MPOD 031 offers a glimpse into the future with tracks from the forthcoming Justice & Metro Oxymoron LP, a Justice soundscape refix of Dubmonger, as well as limited 10 inch business from Felix K on Blueberry, new beats from Muted, fresh promos and some Nostalgic Futurisms.
Critical Music & Ivy Lab present to you the first installment of the Ivy Cast 001 90 mins of ‘beats a plenty’ varying from Hip-Hop to drum & bass.
Track list:
//Hiphop
Riff Raff - Bird On A Wire (Instrumental)
Flatbush Zombies - S.C.O.S.A
Schoolboy Q - Sexting
Ab Soul - Control System
The Underachievers - Herb Shuttles
Lunice - Juice
FootwoRk - Break yo Back
Boeboe - Low Key (G Jones Remix)
Great Dane - Oh
Crime Mob - Rock Yo Hips (DJ Wonder Remix)
Al Ripken Jr - Everything i Got Now
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Riggle Beats - City Life
Lapti - Leaving Home
SelfSays - Charlie Kaufman
Eric Lau - Love Again
Ge-ology - Diurnal Insomnia
//Drum & Bass
Stray - L.A. Zoom
Stray & Halogenix - Poison (Fracture's Astrophonica Remix)
Charli XCX - You're The One (Dub Phizix Remix)
Enei - Machines VIP
Digital & Spirit - Phantom Force (Fracture's Astrophonica Remix)
Break - So True VIP
Mark System - Optix
Cause4Concern - Low Life
Konichi - Helense Subtle VIP
Locust Lung & Bringa - Hyperfunctional
Mefjus & Kasra - Cypher
Cern - Hollow Moon
Nickbee - Flow Away
Zero T ft. Riya - Truth Hurts
Bungle - Astral Travel
Ivy Lab - Oblique (Ft. Frank Carter III)
Fade - Look Deeper
Forren ft. Sam Wills - This Time
Judda - Pressure Plate VIP
Lenzman - Broken Dreams (Makoto Remix)
Ivy Lab & Hydro - Make It Clear (Ft. Frank Carter III & Lucy Annika)
Enei - Running (Foreign Concept Remix)
Ivy Lab - After Thought (Ft. Frank Carter III)
Goldie - Single Petal Of A Rose
Episode 55 - melodies based on swathes of enveloping hi-tech atmospheres and deep sub basses. All class and mournful, this is a flip side to our regular drum 'n' bass transmissions. Hope you like it as much as we do. Subscribe to the Subvert Sessions podcast via iTunes:
Track list:
01. Lung - Broken [Kokeshi]
02. Synkro - Spirals [Apollo]
03. Bulb - The Core [FREE]
04. Synkro - Disappear [Apollo]
05. eleven8 - I Fell Into A Memory [The Crescent]
06. Robots Don't Sleep - So Bad (Synkro Vocal Mix) [Four Music]
07. Lung - Afterlife (Kryptic Minds Remix) [Kokeshi]
08. Sam KDC - Back Where I Met You [Official FM]
09. Synkro - Recognition [Apollo]
10. ASC and Ulrich Schnauss - 77 [Auxiliary]
11. Beaumont Hannant - Woven Textures [GPR]
12. Bulb - They're Losing Themselves While I'm Fading [FREE]
13. Depeche Mode - Agent Orange [Mute]
14. Biome - Conscience [Mindset]
It's the return of Symmetry... Break has done a VIP of "Love So True" and roped in Enei on the flip with a remix of "Watch out" by Eastcolours. Offering a precise balance of man machine propulsion and soulfulness, both tracks are precision tooled and polished slices of drum 'n' bass, primed for the dance floor yet not out of place on your iPod playlist. Check out the samples to see what we mean, then get it from your usual music outlets when it comes out on March 4 2013.
To celebrate the release of 'Synth City' b/w 'Midnight Love' by Dimension, Cyantific Music is offering a VERY special Box Set. One of only 25 ever made HAND PRINTED pizza box includes:
* A Signed 12" of Synth City
* A never to be re-pressed, hand screen printed Synth City T Shirt (Size M only)
* Cyantific Music Stickers
* Laboratory Pin Badges
* A complimentary MP3 of the single which will be sent to an email provided with your purchase on Monday 4th Feb 2013
Episode 54 is inspired by all things deep and romantic. Cue new music from ASC, Bungle and more - exponents of the more atmospheric side of the 170BPM genre. This is is drum & bass, but not as you know it. Take a listen.
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Track list:
01. ASC and Ulrich Schnauss - Pyramids [Auxiliary]
02. ASC - Solarcoaster [Self-released]
03. Tobax - Blow [Respect Russia]
04. Bungle - Astral Travel [Soul:R]
05. Microfunk Crew - Fluctuation [Hospital]
06. Seathasky - Enough [Offworld]
07. Dee Flack - Summer Rain [Offworld]
08. Silence Groove - Underwater Smile [Offworld]
09. Robot Redford - 86 [Offworld]
10. Sam KDC featuring ASC - All Roads Lead Somewhere [Veil]
11. Atmospherix - Heavy Feet [IM:LTD]
12. Kantyze - Tough Breaker [IM:LTD]
13. ASC - Low Down [Self-released]
14. dBridge - Detuned Heart [Autonomic]
15. LM1 - Different Shores [Offworld]
16. Deeper Connection - Hold Me Down (Stunna Remix) [Rotation Deep]
17. ASC and Method One - Deadlock [FREE]
18. Mortem - Praxis [Translation]
19. Notion and Sam KDC - Binding Line [Clear Conceptions]
20. Phil Tangent - Restitution [Soul:R]
21. Nuage - Before I Breathe [Translation]
22. ASC and Ulrich Schnauss - Moire Pattern [Auxiliary]
23. Synkro - Mountains [FREE]
24. Cocteau Twins - Fifty-Fifty Clown [4AD]
The long awaited Seba album Identity drops on Mar 4 2013. The sampler - released in December 2012 - turned a lot of heads, this one ups the ante and is set to be one of the best electronic albums of the year. Take a listen and see what we mean.
Although XLR8R covers many different corners of the electronic spectrum, it's fair to say that we've haven't been paying a whole lot of attention to drum & bass as of late. That being said, we still have a soft spot for the genre's heyday, and it appears we're not alone. Ulrich Schnauss may be best known for the serene, shoegaze-flavored electronic soundscapes he's been turning out for more than a decade, but when we asked the German veteran to participate in our podcast series, he elected to eschew his signature style and instead delve into his past. The result? A 78-minute offering he's calling Drift to the Centre: Deep Atmospheric DnB from the Golden Age, a mix which also happens to represent the largest spotlight XLR8R has shone on drum & bass in quite some time. In fairness, before Schnauss began releasing music under his own name in the early '00s and cooking up melody-rich pieces of pastoral electronic pop, he was crafting ambient drum & bass as Ethereal 77 and View to the Future, making this podcast a sort of return to his roots. It's a bit of an unexpected left turn, but given that his new album, A Long Way to Fall, is arguably Schnauss' most varied effort to date, it seems that the producer has perhaps reached a point where he's looking to surprise people.
As its ornate title suggests, the podcast is full of mid-'90s classics; it's a celebration of the pre-techstep era, a time when drum & bass world—or at least a sizable portion of it—celebrated deep, soulful grooves and rolling jazz rhythms. It may not sound like Schnauss' modern-day output, but its chilled vibes and relaxing effect are certainly similar.
Track list:
01 Photek "T-Raenon" (Op-ART)
02 David Holmes "Gone (PFM Remix)" (Go! Discs)
03 Mental Power "Unknown Intelligence" (Formation)
04 Saint Etienne "The Sea (PFM Mix)" (Heavenly)
05 Lee & Gwange "2 Deep" (Legend)
06 Motive One "Life" (Certificate 18)
07 Neil Trix & Danny Mills "Pearls" (Bang-In Tunes)
08 MI5 "Experience" (Lucky Spin)
09 Odyssey "Expressions" (720 Degrees)
10 Source Direct "Secret Liaison" (Good Looking)
11 Seba "Planetary Funk Alert" (Looking Good)
12 Ethereal 77 "Somnambulism" (Dubplate)
13 DJ Crystl "Sweet Dreamz" (Dee Jay)
Zul (Subvert HQ, Singapore) has been DJing and promoting parties in the Lion City since the 1990s, performing along side the likes of dBridge, DJ Friction, Joe Syntax, Stamina MC, John B, A-Sides, Pendulum, Cyantific, Sonic, London Elektricity as well as Logistics and Hospital Records' Chris Goss. Gigs-wise, its gone from Hong Kong (he spent time with the White Label crew in 2001), Jakarta to London (playing at the legendary Hospitality parties in Shoreditch, UK) with bits of radio (MediaCorp Radio's Lush 99.5FM Clubscape sessions, to be exact) and a release on Take Off Records squeezed in between.
When not busy with his day job as a journalist in Singapore, Zul also keeps it cutting edge away from the dance floor with the Subvert Sessions Podcast (download via subverthq.blogspot.sg), blending together leftfield and idiosyncratic beats of the 170bpm variety.
