Beats Novedades

Brooklyn's funk ambassadors invite J.Bless, Captain Planet, Navagente & Juno What to pump up the volume, w/4 bin rattlers to ignite floors their own spin on the 'part gangsta, part janky' sound the Pimps have become known for

Cornelius Ferguson aka Traxman is from the west side of Chicago and one of the longest serving producers working in footwork with releases stretching back to the glory days of ghetto house on Dance Mania records in the nineties. He's also one of the co-founders of Chicago's two-decades-old Geto DJz clique and a member of DJ Rashad & DJ Spinn's Ghetto Teknitianz and was one of the creators of the legendary mixtapes on coloured cassettes which were the prototype for footwork's evolution. His unique brand of footwork is very strongly rooted in Chicago's history of soul, funk, house and ghetto trax; he's a veteran and renowned crate digger who has provided the sample sources for many of footwork's classic tracks over the years. His deep knowledge of music makes him one of the city's most versatile and skilled DJs and producers. Traxman's own productions are an incredibly well rounded suture between hip hop's natural funk and resourceful sample flipping, the hyper-kinetic innovation of footwork's stop-start, half-time-to-double-speed drum programming and a deep respect and understanding of Chicago's house music past that few producers can match; 'Da Mind Of Traxman' is a testament to this man's skills. 'Footworking On Air' starts the album in a relaxed and almost improvised mood with Kalimba melody, 303 acid line and martial drums. Then 'Itz Crack' puts strangely edited samples against echoey vocals and off kilter kicks to give the track a really unusual slip and slide feeling. Later, 'Let There Be Rockkkkk' takes an unusual sample source to build a track with a totally raucous rock vibe, whilst 'Rock You' simultaneously references house music's roots and a beautiful soul sample. '1988' is a tough 303 acid track with footwork drum patterns; 'Sound Filed' again tampers with house music's early rhythm tracks, bringing them up to date and speed with footwork's syncopations; while 'Work Me 2011' manages to fuse the soulfulness of deep house with the breathtaking energy of ghetto house and rave. Meanwhile, 'Lady Dro' makes good with some Mizell Brothers samples and loose congas, wrapping and looping them into a hypnotic vortex, while 'Setbacks' works a vocal and piano sample into tinkling abstraction. Traxman's skills are unmessable, you can tell from the minute the album starts that music is like breathing for him, and that the album also makes an incredible and skillful case for footwork as Chicago's very own sideways evolution through hip hop via house with a rich history of soul.

Sabo's back-on-wax w/this vinyl-only moombahton tracks from the leaders of the Afro-Latin side of this new genre. Seriously funky beats from Sabo, Dutty Artz' Chief Boima, Uproot Andy, NYC's Cousin Culo, & Peligrosa crew. Stamped white label

Vessel returns to left_blank with 3 tracks of mind bending house & techno for the labels 5th release. After inaugurating the label almost a year ago with his critically acclaimed Nylon Sunset EP, Vessel aka Sebastian Gainsborough went on to release a sold out split cassette with fellow left_blanker El Kid, and a stunning digital only set for A Future Without. As a result of this the all conquering Tri Angle Records snapped him up in early 2012 to release his debut album. This EP's title track Standard spans the length of the A-Side: 5 minutes of low-slung, smacked out death disco, comin...

The enigmatic Svetlana Industries has built up something of a reputation for talent spotting, with debut releases from Teebs, BNJMN, Nightwave and others, and this release is no exception, placing the label ahead of the pack once more. Brey is a young Londoner of Angolan origin who has already attracted attention and praise from Scratcha DVA, Bok Bok, (who's been playing his own edit of 'Double A Side...'), Brackles and others, as well as 'who is this guy' hype in Fader and FACT. He's been offered major publishing deals and free studio time and all sorts, but through all this has kept himself firmly to himself. You won't find much beyond a few mashups on his Soundcloud, and apart from an anonymous appearance on Ramadanman's legendary Fabriclive compilation under the name Die Barbie Musik Kollektiv, the 'Brasil EP' is the first public airing of his complex, catchy yet highly original, relaxed yet stealthy take on UK dance music, hybridising elements of bass, hip hop, funky house and styles upon styles beyond. 'Bengela' is a tease; a long build, a real horn section parping over ominous tribal percussion, until it drops into a ridiculous party tune, half tongue in cheek, half banger skank, offbeat but jacking. 'Juno' marks the spot where Night Slugs meets John Barry. Sharp clattering percussion, pitched syn drums and rave stabs get muddled together with jazz flute, cinematic strings, somewhere a subdued indecipherable hip hop vocal, an undercurrent of heavy studio pressure, and what's this A guitar solo Oh, okay then, bring it on, it seems to work. 'Double A Side ...' works crispy percussion and tinkling vibes, under which ploughs a heavy bass and snatches of what sound like ragga vocal, giving way to a tropical synth stabs. Again Brey teases, only fully dropping the beat three minutes in. Like 'Bengela', this is a track designed to be mixed, and to give a breath and pause to the set before dumping back into heavy tribal rhythm. Heavy DJ support for this tune already across Rinse, Fabric and elsewhere. Finally, 'Monies' featuring Vinny Radio heralds the EP's 'and now for something completely different' moment. Vinny Radio is a heavily blunted Pittsburgh rapper with one of the best flows you've never heard. 'Started off with a dollar, tried to double that but I spent it on pot'. Brey lets the rhymes breathe, just propping them with a deceptively simple loop and some vocal manipulation and bass rumble. It's an original approach to hip hop production - no boom clap here - but one that sounds totally natural.

The Dark Sky story started here on Black Acre back in the mists of 2010 with an explosive 12' that garnered fevered from press to dancefloor. Now the prodigal sons return with a batch of advanced lazer-tech dancefloor smashers with a noir edge.

Six years of tirelessly releasing forward thinking music with abandon. A continued disdain for musical boundaries and genres. Spawning a series of eminent new labels. Introducing the world to Zomby, FaltyDL, SBTRKT, James Blake and innumerable others. Managing to stay 100% independent in a sea of bankrolled labels. RAMP is 50 today.

Jameszoo is a 20 year old Dutch producer with a love for flora and fauna which he expresses in his nature-inspired music. His fascination for Brazilian music led to the descision of creating an ode to that style in a full album, and the 'Guanyin Psittacines' EP serves as an introduction on limited 10-inch containing four instrumental tunes inspired by Hermeto Pascaol, documentairies on nature, and his parrot Roberto. The recordings float somewhere in the realm between spiritual jazz and modern electronic music. Opener 'Dead Sun' is four minutes of percussion, parrots, and Wurlitzer, starting with drums and keys and slowly changing into electronic jazz-fusion until reaching a bassed-out climax. 'Brudrim' is Beefheart-influenced Rhodes infused beat punk including a tape-delay keys solo halfway through. 'Emper Hyacinths' is uptempo with an instantly noticeable Brazilian fusion influence, built on drums, shakers, keys and organic sound design. Closing track 'Slaves Mass' is an ode to Jameszoo's hero Hermeto Pascoal; beat music with elements of Gamelan, pigs, parrots and heavy drums, starting with a instrumental mash and ending with some spiritual singing and steel sounds. This EP touches on a perfect mix of spiritual nature sounds and experimental beat making.

The friendship with Jason Lanox and HENK goes way back into the early days when we started holding parties on an old shipyard in Amsterdam. From the first moment HENK was captured by the productions of Jason Lanox. HENK followed him closely and saw him grow as a person, producer and performer. The first album ''Burning Every Bridge That I Cross To Find Some Beautiful Place To Get Lost'' was the reason to finally realize the long kept ambition to start HENK recordings.

Freestyle Records is immensely proud to be the new home for one of the UK's most creative and in demand musicians, Jessica Lauren.

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A brand new mini-album from one the most charismatic figures on the Warp roster. Once again the most hip-hop mystic you will ever encounter brings us this brilliant 10 track release.

The album's downtempo strings, heartbreaking soul, reanimated hip-hop and crackling haunting vocal stylings are stitched as a running thread throughout each song like a patchwork quilt.

It's a lonely journey that will take you through the innermost thoughts of Gonjasufi's darkest hours. He recorded and mixed it on his own in his home studio surrounded by his family and the stark contrast of the Mojave desert. The end product is his outlet and realization for who he is, a way for him to feel comfortable in his own skin again.

"You can put a muzzle on me, cover my mouth, cut out my tongue but the truth will still come out" - Gonjasufi

Time to move on... I dont know about you, but I've had this strange nagging prejudice about digital labels for some time. It's obviously born out of my chronic love for vinyl and while I have nothing against wav's and mp3's as such, it's when they exist without a more credible partner release on the black stuff, that i loose interest. Of course I am aware there are many labels doing great things via the digital medium and I'm aware that I have probably missed out on some very special music as a result of my narrow minded thinking. As there is so much music about these days, I guess, in the end, some sort of selection criteria is required, certainly there seems to be one already in place. Perhaps it's worth noting also that i have a similar prejudice against laptop dj's, so getting through to me on this level is always going to be difficult.

Anyway then along came uk based Audio Parallax Records. With one hand in the edits scene and two feet in original Deep House territories, this digital label has quickly (in just over a year) signed and released a huge amount of very lovely, deep music by various players from these terrains (both heavyweight and lesser known). Lets see, the list of contributors includes Volta Cab, Mannmademusic, Cole Medina, 78 Edits, Andras Fox, Andrew Clarke, Matthew Kyle, Legendary 1979 Orchestra, Joseph Terruel, Another Project, Quiet Fish, James Johnston and Simon Weiss amongst many others. I think there are 31 ep's in all and many of them are excellent. There does seem to be a thread which loosely connects the music on offer; it's all pretty underground, quiet a lot of it is mid tempo or even slo mo, it's often atmospheric as f*ck, and it looks to be a furtive breeding ground for creative endeavors. Not having released any vinyl so far has allowed the label to move quickly and perhaps make freer choices, it hasn't however, like so many other digital labels, meant that quality is compromised.

I've meant to do several posts about the label before (thankfully they don't rely on me for their publicity), but their recent EP from Chubbie Boots (their fifth from a Melbourne based artist) has forced my hand in getting on with it. Chubbie Boots is Gavin Walsh, originally a guitar player; his musical journey from 60's and 70's Rock through Krautrock and Drone, eventually led him to left field modern electronica like Caribou and Flying Lotus. It's this journey that filters profoundly into his music and it's why the results are so individual. "The Cracks Are Starting To Show" is a strange and beguiling hybrid of Hip Hop, Indie, Cut Up Disco and Electronic Psychedelia, the opening track 'Adlerwerke' is a beautiful, sun drenched and hypnotic un-anthem (very the theme from Brokeback via some sort of Canadian electronica outfit). But then there's also the blunted boogie of the title track, a backward sliding melodic workout called 'We Don't Want No Stinkin' Wurli' (which may be impossible to really describe) and the Slo Mo slice 'n dice quickie 'How Could I Forget'. This may be the label's finest moment so far... it's an opinion... Anyway the extra good news is this looks to be coming out on vinyl quiet soon. Which is having your cake and eating it as they say... check their site for more...

The next level to big boy stardom. Moody electronic underground beats on the James Blake tip

Limited edition heavyweight 180g 12 vinyl.
Once again, another heavy release from the french upcoming label ClekClekBoom Recordings. This one is a pop/club influenced 2 tracks produced by Ministre X, the franco-brazilian deejay and co-founder of the label. A very sensual femalish EP with two lovely guest singers: Sana and Romy. The first track 'Calling Me' featuring the fresh and lovely Sana is full of delicate and suave soul vibes mixed up with sophisticated club beat. The second track 'Just To Please Ya' featuring Mademoiselle Romy., takes us to a darker side of emotions, with subtle vocals and down tempo instrumental full of slow and heavy sub-bass. This 2 track EP will take you to the sensitive side of this eclectic label. Grab it asap!

Nice Up's first release of 2012 comes from none other than the legendary Monkey Mafia aka Jon Carter. One of the DJs and producers at the heart of the Big Beat explosion of the mid '90s, Carter's musical history reaches much further back. It is of course his antics at the seminal Heavenly Social alongside fellow residents The Chemical Brothers and Fatboy Slim that Carter is perhaps best known for. Starting his recording career on Wall Of Sound, he soon decamped to Heavenly and started making dancehall influenced beats under the Monkey Mafia name. Remixes soon came flooding in and the project quickly developed into a live band with the album 'Shoot The Boss' providing a blueprint for generations to come, with its heavy dub influences, razor sharp breakbeats and a creative depth to the dance. Despite his bulging global DJ diary, becoming a pub landlord and urban fox hunting, Jon still found time to indulge his love of reggae and dancehall and has recently revived his erstwhile moniker (with many thanks to the Dub Pistols' Barry Ashworth for tempting Jon back into the studio). Featuring longtime collaborator Doug'e Reuben, 'Royal Ascot' is a dark and dirty electro-bashment banger, that has already gained a lot of love from Rob Da Bank, Mary Anne Hobbs and Eddy Temple Morris . With a bouncy reggae rework from Bristol's rising star Mr Benn on the b-side as well as an exclusive acapella and full colour picture sleeve into the bargain, every one is a winner!

AM/TM are San Francisco pro bros Anthony Mansfield and Tal M Klein.

Who's Afraid Of Monty Luke is a VERY SERIOUS song Anthony and Tal wrote about their friend Monty Luke who left San Francisco and moved to Detroit so he could live closer to his techno friends and run A&R at planet-E communications for someone named Carl Craig who AM/TM think may be related to Carl Cox because they have the same first name. It's a song about house music, or possibly this old house, and it might be a tribute to Bob Villa whose last name actually means house in Latin.

This dirty bass fatty is Mungo's most pulled-up riddim this year, and one of the most instantly catchy tunes they've ever released . With vocals recorded in Jamaica and Glasgow from undiscovered raw talent I Bogle, and UK veteran Kenny Knots, both sides are pure rotts-bass fire, augmented with extras in the shape a deliciously stripped instrumental riddim version of 'Bogle', and a finely crafted dub for 'Gimme Gimme'.

This is the second release on the King Dubbist Label and it's BAD! This is a Vocal EP with super low sub frequencies that'll shake you to your roots. This is a limited press and it puts the Dub in Dubstep.

It is easy to become a workaholic when your talent knows no limits.
Having exploded onto every tastemaker website and blog in the past 6 months with his remixes, collaborations and bandcamp EPs, Luxembourg's Victor Ferreira AKA Sun Glitters is a man with an already astonishingly adoring audience.
While this eager fanbase grows by the day - due to early and excessive support from Pitchfork, Fader Magazine and XLR8R - now is the perfect time for the production whizz to release his most satisfying and accomplished work to a much wider audience. Marrying Burial inspired vocals to Flying Lotus influenced beats wrapped up in rousing Slowdive melodies, the hazily lush 'high EP' is an entire summer season shoegazing out over 4 melodic songs.

'Bokoboko' comes from the Japanese, like the other track titles, and means 'uneven', 'hollow-sounding' - adjectives aptly describing the album's crooked, dynamic grooves as well as the many percussively resounding instruments. Friedman, recognizable more or less by the sound of the ten instrumental tracks, plays prepared oil barrels/steel drums, all kinds of wood and metal percussion, gongs, monochord, a home-made rubber-band guitar, organ, synthesizer, and electric guitar. He is sometimes joined by Hayden Chisolm (wind instruments), Joseph Suchy (guitar), Daniel Schröter (bass), as well as, making his first guest appearance, Takeshi Nishimoto, a Berlin-based Japanese musician playing the sarod, a traditional Indian string instrument.

Dubious Prey is the 1st release of 2012 on Sticks N Stones Recordings and the 2nd release from the NYC-via-Sierra Leone DJ/Producer Lamin Fofana. Lamin is an electronic musician that produces music without category out of found sounds, human voices, digital synthesisers, analogue synthesisers and drum machines. His work can be found on such labels as Dutty Artz, Grizzly and Diskotopia The vinyl version of the E.P, contains 2 original tracks and a remix of the lead single by Aramac. The E.P has been review on Xlr8r and currently been supported by WMFU FM (New York), Wifey (Déjà vu), MATT SHADETEK, Contact and a bunch of other.

Bass-wise electronic soul carved in the Various studio. The Various label's been strangely quiet this year but these tracks are a healthy sign that they're still at it.

After two years of nonstop hits and delirious responses from DJs, dancers and music heads around the world, Names You Can Trust is ready to drop its first collaborative full-length project.

Rush-released on LP following huge demand for the CD version, 'On-U Sound Presents Lee Scratch Perry Nu Sound And Version' - to give it it's full title - contains reworked, remixed and re-interpretated versions of 12 Adrian Sherwood-produced Lee Perry classics, including one extra bonus mix only available on this double vinyl pressing. Reggae legend Lee 'Scratch' Perry first began working with On-U Sound in the late 1980s. Initially working with Style Scott's Dub Syndicate rhythm section, he then collaborated with Adrian Sherwood on 'Time Boom X De Devil Dead' in 1987 and 'From The Secret Laboratory' in 1990. He would return to the label in 2008 to release 'The Mighty Upsetter' and it's companion-piece 'Dub Setter'. The tracks on this album see Lee Perry receive some of the most radical treatment his work has ever had, as his distinctive vocals bob and weave in the midst of bass, rave riddims and extreme experimentation fashioned from the imaginations of some of today's most cutting-edge, dub-influenced producers. Newly commissioned versions by Bullion, Congo Natty, Dialect & Kosine, and Adrian Sherwood make their exclusive debut appearances here, alongside productions plucked from the sought-after series of limited 12's by Kode9, Mala of Digital Mystikz, Moody Boyz, Horsepower Productions, and Pempi. All original recordings produced by Adrian Sherwood.

Necessary Mayhem producer Curtis Lynch aka Da Grynch has come up with another musical masterpiece with a new riddim named The Gorilla, probably the strongest beat the label has unleashed so far, charged with a super heavy bass line and crushing drums. The line-up of artists who have vocalled on The Gorilla reads like the who's-who of the current reggae industry, and a series of 7' plates will be issued following this 12' featuring Tarrus Riley, Franz Job, Ziggi, Omar Perry, Tippa Irie, Cali P, Mr Williamz, and Chucki Starr. For the opening EP, roots star Macka B - known for his MC deejay style - singjays on 'Our Music' with a message to his neighbour explaining why his music is so loud. On the flip, Massicker, Blackout JA & Askala Selasie join forces at the mic on the self-evident proclamation 'Proud To Be Rasta', and both cuts come armed with cone-testing dubs courtesy of Da Grynch. This four-part selection is most certainly made with the conscious-reggae bass-bin massive in mind.

Super limited vinyl only release. Greco-Roman's new signing and secret DJ team weapon ENCHANTE opens the new year with a selection of under-the-counter, R n B flavoured bootlegs. With remixes imminent for Metronomy, Azari & III and Joe Goddard, a full EP coming featuring Sampha and a release on Aramac's Sticks n Stones label, this should be a busy year for the mysterious North Londoner.Support from Toddla T, Sinden, Roska, Benji, Will Saul, Tayo to name a few.

The Dirty Dubsters team up with New York Dancehall Legend Screechy Dan and rising Reggae Star Whandah "The Dainty Queen", along with Sax-Man Anton Petelchyts of Fusion Wave to produce a big beat Reggae fused vocal track.

Redux kick off 2011 with an absolutely superb debut release from White Elephant - a super limited 10" only release of rare Balearic bliss !
White Elephant are Benjamin Smith (Smith & Mudd) and Jim Baron and Chris Todd (Crazy P), so expectations for the collaboration were more than met when they delivered this sublime cut.

On the flip, Merc supremo Mark E expertly reinterprets the stunning A Side with one of his best remixes to date, keeping the vibe or the original intact, but taking it into solid, floor-shaking beatdown house territory.

What do you need to know Something about a ground floor flat in one of Berlin's old blocks, eating eggs and spinach, listening to the Cramps radio show. ''How about we start a soundsystem post jug band pre rock n blues, dealing in some nasty rhythm and some ten
bit soul, get ourselves two cheap mics and one of them bull horns." So we did. Ladies &
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Portugals best kept secret, (mashup)-agent-man DEDY DREAD first time on Resense. We love his Brazilian safari with buddy Mr. Bird on AA, but he's really getting us with a fantastic soulful re-edit on A side. Tasty beats, respecting the original - BIG !...