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The debut release from French producer French Fries is out now on Young Gunz and it’s a big EP with massive originals and proper remixes from Bok Bok, Tomb Crew, and Beataucue. We hired French Fries to do a remix for a still secret, upcoming release on Mixpak and we promise it’s a BIG remix! In the meantime, support good music and purchase this EP on Beatport.
French magazine Tsugi just did a label spotlight on Mixpak and included a short interview with label-boss Dre Skull. Setting it off is a nice snap from Dre Skull’s recent trip to Atlanta to record with Lil Scrappy for an upcoming Mixpak release.
For the first time, the South By Southwest music conference is hosting an official showcase of classic bounce and the artists need financial support to help make this happen. Artists on the bill include Partners-N-Crime, DJ Jubilee, Katey Red, Big Freedia, Vockah Redu, Magnolia Shorty and Ms Tee.
As you may know, SXSW has booked its first-ever official showcase of
classic New Orleans bounce. The seven artists on the bill are all
straight-up originators of the sound, and few have gotten their just
due for their awesome contribution to New Orleans music. We need your
help getting them to Austin in March, and we have some kickass rewards
in store for generous helpers who believe in getting the music out
there.Below is the link to our fundraising page. Please blog it, share it,
forward it, repost it and do all those social networking things people
do with it!
If you’ve ever been a fan of bounce music, please consider donating. There are some amazing rewards for the various levels of support. Please check out the details and support this.
Here’s a rip of “Bonify” premiering in Jamaica on CVM TV’s Hitlist in front of a live studio audience.
It is 2010, bloggers and music fans have no idea how to describe anything anymore, and UK based Deejay Mosca sure isn’t making it easy. While Dan Hancox of the Guardian says that his music inpsires “a sense of epic grandeur befitting global house, shuddering dub echoes straight from Jamaica, Latino percussion and still undeniably UK”, I am still somewhat in the dark about what exactly comprises the hybrid sound that Mosca is putting forth in his Night Slugs Label debut “Square One EP”. I caught up with Mosca to talk about “ethno techno”, q-tips and the future of pirate radio over Gmail chat, here are the results.
Interview by Brendan Arnott, my text in bold.
Mixpak: A lot of people are gaining awareness of who you are through your debut release on the new Night Slugs label, but what have you been doing prior to this release? Can you talk about your origins in making this kind of ‘genre destroying’ music?
Mosca: I did a remix of Tempz’s “Next Hype” about a year ago, a kinda Baltimore rub with those UK funky strings off reason. I put that up on my blog and it got played on Rinse.FM and a few other places. So some guys called Kry Wolf got in touch and asked for a B-more remix of one of their first tunes, their first release on their new label called Sounds of Sumo. The tune that got put out was called “Mucky”. So that was my debut I guess, but not an original production.
So you started off as a producer before you were making the transition to DJing at clubs?
Yeah, definitely. I started with drum machines when i was about 15, I was in a band with Unknown Soulja and we didn’t have a drummer so got a drum machine, then started making jungle and hip hop and experimental stuff. I got into DJing at University, about five years ago, but the production thing has meant way more bookings.
In 2009, DJ Zinc reemerged with the massive 10-track “Crack House EP” (which you can grab on Beatport) and if his recent teasers on SoundCloud are any indication, Zinc shows no signs of letting anytime soon.
Zinc + Benga – My DJ (ft. Ms Dynamite) [clip]
Zinc – Wile out (ft. Ms Dynamite) [clip]
Zinc – Music makers [radio rip]
[via Hotcakes]
Ms. Thing and Psycho Tanbad jumped on Dre Skull’s Smoke Machine Riddim (the riddim underlying Vybz Kartel’s “Yuh Love”), and they shot a proper video to boot. “Bonify” is screening on Hype TV in Jamaica and making a strong push in Trinidad and Barbados. Grab the mp3s below!
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Ms. Thing & Psycho Tanbad – Bonify (320)
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2009 is done. Mavado and Vybz Kartel are pals, Buju Banton is in jail, and Sting—billed as the greatest stageshow on earth—was underwhelming as all get out. How did we get here? Last year ended with fretting about the fact that reggae music was less and less Jamaican—Matisyahu being on top of the charts and such. This year ended in pretty much the same way. However, despite worries about the state of music—the Jamaica Gleaner spent pages of its December 27 issue questioning dancehall’s parties, professors and punny printers, wondering in print about what the future holds for reggae—and the widely circulated report of an eight-copy sale figure for Vybz Kartel’s Pon Di Gaza in its first week, it was also a banner year for dancehall on the world stage.
If you want a nice comprehensive look back at 2009 in the world of reggae and dancehall, look no further than Soundclash’s two part, year in review.
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