The latest release from Trouble and Bass is from London DJ’s and producers Tomb Crew. Hopping between funky, garage, rave, bassline and hip hop this 3 track EP is the 14th in the Heavy Bass Champion of the World Series.
FIYT Night is a track that really seems to be taking things from every genre that the UK has been a part of in the past 20 years. It’s as if they were just grabbing things like at the end of Supermarket Sweep.
One of the highlights of Rinse FM (106.8 FM if you are in your car) is the myriad of podcasts to choose from. So once a week I randomly choose someone’s podcast to listen to. Smasher‘s one had a mix of grime, funky and dubstep that you come to expect from any London DJ, until he played this track. It’s come out on the label of breakfast show host Scratcha DVA as part of the Afro Cuban EP. Like Jelly Roll, it’s funky, breakbeat and jazzy all at once.
I always hated visiting the London Dungeons when I was a kid. The place was packed with poor actors, screaming babies and the frights had to be PG friendly. It just bored me. Imagine how much better it would be if it was soundtracked by Tomb Crew’s ‘Dungeon Town’? The latest single from the Dubstep/Bmore/Funky London DJ/producers is out now.
p.s That’s Illaman doing the delightful bass duck dance.
Fresh on the heals of Nadastrom’s summer mix for Mixpak FM, London’s own The Heatwave have picked up the dancehall strains and gone hard with a mix of just about every big bashment track out. This is an hour and fifteen minute mix of guaranteed pure fire! Mixpak FM has your summer on lock, catch the vibe.
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Dre Skull is heading back to Europe this week. Catch his set in Paris at the Social Club on Thursday with Bobmo, Harvard Bass and Goon & Koyote and then Friday in London, where he’ll be playing at the Rhythm Factory with Starkey, Murderbot and whole lot of other DJs.
Details for Paris here, details and advance tickets for London here.
Dexplicit is a London-based producer and DJ known for his mastery of heavy bass, and his tuff as nails remix for Sticky’s Jumeirah Riddim EP only confirms his rep. Check out his recent interview with Vibezine to see where he’s at and what he has in store for 2010.
Alex Sushon, AKA Bok Bok, is on fire these days. Between DJing London’s East Village excellent Night Slugs parties, blogging at Lower End Spasm, hosting a radio show on Sub FM, producing some of 2009′s freshest music, doing graphic design work for Fact Magazine, L-Vis 1990′s “United Groove” EP, and getting praised in Dazed & Confused’s New Media Top 50 piece, it’s safe to say that 2009 has been a pretty massive year. It’s also understandable that Bok Bok was taking a vacation in his hometown of Odessa, Ukraine when I got hold of him, where I had the opportunity to chat with him about sincerity, his recent remix for Mixpak Records (which you can purchase here), post-DJing snacks, the downfall of grime, “synth ecstasy,” The-Dream and his video design work for Simian Mobile Disco.
Exclusive interview for the Mixpak Blog by Brendan Arnott (my text in bold).
Also, peep one of Bok Bok’s favourite mixes that did for LuckyMe!
Bok Bok – Manara’s Golden Fleece Mix for LuckyMe (tracklist here)
Brendan: Your Night Slugs parties sound like they’ve been continually successful, I’m curious about what sort of things are important to you when you’re organizing this kind of night?
Bok Bok: Well, what I really wanted to do with night slugs was make a fun accessible party for people that DIDN’T compromise on music, that’s to put it simply. It’s really a dance / club music party that’s frameworked by the UK soundsystem heritage, so what’s important to me is – good, heavy but CLEAR and bass-heavy sound, a really cutting edge music policy that’s still fun, and stuff that makes people focus on what’s happening in the club, the sound and the dancing, and bond together over it and have some shared experience. Stuff like having a host on the mic, and rewinding tracks, all that stuff helps people focus on what’s going on.
