Om Unit - Resident Advisor Mix Dec 2013

Track list:

Boxcutter - Not The End Of The World (Cosmic Bridge)
Moresounds - Flocon (Astrophonica)
Ital Tek - Fireflies (Planet Mu)
Ital Tek - Jupiter Ascent (Planet Mu)
Mark Pritchard - Natty (Warp)
Om Unit - Jaguar (Civil Music)
Dj Madd - Someone (Breakage remix) (Black Box)
Coleco - Focus 10 (Om Unit remix) (Runtime)
Om Unit & Kid Drama - Grind (Exit)
Om Unit - Timelines (forthcoming Metalheadz)
Tessela - Hackney Parrot (Sam Binga's Crackey Parrot refix) (dubplate)
Sam Binga ft Redders - Leftem (Critical)
Homemade Weapons & Gremlinz (feat Collinjah) - After Dark (J Kenzo remix) (Samurai Music)
Machinedrum - Gunshotta (Om Unit's Rollers VIP) (Ninja Tune)
Moresounds - Blood (Astrophonica)
Graphs - Scylla (Ground Mass)
Gremlinz, Rumbleton, The Untouchables - Apache (Samurai Music)
Naibu (feat. Key) - Just Like You (Fracture remix) (Horizons)
Onoe Caponoe - Milky Way (Djrum remix dub) (2nd Drop)
Bus + Soom T - Keep Life Right (Dabrye remix instrumental) (Ghostly)
EAN - Don't You Know (Original Cultures)
Om Unit - Corridor 2013 (Civil Music)
J Kenzo (feat. Rhianna Kenny) - Eyes Wide Open (dBridge remix) (Rinse)
Goldie - Sea Of Tears (FFRR)

RA.388 Fis

Olly Peryman was only ever tentatively linked to the drum & bass scene, but these days the bind has been totally snapped. Defining where's he's ended up, though, feels next to impossible. "Lately most of my rhythms are drawn from what I hear and see from my body during meditation," he said recently, illustrating just how far from leftfield his beats have been coming. The biggest takeaway from our Breaking Through piece with Peryman last year was that he doesn't produce to a grid—his sounds, unanchored by quantization, are laid down in a way that "sounds right" to him. It's an approach that mitigates his appeal to DJs, but has yielded some of the strangest and most distinctive electronic music in recent memory. If you're looking for an entry point into the murky world of Fis, then we give you "DMT Usher." The track, which will be re-released later this month as part of an EP for Tri Angle, is like a grotty remix of Apocalypse Now's opening sequence, with Martin Sheen sweating as the helicopter circles above. Or for the full immersive experience, get hold of The Commons, which was released last year on dBridge's Exit Records. Its six tracks fuck with rhythm and charcoal textures in a way that Fis now completely owns.

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RA.386 Machinedrum

When Machinedrum reinvented himself in 2011 with footwork as his muse, it sent seismic waves through bass music. By then footwork was the sound du jour, but Travis Stewart stood out by blending it with the pastoral textures of Boards Of Canada, the heart-in-mouth thrill of jungle, and his own polished aesthetic. We liked Room(s) so much that we gave it 5/5 rating. Needless to say the pressure was on for this year's follow-up, the excellent Vapor City, a concept record about an imaginary city and his first album for Ninja Tune.

Critical acclaim aside, Machinedrum's impact is evident in his RA podcast—one look at the tracklist and you'll see there's a whole legion of producers mashing up jungle, footwork and drum & bass into a thrilling fast-paced amalgam behind him (along with some tasty unreleased material of his own). Fracture, Om Unit, Tessela and Ital Tek are among the ranks bringing renewed attention to the tempo.

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Track list:

Machinedrum - Rise N Fall
Machinedrum - The Palace
Machinedrum - Show Ur Love
Future Sound of London - Ill Flower (Machinedrum Remix)
Machinedrum - Knowfuture
Skeptical - Eyes Down
Om Unit - Deep Sea Pyramid
System - Sound Man
Tek 9 - Spring
Rob & Goldie - Shadow
Dwarde - Algid
Tessela - Hackney Parrot (Sam Binga Crackney Parrot Refix)
Ital Tek - BB
Jon Convex - With You (Kid Drama's Autonomic Mix)
Instra:mental & dBridge - White Snares
Naibu - Just Like You (Fracture's Astrophonica Remix)
AMIT - Human Warfare (Machinedrum Remix)
FIS - Love Drama Stress (Machinedrum Edit)
Machinedrum - Overtime

RA.372 Akkord

It's been revealed that the Akkord project is headed up by Synkro & Indigo, which, if you're familiar with their music, makes total sense. Both solo and in tandem, Joe McBride and Liam Blackburn have spent the past five years turning out intelligently crafted bass music in a variety of vibrant shades. The Akkord name has similarly grown to be associated with complex rhythms and imposing bass weight. The journey began in 2012 with a couple of limited-run vinyl releases and continued with Navigate, a standout four-track EP for Houndstooth, the high-flying label venture from London venue Fabric. That release's title track is a good place to get a handle on Akkord: the mood is cold but engaging, and its clever drum programming puts it at an intersection between techno, bass music and IDM.

In THIS interview, an Akkord album is the works for Houndstooth, but ahead of that release we get RA.372, a near hour-long exploration of the duo's thrilling vision of club music.

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Track list:

01 - Synth Sense - Corrosion [Forthcoming Samurai Horo]
02 - Alva Noto - Uni Dia [Raster-Noton]
03 - Edmondson - Authentic [Forthcoming Mindset / Emf]
04 - Szare - Leaning Towers Of Concrete (ASC Remix) [Forthcoming Mindset]
05 - Stickman - The Dogs Dead [Forthcoming Mindset / Emf]
06 - Emptyset - Point [Subtext]
07 - Alex Smoke - Dust (Tessela Remix) [Forthcoming R&S]
08 - Edmondson - Mango [Forthcoming Mindset / Emf]
09 - Akkord - Navigate [Houndstooth]
10 - Plastikman - Ask Yourself [NovaMute]
11 - Toasty - Like Sun [Hotflush]
12 - Acre - Symbols [Dub]
13 - Edmondson - Junot [Forthcoming Mindset / Emf]
14 - Akkord - Destruction [Houndstooth]
15 - Biome - Far East [Forthcoming Mindset / Emf]
16 - Akkord - Untitled [Forthcoming Houndstooth]
17 - Dj Distance - Dark Crystal [Boka]
18 - Akkord - Compound [Houndstooth]
19 - Kode9 - Stalker [Hyperdub]
20 - Stickman & Kapture - Big Boss Beat [Dub]
21 - Wen - Its A lot [Dub]
22 - Akkord - Untitled [Forthcoming Houndstooth]

RA.358 D-Bridge

When Resident Advisor spoke to dBridge for an edition of Machine Love in 2011, we made the point that Darren White's career has been one of distinct chapters. Two years on, and we may not have had the seismic shifts such as those between his Future Forces Inc, Bad Company or Autonomic phases, but White has continued his tireless pursuit of innovation. In Chic Anatomy / Den-En-Toshi and Passing Encounter / Scarlett he began exploring straight 4/4 for the first time, passing Drexciyan electro and tense techno as he did so. Meanwhile his label, Exit Records, has issued some seriously far-out club forms in the last 12 months. There's been Dawn Day Night's raucous jungle/juke hybrids, FIS's blackened off-the-grid rhythms, and Om Unit and Sam Binga's unlikely marriage of drum & bass and boogie.

Exit is as much the star as D-Bridge on RA.358. The mix is composed mainly of unreleased tracks from the label, much of it lifted from the follow-up to the excellent Mosaic Vol. 1 compilation.

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Track list:

Kryptic Minds - Burnt To Ashes - Exit Records
dBridge - Beg, Steal & Borrow - Exit Records
Dub Phizix - Yukon - Exit Records
Loxy & Resound - Residual Move - Exit Records
Ruffhouse - Greyscale - Exit Records
Consequence & Fis - Untitled - Exit Records
CMX ft dBridge - Tesserae - Exit Records
Instra:mental & dBridge - White Snares - Nonplus Records
Dan HarbarNam - The Rendering Of Garlic Boy (Loxy & Resound Remix) - Cylon Recordings
dBridge - I Know - Exit Records
Skeptical - Another World VIP - Exit Records
Abstract Element - Acid Coke - Dub
dBridge - OnO - Exit Records
Loxy & Resound - Thin Ice (Skeptical Remix) - Exit Records
Joe Seven - Juiced - Exit Records
Ruffhouse - Untitled - Dub
dBridge - Without Sound - Exit Records
Wraetlic - Better The Devil (dBridge Advocate Mix) - Convex Industries
dBridge, Indigo & Synkro - Untitled - Exit Records
Clarity - Constant - Exit Records
Loxy & Resound - Black Hole VIP - Exit Records

RA.EX104 - Doc Scott

The drum and bass legend talks about Music House, Blue Note and more. Doc Scott is a drum & bass legend. With tracks on Reinforced and Metalheadz like "Here Comes The Drumz" and "Shadowboxing," his name ranks among the Goldies and the 4Heros of the world. But hear him tell it, and he's a DJ first and foremost. And that's exactly what he's focused the majority of his attention on throughout his career, spreading the gospel of drum & bass—even when the minimal, rolling style that he is often associated with has fallen out of mainstream favor. Resident Advisor talked earlier this month at his home in Coventry about hallowed institutions like The Music House, where Scott cut his dubs, and The Blue Note, where he had some of his best nights out as a DJ and punter in the '90s at the Metalheadz Sunday Sessions.

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ENA: Resident Advisor Podcast 313 - mix & interview

Tokyo bass, get downloading.

RA.297 Synkro

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Track list:

Sabre, Stray & Halogenix - Oblique (Synkro Remix)
Background Sound - Close
Frederick Robinson - Shore
ASC - Sarang
Stickman - The Klixx (Indigo Remix)
Troy Gunner & Cuffy - Decisive Creation
DjRum - The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn
Indigo - Wake
GoldFFinch - Once You Wrap
Lostlojic - Don't You Feel (Synkro Remix)
GoldFFinch - Untitled
Indigo - Snowfall (Tom Dicicco Remix)
Until Silence - Stolen Hours
Emeli Sande - Daddy (Ifan Dafydd Remix)
Δkkord - Back & Forth
Menik - Close To You (Indigo Remix)
Troy Gunner - Headlights
Synkro - Can't See
Darling Farah - Model
Guy Andrews - Shades
Stickman - The Verge
Δkkord - Renewal
Bay & Elsewhere - I Think Of
Above & Beyond - Love Is Not Enough (Synkro Remix)

RA.288 Consequence

Advanced drum and bass from an Autonomic stalwart: If you were to take his two album projects this year in isolation, it could reasonably be concluded that Cam McLaren had only a peripheral involvement with the drum & bass scene. As one half of They Live alongside Joe Seven, McLaren released Cancel Standard in March this year, a record RA's Andrew Ryce described at the time as "basically an electro album." His forthcoming full-length as Consequence, meanwhile, has far more in common with Aphex Twin than Andy C. So what are his drum & bass credentials? Well, dBridge signed McLaren while on tour in New Zealand back in 2009, figuring that his melodically rich and experimental take on the genre would work perfectly as an album for his label, Exit Records. And he was right. Live For Never stands as one of the finest examples in its class, coinciding perfectly with—and helping to define—the sound that would later be coined as "Autonomic" thanks to dBridge and Instra:mental's ground-breaking podcast series of the same name. Read more HERE.

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RA.277 Cosmin TRG

Techno through a bass music filter.

It's actually kind of sad that Cosmin TRG's exploration of genres has been a talking point—can't an artist, you know, do more than one thing?—but such is life. The Romanian producer was a dubstep/garage dude when he started out back in 2007, hopped over to house for a bit and is now residing in techno country. One by-product of this restlessness is the name Cosmin TRG (or TRG as he was initially known) has adorned many a leading label these past four years—Hessle Audio, [NakedLunch], Tempa, Immerse Records, Hotflush, Hemlock and Rush Hour being merely a selection of them. The latest to put a welcoming arm around him was Modeselektor's Fifty Weapons. Separat / Izolat, released at the beginning of 2011, signalled Cosmin's intention to get truly stuck into the tough stuff, while it seemed the dream had been fully realised when it was announced in June that a full-length offering was in the works for Fifty Weapons. Try as it might Simulat wasn't quite able to shake off Cosmin's roaming past—which is exactly what made it so great; RA.277 suffers the same affliction with exactly the same outcome. This is techno but not quite as you know.

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RA.274 George FitzGerald

House meets garage meets bass.

Although operating in a grey area between genres is hardly a novelty these days—particularly for a London-based producer—George FitzGerald is one of those pulling off the trick better than most. He's closely associated with Hotflush Recordings—itself a bastion of ambiguity—thanks to a pair of 12-inches that came at bass music from a house and garage starting point. (Or was it the other way around?) FitzGerald built his grounding in the scene as a co-promoter of Man Make Music, the London party that has been showcasing, well, a little bit of everything since its inception back in 2007. The crew behind the event has now begun an offshoot imprint of the same name, with FitzGerald helming its maiden release, Fernweh / Hearts, which coincidently hits record shops next week.

FitzGerald leverages his ties to Hotflush on RA.247 by bringing bags of the label's unreleased material to the table, interspersed with the types of hybrid sounds that have made London arguably the most exciting destination in electronic music at present.

Read the rest of the interview HERE.

Track list:

Tim Hecker - Incurably Optimistic! - Alien8 Recordings
Sigha - The Politics of Dying - Our Circula Sound
Appleblim - Moonlight - forthcoming Vitalik
Braille - A Meaning - forthcoming Hotflush
Josh Wink - Sixth Sense - S3
George FitzGerald - Feel Like (Rough Mix) - forthcoming Hotflush
Jack Dixon - Low Tide (Rick Grant remix) - CDR
DFRNT - True (Jack Dixon remix) - Nu Directions
Jazz Neversleeps - Diepgank - On Point
George FitzGerald - Shackled - forthcoming Hotflush
Scuba - Adrenaline - forthcoming Hotflush
SCB - Overlay - forthcoming Hotflush
SBTRKT - Wildfire (Objekt Dub Mix) - Young Turks
George FitzGerald - Reset - Aus
George FitzGerald - Hearts - forthcoming ManMakeMusic

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RA.271 Claude VonStroke

House and bass music collide, courtesy of Claude VonStroke.

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Track list:

Throwing Snow - Shadower - Sneaker Social Club
Martin Brothers / Sade Bootleg - Love Is Found
J Phlip - Bootyberg - Dirtybird
Paul Johnson - Feel My M.F. Bass - Dance Mania
Pearson Sound - Stifle - Hessle Audio
A1 Bassline - Falsehood - Dirtybird/Tighten Up
Worthy & Eats Everything - TricTrac- White
Mike Tyson vs. Buster Douglas - Motivational Edit
EPMD - Strictly Business - Fresh
Justin Martin & Ardalan - Lezgo - Dirtybird
Tyree - Nuthin Wrong - Dance Mania
Alessio Mereu - Magic Key feat. Roberta Prestigiacomo - Time Has Changed
Makossa Megablast feat. Cleydys Villalon - SoyComoSoy (DJ Koze no voy a cambiarRepaso) - Gigolo
Andre Lodemann - Where Are You Now (CVS Edit) - Best Works
Armando, Thomos, Sharvette - Don't Take It (Thomos Edit) - Let's Pet Puppies
Robert Armani, Paul Johnson, Eric Martin - Pop Pop Fizz Fizz (VonStroke Re-make) - Dance Mania
DJ Raid - Raining Minutes - White

RA.259 - Skream

Dubstep's biggest DJ steps up.

Croydon. Big Apple Records. Hatcha. Skream's back story evokes all the right passages of dubstep folklore. Oli Jones began making music as a 15-year-old; he was an employee of the now legendary record store and one of dubstep's first and foremost producers before his teenage years were through. Much of the music in the developmental stages of his career was recorded alongside Benga, with whom Jones now lines up—in addition to Artwork—as Magnetic Man. The group became the genre's biggest crossover success to date at the end of last year with the release of their self-titled album, although Jones as always remained entirely difficult to pin down— NonPlus+, Swamp 81, Deep Medi Musik and Tempa are just a few of the imprints to host his zig-zagging 12-inches in the past few of years.

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Track list:

Benga - Smack Your Bitch Up
Redlight vs P Money - Left The Source - DUB
Skream - Indistinct - DUB
Donaeo - Swagger (Skreamix)
Skream vs Rye Rye - BANGBOX - DUB
Skream - Xmas Day Swagga - Tempa
Dismantle - Computation - Wheel & Deal
Benga - Dont Wanna - DUB
Skream - Riggin - Disfigured Dubz
Skream ft Trim - Tweedle Dee Tweedle Dum - DUB
Rossi B & Luca - Police a Cum run (Jakes remix)
Caspa - Hot Shoe Shuffle - Dub Police
Dismantle - Word Dance - Wheel & Deal
Skream - Trashcan Funk - DUB
A-Trak - RayBan Vision (Lucky Beard remix)
Does It Offend You, Yeah? - Wondering (Dirtyphonics remix)
Magnetic Man - MAD (Skream VIP) - DUB
Benga - Any Steppers - DUB
Skream - Where You Should Be feat .Sam Frank - Tempa
Skream - Anticipation feat. Sam Frank - Tempa
Skream - Rollin Kickz (Magnetic Man edit) - Tempa
John Convex - Falling
The Weeknd - What You Need
Prince - Just as Long as We're Together

Resident Advisor - Critical Recordings Mix

One of the few drum & bass labels that credibly toes the line between underground and overground, Kasra's London imprint Critical is one of the reasons that the genre is so vital at the moment. Read the rest of the feature HERE.

Download: RA Label of the Month 1105 Mix: Critical Recordings (right click + save target as)

Track list:

Synkro - Dwelling (Critical)
Rockwell - Rain (Unreleased)
Rockwell - Underpass (Alix Perez VIP) (Critical)
Dub Phizix & Skeptical - Four (Critical)
Sabre, Stray & Haolgenix - Untitled (Unreleased)
Vicious Circle & Jubei - Deliberate (Critical)
Foreign Concept - Mob Justice (Critical)
Jubei - Untitled (Unreleased)
Dub Phizix - Break It (Critical)
Enei - Stonehead (Critical)
Foreign Concept & Bringa - Cemetary (Shogun)
D Bridge, Fierce , Break & Nico - Galleon (Quarantine)
June Miller - Snapcase (Critical)
Enei & Riya - No Fear (Critical)
S.P.Y. & Kasra - Surface (Critical)
Marcus Intalex - Hot Hands (Soul:r)
Basher - Transmission (RAM)
Spectrasoul - Organiser (Critical)
J Majik & Wickaman - Old Headz (Metalheadz)

RA.EX028 Instra:mental

Via Resident Advisor: As RA’s Richard Carnes pointed out at the beginning of last year, Alex Green and Damon Kirkham, AKA Instra:mental, have been responsible for some of the most exciting drum & bass of recent vintage. Teaming up with dBridge, they’re responsible for the Autonomic sound, an open-ended approach that has taken in a celebrated podcast, a revered mix for fabric and a club brand that is now getting booked around the world. Nowadays, though, they’re interested in creating just about anything but: electro, techno, dubstep and anything that defies description is what you’ll find on their new album, Resolution 653. As the world of electronic music seems more open to eclecticism than just about any time in memory, it’s clear that things are only going to get bigger for the duo.”

Tracklist:

Instra:mental - Let's Talk - [NakedLunch]
Source Direct - A Made Up Sound - Metalheadz
Instra:mental - Voyeur - Disfigured Dubz
FaltyDL - To London - Ramp
Tronik House - Mental Techno - KMS
Source Direct & Instra:mental - Yo Bitch! - Demonic
Instra:mental - 8 - NonPlus+
Instra:mental - Comanche - Darkestral
dBridge feat. Instra:mental - Blush Response - Exit
Instra:mental - No Future - NonPlus+
Instra:mental - Leave It All Behind - Apple Pips
Aphex Twin - Windowlicker - Warp
Boddika - Boddika's House - [NakedLunch]
Kassem Mosse - Hi Res - NonPlus+
Instra:mental - Thomp - NonPlus+
Instra:mental - Watching You - NonPlus+

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Resident Advisor EX020: Kenny Larkin

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Music, to be quite honest, only took hold in Kenny Larkin's life because his fledgling stand-up career didn't take off in the way that he had hoped. The Detroit DJ/producer moved to California in the early '00s to trade strobe light for spotlight. It's not hard to blame him. Often forgotten behind the bigger names of Detroit's second wave, it seemingly took a well-timed reissue of early work from Rush Hour and an excellent new full-length for Planet E in 2008 for audiences to realize the breadth of his catalogue and his continued relevance.

So, even as he slowly makes moves towards shifting out of music and into a career in Hollywood, the allure of music is still undeniable for the veteran DJ/producer. As RA's Todd L. Burns found out in conversation late last month, things are going too well for Larkin to give up the creature comforts that music provides. Especially considering one of the last times that Larkin got onstage in Los Angeles, he bombed. The time before that? He was arrested only hours before his gig. Find a priest, a rabbi, a minister and settle in at the bar. This is our funniest Exchange yet.

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Track list:

Kenny Larkin - Glob - Planet E
Kenny Larkin - Colonize - Plus 8
Terrence Parker - Your Love - Seventh Sign
Kenny Larkin - We Shall Overcome (Ken's Mix) - Plus 8
Kenny Larkin - Sympathy - R&S Records
Dark Comedy - Chicken Blues, Pt. 2 - Poussez!
Ben Klock feat. Elif Bicer - OK (Kenny Larkin Remix) - Ostgut Ton
Radio Slave - I Don't Need a Cure for This (Kenny Larkin Remix) - Rekids
Kenny Larkin - Mono E Mono - Peacefrog
Dane Cook - Speak 'n' Spell - Comedy Central Records
Kenny Larkin - Harmonics - Warp
Dark Comedy - Paranoid - Elypsia
Dark Comedy - Eclectic - Elypsia