I’m really really really feeling this label lately. They’re a dubstep label run out of the Anthem Records shop in Portland, and their stuff is just SICK (not to mention their sleeve design–BEAUTIFUL!)
Seriously–they’re effing GORGEOUS sleeves–hand-printed label logo on a jacket cut from the kind of brown kraft paper that we all know and love from the bags they give you at the record shop (or the comic book shop, liquor store, porn palace…but I know them from the record store).
Anyway, LoDubs has released tunes from perennial Mashit favorite Starkey, South3rn, 6Blocc (aka L.A. jungle producer R.A.W.), and Bombaman (including a super-hot Bombaman remix of Solvent), and have an INTENSE list of slated releases for the near future: Mashit fave Pacheko, DZ (including a DZ Morcheeba remix), South3rn’s absolutely MASSIVE and super-sought-after “Fully Loaded” b/w “Muslim Dub”, a Nadja remix by Vex’d, and a 2CD mix by 6Blocc. Check out their site (just a myspace page at the moment, http://www.myspace.com/lodubsrecords), and have a free mixset of LoDubs tunes (old stuff and super-duper-tippy-top-secret unreleased dub plate business) courtesy of Jon @ Anthem:
Ghislain just dropped a blazin’ mix for Pitchfork’s Forkcast series. In honor of the debut of album No Ground Under on Ninja Tune in the States this month, Poirier compiled a DJ mix consisting entirely of material created by himself (along with remixes). There’s a lot of stuff from his new album along-side other nuggets:
Peter Hollo from Sydney, Australia’s Utility Fogradio show recently emailed asking if we could “bring Kid Kameleon out of hiding” for a Mashit DJ Mix. Soon thereafter Kid K popped his head out and offered up not just one, but a 2-part mix, to be released jointly by Mashit and the awesome London-based culture portal, Spannered.
Here at Mashit we’re serving up the Aim High mix which is ironically full of super-LOW dubstep basslines. Meanwhile over at Spannered they’re presenting the Aim Low mix which we haven’t heard yet but can only assume has a lot of high-end frequencies going on(?).
In addition, Kid K commissioned Caracas, Venezuela’s graphic designer extraordinaire, Inkcore to design art for the 2 mixes. You can check out more of his work here and here.
The very first Mashup of the Week that I posted on this blog was a mix of 50-Cent’s I Get Money with Lexie Lee’s Woman Run It Vocal. It was a weird one. I had to pitch up Lexie’s vocals to get them to work harmonically with the beat. You can hear it tactfully mixed in to DJ Kowalski’s Tetrachave mix, and you can also still download it, and the a-capella if you feel like doing your own mix.
More recently, while working on my mix for Samurai.FM, I produced another mashup using Woman Run It, this time on the Fugee-La beat, and I’m much happier with it. Not only is Fugee-La one of my all-time favorite beats, but I didn’t have to tweak Lexie’s vocals all to hell, and you can hear her wicked lyrics much more clearly:
As I sit here there’s a Hanukkah-van (?) driving by my window with a manora on top blasting out music with a voice saying “It’s the second night of Hnukkah. bla bla bla…” I’m sure they’re having a good time in the van, but I doubt it can compete with the dance party going on inside my sound-system right now. I’m listening to the Tetrachave mix by Belo Horizonte, Brazil’s DJ Kowalsky, and my speakers are having a blast. I’m sure your’s will too.
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!
Beat Research Chicago mixes it up with Urban Geek Drinks tonight at Villain's. New DJ mix from last time up now: http://t.co/lHUvzjSjTwitter ->2012/02/01
John Tolva interview in Time Out Chicago: Beat Research, open data apps, digital economy & change @ City Hall: http://t.co/nzIhYXQdTwitter ->2012/01/22
Beat Research Chicago - That's right, folks. Experimental party music is coming to Chicago. Nearly 8 years after DJ ... http://t.co/kPLwheu0Twitter ->2012/01/04
Experimental party music descends on Chicago tonight @ Villain's. DJ C, Jesse Kriss & John Tolva; Beat Research Chicago http://t.co/bHc6eG4nTwitter ->2012/01/04
Seriously–they’re effing GORGEOUS sleeves–hand-printed label logo on a jacket cut from the kind of brown kraft paper that we all know and love from the bags they give you at the record shop (or the comic book shop, liquor store, porn palace…but I know them from the record store).
Ghislain just dropped a blazin’ mix for Pitchfork’s Forkcast series. In honor of the debut of album 
You can hear it tactfully mixed in to 
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, 
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. 
Refusenik
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