Earlier this year, we gathered the most important players in the Sweden’s skweee scene at the Stockholm office of Flogsta Danshall, to get the lowdown on just what the music is about and how it’s made. On top of that, we also checked out Daniel Savio and Mrs. Qeada at Oslo’s By:Larm, and peeped a performance by Rigas Den Andre and Pavan at a teen community center in Stockholm.
Wiley is one of UK dance music’s biggest personalities, and after he let loose a massive catalog of unreleased tracks earlier this year and then spent half the summer on Ustream, it seems that Wiley is basically doing whatever he wants. Apparently that list of activities includes this latest collaboration with UK garage fixture MJ Cole. The single is called “From the Drop” and will be released November 1 on Cole’s own Prolific label. The release features a few different versions of the track, a b-side called “Angel Riddim,” and includes remixes of the single from MJ himself as well as Night Slugs/Mad Decent badman L-Vis 1990. We have the L-Vis 1990 remix right here, which transforms the original into something woozy, dark, and urgent, topping things off with 303 acid melodies and relentless claps.
There are no two ways about it: Tensnake‘s “Coma Cat” is a tune and a half. And really, it doesn’t matter too much that it borrows liberally from a random song that most of you have probably never even heard, because DJ/producer Marco Niemerski revamps the music thoroughly and with a distinct focus on the modern dancefloor (read more about his production antics in our recent feature). So, what else could the song use? How about a video of two waify nymphs ripped from the back of an issue of Vice parading around in their underwear, cuddling by a lake, and basically having the best summer day ever? Next in line, Tensnake’s “Coma Cat” will become a walking, breathing creature running around clubs, handing out money. What can’t this song do?! (via Pitchfork)
Not long after the party-starting UK production duo Hot City dropped its “Another Girl” single in July comes the pair’s follow-up, a double a-side 12″ for their “Twist” and “Lonely Boy” tracks. Before that record drops on November 1, we’ve got a stellar dub of “Twist” available here for your downloading pleasure. This version of Hot City’s tune is stripped of the original’s hyped-up vocal performance by UK garage luminary MC DT, so the skittering beats of its first half are instead interspersed throughout the bouncing future-house tune—helping keep “Twist (Chopped Dub)” true to Hot City’s “two cheer point” rule. (Yeah… Apparently, Hot City has a rule that each of its tracks must have no less than two points where the crowd is encouraged to stop dancing in order to let loose a cheer. Not entirely sure how we feel about that, but we can’t deny the tunes are good. Sooo… party on, dudes.)
Arguably the founders of dubstep, Horsepower Productions have garnered the respect of the electronic music community ever since their debut, In Fine Style, was released back in 2002. Now, eight years later, as the genre they pioneered continues to expand and explode, it is only right that Horsepower Productions have a new album to offer. Appropriately named, Quest For the Sonic Bounty, will feature nine tracks from the crew comprised of Matt HP (a.k.a. Lev Jnr), Nassis, Jay King, and Benny Ill. Be on the look-out for what is their first proper album since 2004 via their long standing label Tempa on November 29.
Tracklist:
1. Rain
2. Mexican Slayride
3. 22
4. Water
5. Kingstep (LP Version)
6. 18th Special
7. Damn It (Extended LP Version)
8. Lee Perry: Exercising (Horsepower Remix)
9. Poison Wine
“Damn It” (12″ Version)
October is a busy time for London duo Warrior One. Positioning themselves as the bashment and bassline alternative to UK funky, the pair has two separate releases coming out by the end of the month. The first, out on Dre Skull’s Mixpak Records, is the single “Lord of Bashy,” featuring Heatwave MC Rubi Dan. The second release, the first on Warrior One’s own King Pigeon label is a four-track EP entitled, well, the King Pigeon EP. Among the four tracks is “Bullring Riddim,” which features ubiquitous UK rudebwoy Serocee, but right now we’ve got the EP’s wobbly “Together Forever,” which utilizes an understated version of niche’s signature bassline melody and combines it with an equally tasteful injection of ravey piano stabs and the forever-epic use of a diva on the chorus.
The good people over at the giant online electronic music store Beatport have launched a new subscription service that they’re calling Beatport Mix. The service will provide members with a monthly DJ mix curated by the Beatport staff, sent straight to their inbox, as well as a host of other perks including discounted admission to select clubs and performances around the country. To launch the new service, Beatport founding partner and DJ Jonas Tempel has contributed the first mix in this ongoing series. For more details visit the Beatport Mix website.
We’ve been sharing the various goings on of Eliot Lipp and Leo 123 (collectively known as Dark Party), including music videos, EP releases, remixes, and the like, but today we get to share even bigger Dark Party news with you. On November 2, the production duo will release its debut full-length, Light Years, via Old Tacoma and 1320 Records—a record that features past singles “Patrol Patrol,” “Feets,” and “Flats,” and also boasts influences from old-school house, disco, electro, ’80s-funk, and classic ’90s dance beats. You can check out the tracklist and artwork for the 12-track album below.
1. Easy
2. Patrol Patrol
3. Down
4. Tonight
5. Fifth
6. Flats
7. Pilot
8. Tina
9. Can’t Stop
10. Status
11. Feets
12. Cab Weather
We’re happy to see that traveling the world (or even just the idea of traveling the world) seems to inspire a budding crop of music makers to make intricately arranged and profoundly heartfelt techno-leaning dance tunes, as opposed to, say, crunkcore. Much like his ex-tourmate Gold Panda, producer James Welch (a.k.a. Seams) has turned his globe-trotting escapades into the driving force behind the ambient soundscapes and pulsing beats of his music. “Hung Markets” is one such song, and is taken from his forthcoming EP for Pictures Music, Tourist. Welch says that the release is “inspired by the outdoor living of [Berlin] in the summer, and how much music was intrinsically linked to daily life.” And you can hear that in the airy field recordings that open and close the song, as well as the swells of white noise that provide the upbeat to its constant rhythm and the hazy samples that fill in the gaps. We’ll see what other sounds Seams has to offer when his four-song Tourist EP drops this November.
The man behind seminal bands the likes of Godflesh and Napalm Death, not to mention his oft XLR8R-covered Pale Sketcher moniker, Justin Broadrick will soon be releasing an album comprised of two EPs: a re-release of his Jesu debut, Heart Ache, and the recently completed Dethroned. Metal/hardcore imprint Hydra Head will drop the double-feature on November 16, which makes up a brand-new, six-song, hour-long Jesu record. You can listen to a new song from the Dethroned half of the album here, and fans can pre-order the two-disc Heart Ache & Dethronedhere. We’ve included the tracklist and artwork below.
Disc One: Heart Ache
01 Heart Ache
02 Ruined
Disc Two: Dethroned
01 Dethroned
02 Annul
03 Aureated Skin
04 I Can Only Disappoint You
