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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Dubstep Round Up #5

A month passed by since the last round up (check em all out here), so there’s a lot of tunes I haven’t posted yet. It’s time for a big dubstep post!

I’ll start with the heavier stuff. DJ Wire did a great job remixing “Guns And Horses”, a poppy song by Ellie Goulding. DJ Wire made some great tracks before, like his remix of “Hooligans” by Example and there’s also “Alien Halloween Disco”, an energetic drum & bass tune.

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Ellie Goulding – Guns And Horses (DJ Wire Remix)

“Poor Man’s Style” starts as a nice ragga dubstep track but PropaTingz quickly turns it into a nasty banger. PropaTingz (US) has been producing some great stuff lately, keep an eye on this guy!

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PropaTingz – Poor Man’s Style

Next up a set rip of “In The Hood” by Slum Dogz. These fellas have been making some of the sickest jump up drum & bass and now they’re taking over the dubstep scene! You can also hear some parts of Doctor P’s “Gargoyle” getting mixed with the track.

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Slum Dogz – In The Hood [CLIP]

BBC Radio One host Kissy Sell Out has a brand new label (San City High) and wants to celebrate this by giving away some free music! To download free tunes by The Squatters, Hot Pink DeLorean, Lazy Flow and 16bit, you have to subscribe to their mailing list here.

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Kissy Sell Out – Garden Friends (16bit Remix)

You’ve probably heard this one before, the Grifta remix of “Faxing Berlin”. That drop is quite epic if you ask me.

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Deadmau5 – Faxing Berlin (Grifta Dubstep Remix)

Swindle made a pretty impressive EP called “Airmiles EP”. On the title track he uses a late snare drop on a big rushing beat. “Coffee” is a more laid back, funky tune.

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Swindle – Airmiles

Time to slow things down a bit. devonwho makes a double appearance on the outstanding compilation album ‘Producer #2′. This ain’t really dubstep, but it definitely has the same vibe to it. The album, with artists like Martyn, Mike Slott and dBridge is really worth listening to. Buy the album here on iTunes.

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devonwho – Nimbus

The next one isn’t dubstep either, it’s the drumstep everyone is making a fuzz about. ITAL TEK has a great new album out on Planet Mu (they also released Swindle’s EP). This outstanding track is on that album!

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ITAL TEK – Babel

Another great dubstep album came from Guido. His style can be described as the combination of Joker’s so called purple sound with Starkey’s productions. His album is called “Anidea” and can be bought here.

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Guido – Orchestral Lab

Today’s biggest bass comes from DJ Madd. The title, “Dub Marine”, fits the track perfectly. He also did a collab with Matt-U and got remixed by Ikonika. The B-side of that remix is DJ Madd’s superb tune “Detroit Skank”.

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DJ Madd – Dub Marine

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DJ Madd – Detroit Skank

Antwerp dubstep duo Science made another laid back tune called “Be Yours”. Check out those relaxing vibes and show some love at their facebook page.

Be Yours by Science

Last but not least we have TC, one of the biggest drum & bass producers at the moment. It seems like he has a thing for commercial pop music lately, because these remixes keep coming! You won’t hear me complain though, he does it like no other could do it. The first part of the song is dubstep, then he turns up the tempo to drum & bass.

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B.O.B Ft. Bruno Mars – Nothin On You (TC Remix)

Rihanna – Rude Boy (TC Remix)

Normally I’m not digging Rihanna’s music for being too girlish but I was actually liking her newest track called “Rude Boy”. The only thing that was missing was a nice bassline, our boy TC felt the same and produced a solid dubstep/d&b remix. Her newest album “Rated R” was co-produced with Chase & Status so if you want more of the same you should check it.

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Rihanna – Rude Boy (TC Remix)

Dubstep Round Up #3

pic by Ikaruga

Third post in the Dubstep Round Up series. Let’s start things off with a whole lotta Circus Records. The label founded by Flux Pavilion and Doctor P holds some of the biggest (filth) dubstep producers who make the most sought-after dubplates.

Doctor P turned 12th Planet‘s Reasons in what you could say an updated version of Sweetshop, his biggest hit so far. This tune will definitely get the crowd movin! Another dubplate that has been rockin’ parties worldwide comes from Flux Pavilion. Great vocals followed by a big ass drop. And then there’s Funtcase with a forthcoming big tune: “Takin The Piss”.

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12th Planet – Reasons (Doctor P Remix) [clip]

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Flux Pavilion – Got 2 Know [clip]

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Funtcase – Takin The Piss

GetDarkerTV: Circus Records Takeover:
GetDarker invited the Circus Records crew over for a 4 hour live stream of dubstep madness. A lot of people were having troubles connecting to the live event (it took me about a half hour). Luckily for them the sets were recorded and are available for download! (Links seem to be down atm. Download the podcasts on iTunes)

Funtcase – Live At GetDarker
Cookie Monsta – Live At GetDarker
Flux Pavilion – Live At GetDarker
Doctor P – Live At GetDarker

A collaboration between TC and Joker: a match made in heaven. It’s only a radio rip from Annie Mac’s show on BBC Radio One, but it’s too good not to share it. Also be sure to check out “Tron” on his myspace player, another one to look out for!

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

Belgian upcoming producer Vyron made this dark, heavy remix of Psycho Gorilla. We’ll definitely hear more of this guy in the future.

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BloodFire – Psycho Gorilla (Vyron Remix)

Grime Ministers EP is a free release – which can be found here – with tunes by Document One and J-Me. I prefer the productions by Document One.

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Document One – Erectosub VIP

Check out this sick video (using parts of tv series Dexter) for one of L-Wiz‘ latest tunes “Mexter Dorgan”. L-Wiz, part of All Out Dubstep (Swedish dubstep crew), is mostly known for his laidback track “Girl From Codeine City”. This one’s a lot heavier!

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L-Wiz – Mexter Dorgan

Last track already. Dark Sky is a UK based dubstep collective. Their entry for the Bonobo remix competition is one of the best tunes I’ve heard all year. There are still a few days left so do them a favour and give them your vote here.

Dark Sky – Leave (Removed on request)

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! ♥

TC Remixes

Here’s another post for all you drum&bass fans. TC (aka Tommyboy) is regarded as one of the most talented people in the drum&bass scene of today. His critically acclaimed debut album “Evolution” (2007) was released on D-Style and had some real party starters. He did some pretty big remixes as well (think of Day N Nite, Warhead, Roni Size’s “Don’t Hold Back”, etc).

Today I’ll give you three fresh remixes, check it out!

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Sean Paul – So Fine (TC Remix)

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Freeland – Under Control (TC Remix)

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Evil Nine – They Live! (TC Remix)