo Mix

If you're in London, catch Disco of Doom and their How's My Raving Sound System at their monthly Out The Box night at The White House in Clapham. There's one tonight - see details below.