Venerable singles label, men about town, and purveyors of great music, Young Turks, are putting on a night this Friday with two of their favourite new artists. One of them is south London duo Mount Kimbie, who are known for their lush, melancholic dubstep sound. Check out this song, everyone who likes that stuff is going ape-poopy about them.
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Yes, that’s right, we are treating you to yet another mix. Why do we do it? Do you even appreciate them? Do you even appreciate us? Don’t answer that. Just download the fucking mix. This one is by sublime producer/DJ/girl Ikonika, and features lots of her new material, plus a number of forthcoming Hyperdub releases.
If you were wondering, we’re not sure what specific genre you’d class Ikonika’s material as – it’s way too good to be dubstep. There hasn’t been an apt enough one invented yet. Simon Reynolds would probably call it “flib-flob” or some other terrible made-up name. And then go on to write an essay about how Ikonika’s penchant for Polo mints has made her approach music in a totally new way.
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Easter has come early because we are giving you this delicious milk chocolate egg filled with garage, good dubstep and grime, which has been mixed together in a big, plastic bowl-shaped computer programme by Sheffield-based DJ/producer extraordinaire Grievous Angel.
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Enter Shikari are shit, everyone knows that, but the above sees them casually sailing through a shit-filled river that runs through Pooville in a boat made out of freshly steaming faeces. Read more »
After sleeping on it for a while, it seems like things might be looking up for Dubstep. Skream’s simple but brilliant remix of La Roux’s “In For The Kill” is all that I’ve listened to this weekend and now Joker’s “Digidesign” has finally been given a release on the consistently ace Hyperdub label.
We’ve had a pretty excellent run of mini mixes so far, if we do say so ourselves. It was looking unlikely that anyone would be able to top Jackmaster’s recent mix, but we think Smutlee has managed it with this 30-minute masterpiece. It features dancehall, juke re-edits, funky, grime, funky re-edits of classic grime and a forgotten breakbeat garage gem.
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Sorry to namedrop but hanging with the likes of Cobrasnake, the dude from Good Charlotte, and Steve Aoki makes you feel like you’re really there, in the center of it all. Celebrities just have a weird magical energy that’s hard to explain to people that haven’t experienced it.
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