Check out this new mix from teaandcakerecords family, Brotto, for the Pixelatique series.
Thursday, 30 June 2011
Sunday, 26 June 2011
Nightwave - The Feel EP
It doesn't seem like two minutes since the last Svetlana Industries release by Bnjmn and they are already following up hot on the heels with EP number 5 (vinyl release number 4) by Nightwave aka Maya Medvesek pka the 8 Bitch.
The five track ep is a mixture of a couple of tracks that have been previewed in demo forms for about a year and tracks that were sent in the morning of going to mastering!
Title track Feel (see video below) sets the tone with a UK bass take on techno, building from subtle beats, whistles and breathless vocals to a full on warped head nodder. You Are My High and Bit Pony may be familiar to Nightwave obsessive geeks like myself who can now tick off a couple more from that very long list of demos we (ok I) want to see on wax, but they fit in with the IDM and techno sound of the ep as a whole. Whilst the original version isn't exactly restrained, the remix of Night Bird from Unknown To The Unknown is pure banging classic Chi town juke / vintage Dance Mania and is seriously worth the admission price alone.
Stream the tracks and follow the links to order it directly
Video for Feel
Saturday, 25 June 2011
Michael Jackson Anniversary
I thought as today marks the second anniversary of the loss of Michael Jackson, I would dig out this mix I did this day last year. If you want to check out the long, rambling piece I put with it, go here
Wednesday, 22 June 2011
Brotto - Go Play Outside EP
Really pleased to hear new stuff from Brotto, now going it alone after his debut on teaandcakerecords.
Some great beats and glitchy stuff again but personally I can't get enough of out and out hip hop track, Tree'kle, featuring a very clever use of Roots Manuva's Join The Dots. As this is one of my all time favourites, this could have got very wrong for me but I'm really glad to say Brotto's beats flow naturally next to Rodney's rhymes as if they could have been there all along.
Download it now for free from bandcamp and keep your eyes peeled and ears to the ground for details of his full length album featuring a few guests which should be appearing fairly soon.
Some great beats and glitchy stuff again but personally I can't get enough of out and out hip hop track, Tree'kle, featuring a very clever use of Roots Manuva's Join The Dots. As this is one of my all time favourites, this could have got very wrong for me but I'm really glad to say Brotto's beats flow naturally next to Rodney's rhymes as if they could have been there all along.
Download it now for free from bandcamp and keep your eyes peeled and ears to the ground for details of his full length album featuring a few guests which should be appearing fairly soon.
Sunday, 19 June 2011
Trip To Space Part Six
Not a trip into the deepest, darkest, distant parts of the universe this time, just a trip with Neil, Buzz and the other one on Apollo 11. It's one small mix for (probably one) man (to listen to).
Unknown - Apollo 11 Man On The Moon (Cronkite Broadcast Pt1)
Fennesz - Made in Hong Kong
Unknown - Apollo 11 Launch (With Altitude And Velocity Data)
BNJMN - One Sea (Lukid Remix)
Aviv Geffen - It Was Meant To Be A Love Song (King Cannibal Remix Dub)
QNS - 6 OF 6
Fatima - Cinnamon
Unknown - Apollo 11 Man On The Moon (Cronkite Broadcast Pt2)
Fatima - Red Light
Soap & Skin - Marche Funebre (Dj Koze Marxa Mix)
Oneohtrix Point Never - LL (Stresswave Edit) (Something I Never Had / Over)
Kassem Mosse - Untitled 3 (Workshop 12)
Unknown - Apollo 11 Man On The Moon (Cronkite Broadcast Pt3)
Laurel Halo - Something I Never Had
Zomby - Natalia's Song
Panda Bear - Surfer's Hymn (Actress Primitive Pattern Remix)
Fennesz - Before I Leave
Throwing Snow - Cronos (Drop/Dead's Liminal Sounds Remix)
Fennesz - Caecilia
Nathan Fake - Fentiger
Objekt - CLK Recovery
Svpreme Fiend - Exempt
Ena - Instinctive
Fennesz - Happy Audio
Harold Budd / Brian Eno - Wind In Lonely Fences
Antony and The Johnsons - Swanlights (Oneohtrix Point Never Edit)
Neil Armstrong - Moon Landing
Friday, 17 June 2011
Ray Keith History by Semtek
This afternoon Semtek took us to school with a history of rave / d'n'b legend Ray Keith.
Follow Semtek at http://twitter.com/semtek_dbafraid
Gonna kick off my little Ray Keith history shortly with chapter 1.
Colchester born, Ray Keith started DJing at the ripe age of 12. At that time it was Soul and
Rare Groove that spun on the Essex circuit.
Party-goers were demanding artists like Lonnie Liston Smith and Keith Sweat
...and the productions of Jody Sims, like this Switch masterpiece - Am I Still Your Boyfriend
Simultaneously, so this is the mid-80's, OMD, Depeche Mode and Duran Duran being requested. Like this from 1985
The sound of soul, rare groove and boogie, and the gothic / industrial sound to me are both equally important to Ray Keith's sound.
By the late 80's Keith was working at City Sounds in Farringdon, round the corner from what would become Turnmills.
Google Maps
By the late 80's the electronic sounds of the US were being adopted by UK DJs and artists, not least Mel & Kim
Even Stock Aitken and Waterman played a role in the development of young Ray, especially this number from 1987 Roadblock
Of course, in 1989 one 12" would change everything for DJs both in the US and the UK.
By 1990 Ray Keith was an important player on the hardcore / breakbeat circuit, and a regular DJ at Raindance.
The parties would happen in the further reaches of London, places like Jenkins Lane:
http://wikimapia.org/9434703/Raindance-Site-Jenkins-Lane
1990 was the golden age of Acid House. Influenced by this Keith took on his first remix. Orbital's Chime:
By 1991 Keith had already abandoned the house sound for the hcore breakbeat groove. This samples Manix ' Feel Real Good'
By 92 you hear already some of the trademark RK sounds in this. Blame sampled the same Seal track for 'Music Takes You.'
Keith's first major success came when he teamed up with Nookie, who would go on to engineer many of his tracks, in 1993
What became his best known track, under the Renegade alias, which hit shelves in 1994. Terrorist
Terrorist was made by Keith and engineered by Nookie in 4 hours. It is still one of the best known tracks of the past 20 years.
Keith talks openly in interviews about how he came to Reggae and Dub later than many people think, around thi1993 / 1994.
In 1995 he started experimenting with the Ragga samples, to devastating effect, with this on Bryan G's Chronic imprint
And it was also in 1995 that he established the imprint that would go on to provide a home for the majority of his releases, Dread.
The first release on Dread, Yes Yes, sold out within days.
1995 was also the year Keith first started using Lemon D as an engineer, on this Pink Floyd sampling bomb.
Sing Time was recorded as Terrorist, an alias he adopted for much of the work with Lemon D.
Like 95, 96 saw nothing but hits from Keith. This appeared as London's Most Wanted on Chronic, sampling House Of Pain.
And then another outing as Renegade on Dread, which produced Dark Soldier, another anthem, bassline!
1996 was the year of the Tech Step sound, and, noting this, Keith inaugurated Penny Black with this from Twisted Anger:
Most of all though, 1996 was the year of Chopper. Of course Shy FX's remix was the hit. But the orig is 1 for the heads
1998 onwards. This was the year Keith elected to record on Dread under his own name for the first time:
Blackmarket records, where he worked at the time, was the hub of the drum'n'bass scene and it formed the ideal outlet for Dread and Penny B.
1998 was also the year he made his V Recordings debut with this banger. 'Do It'
In a similarly hard style he also remixed Mask (Roni Size) and Swabe (Die) on Dope Dragon
For me the final chapter in the story is really 2000 when he started UFO recordings to release "Something Out There".
I remember seeing him play in Bedford to a crowd of no more than 10 people in 2000, but he still put on a show.
Listening through the way his productions and DJing changed over the years you realise he was always in it to please the crowd.
Never can you accuse him of a shoegazing moment, always a professional, always giving 100% to support the scene and the ravers.
Ray Keith: big up. Don.
Leaving you with one of his lesser known but equally rolling moments. Have a good weekend each and everyone!
Follow Semtek at http://twitter.com/semtek_dbafraid
Gonna kick off my little Ray Keith history shortly with chapter 1.
Colchester born, Ray Keith started DJing at the ripe age of 12. At that time it was Soul and
Rare Groove that spun on the Essex circuit.
Party-goers were demanding artists like Lonnie Liston Smith and Keith Sweat
...and the productions of Jody Sims, like this Switch masterpiece - Am I Still Your Boyfriend
Simultaneously, so this is the mid-80's, OMD, Depeche Mode and Duran Duran being requested. Like this from 1985
The sound of soul, rare groove and boogie, and the gothic / industrial sound to me are both equally important to Ray Keith's sound.
By the late 80's Keith was working at City Sounds in Farringdon, round the corner from what would become Turnmills.
Google Maps
By the late 80's the electronic sounds of the US were being adopted by UK DJs and artists, not least Mel & Kim
Even Stock Aitken and Waterman played a role in the development of young Ray, especially this number from 1987 Roadblock
Of course, in 1989 one 12" would change everything for DJs both in the US and the UK.
By 1990 Ray Keith was an important player on the hardcore / breakbeat circuit, and a regular DJ at Raindance.
The parties would happen in the further reaches of London, places like Jenkins Lane:
http://wikimapia.org/9434703/Raindance-Site-Jenkins-Lane
1990 was the golden age of Acid House. Influenced by this Keith took on his first remix. Orbital's Chime:
By 1991 Keith had already abandoned the house sound for the hcore breakbeat groove. This samples Manix ' Feel Real Good'
By 92 you hear already some of the trademark RK sounds in this. Blame sampled the same Seal track for 'Music Takes You.'
Keith's first major success came when he teamed up with Nookie, who would go on to engineer many of his tracks, in 1993
What became his best known track, under the Renegade alias, which hit shelves in 1994. Terrorist
Terrorist was made by Keith and engineered by Nookie in 4 hours. It is still one of the best known tracks of the past 20 years.
Keith talks openly in interviews about how he came to Reggae and Dub later than many people think, around thi1993 / 1994.
In 1995 he started experimenting with the Ragga samples, to devastating effect, with this on Bryan G's Chronic imprint
And it was also in 1995 that he established the imprint that would go on to provide a home for the majority of his releases, Dread.
The first release on Dread, Yes Yes, sold out within days.
1995 was also the year Keith first started using Lemon D as an engineer, on this Pink Floyd sampling bomb.
Sing Time was recorded as Terrorist, an alias he adopted for much of the work with Lemon D.
Like 95, 96 saw nothing but hits from Keith. This appeared as London's Most Wanted on Chronic, sampling House Of Pain.
And then another outing as Renegade on Dread, which produced Dark Soldier, another anthem, bassline!
1996 was the year of the Tech Step sound, and, noting this, Keith inaugurated Penny Black with this from Twisted Anger:
Most of all though, 1996 was the year of Chopper. Of course Shy FX's remix was the hit. But the orig is 1 for the heads
1998 onwards. This was the year Keith elected to record on Dread under his own name for the first time:
Blackmarket records, where he worked at the time, was the hub of the drum'n'bass scene and it formed the ideal outlet for Dread and Penny B.
1998 was also the year he made his V Recordings debut with this banger. 'Do It'
In a similarly hard style he also remixed Mask (Roni Size) and Swabe (Die) on Dope Dragon
For me the final chapter in the story is really 2000 when he started UFO recordings to release "Something Out There".
The vocal was recorded when by chance he heard Leah singing in a neighbouring Brick Lane studio (one in the Truman Brewery to be precise).
I remember seeing him play in Bedford to a crowd of no more than 10 people in 2000, but he still put on a show.
Listening through the way his productions and DJing changed over the years you realise he was always in it to please the crowd.
Never can you accuse him of a shoegazing moment, always a professional, always giving 100% to support the scene and the ravers.
Ray Keith: big up. Don.
Leaving you with one of his lesser known but equally rolling moments. Have a good weekend each and everyone!
Sunday, 12 June 2011
Jus A Lil Hip Hop
Very short, 20 min mix
Raekwon - New Wu (prod. by RZA) (Instrumental)
Outkast - Two Dope Boyz (In A Cadillac)
Kanye West - So Appalled (Instrumental)
Danny Brown - Squeeze Precisely
Wu Tang Clan - Cream (Instrumental)
J Dilla - Dilla Bot Vs. The Hybrid (feat. Danny Brown)
Clipse - Grinding (Instrumental)
Nas Featuring Bravehearts - Nasty N.
Dabrye - With A Professional
Flying Lotus - Two Bottom Blues
eLZhi - Detroit State Of Mind
eLZhi - Like This (Prod. Black Milk)
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