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Free Baobinga & Guido Riddim Yo

January 24

Guido recently gave away a bunch of tunes over on his soundcloud, including this collaboration with yours truly....

Ice Black - Baobinga & Guido by guido productions

His new label 'State Of Joy' is also up and running - the first release is out now, and it's a pelter...

And while we're on a Guido and Binga tip, there's still a few copies of BUILD006 knocking about...

Boom!

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Binga.

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Weekend Mixes

January 13

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Been a while since we had any weekend mixes. Bit bad. Busy. Anyhow, listen to these for fun and profit.

First, our bud James Fox has been enjoying some much-deserved popularity recently, so we were pleased to see this 'influences' mix and interview over at the Southport Weekender site. Hip-hop, house, downbeat, a couple of classics. Get involved:

Then you should listen to this mix from one of Bristol's most under-rated producers (and all-round scene contributionalists), Peverelist. It was for the ever-on-point Sonic Router, and it's basically techno, but it's much more than your standard Berlin drug-music - just listen to the space and light in that opening 10 minutes to see what I mean. Sick beats all the way through. Read the interview here, stream below:

Last of all, turn to last week's XLR8R podcast to enjoy Throwing Snow's mix of general melodic delights; veering from the housey, to the broken, to the ambient, frequently with a mellow tinge. Think I prefer the first half of the mix, before he starts chucking in the currently obligatory juke influence, but still, give it a listen here because it's still really good.

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No Symbols - Beneath

January 11

Came across this little badboy in Idle Hands yesterday and figured it deserved a mention. It actually hit the shops a few weeks back, but it kind of sneaked out when I wasn't looking (*was stuffing my face with mince pies and sleeping in til early afternoon). It's vinyl only and it's 4 tracks of house and funky that recall the sonics of early dubstep; low-passed square waves that threaten to lunge out of the gloom, harsh snares and claps, bleak soundscapes. But it is actually funky; tough and weighty. Stream below, cop from Idle Hands or the Punch Drunk shop....

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Yöt - Bitch Bender

January 11

Yöt are a four-piece crew from Finland, and this, I am reliably informed, is their third release. In which case it's quite impressively accomplished; a 6-track EP, coming out this week on vinyl on their own label 'Raha & Tunteet'. I suppose you could loosely term it skweee, in that it's characterised by cheekily amusing lo-fi synths, a melodic sensibility and no particular desire to destroy any dancefloors. But it goes broader than that; lead track 'Real Dub' in particular is great - an homage to proper, heavyweight dub sounds but with those warm analogue sounds layered on top; while the titular 'Bitch Bender' takes a step outside and wouldn't sound out of place with Karin Dreijer Andersson on vocals. Stream and buy from the bandcamp link below:

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South London Ordnance

January 10

South London Ordnance is a shadowy character from (I'm guessing) our fair capital city, who has really been catching my ear lately. So far anonymous and without a release to his name, it's not often I get excited about a new producer at this early stage. But his stuff is genuinely exciting; taking influence from the sonic template established recently by the likes of Boddika et al, he's slowed it down to a murky sub-120 tempo, stepped away from the purely electro and moved into more rolling, housier realms.

His Soundcloud page - annoyingly, for this post - is a constantly shifting entity, with tracks being added and removed fairly regularly. So the track I was going to post has disappeared, but no matter - there are plenty of others in the works, so I suggest adding him on Soundcloud and enjoying what follows. You'll be seeing more of him on these pages in the not too distant future, but In the meantime, stream below....

Chase Scene by South London Ordnance

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Sduk - Anything Could Happen

January 9

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Fog by Sduk

Slit Jockey have come correct with their first full-length: a boisterous collection of big spacey bangers by Sduk and friends. Fallin is most definitely a purple affair, the verse providing a gutsy swagger which almost cries out for a vocal, except the bassline kind of fills that void already - similarly the melodic chorus sounds incredibly vocal without actually containing a voice. Starkey's helping hand on Oahshens pays off in an absolute shock-out of processed synthesizer ecstasy - what did you expect from the granddaddy of intergalactic grimestep?

AllCity by Sduk

On some of the tracks - particularly the harder, faster cuts - ideas are sometimes expressed too brashly; I feel that the often quite emotive melodies could have been perhaps have been more effective if handled with more delicacy, and the same goes for the beat production. For instance, I feel that the rumbling, spacious, physicality of second track Fog, with a choice and complimentary synth accompaniment, would have been a far stronger opener than Valid, whose incessant held notes of crisp mid-range bass seem to lay it on too thickly. In between the slightly ill-combined trap snares and gabber kicks of All City, the fanfare of various synthetic instruments and bleeps is actually quite powerful, one of the strongest moments here melodically.

Beyond by Sduk

For me, many of the best bits are the sparser or slower-paced ones. The oddball sound palette of Vibrent Grey does the business with real hints of that rude and wide-eyed grime sound the likes of Danny Weed pushed; wonderfully naive, even down to the poorly spelled title. Error is a real favourite, the lack of any real bassline actually feeling really welcome, and allowing one to enjoy the deft arrangement of disjointed orchestral samples, the same kind of way Mike Skinner used them when he was good. Similarly, Beyond offers another breathing space, soaking the listener in gorgeous swirls of nicely offkey chord progressions and astringent harmony. Final tune Out is one of my favourite parts of the LP, even though it only clocks in at two minutes in length. Future-sounding boogie, combined with rolling 808 snares, tenor moans and grime claps shouldn't sound this good together. The confidence and strangeness here is a perfect example of what makes Sduk's sound so much fun, unashamedly combining sounds, moods and ideas with gusto.

Error by Sduk

Hear clips of the whole album: http://anythingcouldhappen.net/

Buy: http://boomkat.com/downloads/477577-sduk-anything-could-happen / http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/anything-could-happen/id488166924

The cover art is designed by Sduk himself. Check out his crew (they run parties in London) @ http://pipedownson.com

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Gyu - Cerebral EP

January 9

Gyu was a Bristol-based dubstep producer until he recently did one to Moscow - hope he likes the cold then. But he's just put out this latest EP on Bristol-based Drawn Recordings which is a selection of deeper, slightly melodic dubstep. It's somewhat sparse sounding, although don't mistake that for simplicity. As I did at first. But pulling on a pair of decent headphones and listening properly I found myself getting slowly reeled in to a reverberant, delicately constructed soundscape with sharp, clipped beats. Tidy. Stream below, and then check the Drawn Recordings release page for a free track.

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Chloe Mix for Radio Frog

January 5

I don't think we've featured Chloe on these pages before - but she's a pretty big name in techno and electro circles that should need no introduction really. I've not been the biggest fan of her productions - although they're solid techno that work on a dancefloor (decide for yourself at her soundcloud page ) - but this DJ mix totally won me over. It's on more of a house tip, featuring Space Dimension Controller and Soul Clap, but there's a strong 80's electro and Italo vibe in there too. Very tasty. Stream and download here:

CHLOE SLOW MIX for the KILL THE DJ residency on RADIO GRENOUILLE by Chloe (DJ - Producer)

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Tessela - D Jane / Channel

January 4

Well, so much for the Bristol 'community', as I have absolutely no idea who Tessela is. His Soundcloud page isn't much help either, but what I do know is that he's got the next release on Punch Drunk and it's two tracks of bludgeoning bass music aimed squarely at the dancefloor. I'm not sure what you'd call it - personally I always consider that if it could sit in a Surgeon set then it's techno, and I think this fits that bill - but there are plenty of heads who'll be cringing at that description. Either way, listen to these two chunky stompers below, and keep an eye on the shops in February. Big.

Tessela 'D Jane' (Punch Drunk Records) Clip by Punch Drunk Records

Tessela 'Channel' (Punch Drunk Records) Clip by Punch Drunk Records

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Pinch - Fabriclive Preview Mix

January 4

You're not gonna be able to get away from Pinch over the next couple of weeks, as he seems to be on a rather intense PR blitz at the moment. Following the abruptly released collaboration album with Shackleton, he's now got the next Fabriclive mix due out on Jan 16, as well as a new Tectonic Plates compilation on his own label. So there's a big party at Fabric next week to celebrate, featuring the likes of 2562, Peverelist and Om Unit. To complete the package he's put together this intriguing preview mix for your listening pleasure. I say 'intriguing' because it eschews dubstep entirely, instead opting to head down a SCB-esque brooding techno route. No tracklist, apart from the quote "it’s mostly quite new techno white labels”. Shows you how out of touch I am, then, that the only track I recognised is from 1993, although if that opening tune isn't late 90's Detroit then it's certainly a very convincing pastiche. Stream here:

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