Weekend bangers

I spent the weekend (as usual) on a quest to expand my music collection.. here's a yummy number from Kool Hertz. The opening sample is sweet:

KooL Hertz - In The Nude Spring Mixtape April 2010 by Kool Hertz

Upbeat, funky, summery rhythms, mixed up with dirty basslines and random samplings.

Tracklist:
1. Sunshine - A-Skillz vs Beatvandals
2. Summervibe - Kool Hertz
3. Hotstepper - Kool Hertz
4. Praise The Joint Jam - Pimpsoul
5. Sublime - Kool Hertz
6. Run For Cover - Featurecast
7. Misdemeanour - The CB's [A-Skillz remix]
8. Bonkers Banger - Dizzie Rascal [Nick Thayer & DJ Yoda remix]
9. Let It Go - Nick Thayer feat Nfa [Fort Knox 5 remix]
10. Something Freaky - Basement Freaks
11. Hip-Hop To Funk - Ed Royal feat Badkat & Lady Daisey [Nick Fonkyson remix]
12. DaftFunk - Funkanomics
13. Jam Plan - AGFA [RJ remix]
14. Generation MTV [Pimpin mix] - Beat Assassins feat Nine Lives The Cat
15. Bump Uglies - Bass Kleph [Dj Icey remix]
16. You Can Do It - Ice Cube vs Bass Kleph [Krafty Kuts vs Bass Kleph rub]
17. Gossip Meltdown - Lebrosk
18. Stereo Trouble - Qdup Foundation
19. Whatchya Got - Funk Burners
20. You Made A Change - Bar Kays [Stickybuds remix]
21. Holy Smokes - Kool Hertz
22. Slippery When Wet - Kool Hertz
23. 3-6-9 [clap, clap] - Kool Hertz

Kool Hertz apparently runs nights in London, with his crew Graffiti Rock. They play Lost Angel in Battersea, Bar Vinyl in Camden and The Westbury in Kilburn. Anyone down for a trip? :)

Also finally managed to get my decks and Serato up and running, after two years (two years!!) of being relegated to flight cases since my return from China. So expect some crude mashups to hit the interwebs in the not too distant future!


Finally, a music video to blow out your brain-box. Thanks to Ninja Dave for sharing this with me. Khameleon808 has taken 15 mins of HD movie trailer footage, and edited it to a soundtrack of Glitch Mob remixes:



Wow.

Much lovings,
upstart

Nasty Ways: The Good, The Bad and The Squishy

I downloaded the Nasty Ways remix of Lollipop a little while back, purely from a stumble on Soundcloud. It fitted in with some Tron/Mimosa/Marty Party that I was playing around with, and wasn't even too cheesy or club stylee (for Lil' Wayne that is). I had no idea at the time that it was Eprom and Boreta (of The Glitch Mob) together though. I did find out after looking into this new (old) tune though. Tasty squelchy glitch-hop with a nice wilds style sample dropping over the top. Gonna work nicely with Subvert, Ill Gates et al. Schweet...


DOWNLOAD:

  Nasty Ways - The Good The Bad and The Squishy (Free DL) by boreta

DOWNLOAD:
XLR8R: Lil Wayne - Lollipop (Nasty Ways remix)

The Glitch Mob: Drink the Sea and Remix It Like You Stole It

THE REVIEW

So upfront, I have a confession to make. A few months on and I'm actually slightly disappointed by the Glitch Mob's debut 'Drink the Sea'. This is not too say that's it's bad. In fact if you're only going to read this part of this review, buy the album, it's well worth it! As stand alone tracks they're beautifully produced and there's plenty of those sharp hooks, tonk beats and enough bounce to get your arms swinging like you're really throwin' it down (see We Swarm below).

  We Swarm - DRINK THE SEA - Out Now by The Glitch Mob 

So what's my gripe? Well maybe I've kinda built it up to much in anticipation - eDit and Oaah have long been two of my favourite whomp and glitch-hop producers and I've always liked what I've heard from Boreta.

Drink the Sea certainly solidifies the Glitch Mob's sound, but for me the downside is that too many of the tracks sound a bit too similar and use many of the same tricks as the epic remixes with which they made their name. While this means that the album holds together in terms of cohesive sound, I get the same emotion from every track. They're occasionally a bit slow and overly epic (rock drums, Gfunk synths and guitars), without enough of those really poppin beats, glitches and deep whomp that make the individual artist's work so godamn addictive. This may be partly explained due to a slight void in the heavy crunk department, left by the departure of Kraddy not long before release, or a desire for album to be realised by a live band, as Lowri points out in this review.

THE COMPETITION

Anyway, one way to get me really excited about an album again is to put out a bunch of sick remixes (see Freestylers' Raw a Fuck, Deekline and Wizard's last effort and Freeland's Cope).

Eskmo's chop up of Fistful of Silence is a case in point:

The Glitch Mob - Fistful of Silence (ESKMO Remix) - Right Click for free download

Full props to The Glitch Mob boys for putting the next one out to tender with an open invite to remix another of the stand out tracks, Drive It Like You Stole It. The prizes are many, the deadline is 20 August, all stems are available up on the site and there's already some sick entries. So let's see some of you bass heads steal this mix and put some proper breaking crunk funk in it!

http://www.theglitchmob.com/music/remix_competition/

For non-producers you can grab a lot of this tasty shit for free. Having had a listen to a few I'd recommend Mirko-Kosmos (sick!), Matty B (different), Technobears' Redux and the self explanatory Funkadhesive Remix.

Remix It Like You Stole It Competion - The Glitch Mob

Glitch FM: I can't believe it's not dubstep!

First of all, Glitch.fm... need I say more?

Last night they dropped a 10 hr "Feeling left out of Burning Man?" live broadcast from Vancouver, Canada, featuring artists from their Friday night BWAMP Radio show. If you missed it, check out the links below for free mixtapes:

# TAAL MALA (Lighta!, SUB-OSC)
http://www.myspace.com/taalmala
# Dj Global vs Bevy Swift (aka Glitchy & Scratchy)
http://www.myspace.com/glitchyscratchy
# Self Evident (Lighta!, SUB-OSC): http://www.myspace.com/selfevidentselfevident
FREE MIX:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=113676786893
# HxdB (BFG): http://www.myspace.com/hxdb
# Myles Away (IGU): http://www.mylesAWAYmusic.blogspot.com
http://www.myspace.com/mylesAWAYmusic
# Deekay (The Woods,urban ninja): http://www.myspace.com/deekaysounds

I recommend this mix by BWAMP Radio's Myles Away for starters:
The Auer 17 mix by myles away


If you're still not sure what 'glitch' is, this interview with the Glitch Mob goes a long way to explaining what's happening state-side at the moment. This is quite possibly one of the best artist interviews I've watched in a long time.. it completely sums up what's so exciting about the scene in the US right now. Oh bollox, I can't help it... I WANNA BE AT BURNING MAN! Whaaaaa.... *sob sob*

Ooah raiding your panties for Marine Parade

Been meaning to post this for some time... a pretty laid back Ooah mix which must be from around the time I must have first got hold of his lush bass heavy, floaty glitchyness...


You can download it here:

Ooah - Scientific Sound Surgery mp3 (Direct link - click and save)


More recently Ooah's got a wicked little side project on the go called PANTyRAiD. It's a bit more crunk/hip-hop but sounding pretty bad boy. I wanna get my hands on a few of these tunes:

PANTyRAiD's website with streaming audio


They're on Adam Freeland's label Marine Parade for whom the Glitch Mob (Ooah's crew) recently remixed a Evil9 track. Freeland himself has released his latest single for free here, if you sign up to the mailing list:

Sign up for Freeland single

Glitch Mob: Crush Mode mixtape

Another West Coast update:

I've been going round in circles trying to find a full mixtape from the Glitch Mob (made up of edIT, Boreta, Kraddy and Ooah), only to find it on full view on their own website all along. What a muppet...

Download: The Glitch Mob - Crush Mode (right click and Save File As)

Download: The Glitch Mob - Crush Mode Wallpapers by EPROM

You can find some fresh Boreta tracks on his myspace and Ooah's Twitter stream tells me he's been in the studio the last few days. Looking forward to seeing what comes out...

Mary Anne Hobbs & Flying Lotus: LA Rocks

Mary Anne Hobbs has done it again and dropped another scene defining video. This time she's traded the streets of Bristol for the all the more glamorous location of Los Angeles where she's been hanging with local bass addict Flying Lotus and San Franciso's Glitch Mob. They played the Low End Theory together on 28 January - in the video it looks like a really small venue but they're totally blowing it up!

You can read a spine tingling review of the night on Dance Fever 5000 - "I feel like I just returned from the epicenter of the future of music and came out alive."

I've featured the Glitch Mob on here before. To fulfill your fresh bass lust though, I've found a recent essential mix by Flying Lotus below. This guy is hot shit right now. He's somehow related to Jazz leg-end John Coltrane and described as CA's answer to Aphex Twin. See for yourself here:

Flying Lotus - Essential Mix 20-11-2008


Or you can listen to Mary Ann Hobbs every week on Radio 1 - "not only a killer DJ but also one of biggest proponents of the bass slut sound in the world" (dancefever5000):

Mary Anne Hobbs - Radio 1's experimental music show

Glitch Mob dropping bass bombs on the streets on of San Fransisco

XLR8R TV Episode 83: Glitch Mob Street Warfare from XLR8RTV on Vimeo.

I've been going on about glitch-hop to everyone I speak to lately. The artist collective Glitch Mob are IT... and Ooah is one of my absolute favourite producers at the moment. Check out the Glitch Mob website for more info and free mp3's including this one:

Ooah - Heat up the Night (direct link)

They've also recently remixed Evil 9...