Bass cannons and trouser wobblers

Easy now - Upstart here for the first time in loooongtimes. I'll blame a lack of internets during my time in Berlin, but really it's just chronic laziness. Still, despite not having posted here for a couple of months, I've been snuffling away for musical truffles like a big metaphorical piggy.

But I think rather than bore you all with my lukewarm banter, I'm just going to crack on with the bangers.

First up: Stumbled upon this massive banger while out in Berlin: IMF by Terry Lynn

This for me is the biggest tune I've heard this year, so imagine my surprise when I found out the album came out in 2008! If you can already see me goggle-eyed and amazed, imagine my further surprise when I found out as I was writing this post that THE WHOLE ALBUM IS AVAILABLE FOR FREE DOWNLOAD.

Yes, that's right, I'm shouting, partly because it's phenomenally awesome and partly because I need to distract my work colleagues from the fact that I need to change my trousers now...

Ahem... moving swiftly on, next up is Bust a Fuze from southern UK's mysterious mastermind WBBL. Crank up your bass cannons in advance:

Hells yea.

If your neck is not yet broken from nine minutes of ferocious bouncing, wrap your lugholes around this - Benji Boko's mahoosive remix of Roots Manuva classic, Witness:

This tune is coming out on Benji Boko's Remix album, released (I believe for free, it's actually a little unclear) on the 28th of May, which is this Monday. Get updates by signing up for Benji's newsletter, here: http://eepurl.com/dfGIU

Ready for another bassy funkgasm? Spark up a fat one for DJ Voita, Mr Cocoman and The Solid Vibes:

I think that's what they're asking for anyway...

So one last bouncy tune before I steer back towards MusicalMana-licensed genres - gird up your swing pants and wiggle to this little gem from Kid Kasino:

I'm finding it harder to track down Glitch Hop and Glitch that really floats my boat at the moment - lots that I'm hearing recently just sounds like a re-hash of the Glitch Mob or Koan Sound... Having said that, Mouldy Soul, in my opinion, never fails to crank out the bangers.

Chilled it may be, but don't underestimate The Harangu:



And now, the dubstep. Whether you are a Skrillex-hater, a Skrillex-lover, or downright Skrillex-agnostic, this beat from Skullee is BRUTAL:



So that's it from me, aside from a resolution to post more often! And now, before I get in trouble with MoM, here's a picture of a fish:

Love and kisses, Upstart

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!

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)
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