Tracklist:
01. Pete Philly – Gemini Solo
02. S-Type – Bairns
03. Eats Everything – The Size
04. Eats Everything – Entrance Song
05. AnimalStatuS – Ol’ Dirty Bounce
06. Rustie – Cry Flames
07. Canblaster – Air Totem
08. Frank Ocean – Thinking About You (5kinAndBone5 & Vin Sol Remix)
09. The Count & Sinden – Future (Canblaster Remix)
10. SirOJ – Cudder
11. Joy Orbison – Sicko Cell
12. French Fries – Laquisha Dub
13. Canblaster – I’m a superfister (Fis T vs dj Mike Q)
14. Raven – Is It Real
15. Raven – Special Way
16. James Blake – Love What Happened Here
17. A Orange Breakdown – Supreme
18. Full Crate – Joy
19. Obey City – Fuck Dat Wobble (Anti-Wobble Anthem)
20. Klever – Klever – It Gets Hot (Canblaster remix feat. Smoz)
21. Vincent Paolo – Omni Lite
22. Erykah Badu – Honey [Seiji Remix]
23. Submotion Orchestra – Always
24. Time Wharp – yrLyf
25. Cadenza – The Darkest Hype (Philip D Kick Remix)
26. Adam F – Circles (Philip D Kick Footwork Edit)
27. Full Crate ft. David Simmons – Without My Heart
Check out this fresh mix that Full Crate did for Nalden.net, full of that UK Bass/Booty/Dubby stuff that we all love. Check the links for lots more music from Nalden and Full Crate!
“A true student of the electronic era, MiMosa isn’t just another whomp-stomp-wobble-repeater maestro. His tracks blend drums, bass, hip-hop, dub and downtempo into one melodic collage that will have you grooving from start to finish.”
- Westword
“…that kid has the fortune of talent and an ear to match.”
- Magnetic Magazine
“When Mimosa – raging behind a Macbook, his faux-hawk whipping around like a rabid squirrel’s tail – squashes the sonic tension he’s so carefully built by unleashing a hard-as-nails, low-end accompanied beat, the whole damn club goes next-level bonkers.”
- Philadelphia Weekly
Although he’s been on a hectic US tour, playing dates with both Lunice and Kastle, MiMOSA has managed to whip up an exciting new mix for you to download. As premiered by URB last Thursday, the mix covers some of the latest and greatest bass oriented tracks as well as several of his original productions from his album Santuary. He has also reworked the smoking hot ‘Niggas In Paris’ by Jay-Z and Kanye West, which he has also offered up for download. Check out the tracklist below, and be sure to catch him on one of his remaining tour dates.
FUTURE TRILL MIXXX TRACKLIST
1. NiNA SiM0NE – Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
2. THE T0UCH – Bodies Waiting (FRENCH FRiES REMiX)
3. DARK SKY – Be Myself
4. MiM0SA – Pink Sprite
5. DiSCL0SURE – I Love… That You Know
6. STAGGA – Wild For The Night (D0SHY REMiX)
7. LUNiCE – I See U (GiRL UNiT REMiX)
8. TEETH – Shawty
9. JAY-Z KANYE WEST – Niggas In Paris (MiM0SA REMiX)
10. MiM0SA – Ice Box
11. AFRiKA HiTECH – Out In The Streets
12. MiM0SA – Dirty Money
13. Sleepyhead – Summer Lovin
REMAINING SANCTUARY TOUR DATES:
January 24 Zydeco – Birmingham, AL
January 25 Lyric Theater – Oxford, MS
January 26 The Valarium – Knoxville, TN
January 27 Cannery Ballroom – Nashville, TN
January 28 The Pageant – St. Louis, MO
January 29 Granada Theater – Lawrence, KS
Nu-Soul Magazine & Little Temple present
NU-THURSDAY FIRST ANNIVERSARY EVENT
Thursday February 9, 2012
Grammy Week Los Angeles
Join us as we celebrate one full year as the centerpiece of LA’s soul renaissance.
In the past year we have brought you an astounding array of eclectic talent including Aloe Blacc, Avery*Sunshine, Taylor McFerrin, Yahzarah, Nola Darling, Jaguar Wright, Lady Alma, Gina Rene, J Boogie’s Dubtronic Science, Choklate, Maya Jupiter, Brook D’Leau, Nikko Gray, DefSound, N’Dea Davenport, Sonnymoon, Nikki Grier, Jazzy, Sy Smith, Zo! and countless others.
Nu-Thursdays represents a movement in Los Angeles, fusing the city’s plethora of influences into one cohesive community that spans progressive soul, electronic sophistication, and experimental artistry.
On February 9, 2012 we present to you a special evening that represents the emerging sound of LA!
This Saturday January 28 we get down with S.T.Y.L.O. a special art gallery/studio space/afterhours party in the downtown warehouse district with some of our favorite people.
S. T. Y. L. O.
AGE OF AQUARIUS – : LOS ANGELES
Selections by
DJ SPILL : CEE BROWN : UNCLE PAULY : NOMAD : X MAN : NATTU
SATURDAY, January 28th, 2012
(9 pm – 4 am)
HUNTER STREET STUDIOS {WWW.HUNTERSTREETSTUDIOS.COM}
2441 HUNTER STREET
Los Angeles, CA 90029
The DJ-Kicks series enjoyed one of its strongest years ever in 2011, with acclaimed mixes from Scuba, Gold Panda, Soul Clap / Wolf + Lamb, and Motor City Drum Ensemble. 2012 shows no signs of slowing down, with a new mix due in Spring from the legendary Photek. “Fountainhead,” a collaboration with Kuru and one of four exclusive Photek tracks on the mix, will also be available on the second volume of DJ-Kicks: The Exclusives (featuring exclusive music from the aforementioned artists as well as Four Tet, Juan MacLean, Kode9 & more) which will be released in advance of Photek’s mix, on February 21st.
Some mixes are just mixes, but some change the agenda. Rupert Parkes, aka Photek, was determined that his DJ-Kicks set would be the latter. “I wanted to create one of those classic listening experiences,” he says. “With a mix like this, you can either bang it with the most current dancefloor tunes, or you can put a theme into it, or you can make it a journey. I was thinking about the classic LTJ Bukem mix tapes that I first came across in ’92 and ’93 and how epic they were. There was such a range of styles on there, they were so timeless and had real character. They had some personality. That’s what I wanted to capture with my DJ-Kicks mix.”
He’s certainly done just that. Starting with his own “Azymuth,” the 19 tracks range from the moody, downtempo throb of “In 2 Minds” by Kromestar to the broken, tribal beats of Boddika’s remix of Photek’s “101″ to straight-up tech house such as Baby Ford’s 1994 classic “Dead Eye.” The thread linking them together is a brooding atmosphere that recalls Parkes’ classic drum’n’bass releases in the ’90s (although there isn’t a drum’n’bass track to be seen). “Fountainhead,” a collaboration between Photek and Kuru (and a track exclusive to this mix), sums up the vibe perfectly with its swirling textures, echoing vocal cut-ups and stonking low-end. “It’s music with some atmosphere,” explains Parkes. “It’s introspective. I imagined that this would be the mixtape that you listen to later on – after the club. It’s more intimate. I’m not trying to show what I would do in a club, it’s something completely different.”
“’In 2 Minds‘ by Kromestar is a key track,” he continues. “I stumbled across it on Beatport. It reminds me of Art Of Noise, that weird early electro music. I mean it is very weird. Then there’s one of my all time favourite tracks, ‘Dead Eye‘ by Baby Ford. That song is always in my mind. It’s moody as fuck. It came out in ’94, but it sounds like it was made this year. I listened to it everyday for a year, then I listened to it on a new pair of headphones and started hearing new things in it. It’s magical when that happens with a track you think you know so well. I hope people will listen to this mix with that kind of repetition because there are some quite detailed moments.”
Such as the way he mixes in “No Agenda,” another of four Photek exclusives, including the aforementioned “Azymuth” and “Foutainhead,” plus “Levitation.” But, in fact, he doesn’t ever quite mix it in. You never get to hear the full track, just snippets dusted around. Indeed, it would be easy to miss it entirely. “I don’t like to make things too obvious,” says Parkes. “There are clean powerful moments and murky moments that you have to hear a few times to know what’s going on. The way I mix in ‘No Agenda’ is very deliberate. You look at the track listing and there’s a track called ‘No Agenda,’ but it’s hard to work out what it is, unless you go to the individual tracks and then work out which bits have been used in the mix. You don’t get to hear the song in its entirety. It’s little bits sprinkled here and there, as though I start to mix it in then change my mind.”
The DJ-Kicks mix marks a new era for Parkes, who seemed to withdraw from the music scene in 2007. He had long been disillusioned with the constraints of the drum’n’bass scene he helped pioneer. “When I played in clubs, there was never any music I liked either side of my set. I wondered why I was part of this niche when it seemed I was a square peg in a round hole.” When he started releasing music again last year with the Avalanche EP, it had more in common with post dubstep than anything else — bass heavy music that’s hard to categorize — but really it wasn’t like anything else at all. “If dubstep has taught us one thing it’s to let it all go,” says Parkes. “Just let stuff happen and sort it out later.”
He’s currently working on a new album. It’s going to be a varied affair. “Lots of different styles and sounds,” he says. And he’s starting a monthly club night in his adopted home of Los Angeles. “I want it to have the feel of Metalheadz at the Blue Note in London in 1995. It’s not just a tear out, it’s a creative atmosphere. People can play what they really want to play.”
A bit like his DJ-Kicks mix. Exactly how it should be, in other words.
2012 marks the 27th anniversary of !K7 Records. The label will be celebrating with a series of live events, releases, and special projects incorporating music and artists from past, present and future of the label, and the DJ-Kicks series.
Tracklist:
1. Photek – Azymuth*
2. Kromestar – In 2 Minds
3. Hot Toddy feat. Ron Basejam – I Need Love (Morgan Geist’s Love Dub)
4. DLX – Modern Man
5. DJG – Here Come The Dark Lights
6. Dustmite & Kuru – Bare
7. Photek & Pinch – M25FM
8. Photek – No Agenda*
9. Baby Ford + Eon – Dead Eye (Original Version)
10. Marco Effe – Sexgas (Arnaud Le Texier Remix)
11. DJG – Say Something
12. Guy J & Miriam Vaga – No Under But You
13. Daze Maxim – Tomorrow Universe
14. Sepalcure – Taking You Back
15. Photek – Levitation*
16. Photek & Kuru – Fountainhead (DJ-Kicks)*
17. Synkro – Look At Yourself
18. Photek – 101 (Boddika’s Drum Machine Remix)
19. Parxe & Grincheux – The Art Of Nothing pt. 1
Melo X recently took this cool video/production to the next level by dedicating to a group of 200 die-hard fans who were the first in line to purchase a digital art piece by the multi-talented Brooklyn standout. This is Melo live in the studio remixing Lana Del Rey’s ‘Video Games’. Enjoy and check the links for more!
Katy B fans in Southern California got the show they have been waiting for over the weekend with the SMOG produced This Is Dubstep Launch Party at the Observatory in Santa Ana, CA. Despite being a 30 minute plus drive outside of LA, dubstep fans made the effort to catch this big show that also featured Magnetic Man’s Benga and turntablist king DJ Craze. On arriving at the venue, I discovered a unique spot that combined the best aspects of big LA venues like The Wiltern and the Music Box but without any of the hassle that comes with them. Easy parking and laid back staff, several convenient bars throughout the space, and a main room that featured tiered levels that allowed for perfect views of the stage no matter where you stood made the venue alone worth the drive.
Once Katy B took to the stage just before 12:30am, she took command over the room. Instructing the packed house to raise their arms, rave out, or sing along, she worked them into a frenzy as she performing underground hits from her debut album On A Mission and her collaborations with Magnetic Man. When the sub atomic bass wasn’t drowning her out, Katy’s voice rang clear as a bell translating such excellent songs as “Perfect Stranger” and “Easy Please Me” into perfect live renditions. A female vocalist is such a rare thing in the rough and tumble world of dubstep, but Katy B’s smooth R&B/pop sound meshes so well with the hard beats that the Bass Massive embraced her without a second thought. Moshing boys sang along with their girlfriends, waving their arms from side to side and letting the purity of her voice wash over them. Katy B is a revelation in the dubstep world, representing a welcome shift in the overly hard and dark world of bass music, to a new evolved sound that finds just as much inspiration from soul as it does from the darkness.
Hold onto your auditory canals and buckle up for Rusko’s new single, “Somebody To Love,” out today. This is first single from the forthcoming album Songs out March 27 on Mad Decent/ Downtown Recordings. “Somebody to Love”, has all the makings of an anthem with its instantly memorable chorus and a shape-shifting rhythm that is more infectious by the second.
Songs is a collection of masterful pop songs that will reach far beyond the dance floors. Rusko has created a body of work that encapsulates all the best elements of bass heavy music and infuses them with sublime melodies and a euphoric spirit.
Check out the adorable video for the new single as well as the drum&bass remix by Sigma below.
This is one of the hottest mixes we have heard in a while! Joe Kay of Soulection Radio lets his unique take on future music wash over you in this masterful piece of work. Soulful Bass is the best way to describe his sound, one that features equal shades of drum&bass, dubstep, and Dilla-style instrumentals. But there is an underlying soul and a spiritual tone that ties it all together. Joe Kay represents the sound we have been waiting for! Dig into this juicy nearly 9o minute mix of pure bliss.
Tracklisting:
01. Kwala – Luminous Things
02. Opolopo – Step into The light
03. L33 – Right Here Right Now
04. The Two. Fifteens – Wavy Life
05. OL x Lapti – Material Things
06. Benito – 9.27
07. Machinedrum – U Don’t Survive
08. Cadenza – The Darkest Hype (Philip D. Kick Remix)
09. Notorious BIG – Going Back to Cali (Eprom Edit)
10. Roni Size + DJ Die – It’s A Jazz Thing (Phillip D kick’s Footwork Jungle)
11. Chesslo Junior – Alpine Riddim
12. Om Unit – An Eternal Way
13. Om Unit & Kromestar – Solar Cycle
14. Samiyam & Hudson Mohawke – Eff This
15. Professa – Destiny Hands
16. Artie Strong Man – Impressed to Dress
17. Troy Gunner – Head In Hands
18. Ifan Dafydd vs Synkro – No Good Girl (Joe Kay Refix)
19. Arkist – Fill My Coffee
20. Divine Interface – Fool Me
21. Sinjin Hawke & Morris – One Kiss
22. River Gbeh – Zorzor (Bosstone Remix)
23. Cosmic Revenge – Mind Eraser
24. Holy Grailers – Look At Me Now (Instrumental)
25. Vincent Paolo – Omni Lite
26. SP:MC – Oh My Gosh
27. F – Perspectives
28. Kahn – Way Mi Defen
29. Hatti Vatti – You feat. Cian Finn
30. Taal Mala – Da Flex
31. Salva – Yellobone (Shlohmo @ 2KWTVR Remix)
32. Silkie – Tonight
33. Joker – Milky Way
34. Inkarv – Needsvocalist
35. Hwood – Mr. Brown
36. Naus – Toxic Bitch (Inkarv Remix)
37. Full Crate – Joy
38. S E L A S S E ! – LSD
39. Sango – Before You Even Know
40. LDFD – Pinheiro
41. Zach Christ – Hach Me (Shigeto’s 4AM Edit)
42. Leodoris – Run (Zach Christ Remix)
43. Crystal Waters – Gypsy Woman (LDFD Remix))
44. Myrryrs – Blood of a Slave (Obey City Remix)
45. Hwood – For Real
46. Scientist – Ghost of Frankenstein
Check out this smooth mix from Just Dizle, who describes it in his own words below:
“I decided to make something that will help and improve humanity, this is mix is NOT for men although you are surely going to benefit from it, this mix has been designed for the sole purpose of facilitating peace and lubrication in the world…It starts with R.Kelly – Feeling On Yo Booty…”
And that says it all folks. You know what to expect, so get close to a loved one and push play on this musical journey from Just Dizle…links below!
