Summer playlist!!!

Thought I'd let you enter my headphones for a moment and see what I've listening allot to this summer. These are all old basically, bar one remix.

First tune is from Minnie Riperton. You've probably heard in adverts and soundtracks and may have wondered who it was. Well here it is and still one her greatest tunes and one of the greatest the world has ever seen, timeless really;

Minnie Riperton - Les Fleurs

Next up is a tune a found on an old scratch perverts CD. A real reggae banger. Chilled and fun and perfect for the festivities on Monday & Sunday;

Sister Nancy - Bam Bam

Next up is another tune for carnival but this time from the Don's of Breaks Ed Solo & Skool of Thought. Starts off with upbeat guitars until 1:10 and booossh the beat hits in. Then 10 secs later the wobble comes in. Absolute banger with some sick lyrics from Darrison & JFB;

Ed Solo & Skool of Thought - We play the Music

Lastly the remix that was number 1 on hypem yesterday. It's the Gigames/ Discotech remix of Radiohead. I mostly enjoy it for the drop at the beginning.  The melody is Just entrancing. A perfect soundtrack song and perfect producing enjoy;

Radiohead - Everything in it's Righ place (Gigamesh/ Discotech remix)

Some Hip-Hop, heavy stuuf, old school shit!!!!!

Thought I'd post some Hip-Hop, not that old school, but we would of been kids when there were being made. Both tunes are from american duo's. The first of which are jedi mind tricks. Coming from Philly the high school friends have released six albums. The producer, DJ Stoupe, creates the sickest of beats normally drawing upon classical and string instrument influences. Whilst the rapper, Vinny, has a gruff and grimey voice that creates dark but beautiful tunes.

The next track is from the amiable M.O.P. The duo you'll know well, most probably for their tune 'cold as ice'. What you may not know but that whole album, 'Warriors', is one of the sickest albums of all time. I rate their voices, the beats, the jump up nature and the chemistry the two have together. I'd recommend to buy an old copy of warriors any day and any of Jedi mind tricks albums.

Jedi Mind Tricks - Put em in the grave

M.O.P - Welcome to Brownsville

Carnival Style

Alright so that was Gus, glad he introduced himself, he'll be posting as well....

Carnival is almost upon us, two more sleeps and it kicks off. To get you in the mood for it I got two tracks which i'm feeling are in keeping with the carnival vibe.....

First one is a track from reggae and dancehall artist Collie Buddz, this version is a bootleg by the young American dubstep producer The Widdler. Widdler is a sick producer and he's got a spanking new ep out, beatport beckons! Have a look around for his tune called Go Ask Alice, it's all quality stuff.

Come Around - Collie Buddz (The Widdler Bootleg)

This next one is a tune i'm sure many of you will have heard. Diplo and Switch teamed up to create Major Lazer their dancehall sideproject. Pon Di Floor has been one of the biggest tunes of the summer being dropped here there and everywhere by all kinds of dj's. Here's a R!M!E remix of a tune that you will not escape from if you hit carnival this year.

Pon Di Floor - Major Lazor (R!M!E Remix)

To those lucky enough to bit hitting the red bull carnival party, which diplo and switch will be performing at as Major Lazor, you don't know how lucky you are...

Be sure to hit up Chew The Fat at Liquid Nation, sick line up, including the Boog a Loo Crew who are killing it at the moment....

Get on the carnival vibes, squeeze the most of your summer......

Jossa x

Hello fuckers!!!!!

Hiya I'm Joss's equally ugly friend Gus and thought I'd throw some posts his way on this relatively blog. I've known Joss since we tore up the nurseries together back in the days of acid house and shizer porn. We're now students living the high life of pot noodles and man sized tissues.

Him and me do have similar tastes of music although not universally. My posts will reflect my love of everything that gets you sweaty; Drum & Bass, Dubstep, Tech-House, Grime, Hip-hop and porn, with some random bits n' bobs.

So to start off I though I'd do a post on Nero. Nero are two very well known DJ's from London. As with many Dubstep producers their roots are in Drum and Bass. I will focus on their Dubstep productions because they are truly energetic & fun.

The first of which is their own remix of their Drum & Bass banger 'Act like you Know'. I liked the original but I had a certain bit of it lacking. It was a bit standard and typical of lots of D n' B tracks. The dubstep version though gives it a lot more bounce. The first drop is pretty good but it's the drop into the bassliney keys at 2:45 that really bring into it's own. Anyway here it is and hope you enjoy;

Nero - Act like you know (Dubstep mix)

The second track is remix of the Bassline outfit Platnum. Platnum hail from Manchester and have created some of Bassline's biggest tunes. But Nero's rework makes it an even more jump up fun little number. It's actually a Drum & Bass remix but well, if you don't like it then fuck you! Here it is;

Platnum - Trippin' (Nero Remix)

And for the last tune I thought I'd go with one of his oldest but greatest remixes. It's an absolute killer of a remix and makes you want to move your head back and forth so vigorously that you head but the person in front of you;

Boy Crisis - Dressed to digress (nero remix)

Oh also if you do like Nero maybe try and buy the tracks. More importantly play these loud on HUUUGGE speakers because they deserve it!!!

Gus

I'm back and He's Back

What it do family? Been ages since I've even looked at my blogger. Been having a very eventful summer, doing this and that, going hither and thither. Most importantly though I've heard a lot of sick new music.

Of course my blog is, at the very least, going to be a few days behind the flawlessly up to date gaggle of bigger and longer running blogs that I read. And I'm not even going to try to compete with the punctuality of the Hype Machine aka The Megatron. I'm going to post a couple of tracks which I know have already on been on bigger blogs for at least week now. So I apologize to anyone who might be offended by the fact that i'm so behind the times....ha

Anyway enough rambling. Back in July I went to Glade festival at the Matterley Bowl in Winchester. If you were ever thinking about going to it, stop thinking and do it, just go. I thought about going in 2008 and missed out when I didn't. What struck me about Glade was the wide variety of genres of music being played. You can go from watching the likes of 2Bit Thugs dropping the wobbliest ghetto weapons around, to someone likes Kaynes or Far Too Loud pumping out psychedelic beats. It's such a good mix....I recommend it highly

So first up here's a remix from one of my favorite dj's and producers. I thought Fake Blood, was a bit off colour when I heard his Miike Snow remix and the one of Calvin Harris. Both poor compared to his normal standards. This is vintage Fake Blood though, the reverberating bass line, the chopped up vocals spelling out his name. So so sick....

The Gossip - Love Long Distance (Fake Blood Remix)

And another one from another favorite producer of mine. La Roux is the remix whore everyone is wanting a piece of that, she's being shafted from all angles. Jack Beats have come along and of course they have turned I'm Not Your Toy into a wobbly dancefloor weapon. They kept the bit when she sings all nice as well, how nice of them....

La Roux - I'm Not Your Toy (Jack Beats Remix)

Actually I think Jack Beats wobblier stuff is getting a little bit boring. On the recent ep they released I prefer Labyrinth to U.F.O (K-Hole Riddim). Labyrinth isn't as straight up in your wobbly bass and horrendous drops, it's more subtle, like their remixes of Florence and The Machine and Patrick Wolf. Check these all out on their Myspace if you haven't already heard them....Also buy a copy of Fake Blood's new e.p. Fix Your Accent it's sick!!!!

One last thing, best moment of Glade for me was when Drop the Lime dropped AC Slater's Mix of his own tune Hear Me, and still sung the vocals live, Incredible!

Drop The Lime - Hear Me (AC Slater Remix)

Enjoy The Rest of Your Summer.....Roll On Carnival and Bestival!!!

Safety x

Sunsets

Harald Björk is a Swedish techno producer his E.P. called sunsets was released earlier this year it's an amazing bit of production. Pretty deep stuff but very nice. You can get it over on Beatport, also I recommend going to his Myspace and having a look at the videos on it. Here's one of the tracks from that E.P.
Harald Björk - Sunsets

Renaissance Man have really caught my ear with their track Spraycan. It's a beauty, just the kind of tech house sound I like
Renaissance Man - Spraycan
They are going to explode this year, so keep an eye out for them in the future..and buy their stuff from beatport.

Foamo drops Spraycan is his latest mix tape, which you can accquire over at the Palms Out Sounds blog. It's a really good mix and he drops loads of different genres into it. He even manages to get Daniele Papini's techno weapon Church of Nonsense in there. Foamo never ceases to suprise me, definitely the best young British dj/producer we have......

here are a couple of my favourite tracks from the mix
La Roux - Bulletproof (Foamo Dubstep Remix)
Metronomy - Radio Ladio (Radioclit Swedish Remix)

bye
Jossa x

Going All Starry Eyed...

Take a look at the true indie electro pop princess Ellie Goulding. She's beautiful and has a voice of gold. Her song Starry Eyes has not yet failed to give me a satisfying tingly feeling of joy every time I listen to it. She is definitely set for big things....

Just when I thought it couldn't get any better than this, Jakwob remixes this beauty into a huge dubstep tune. What is so good about this track is that he kept the soft vocals together for the build up and then the drop is savage, lovely stuff. Surely it will follow in the tracks of Caspa's Remix of Deadmua5 and Skream's huge remix of In For The Kill

Ellie Goulding - Starry Eyed
Ellie Goulding - Starry Eyed (Jakwob Remix)

Show them some love on Myspace

Jossa x