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Fresh Binga Mix for Shit The Bed 16

November 29

Again, a ridiculous line up. I mean come on. Just silly. Well chuffed to be playing at STB, always amazing vibes and thoroughly recommended for a top night out - at the last one I ended up in a speedboat (!) with DJ Die and Mensah. I'm really looking forward to checking Serum - properly feeling the new-old-skool jungle vibes he's bringing, quality stepping drums and wobbly sub without the cheese factor. And obviously Andy C simultaneously inspires (cos he mixes so ridiculously well) and depresses (because you know you will never mix that ridiculously well) - amazing.

Anyways, the STB crew got in touch and asked me for a mix to go with the night, and I decided that it would be a good excuse to have a bit of a musical rant about the amount of overly tasteful music that gets such a lot of love at the moment. Now obviously I'm not saying that any form of seriousness or restraint in dance music is a bad thing, far from it - just that it has recently seemed a bit as if there's been a lot of quite bland music being celebrated. So, I thought it would be a good excuse to brock out a mix of uber-fun-time classics old and new, hopefully while avoiding anything too ridiculously obvious. Which I guess is pretty much what I do every time to be fair, but still - it was definitely fun starting a mix with 'Rush The DJ' and going from there!

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1. Dynamite MC vs TNT - Rush The DJ - Talkin' Loud

2. Skinnz - Put It On Me - Well Rounded

3. Hem & Terrible Shock - On A Mission (Shortstuff RMX) - Berkane Sol

4. SX - Woo Riddim - Stay Fresh

5. Baobinga & I.D. - Wang It - Build

6. Bassboy ft SG & Slickdon - Oh Yes - Insatiable

7. Skinnz - Keep It Gutta - Boka

8. Borderline - Elastic -

9. TRC - Oo Aa Ee VIP - Butterz

10. Rick Ross - B.M.F. - Def Jam

11. Taz Buckfaster - Gold Tooth Grin - Numbers

12. Rachet - Electrical Bass Sweep - Rwina

13. Baobinga & Mensah - N.S.G. - BUILD (w/ Joe - Claptrap and Addison Groove - Footcrab)

14. Waka Flocka Flame - Hard In Da Paint Remix ft Ciara - Brick Squad

Enjoy, and see you down the front on Saturday :)

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Binga.

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Baobinga Raggastep Mix / Interview

July 12

Easy,

Meant to write about this last week but didn't get chance, so here we are. I did an interview and guest mix for K Mag to celebrate the release of my Riddim Team EP on Steak House Records, head over here to check it out and DL it. The idea of the mix was to show the various tunes I've done over the years which take the basic ragga type of beat and try and re-work it into a UK friendly 130bpm ish vibe, without watering the spirit down. Judge for yourselves how successful I've been, but at least there's no uber-obvious off-beat guitar skanks.

If you'd rather just stream it, then here's the mixcloud and tracklist...

Nas & Damian Marley - As We Enter (The Body Snatchers aka Ginz & Baobinga RMX) - DUB

Poirier ft. MC Zulu - Gyal Secret Pictures (Baobinga RMX) - Ninja Tune (2010)

Baobinga & I.D. ft. Rider Shafique - Lickle Further - DUB

Baobinga ft. Spyda - Criss Like HD - Steak House DUB

Baobinga ft. Rubi Dan - Raggipahop - Steak House DUB

Tayo & Baobinga ft. Spyda - Style & Trend - Soul Jazz (2008)

Baobinga ft. Killa Benz - Wine Up - Steak House DUB

The Ragga Twins - Ready 4 This (Baobinga RMX) - 777 (2007)

Baobinga & I.D. - What I Need - Vertical Sound (2006)

Foreign Beggars - Get A Bit More (Baobinga RMX) - Never Say Die (2010)

The Body Snatchers ft. Sir Plus - Jaminglish - Passenger (2008)

Enjoy!

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Binga.

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Riz MC - Hundreds & Thousands (Baobinga RMX) - FREE TUNE!

June 1

Multi-talented Riz MC (aka Riz Ahmed, star of 'Shifty' and '4 Lions', amongst a whole heap else), is in the process of dropping a new single 'Hundreds & Thousands'. I got involved on the remix front, and cos I'd been listening to this mix a lot, figured I'd have a crack at something around 150bpm.

The Fader have the result up on their site for a free download - head here to check it out, or DL directly here.

And check the video for the original, produced by Numbers brodude Redinho:

Boom!

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Binga.

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Free I.D. & Baobinga album - Bass Music Sessions OUT NOW

March 1

It's here! The promo video is below, the artwork is above; thanks due to Ted Moore and Nic Hamilton respectively for their amazing efforts on these.

The album is now up for download, free, or for a donation at:

http://label.bassmusicblog.com

We're giving the proceeds from this release to Dove House Hospice in Hull, UK. Bandcamp do not take a cut, although Paypal do take a small percentage. So, since we're not going to profit financially from this, if you'd like to support us in other ways, please spread the word of this release - post it on a forum, chat about it on Facebook or Twitter, email your mum, tell the world! Also, please bear in mind that Paypal take roughly the first 25 - 30pence of all donations.

The tracks on this album have now been getting support from an even wider range of DJ's - Sinden, 2562, Untold, Jackmaster, and many others have added their assent. So you can be sure it's good:

2562 - "Man Down and Hither & Thither are wicked, thanks!"
Jackmaster - "Dope, really liked this one."
Sinden - "Theres some really great tracks on here that will really work in my sets and on the radio. Hush Up Riddim, Man Down, Backfoot are all ones that stood out on first listen. Will be giving this some love."

LVis1990 - "Will be playing Hither & Thither on my Rinse FM show"
Jam City - "Sounding amazing man, still cant get over Hush Up"
Ginz - "I have played 'Still Tipping in my 'sets'. People were like 'woah' and dancing and stuff"
Jus Wan - Killer album man, really enjoying it so far! You guys have a dope sound"
Bok Bok - "Hush Up = wicked riddim!

Rektchordz- “Awesome tracks on here, deff an album for the contemporary genre mashup DJ.”

Jus' business: If you would like to book Baobinga for a DJ set, please contact saleem@tfabookings.com. To book I.D., please contact me at thebassmusicblog@gmail.com. You can check our latest DJ mixes here and here.

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i.d.

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Baobinga mix for In New DJ's We Truss

February 15

Last week Baobinga did this mix for Redlight's show on 1Xtra - In New DJ's We Trust. It's sick. You should listen to it and it will improve your day. It's got dubstep! It's got B'more! It's got clownstep!

http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/xk98hg

1. Grievous Angel ft Rubi Dan - Move Down Low VIP - Soul Jazz (DUB)

2. The Body Snatchers aka Ginz & Baobinga - Dangerous ft Sir Plus & Yolanda (Bass Music Edit) - Passenger

3. Poirier ft MC Zulu - Gyal Secret Picture (Baobinga RMX) - Ninja Tune (DUB)

4. Rosie Brown - Bliss (Derrick Carter's Boom Bap Bleep Beats RMX) - Dot Bleep

5. Al Ripken Jr & Diamond K - Hands In The Air (Bok Bok RMX) - Top Billin (DUB)

6. Baobinga ft Spyda - Criss Like HD (Porier RMX) - Steak House (DUB)

7. Baobinga & I.D. - Tongue Riddim (Roska RMX) - Build

8. Kazey & Bulldog - We Ballin' - Dress 2 Sweat

9. Zinc - Super Sharp Shooter (Zed Bias ReFix) - DUB

10. Foreign Beggars - Get A Bit More (Baobinga RMX) - Never Say Die (DUB)

11. Shortstuff & Hyetal - Don't Sleep - Punch Drunk

12. Baobinga & I.D. - Wang It - Build (DUB)

13. I.D. & Skinnz - Shimmy - Double Science (DUB)

14. Gemmy - Maroon Chant - DUB

15. Ginz & Baobinga - Tha Good Stank - Build (DUB)

16. Joker - Tron - Kapsize (DUB)

17. Starkey ft Badness - OK Luv - Planet Mu

18. Terror Danjah - Bi-Polar - Butterz

19. Mensah - Acid Dub - Hench (DUB)

20. Baobinga - Ride It (Untold RMX) - Build

21. SDUK - Clunge - Slit Jockey (DUB)

22. SRC - Facepalm - Rwina (DUB)

23. Eskmo - From The Standpoint - Planet Mu

24. Ramadanman - Reclaim - Critical

25. Baobinga & I.D. - The King - Bass Music Sessions (DUB)

26. Jaydan - Something For The Mans Dem - Ganja

27. DJ Hazard - Wicked So - Playaz

28. Bullion - Young Heartache - One Handed Music

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Diary Of A Free Album Part 3

February 12

(download)

See also: Part Two.

I.D. & Baobinga - Bass Music Sessions

http://soundcloud.com/i-d/i-d-baobinga-bass-music-sessions-album-preview

Here's a short minimix featuring 4 tracks from the album - please feel free to embed, share, link to, etc etc!

So, week three of this diary then. The promotion has started in earnest, release date is March 1st, and for me, this is the hardest part, I think. This is due to another problem of doing things yourself - while I talked last time of having built up skills and contacts to help with various aspects of the release, PR and marketing isn't really a skillset that most artists have. Again, experience helps - you have an idea of who to send the albums to, and how to do it, and drawing on press releases from past albums and singles I've written a press release that is suitably self-aggrandising.

I've now sent out the album to roughly 150 DJs, journalists, producers and so on, and we've had promising reactions - Bok Bok's playing one track, Ginz too, Reso, Jus Wan, and plenty of others. We've had lots of play on internet radio and a couple of local FM stations to boot. I've also had indications that we'll get some form of coverage in a couple of the national UK dance mags - including at least one review, and that's on top of the news piece we had in KMag recently. So it's all looking hopeful, although simply getting a mention in magazine X or on radio show Y doesn't do much on its own. I learned this very early - my first single in 2004 got single of the month in several UK magazines, my second single didn't even get reviewed once. Guess which sold more? Yup, the second one. So really what you need is a groundswell, people hearing about you from lots of different sources, and then with any luck the message will stick. (Obviously though, if there was a formula there wouldn't be so many PR companies and marketing agencies out there!)

Another opportunity arose this week when I got the chance to go to a BBC Radio meet & greet in London. I'd been hit up recently by their press office, again because of this blog, and some weeks later (to my great surprise) they sent over an invite to this event. For them it was a chance to tell us what their specialist music output was going to be doing over the next few months. Which, you know, all good, but I missed that part because of the traffic on the motorway. Anyway, for me it was a great opportunity to meet some producers and put CD's into their hands, so on Wednesday I spent about 3 hours printing labels, burning CDs and printing off press releases (see pics above). Met some cool people, Westwood was DJing (I didn't give him a CD) and there was a free bar. If I'd known that, I would have got the train (although thinking about it, it was a BBC social do. Of course there was gonna be free booze). But yeah - another opening that presented itself as a result of prior work done on the blog.

There are two other aspects of the promotion to consider then. There's the blogging strategy, which is going to amount to two parts - firstly, there's going to be a short promo video - see the gallery above for some work in progress pics! I still don't know what it's going to be like but I'm excited to see the results; he's obviously putting some proper work in - which will be sent around about a week before the release, and then on the day I'll do a re-mail out to let people know that they can now get it for free.

Then there's the 'word-of-mouth' aspect, which is arguably more important, I think. What we really need is for people to be going onto random forums we've never heard of, and saying to people 'hey, check out this great free album'. So that means there's going to be a lot of Facebooking, a lot of twittering, and also a lot of emailing friends and family, asking them to pass the link on to anyone they know who might be interested. So, being annoying and getting favours off everyone we can think of!

So yeah. Busy week. Thanks to Fidz for the lift down to London!

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i.d.

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Diary of a Free Album; Part One

January 28

So, you may have seen, or caught word, that there is going to be a free I.D. & Baobinga album released around the end of February. You'd be in the know, in that case. It's going to a 10 track, multi-genre thing, with tracks that have been played out by everyone from Claude Von Stroke, to DJ Friction, to Buraka Som Sistema, to TRG and Untold.

It's gonna be called 'Bass Music Sessions'.

You can guess from that list of names, then, that these are not just a bunch of tracks we couldn't get signed - in fact we turned down offers from labels, in favour of releasing them for free. It became apparent that there were loads of good reasons for releasing it this way. First, there's the flexibility - we can do it when and how we like. Second, there are no financial issues - we've had situations in the past where a distributor goes bankrupt and takes 1000 copies of your album with them, and you end up making a loss. No worries there. Also, the stress of people pirating your album: doesn't matter, it's free. Take it, and give it to all your mates while you're at it. And with any luck, you might get a lot more people downloading it free than the couple of thousand who are willing to pay £10 for a CD or £7 for a download. So there were some compelling arguments going on there.

It's a bit of an experiment, really, and that's why I'm writing this diary to round up what we do, how we go about it, and how it pans out. Maybe it'll contain some useful advice for people thinking of doing something similar, or maybe it'll just show up some mistakes to avoid!

It's really become obvious over the last 12 months that blogs are getting a lot better and more interesting, that sites like www.bandcamp.com are starting to supercede the likes of myspace in terms of providing a platform for getting stuff to fans (and not looking crap), twitter and facebook provide a quick and easy method of getting word around - so there are all sorts of handy tools for the DIY crew. We also, however, have the added advantage of this blog, which gets a lot of readers, and I think that's going to prove rather important (more on this in future).

So then, the basics. We've got the album written, we've decided on the tracklist. We've been playing some of the tracks out for over a year now, so we've had lots of time to tweak the mixes and make sure they all work on the floor.

From there, we needed some artwork, so we hit up the awesomely talented Nic Hamilton - he's the guy who did our logo - and asked if he'd be up for coming up with anything. Fortunately, he was, and so he's working on that at the moment - hopefully we'll be able to show you the results in the not too distant.

We also figured that we could use a video, something Youtube-able, something bloggable, that might help when we're sending everything to blogs - maybe they could embed it in their posts. So we hit up our friend Ted Moore, who has done videos for us in the past, and most recently did some wicked stop-motion animation videos for Rogue Element. He's now on the case with a short animation - about one minute - and we can't wait to see it because he really is a genius.

That's the basic product lined up then - music, artwork, video. Now we just need to get as many people as we can to check it out. Which I'll elaborate on later.

If you've got any questions or suggestions, please put them in the comments (or email us) - we'd love to hear them.

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i.d.

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EXCLUSIVE - DL 'Tongue Riddim' RMX Parts FREE!!!

January 25

(Angkor) WAT?

Well, to celebrate the lovely vinyl release of Build 002 - 'Ride It' by me, with a ridiculous Untold remix (both sides getting love from people like 2562, Mary Anne Hobbs, Sinden, Crookers, Bok Bok and everyone else)...

http://soundcloud.com/buildrecordings/sets/build002-baobinga-ride-it-w-untold...

We've decided to give yous lot a chance to get hold of the FULL QUALITY remix parts for Build 001 - Baobinga & I.D. 'Tongue Riddim'...

http://soundcloud.com/buildrecordings/sets/build001-baobinga-i-d-tongue-riddim-w-roska-rmx

Damn!!! These are the exact same parts we sent to the mighty Roska and that he used to mash up his very own sexy-time remix - full quality parts, and you don't have to give us your email, or send us a picture of you holding a copy of Build 001, or any of that madness - just take them, have fun with them, and send us what you come up with!

What's more, if you make with a banger, we'll put it on the blog and do a quick interview with you. If it's a NEXT banger, we might even get it mastered properly and release it digitally through Build - but the main thing is, just get involved!

Grab the parts here.

If that link stops working, here is a torrent for the parts...

Oh, and please - spread the word, Build Recordings loves the sweet sweet oxygen of publicity, as we all do, if we're honest.

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Free Tune Friday - We Here Mash Ups!

October 30

Easy all!

A couple of weeks back we gave away the vocals for 'We Here' by The Body Snatchers (aka Ginz & Baobinga) ft. Yolanda, and today we've decided to showcase some of the stuff you lot have got up to with em.

First up we have DJ Mellow from Brussels, who runs the Low Up parties which I can describe as being properly amazing. Anyways, he's taken the We Here vocal and laid it over a track by Schlachthofbronx called 'Regulate' - check it out here:

http://soundcloud.com/bassmusic/schlachthofbronx-vs-the-body-snatchers-feat-yolanda-regulate-my-pimpin-time-dj-mellow-mashup

Next up we have Borai, aka Boris the studio manager at www.dubstudio.co.uk - Bristol's dedicated dubplate studio, and one of the few places in the UK that cuts direct to vinyl dubs. I've had a couple of these done and they are well impressive - sound great and last plenty long, so definitely worth trying out. Anyways, Boris has built a totally new Funky-inspired riddim around the vocal - top stuff, check it here:

http://soundcloud.com/bassmusic/borai-vs-the-body-snatchers-5-ho-booty

If you've had a crack at doing something with the vocals we gave away, please get in touch and let us take a listen!

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Binga.

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Free Tune Friday - Baobinga & I.D.: Jah

October 23

The emperor feeding a dissenter to a lion.

It's Friday, yes it's Friday. We've got some extra fast fun for you this week - some 175BPM fun in fact. Our free tune for the week is Baobinga & I.D. turning our hands to Drum & Bass, in a slightly techy, slightly twisty kind of a way.

It even featured in Bao's recent DJ mix for Lower End Spasm - so you know it's hot! And we're giving away the 320k mp3 for free, to you great unwashed. Hope you enjoy it!

http://soundcloud.com/bassmusic/baobinga-id-jah

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i.d.

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