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B.Rich - Free EP & Promo mix

February 9

This bridge is in Lisbon. Go and stand under it for an extraordinary ambient music experience. Really!

The link to B.Rich is that he is the direct opposite to ambient music, and he's just dropped a free EP, as well as a new promo mix, to launch his European tour. 4 tracks, my pick of the bunch would be the DnB mix from the bizarrely named J.Rabbit, but you can grab them all, gratis, right here.

As I mentioned, there's also a promo mix, tracklist below, and if you're feeling that, do the man a favour and visit his myspace page - I'm sure he'd appreciate it. Grab the mix here.

01. D1 - Pitcher (128 BPM Mix)

02. Zombie Nation - Seas Of Grease (Harvard Bass Remix)

03. L-Vis 1990 - United Groove (TRG Remix)

04. Rusko - Woo Boost (Douster Remix)

05. Drop The Lime - Doomsday Device

06. The Cheerz - R U Ready (Dan Aux's Way Crazies Remix)

07. Udachi - P-Funk Skank (B. Rich Remix)

08. Roisin Murphy - Momma's Place (Heavyfeet Remix)

09. A1 Bassline - Here Come Da

10. KillaQueenz - Double Up ft. Lady Chann (Two Fresh Remix)

11. Dre Skull & Juiceboxxx - Hype (Udachi Remix)

12. Hot Mess - Dip!

13. AC Slater - Take You ft. Ninjasonik

14. Jinder - Youth Blood (Squires of Gothos Remix)

15. Kingdom - You

16. Redlight - Feel So Good ft Zaniah, Dread & Redskin

17. Baobinga & I.D. - Tongue Riddim

18. Kingdom - Mind Reader ft. Shyvonne (L-Vis 1990 Remix)

19. Basement Jaxx - Scars ft. Kelis, Meleka & Chipmunk (Sbtrkt Remix)

20. Flux Pavillion - Voscilate

21. Doctor P - Sweet Shop

22. 501 - Solitaire

23. Dub Crooks - Tron

24. Breakage & Newham Generals - Hard (Caspa & The Others Remix)

25. Numbernin6 - Nebulous

26. GhostTown ft Badness & Dajla - You Know

27. Yeah! Woho! - I Wanna Love U

28. Havocndeed - Vindicta ft. Theresa Joy

29. DJ Flave - 7 Days A Week (B. Rich Remix)

30. Kitch n'Sync vs Wonk - Pumpin My Shit (B. Rich Remix)

31. Havocndeed - Headspin

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Free Tune Friday - Bass Music Edit 1

January 29

Atlanta, Georgia. According to the wise sage DJ Assault, Atlanta G.A. is where the pimps and players stay - presumably they like these attractive waterfront residences. It's also the home of T.I. - the rapper who fell off harder than anyone else in the last decade. I mean seriously - from the heights of 'What You Know', he started recording RnB pop with Rihanna that was so bad they put him in jail.

A sad story.

Anyway, on a lighter note, we've got this cheeky slice of dancefloor fuel for you. It combines the B.Rich remix of Rico Tubbs track 'Hot Girls Dope Boys', with the vocal from T.I.' s ode to large wheels, "24's" and mashes it all up in a B'more stylee. Not big, not clever, but definitely fun, download this and play it out this weekend. Full 320 action.

http://soundcloud.com/bassmusic/rico-tubbs-b-rich-t-i-24s

And lets just have one more blast of T.I. in his pomp:

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Kastle: B.Rich goes deep

December 18

...and here's our second US-focused post of the day (who would have thought a credible dance music blog such as our good selves would have been saying that particular phrase at the start of the decade) as we introduce a familiar name, in the form of B.Rich.

I've got to hand it to the man, his hustle is as tight as anyone. I get a lot of promo stuff sent to this blog, and I can tell you that this guy works hard promoting himself. And to look at his myspace, gig list and so on, it seems to be paying off. This week he sent over details of a new side project, 'Kastle'. It's a deeper, 2-step kind of affair, focusing on the more melodious side of things, but with a kind of cheeky RnB influence - which I'm really enjoying!. To launch it, he's sent over two free tracks and a DJ mix, which I present for your consideration below. Just look at that tracklist - haven't heard a Landslide track in a mix for while now. Wicked stuff - really looking forward to hearing more from this project...

Kanye West - Coldest Winter (Kastle Remix)

Cosmic Revenge - Late Nights (Kastle Remix)

Get the DJ mix here.

01. MyMy & Emika - Price Tag (Appleblim & Komonazmuk Remix)

02. Cooly G - Love Dub

03. Beezy - Thoughts In Retrospect (Roska Remix)

04. Illyah & Ltd. Candy - Fight The Formation

05. Mount Kimbe - Sketch On Glass

06. Sully - Reminder

07. Kastle - Better Off Alone

08. Kanye West - Coldest Winter (Kastle Remix)

09. Joe - Rut

10. Untold - Stop What Your Doing (James Blake Remix)

11. DJ Madd - Someone

12. Drop The Lime - Set Me Free (Reso Remix)

13. Guido - Beautiful Complication

14. Cosmic Revenge - Late Nights (Kastle Remix)

15. The Widdler - Stand By You

16. Synkro - Lost For Words

17. Debruit - Soles Sweat ft. 215TFK & Stray (Reso Remix)

18. Pinch - Get Up (Guido Mix)

19. Rooflight - Heart Like An Airport Runway

20. Sines - Still Foolish

21. Landslide - Parables

22. Starkey - Ok Luv ft. Badness

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Producer Q & A: B Rich

August 31

Having a good bank holiday weekend? Dodging the rain? Yeah, thought so. As I type, Peter Andre is on the telly. This is the life. Amazing his rehabilitation from national joke to, er, joining the ranks of Celebrities (General / Music), isn't it.

Anyway, we've got the 3rd in our Producer Q&A series for your delectation! This week, house upstart B.Rich popped round to our virtual crib to A a few Q's for us. Thanks to B for taking time out, and hope you enjoy reading it.

Q: How do you approach a tune? Drums first? Melody?

A: Always the drums first. I like to create a nice solid rhythm prior to working on any of the melodies or basslines because it helps you better understand how these elements will sit. Lately, rhythm has been #1 and everything else follows for me.

Q: What time of day do you work best?

A: Either very early morning (8am) or very late at night (3-4am). I am a morning person and a night owl... which leaves room for very little sleep but I've gotten used to it.

Q: Where do you get your inspiration / motivation from?

A: I get my inspiration from "night life" in general. Going out and hearing friends play or playing myself. I am always inspired when I get back from a weekend of shows. This can be pulled from the performances themselves and/or the people I meet.

Q: What do you do when you're not feeling inspired?

A: If I have a case of the writers block.. I will usually just spend the time in the studio with sound design and make new patches that'll be ready when it passes. Not to mention if you come up with a killer patch it can be just the inspiration you needed. Also, I like to cook.

Q: Do you start a tune from scratch, or do you usually have a drumset/template/etc to work from?

A: Always from scratch. This could be out of sheer laziness and not taking the time to set up proper drum kits but I usually know where to look within my gigs of percussion samples for the right ones. It's important to have "your own sound" but I think its more important to start with fresh ideas always.

Q: If you got a chance would you write pop stuff for a major label (if the money was good?)

A: Absolutely... I listen to a lot of hip hop and R&B and would love to be a part of a pop record like that. Something like Mims, Akon, Jeremih.. haha it's my guilty pleasure. I am actually in the beginning stages of a hip-hop / R&B meets electronic side project... so who knows!

Q: What's the boring, workhorse plugin/piece of kit that you use all the time?

A: Definitely not boring... but my sound just wouldn't be complete without iZotope Trash.

Q: What's the coolest bit of kit you've got and do you actually use it much?

A: By kit I'm assuming you mean hardware.. of which I now have none. I used to have something that resemble an actual full studio.. Access Virus, JP-8000, Junos, Future Retro 777 and some other things. But I realized at one point I just wasn't using them and was going all software so I sold them. I love my Macbook Pro though. Couldn't live without it.

Q: Do you mixdown your own stuff? Reckon there's a stigma around this?

A: Yeah I do mixdown my own stuff. Once I finish a tune I'll let it sit for a few days to marinate and then go back to it with fresh ears. Honestly I've never had anyone else mixdown a tune for me so I can't say that it wouldn't work. But I imagine I'd prefer to have control over it.

Q: What production technique do you think is really overused / annoying?

A: That "farting bassline" sound thats on all those Beatport releases all the time. Usually no melody at all to the tune... just farts.

Q: What do you know now that you wish you had known when you started out?

A: It was a big turning point for me when I finally grasped side-chain compression and what it can do for your mix. Not only to create that over-compressed pumping sound but just to gradually tidy things up so that certain things sit nicely in the mix and to help accentuate your rhythms.

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New DJ mix from B.Rich

July 11

What did I say about the cricket? Something about the Aussies grinding their way to 650 and then declaring? Bloody hell. Come on rain, spare us from this darkness. Grant us the unbridled joy of drawing a match against a patently superior side.

Anyway, sport of kings aside, B.Rich has just dropped over this promo mix, and I thought I'd wop it up for you all to have a blast on. You'll see from the tracklist that it's pretty full-on noisy rave energy - fidget house and wobbling dubstep. One for the vodka and redbull crew! So I don't know why I'm posting it now, since on a Saturday morning everyone will be nursing a hangover and listening to a spot of Royksopp, but hey.

It's got a fair few tracks from the Bass Music Blog lot though - Reso's recent techdubstep track Tik Tak, High Rankin's preposterous 'No Money For Guns' and the Rico Tubbs remix of fellow Finnish crew Top Billin's 'Playboy Anthem'. Speaking of Rico, his recent remix EPs included the B.Rich remix of Hot Girls, Dope Boys - one of the few fidget tracks I've been playing this year (the Mikix The Cat effort on the same release is another) so that's another reason for foisting this on you!

http://www.mediafire.com/?j3vjzjmmmjm

If you really can't handle the noise at this time of the morning though, here is my listening for the morning. It's not completely new, but I've only just got around to checking it - it's a podcast by Speedy J and George Issakidis. It's a bizarre, twisted thing, which blops along at about 110bpm, taking dark soundscapes, chopping them up a la Hawtin, and looping them up again all crazylike. Reminds me somewhat of the random psychedelia of mid 90s FSOL, in between lurches towards off-kilter house and back. It's cinematic, moody, epic, although not particularly calming. But it's certainly worth a listen.

http://www.getthecurse.com/2009/05/04/speedy-j-issakidis-electric-deluxe-gtc061/

tracklist for B.Rich mix:

01. Diplo & Blaqstarr - Get Off (Jack Beats Remix)
02. DJ Icey - 2 Times feat Marlon (Bill Eff Remix)
03. Audiostalkers - Hallucinate
04. B. Rich - Bump feat Sue Cho & Whiskey Pete
05. B. Rich - It'll Be Alright feat Domonique
06. Costello - Bitchy Skills (Udachi Remix)
07. Villians & Classixx - I'm On It feat o8o (AC Slater Remix)
08. Top Billin - Playboy Anthem (Rico Tubbs Remix)
09. TreMoreFire - Now You're Gone
10. Agent X - Fallin feat Mutya & Ultra (Lee Mortimer Remix)
11. Roots Manuva - Do Nah Bodda Mi (Red Light Remix)
12. Jamie Woon & Debruit - I'm Goin Wit You feat Om'Mas Keith (Octapush Remix)
13. Drop The Lime - Tabac Theme
14. Darling Farah - Suicidal Tendencies (Nonewyork Remix)
15. Dizzee Rascal & Armand Van Helden - Bonkers (Doorly Remix)
16. Jomen - Understand My Style (Ishe Remix)
17. Nero - Act Like You Know
18. Rusko - Moaners
19. Raffertie - Antisocial (B. Rich Remix)
20. Stanton Warriors - Precinct (AC Slater Remix)
21. Reso - Tik Tak
22. DJ Fast Eddie - Yo Yo Get Funky (Crissy Criss Remix)
23. La Roux - Tigerlily (B. Rich Remix)
24. Boltan - Nine To Five (DZ Remix)
25. Deadmau5 - I Remember (Caspa Remix)
26. The Streets - Blinded By The Lights (Nero Remix)
27. Don Diablo & Example - Hooligans (Doorly Remix)
28. Asher Roth - I Love College (12th Planet Remix)
29. Horse The Band - Rape Escape (DMNDAYS Remix)
30. High Rankin - No Money For Guns

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