Best of the Week: 24/03/2010

Whether it glitches or grooves, distorts or harmonizes, you still gotta dance to it, and this week the selection fits just that formula. Tastings from New York, Hamburg and the UK, take in indie disco, shimmering deep house, and the new school imaginings of the British bass scene.

UK based Sully is a producer mixing pure Warp-style electronica with booming dubstep, and in the process making some seriously cool dance floor IDM, this track is out on Keysound/Sully-In Some Pattern

Underpinned by a truly unique rhythm, this excellent remix from Ramadanman builds to a blistering tribal intensity disrupted by mutated pads and bleeps, showcasing two of the dubstep scenes most consistent talents/Scuba-Tense (Ramadanman remix)

French based duo John & Jehn are a group worth checking out in their own right, but this remix from new disco darlings Mighty Mouse is something else, turning the track into a indie jam so catchy this will be stuck in your head all day long/John & Jehn-Lookin’ For You (Mighty Mouse NYC Sensations remix)

Hamburger Tensnake is another disco/house producer set for a huge 2010 on the back of some incredible productions. This subtle but effective cut is from his recent EP on Permanent Vacation/Tensnake-Coma Cat

Prolific yet nothing less than incredibly consistent, New Yorker Falty DL always makes a mash up of rave samples, dubstep rhythms, clicks and feedback, into something more than the sum of its parts. This is from his All In The Place EP out now on Rush Hour/Falty DL-St. Marks


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Best of the Week: 24/02/2010

Everything is relative when it comes to music, whether it be slinky dubbed out garage from the UK, or a mix of minimal techno and deep electro pop, even the squelch and beat trickery of another new beat phenomenon, and let us not forget the return of an old master and storyteller returning to the top of his game.

If you haven’t been seduced by the innovative funky, meets dubstep music of Ramadanman yet, then this fine rework is a great place to start. Tribal without the bad samples, this is perfect for the creative DJ/James Fox-Put it Back (Ramadanman refix)

Great remix of this track which came out on Mad Decent last year. This is rave music with better production than in the heyday, and on a big sound system anything by L-VIS 1990 generally does the business/L-VIS 1990-United Groove (Kingdom remix)

Another outstanding release from the ever consistent Planet Mu, this cut is available on the Ultra Heat Treated EP, far better than any of Slugabed’s bootleg remixes; this is the sort of quality you’d expect from Joker or Rustie/Slugabed-Titans

Taken from the stunning Black Noise LP, this is minimal techno that transcends that genre much like Matthew Dear, and becomes the most glorious blend of haunting textures, sculpted beats, and indie rhythms/Pantha du Prince-Stick to My Side

You should all have I’m New Here, Gil Scott-Heron’s brilliant comeback album, by now. If not here is a dark piece of poetic genius about the virtues of losing sleep/Gil Scott-Heron-Where Did the Night Go

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