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Limited edition (only 500 copies press up Worldwide) double-LP release in deluxe packing with poster of the 3rd album by French beatmaker Guts, a well known artist on the Hip Hop/beatmaker scene. His first solo album 'La Bienheureux' was released in 2007 on Wax On Records, the label of Nightmares On Wax. 'Paradise for All' features 11 finely crafted tracks drawing on a wide selection of sounds and styles including hip-hop, soul, electronica and boogie and features artwork by urban artist Mambo.

Illum Sphere employs a stellar cast from some the most prescient producers working today to remix a selection of his previously released material.

Joker has been riding a rocket propelled trajectory with an exponential rise in popularity since he first caught the attention of underground DJs and bloggers alike, back in 2007. Signed to major player 4AD for his debut LP 'The Vision', dropping late last year Joker has won the hearts and minds of both respected underground players and pop-loving youth alike. Here he returns to his home imprint for a rare excursion away from 4AD with the monstrous, infectious fresh cut rhythm that is our lead track 'Skitta'. You know it must be a big lead if when you flip for the AA side and find the almighty Newham Generals featuring in secondary place! 'I Think You Should Know' sees Footsie and D Double roll out a shoulder popping beat in fine style while fans of all things instrumental can also enjoy an extended instrumental version of the same track. Huge release all round.

The second bomb being dropped by Renegade Masters is a sweet grower that pays homage to peasants rights all over the world and the inevitable rise of the bullied poor. The A side track is a hiphop influenced reggae soiree which leans into the chanting sing-along excursion of early '90s pop with a laid back vocal from Soom T injected with intense dramatic inflections. Not a standard piece of reggae by any means, the smooth production by Australia's Combat Wombat Monkey Marc makes for a dance-able chiller providing the driving force needed to hold up Soom T's extreme voicings, as well as making an adequate vehicle for MCs to ride the riddim on the B Side version.

Blame is one of the most creative producers on the drum & bass scene, an accolade hard won over years of consistently breaking musical boundaries in an attempt to bring true innovation to the music that he loves. Having hits with Music Takes You and Planet Neptune on the massively respected Moving Shadow label. Joining king of liquid drum and bass LTJ Bukem's Good Looking Records, Blame mixed the 2nd Logical Progression compilation series to great acclaim and globally toured with LTJ Bukem. Setting up own label 720 Degrees, Blame has also released on the mighty Hospital Records, Metalheadz and Charge Recordings.

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.

This new record from DJ Absurd on Kiosk Records imprint sets new musical landscapes for the Parisian producer.

More used to dancefloor tear-out anthems than soundtracks for meditation , he delivers there a very deep record bringing back the memories of his uk garage background.

Both tracks on this EP have enough sub bass to make the ground shake even if listened to on laptop speakers ! skanky drum patterns & dubby chords ride on a gigantic bass worm making its way from your feet to your brain in a second.

2 tracks from the MC that brought you 'Lidl' and was guest vocalist on MIA's Paper Planes remix that went into the US Top 5. He's been around the world, finished his degree, guested on DJ Shadow's 'I'm Excited' and is getting ready to break out properly on his own. This is a taster for his mini album that is coming very soon, two tracks that take him in two very different directions. Kunta Kinte is a classic slice of funky, South African inspired house/ garage. With a strong lyrical message AB takes it back to the time when MC's had something to say other than how fly they were (not that he isn't and he will do some of those). Produced by Dan Anderson from Nu Sound Therapy. The tune is HOT ! Eba Eater is a quality slice of African hip hop produced by LA's Twofifteens. It bounces !

When De Niro and Y met Estel Luz, they were already working on a simple melody, as usual, using a sample (this time from an old italian song by Piero Ciampi), who nothing have to share with dubstep stuff. Gold: a smooth and catchy bassline, a sweet garage hint completed by a great vocal by Estel Luz, telling us the story of an upperclass girl that loses all of a sudden her social power and identity, walking straight towards the naked truth, her new life and new skin.
The story becomes deeper and darker with a stunning Jack Sparrow Remix.

Supported by: Pinch, Jack Sparrow, J:Kenzo, Youngsta, Bratski Krug, Epitome, Nhertz, Dropfellas, Dj Foster, NumaCrew and many more.

Rinse Presents: Royal-T 12" Number One' marks the Rinse debut of Southampton native Mark Taylor, aka Royal-T.
*As part of a wave of newer producers devoting their attention to the art of the grime instrumental, the last eighteen months have found Taylor's sound making bold leaps into the future. A regular fixture on Rinse FM's weekly Butterz show, and a prominent feature of Elijah & Skilliam's explosive recent Rinse:17 mix CD (including a remix for Wiley, and a production on P Money & Blacks 'Boo You'), Taylor's production style melds the raw, rapid-fire energy of grime to the infectious flex of classic two-step. All wrapped in great, blocky hunks of melody and fragmented MC chatter, Royal-T tracks are immediately distinctive.

Hello, world: Rusko kindly requests that you wake the fuck up.

1. Intro - Year 3000 2. Somebody To Love 3. Pressure 4. Skanker 5. Love No More 6. Opium 7. Dirty Sexy
8. Be Free 9. Thunder 10. Roll Da Beats (Old School Edition) 11. Kek More Green 12. Asda Car Park 13. Whistle Crew 14. M357

Grime's new superstar producer PREDITAH is back with his newest and biggest instrumental release yet!

We love this record; it really puts the Dub in Dubstep. Their first three releases have sold out and this has been doing well on promo which shows there is a real market out there for this style which really goes back to the early beginnings of how Dubstep came about.

very little is known about the LDN poltergeist known as Alby Daniels. He's a voice, a bedroom beat-machine with a tomorrow-ist take on soul music.

Terror Danjah's first Hyperdub single of 2011 is an amazing coup, pulling out of the archive a near-perfect collaboration with singer Meleka, where Terror tempers his grimey production, veering uncharacteristically towards featherlight lushness, while lacing Meleka's sensuous, pitched melisma with a deceptively vicious sub. Terror's crisp, asymmetric bed of stuttering drums remind us of a time gone by when Timbaland's falter-funk R&B rhythm programming was an inspiration. 'Morph 2' featuring D.O.K. is the yang to 'U Make Me Feel's yin, drawing gruff, serious strings through hall of mirrors micro-edits, dragging the riff backwards, punctuating it with gremlin chuckles and 'woo's and running the pattern against a tense bleepy melody. It's a dark and vertiginous rush with all the anger of Grime at it's ferocious peak.

New single to be taken from Shadow's The Less You Know the Better album, released as an EP including remixes by Silkie, Kev Willow and Calyx & Tee Bee Remix)

Audio Phreaks are proud to present an astonishing new EP from their exciting new signing, Diesel! Diesel has been locked away in the Studio perfecting his sound to a very high production level and you can instantly hear this boy has been putting in the hours since his earlier recordings. His productions are just insane and are certainly not for those who are looking out for an easy listen. Basslines and beats collide with some very imaginative arrangements that make up a truly unique and distinct sound that only can be associated with the rising young talent that is Diesel. 'Chew Your Brains' Featuring scratching from Captain Crunch is a 100BPM roller with more wobble than a jelly on a train!  Then Durty Phresh (Formally Mr Vermin) is on remix duties and gives it a 140BPM twist that is sounding very fresh indeedy! It's got that Thugstep swagger that Durty Phesh executes so well and gives the tune a totally different flavour. 'Play that Funky Bassline' is a new style of Dubstep that seems to be flying around at the moment that infuses Dubstep with some Funky flavours of the past. 'Make the beat Bite' is the last track on this incredible EP that features Brotherhood of Filth and MC Maksim. Another 100BPM recording with a proper edgy, Grimy influence that is immaculately produced.

Mind Over Matter is the debut album release from UK producer Greymatter. "We Are One / Waqtch This" are the last ever tracks to feature production from the legendary Domu, he wasn't exactly asing in to his recent early retirement! "Watch This" is definitely one for the steppers; it builds like an itch with an insistent, broken, and bashy vibe, forged in the fires of West London dance floors. We Are One is much darker with minimal beginnings and driving drums, falling away to reveal a deep, pulsing dubstep

burner.

Changing it up "Eu Fumo" features Brazilian funk carioca artist Deize Tigrona, known for her work with the likes of Buraka Som Systema, and whose hit song "Injecao" has been widely sampled by the great and good. Unsurprisingly receiving support already from Sinden (Kiss 100), this tune is a dance floor sure shot, with the kind of jump up vibes and stabbing horns that seem so delightfully inappropriate on a gloomy day in London.

Mind Over Matter is a testament to Greymatters' diversity as a producer, who describes his debut effort as being "a big jumble of energies... with balls". Inspired by years of international DJing and crate digging for everything from UK garage to Jazz fusion, jungle raves and Human League gigs - this album was made for people who love to dance in the dark. Watch out for the digital single releases featuring a set of remixes from an all-star line up including Illum Sphere, Klic, TRG, and Karizma.

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.

Confidently standing on the frontline of UK underground producers, Teddy Music has vowed to unleash even more musical havoc on the grime scene in 20

Raf Daddy and Joe Goddard are hurling everything into their picnic hamper with carnival vibes, whistles, warehouse boom and bassline swoon' - CLASH. 'Upbeat, personatity-filled electronica, that bodes well for their future long player' - STOOL PIGEON.

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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.

Evan Chandler aka Slynk has had music on the mind from birth. Naturally gifted with a musical ear he flirted with a range of classical instruments including piano, guitar and drum. It soon became apparent that his ear was best suited to his own style of funk breaks inspired bootlegs and remixes. Slynks first Artists EP for Ghetto Funk has already been getting support from some of the scenes biggest players like A.Skillz and his track Boomin even appeared on Krafty Kuts most recent promo mix.

Former Mattafix frontman Marlon Roudette will commence his solo career with the October 24th release of his debut EP 'Riding Home' on Warner Bros. Records.

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What an insane track! This is the kind of ear-gasmic production you would expect from SKiSM and Flux Pavillion, with mad bars from the Foreign Beggars. We have been waiting for a new Flux Pavillion release for a while, and perhaps the December release of this track signifies the release of other material from Flux Pavillion, maybe even collaborating with SKiSM.

After few months of silence we are back with a new massive 12'. This time it's Jacky Murda and Max Powa, a duo from Barcelona that goes by the name of JingBong Ting. After many years on the jungle scene, in 2006 Jacky started the Little Island project, collaborating in Brighton and Barcelona with UK producer Kion on dubby, deep, rootsy material. Tunes by Kion & Murda started to get rotation in crucial UK dances like DMZ, >>FWD , and SuperDubPressure with djs like Mala, Rusko, Tes La Rok, Joe Nice, Nick Argon, BunZer0, Noah D, Daddy G, N-Type and Itchy Robot picking up on the Little Island sound. 2009 also marked the creation of the 'JingBong Ting', a live act comprised of Jacky Murda and Max Powa. JingBong Ting's first release dropped in 2010 on WAR records, and the second release , complete with video, 'Sundown' featuring Top Cat in May 2011. On the Flip you can find a heavy Ragga-Jungle remix by HoT a DJ and Producerliving in Tula, Russia. In 2009 his remix of - Policeman and Soldiers' appeared on the famous jungle label JungleXpeditions. Today HoT continues to push his sound to the worldwide ragga-jungle massive.

'Look to the east for the coming of a black king.'Having smashed dancehalls and festivals throughout Europe over the last 7 years, Trojan Sound System have returned to the studio following their critically acclaimed debut album on Trojan records, 'New Rebel Stories'. The songs evolved on classic Reggae anthems in a live sound system context and are now being translated into studio tracks. Debuted at Outlook festival's main stage a few weeks ago, it destroyed thousands of reggae, dubstep and jungle heads.Trojan Sound System is the performance unit of legendary reggae label Trojan Records. The Sound comprises Daddy Ad, Earl Gateshead, Superfour, Chucky Banton and Jah Buck, all top performers on the London and European sound system scene. They perform at festivals and reggae events all over the world and have crossed over into Dubstep, Drum and Bass, Hip Hop and Dance music clubs and festivals. Recent main stage slots include Camp Bestival, The Garden Festival, Soundwave festival, Reggae Sun Ska and Outlook festival amongst many others. Last year they also sold out two shows at London's Koko, a serious feat and a benchmark in this authentic reggae sound's fanbase and potential and return to Koko on October 15th. They are also playing an in-store at London's Rough Trade East in late September. 'Turn to the East' was written by Superfour, TSS's energetic and blind vocalist with conscious lyrics and a passionate delivery. The heartfelt chorus is sung by Chucky Banton. The title is inspired by the biblical reference 'Look to the east for the coming of a black king' and celebrates numerous black aspirations. Musically, it uses contemporary forms to produce the feel of an '80s roots 12' with overpowering bass driving it throughout. Two times DMC champ and Beardyman collaborator, JFB, unleashes a relentless dubstep remix of the track on the B side. There are a string of single releases in the run up to the album on TSS records limited edition white label with more from Toddla T, Jerry Dammers and many more at the production helm with Earl Gateshead and Daddy Ad.

Limited to 400 copies

Previously only available as a download, this super-limited white label collects a number of instrumental versions from Joker's debut album which came out earlier in the year.

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