this one should be fun… i can vouch that Matt & I have a bunch of new remixes and exclusive tunes to run, Gex & Lamin always bring it, and Zuzuka is meant to be a firecracker.
Dutty (and cheap-$5 early) tropikkkal fun on the edge of Brooklyn, sound enhanced by Grimm’s reggae bassbins.
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I got put up on Octa Push by the hospitable folks of Bristol’s finest BassMusic/Karnival crew Ruffnek Diskotek. After a massive fry up we were listening to some tunes and Octa Push stood out as some serious heat… A few internet mediated communications later- and we have a brief and incredibly straight forward interview direct for DA from the Iberian peninsula.
Who is Octa Push?
We’re two brothers, Dizzycutter and Mushug and we both have been making beats for a while but only started making them together in the beginning of 2008. Started a bit like a joke when our friends at Conspira (one of the first crews pushing bass music in Portugal) booked us for a show. We had to find a name and make loads of beats, it went well and then we decided to take it a bit more seriously. Since then things been moving really fast and we’ve been lucky to play in wicked places!
We did official remixes for people like Buraka Som Sistema, Débruit, Mochipet, Monkey Steak and more..
Our sound has it’s main influences UK garage, bashment, techno, afrobeat and loads of diferent things..
Good friend and fellow bass fiend The Crooked Clef has the best taste of any of the bloggers writing over at Trash Menagerie. He also does serious damage behind his Traktor pulled decks. He has been putting out a semi-regular series called Trash in the Bassment- check last edition’s tropical deluge for confirmation of the mans skills and taste. His latest goes all house-y in that way that I get embarrassed about loving. But believe- this is a HEAVY HEAVY mix that I can imagine going off at Night Slugs or any of the other gutter house/heavy bass parties that you can find out in the wide wide world. Below find Vol VI
[Audio:http://www.trashmenagerie.com/audio/TheCrookedClef/Trash%20In%20the%20Bassment%20Vol.%206.mp3]
01. Hot City – Set Me Free (Available on Boomkat)
02. Black Box – I Don’t Know (Kingdom Remix) ((Trash Menagerie))
03. Emynd – Hold It Down 2009 ((Crossfaded Bacon))
04. Scottie B & King Tutt – African Chant (Top Billin’ Remix) ((Get Weird Turn Pro))
05. DJ Master-D – Mad Drumz (Curb Crawlers)
06. Zombie Disco Squad – Banton Boot (Curb Crawlers)
07. L-Vis 1990 – Come Together (Available on Beatport)
08. Dre Skull – I Want You (Bok Bok Remix) ((Available on Beatport))
09. Star Eyes – Happy Haus (Exclusive Star Eyes mix for Trash Menagerie)
10. CT Burners & Jubilee – Kick It (Birthday Party Berlin)
11. Norrit – Feel the Rhythm (Dubbel Dutch Remix) ((Discobelle))
12. Buraka Som Sistema (Feat. Petty) – D…D…D…D…Jay (Poligono Big Pachanga Remix) ((Curb Crawlers))
13. Mavado – Blessed (De Tropix Remix) ((Mad Decent))
14. DJ Rupture – Cumbia De Las Piratas (Refix) ((Mudd Up))
15. Amadou & Miriam – Sabai (Uproot Andy Remix) ((Ghetto Bassquake))
16. Cooly G – Narst (Available on Boomkat)
P.S. Love to see how dude is straight up with the provenance of his work… INTEGRITY
Very cool little short video of Just Blaze showing part of how he makes his hiphop beats, in this case a great and very fast way to chop samples and set them up for triggering in the EXS sampler in Logic. Thanks to Timeblind for the linkage. This is what I love about Logic. Any time I’m working with someone else, or teaching my class at Dubspot, I learn some new different way to do the things I do when making beats. Timeblind is also a super Logic wizard and has taught me lots. In this case I didn’t know that you could split regions during playback OR drag from arrange into the EXS editor. Logic heads will appreciate this. AND if this has you scratching your head and thinking “That looks really cool, I want to be able to do that” you should sign up for the next session of my class at Dubspot, starting August 15th on Saturdays from 4-6:45pm in Manhattan. The session after that is November 11th Wednesdays and Fridays from 10:15 to 1PM. Lamin is in my group on Thursday’s that just started last week and will be doing some blog posts here and on the Dubspot blog about it.
Thanks to www.mikechav.com for putting this up, a bunch of good producing videos on his site.
Story Julianne Shepherd
Photography Jason Nocito
Encyclopedic, scholarly and wielding deep faith in riddim and vibes—the alchemy of the Brooklyn-based Dutty Artz crew is completely mystical and slightly awe-inspiring. Its main proprietors, the power trio of DJ/producers Jace Clayton aka DJ/Rupture, Matt Schell aka Matt Shadetek, and Roberto Fernandez aka Geko Jones, are dudes preeminently known for soliciting and disseminating the globe’s bangingest dancehall, dubstep, and cumbia beats. They have explored metropolises, townships and favelas to seek out music in its indigenous state and found likeminded friends in Brazil’s Maga Bo, Montreal’s Ghislain Poirier, and Cape Town’s African Dope Records crew, and when they can’t get to the most outward of dance music’s niches themselves, they have a gang of colleagues to carry the load. When a friend recently traveled to Distrito Federal in Mexico City, Jones begged him to bring back whatever wild music he could find. Thus, when you Google “tribal guarachero,†duttyartz.com is the only non-Spanish blog that results. They are archaeologists scouring the globe’s nooks and crannies with the curiosity of scientists, not conquistadors. They are so passionate about the beat, and generous with their knowledge of it, you almost don’t know where to begin the discussion.
Click HERE to read the rest of Julianne Shepherd’s intelligent and sincere article from The FADER #61.
This mix gets denser then pigs at a Smithfield subsidiary in Veracruz. Sonido Del Principe out of the Netherlands sent his New Summer Cumbia Mix over almost three weeks ago (is it five now?)- but better late then never. Some might not go in for the mashups and refix’s- but waking up on a Sunny day in hungary Hackney with the subs turned up this mix is a surefire winner.
entirely unrelated hoax image circa sars
With limited bandwidth- so grab from Mega Upload until I have a chance to up it to our servers…
Tracklist:
01. Chico Cervantes – Cumbia de la Paz
02. Tremor – Viajante (Cumbia Cosmonauts Remix)
03. El Hijo de la Cumbia – La Mara Dub (SDP edit)
04. El Remolon – Bolivia
05. Dj Panik – Like this like that
06. Fauna vs Grandmaster Flash vs SDP
07. El Norte vs SDP – Wu-umbia!
08. Sonido Del Principe – El Principe
09. El Hijo de la Cumbia – Bombon Asesino version
10. Vampiros Deejaay vs SDP – Sexy Rod Dub
11. Prince vs SDP – If I was your Girlfriend
12. Grupo Adixion – Porque te Vas
13. Dj Panik – Te Vez Buena
14. Sonido Del Principe – Cartagena
15. Dead Menems – Taliban del Amor (El Remolon rmx)
16. Jozefa Matia vs SDP – Cumbia Solede
17. Sonido Del Principe – Shake it
18. Zomby vs. SDP – Shake that strange Fruit
If you missed the insanity that was Demolition- Rob from Pollinate was dropping a sick Tribal Guarachero set to a very receptive crowd-Â you’ve got another chance to act like you know!
Don’t let this well-shot video fool you – i have never seen Filastine go for more than 12 hours without his laptop(s). (Or, can one man really take on hypercapitalist consumer society with so many Mac products in his life?) I’m a PC user, btw.
Regardless of your OS and/or consumption patterns, check it, its awesome. Video to ‘Singularities’ from Dirty Bomb:
Terius Nash aka The Dream in the studio. This guy is a BEAST. His past two albums are crazy, pretty much all I’ve been listening to for a while. The fact that he’s making shit this fast should just make everyone else quake in fear. He deserves his hype. Shouts to Kingdom via Twitter for the link. I’m on there too. Tweet tweet tweet.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uXe6Y9wv0k[/youtube]
Midrange wobble hooligan Rusko breaks down some of his dubstep production methods on YouTube. He goes through in a pretty detailed way talking about how to program the shuffled beats in dubstep, how to make wobble bass, how to mix beats and general production process stuff. I like his music although I imagine there are a lot of dubstep people who will think he’s bastardizing the scene since the stuff he makes is very main-floor friday night mass appeal dubstep. I like it although I think there will be a lot of people coming behind him trying to make ‘banging dubstep’ and making a lot of horrible music, like what happened with d’n’b after Ed Rush & Optical introduced the whole No U Turn techstep sound. Regardless though, whatever style you’re making, if you’re trying to make powerful beat based music he is giving away a lot of good knowledge here. Respect to him for pulling back the curtain. Real producers who are confident in themselves don’t need to keep ‘production secrets’.
Part one:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4rDC1kuHtc[/youtube]
Part two:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eLFb6CecXA[/youtube]
Part three:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGJMhYv5fqA[/youtube]
Part four:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AZ1RL8jI9c [/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mro6WO1shAA[/youtube]
I have been enjoying “Da Game Been Good To Me” instrumental for a little while. The song/single is great, but the instrumental by itself is also a superb, sweet country tune.
youtube spotted at Nah Right
The Agriculture– which put out /Ruptures cosmopolitan (and new mexican) bass excursion “Uproot” has some fresh goods coming to market.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGBpVOztEL0[/youtube]Lloop’s “Autumn Rains Until Those of Spring” video by Peter Shapiro
Brooding dubstep for afronauts and the red eye(d) easyjet set. Lloop’s been working since the earl 90s Williamsburg rave scene on surreal and dubladen work – but i guess it was callled “illbient” back then-Â Â “60 HERTZ” is the new album- and it’s reminding me yet again how lacking the hegemonic dubstep creation myth is for explaining the genres development. Causality in cultural production is always nearly impossible to pinpoint- but this album certainly points to a more complicated relationship between stateside and UK developments in electronic music.
extra credit- 60 hertz is the frequency of AC power in the states… out of work with some spare time? take a photodiode, point it at a lamp and use it to control an oscillator- then u can listen to these sine waves humming all around us.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4d7UwaNrIQ[/youtube]
I had the beeps from this beat stuck in my head for a few months so I had to look it up on Youtube this morning. I heard it first in DJ Vlad’s Hyphymentary “Ghost Ride The Whip” which is worth checking. Too $hort STAYS on form, crazy.
 I <3 synths! Like for real- I just fucking love them. (Is that like saying you love drums?)
Having spent countless hours soldering little bits of plastic and metal on bread boards and taking apart toys and keyboards.(and plugging away at a Serge like the one to the left).. I’m still amazed by how emotive a little bit of electricity can be. Eternal love to Mr Gray for getting the whole thing started- but there are some new comers who are pushing the envelope and combining serious dance floor sensibility (or maybe sensitivity) with enough experimental flare to keep things interesting.
In Vienna last Saturday I stopped in at the nearly impossible to find Club U (as cute as it might seem- maybe dont name your venue the same thing as the five thousand signs for the subway that surround it) to hear from Glasgow’s Hudson Mohawke. Running a combo serato and ableton set up with some akai mpd controller action- dude properly destroyed the room with a much too short set. I’ve been checking Hudmo ever since his “Ooops” release of absolutely face melting hip-hop/rnb refixes. Seeing him live made me wonder if the term braindance might make a resurgance…but the music gods want something NEW to talk about….
If you squint a little music criticism starts to embody all the reasons that I hate (and find myself returning to) academic art history. Inbred pedanctic circle jerks aside- there’s something to be said for trying to come up with a critical apparatus for new works that have, in their unwieldy descent through the market, yet to find their historical/critical resting place. While creating/defending/destroying genre designations certainly is not the most important work of a critic- no one can avoid recycling and regurgitating the genre question when it comes to (cue Marsalis trumpets) the new era in BASS music that we may, are, ought to, have, havnt, possibly, can, enter did enter or passed through.
Saving my own didactic desires/nonsene- I’ll just share what to me are prime examples of……(wait for it)….. music that makes people dance in the club and makes me smile – even while enjoying my Hungarian subway stations multi-use communal restroom, bakery and public transportation smell. Both tracks have great synth work and even though they are bass heavy bangers- they both sound solid on laptop speakers.
[audio:http://nyc.duttyartz.com/mp3s/3-Let_Me_See_What_U_Workin_With_Rustie_Remix_.mp3]Rod Lee – Let Me See What U Workin With (Rustie Remix)
Cop from Dress 2 $weat
[audio:http://nyc.duttyartz.com/mp3s/HudmoOoops.mp3]Also- buyable
p.s. Can we talk about Tweet’s “Oops” as presaging the Recession Rap movement with her own libidinal credit crunch tale?