DOWNLOAD: LHF - Pipedown Mix

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Followers of Blackdown's blog will no doubt be up on the LHF crew - comprised of Amen Ra, Double Helix, No Fixed Abode, Escobar Seasons, Low Density Matter, Octaviour and Solar Man. In the Keysound Recordings boss' own word their music sounds like "Sun Ra's hijacked Rinse FM and is using it to communicate with the heavens."

High praise indeed, and to demonstrate they're handling the latest Pipedown mix (100% comprised of the crew's productions) ahead of the Keysound Label's showcase - featuring sets from Dusk & Blackdown, LHF, Kowton and Pipedown residents - at Rhythm Factory in London next week.

DOWNLOAD: LHF - Pipedown Mix (Right Click/Save As)



Tracklist:

No Fixed Abode – Sirius Nanotech
Double Helix – TSR-1
Low Density Matter – Blue Steel (Forthcoming Keysound)
Double Helix – Shadows of the City
Amen Ra – Song For Auset (feat. Double Helix and No Fixed Abode)
No Fixed Abode – Indian Street Slang
Double Helix – An Eastern Philosophy
Amen Ra- Fragments Of A Love Story
Amen Ra – Final Chapter
Catta – Fourth Motion (Double Helix Remix) (Forthcoming Dubsquare)
Amen Ra – Unbroken Chain
Double Helix – The Chains
No Fixed Abode – Strangelands
Amen Ra – One Way Ticket

DOWNLOAD: Bruk - Hessle Audio Promo Mix

The Bruk DJs, Elgato and Bilal, just linked up a mix ahead of their appearance at fabric for the 4th Hessle Audio takeover which features Ikonika, Ramadanman, Pangaea and Ben UFO - names you'll be no doubt familiar with if you've glanced our way over the past year.

Catch Bruk on Sub.fm - they've taken over the old Ruffage slot on Thursdays between 8-10pm.

DOWNLOAD: Bruk - Hessle Audio Promo Mix



Tracklist:

The West District Allstars feat. Natasha Watts - Reach Up (Enzyme Black Stripped Dub)
Kid Majesty - Desfile De Los Santos
Tadow Productions - Rising Sun
Stephanie Mills - Free (Domu Stripped Down Remix)
Sony - Sugar Rush
DVA - Nasty Nasty Nasty (Roska Remix)
Xara - You Got Me
Crazy Cousinz - Sonar
Tonya Renee - About You (Karizma Boucha Remix)
DJ 2face - I Love You
Plastic Cash - Store Card
Ultramarine - Hooter (Carl Craig / Ver. 1.1)
Karizma - Necessary Madness
Argy - The Storm
Thommy Davis - Mars Needs Women

Links:
www.hessleaudio.com
www.fabriclondon.com

PRE-ORDER: Subeena - Picture/Spectrums [Opit]

London based Subeena is another one of those producers that floats between the margins of several genres, seemingly taking delight in confounding any simplistic attempt to categorise her music. Ostensibly connected to dubstep, in so far as its skeletal percussive framework and focus on low-end motion were touchstones, her recent Planet Mu release ‘Solidify’ was essentially a standalone creature. Its strongly defined song narrative and gauzy synth melodies, along with Om’Mas Keith and Jamie Woon’s honeyed vocals, brought the final result closer to a kind of slo-mo electronic soul. She follows a similar path on the follow-up for Opit, but the pace has been upped considerably, tracing similar lines to the cosmic house and garage vibes of her similarly minded contemporaries on the Eglo label, Floating Points and Alexander Nut.

In fact, ‘Picture’ sounds a little like the cousin of Floating Points’ mercurial ‘Vacuum Boogie,’ built around thick, blocky chords and heavily filtered backing ambience that weaves in and out of a hypnotic percussive figure. The London connection is evident once again, in the track’s bubbling sub-bass and the spacious nature of its house-tinted rhythm, but it’s the pulse of London’s pirates shot into orbit with a headful of Lindstrom’s space disco. If anything, ‘Spectrums’ stretches even further from earth, its constantly shifting dynamics and eddies of reverb tapping into some otherworldly, pleasantly dissociated headspace.

Although driven by the ebb and flow of dance music, and with more than a little deep house in their genetic code, it’s hard not to feel that a little of these tracks’ charm would be lost in the mix. A little like most of Floating Points’ recent material, Subeena‘s productions are so defiantly musical that not to listen to them in their entirety would do her a disservice – further evidence that there’s far more churning in the melting-pot of London’s ever-shifting bass scene than simple floor-filling fodder. Space is the place, man.

Words: Rory Gibb
Out: "still not sure when it's out exactly but should be very soon"

Link:
www.myspace.com/subeena

DOWNLOAD: Final Ruffage Session

I was gonna tap this recording on to last week's piece on this very subject but I figured it deserved its own post; it's a bitter sweet honour for me to be able to present you with the audio from the final Ruffage Session on Sub.fm.

4 hours with Ben UFO, Ramadanman and Pangaea at the helm.

DOWNLOAD: Final Ruffage Session

Tracklist after the jump - I'd post it but it is retarded long.

DOWNLOAD: The Best of Ruffage Sessions

There’s something so vital about internet radio; something about it feels a lot more hidden from the mainstream. You can’t flick across it accidentally on your FM dial as you drive, you have to be there locked into your station, frantically asking for wheel ups in the chat room by bashing your fists on the keyboard, adding a bunch of exclamation marks and then pressing enter. For me there is yet to be a more instant and personally rewarding medium.

After 3 years of helming the cult radio show, The Ruffage Sessions on the longest running original pirate internet station, Sub.fm, the core trio behind the Hessle Audio label, Ben UFO, Ramadanman and Pangaea, are calling it a day. Tomorrow night’s 4 hour special - from 8pm right through to midnight - presented by and featuring the platter merging of all 3 of them (“for the first time in ages” according to Ben UFO) will be the send off; that special present given to the loyal listeners and message board frequenters.

So, to mark the passing of a big part of the trio’s lives they’ve selected 10 of their favourite sessions - some archived on Sub FM’s cavernous recesses and others re-upped especially for this occasion – to give you a great idea of the guests they’ve had along the way along with a vital insight of the multitude of styles you can expect to hear tomorrow night.

DOWNLOAD: Ruffage Sessions 01.03.07 (via Sendspace)

This is one of the first shows we ever did... it feels like a long time ago. We were all based in Leeds at this point, so we were doing a lot more shows together.

DOWNLOAD: Ruffage Sessions – Ramadanman 05.07.07 (Right Click/Save As)

Another early show... Ramadanman was buying house and techno long before we started doing this, and this is the first time he showcased that.

DOWNLOAD: Ruffage Sessions – Pangaea 31.01.08(Right Click/Save As)

Pangaea's first and only solo show, starting out with a Derek and Clive sketch and moving through a lot of different sounds.

DOWNLOAD: Ruffage Sessions – Ramadanman 23.04.08 (via Divshare)

A solo Ramadanman show, 100% vinyl from early 2008. Broadcast from Dorset with the trusty headphone mic.

DOWNLOAD: Ruffage Sessions feat. Appleblim – 29.05.08 (Right Click/Save As)

This was at the point when there was more hype around techno oriented dubstep than there'd ever been. At the same time there was a lot of music coming out of the house and techno scenes that sounded really exciting, and was unfamiliar to us. This show’s a good document of that.

DOWNLOAD: Ruffage Sessions feat. Bok Bok – 20.11.08 (Right Click/Save As)

Ben: One of the hypest and most enjoyable show’s I’ve done. A lot of fun was had piecing together house music from all over the place and trying to keep everything from falling apart.

DOWNLOAD: Ruffage Sessions– Ben UFO Jungle Show 01.01.09 (via Megaupload)

Recorded on New Years Day 2009. Although it's predominantly dark, mid-90s stuff I get quite a blissful vibe from it.

DOWNLOAD: Ruffage Sessions Second Birthday Pt. 1 – Ramadanman 08.01.09 (Right Click/Save As)

The first half of our second birthday celebrations, broadcast from Lille. Ramadanman picked out some of his favourite tunes that got played regularly on the show through the two years it’d been running.

DOWNLOAD: Ruffage Sessions Second Birthday Pt. 2 feat. Oneman, Elgato, Brackles, Bok Bok, Ben UFO and Asbo – 15.01.09 (Right Click/Save As)

Ben: Some of the happiest memories of radio I have come from this show. It was a real privilege mixing with everyone all crammed into a tiny room with piles of records all over the place. We kept it going for nearly 4 hours. There are tunes in this show I've not heard since.

DOWNLOAD: Ruffage Sessions – Ben UFO 09.04.09 (Right Click/Save As)

One of the first Ruffage Sessions focusing on a transition from lower tempo house through garage ending up at 140bpm.

Catch the last ever Ruffage Session on Sub.fm tomorrow night from 8pm. Oh and look out for Pangaea's double pack EP dropping on Hessle Audio imminently, 'Why?' is the one...

Links:
http://sub.fm
www.myspace.com/freshben
www.myspace.com/ramadanman
www.myspace.com/journeytopangaea