With all the talk about nu-rave, next-rave, rave-revival, etc. over the past couple of years, we thought it’d be fitting to point the lens over to the original rave sound. Durring the late ’80s, urban sounds from U.S. cities like New York, Chicago, and Detroit invaded the UK and quickly became more popular than they had been in their home towns. Rave parties filled up with thousands of dance-hungry youth listening to acid-house, techno, and hip-hop. Before long british producers began to meld those genres into the new sound known as hardcore, breakbeat-hardcore, or simply rave.
Dev/Null is a devoted collector of vinyl documenting the early ’90s UK-rave sounds that went on to become jungle/drum ‘n bass, and eventually morphed into speed-garrage, 2-step, grime, dubstep, etc. Last year he dropped an oldskool-rave set at a Beat Research party and this mix is the result.
Looking at the tracklist for the mix, one can see many of the artists and labels whent on to become well known jungle/drum ‘n bass producers in the mid to late ’90s. Also note that some of the ealy recordings on the XL label are here. XL Recordings has remained nimble in a changing music industry and has worked it’s way to the top. In recent years they’ve released hit albums by M.I.A., White Stripes, Dizzee Rascal, Devendra Bernhardt, Thom Yorke, and rhumor has it that the new Radiohead album will be released through them too.
Get ready for a barrage of DJ Mixes from the Mashit camp over the next few days. We’ve got an old-school-rave mix from Dev Null, an all-over-the-place dance-party mix from Brazil’s DJ Kowalski, and we’ll be co-releaseing a 2 part mix by Kid Kameleon: The mighty Spannered website will release his Aim Low mix simultaniously with the release of his Aim High mix over here at Mashit.com.
To start things off I’d like to point y’all to the internet radio site Samurai.FM where there’s a brand new Mashit Presents DJ C mix online. We’ll podcast that one here soon, but in the meantime you can stream it over there. You’ll want to check out Samurai’s deep archive of EDM i-radio shows while you’re there. It’s quite a resource.
I am absolutely LOVING this mix. Willy Joy is a MPLS-to-Chicago transplant playing basically all the stuff that we here at Mashit hold dear. The tracklist is absolutely nuts on this one—some seriously clever curveballs thrown in the mix and recontextualized in some fascinating ways. Here’s the audio, then the tracklist. (ps: thanks to Mireya Acierto for the photo.)
Refusenik was one of my favorite DJs in Boston. It was always a blast when he’d come out to rock Beat Research — which is in fact where he played his first club gig ever a couple years back. I was sad when he left to go live in Buenos Ares, Argentina but it looks like he’s been continuing to hone his immense party-rokin’ skillz. This eclectic mix of booty-moving beats is proof. It includes some of the cumbia tracks which are apparently all the rage down there these days, mixed with club, grime, dancehall, hiphop, mashup, ’80s-dance, baile, juke, dubstep, bhangra, and of course a bunch of less-classifiable stuff like that Santogold/Switch stuff, and the Julee Cruise/Elvis mashup at the end. In other words, get this mix now!
Starkey recently dropped an exclusive DJ mix for XLR8R Magazine’s podcast series. It’s chock full o’ new and exciting sonic-flavor-crystals, and includes my remix of Ghislain Poirier’s Blazin‘. The Stark-bot then went on to create his own remix of Blazin‘ which I’ll share with you now:
I started out last week’s journey to my old stomping grounds, partying with my peeps at the Beat Research halloween party where Flack, Wayne, and DJ RNDM threw down hard. RNDM did a VJ set using the Ms. Pinky vinyl DJ system to do live music-video mashups. If you’re having any trouble visualizing what I mean, you’re in luck. Robotkid was in the house documenting the festivities (Flickr pics), and now RNDM’s entire set is immortalized:
RNDM and Robotkid also happen to work at Harmonix, the company that designed the popular Guitar Hero video game, and is about to unleash its latest creation, Rock Band. Robotkid was kind enough to invite me over to Harmonix headquarters so I could get a sneak-preview of the game before it’s released on Txgving day. And man, was it fun! I’m really not much of a gamer, and have never played Guitar Hero but I’ve heard a lot of hype so I was excited to see what this is all about.
For those of you in the Chi, I encourage you to come out to Funky Buddha Lounge tonight to peep me, Zebo, & Flufftronix @ Outdanced! This is by far the most happening Tuesday weekly in town, and is definitely worth checking in on. Funky Buddha is at intersection of Grand, Halsted, & Milwaukee. See you there!
Our friend Starkey of the Trouble & Bass camp etc. just gave us the heads up that BD1982’s The Bigfoot EP will be dropping next week on the Seclusiasis label.
The EP is 6 tracks of oblong, texture-rich beats that reference hip-hop, dubstep, and dancehall among other things. Here’s a taste:
DJ One Duran of the 1200 Problems crew in Chapel Hill/Carrboro, North Carolina runs a radio show there called New Science Experiment. I’ve been meaning to point you toward this interview he did with me for their blog where we talk about heedlessness (one of my favorite words), among other things.
In the meantime he made this tasty new mix-up especially for the Mashit massive. It’s quite an up-to-the-moment mix of bass-quakers that’ll make you get crunk:
Here’s another mix! It’s mainly ’80s Italo- & Montreal disco, hi-NRG, & synth pop, with a lot of super-duper-exclusive re-edits that you’ll never ever hear anywhere else (unless you come see me play out). No grand overarching theme like the New Beat mix; just a lot of tracks I like strung together.
TimeOut Chi: "At the crossroads of the genre-blending, digital-remix and bouncing-bass-obsessed international DJ scene" http://bit.ly/tocTwitter ->4 hours ago
original rave sound. Durring the late ’80s, urban sounds from U.S. cities like New York, Chicago, and Detroit invaded the UK and quickly became more popular than they had been in their home towns. Rave parties filled up with thousands of dance-hungry youth listening to acid-house, techno, and hip-hop. Before long british producers began to meld those genres into the new sound known as hardcore, breakbeat-hardcore, or simply rave.
Dev/Null is a devoted collector of vinyl documenting the early ’90s UK-rave sounds that went on to become jungle/drum ‘n bass, and eventually morphed into speed-garrage, 2-step, grime, dubstep, etc. Last year he dropped an oldskool-rave set at a Beat Research party and this mix is the result.
Get ready for a barrage of DJ Mixes from the Mashit camp over the next few days. We’ve got an old-school-rave mix from Dev Null, an all-over-the-place dance-party mix from Brazil’s DJ Kowalski, and we’ll be co-releaseing a 2 part mix by Kid Kameleon: The mighty 
I am absolutely LOVING this mix. 
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For those of you in the Chi, I encourage you to come out to Funky Buddha Lounge tonight to peep me, Zebo, & Flufftronix @ Outdanced! This is by far the most happening Tuesday weekly in town, and is definitely worth checking in on. Funky Buddha is at intersection of Grand, Halsted, & Milwaukee. See you there!
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