DOWNLOAD: Bleep.com x Sonar Festival Giveaways

Bleep.com have teamed up with the minds behind Barcelona's iconic Sonar Festival to offer the world a taster of the British artists performing at this years festival, taking place between the 17th -19th June.

Cue gumpf:

"Bleep.com will be giving away 2 MP3s a week, every week for a month in the lead-up to Sonar Festival 2010. The 8 artists involved in the giveaway are Hudson Mohawke, Fuck Buttons, Broadcast, Roska, King Midas Sound, Sandwell District, 2020 Soundsystem and The Blessings.

With many of the 8 tracks being exclusive or previously not on general sale, this is a unique opportunity to have an upfront taste of the music that will be soundtracking Barcelona in June and get your hands on some rare recordings by these incredible artists."

This week, to launch the scheme, tracks from UK funky don Roska - an exclusive opportunity to grab his '124 Miles' track, unavailable elsewhere - and a 12 minute epic, 'Olympians' from Bristol noise duo Fuck Buttons are up for nabbing at the URL link below; all yours for the price of an email...

DOWNLOAD: Roska/Fuck Buttons - Bleep x Sonar Giveaways

Links:
http://bleep.com
http://2010.sonar.es/en/
www.myspace.com/rosiroska
www.myspace.com/fuckbuttons

STREAM: Roska - Sonar Mix

Roska's album Rinse presents Roska fully cemented him as one of the forefront producers of this new breed of house tempoed music dubbed UK funky after its release, what, a month or so ago now? Album cuts like 'Squark,' 'I Need Love' and 'Hey Cutie' all highlighted his knack for percussion, crazy catchy hooks and dancefloor prowess, and his own label Roska Kicks & Snares is going from strength to strength - he's releasing his first non Roska plate on the label by DJ Naughty shortly (full review to come).

Its not really a surprise then, that experimental airwave champion Mary Anne Hobbs has selected him (alongside Joy Orbison and Flying Lotus) to appear of her stage at this year's Sonar Festival in Barcelona. To mark the gig Roska has put together an exclusive mix which you can check out on Sonar's site.

STREAM: Roska - Sonar Mix

Tracklist:

Martyn & Dbridge - These Words (Roska's Speechless Mix)
Zinc - Nexx!
Roska & Jamie George - Love 2 Nite
Crazy Cousinz - Always Be My Baby
Roska - Jackpot
Deadboy - If U Want Me
Roska - Squark
Dj Naughty - Firepower
Roska Ft. Anesha - I Need Love
Laidback Luke - Step By Step (Roska Edit)
Roska & Jamie George - Wonderful Day
Zinc - Blunt Edge
Geeneus & Dynamite - Get Low (Roska Special)
Roska - Tomorrow Is Today
Bingo Players - When I Dip
Youtam Avni - Coke Bouquet
Fingaprint - It's On You
Brackles - El Gordos

Roska also gave away an unreleased remix of Hard House Banton's 'Reign' via his twitter recently. Kop that before the DL limit kicks in here:

DOWNLOAD: Hard House Banton - Reign (Roska Remix) (via Sendspace)

& finally... jump on the podcast of Roska's last Rinse.fm show which featured Untold as the super special guest.

DOWNLOAD: Roska w/ Untold - Rinse.fm Show 18.05.2010 (Direct link)

Link:
www.myspace.com/rosiroska

VIDEO: MAH stage @ Sonar 2009

Joker


Gaslamp Killer


Martyn

Woop.

Link:
www.youtube.com/user/maryannehobbstv

VIDEO: Mary Anne Hobbs @ Sonar 2009

The first of many Sonar videos that will get posted here no doubt.

MAH's stage was a unanimous highlight with her, Joker, GLK and Martyn ab-so-lutely murking it for 8000 sweaty Sonar goers.

Link:
www.youtube.com/user/maryannehobbstv

VIDEO: MAH - Sonar 2009

If any of ya'll are going to Sonar, holler.

Links:
www.sonar.es