Best of the Week: 07/04/2010

When it gets loud and dirty then you need the right weapons for battle. So this week we celebrate making a racket for the dancefloor, with bass meltdowns, sonic extremities, and some damn good electronic music, right here for you to bang your head to, and rub up on ya bassbinz.

This cut from German duo Booka Shade harks back to their original blueprint; warm pads and deep tech-house rhythms, losing the substandard vocals that marred much of their ‘The Sun & the Neon Light’ LP/Booka Shade-Buffer Ruffer

When it comes to noisy bass fueled rave music, Herve has set the standard with releases on Dubsided and Cheap Thrills, and this epic new school monster is no exception, being a cut above the usual fodder associated with this sound. Available on the ‘Zombies’ EP/Herve-Hot Drum Attack

More of same, but when the same is Hot City, then bring it on. This release for Fabric displays the 2-step beats and electro bleeps we’ve become familiar with, and that you should familiarize yourself with if you haven’t already/Hot City-If That’s How I Feel

The perfect tune for those feeling a little hazy at 3am on a Saturday, Italian DJ Riva Starr is making killer tracks like this for breakfast right now, and this remix from Leeds producer Harry Benson accentuates the peak time goodness a little bit more/Riva Starr-I Was Drunk (Harry Benson remix)

Some truly bizarre warehouse rave music from Headhunter, whose dubstep has been a feature of Tempa Records and the Bristol scene for some time, this is a stunning new direction that sounds like a drugged up chipmunk let lose in a make shift studio for an allnighter/Addison Groove-Dumbshit

Bordering on the ridiculous, this gypsy sampling piece of techno mayhem from Sebastian Leger isn’t the most subtle tune, but if you need to make a big room go crazy then this is the track to do it with. Superb production and the appropriate arrangement make this a perfect party potion/Sebastian Leger-Balkanmaniac


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Best of the Week: 17/02/2010

The year of 2010 is already producing a bumper crop of great music. This week we bring you future beats from a garage and funky perspective, equally innovative grime from a Philadelphia based producer that stands out from the crowd, a veteran pop idol returning with a great track made better by an edit maestro, bass music from both sides of the Atlantic, and a pop song so magical one dose will have you feeling good for hours.

New Warp Records signing Babe Rainbow follows the revisionary path that you’d associate with the label, taking the sounds of dubstep, garage and the Aphex Twin and crafting them into something all his own/Babe Rainbow-Screwby

Banging remix from Starkey of Atlanta based rapper Gorilla Zoe. Underpinned by an amped up 808 beat, and complete with high drama synth stabs, this is the sort of production Timbaland and Dark Child used to make/Gorilla Zoe-Lost (Starkey remix)

The original of this track from the ex-Pulp singer Jarvis Cocker is on the Steve Albini produced Further Complications, but it is all about this typically clever edit from Parisian Pilooski/Jarvis Cocker-Discosong (Pilooski mix)

This is both a great return to a simpler dance floor approach from Booka Shade, and further evidence of the fantastically upfront talent that is Boy 8-Bit. Out now on Get Physical/M.A.N.D.Y. & Booka Shade-Donut (Boy 8-Bit remix)

Another shift in direction from a talented dubstep producer, this time it is TRG, who’s re-jigged sound fuses his deep harmonies with the sound of UK funky. Not unlike recent output from Untold and Ramadanman, this is out on Tempa Records/Cosmin TRG-Since Last Night

Yeasayer’s magnificent Odd Blood looks like a contender for album of the year already, and this track is an anthem of optimism already, but this subtle retouch from Alan Wilkis simply tightens up the beat a little and captures the best bits, and might be an early contender for remix of the year in its own right/Yeasayer-Ambling Alp (Alan Wilkis remix)

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