Dubstep Round Up #9

Lets start this 9th episode of our beloved Dubstep Round Up series with a real banger! As you all probably know Original Sin is a badass jump up drum & bass producer. With many classics to his name (also from his G Dub-years) he has nothing to prove anymore. Still he keeps raising the bar producing banger after banger, not caring whether it’s drum & bass, drumstep or even dubstep. On his latest offering on the infamous label Playaz Recordings he tries out many different styles. “Air Raid” is the only dubstep tune on the EP, but it’s definitely a heavy one! Check it out below! You can find the remaining tracks here.

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Original Sin – Air Raid

The next tune is actually drumstep, but it’s a remix by Flux Pavilion so I’m not really cheating… It’s his first drumstep tune, but he shows his skills once again. It definitely has that ‘Flux-sound’ to it! Kinda makes me excited about what the future will bring for this guy.

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Example – Midnight Run (Flux Pavilion Remix)

Talking about the future, these guys know all about it. Koan Sound have been pushing the envelope for years now and they’re finally getting some well-deserved recognition. On their latest EP Funk Blaster their main focus again went to 100BPM music, but I could also find a great dubstep track in there. Check out these tunes and buy the EP here.

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Koan Sound – Meanwhile, In The Future

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Koan Sound – The Edge

A bit heavier is Hulk‘s latest EP Smash The Planet. Prolific‘s “This Is For My Hustlas” gets a nice rework. Buy the EP here.

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Prolific Ft. Cojaxx – This Is For My Hustlas (Hulk Remix)

Up-and-coming UK dubstep producer Widowmaker on his turn decided to make a remix of Skream‘s “Wobble That Gut”. A wise man once told me never to touch classics like that, but Widowmaker’s effort is rather huge! Not only does his remix outweigh the original, he decided to give it away for free! That’s right, go thank the man on his facebook page.

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Skream – Wobble That Gut (Widowmaker Remix) (320)

Next up I have three tracks for you that go very deeep. “No 6″ by Soap Dodgers was released on Wheel & Deal Records two months ago. The b-side “Drum Roll” is worth checking out as well. More recently SP:MC had a release on Tempa. The a-side “Hunted”, which is also very minimal, features Lx One.

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Soap Dodgers – No 6 / buy

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SP:MC & Lx One – Hunted / buy

Time to finish this post with a bangin’ track by MiM0SA. Someone, give me a car with a decent soundsystem, so I can drive around while blastin’ this song through the speakers! I wouldn’t call it a ‘dubstep’ tune, but I can’t come up with any label that would fit this kind of music… So just hit the play button and find out for yourself! His album is available on iTunes.

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MiM0SA – Dirty Money

Skream – Anticipate Ft. Sam Frank [Official Video]

Maximum Boost

Here are some of the best recent dubstep and drum & bass tunes. Don’t forget to buy them at Beatport, Juno or whatever you prefer! All tracks have a reduced bitrate.
The first tune is a real grimey banger! Heavy pumpin’ beats by Von D combined with the intense, aggressive raps by Foreign Beggars and MC Spyda! The track will be released on Von D’s forthcoming album, called “Daydreaming”.

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Von D – Maximum Boost (Ft. Foreign Beggars & Spyda)

Next up there’s Skream with his brand new “Skream EP”, featuring four of his most sought after underground tracks. The EP is released on his own Disfigured Dubz label.

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Skream – Heavy Hitter

The mysterious trio known as The Aliens return with a full album! They’ve already amazed the dubstep scene with tracks like ‘Xterminate’ and ‘wOt’, but here they are again with “Invasion”, containing 11 mind blowing tracks. Be amazed!

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The Aliens – Go Hard

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The Aliens – Xterminate

Time for some drum & bass. Octane & DLR and EBK (both on Renegade Hardware) with vocals by Gusto. The track will be released June 6th on the “Inception EP”, pre-order that shit here.

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EBK, Octane & DLR Ft Gusto – Mainframe

The next track was made by BCee, S.P.Y. and DJ Friction. Talk about a dream team! The tune’s a bit softer than the rest of this post, but I’m sure most of you will like this one!

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BCee & S.P.Y. – Is Anybody Out There? (Friction & K-Tee Remix)

Now some ragga drum & bass to finish this post! Big ups to Greg Packer for this one!

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Greg Packer – Rudeboy (Ft. MC Assassin)

Dubstep Round Up #7

pic by Angela Boatwright

Last time I made a Dubstep Round Up was back in October. A lot of time (and big tunes) passed by, a bit too much actually! I’ll try to be doing this monthly from now on. In this post you’ll find some free albums, as well as the biggest dubstep tunes of the passed month(s).

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Big Tune Selectah

First of all there’s Liquid Stranger destroying the Beatport charts. Not only with his energetic dubstep tracks, he also made some drum & bass tunes this time. His latest LP is called “Mechanoid Meltdown” and is released on Rottun Recordings. Buy his tunes on Beatport.

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Liquid Stranger – Bully

More filthy dubstep, by Sine Here this time. The tune is out now on Play Me Too Records and available on Beatport.

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Sine Here – Green Slime

We posted a radio rip of this tune back in March, remember? Joker and TC now decided to give this one away for free!

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Joker & TC – It Ain’t Got A Name [320]

Excision and Datsik working together again on a Noisia remix! It’s been some time since I digged one of their collabs, but this one is really heavy! Also a big track by Lonestar!

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Noisia – Alpha Centauri (Excision & Datsik Remix)

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Lonestar – Blow Your Speakers

Next up some deep stuff by Emalkay. On the flipside there’s “Powertool”, a real banger! Emalkay’s got some production skills, that’s for sure.

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Emalkay – Crusader

Time to speed things up a bit! Drum & bass bangers comin’ your way! Human Error made this heavy, self-titled tune. Also check out this cool commercial, using this track (youtube). The next tune by Wilkinson is featured on Andy C’s album “Nightlife 5″. It will be released on the 13th of December with “Samurai“! Also another big jump up collab by Crystal Clear and Zen. “Sounds so heavy!”

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Human Error – Human Error

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Wilkinson – Moonwalker

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Crystal Clear & Zen – Heavy

The full album of Crissy Criss with vocalist Youngman finally dropped some time ago, but failed to impress me. The follow-up EP “Give You The World – The Remixes” has some great VIPs though and a jump up remix by Tantrum Desire.

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Crissy Criss & Youngman – Give You The World (Tantrum Desire Remix)

Epic build up. Raving synths. Drum & bass madness!

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Metrik – T-1000

To finish this post, here’s a mix featuring two hours of Breakage and on hour live mixing by Skream with heavyweight MC’s P Money & D Double E! Sounds good right? Tracklist in the comments.

Breakage & Skream – BBC 1xtra: Dubstep Takeover (11/12/2010)
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Magnetic Man

All star dubstep project Magnetic Man has been around for some time now, but this year Skream, Benga and Artwork have really put their project on the map. This friday their extremely varied debut album will see the light of day. Most of you will probably know their first single “I Need Air” (youtube), which is the most commercial track of the album. I’m not a big fan of the song, but the album contains a lot of different styles (around 140bpm) so there might be something in it for everyone.

One of the stand out tracks is “The Bug”. It combines dark atmospheres and creepy whispering with a heavy stomping bass and dark vocals.
This track is BIG!

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Magnetic Man – The Bug

Magnetic Man’s next single will be “Perfect Stranger”, featuring vocals from the hottest girl in dubstep-world right now, Katy B. After “Katy On A Mission” (produced by Benga), this will probably be another big hit for her. The style’s a bit similar to “I Need Air”, but this one’s more my cup of tea.

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Magnetic Man – Perfect Stranger (Ft. Katy B)

The next tune has a sick crippling bassline. Heavy beats n’ bleeps!

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Magnetic Man – K Dance

The album will be available on iTunes. “Perfect Stranger” is out now and can also be bought here.

Bonus:

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Magnetic Man – Perfect Stranger Ft. Katy B (Benga Remix)

TOP 10 BIGGEST HYPES – REDNIK

After EJECT! and Jack Herror posted the top 10 producers and tracks of 2009 I decided to tackle the third and final top 10 list: The Top 10 Biggest Hypes of 2009! There were a lot of hypes in 2009, some annoying, some hard to resist, some deserved, some not and so on. I’ll try explaining as good as possible why I picked these tracks/artists/genres as the biggest hypes of 2009, but I’m absolutely sure, the position and even the fact if they were a hype or not, are discussable. So, please don’t hold back in the comments!

#1. Warp (The Bloody Beetroots)

I think the reason for this first position is rather clear. Warp was probably the most played track at the general electro partys. Even though the most critical followers of the genre said it to be a cheap rip-off of Dominator by the Human Resources, everyone tagged along and happily screamed “WOOP WOOP” followed by chaotic “jumping around”. The “sample” wasn’t probably milked out enough so The Bloody Beetroots came with a successor Warp 1977, which is even filthier … but the same. (I’ll have to admit, in the end … I’m still not sick of it) My favourite version/remix still is:

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The Bloody Beetroots ft Steve Aoki – Warp 1.9 (GTRONIC BadAssRMX)

#2. Pon De Floor (Major Lazer)

Now this is a hype, I am sick of listening too! Pon De Floor was probably the biggest “dance” hit this summer. And because there was a remix competition going on around Pon De Floor there was an endless flood of remixes aswel. Even now it still gets played. Last week at Soulwaxmas I heard it twice and still people go absolutely crazy on this one. I was hoping this hype would have ended before 2010?

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Major Lazer – Pon De Floor (Chewy Chocolate Cookies Remix)

#3. Crookers

The Crookers scored very well in my opinion with their latest freebies “We Love Animals” ft Soulwax and Mixhell (even though I doubt the fact that the Crookers had a lot of input into that track) and “No Security” ft Kelis. Before those tracks the next track we remember is probably their Day N Nite remix. Even though it was a remix of 2008 the biggest hype came early 2009. The remix got his own videoclip and was played everywhere : radio, tv, partys around the corner,… . I remember that I even made a post about how sick I was about hearing the crookers everywhere. I posted the original version by Kid Cudi which still is f-ing good:

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Kid Cudi – Day N Nite (Nightmare)

#4. Bonkers (Dizzee Rascal ft. Armand Van Helden)

Bo.. bo … bo bo bo BONKERS! Same story as with Pon De Floor actually. Massive summerhit and still a track even 2manydj’s throws in their djset (a personal edit of course). Actually I should have put Dizzee Rascal himself on place 4 instead of Bonkers, because he scored a lot of hits this year: Dance Wiv Me, Holiday, Dirty Cash. Dance Wiv Me and Holiday were btw both a cooperation with Calvin Harris who we’ll see later on in the top 10.

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Dizzee Rascal – Bonkers (Doorly Remix)

#5. Riverside (Sidney Samson)

RIVERSIDE MOTHERF*CKER!

Sidney Samson – Riverside (Tc Remix) – Deleted on request

#6. La Roux

Probably the biggest fresh artist of this year. The first time we got in contact with La Roux was Quicksand on the Kitsuné Maison compilation (nr6 if I recall well). But it wasn’t until the Skream let’s get ravey remix of “In For The Kill” the bigger audience got to know La Roux. Massive, massive dub-step track with the breath taking vocal work by La Roux leadsingster Elly (Eleanor) Jackson. Bulletproof which was actually the second single (before In For The Kill) scored very well in the hitcharts.

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La Roux – In For The Kill (Skream Lets Get Ravey Remix)

#7. Dubstep

Dubstep gained a lot of popularity in 2009. Mainly because of the remixes of the more commercial tracks. I then am thinking about remixes as: Bonkers (Doorly Remix), In For The Kill (Skream let’s get ravey Remix), Warrior’s Dance (Benga Remix) who even were on one of the latest compilations of Studio Brussel. It’s also since this year that we started posting dub-step mainly thanks to the addition of Jack Herror to the team.

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Parker – Wheres My Monkey

#8. Miike Snow

My favourite hype of 2009: Miike Snow! Where the hell did he come from? I don’t know, but there he was with is song called Animal, a real feel good track. And soon the first remixes came, I think Animal had more then 7 remixes (Treasure Fingers, Crookers, Fake Blood, …), love it! Then another popular track was Black & Blue remixed by Tiga, Savage Skulls, Netsky … all banging remixes of which Savage Skulls remix is my personal favourite. For some of the other remixes I would like to refer to RCRDLBL who has a lot of them available for download.

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Miike Snow – Black & Blue (Savage Skulls Remix)

#9. Calvin Harris

Calvin Harris is someone who has been around longer then most people think, but with his latest album “Ready For The Weekend” he gained some serious popularity with the commercial crowds. Not Alone and Ready For The Weekend knew a big success in the hitcharts. He also was producer for artists as Dizzee Rascal and Kylie Minogue. I first wanted to post something of his older album “I Created Disco”, but because I bet some of you guys were missing the High Contrast Remix of Ready For The Weekend in The Hoax mixtape best DnB tracks of 2009:

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Calvin Harris – Ready For The Weekend (High Contrast Remix)

#10. Dutch House / Dirty House

I’m not following the genre at the moment, but it was without a doubt a big year for the Dutchies. Afrojack scored more then once and his remix of another Dutch producer/dj Dj Chuckie with Moombah was a big hit this summer. Laidback Luke created a hype with his cooperation with Lee Mortimer “Blau” of which the release got delayed more then once. And there are still many more Dutch producers I should be naming here, like these guys:

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Gramophonedzie – Why Don’t You (Bingo Players Remix)

And this was probably my biggest post ever … Feel free to discuss and even criticise this top 10 list. Oh, yeah, massive respect for you guys who read the whole thing! ♥