Dubbel Dutch will be in his native Texas this Friday alongside Prince William and Bok Bok. They even have a nuts promo video here.
Dubbel Dutch w/Bok Bok & Prince William
December 21st, 2011Melé’s 5 Tunes That Influenced Starlight
September 15th, 2011
Melé’s Starlight EP just dropped this week on Mixpak and has already made its way to the top of the Juno chart! As you may have noticed, it’s a departure from his usual productions and is heavily influenced by techno, rap and early house. We asked him to name five tunes that influenced the record:
Lloyd Banks – Start It Up
I basically listened to this record non stop for about a month when i heard it, still listen to it a lot now! The producer Cardiak has been a huge influence on my sound in the last few months, especially tracks like Lego!
Erol Alkan & Boys Noize – Death Suite
Always been a massive fan of Erol and Boys Noize, I’ve really been going back to and playing a few of there things lately. I tried to capture a lot of the driving stuff they play in their sets in Starlight Express.
Bok Bok – Silo Pass
His Southside EP is by far one of my favourite things to come out this year, Silo Pass is everything I love about grime but somewhere in the future, dope!
Lunice – The Name Dunnit
Lunice is basically my favourite person in this thing right now, his music and his live sets a killing it! Another one that’s been influencing my new stuff heavily.
Joey Beltram – Game Form
The music speaks for itself!
Lil Scrappy – Look At Me (Bok Bok Remix)
December 22nd, 2010
Brodinski’s latest curated project, “The Best of Everything, Volume 2″ is exactly that – a compilation that throws underground dance music allstars against the best r&b and hip hop of the last two decades. There are myriad highlights (Renaissance Man remixing Lil Wayne?! I almost died), but one of the standout tracks is the grimey Bok Bok redux of Lil Scrappy’s recent Mixpak single.
Bok Bok turns Lil Scrappy’s “grown ass man rapping” into a cough syrup injected drawl where you can almost hear Scrappy’s gold teeth clacking together nervously in between lines, ready to run off somewhere.
Be sure to grab the whole release, as Bok Bok, Brenmar, Dubbel Dutch, French Fries, J-Wow, Nguzunguzu, Renaissance Man Wildlife! and more throw down spectacular versions of your favorite hip hop guilty pleasures.
Grab it here:
Lil Scrappy- Look At Me (Bok Bok Remix)
Girl Unit – Wut
October 13th, 2010
Bok Bok’s “Stag & Dagger” Mix
May 3rd, 2010
The only thing that’s nicer than the that funky looking t-shirt is this new “Stag & Dagger” mix that Bok Bok just dropped on the blogosphere.
Much like following a long dark winding tunnel down into an alternate universe where everything is a thousand times grimier, this mix is both surreal and recognizable at the same time- there’s a cast of recognizable Night Slugs crew showcased within, but all new traxx. It also finishes on an exceptional high note with a brand new Kingdom edit and a mind altering Girl U.N.I.T jam, one of the best things I’ve heard in months.
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Bok Bok – Stag & Dagger Mix (Sendspace Link)
Tracklist:
Floating Points- Shark Chase
DJ Eastwood – U Ain’t Ready 2010 (Bok Bok Special)
Lil Silva- No Hooks
T Williams- In The Deep
Dva – New World Order
Lil Silva – Against Yaself
Altered Natives – The B*tch
Egyptrixx – Untitled
Tony Senghore – If You Came Here (L-Vis 1990 Vumpy Remix)
Dowee – Enigmatic
C.R.S.T – Dance (Mosca Remix)
Girl Unit – Shade On
Silkie – Unorthodox Daughter (Kingdom Edit)
Girl Unit – Wut
Mixpak Interview Series: Egyptrixx
March 17th, 2010
I once bumped into Egyptrixx as I was getting off the subway on my way to a tutoring job. Recognizing him immediately as the disobedient-dubstep-turned-global-gutter-house DJ hailing from Toronto, I quickly tried to think of something nice I could fit into the two second time period before he passed me and got on the subway. Nothing came, sadly. However, a few months later, I got in touch with him through Mixpak to talk about his eclectic connections to music, Night Slugs, pho, overwrought heavy metal, grad school, and breaking down barriers in dance music.
2010 has already been a notable breakout year for Egyptrixx with the release of an outstanding EP, “The Battle For North America“, and all indications show that he’s just beginning to pick up steam.
Interview by Brendan Arnott (my text in bold)
Untold, who you recently played with here in Toronto, said something I really like: “I hope dubstep continues to be hard to pin down, disobeys its manifesto, gets called stupid names, gatecrashes other scenes, and spikes the punch, elopes, and has lots of children”. Do you feel similarly about your own music?
Egyptrixx: Haha, yes absolutely. What a great quote.
It’s quite comparatively easy and cheap to make electronic/club music right now. The software is cheap if you decide to pay for it at all, the distribution methods are largely digital and similarly cheap. These are pragmatic excuses to be experimental, of course there are intellectual reasons as well. It’s amusing to me that everything beyond the traditional guitar/bass/drums/piano configuration is considered experimental or electronic, because even those amplified instruments were considered alien and experimental in the 60′s when they first started popping up. Sonic experimentation is as much a part of making music as coming up with a clever way to say “I love my girlfriend, it sucked when she dumped me”.
French Fries Arma EP
January 29th, 2010
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.
Mixpak Interview Series: Mosca
January 25th, 2010
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.
