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

Mimosa - 58 Degrees EP

LO Peachi ear:

Just a quicky to make sure you get this lovely warm and wompy quality dubstep EP 58 Degrees from the man himself (and MMBlog favourite) Tigran Mimosa. Just click on the image here and it's yours. Or play it below:

58 Degrees by TigranMiMoSA

Plenty of the usual full on driving womp basslines overlain with cascading melodies and genuinely unique noises. Beautifully composed as usual with lots of originality. Clever dubstep, not just your usual womp-womp-womp. My favourite so far is Flourescent and Up In the Clouds - both lovely and glowing - like a musical HUG! The high end of 58 Degrees is a nice cascading synth line with good driving underlying womp. STAiRWAY is some heavy shnizzle... reminded me of NitGRit a bit bit. Block Party is heavy too with a more jungalistic bassline, but too hectic for me though, but can see it making a dance floor heave. Great EP all round, good variety and top kwality innit... and free!! FFS!

TRACK LISTING

UP iN THE CL0UDS

58 DEGREES

STAiRWAY

BL0CK PARTY

FLOURESCENCE

(Re)Exploration

I've recently been re-listening to some of the stuff that got me into all the kind of music I listen to now, like this one from Aaron Pope:

Route 20 by AaronPope

Upbeat and dancey to start with, it gets nice and glitchy through the middle, and gets heavier towards the end, maintaining a pumping beat all the way through... Good juggling music for me!

And now a cheeky advert: I'm selling my decks and Serato Scratch SL1. I'm not emigrating, or giving up DJing, no... I've just realised I don't have the time in my life to become an awesome vinyl DJ - too many other things to learn!

So... I was visiting Mr Knoxious recently, and he introduced me to the wonders of the VCI300. One good-looking eBay deal later, and boom:



So now I really am going to make a mix soon, because I guess it might be easier to record with this!

Now for something completely different. I've not really listened to much drum'n'bass recently, but this brutal mashup appeared on the radar straight out of nowhere and hit me really hard. Free download too!

Gyptian ft. 50 Cent - Hold Yuh Again (Turntable Dubbers mashup) by Turntable Dubbers

Enjoy!

Upstart

DJ Parker: The Monkey Butler Did it Again

In summer 2009 someone lost a monkey en route to Bristol zoo, and Parker became a cult hero for fusing dubstep and electro swing....

  Parker- Where's My Monkey? by DJ Parker 


Come 2011 and Parker's worked out the answer to the question we've all been asking, whilst putting together the best mixtape of the year to date. He draws on his own extensive arsenal of refixes hold things together while a good choice of MC tracks keeps the pace over the bouncing beats . The mix is peppered with some proper comedy samples too, including my fave eve dubstep quote from this video.

The scope is epic, with hiphop, glitch hop, funk, breaks, rock, dubstep and d'n'b overlaid and mashed up together throughout. Snatches of familiar tunes creep in for a few bars at a time before morphing straight into the next thing. If he used records (rather than control vinyl) he'd be tossing discs over his shoulder like Jeff Mills.

...and for the swing fans? How about Missy Eliot mashed up with Glen Miller?
  The Monkey Butler Did It Mix by DJ Parker

Tracklist:
The Monkey Butler- A Reminder
Parker- The Self Indulgent Intro
The Monkey Butler- Lays It Down
Parker- Hear Ya Say- Bombstrikes
Aretha Franklin- Rock Steady (Parker Remix)- Ghetto Funk
Vibes Squad- Aristocratic Static- Vibe Squad
Parker v P Zilla- Golden Sounds ft Conrad Watts (Acapella)- Goodgroove
Ashanti- Only You (Parker Re-fix)
George Benson- Give Me The Night (Parker Re-jig)
BBC Radio 4- Carolyn Quinn on PM
Kidda- Doo Whot ft Blak Twang (Acapella)- Skint
Ludacris- Stand Up (Parker Re-flip)
Opuio- Tender Wrinkle- Addictech
The Reckless Moment- Columbia
Cymande- Dove- Janus
B.I.G.- Can I Get Witcha- Bad Boy
Mr Scruff- Zen- Ninja
Eddie Bo & The Soul Finders- We're Doing It (The Thang Part 2)- Bo-Sound
Porn Theatre Ushers- Me & Him (Parker Re-hash)
Foreign Beggars- Shake It- Dented
The Monkey Butler- What A Treat
The Mohawks- Studio 69- KPM
The Doors- Soul Kitchen- Elektra
Missy Elliot- Pass That Dutch- Elektra
Parker v Fake Blood- Mars Needs Parker
Eric B & Rakim- Juice (Know The Ledge) (Parker Re-fiddle)
The Beekeepers- Queen Bee ft Mystro- Jalapeno
DJ Hero- Sub Sonic- Velcro City
Max Sedgley- Sound Boy ft Tor (Parker Remix)- Jalapeno
Max Sedgley- Sound Boy ft Tor (Acapella)- Jalapeno
Mumford & Sons- Lion Man (Parker- Re-do)
Muse- Knights of Cydonia (Parker's Fight The Bankers! Remix)
Joker & Ginz- Re-Up- Kapsize
BBC Radio 1- Mary Anne Hobs on Bristol Rise Up!
Parker- Say Goodnight ft Conrad Watts (Acapella)- Rocstar
Art Of Noise- Moments In Love (Parker Re-dub)
Parker v Black Sabbath- Iron Mandem
BBC Radio 1- Mary Anne Hobs on Bristol Rise Up!
Gramatik- Liquified- Cold Busted
Criminal Minds- Baptized By Dub- White House
Musical Youth- Pass The Dutchie- MCA
MC Duke- I'm Riffin (Acapella)- Music Of Life
Turntable Dubbers- I Say Yeah- Nice Up
The Cure- Love Cats- Sire
The Who- Baby Don't You Do It- Track
Sigma- Baltimore- Breakbeat Kaos
Rasco- Hip Hop Essentials (Acapella)- Pockets Linted Entertainment
Total Science- Redlines- Critical
Bcee & S.P.Y.- Is Anybody Out There- Spearhead
DJ C- Let It Billie- Scandal Bag
Stew Pot's- Pop Party- Warwick
DJ Shadow- Trench Battle Beat- Universal
Glenn Miller- Little Brown Jug- His Master's Voice
Missy Elliot- Get Your Freak On (Acapella)- Elektra
Dr Meaker- Double Bass- Flightcase
Dr Meaker- Double Bass (Acapella)- Flightcase
Neil Diamond- Cherry Cherry- Metronome
DJ Marky & XRS- LK- V Recordings
Chris Morris & Armando Innucci- On The Hour Series One Episode 3- Warp Records
Parker- Bogus Hocus Pocus
Eddie Hinton Interview
Led Zeppelin- Whole Lotta Love- Atlantic
Klute- Glue Sniffer (Keaton Remix)- Commercial Suicide
Charlie Whitehead- Let's Do It Again Parts 3 & 4- Ace
The Monkey Butler- One More
S.P.Y.- By Your Side- Spearhead
The Princess Bride- 20th Century Fox



Check Parker's Soundcloud for more free refixes and mash-ups!

Smoke this in your pipe and swing it!

***Howdy folks! Dave "The" Knox here...long time listener, first time blogger. I'm fresh outta bloggin' bootcamp so go easy on me sarge...***

This mix is literally still dripping little 1's and 0's as it's so fresh off the mp3 press... the genre creating Dutty Moonshine have bent to the will of the baying public by releasing a mash-up mix of their eclectic rave-driven Electro Swing style.

Dutty (Don Von Drop It & FunkunFurl) have been steadily kicking the arse into Electro Swing for a while now... dirty little dubstep fused ditties (Soundcloud "Spanky Tonk"!) have popped up here and there sparking enough interest for a tour last summer that took them to such diverse places as Paris and Bethnal Green (via quite a few other locales!).

I'm crap at descriptions so here's theirs: Swing for the rave generation and rave for the swing generation. With backgrounds of Drum and Bass, Hip-Hop, Funk, Electro and Breaks and a passion for vintage music, scantily clad ladies and dapper décolletage comes a duet DJ show which brings you back to the 30's with big bad dutty basslines thrown in to satisfy all those insatiable needs.

'nuff reading! Listen to this....Knox out.

ELECTRO SWING ON THIS by Dutty Moonshine

Tracklisting:

Savage Henry - Breathe and Swing
Backini Company - B Boy
Tape Five - Dixie Biscuit
Dunklebunt - La Revedere
Al'Tarba - Mushroom Burger
C2C - 2005 DMC Piece
Chinese Man - Artichaut
Eminem - Without Me
Jive Bunny - Beethoven
Beat3 - Superduper
Bassnectar - Carried Away
Beats Antique - Roustabout (Bassnectar remix)
Top Shelf Jazz - Live Hard, Drunk, Die Rich (Dutty Moonshine edit)
Caravan Palace - Brotherswing (Major Zero)
Goldfish - Wet Willy
Dutty Moonshine - Up To The Red
Balkan Beatbox - Delancy
The McMash Clan - Balkan Riddim
Max Farenthide - Happy People
Kormac - Wash My Hands
Odjbox - Bakers Dozen
Beat3 - Eastcoast Swing
OdjBox - Mister Joe's Cafe
DKS - Sing Sing Sing
White Noise - You Ain't Got That Swing
Don Johnson Big Band - One Mc One Delay
Zodiac Cartel - Make My Music
Yolanda Be Cool - We No Speak Americano (High Rankin remix)
Gramophonedzie - Why Don't You Do Right (High Rankin remix)
Parker - Where's My Monkey
Cragga - Mr. Postman
Bukez Finezt - Al Jawala
Stenchman - Puking Over
Stenchman - Cockeck
Dutty Moonshine - How To Escape A Haunted House
Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer - Everything Stops
DJ Yoda - Ding Dong Daddy
Baron - The Ratpack
Glen Miller - In The Mood (Dr. Fish remix)
Ray Charles - Hit The Road Jack (unknown artist remix)
Louis Armstrong - If It Ain't Got That Swing (Fractal Remix)
En El Hijodeputa Del Edificio
Waga Waga - Beeg Spenda

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!

InSpiral Lounge: Dreadzone Sound System, Ade Laugee and DJ Ade

  
Had a brilliant party at the InSpiral Lounge in Camden last Saturday night, as the final leg of Danielle's birthday weekend. When we arrived Ade Laugee (Planet Angel) was rocking the canalside cafe with funky goodtime breaks, the perfect warm-up for Dreadzone Sound System. He handed out this wicked little promo at the end.

Ade Laugee - Kumina EDM (YouSendIt link - valid until 27 March)

 

Dreadzone are one of my all time favourite bands and every time I see them turns out to be a special occasion. Greg Dread and MC Spee were on fine form as always, and had the whole of the tiny cafe bouncing to the ceiling with dubwise energy. It was so frantic that condensation was forming on the ceiling of the tiny cafe and dripping down onto the decks.

 I always forget how much fun Dreadzone are, and found myself dancing more than I have in ages. They finished with a new tune in an east end gansta ska style, from their new album Eye on the Horizon which is coming out on 24 April supported by a full live tour.  Greg Dread told me after that on the DJ front he's been playing a lot of electro and dubstep lately - sounds like something I'd like to hear!

Dreadzone Sound System Live at Glade 2008 (click on Dreadzone DJ Downloads)
Tour dates for Eye on the Horizon
Greg's Dread's best tunes from the noughties

Up after Dreadzone was my mate Ade (Om Bongo), invited to play one of his epic progressive techno sets. He really kept the engergy in the room going, despite the change in style and by the time I left was blasting out Dirty Loud to a busy room. I posted this wicked mix from Ade in December and he's just released a new mix, Revenge of the Techno Hippies on Soundcloud!

Ade - Revenge of the Techno Hippies  by  4d3

Invisible Circus: St Valentine's Day Massaquerade (Bristol, UK)

If you're in the UK and jealous of Lucent L'amour in LA, check out the Invisible Circus St Valentine's Day Massaquerade in Bristol this weekend - there may still be tickets left for the Sunday! It's less glitch hop and more swing/balkan/d'n'b/1930s hip-hop, which is also good! Again I am jealous of all who are going....

These videos should give a flavour of what to expect. They're from the Carny-Ville party that took place at The Island in Bristol each Autumn for the last few years. Depending on which night they were shot, you might just catch D-ra or me fire spinning in them. You can also see the legendary Troy Diamond on his roller skates.

Bassnectar: 2010 IDJ mixtape

Mashing up breaks, d'n'b, reggae, dubstep and glitch-hop in his own genre and tempo defying style, Bassnectar rules. I have very little else to say on the matter except that you NEED this mixtape like you need bass to breath...

I'll leave the rest to the man himself:

Welcome to another Bassnectar Transmission.

This episode is 44 minutes and 25 seconds of 10th-generation genre-re-wiring, exploring bass music through an open-minded lens, regardless of tempo, or even beat-structure… this sound clash aims straight for your body, with the intent to melt you down into a fidgeting, wobbling mess of enthusiasm and delight. In addition to some of my favorite old records and samples, this mix features several brand new Bassnectar tracks, heaps of exclusive edits, re-edits, and re-re-re-edits. Lot’s of re. Lot’s of mix. Lot’s of edits. We tore our favorite drum & bass to shreds, injected hip hop with some pogo-stick bass, amped up the tempo of dubstep, freaked out the gypsies, gave a nod to the dreamy 80’s and ended up similar to where we started off: omni-tempo maximalism strikes again.

Enjoy the ride.

Bassnectar - 2010 IDJ mixtape (direct download link - right click save as)

Tracklisting

1. Azzido Da Bass - Doom’s Night (Timo Maas vs Bassnectar)
2. Bassnectar - Cozza Frenzy (Mega Bass Mix)
3. Rye Rye - Bang feat. MIA [aca]
4. S.C.A.M. - Let Me Hear You Say
5. Stagga – I Got Bass
6. Seductive Dubz - Hey!
7. Caravan Palace - Starscat
8. AAK & Double Step - (Bassnectar Edit)
9. Bassnectar - Boombox (Bassnectar Remix)
10. The Pixies - Where is My Mind? (Bassnectar Remix)
11. Nextmen - The Lion’s Den (Sigma vs Bassnectar)
12. Zen - Your Shout ft. Killabeats & Gry (Bassnectar Re-edit)
13. Bassnectar - Teleport Massive (Bassnectar Remix)
14. Bassnectar - Slam Dunk feat. Dunkelbunt
15. Bazznectar Medley - Tears for Modern English Masher
16. Damian Marley - It Was Written (Chasing Shadows Remix)
17. Kid Cudi - Day & Night (JOTS vs Crowdrock vs Bassnectar)
18. Malente & Dex - Lions (Bassnectar & iLL Gates Remix)

Jay Cunning: Old Skool Jungle remix

Our mate Spinky's B-day on Friday, lots of old skool jungle pulled out the record bags. As if to remind me, i.d. has just posted this jungle mash up from Kiss 100's Jay Cunning on bass music blog - 32 classic tunes in one hour!

Jay's recently launched his own breaks/dubstep label Sub Slayerz - check this earlier bass music post for details and a free promo mix.

Jay Cunning - Old Skool Vol 02 ('94 Jungle) by Jay Cunning / Sub Slayers


Jay Cunning - Old Skool Vol 02 ('94 Jungle) by Jay Cunning / Sub Slayers

1 Alex Reece / Pulp Fiction / Metalheadz
2 Leviticus / Burial / Philly Blunt Records
3 Origin Unknown / Valley Of The Shadows / Ram
4 Omni Trio / Renegade Snares (Foul Play VIP Remix) / Moving Shadow
5 Omni Trio / Renegade Snares (Foul Play Remix) / Moving Shadow
6 Whats My Code / Dubplate / Stage One
7 Ray Keith / Renegade Terrorist / Dread
8 Deep Blue / The Helicopter Tune (Fantasy #1) / Moving Shadow
9 Q Project / Champion Sound (Alliance remix) / Legend
10 Hyper On Experience / Lords Of The Null Lines (Foul Play Remix) / Moving Shadow
11 Origin Unknown / Truly One / Ram
12 DJ Rap & Aston / Spiritual Aura / Proper Talent
13 DJ Taktix (feat. Top Buzz) / The Way (Remix) / Back 2 Basics
14 Dead Dred / Dred Bass / Moving Shadow
15 Slipmatt / Breaking Free / Awesome
16 Boogie Times Tribe / Dark Stranger (Origin Unknown Remix) / Suburban Bass
17 Andy C & Shimon / Nightflight / Ram
18 Jo / R-Type / Awesome
19 DJ Ron / Crackman The Return / Rough Tone
20 MA2 / Hearing is Believing (Vocal) / Formation
21 Alex Reece / Basic Principles / Metalheadz
22 DJ Zinc / Super Sharp Shooter / Ganja Records
23 A Zone / Calling All The People / White House
24 The Dream Teem / Stamina / Suburban Base
25 DRS feat. Kenny Ken / Everyman / Rugged Vinyl
26 Roni Size & Reprazent / Brown Paper Bag / Talkin' Loud
27 Krome & Time / The License / Tearin Vinyl
28 Splash / Babylon / Deejay
29 DJ SS / The Lighter / Formation
30 Amazon II / King Of The Beats / Aphrodite Recordings
31 DJ Krust / Set Speed / V
32 Roni Size & Reprazent / Share The Fall (Full Vocal Mix) / Talkin' Lou