by admin • Breaks
BREAKBEAT RAVE GROOVE A superb driving groove that goes to prove that there is life yet ni the hackneyed old dog of breaks. Admittedly the dog is half blind, can’t feed itself and smells like death but it’s breaks.
Call it “Future Jungle” if you like but it’s still going to shit all over your rug.
by admin • Breaks, hip hop, reggae
ALL STAR REGGAE MASH Okay, I got one:Cutty Ranks, Bob Marley and KRS ONE walk into a bar, right. The joke unfolds with hilarious consequences. Unless the barman happens to be gay then it’s really not going to end well.
PRINCE GETS A RINSE With a back catalogue larger than Prince’s ego and only just a bit smaller than his vocal range, The Apple Scruffs have remixed the vast majority of all music released since 1973. Rumour has it there is a machine in Glasgow into which you tip second hand record collections and out the other end comes a whole bunch of disco edits.
by admin • Breaks
The Marine Parade head honcho resurfaces and offers up his seminal Coastal Breaks DJ mixes for streaming. From back when breaks was, y’know, fun. A brace of the finest and, for this corner of the internet, most influential mixtapes ever recorded.
BREAKS IS COMING BACK….yaaaaaawwwwwnn….
by admin • Breaks
BUMPING BREAKS Treading terribly close to, but never quite stepping in, that steaming pile of Nu-Funk All Good Funk Alliance spin out a bumping breaks track with a Latino twist. Falls foul of a “check-me-and-all-my-name-checking” intro bollocks but that’s what the loop function on your DJ gadgets is designed to eliminate.
OLD SKOOL ELECTRO CUT – cutting and pasting samples from a host of old school electro classics TV andFingerman bootlegs the living shit out of the eighties. Download through the Soundcloud player.
by admin • Breaks
Not many artists escaped unscathed from the sinking vessel of formulaic misery that was the good ship NuBreaks. Lee Coombs and The Drumattic Twins did however keep powder dry and continued to roll out some amazing, dubbed up breaks tracks while all around them were up to their necks drowning in snare build ups. Tribal Tension was one of the standout releases from Thrust and Coomb’s is offering up the stems for remix along with this redux for 2012 from Uberzone.
by admin • bashment, Bass, Breaks
Shoe-horning 20 tracks into an 18 minute slash-and-burn mix tape Jimi Needles’ ruthless efficiency ensures there is still space on your iPhone for pointless apps, smutty screen grabs and shit photos of your mates doing something we can’t quite make out…you really had to be there. Sprain your rave bone to this…
1. Intro ft. Kimbra, Notorious BIG, Dizzee Rascal
2. Kovary vs Kool & The Gang – “Jungle Boogie”
3. Major Lazor – “Pon De Floor” (Vocal)
4. Funkanomics – “Let Us Juggle”
5. Kanye West – “Power” (Vocal)
6. Dizzee Rascal vs Dizzy Gillespie ft. KRS ONE – Dizzy Sirens (Jimi Needles’ Big Band Cocktail) by Jimi Needles (Snippet)
7. Groove Armada – “Superstyling” (Acapella)
8. SBTRKT – “Pharaohs” (Jimi Needles Edit)
9. Krafty Kuts vs Featurecast – “We Blow Up The Spot”
10. Chiddy Bang – “Ray Charles” (Spenda C Remix) (Edit)
11. Foreigner – “Cold as Ice” (A.Skillz Remix)
12. Parker vs Black Sabbath – “Iron Mandem”
13. Dead Prez – “Hip Hop” (Vocal)
14. Rico Tubbs vs Corona vs M.I.A – Bad Girls of the Night (Jimi Needles Blend)
15. Danny Byrd vs Daft Punk – “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, Tonight” (Jimi Needles Blend)
16. Benny Page – “Light Up The World”
17. Dillon Francis – “IDGAFOS 2.0″ (Re-Pitched)
18. Busta Rhymes – “Woo-Hah” (Acapella)
18. U-Turn – “You Don’t Know Me”
19. Ms Dynamite – “What You Talking About?” (Acapella)
20. Nick Thayer – “Like Boom” (Remix)
by admin • Breaks
YAY! PROPER BREAKBEAT If you long for the old days of sophisticated, forward thinking breakbeat that shakes your grey matter as well as the dance floor then look no further..
Dubstep stable Hot Flush Recordings have saved the whole fucking planet with the release of Scuba’s “Personality”.
If you were going to shoe-horn it into a genre pigeon hole it would, quite likely be, Nu Skool Breaks.
A ye olde genre that showed so much promise but ended stuck on bench in 2003 growing a massive snare-roll beard and drinking Kestral with the noughties Big Beat has-beens.
Seriously hot shit.
by admin • Breaks, Glitch, hip hop
GLITCH-HOP SQUELCH-OFF Just how anally retentive you have to be to produce music this detailed is anybody’s guess. Tipper probably has everything in his fridge neatly labelled and all the coasters on his coffee table aligned with a set square. That and a hearing response that plummets to 4hz.
