VIDEO: Eglo Records on Spine TV

Link:
www.eglorecords.com

EVENT: Burnt Progress 2.1 Album Launch

The Burnt Progress presents V/A 2.1 Album launch and Xmas Celebration is this Saturday at Sosho on Tabernacle St in London.

Featuring music from artists and producers heard and developed at the heralded CDR Sessions the line up includes: Floating Points, Studio City, Guynamite & D.ablo, Joel Harrison, Paul White, Analog Jones, Mr Beatnick & Fatima, JnR SAS, Tom Trago, Oriol, Earlyman, Duchy, Blacksmile, Gawain, Bergs, Oblique, Kay Suzuki, Simbad & Titonton, Rether, Lukid, Polar Pair, Deltason, Masoul, TISTITI, Ninkisun, Twin Cities, Gerry O'Rourke and special guests Soundspecies and Cinnaman, one half of the duo behind the incredible Beat Dimensions compilations.

10-6am // £5 all night long

Facebook Event

Link:
http://burntprogress.com/

DOWNLOAD: Jackmaster - Mix For FWD>>

To put this simply... Jackmaster is playing seminal dubstep rave FWD>> alongside the line up above this Sunday; and the lovable Scot has put together a mix for the occasion.

DOWNLOAD: Jackmaster - I'm Playing At FWD>> Mix

Tracklist:

Joy Orbison - J. Doe (forthcoming Doldrums)
Shortstuff - See Ya (forthcoming Ramp?)
Cosmic Revenge - Mutations (Unreleased)
Deadboy - Ifuwantme (forthcoming Numbers)
Untold - Palamino (forthcoming Hemlock)
Headhunter - Prototype - Modeselektor Remix (forthcoming Tempa)
Moderat - Seamonkey - Untold Remix (forthcoming BPitch Control)
The Jam Experience - Feel My Love (Wesayso)
Shut Up An Dance - Epileptic - Martyn's No Strobe Remix (Shut Up And Dance)
Kavsrave - Pclart (forthcoming Numbers)
Joker - Output (Unreleased)
Venom & Damage - Deeper (forthcoming Venom & Damage)
Kavsrave - MD (forthcoming Numbers)
Kode9 & The Spaceape feat. Chacha - Time Patrol (Hyperdub)
Headhunter - Sex At The Prom (forthcoming Tempa)



Link:
www.myspace.com/iamjackmaster

DOWNLOAD: Alexander Nut - Ballers Mix

Scotland knows how to do it. Lucky Me's Ballers Social Club are entertaining Alexander Nut this Friday and so they present the interweb with this: a dope as fried fuck promotional mix from the said artist.

DOWNLOAD: Alex Nut - Ballers Mix

Tracklist:

Dizzie Rascal - Flyin' (instrumental)
Tiago - Bable Fish
Rustie - Shadow Enter
?>£>$>$>$$>$ (Floating Points remix)
Dark House - Darkhouse Mediation
Om Unit - Cradle
Dam Funk - Chocolate
Funkineven 1956 'She's Acid'
Floating Points - Peoples Potential
Karizma - Nessesary Madness
Rustie - Bad Science
Afrika Hi Tech - Blen!
Brackles - Get A Job
Brackles & Shortstuff - Sutorita Faita
Untold - Its Gonna Work Out Fine
Pearson Sound - Wad
Tempa T - Next Hype (Plastician Remix)
Joker - Retro Racer
Skepta ft Wiley - Are You Ready
Zomby - Godzilla
Shuanise - Catch

Link:
www.myspace.com/ballerssocialclub

DOWNLOAD: Floating Points fabric Mix

Floating Points aka Sam Shepherd just put together a tough mix for fabric's new blog. Including an in depth interview its one of the most revealing insights I've read about FP's music and musical lineage so far...

Enjoy.

DOWNLOAD: Floating Points fabric Mix

Tracklist:

Various Production - Lost (Actress Remix)
Falty DL - To London
Marcellus Pittman - There's Somebody Out There
Omar S - Psychotic Photosynthesis
Brothers' Vibe - Step Into It
Pangaea - Bear Witness
Martyn - Vancouver (2562's Puur Natuur Dub)

Links:
www.myspace.com/floatingpoints

INTERVIEW: Reecha [Dirty Canvas]

Ahead of Dirty Canvas' Room 3 takeover at fabric this Friday we went direct to the source with one of the night's promoters, armed with a laptop, a copy of Ga(y)rage Band and an industriously inquisitive look splashed on our mug.

What happened next needs no introduction... well, it actually does, else you might be confused, but you dig the sentiment, right? Enclosed here is an interview and a completely live mix teased out in one take by Reecha.

Sonic Router: Can you provide those who may not know you with a bit of background info?

Reccha: My name is Reecha. I co-run a night called Dirty Canvas and a label called No Hats No Hoods. We've just released our 7th record which is Tempa T's Next Hype - which has remixes by Brackles and Starkey amongst others.

Outside of music who are you? What do you do on the daily?

I am me and I make Ps

People say you’re the Asian George Clooney… Why pick the Reecha moniker when Asian George has an equally impressive ring to it?

I think that would be disrespectful to the rest of my heritage - as I am nearly as Welsh as I am Asian. However I am planning a folk gabba side project underneath the Asian George appellation. Reecha is the only nickname I had at school, whereas my likeness to the sometime Nespresso spokesman is something that occurred in later life.

What’s your involvement with Dirty Canvas?

Check question one, fool.

What can we expect from the fabric takeover?

I hope the same you can expect from any Dirty Canvas night. For me the biggest challenge is the find the balance between throwing a good party and being progressive musically. Although we have originally been more associated with grime, I like to think that our real base is garage - its all its forms and offspring - whether that's grime, funky or dubstep etc. I guess on the night that's pretty well represented by what both Brackles and Mumdance do - who both come from completely different places but manage to be great club DJs while still satisfying those who want to stand in the corner and scratch their beards (note I have a beard and have nothing against them). That for me is the most exciting thing about music right now - well the exciting thing about underground UK dance music at least - people seem to be becoming more open and being less obsessed with labels.

I think Alex Nut is a great example of that too - I pretty much listen to his Rinse show religiously and he's one of those few people who you really do trust to just bring quality whatever he's dipping into and Silkie is making really great music at the moment so I feel particularly proud of the line up.

In short, it will be amazing.



Tell us a little about the mix you’ve made for us…

Its crap.

Probably could have been tighter but there you go - its just some music I like at the moment. Its got some new stuff, but also some pretty old tunes - but I personally find it quite interesting to 'recontextualise' (i.e. pitch up +8 ) a record by placing it with something it wasn't intended to relate to. Its got on the new Martin Kemp remix he's just done for us [No Hats No Hoods] which I don't think anyone would have heard - its not intended to fully represent what Friday will be like but its just a glimpse of what I might play at least.

Can we expect any original Reecha productions at any point soon?

I used to make some fairly generic UK hip hop - but I stopped drinking tea and lost my backpack. I also wrote about 4 hours worth of punk songs about girls not liking me whenIi was in my teens so it would only be right for me to attempt to subject the world to more. I gotta sort out some shit then I'm gonna get back at it - aided by some people who are infinitely more talented than me.

You got any wisdom for the interweb you’d care to share?

You look uncannily like Gary Lucy.

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DOWNLOAD: Reecha - Sonic Router Mix



Tracklist:

1. Floating Points - J+W beat (Forthcoming Planet Mu)
2. Karizma - Groove Accordingly (R2)
3. Donaeo - Party Hard (My-Ish)
4. Kerri Chandler - Bar A Thym (Nite Grooves)
5. Royal T - 1 UP (Martin Kemp Remix) (Forthcoming No Hats No Hoods)
6. Roska - Elevated Levels (Roska Kicks and Snares)
7. MJ Cole - Funky Dub (Unreleased)
8. Menta feat Ms. Dynamite - Ramp (Bigger Beats)
9. Shortstuff and Mickey Pierce - Tripped Up (Unreleased)
10. Tempa T v Dj Oddz - Strung Up Hype (DJ Oneman Mash Up)
11. Hard House Banton – Sirens (White)
12. Tiger Flight - The Great Escape (unreleased)

Links:
www.myspace.com/reechamusic
www.myspace.com/dirtycanvas
www.myspace.com/nohatsnohoods

PRE-ORDER: Floating Points - J&W Beat/K&G Beat [Planet Mu]

Floating Points, aka Sam Shepherd, a composer and producer residing in London via Manchester, has already made an impact on the thriving beats scene after only a handful of releases on labels like Eglo Records (the label he runs alongside Alexander Nut), R2 and now Planet Mu. With a mix on Mary Ann Hobbs’ BBC Radio 1 show already under his belt, he is really making moves and when you listen to his music you can instantly hear why.

‘J&W Beat’ has some of the skippiest funky rolling garage rhythms around, which is underpinned by a seismic dancehall bass, dense melody and psychedelic bleeped out synths. ‘K&G Beat’ on the flip takes things a little deeper with the electronics and pads taking more of a prominent roll. Both tracks have a really warm soulful even jazzy feel but unlike some of Floating Points deeper house/disco style cuts, which are more grounded, this sounds like the ideas where streamed straight from outer space.

Shepherd takes slanted 2-step and hip-hop beats, smeared synths and layers of mesmerising, atmospheric electronic trickery, couples it all with some earth moving bass and aligns the product with that all important slice of soul, otherwise known as the sultry spine that runs through all his work; again proving that he definitely has one of the most exciting sounds on the underground today.

Words: James Balf
Out: 6th July 2009

Link:
www.myspace.com/floatingpoints

EVENT: Floating Points

Floating Points (Eglo/R2/Planet Mu)
Alex Chase (One Handed)
Goodhand (Stuff)
Clause Four (Jahtari)
Offshore (Stuff)

Peruvian food upstairs.
Big sound system downstairs.
Doors will be locked once it's full so arrive early...

El Aguagal
578 Kingsland Road, E8