Unhinged with Brackles/Monkey Steak - 27th June @ Croft - Bristol

Anyone in the Bristol area needs to be at this on 26th June. Unhinged is gonna be bring you some heavyweight dubplate presha, and the best in forward thinking future bass music.


First to the plate is man like Brackles, with massive releases lined up for Apple Pips/Planet Mu and huge recent releases on Pollen & Berkane Sol being hammered by the worlds Dubstep glitterati, this boy is a massive shout for 2009! Mashing Dubstep,Garage, Grime and Wonked out Crunkstep weirdness brackles is gonna smash this dance - boys got skills!

Brackles - Glazed

Monkey Steak's Ratatosk's Tree ep has been given some serious hype around these parts and rightly so, having carved out their own niche with futureproof releases for Werk and Punch drunk back when dubstep was in its infancy. Atki2 & Hanuman are back with a genre mashing collection of Booty rave, Bassline, Garage and Funky - catch the boys playing a very rare Monkey Steak set. This is gonna be absolute pure fiyaa!

Stormfield - haiku (Monkey Steak remix)

[Rory]

In the beginning there was Jack.....

Jackmaster is a man in with his finger firmly on the pulse with labels Wireblock and Dress2Sweat putting out essential Wonky/Techno and Bmore/Bassline cuts respectively. Heres a couple of dancefloor smashers:

Tactic's mash up of Badman forward and Patrice Baumel's huge Roar:

Tactic - Badman's Roor

Fellow Glaswegian Rustie's Wonked out synth works:

Rustie - Zig Zag


Bonus: Jackmaster mix for Wire

Massive mix taking in Funky/Wonky/Hip Hop/Dubstep/Techno

1. Elecktroids - Future Intro
2. Lando Kal - Fuzzy Ankles (Wireblock)
3. Lunice - Wobble (Unreleased)
4. Guido - The Way You Make Me Feel (Punch Drunk)
5. Shabba Ranks - Mr Loverman D.M. Ragga Hop Remix (Epic)
6. Dials - Riggle Giddum (Unreleased)
7. Rustie - Ultraman Remix (Unreleased)
8. Debruit - Pouls (Musique Large)
9. Redinho - Mo Brap (Wireblock)
10. Ghosts On Tape - Equator Jam (Wireblock)
11. Peter Digital Orchestra aka Fulgeance - Red & White (Wireblock)
12. Apparat - Hold On Modeselektor Remix (Shitkatapult)
13. $tinkworx - Coelacanth (Strange Life)
14. Shadow Dancer - What Is Natural (Boys Noize)
15. L-Vis 1990 - United Groove (Mad Decent)
16. Apple - Chantes (Unreleased)
17. Lil Silva - Different (Unreleased)
18. Sticky - Juneirah Riddim (Ltd.)
19. Emvee - Nocturnal (Wireblock)
20. Secret Agent Gel Feat. Coppa Kid - Crew (Bok Bok Remix) (Unreleased)
21. Starkey - Knob Twiddler (Unreleased)
22. Dorian Concept - Trilingual Dance Sexperience (Unreleased)
23. 77Klash - Pressure (Unreleased)
24. Touchy Subject - Wicked Act (Wireblock)
25. Crime Mob - Knuck If You Buck (Accapella)
26. DJ Oddz - Strung Up VIP (Black Majik)
27. Mr. De’ - Detroit Zoo (Electrofunk)
28. Joker - Purple City (Kapsize)
29. Low Deep - I Know (Colourfulstate)
30. Redinho Bare Blips (Wireblock)
31. Clarke - Dirty Pixie (Warp)
32. Ludacris - Pussy Poppin’
33. AFX - Analord 9 Edit (Rephlex)
34. Bonecrusher - Never Scared (So So Def)
35. Rustie - Jagz The Smack (Stuffrecords)

Ribbit

Well. I'm in love. I've known about these guys for a while but never given them a proper listen. Now I can safely say they're one of my favourite producers of 2009!

I'm talking about the fantastically named, Frogs in Socks. For me, they take deep and percussive techno and tech house to a whole new level. Their bootlegs are off the chain, the choice of samples is fantastic, the production is top grade... i've never enjoyed or bopped to tech so much! It's music for the club, that doesn't discriminate, that's thoughtful and interesting and hardly ever repeats or grates on itself. It all ends up becoming a wonderful symphony of both aggressive grit and subtle warmth in the low end and glitchy samples and quirky sounds in the high end, all rolled up inside a rolling wave of cultural percussion and varied influences.

If it hasn't become clear already, I can't suck up to these boys enough. And it's not just me saying it! Frogs in Socks recently won the iDJ Mix Competition and Chew the Fat! DJ Competition with one of the best mixes I've heard in a LONG time. They've also been raped regularly by Radio 1 DJ's, played at this year's Snowbombing Festival and are a firm favourite of one of my other top producers, Solo.

Without further adieu, and before I do actually start to wet myself, here's a taster of Frogs in Socks:

Slumfrog Millionaires (iDJ & Chew the Fat! Winning Mix) - Frogs in Socks

We are The People (Frogs in Socks Remix) - Empire of The Sun

Dum (Frogs in Socks Remix) - The Martin Brothers [SOUNDCLOUD LINK]

Shack 54 (Frogs in Socks Remix) - Two Lone Swordsmen [SOUNDCLOUD LINK]

Right Here, Right Now (Frogs in Socks Remix) - Fatboy Slim

Be sure to hit up the myspace and their beatport page!

- KAISER

------------- New Star Eyes E.P!!!!! --------------

T&B have been running things stateside on the bass music front, T&B017 - sees original T&B Fam Star Eyes' first release with production duties from none other than T&B label boss Luca 'DTL' Venezia. T&B Gallic contingent Mikix the cat on the remix:

Star Eyes - Disappear (Mikix The Cat remix)

Other remixes come from Niche legend Dexplicit and Venezuelan Cardopusher, this looks set to be big! Make sure to pick it up from Juno when its released on 2nd June.


Bonus: here's some older T&B stuff

Blackfinger - UMF (Supra1 remix)


Mikix the cat - Freeze (Kanji Kinetic remix)


Drop The Lime - Hear Me (AC Slater remix)


Little Jinder - Polyhdron (Supra1 remix)

[Rory]

Tasty bass

Been doing the rounds, and found this lovely little garage/bassline track from Nottingham producer Nay Nay, off of his new "Classic 4 Track EP" release:

Twinkle (feat. Spyda) - Nay Nay

I highly recommend the whole release, got some good collaborations with T2 (of 'Heartbroken' fame), Spyda, Tombstone and Flex which are all reminiscent of that clubby bassline sound that was big a few years ago, but with a more interesting twist, and some unique sounds.

The whole release is available from Juno, be sure to check it out!

Also, as a bonus, here's one of Derelict's tracks off his Streetfighter EP. Proper midrange, crunchy, filthy dubstep that doesnt over do it! Again, be sure to get the whole release from Juno!

Jesus Fuck - Derelict

- KAISER

Do you like.....

….Bass? Assumptions made that your answer is in the affirmative else you wouldn't be reading this mindless drivel. Major amounts of Wobble present for this one - Totally bumming this UK Bass ting! Lots of these guys been repping with Audio Discharge - hopefully we'll get Raffertie down at some point

Hyper Bass


1. Squire of Gothos - Only Wanna Be With Bass
2. Trevor Loveys & Shab Ruffcut - Love & Change (Raffertie remix)
3. Raffertie - Sugar
4. Kid606 - Raving Cain (Doshy remix)
5. Raffertie - Wobble Horror
6. Franz Ferdinand - No You Girls (Raffertie remix)
7. The Scarlet Harlots - Backlash (Raffertie remix feat Shiftee Moova)
8. DeVille - Quente Demais (Kanji Kinetic remix)
9. Black Rabbit - Ard Krew
10. Doshy - Beat Plug
11. Duran Duran Duran - Face Blast
12. Egyptrixx - On Da Flo
13. Kid606 - Kill Soundboy Kill
14. Doshy - Bla Bla Bla (Kid606 remix)

[Rory]

You aint a Joker you're a Clown...

Was a mate of mine's retort to the young Joker when he was acting like a bit of a tit outside some nightclub in Bristol sometime… the details escape me. You can forgive the lad though, such a mercurial talent and barely out of Nappies. He's part of the Bristol purple wow crew that’s putting out so much lovely synth lead dubstep at the moment, anyone wanting to catch him can do so May 30th @ Lakota - for Rewind - the Neil Kymatik tribute.Here's an unreleased track that’s been doing the rounds
[Rory]


Joker - Solid State