EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Harmonic 313 - Dirtbox
Fans of heavy bass and dancehall flavors take note: our always-tastemaking friends at Warp have unloaded a new track from Mark Pritchard's Harmonic 313 project called "Dirtbox," a quaking blast of bass-to-the-face that will see the light of day on December 9 as part of an EP of the same name (us Americans have a chance to grab it on a limited-to-300 run of 12" wax.) It's a preview to Harmonic's first full-length album When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence, currently slated to drop in February of '09. Tune in and dub out.
Sounds like: The Bug, Mr. Scruff, Rusko
Exclusive Download: Harmonic 313 - Dirtbox
Previously:
Download: Harmonic 313 - Mary Anne Hobbs Breezeblock
VIDEO: 77Klash - Mad Again feat. Johnny Osbourne
Our favorite late-spring heater—77Klash’s “Mad Again”—has finally got a clip to go with along with it and damn if it looks like we missed one hell of a green-screen party. There is LOTS of dancing, grinding, dudes leaning back, girls, tons of bright colors, two-seven in a suit being all straight-faced, and the legend Johnny Osbourne popping in for his hook. Where was in this in, like, July?
EXCLUSIVE STREAM: 77Klash - Belly (77Klash Vs. Queens Of The Stone Age)
Unless your initials are G.G., mash-ups are a little 2006. Too many dudes tried their hand at combining “Don’t Stop Believin” with some gully ATL rap joint or “Hustlin” and failed (but, of course, Cam nailed it). It's rare, but sometimes a popular song does get sampled or spliced with a great verse from another and kind of makes you re-think your position on the track, and not in a corny, ironic way. Producer, MC, and all around great dude 77Klash pulled a six-year-old song we forgot actually boasted a rather gnar riff and some monster Dave Grohl drumming—that would be Queens Of The Stone Age’s “No One Knows”—and voiced relentlessly over top of it for four minutes to make “Belly”, what I'm sure is the world’s first desert-rock dancehall rager. Get hype.
Sounds like: Lee "Scratch" Perry, The Bug, Santogold
Exclusive Stream: 77Klash - Belly (77Klash Vs. Queens Of The Stone Age)
Previous downloads:
Download: 77Klash - Code For The Streets
Download: Noble Society - The Swarm Riddim (DJ Theory Remix)
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: The Bug - Flying
Posted 8/12/2008 11:23 AM by Samuel Duke
Tags: Samuel Duke, dub, electronic, reggae, dancehall, downtempo
London producer The Bug (born Kevin Martin and fka GOD and Techno Animal) makes trippy, rotund bass tracks, songs that bend and sway like the late DJ Screw making dubstep beats. His new album London Zoo is a bruising headphone masterpiece, flipping from high-energy dancehall bombs to slower sample-heavy jams that sound like the soundtrack to a slo-mo shootout scene in a neo-noir flick. Today we have “Flying” an EXCLUSIVE unreleased track that wears its dub on its sleeve—sampled downtempo hits echoing around and an tenuous but optimistic reggae vocal (“My music makes people smile”). I don't know about smiling, but there is some serious head-nodding going on here right now. And while The Bug’s tunes might find acceptance amongst the Rizzla-rolling youths of Brixton, this is still music for everyone, even those without a hoodie in the closet.
Sounds like: Flying Lotus, 77Klash, Lee "Scratch" Perry
VIDEO THRWBCK: Cutty Ranks (Live 1986)
Short and sweet—you really need a video of dancehall ruler Cutty Ranks busting wildly over the legendary "Sleng Teng" riddim at a 1986 People's National Party rally in your life right now. His delivery during the last 20 seconds is particularly devastating. Props to Gelo of Gelo Factory fame for the link up!
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