bits missing are Pete & Chris, 2 guys that just want to play music to make you dance. We've become a regular thing on the Bournemouth scene, holding residencies at The Consortium and ibar, starting up Basslime and regularly getting on it at We Are Your Friends.
If you'd like us to come and play at your party, chances are we're dead keen as long as we can have a couple of big bottles of strongbow.
get in touch by emailing chris at chrisdowling.biz
I’ve mentioned before that I’m a big fan of the genre-bending sounds coming from R1 Ryders. I’m not the only one, badman DJ Sinden included the Funkitek mix of Rubberband in his Best of 2009 list and the new The Count and Sinden release – Strange Things – comes with an R1 Ryders funkitek remix, which has been put out for free to promote the release.
R1 Ryders are making an appearance at Wifey’s Warehouse party on the 18th of December alongside the mighty Slimzee and the godfather of funky dancehall The Heatwave at a secret Hackney location. It’s lineups like this that made me move to London in the first place. When I saw this poster I was almost sick with excitement.
More details are available from the facebook event, Strange Things comes out on Monday so cop that and look out for big things from the R1 Ryders camp in 2010 – I’ve heard some whispers about upcoming releases that are gonna blow the start of the year away.
Recent times have seen some serious dancefloor smashers in the bass heavy house world coming from a bunch of producers that were usually more prominent on the drum & bass scene. Slowing down the tempo but using the same techniques, they’ve been able to crank out some awesome tunes that have ruled 2009. Here’s some of my favourite examples.
Our Autumn mix is ready for your listening pleasure, featuring a load of tunes we’ve collected since the summer, when we did our last mix. You can hear it on our mixcloud page as with all our other mixes, or you can download it here
Tracklisting:
Floating Points – J&W Beat
Roska & Jamie George – Wonderful Day
Boy 8-Bit – Baltic Pine (Greenmoney’s Baltic Porn Bootleg)
Boy 8-Bit – Baltic Pin…e
Vato Gonzalez – Badman Riddim
Ms Dynamite – Bad Gyal
Mj Cole – Ao (Mj’s Open Your Gob Dub)
Lethal Bizzle – Go Hard Ft. Donaeo
Altern 8 – Frequency (Hostage Remix)
Sidney Samson – Riverside
Tyken Ft. Awa – Every Word (Dave Spoon Remix)
Riton & Primary 1 – Who’s There? (Wiley Re-Edit)
Majestic MC – In The Vip (Wideboys Elektro Club Mix)
Proxy – Raven
Double 99 – Rip Groove
12Th Planet – 68
Chase & Status Ft. Murs – Madhouse
Noah D – Seeeriousss
Joker – Psychedelic Runway
Simian Mobile Disco – Cruel Intentions (Joker Remix)
Benga – Why Is Everything Mono
Stagga Ft. Y Dot, Tzer & Jb – Face Gets Splat
Maniac – Untitled
Major Lazer – Pon De Floor (R1 Ryders Funkitek Remix)
La Roux – I’M Not Your Toy (Jack Beats Remix)
This tune is amazing. This video is amazing. I love everything about this. EVERYTHING. When it comes out I’m going to buy the hell out of it.
200F & J Kamata – You Don’t Know What Love Is.
This is one of my tunes of 2009. Its like sex in the ears.
Chromeo – Night By Night (Skream Remix)
Skream’s had a crack as well, calling this a sexstep remix. I don’t think it’s as good as the others though. Still, apparently it’s legitimately available for free if you do like it.
Terror Danjah – Zumpi Hunter (Swindle Remix)
Some sexy grime as well. I love this tune as well. Buy it.
This just came up on twitter (big up Urban Nerds), having been a big fan of Chew Fu and Wiley for ages I thought it would be worth posting.
Chew Fu used to light up the week with his remixes and bootlegs that he kindly gave away for nothing pretty much every week via Palms Out Sounds’ greatly missed Remix Sunday series. Some of his tunes still get awesome reactions when I drop them in a set, even the downright ridiculous ones like the Doobie Bros remix. His Eurythmics remix gets even the most dormant crowd singing their lungs out.
I don’t think this tune lives up to the sum of it’s parts. Still, it’s nice to see two artists I admire, from completely different scenes, collaborating. What next? Def Leppard and Joker? R Kelly vs Glassjaw? (Yes I really do love all those artists)
R1 Ryders are back again, this time smashing up Major Lazer’s dancehall monster Pon De Floor.
These guys seem to seriously have their finger on the pulse right now. They’ve picked up an already remixed to death tune and still made something fresh sounding whilst retaining enough of the original to make it recognisable and a surefire dancefloor smash in a dj set. Similarly to what they did with their funkitek remix of La Roux (see here) – they’ve crafted a monster that will cater for both sides of a crowd, those who want singalong tunes that they know and those who are sick of hearing the same tunes everywhere and want to hear something fresh. I’m definitely playing this on Saturday at Southern Sound festival.
They seem to have fully mastered the art of self promotion as well, they regularly update their twitter and facebook (unlike a lot of artists) with relevant stuff, which is the whole reason why I follow them in the first place. I found out today that their first EP – Burnout EP – just got released on iTunes (get it here). This is a seriously good move on their part – generally if I’m looking for tunes I have to scour so many sites just to find what I’m after that most (non DJ) people would give up. The iTunes store is the first port of call for most people, and it’s really disappointing the lack of UK underground tunes that are on there. Rant over – go buy Burnout EP now if only for the insanely catchy Rubberband which I have been humming constantly since I got the vinyl and will probably have to get now to slam on the iPod.
Pretty much the only time I listen to the radio is for Scratcha’s grimey breakfast on Rinse. Its basically amazing, and I’m not just saying that becuase I won those tickets to Rinse vs FWD at The End. Scratcha talks more than most pirate DJs and thanks to that the show provides all the best bits of a commercial radio breakfast show; features, phone ins and guests but with the music I want to hear rather than some chart shit. His personality comes across in such a way that I think if I met him I’d probably try and talk to him like a mate which is kinda weird cos I don’t know him.
He’s just put out a mix which you already should know is gonna be straight fire and you need it in your ears about now.
*HOUSE
1 Viktor Duplaix – Lust 4 Life
2 Fingaprint – Rising Sun
3 Donaeo – Love To Happen
4 Gracious K – Migraine Skank
5 Seany B ft Alahna Faye – Want Me Back
6 DJ Naughty – Quicktime (Roska Remix)
7 Roska ft Jamie George – Wonderful Day
8 Sticky – Jeremiah Riddim
9 Geeneus ft Katy B – As I (Scratcha Dubplate Special)
10 DVA ft Alahna – I’m Leaving (MA1 Remix)
11 Fuzzi Logik – The Way You Move
*FUNKSTEP
12 Donaeo – Be Mine
13 DVA – Congo
14 Yonurican – Boriken Soul
15 Roska – The Shephard
16 S.Chu – Hard Dough Bread
17 Ill Blu – Dragon Pop
18 DVA – The End
19 DVA – Natty
20 Deep Down
21 D Malice – Unnecessary
22 Cooly G – Akai
23 Speech Debelle – Spinnin (DVA Funkstep Remix)
24 Soul Dynamics – Make A Choice (Audiowhores Remix)
25 Raven (Remix)
26 DVA – Jelly Roll
27 MJ Cole – United Groove (L-Vis1990 Remix)
28 So Solid – 21 Seconds (DVA & Roska Funkstep Remix
I don’t know what funkstep is, similarly to how I don’t know what funkitek is but I know that I like all these new sub genres coming around and I love how being in London lets me get down and check out these new sounds evolving whilst the rest of the world probably won’t even hear of it for ages.
On my recent trip to Ibiza, the bastards in the next hotel room had the La Roux album on repeat, constantly. That’s not true, I could have easily dealt with that, they actually just had Bulletproof and In For the Kill on repeat. Don’t get me wrong, good tunes still, but not on repeat for a week. And as good as the album versions are, the remixes kill them.
This was written on a drawer in the hotel
Theres something about La Roux tunes that really brings the best out of producers remixing it. As much as I now hate Skream’s remix of In For The Kill, it was fucking massive, Foamo and Zinc both smashed Bulletproof and now there’s been plenty of activity around the new single, I’m Not Your Toy.
French electro badman DatA has rinsed the strings as well as the gallic favourite crushed up synths to produce his remix which is pretty good, but comes third in my rundown of the top three remixes I’ve heard. Whenever I think of DatA I think of Aerius Light, a tune that was in my head for at least 18 months but for some reason I never played it.
Bassmonsters Jack Beats have consistently churned out huge remix after huge remix. The thing is, I always get pissed off when retards on YouTube can’t tell the difference between Jack Beats and dubstep. Maybe I’m assuming too much of YouTubetards. Anyway, I love Jack Beats for their surging crescendos and this one is jam packed with em
Number one in my crappy little rundown are R1 Ryders, a group of West London based producers who have so far (as far as I know) only released the one tune, Rubberband, but let me tell you it’s one of my favourite 12s this year. Listen to this and tell me what the hell it sounds like to you, cos to me it sounds like some kind of new brand of genius.
CANNOT WAIT to get my hands on a full version of that.
PEOPLE WHO ONLY PLAY TWO SONGS OFF AN ALBUM – for the love of god burn yourself a cd with loads of other songs on it you also like. PLEASE.
So one of grime’s most prominent spokesmen, Logan Sama, celebrates his birthday today by treating the internet to a huge mix of badman fire.
As well as pushing grime to an ever increasing number of listeners through his Kiss 100 radio show (still the only 100% grime show on mainstream radio?) he’s been feeding my appetite for vinyl recently by signing up MASSIVE tunes to his Earth616 label and releasing them on REAL LIFE VINYL. Seriously massive tunes as well, from the scene’s top boys including Maniac, Wiley, Davinche, Rude Kid and DVA. You’d have thought he might take a day off for his birthday but I’m well glad he didn’t or we wouldn’t have this:
TEMPA T VS P JAM / NEXT HYPE MANAGEMENT / DUBPLATE
RUDE KID / JACK DANIELS / ALIEN MUSIC
P MONEY / LEFT THE ROOM / OGS
NOCTURNAL / DON’T PHONE BACK / ADAMANTIUM DUBPLATE
KILLA P / POLICE AR COME RUN / KILLER INSTINCT
GHETTO FT GRIMINAL / DON’T PHONE ME / J.CLARKE
MUSICAL MOB / PULSE Y / MUSICAL MOB ROYALE
SKEPTA / DTI / DICE
DAVINCHE / BUZZ LIGHTYEAR 2 / DIRTY CANVAS
NEWHAM GENERALS / BELL DEM SLAGS / DIRTEE STANK
NEWHAM GENERALS / SUPADUPE / DIRTEE STANK
D DOUBLE E / FRONTLINE / AFTERSHOCK
RUDE KID / UFO (ID4 VIP MIX) / ADAMANTIUM DUBPLATE
BREAKAGE FT NEWHAM GENERALS & DAVID RODIGAN / TOGETHER (HARD VOCAL MIX) / DIGITAL SOUNDBOY
SHARKY MAJOR / SHARK ATTACK / DUB
SKEPTA FT PAPER PABS, BOSSMAN & BIG H / OVER THE TOP 2 / BOYBETTERKNOW
ROYAL T / GARGOYLE (SILENCER REMIX) / NOHATSNOHOODS
OG’S / PASSIN THROUGH / OGS
SKEAMZ / GREENGATE GUYS VIP / DUB
SKEPTA FT WILEY / ARE YOU READY / BOYBETTERKNOW
SILENCER / SUPLEX / UNDERGROUND UNIT
WILEY / BANG / ESKIBEAT
WILEY / CLUB 5 / EARTH616
WILEY & SHIFTY VS GHETTO & DEVLIN / 1,2,3 LETS GO / ESKIBEAT
MANIAC / DEVIL VS SALT FISH / ADAMANTIUM DUBPLATE
DURRTY GOODZ / THROWAWAY THOUGHTS / AWKWARD
MEGA MW / NAUGHTY NITES / MOST WANTED
J2K / DANGER / PLASTICHEAD
JME / THEY FOUND BIN LADEN / BOYBETTERKNOW
NASTY JACK FT D DOUBLE E / COME AGAINST I / DUB
TERROR DANJAH / SIDECHAIN / HARDDRIVE
GHETTO & BRUTAL / GO ON DEN / J.CLARKE
TEMPA T FT CHRONIC / BOY OFF DA TING / SLEW DEM
BLACKS FT P MONEY / FALL BACK / DUB
P MONEY / 1UP / OGS
Huge radio show presented by Gabriel from The Heatwave, focussing on the increasingly apparent relevance of Bashment in UK Funky. Who wants to go to Jamaica?
