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)

Big article on Wiley’s amazing catalog of material.

FACT magazine: The Essential…Wiley.

The host of London’s most entertaining breakfast show (on rinse fm) and baddest grime and funky producer of the minute releases the latest in Fact Magazines much acclaimed mix series.  It certainly doesn’t disappoint.

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Our mate Charles over at bigtusks asked us to bosh out a mix for his blog. Lucky for us he liked it enough to post and you can go and get it now now now

This then reminded me that I did a mix last month as well which I didn’t put out anywhere and I’m still pretty happy with. You can get that badboy over here

Tracklist for the Jan mix:

D Malice – Gabryelle Refix
Enur ft. Natasja – Calabria
Apple – De Siegalizer
Busta Rhymes – Dont Touch Me (Bird Peterson Remix)
Mujava – Township Funk (Sinden Remix)
Geeneus ft. Katie B – As I
Mr V – Hypnotiq 2
Slick Don – Rudeboy
Piddy Py – Giggle Riddim
Starkey – Gutter Music
Tinchy Stryder ft. Roachee – Rollin Remix
Jammer ft. Frisco & Tempz – Big Man Ting
Loudmouth – Suck Out
Maniac – Thug
Jakes & Joker – 3k Lane
JME – Punch In the Face
Skream – Filth
Mavado – Wah Dem A Do (Acapella)
Chase & Status – Eastern Jam
Plastician ft. Skepta, Frisco, Chronik, Tempa T & Esco – Real Things
Seven – Siren
Double S – From Day (Cardopusher Remix)
Taz Buckfaster – Murda Skank

It seems like it’s been a long time since I posted anything.  Probably becuase it has.  Whoops!  So let’s see if I can make up for that with a round up of whats been going on with us since my last (weak) post.

BASSLIME

Basslime’s been ticking over nicely, we’ve brought our new mates Broke DJs on board, we did a Junior Spesh and we still love everything about it, the artwork, the tunes and the whole atmosphere.  Unfortunately we tend to play all night upstairs so I’m still yet to experience how great it is downstairs, but it looks like a shitload of fun.

The next one is kind of a big one, it’s a birthday ting, our first booking and possibly the start of a new era for basslime, but there’ll be more info on that as it gets confirmed.  We’ve booked VENOM & DAMAGE to come down and wreck the show based purely on their mixtapes which you can download here:

VENOM & DAMAGE – FRENZY

VENOM – MAXIMUM CARNAGE

A load of the bassline tunes I’ve got hold of lately have been remixes of rnb tunes, and despite supporting a strong anti rnb stance, I’m really feeling a lot of these tunes.  These bassline producers seem to take these generic, boring, friday night pre fighting songs and actually make them interesting.  So I done a mix of some of em.  Even my mum said she likes this one

b_ts m_ss_ng – Rn’Bassline

And cos I havent posted in a while, here’s a few tunes I’ve been loving and dropping on a regz in a Basslime set: (A lot of these are oooold, but I missed them the first time round.)

Kevlar – Stop This Car (Feb 08)

Agent X feat. Donae’o – Slow It Down (June 06)

702 – You Don’t Know (Mr V Remix) (Nov 07)

Chris Brown feat. T Pain – Kiss Kiss (Reepz Remix)

Pyper – You Don’t Need to Know

I’ve been giving this whole ‘Funky’ /UK House / Urban House thing a bit of a wide birth becuase to me, funky house was the Hed Kandi, night out in a generic club, maybe with a fish tank, or some under bar neons.  The one night where fuckheads leave their addidas tracksuit at home and polish up their loafers.  And pop their collars.  Of both their polo shirts.  I think this might explain.   But I’ve given it a bit of a chance, and there are the odd tunes that I’m really enjoying.  And, from what I’ve read, its easily compatible with grime, bassline and all that becuase a lot of it is made by the same producers.  Here’s some bangers I’ve found across the internet that I’ve taken a liking to:

Donae’o – African Warrior

Paleface & Kyla – Do You Mind (Crazy Cousins Remix)

Target from Roll Deep did a remix of Benga & Coki’s Night which I got on vinyl and thought it would be interesting to mash up with some other mixes of the tune for a laugh.  (For a laugh means this is a crap mix)

Benga & Coki – Night (Target Remix/ Original/ Buraka Som Systema Remix)

OUTSIDE OF BASSLIME

We did the first We Are Your Friends Southampton at The Cube which was… interesting.  We played under the stairs.  Next to the squash courts.  What’s a great deal more (genuinely) interesting is the next Bournemouth WAYF we’re involved with, it’s gonna be massive.  They’ve cut deals with at least 3 clubs to build an event covering a whole block, and they’ve called in a whole load of favours with regards to bookings to get hold of some pretty big names in the Jackin/Fidget/Electro House ting as well as some indie bands, a smattering of dubstep, hip-hop, loads.  Line up so far is looking along the lines of: Hervé, Example, Andy George, Alex Metric, AC Slater & the Palms Out Sounds crew, Eddy Temple Morris, Man Like Me, Affie Yusuf, Caspa, and I believe theres more yet to be revealed.  Excited?  I am.  There’s tracks from these guys all over the internet, just go search the hype machine for em.  And if Ste-V doesn’t hook everyone up with a massive mix of it all soon then I will.

Just got back from the weekend at Brighton, we saw some amazing new stuff, some amazing established stuff and some stuff I’d been told was amazing but had to see it to get into it. Here’s a breakdown:

Thursday

After getting fully violated by flies for wearing a green t-shirt, we caught Paul Marshall in a very quiet gig, with most of the crowd seemingly being made up of his friends. I think most people were struggling with the concept of roaming around town for the festival so had chosen on venue to stick to all night. They all missed out, big time.

After Paul Marshall we headed down to catch Mumdance doing his dj thing between bands at Revenge. This boy knows where it’s at, we were loving his tunes, and had a chat with him after and he turned out to be a really nice guy, who will definitely be coming down for a Basslime gig soon. Check his mix over at Mad Decent

Went on then to catch Late of the Pier who were awesome and young, and jealousy inducing. I’m pretty sure everything of theirs has been blogged to death, so heres their video for The Bears are Coming

The night wound up at Concorde 2 with the Go Team, who we queued for fucking ages to see because Vampire Weekend were on first. It was fun tho, when we did get in, but we were all pretty knackered by then and ended up heading back to our rooms which were invaded by the We Are Your Friends crew who got a bit screwed for accommodation.

Friday

We stepped it up a gear on Friday, taking in twice as many bands and 5 times as much alcohol, so forgive me if this write up is a little hazy on the details.

First up was The Shoes at Barfly. I have no recollection of this at all, but at least that means it wasn’t rubbish. From there we went on to see Rolo Tomassi at Revenge for the absolute highlight of the weekend. I’ve heard people banging on about them for ages but seeing them live was what made it for me. Literally, amazing. Go and see them now. Also, buy their EP off

From there we staggered slack jawed back to Barfly for Ebony Bones who were good enough for me to remember (just), and were then followed by Friendly Fires who were awesome. I got introduced to Orlando from The Maccabees and couldn’t process what was going on. (I was a lot drunker than I thought)

We moved on again to Concorde 2 from Magistrates and the Ting Tings. I stood outside for most of the Magistrates set trying to sober up and talk to random girls, and despite having no interest in the Ting Tings I’m pleased to say they put on a really good show. I may have fallen asleep standing up and with a pint in my hand.

Saturday

On Saturday Pete and I took in our first daytime show, brushing up on our METAL from the likes of Johnny Truant, The Ghost of a Thousand and Cancer Bats.

The evening shows were set to start with Beardyman followed by Wiley then Tomb Crew DJs, but Beardyman was silently cancelled and Wiley bumped up the bill, only to not show up anyway leaving Tomb Crew to play for ages. To be fair though, Tomb Crew know where the shit’s at, and I’ll be making the effort to catch them at Big In Japan when they come down.

We went up to Pressure Point to catch Example, but got there early for the end of Gotye’s set. It’s a damn good job we did as well, because he was great. One dude playing keyboards, drums, a wood block and a laptop with some awesome visuals and a great range of tunes, definitely one to watch if you ever get the chance.

Example was great as well, and turned out to be the highlight of the night. I’ve been a fan of his style for a while and he didn’t fail to impress, even if he does look like a local dj who hates us. He even boshed out the Herve remix of So Many Roads, which kept everyone bouncing bouncing bouncing. Shit hot show!

We returned again to Concorde 2 for Wiley who was scheduled in to replace Santogold who was ill. I’m a big Wiley fan but had never managed to catch him live before, and I left the show feeling proper let down. All the videos I’ve seen or live audio I’ve listened to shows a completely different show to what we saw, I think down to the success of Rolex. The crowd was pretty waste until Rolex came on, Wiley seemed half bothered, did single verses of tunes, fully dictated what DJ Cheeky should play and didn’t really seem to have a set list or anything. Live PAs are difficult for a grime MC because it’s not like the rave situation they’re used to in London where there’s huge hype and the DJ runs the show. He played a couple of tracks off Grime Wave, but I mean played the tracks, straight off the CD. Missed out big tunes in favour of letting Cheeky do his thing with some old school garage?! Not what we went there for really.

Tunes He Played:

We were gutted that he didn’t play:

The first time garage came around it was a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine. I was at a school not far outside London and one of my mates from London introduced me to the sounds, but all my other friends were metalheads who didn’t get it. Then by the time Rewind smashed the chart, I was ready to drop it all as it hit the mainstream because I was young and wanted to make an impression. Still, I look upon my garage days fondly and will make a few posts for nostalgias sake as I come across some classics.

The first of these posts is about classic garage legends Sunship. I just re-bought their 1998 album Is This Real and it’s brought back some memories!

Sunship’s first release was a self titled breakbeat track on the Acid Jazz label in 1991(!), and whilst it’s pretty different from his later, more popular stuff, you can still hear the influence that the sound would continue to have on the tunes that made his name.

Sunship won the MOBO for best jazz act in 1997, but towards the end of the 90s, Ceri Evans came to embrace the 2-step sound that would make him a household name as Sunship. Standout tracks from Is This Real:

Which went on to become

In 2000 he remixed Flowers by SFA which went huge and still kills a crowd, then Craig David’s 7 Days which adds loads to the original.

More recently, the expanded Sunship team remixed Jay Sean’s Ride It in 2007, in which you can hear the bouncing basslines that fuelled the bassline resurgence later in the year with T2’s Heartbroken.

They released Quits featuring prominent dubstep vocalist Warrior Queen, which got the remix treatment from one of the men of the moment, Sinden

Then they only went and returned the favour with a remix of The Count and Sinden’s Beeper, which easily holds its own against a slew of amazing remixes of this tune.

Yes, I know I already posted that.

Basslime’s launch party at the firestation went off in a big way, with 4 hours of the filthyest grime, bassline, dubstep, garage and wobbly wobbly house.  The first proper Basslime night is gonna be pure showaaaaa and is in about a month and a half.  Sometime in that month and a half I aim to get a good promo mix done for it and will up it here, in the style of contiuum with his heavy ass promo mix for his night Monster City.

On the subject of mixes heres a few more of my recent and not so recent favorites:

Justice – Radio 1 Essential Mix – Oct 07

Benga – Radio 1 Essential Mix – Feb 08

Meridian Crew – Sidewinder – 2006

Intothefray – Trouble Vision – March 08

Bok Bok + Manara – Mad Decent Niche Podcast – Feb 08

Capture the Castle – Ayia Napa Gave Me AIDS – March 08

Big thanks to Neil from CTC, Rilla and Trevor Loveys for riding the bassline with us