Free tunes: Osmium mixes July-Oct 2011

Glasgow's Osmium club got in touch with the blog recently to give the lowdown on their night held every second Saturday of the month at Blackfriars on Bell Street, spinning a "mad mix of Italo, synth, funk and other madness" - as an extra bonus they casually dropped in a four month back catalogue of Osmium mixes. Dig in and enjoy!

October

Osmium Mix October 2011 by I_Fear_Satan on Mixcloud

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September

Osmium September mix by Gary Thoms on Mixcloud

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August

Osmium Mix August 2011 by I_Fear_Satan on Mixcloud

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July

Osmium Mix July 2011 by I_Fear_Satan on Mixcloud

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Free tunes: Kelevra

The free samples just keep coming! Next up on Aquasky's Monster Sounds label in conjunction with Loopmasters is Kelevra with jackin' tech and electro house. Grab your free samples and the promo mix, below.

10 free samples and a demo track available here:

  Kelevra 'Jackin Tech House' - Free Samples And Demo! by Monster Sounds

Exclusive ‘Project BlueBeam’ Mix:
  Kelevra 'Project BlueBeam' - Monster Sounds Mix 2011 by Monster Sounds
Download HERE

Track list
1: The Squatters ‘Mindsweeper (Black Noise Mix) – Champion
2: Kelevra Vs. Slave 2 Disco ‘So Cold’ ft. Pete Miles – Passenger
3: Jaimie Fanatic ‘Reprogrammed (Jay Robinson & Figure Mix) – Wearhouse
4: 601 ‘Brothers & Sisters’ – Passenger
5: Foreign Beggars ‘Still Getting It’ ft. Skrillex – Never Say Die
6: Aquasky ‘Take Me There’ ft. Diane Charlemagne – Passenger
7: Hostage ‘Energise’ – Part Like Us
8: 601 ‘Space Fury’ - Passenger

 

Kelevra lowdown from Monster Sounds:

Loopmasters and Monster Sounds are proud to release a fresh collection of sounds from the studio of Kelvera for producers of Jackin, Tech and Electro House music. Kelevra is a name that most people are now familiar with and if not by name then very likely due to his incredible productions and focus. He spearheaded the Jackin House scene and dabbled in the Fidget scene when it first evolved. During this era he created the Fidget Kingdom label and stamped his authority all over it with the labels debut release ‘Jak Music’ which he wrote alongside Whiskey Pete. The tunes kept on coming with cutting edge guests such as Micky Slim, Moston & Malente, Aniki, Klaus Hill, Jaimie Fanatic, Bill Eff, Breakdown and of course himself and Whiskey Pete. Over the past few years Kelevra has been pushing the bassline sound of house music through a wide variety of labels such as Wearhouse Music, Potty Mouth and Passenger and has been fortunate enough to have collaborated and remixed such artists as Bam Bam, Aquasky, Miles Dyson, DJ Dan, Blake Miller, Niki Belucci, Sharooz, Black Noise, Will Bailey, Hatiras and MC Flipside.

But he isn’t just a lover of the bassline... he is also heavily involved in the bumpin’ stripped back Tech House movement and has recently created the alias Temple Of Boom to really showcase this side of his production. And it is between these two posts, the rugged bassline energy of Kelevra past and the Jackin Tech House of Kelevra / Temple Of Boom future that we delve into his first sample pack for Monster Sounds under the tutoring of the scenes leader Loopmasters.

Jackin Tech House weighs in at an impressive 940MB and includes 780 24Bit samples, with 282 Loops between 125 – 128 Bpm, and 500 One Shot Samples. If you like to program your own parts you will be glad to hear that we have included 100 ready to play patches for Halion, EXS, Kontakt, SFZ and Reason NNXT Soft Samplers. Apple Loops, Reason Refill and Ableton Live versions are also available to purchase separately.

In detail this excellent sample pack includes 62 Bass Loops, 129 Split and Layered Drum Loops, 9 Guitar Loops, 52 Inspirational Music Loops, 30 Vocal Loops, 158 Single Shot Drum Samples, 34 Bass Hits, 13 Bass Multisamples, 34 Fx Sounds, 21 Sub Bass Samples, 12 Synth Multisamples, 19 Vocal One Shots, 112 Vocal Stabs and Phrases, plus 10 ready to play Drum Kits.

Kelevra presents Jackin Tech House is a heavy dose of fine productions skills from the mind of a scene leader. And keeping with the Monster Sounds artist release formula this pack features a guest vocalist from California by the name of Tory Davis.

Free tunes: NineLives The Cat, Organ Donors, and Baker Brothers

As promised, here's even more free promos from the Monster Sounds stable - get stuck in!

Available for free:

Promo mix from NineLives The Cat - 'Last Minute Thing' (Monster Sounds Mix 2011)

Mini-Bio: Dan Walker aka NineLives The Cat has worked his way thrugh house and breakbeat, collaborating with the likes of Rennie Pilgrim and Kevelera, who appears on the Monster Pro Sounds series later in the year. He is also a member of punk thrash rap group, The Deathset, signed to Ninja Tune.

  NineLives The Cat 'Last Minute Thing' - Monster Sounds Mix 2011 - download! by Monster Sounds 

and download here
 
Track List
1) NineLives The Cat Strikes Back - NineLives The Cat feat "Bathroom Sexxx"
2) Three Point Mash Up - NineLives The Cat
3) Let Me In - NineLives The Cat
4) NYCDIY - Franci$co feat "NineLives The Cat" (Crooklyn Static rerub)
5) Everytime I Need You Tonite - NineLives The Cat vs INXS vs Illeist Collective
6) Girls - NineLives The Cat
7) Cat Nip Tuck - NineLives The Cat (Manmade Mash Up)
8) Crash Test Kitten - NineLives The Cat feat "Kitten"
9) Let It Blow - NineLives The Cat
10) Distressed - The Death Set (NineLives The Cat remix)
11) We Don't Give a Fuck - Ninja Sonik feat "Johnny Nelson", "NineLives The Cat" and "Trouble Andrew" (ZAP! POW! DIE! remix)
12) Party Pooper - Ninja Sonik/Roofeeo feat "SBeezee", "NineLives The Cat" and "Spankrock"
13) Aint No Disco Music - Kelevra feat "NineLives The Cat" - (ZAP! POW! DIE! remix)
14) That Girl Trouble - Costello feat "NineLives The Cat"
15) NYCDIY - Franci$co feat "NineLives The Cat" - (ZAP! POW! DIE! remix)

Promo mix from Organ Donors (Monster Sounds Mix 2011)

  Organ Donors 'Monster Sounds Mix 2011' - download by Monster Sounds

and download here

Track List
01: Golden Coast (Scott Project Rmx) Organ Donors 'Mash Up'
02: Rank 1 (Mr Sam Rmx)
03: Elrich & Plaice 'Bitter Sweet'
04: Marc Simz 'Forbidden City'
05: Urry Fefe love & Arabammassi 'Autobahn
06: Liam Howells 'OddBall'
07: Steve Angello 'Rave N Roll' (Organ Donors Klack N Roll Facelift Mix)
08: Organ Donors 'Human Traffic' Teaser
09: Bk & Lee Haslem 'Infectious'
10: Technical 'The Ritual' (BK Rmx) (Organ Donors Quick Edit)
11: Neal Thomas 'The Virus' (Organ Donors Virus Slut Mash Up)
12: Afrojack 'Pacha On Acid' (Organ Donors Renagade Rip Up)
13: Luca Antolini 'Lost In Time'
14: Luca Antolini 'Harmony of Universe'
15: Public Domain 'Separate Your Senses'
16: Public Domain 'Separate Your Senses' (Neal Thomas Rmx)
17: Leon B 'Night Breed' (Organ Donors Edit)
18: Organ Donors 'New Era' (Kamui Rmx)
19: BRK3 'FR33'
20: Organ Donors 'Moogerfoogin'
21: BRK3 'C4UTION'
22: ASYS 'ACID ZOMBIE'
23: Luca Antolini vs Deadmau5 (Donors Wrong Chords Surgical Mix)
24: Mark Young & Derek Jones 'Dusk Till Dawn' ( Dj Activator Rmx)

10 free samples and a demo track from Organ Donors, 'Future Hard Dance':

  Organ Donors - 'Future Hard Dance' - Free Samples And Demo! by Monster Sounds

Promo funk mix from the Baker Brothers' 'Monster Sounds Mix 2011'

  The Baker Brothers 'Funk Sessions - Monster Sounds Mix' 2011 by Monster Sounds

and download here

Track List
1 - The Mexican
2 - Maid Of Mars
3 - Paste
4 - Feeding Freddie
6 - Space Funk
7 - The Young Patter
8 - Make Your Move
9 - All Baked Out

10 free samples and a demo track from the Funk Sessions Vol 1 and Vol 2!


  The Baker Brothers 'Funk Sessions Vol. 1' - Free Samples And Demo! by Monster Sounds

and download here

Free tunes: Carl Taylor - Perplexer and Violet

We start off the week with three slices of techno from Carl Taylor, ahead of his LP on EPM Music. The triple tribal whammy includes a remix by Orlando Voorn. Enjoy!

The blurb from EPM:

Ahead of his new artist album for EPM Music, Carl Taylor delivers two new productions ‘Perplexer’ (accompanied by a remix from Orlando Voorn) and ‘Violet’.

South Yorkshire’s Carl Taylor grew up surrounded by funk (his father was a Soul DJ), acquired his own decks at 14 and his first synth (a Roland) at 16. He has been DJing for 12 years and released on labels like Bugged Out, F-Comm, Dust Science, Advanced and F1 Recordings, not to mention his Warehouse Trax series, plus remixes for artists like Laurent Garnier, The Black Dog & Chris Cowie.

Carl’s tracks plug straight into your core, from the pulsating beats and tribal rhythms on ‘Perplexer’ to the melodic synths of ‘Violet’, he infuses raw organic emotion into his music, making dancefloor Techno with strength and feeling. 

Acclaimed Dutch producer, Orlando Voorn has been at the top of his game for many years now with his consistently high quality releases. The man who also brought us works as Nighttripper, Basic Bastard and Fix (with the timeless ‘Flash’) continues to impress here, upping the tempo for his shakedown of ‘Perplexer’. 

Look out for Carl’s new album later this year on EPM Music.

  Carl Taylor "Perplexer / Violet" (EPM Music) by epm-music 
 
Released: 25th July 2011

Free tunes: Aquasky and Loopmasters present.... Monster Sounds!

If you haven't already heard of sample label, Monster Sounds, born out a collaboration between Aquasky and Loopmasters, now's the time to start getting interested if you're looking for that royalty-free edge and talent for your productions! Starting with Black Noise aka Aquasky's alter-ego and 'Warehouse' back in March, the collection has steamed through productions from The Baker Brothers, Sy & Unknown, the Organ Donors, and now the Monster Sounds Pro Series, 'East Coast Rap Pack'. 

The lowdown:

Brent from Aquasky explains, “There will be two levels to what Monster Sounds is about. Firstly presenting a fantastic line up of some of the very best musicians/producers that we know. Secondly to offer packs designed for the working producer that concentrate on key instrumentation or vocalisation, a staple for any professional recording studio.”

Monster Sounds aims to provide inspirational royalty free audio content for music producers and DJ’s alike. Incorporating pro Sessions from well-known artists or tailoring specific musical and vocal content for the professional recording studio.

And with that, here's 'New York Rap Acapellas Vol 1' for the "professional and the bedroom producer", created with MCs NineLives The Cat (Brooklyn MC and member of punk-rap group The Deathset), Telle Gramz aka Bathroom Sexxx (Ninja Sonik), and Pablo Pleeeez!!! (Boy N Girl). The vocal performances are designed to fit with a range of styles, so manipulate at your will!

You can grab 10 free samples for download now as well as a demo track for inspiration:

  New York Rap Acapellas - Free Samples And Demo! by Monster Sounds

The technical part:
The pack weighs in at 750MB and includes 484 Rap Samples recorded in pristine 24 Bit. You get 303 Loops between 96 – 140 Bpm, and 181 Single Shot vocals. Also included are 5 ready to play patches packed with the vocal one shots for Reason NNXT, Halion, EXS, SFZ and Kontakt soft samplers. Apple Loops, Reason Refill and Ableton Live versions are also available to purchase separately. 

Stay tuned to Lo-Quality Music for even more free samples and promo mixes from the Monster Sounds collective, starting next week!

Upcoming Releases

Monster Sounds Pro Series presents: East Coast Rap Pack: July 8th
Kelevra ‘Jackin Tech House’: July 29th
Lee Mortimer’s Bass House: August 19th
Funk Bass Vol.1: September 9th
Dirty South Rap Pack: September 23rd
Kanji Kinetic ‘Mutant Bass’: October 21st
Aquasky: November 11th
Colin Dale: December 2nd 

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http://www.aquasky.co.uk/
http://www.loopmasters.com/
http://www.facebook.com/loopmasters
http://twitter.com/loopmasters
http://www.twitter.com/Monster_Sounds

New contributor and Radio Show!

The Lo-Quality family is expanding, and we welcome new contributor Marc Reck; writer, DJ, and all-round dance music bod with a taste for bass-heavy music.

He also plays the Mr Elephant Radio Show, and we have last night's show right here so that you can get to grips with his grooves, as well as the latest new music.

Marc will be writing dance reviews as well as contributing DJ sets / radio shows, so stay tuned for even more content on Lo-Quality.

Mr Elephant Radio Show #37 – Hosted by Marc Reck – 30th June 2011

A load of some of the very best phat, wobbly, reggae tinged, dubby and filthy bass driven breaks and dubstep promos & new releases featured on tonights show, (many of which featured in June’s Reckommended Records) all mixed together with a healthy dose of hosting.

Hope you enjoy the show, please check out the artists from the links in the tracklisting, comments are very welcome & if you want to download this and all other shows drop your email into the dj narrative newsletter and I’ll send you the download page in our 1st newsletter. 

 

Mr Elephant Radio Show #37 - Hosted by Marc Reck (Dj Narrative) - 30th June 2011 by Marc Reck on Mixcloud

Tracklisting

Shut Up & Dance – Shine On
Big Daddy Kane – Get Raw (Stanton Warriors Mix)
Chad Jackson – Hear The Drummer Get Wicked (Eastwood Radio Remix)
Flore Feat. Rodney P – Get It In Get It On (Gella Remix)
Adam Freeland – Hate
Karton – Girl With Vertigo
Hedflux & LuQas – Reptoid – As featured in June’s Reckommended Records
Datsik – Retreat (Elite Force Remix)
Karton – Feed The Horde – As featured in June’s Reckommended Records
Yoof (Sunz Of Mecha) – One Bag Of F*ckery – As featured in June’s Reckommended Records
Yoof (Sunz Of Mecha) – Murderer – As featured in June’s Reckommended Records
Unknown – Spooky Dubstep
Jinx in Dub – Shaka Sonics (Rob Sparx Mix)
Freear & Ekaj – Gizmo Stomp (Snareophobe Remix) – As featured in June’s Reckommended Records
Yoof (Sunz Of Mecha) – Back 2 Hackney – As featured in June’s Reckommended Records
Screwface – Phat Bass
Rhythm Section – Atomic Bass (Ellis Dee & Twista Remix) – As featured in June’s Reckommended Records
Cut & Run – Lamb
Lamb – Gabriel
Lamb – Gorecki

Free tunes: New tracks and promo mix from Damn Horns

Two free singles and a promo mix from Damn Horns, courtesy of Life Support Machine.

Damn Horns - Freakout Mix 2011 

Life Support Machine picked up this DJ mix for the 9th edition of their podcast, Beats & Bass Must Have.

"Don’t be fooled by the reggae ting-tings of the intro, this mix quickly gets sweaty. Silly, funky, fidgety house-party grooves and wibbly-wobbly gut-wrenching breakbeat nonsense for over an hour. Madness. And dubstep. A real journey of drug-fuelled attic-antics."

Download Here

  Damn Horns - Freakout Mix 2011 by damnhorns

**The tracklisting is included at the bottom of this post.

Free Tracks

Wanda Jackson - Whirlpool (Damn Horns Remix) - [lifesupportmachine.co.uk] 

"It’s quirky, crowd friendly mix of vintage Rock ‘n’ Roll vocals and funk-fuel beats ‘n’ bass has had mad support on this from the likes of Nick Thayer, Ben & Lex, Peo De Pitte, Pete Jordan and Plaza De Funk. Even been awarded 9/10 in iDJ Magazine on the ‘Warehouse’ page. I’m not quite sure what Warehouse is, but it sounds like a good thing."

Download here

  Wanda Jackson - Whirlpool [Damn Horns Remix] - FREE DOWNLOAD by damnhorns

Damn Horns Vs Harry J Allstars - Liquid Heater - [lifesupportmachine.co.uk]

"Maybe I might get an angry fist shook at me from a nooligan or two for this. I don’t know. I don’t like football unless a hard bloke asks me, anyway. Eitherways, this classic has been respectfully fattyfied. One for the festivals?! Bung on kettle and give it a whirl. Two sugars."

Download here

  DAMN HORNS Vs Harry J Allstars - Liquid Heater - FREE DOWNLOAD (see description) by damnhorns

Damn Horns new single 'The Freak Out' is out now on Cut La Roc's Rocstar Recordings.
 
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**TRACKLIST
1) DAMN HORNS Vs Harry J Allstars – Liquid Heater [lifesupportmachine.co.uk]
2) Hervé & Fatboy Slim – Machines Can Do The Work [Skint]
3) Phonat – Ghetto Burnin’ (Arveene & Misk Remix) [MoFo HiFi]
4) Malcolm Funktion – Woop Woop (Two Fresh Remix) [Acidphonic]
5) Miami Horror – I Look To You (Nick Thayer Remix) [EMI]
6) Smalltown Romeo – Party Motion (Malente Remix) [Plant Music]
7) Kill Light – Daydream (Lee Mortimer Remix) [Black Butter]
8) Krafty Kuts – Lets Go Let’s Ride (Ado’s Wild Side Remix) [Instant Vibes]
9) Heavy D – Nuttin But Luv (Hype Jones 2011 Remix)
10) The Squatters – Superfly (Aniki Remix) [Champion Records]
11) Breakdown – Zwiggy
12) Bassbin Twins – Floorwerks [His own ting]
13) Noob & Brodinski – Peanuts Club (Marten Horger Edit)
14) Peo De Pitte – Burning Up [U&A Recordings]
15) Felix Cartal – Joker vs Riddler (Just Banks Edit)
16) Wanda Jackson – Whirlpool (Damn Horns Remix) [lifesupportmachine.co.uk]
17) Featurecast – Sniper [???]
18) Featurecast – Damn!
19) Krafty Kuts Vs Royskopp – Happy Up Here [BOO TEA]
20) Phaeleh – Falling [Disfigured Dubz]
21) Emalkay – Crusader [Dub Police]
22) Keewix ft Messinian – Mariachi Loco (Calvertron Remix) [One more tune]
23) Damn Horns – The Freakout (Freerange DJs Remix) [Rocstar Recordings]

Tim Healey: Rest in Beats Mini-Mix free download

Fans of Tim Healey will be delighted to click here and grab his new 'Rest in Beats' LP minimix for the princely sum of spending energy clicking a mouse button. If you can't wait to hear his blend of electro, house, future garage, hip hop and more, stream away with Soundcloud below.


  TIM HEALEY LP - REST IN BEATS - PROMO MINI MIX - ALBUM RELEASED 30TH MAY 2011 by Tim Healey  

"A little taster for you from Tim's new LP - Rest In Beats it spans a galaxy of the freshest electronic sonics, with BPMs tastefully varied. Matt King (aka Peep show’s gnarly “Super Hans”) drops in for the album’s spoken word intro, before Tim tours hip-hop, urban and dance-hall beats, an awesome cover of the Beatle’s Dear Prudence and then double delivers with no less than 5 unmissable club cuts.
 

Collaborators on the album include a who’s who of dance-music’s glitterati: Calvertron, Tomcraft, Atomic Drop, Freqhouse, Pete Martin and an arsenal of vocalists from SirReal (Freestylers/Pendulum) to the legendary toaster Top Cat via urban-heros Manners, Loc-E and sassy songstress Pippa Trix."

Tracklisting for Album

1. Intro (Tim Healey featuring Matt King)
2. Live it love it (Tim Healey vs Tomcraft featuring SirReal)
3. Rock it roll it (Tim Healey vs Calvertron feat SirReal & Pippa Trix)
4. Take control (Tim Healey vs Atomic Drop feat SirReal)
5. Tempting to touch (Tim Healey feat Top Cat & Pippa Trix)
6. Dear Prudence (Tim Healey feat Kirsty Sillars)
7. Mars boudoir (Tim Healey feat Manners)
8. Believe him (Tim Healey vs Marc Adamo feat SirReal)
9. Tommy Finn (Tim Healey feat Dean van Jones) (Not in MiniMix)
10. Dance the tears away (Tim Healey vs Pete Martin feat. Pippa Trix)
11. Resistance (Tim Healey vs Freqhouse feat. Loc-E & Pippa Trix)
12. Loving you (Tim Healey vs Tomcraft feat. Pippa Trix)
13. Super surf (Tim Healey)

RELEASED - 30.05.11 WORLDWIDE

Released by: Surfer Rosa Records 

Release/catalogue number: SRRLP001

Stay tuned to the Lo-Quality blog for an upcoming interview with Tim Healey - I'll be taking reader requests for questions, so please leave a comment or email if there's something you're just itching to know. Check out the review of his LP on Lo-Quality Music.

Tim is also playing a warehouse party in London on 2nd July 2011 for Spectrum's Summer Show - more details on Facebook.

Free Tunes: Tripswitch and Rennie Pilgrem

Tripswitch aka Codemonkey aka Nick Brennan gives you two mixes to start the weekend, covering progressive, electro house, dub and drum and bass. If you dig what you hear, Tripswitch has just released 'Stereogram' Part 1 and 2 on Section Records. 

Nick Brennan - Roundhouse Radio Mix

"Mix aired on Roundhouse Radio, March 2011. Mixed live with a smattering of pizzazz from the awesome Pioneer DJM-900 Nexus." - Nick Brennan

You can stream the set below or download directly from here.

Nick Brennan 1 hour progressive / electro house mix for Roundhouse Radio by tripswitch

Tracklist:

1) Escadia - Voz del Mar (Soundprank's 'Lost' mix) / A Must Have
2) Andy Newland & Oscitone - Jamm (Seb Dhajje remix) / Jetlag Digital
3) SQL - Leisure Battery (Soundprank remix) / Fatali Music
4) Boom Jinx & Andrew Bayer vs. Trifonic & Matt Lange - Quadcore / Anjunabeats
5) Tripswitch - Strange Parallels (Purple vs Tim Healey re-rub) / Section Records
6) Daniel Portman - Leap of Faith (original mix) / PinkStar Records
7) Gai Barone - The Moth (Ticon remix) / Afterglow
8) Soundprank - The Far Side (original mix) / Anjunadeep
9) Tripswitch - Collider (Nick Warren remix) / Section Records
10) Sueno Latino - Sueno Latino (Derrick May remix) / Buzz

Codemonkey - Big Bottom Mix

"I'm on it with the mixes at the moment. Here's another one by way of contrast to the dancefloor beats of the Roundhouse... This one flits between deep dubstep and deep techy D&B, with a heavy emphasis on the bottom end. Hop on the bass bus and enjoy!" - Codemonkey

Stream below, or download here.

Codemonkey big bottom mix march 11 by tripswitch

Tracklist:
1) Adham Shaikh - Rug Rippin' (Codemonkey remix) / Sonic Turtle
2) Lojik - Lovin' You / Mindstorm Records
3) DJG vs Headhunter - Spacecakes / Wheel & Deal Records

4) Phetsta - Dance All Night / Technique Recordings

5) Breakage ft. Zarif - Over / Digital Soundboy Record Co.
6) Koya - Unity / Section 8
7) Tripswitch - Stereogram (Codemonkey remix) / Section Records
8) Mr Sizef - Seven Tones of Romantic / Syncopix
9) Unquote - Hide Your Tears Because We Are In Heaven / Medschool
10) Circa - Ida / Medschool
11) Mr Sizef - Garmoniya Mirov / Hospital Records

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To give you a taster of his new release 'Street Legal 3', a double EP of nu-jungle and breaks, Rennie Pilgrem has a free track and mix to give away.


Rennie Pilgrem - '140' a Jungle Breaks Mix

"You can download this brand new 1 hour mix of the Jungle Breaks sound that is going down a storm." - Rennie Pilgrem

Rennie Pilgrem 140 Downloadable by Rennie Pilgrem


Rennie Pilgrem - 'Erica's Fix' (Rennie's Breakspoll Mix)

"Track I did especially for my 'Nu Jungle' set at Breakspoll. Uses Samples from New Film 'The Fix' and a great well-known singer." - Rennie Pilgrem

Stream below or download here.

Rennie Pilgrem Erica's Fix (Rennie's Breakspoll Mix) by Rennie Pilgrem


Available to buy

Free tunes: Uraki Riddim and Mark E

Free tunes, that lovely, lovely phrase, is here again!

First up we have Uraki Riddim's La Mixette, 'Midnight Blue' for Fulgeance's Musique Large, featuring 24 tracks of techno, broken beat, skweee, hip hop and more. Uraki runs and DJs the Do It! events in Aberdeen and Oslo, giving fans just about the only skwee-orientated club in Scotland, while finding the time to graphic design, and write for Vice and Resident Advisor!

Lamixette#53 Uraki Riddim by La Mixette on Mixcloud

Mark E

 

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Tailored and Warm are delighted to be giving away a free hour & a half long DJ mix from Mark E on soundcloud this week! Mark's 'Stone Breakin' mix was recorded at home in Birmingham earlier this month, and can be directly dowloaded from this link.

His debut album 'Stone Breaker' will be released on Spectral Sound in May.

 

Production Unit – The Illusion Of Talent

New mix to enjoy from Production Unit: it's wrapped in mystery and tentacles for Broken20, the digital download label from TVO which specialises in "releases concerned with decay, erosion, entropy, mistakes and errors, line noise and tape hiss, hum and buzz".


Production Unit – The Illusion Of Talent

liner notes found abandoned next to a half-burnt cd-r

“…he used to be fun, Production Unit – always dropping tunes at parties, a girl on each arm, splicing acapellas with breaks and kickdrums, happy and carefree. Then in the last few months he’d changed. It all started when he found that battered, oddly stained white label 12″, stamped only with an esoteric looking symbol and the single word ‘CTULU’ etched in the run out groove.
 
After that things changed. he began listening to the record obsessively. To my ears it sounded like the murky roar of an underground river, but he claimed that repeated listens began to elicit a coded message inside. Soon he started to collect others – some I’d heard of but others came in bizarre packaging and torn, briny-smelling boxes, shellac 78s with ‘property of Miskatonic U’ on them, records with titles like ‘Nautical Nuba’, ‘Dagon’s Bells’, ‘The Starry Wisdom’, ‘Sighting in The Abyss’, ‘Glaaki/Mi-go’.

With time he became even more furtive in his habits, endlessly scrawling in a series of notebooks, diagrams of strange geometric shapes with angles that somehow seemed blasphemies against nature.
 
Tonight he invited me round to hear, he claimed, the full unveiling of the coded messages in the records. Arriving late, i noticed immediately that his turntables were set up in an odd arrangement, with two trapezoid shapes suspended above them. Offering me a drink, he immediately set to work on them. the light in the room flickered and danced with the crystal shapes, and he frenziedly began cutting from record to record, adding a snatch of noise here, a fragment of voice there.
 
Soon the sounds became aligned together, but in a horrible decayed slow morass of writhing soundwaves, as the world began to slow down to a crawl.
 
Im scribbling these notes down on the back of a discarded Dom and Roland 12″ sleeve, and before the shadows i can see on the edge of time break through I will throw these words to the street, so that other may be warned. the acapellas are starting now….the shapes, the tentacles…THEY ARE THROUGH, DEAR HEAVENS! IA IA, CTHULU FTAGHN……”

(fragment ends)

*(with apologies to HPL)

Direct link here

New digital release from Texture - Synaesthesia EP

I have to admit to being down on some elements of Scottish hip-hop in the past - sometimes the guttural and clipped Scottish accent distracts rather than flows with the beats - but I felt ashamed after listening to Texture’s ‘Non-Sequitr’, debunking the idea that Scotland and hip-hop as married concepts do not follow. The track kicks off Texture’s new EP ‘Synaesthesia’, available for a donation (or free) on Black Lantern Music, a netlabel offering DRM-free mp3s from independent musicians.

It’s the second part of Texture’s trilogy of EPs, and follows January 2010’s ‘Asphasia’ release which tipped reviewers to declare him a “bookworm emcee” - a title which holds true on the chemical-compound, philosophical quipping ‘Synaesthesia’.

As Texture says: “Synaesthesia is a neurologically-based condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. Synaesthetes may experience smells as colours, or sounds as flavours - they may mistake indie for house music, or rap for dubstep.”

The latter part sounds like a condition which can commonly effect reviewers - after the 30th release of the day beats start morph into other genres and the definitions become so blurred you do start to become hazy about what makes a genre.

Through this haze comes four tracks which have visited Earth in some format or another in previous months; ‘Non-Sequitr’, ‘Silver Age’, ‘Echo Boomers’ and ‘The Dawn View’. If you’re a listener to Vic Galloway’s Radio 1 show, you might have caught ‘Echo Boomers’ when Texture performed it live, and followers of Texture’s previous work may notice that ‘The Dawn View’ is a reincarnation of a track on Texture and Morphamish’s collaborative LP, ‘Future Proof’, released under the Double Helix alias.

But back to the creeping feeling of shame and ‘Non-Sequitr’! The track looks at not so much the ‘plight’ of Scottish hip-hop but of a realistic view that it’s sidelined in some way by the over-hyped US dominance and bling culture - something which very much does not exist in Scotland. He name-checks other Scottish artists who have helped carved the way for Scottish hip-hop, but there is a slightly sombre note to this when considering they have all yet to make breakthroughs on a multi-national scale. Texture’s lyrics make reference to the stark differences in US / Scottish culture; working night-shifts; spitting rhymes in over-crowded basements; being told by people like Kayne to dress in diamonds, “when all we can afford is costume jewellery”; and drinking cheap mind-numbing substances like Buckfast. It’s a slow swagger of hip-hop to a 6/8 beat, decorated by acoustic guitar - composed and produced by Salem Anders and will definitely hold appeal for Scottish hip-hop fans, but will the rest be ready for a rebuke at popular culture hip-hop, bling and all?

Kid Ritalin, co-manager of Glasgow’s Little Rock net-label and artist, joins Texture for ‘Silver Age’, featuring bassy glitch-hop, broken beat and sparks of wonk, and encompasses the ‘bookworm’ title with its digs at TV and ‘cultural’ distractions. The beats help to impose the feeling of urgency in the message, so the track works well in a holistic sense. Long-time Texture collaborator, Morphamish, steps in to do beats and production on this track and the following two.

Previously performed on Radio 1, ‘Echo Boomers (Generation Why)’, is warped electro hip-hop spitting you questions on Generation Y; questioning whether you’re “human or consumer”, just as I try to surreptitiously slide my new android phone under a cushion. The ironies of smoking cigarettes while driving through Bhopal (site of serious chemical disaster); bank balances growing and swelling like tumours; Starbucks authors; romanticised Woodstock; we are all “wikipediphiles”; and living out the carcinogenic inheritance of Baby Boomers - from chemical-laden technologies to surviving on celebrity gossip. This song has the potential to chip away at international boundaries given that it nails issues which stretch into lots of different cultures.

‘Synaesthesia’ closes with the revamped ‘The Dawn View’, taken from ‘Future Proof’, and taking an optimistic view of what I prefer to call ‘the walk of shame’ - that walk home from the club while still bedraggled from the night’s partying on MDMA, just as the milkmen appear. It’s an upbeat fusion of indie and jazzy cumbia tinges with added guitar by Richard Lindsay that would have you dancing home ‘Singing In the Rain’ style rather than the obligatory hood up, eyes down, shuffle quickly routine!

The trilogy will be completed with ‘Parasomnia’ due for release on Black Lantern in January 2011.


If you're stuck for a gift for your nearest and dearest hip-hop-lovin' friends, download the EP here and watch the video (filmed in Edinburgh) for ‘Non-Sequitr’ below:

Tailored Communication: Xmas Mega Mix

From our friends at Tailored Communication comes an Xmas Mega Mix to cancel out the X-Factor chart dross!

"While you're roasting your chestnuts and knocking back the gluhwein, it's my pleasure to offer you an alternative soundtrack for your season. Jump deep into snow drifts of bass and dance giddily as delightful melodies fill the air...

Have a very Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year!"

Tailored Xmas Mega-mix 2010
mixed by, Santa's favourite elf, Exercise One


  Tailored Xmas Mega-Mix 2010 by Melissa

Or download here.

Tracklisting

Shed - STP2 / Ostgut Ton
Sideshow - Dub It all / Aus Music
Scuba - Before (After) / Hotflush
Emika - Cooling Room / Ostgut Ton
Exercise One - Prowl / Wagon Repair
Margret Dygas - Hidden (nsi mix) / PowerShovel Audio
Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts - Can´t Have Everything feat dOP /Crircus Company
Martyn - Miniluv /Ostgut Ton
Peter Van Hoesen - Irrational X (Exercise One Remix) / Exone
Scuba - Tracers (Deadbeat Remix) / Hotflush
Will Saul & Mike Monday - Sequence 1/ Aus Music
Joe - Claptrap / Hessle Audio
Shackleton - International Fires / Fabric
Sendai - Northeast / Time To Express
Mount Kimbie - Carbonated / Hot Flush
Space Dimension Controller - Temporary Thrillz / R&S
Phantasmeano - Vowels / Exone
Bloody Mary - Arabesque (Jin Choi rmx) / Dame-Music
Greie Gut Fraktion - Wir bauen eine Stadt (Alva Noto remodel) / Monika Enterprise
Massive Attack - Paradise Circus (Gui boratto remix) / Kompakt (from Michael Mayer's Immer 3)
Mathew Jonson - When Love Feels Like Crying / Wagon Repair
Mount Kimbie - Between Time/ Hot Flush

Free Tunes: Sedge Warbler free track and mixtape

 

Ahead of their 'Welcome to the Universe' LP release in January 2011 on Skanky Panky Records, Lo-Quality has two free Sedge Warbler giveaways to whet your whistle. A mixture of glitch-hop, wonk, and electronica, the duo of Dank and Disko want to take you to the limits of outer space.

Sedge Warbler - Paranormal Ox Man

• Free track from the new LP, titled 'Octopus Lover’- click here to download.

• Sedge Warbler DJ mixtape- I Eatz Ribs on Tyhe First Date

I EATz RIBS ON TYHE FIRST DATE MIXTAPE! by DANk

Tracklist
1.Slugabed – Skyfire
2.Nasty Nasty – Knife Play
3.Mix N Blend – Get Crunk Wit Jesus
3.Mux Mool – Skulltaste
4.Eprom – Bubble
5.Sedge Warbler – Pretty Hop
6.ODB – Brooklyn Zoo / Harmonic 313 – Cyclotron
7.Nasty Ways – (LiL Wayne Lollipop Remix)
8.Mix N Blend+Narch – I got Bitches
9.Gramatik – Don't Get Weary
10.Pretty Lights – Total Fascination
11.VibeSquad – Aristocratic Static
12.Skanky Panky Allstars – (DJ Shadow Walki talkie REMIX)
13.Sedge Warbler – Paranormal Ox Man
14.Dank – The Game Needs Me


Full review of the LP will be available on the site soon, stay tuned

Part 1: The Niallist - He came, He played, He conquered

In the run-up to the release of his new 12” - ‘I Came’ - on Monday 29th November (today), Lo-Quality delved into the mind - past, present and future - of The Niallist, an Irish-born and Manchester-based electronic producer, remixer and vocalist. And Scottish label owner, club resident, and music writer!

Keen to keep numerous projects on the go, on top of his latest release, the electro-disco / house / techno / acid / quirky electronic producer has just finished a Metatron EP for Black Lantern Music, and contributed lead vocals to ‘Infinite Capacity (For Love)’, the debut single from Ben Butler & Mousepad on digital download from Loaf Recordings. In between his production work, he appears as resident for Glasgow’s Menergy club, which returns in February 2011 at the School of Art’s Vic Bar: he helpfully advises that you can always download guest mixes from the Menergy blog, such as the recently compiled Hi-NRG mix by Frenchbloke, of music he was hearing at Glasgow’s Bennets venue in 1985 and 1986.

To tie the many strands together, the Niallist has launched new blog NIALLISM, which now acts as a replacement for his Myspace, Muxtape, and Live Journal accounts, concentrating his music, event announcements and writings in one central space. One of his aliases is House Machine, and certainly the rate at which he likes to work suggests some sort of momentum apparatus at play. With that, we ask; who is the Niallist? Where does he come from, where is he going, and where does he buy his hats?

“The Niallist is me, and he is not me at the same time. I am from Ireland, but he is from outer space. In all honesty, I had been working on loads of different music projects and needed a good catch-all name for my stuff. I had been thinking of using that name, and when a friend brought it up in conversations independently, I decided to go with it. Over time it has developed and changed; right now it's going in an electro-disco direction. It's like a drag act I suppose really - the Niallist is an exaggeration of me and some of my traits. And if I told you where I get my hats I would have to kill you.”

"It's like a drag act I suppose really - the Niallist is an exaggeration of me and some of my traits."

When did you start DJing, and when did you start music production? What was the thing which made you say 'I want to do this'? Was there ever a moment when you thought, 'I can't do this'?

“Hah, every day I think "I can't do this"! Music is such a huge mountain to climb, and the peak is always out of reach. To overplay this metaphor, looking back can be really scary, but it's only then that you notice the milestones you have passed.

“I started DJing originally on my school's radio station back in the 90s when I was about 14 or 15. It only had a radius of about a mile or so, and the equipment wasn't great, but I would play alt rock and dance music of the day, and read out conspiracy theory material over the top. I still have the tapes somewhere. I'd always been obsessed with music, so I can't think of a particular time when I didn't want to make or be involved with it - I'd always been day dreaming about those things.

“I guess moving to Glasgow was a bit of a turning point, as I could now explore musical avenues that didn't exist in my home town, like deep house at the Sub Club. I remember finding a flyer for Subculture before I moved over, that featured both Basement Jaxx and Dimitri From Paris playing the club in the space of a fortnight. I knew I had to be there! Also, I bought a set of decks, like practically everyone else I knew, and I started hanging out with some burgeoning music producers. Then my mum won a small amount on the lottery, she gave me some money, and I decided to buy some music equipment with it. That was in 1999. When I first started it was a real bitch, because I was wanting to make these crazy epic disco productions with just an Akai S-20(!) an MC-303 and a four track. Thank God for Ableton, is all I can say now.”

"It's the main reason people go to clubs isn't it? To cop off. So I see my mission as being to help facilitate that."

Perhaps it's just my dirty mind, but there is sometimes a sexual undertone to your material, for example, your next release is entitled ‘I Came', but that could be a reference to Caeser - are you out to conquer or seduce the dancefloor?

“It's all in your head dear - now go and give yourself 50 lashes under a cold, cold shower! No, of course, there is a huge sexual element to my music. It's the main reason people go to clubs isn't it? To cop off. So I see my mission as being to help facilitate that. You don't get slow dances anymore in night clubs so there needs to be a moment where you can connect with someone on a dancefloor, and the music takes the place of words. And no matter what euphemisms those words are couched in, they generally express sexual attraction.

“There came a point about ten years ago when I was listening to ‘Parade’ by Prince, and I realised that ALL his songs are about sex, in one way or another. Even ‘When Doves Cry’. It suddenly validated sex as a topic in music for me, and also gave me something to sing about as I was really not wanting to do your standard romantic clichéd bullshit like you get in pop, or the whiny, moany ‘issues’ crap you get in rock. It chimed more with the kind of outré hip-hop I was listening to. Also, sexual desire is a universal thing - we may not all want the same kind of person, but we all want. And through certain universal feelings like that I can then explore other issues, either in or related to the field of sex. So think of me as like a cross between Prince and Dr. Ruth. Or more likely Dr Phil.”

The track itself is a crazy mix of beats with a few unexpected turns - juddery yet syncopated, with swaggering vocals; what kind of mood were you in when you made it?

“Well, the track itself is directly inspired by Rio favela funk, which is quite obvious from the stabby horn riff and the 808 beats. I was given a compilation CD of that stuff by Craig from Mungo's Hi Fi and it blew me away, especially as it was something I could quite easily make myself with my set-up. It helps that I couldn't understand what they were rapping about, as it seems pretty base. To add to that I thought "what would Timbaland do?" - well he'd put a sultry, sexy female vocal over the top to appeal to his R&B/pop market. Then he would lay down some ad libs and grunts in the background through a headphone.

“For the vocal I already had the melody, and I remember it clearly - our studio in the Chateau, on one of the rare occasions I was tidying up, and the phrase just popped into my head. Initially I was nervous of using it because of the double entendre, but at the same time it was just too strong to ignore. And also with the double entendre, it is very easy to deny the second meaning. That was the clincher, as it's only a rude phrase if you read that into it - there's no cursing in there, it could be taken completely at face value, so technically there is no reason not to play it on the radio. But it had to have a woman singing it to soften that blow, that is why I got Ms Mac D involved. She brings a restrained, classy vibe to the whole thing too. In a nutshell; I guess I was feeling cheeky and ambitious!”

How did you hook up with Miss Mac D, and is that a collaboration you would like to do again?

“Ms Mac D is an old friend of mine - I've known her since I started going to Glasgow Uni, and we bonded quickly over a love of disco and R&B / soul. Everyone has always known she has a great voice, it really seems to touch people, and even though she has sung in bands over the years singing is not her main focus. I knew she would be good choice to sing ‘I Came’ and even though we had like two hours in a studio to get it done, working with her was easy and straight forward. And yes, I would absolutely love to work with her again - ‘I Came’ was a bit of a challenge for her as it is not in her natural range, but some of the newer material I have been writing is, so I would love to hear her take a crack at that.”

You've done remixes with DFRNT and Brassica for the release - are there any plans to join them in a live context in the future?

“There's not really been any plans in that direction - to be honest my live show is on the back burner at the moment anyway, as I have moved city and am concentrating more on writing and recording rather than playing live. Having said that, I did perform ‘Infinite Capacity (For Love)’ live with Ben Butler & Mousepad a couple of months ago and that was great! That's just come out as a single, and he's up for doing more live spots with me involved, it's just a matter of when and where.”

It's all very well to talk influences, but rather than reeling off a list, what is the music which has touched your heart; the kind that has stayed with you for years? The kind which still sends a spine tingle no matter how naffly it is regarded!

“Well, again back when I was in school in the mid-90s I watched Saturday Night Fever and it had a huge impact on me. I loved it and the music straight away, even though it was seen as the height of naffness. Since then I have been obsessed with disco; it's my primary musical love affair, and I have seen the genre be rehabilitated from complete cheese to the height of cool. Also, the definition of disco has expanded too. That's something we aimed to do when we started the Discopia website, to explore the bits of dance music which are heavily influenced by disco but are not it, such as post-punk, electro, house, boogie and hip-hop.

"Disco is my primary musical love affair, and I have seen the genre be rehabilitated from complete cheese to the height of cool."

“At some point around the year 2001 I went back to my mate Dave's flat after a party and he put on a CD set of old school Chicago house classics. It blew me away - especially because I remembered owning some of the tracks on cassette when I was about 8 or 9. I had asked my family for some ‘house music’ for Christmas one year and my brother and sister got me a 2 tape collection called ‘Hitmasters of House’ or something. There were tracks like ‘House Nation’ by the House Master Boys and ‘Six Gun’ by Decadent Dub Team on there. Looking back now that's some pretty heavy shit to be laying on a child! But it's ok guys, I turned out just fine.

“Also, the Pet Shop Boys were a huge band for me as a kid - I remember two girls in my primary school class setting up a fan club for them, and I joined, being rewarded handsomely with home made PSB posters and badges. My mum even joined it!”

Tell us about your involvement with Little Rock Records and how you met the crew?

“Well, folk would come round to our studio in the Chateau (art and music space) to jam or to just hang out, so it progressed from there really. Also some folks were working at The Skinny at the time, so that's got a bit to do with it. It has been quite an organic process really, there's not been any kind of strict masterplan behind it. I started the label out of necessity, to get my music out there as quickly, directly and cheaply as possible. Originally it was going to be a physical label, but all that changed when I discovered Jahtari.org. Since then loads of independent net labels have sprung up, forming their own net-labels network, and this is a good thing.”

What have been your proudest achievements with the label?

“Well, I can't speak for the other guys, but I'd say our greatest achievement has been the NORAVE and FUCKNO compilation albums, which have given exposure to some pretty awesome Scottish leftfield acts, like Tayside Mental Health, Fox Gut Daata & Gatr.”


Until you get your hands on the official 'I Came' release, you can check out a special mixtape featuring guest MCs Shunda K, Cindy Wonderful and Rel$ for that favela funk fix. Check back on Lo-Quality for the second parter in this feature, published this week.

www.niallism.com
www.menergy.tv
www.shallowrave.com

Aquasky Mix Tape November 2010

Aquasky and the Ragga Twins

Taking a break from their time in the studio writing new material for their label, Passenger Records, Aquasky have mixed you something for November to bring heat to the freezing winter. Journeying through breaks, dnb, dubstep, it features exclusive tracks from Aquasky and Black Noise.

Grab your free Aquasky mixtape from SoundCloud - or download from here!

Aquasky November 2010 MixTape

1. ‘Living Legends’ - Aquasky & Ragga Twins (Passenger Records)
2. ‘White Off’ - 601 (Ape Music)
3. ‘Boomer’ (Punk Rolla remix) - Plum DJs
3.1. (? Daddy Freddy accapella )
4. ‘Territory’ (club mix) - Rack N Ruin ft Navigator & Slarta John
5. ‘Bounce’ (Fuck This Mix) - Zap! Pow! Die!
6. ‘Raggatron’ - Aquasky & Ragga Twins (Passenger Records)
7. TBC
7.1. (‘Freaky Girl’ accapella - Wizard Sleeve)
8. ‘Stripper’ (dub mix) - Stuka ft Sir Real
8.1. (‘Get Down Tonight’ accapella – Wizard Sleeve)
9. ‘To Kill A Man’ - Last Japan
10. ‘Congorock’ - Babylon ft. Mr Lexx
11. TBC
11.1. (‘Computer Age’ accapella – Wizard Sleeve & Black Noise)
12. ‘Cracks’ (Ctrl Z remix) - Freestylers ft Belle Humble
13. ‘Jungle Iz Em’ (Take Me Away VIP mix) - Black Noise [DOWNLOAD]
13.1. (‘Dem No No We’ accapella – Ragga Twins & Aquasky vs Master Blaster)
14.‘Electron’ - Nero (MTA)
15. ‘I Need Air’ (Digital Soundboy remix) - Magnetic Man
15.1. (‘Looking Fly’ accapella – Murs & Black Noise)
16. ‘Player Haters Ball’ - Silver
17. ‘Raggatron’ (DJ Sly & Pacso remix) - Aquasky & Ragga Twins (Passenger Records)
18. ‘Barbra Streisand’ (Sigma remix) - Duck Sauce
18.1. (? accapella)
19. ‘Let Me Go’ - Cutline (Not Safe For Work)
19.1. ‘Minimalistix’ - Skream
20. ‘Typhoon’ - Foreign Beggars & Chasing Shadows
21. ‘Reploid’ - Excision & Downlink
21.1. (‘Outlaw’ accapella - Sporty-O)
22. ‘Heavy Artillery’ - Excision & Downlink ft Messinian
23. ‘Take It No More’ - Original Sin
24. ‘Be Alright’ - Sekklow
24.1. (? accapella)

 

New releases

‘Living Legends’ / ‘Raggatron’ by Aquasky & Ragga Twins is out through Passenger records on Beatport and major outlets out this Friday, 26th November 2010. As well as featuring remixes from DJ Sly & Pacso and breaks Godfather Rennie Pilgrim, the release features bouncin’ breakbeat and ragga to spice things up.




Here are some recent DJ videos featuring new Aquasky / Black Noise material: 

Aquasky @ Bang! club,Wroclaw Poland 5th November 2010



Aquasky @ Innovation party in Lodz, Poland 30-10-10 with 'Living Legends' by Aquasky ft Ragga Twins