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Archive | July, 2010
We Require Certain Skills
30 Julhad a pretty solid day today: did some laundry up in Yorkville, cleaned out my gmail, found out i might be going back to work for Artichoke Pizza‘s newest branch in Chelsea (that’s rightttt- just call me doughboy), AND i stumbled upon this epic video for The Naked And Famous‘ equally epic fuzz-pop anthem Young Blood. Big drums, crunchy distortion a la Dom’s Living In America, and plenty of yeah-yeah-yeah’s make this a perfect way to finish off a hot and sweaty July. enjoy the heat kids- life is too short to rush the summer.
submerse – tokyopop!
29 Jul
relative newcomers Submerse with an amazing pop tune right here. tight beat, epic vocals (even if you don’t speak japanese). feel it.
Mixtape #7
28 Jul2010.07.28.1.10 - Benga & Skream HARD NYC
Check out more vids of the show and complete tracklists on the threads, visit bassfreqdotcom’s channel.
‘Face of God’ EP
27 Jul
R/D’s new EP “Face of God” drops today. The west-coast glitch-hop/dubstep/electronic producer is back with another bassy EP following his “Cricket” release last August with plenty of thumping, syncopated beats. The sound is distinctly West Coast. Along with his fellow bassheads in Cali (MartyParty, Mimosa,), “Face of God” is not only bass heavy, but lyrical. It’s more melodic than the more grimy UK stuff, and less glitchy than their Aussie brethren (they love their glitch down under).
Check out the video for “Face of God,” listen to the tracks below, and buy the EP from Bandcamp. Also worth checking out, some old tracks from R/D re-released for free download called Love Up’s.
Benga & Skream at Hard NYC
27 JulHard NYC (July 24,2010)
Line – Up
M.I.A.
Die Antwoord – South African Satirical Electro-Hip-Hop
Skream + Benga – Renound UK Dubstep
Rye Rye -
Sleigh Bells – I dunno.
Theophilus London – The girly wanted to check this guy out…
Borgore – “Gorestep” aka hardcore-grimy-ass dubstep (UK)
Destructo – Dunno.
12th Planet – Dunno.
Nguzunguzu – LA, prenatal.
Ninjasonik – Electro-Hip-hop something.
Took a ferry to Governor’s Island, lines were fa-king long. But they moved quickly and the entire transit experience was bearable up to about the final security check – they split up men and women into separate lines and with all the shit females carry, by the time Mona got through I’d finished my beer and half hers, oops. The park itself was split into two sections, small stage/ big stage and while I was waiting Skream and Benga started their set – I heard “Night” off of Benga’s album Diary of an Afro Warrior thumping in the distance. So we looped over and what I saw occur was more show than I bargained for. Benga + Skream railing out hits to a dumbfounded NYC audience – literally clueless like cattle. Indie performers will agree with me, NYC audiences are notorious for being difficult to captivate – that spontaneous crazy – energy that can set off an entire audience into frenzy is elusive among their crowd. If you’re planning on performing in NY, best bring the right energy.
Benga (mickey mouse) & Skream (porn pic?) aren’t new to the game, they are among those sound scientists that gave birth to Dubstep. So… maybe half an hour into the set the sun finally set, inhibition and items of clothing disappeared into a humid night, people who started to understand the sound, left those on the outskirts and filtered into the center. I could feel it, we were approaching something big. Then out of nowhere some black guy with a squeaky voice and funny shaped glasses popped up next to me and started chanting M.I.A. with a very limp fist. So I took out my broad sword and chopped off his head – or I made the visual sign that I wanted to and he turned around and disappeared. Idiot, do that in the middle of a set…in the middle of a crowd of purists you’re lucky to be alive. Coincidentally, right then Skream’s “In for the KILL” dropped. Standing atop a plastic speed bump running cords to the stage, I could see over the heads of an entire audience glowing under stage lighting, starting to feed off that frontline energy, ebbing, flowing, base on full wobble… BOHHH!! Massive. Then it got Hard NYC. I think “The Cut” got played, I heard Doctor P’s “Sweet Shop”…. from then I don’t even know, Rusko stepped out on stage in pink shorts bobbin’ his head to the music, everyone so far as I could see within the periphery of stage lighting was going ape-shit-fantastic.
Still, not the cleanest of sets as they weren’t prepared for a moody crowd at the start and the MC was an absolute fucking potty mouth – can you say fuck ten times fast? I bet it gets funnier the more fucking times I say fuck or maybe you’ll understand a little fucking better that the more fucking times I say fuck, fucking… aggrandizes just how fucking muhammadimhardbrucelee I really am, if you get me. An MC deepthroating a microphone, choking up nothing but the fuck word did nothing but make me feel squeamish inside and muddle up the MASSIVE BASS DROPSS!! And I’m fine with that – really it’s OK, you can make me feel squeamish but don’t dare muddle up my fucking $55 basslines, motherfucker. After the set was over and the mad cheering and bows to the audience were done we rushed over to the smaller tent where Boregore was playing. I like Borgore, I’ve bought some of his songs off of beatport. But his MC was even worse, inarticulate English, slurry freestyle rap over Borgore’s set. I threw my beer at him and we gave up and left.
In summation ; 6.5 out of 10.
The MC i.e. Master of Ceremonies failed miserably in both cases. I was kind-of-not-really upset that I missed Rye Rye, and Nguzunguzu, they’re worth a Google. Admittedly it would have been nice to see Die Antwoord diversifying the electro scene and hear some of MIA’s new shit but apparently she got rained out close to the start of her set. Either way our objective was clearly established from the start: Benga & Skream – ’cause that’s how myuch we likey it. I’ll follow this up with a mix of the songs that I think were played.
Ain’t No Ordinary Love (Classixx + Active Child)
26 Jul
Classixx are back at it with another great remix, this time transforming Active Child’s soaring When Your Love Is Safe into a summery synth-pop jam that you might say was a little bit cheese if it wasn’t so goddamn excellent. If youre unfamiliar with Active Child, lets just say his angelic vocals are beautiful enough to make Danny Trejo cry. Sprinkle it on top of some Classixx production and you have the bitter-sweet sound of the other side of summer (the shitty, sad-sunset, back-to-school, oh-shit-i-still-haven’t-registered-for-classes side).
When Your Love Is Safe (Classixx Remix) – Active Child
Mixtape #5
20 Jul
0.0 You Original Mix – Gold Panda – You EP [ GI 112 ] – Ghostly International
3.30 Blad – Letherette – Brownswood Electric [BWOOD 045 DD]
6.23 Apple Bobbing (Four Tet Remix) – Joe Goddard – Apple Bobbing [GREC 08D] – Greco-Roman Records
13.38 New Cities feat. Kiki Hitomi – Starkey – Ear Drums & Black Holes [311253] Planet Mu Records
17.35 Out of Control feat Hitomi – The Bug – Run Feat. Flow Dan / Out Of Control Feat. Hitomi / Control Dub- [SWAMP004] – Swamp 81
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