I realized I haven’t thrown enough art up here lately, so to get back in that mode, he’s something from Amterdam stencil artist FAKE.
Archive for July, 2010
“Painting God” stencil by FAKE (video)
Sunday, July 11th, 2010Tectonic : a look at 5 years of Multiverse / Dubstep
Sunday, July 4th, 2010
Multiverse is a studio based in Bristol that in the last 5 years or so has been responsible for a out pouring of sick bass music. In honor of this, on July 5th, Tectonic is releasing a double CD compiling a range of dubstep tunes that have come out of Multiverse studios over this time (2004 -2009). The music begins at a time when dubstep was called “dark garage” and was uncommercial, bare, minimal, and had loads of bass pressure and no wobble. Bristol is known for its chest destroying tunes and sound systems, and this release is a nice look back at the earlier style of the dubstep sound, and also a look at how those from the scene have advanced that sound.
Here’s a track list so you know what i’m talking about:
Disc One
1. Vex’d – Lion
2. Circuit Breaker – Phonque (October remix)
3. Moving Ninja – Witchdokta
4. Pinch & P Dutty – War Dub
5. S.N.O – Disturbance
6. Skream – Bahl Fwd
7. Joker – Stuck in the System
8. The Body snatchers – Big Ass Mini Skirt
9. 2562 – Techno Dread
10. Joker & Ginz – Purple City
11. Pinch ft. Yolanda – Get Up (RSD remix)
12. Baobinga & ID – Tongue Riddim
Disc Two
1. Vex’d – Pop Pop
2. Loefah & Skream – 28 Grams
3. Cyrus – Indian Stomp
4. Pinch – Qawwali / Brighter Day
5. Loefah – System
6. Moving Ninja – Uranium
7. October – Three Drops
8. Joker – Psychedelic Runway
9. October – Euro Dance Hit
10. Emptyset – Gate 4
11. 2562 – Unbalance
12. Emptyset – Demian
Tunes like “Disturbance” by S.N.O. and “Bahl Fwd” by Skream just really take me back to when dubstep was less energetic, less hype and very much about what the bass could rattle. Sick to hear again, since most sets nowadays don’t contain anything more than 6 months old. And then you also see the progression, as new guys like Joker got into things, and added they’re own vibe, but with obvious influences from the sound before them (“Purple City” can really be seen in context here, it was a nod to the past, a step to the future).
This double CD is not for DJs, it is for fans of bass music. Its a great look back at a sound that changed/blewup/divided very quickly and how that process carried out in a certain studio in Bristol, UK.
DJ Madd – “Fabriclive promo mix”
Thursday, July 1st, 2010A new mix from DJ Madd just popped up at the Fabric blog.
Budapest born, Bristol based dubstep producer DJ Madd has carved himself a pretty unique trench within his contemporaries over the space of a handful of singles – mainly released on the Boka and Black Box imprints. Going in just as hard as producers like Benga and Caspa, Madd – known to his parents as Peter Simon – manages to retain a lot of space and atmosphere in his productions, fleshing his tracks out with heavy sine wave pulses rather than those mid range frequencies that seem to get included expressly to make you lose your shit on the dancefloor. Flirting with the funk in a similar way to someone like Joker, Madd has a great command of aerated bass lines, tweaking the best force out of his low end and complimenting that speaker pressure with vibrancy and these little flickers of synth colour that lodge themselves deep in your brain for days.
DJ Madd – FABRICLIVE Promo Mix by fabric
tracklist :
DJ Madd – Good Old Days (forthcoming Black Box)
DJ Madd – Funktion 1 (Lime Dubs)
DJ Madd – Dub Marine (Kryptic Minds remix)
DJ Madd – The Battle (?)
DJ Madd – Not Afraid (Lime Dubs)
Seven – Wait (forthcoming Black Box)
Major Lazer – Hold The Line (DJ Madd refix)
Hatcha & Lost – Tattyland (Blackbox)
DJ Madd & Matt-U – Sound System (Tube10)
V.I.V.E.K. – Motherland (forthcoming Deep Medi)
DJ Madd – Flex’d (Ikonika remix) (Boka)
DJ Madd – When I First Met You (forthcoming Subway)
source : Fabriclondon.com
