Episode 79: Fresh and cutting edge tracks, selected by Subvert HQ Singapore’s own Zul. A taster to our Super0 set on Jan 17 2015, get event details HERE.
01. Hidden Turn - Dream Of Tron [ThirtyOne Recordings]
02. dBridge - Decayed [Exit]
03. Digital - My World [Horizons Music]
04. Philth and Collette Warren - Back In Time [CIA DeepKuts]
05. HeartDrive - Aut0mated Love [Pleasure District]
06. Beastie Respond - One More Second [Exit]
07. Om Unit - Mystic [Metalheadz]
08. Genotype - A Few Too Many [Ingredients]
09. Electrosoul System - Outerheaven (Sunchase Remix) [KosMos Music]
10. Robert Manos - Madness [Secret Operations]
11. ST Files - Nailbomb [Ingredients]
12. Zed - Pulse (VIP Mix) [Bear Necessities]
13. FD - Change Please [Spearhead LTD]
14. Digital - Joker [Horizons Music]
15. Emperor - Musicbox [Critical Music]
16. Need For Mirrors - Sacred Heart [Metalheadz]
17. Phil Tangent - Rinjani [Integral]
18. Klute - Rays [Commercial Suicide]
19. Ruffhouse - Bypass [Ingredients]
20. Anile - To Live Without [Med School]
21. HijaQ - Two Identical Snowflakes [Something Deep]
22. Bering Strait - Romance (Synkro Remix) [Self Released]
23. Dexta - Tempest Dub [None60]
24. Lana Del Rey - Summertime Sadness (Silent Dust Remix) [FREE]
25. Isaac Hayes - You’re In My Arms Again [Enterprise]
@hade-1 ~ R A S H A D
@pawnsound ~ Your Words (@moresounds Remix)
Ghetto People ~ Warlock
Dillinja ~ The Angels Fell (Original Mix)
G Jones ~ Drift
Tim Reaper ~ My Own Flying Island
Consequence & FIS ~ Cultural Trauma
Diphasic ~ Alaska
Om Unit ~ The Hand
Machinedrum ~ eyesdontlie
Ruby Goe ~ GETONIT (EAN Refix)
Dub Phizix ~ Happy 5
Jack Sparrow & Baobinga ~ Transpennine Express
S.P.Y & Kasra ~ Surface
Mutt ft Kevin King ~ Conversations
Lenzman ~ Empty Promise (Jubei remix)
FootMerc ~ Deep In Love
Dj Rashad & Gant Man ~ Acid Life
Sinistarr & Tim Reaper ~ Rave Juke
She's Drunk ~ MashMash
Kode9 ~ Xingfu Lu
Om Unit ~ The Red Curtain
Ruffhouse ~ Next Phase
Alix Perez, DJ Rashad & DJ Spinn ~ Make It Worth
Dillinja ~ Sovereign Melody
Fracture ~ Loving Touch
Anyone who's been following our podcasts is probably aware for our love of the deeper end of drum ‘n’ bass – the styles known as microfunk or Autonomic – for awhile now. When the good people at Third Looks contacted us for a mix, I decided to put together some of the style’s best tunes in recent years. I just hope people like the selection as much as I’ve I had fun piecing it together.
Track list:
01. Method One - Aquamarine [31]
02. ASC - Pulsate [Auxiliary]
03. Method One - Angel Island [free]
04. Om Unit and Sam Binga - Small Victories [Exit]
05. Om Unit and Sam Binga - Electric Riddim [Exit]
06. Om Unit - Governers Bay [Civil Music]
07. Jon Convex - With You (Kid Drama Remix) [Convex Industries]
08. Faib - Angel's Lullaby [KosMos Music]
09. Kid Drama - What Do You See [Exit]
10. Daat and Dominic Ridgeway - Crashes [Detuned Transmission]
11. ASC and Ulrich Schnauss - 77 [Auxiliary]
12. AnD - Calmness [Auxiliary]
13. ASC - Ubik [Blackened]
14. Hijaq - Nebula [unreleased]
15. LM1 - Different Shores [Offworld]
16. Ruffhouse - Division [Ingredients]
17. Seba - Science Fiction [Secret Operations]
18. Ruffhouse - Strangers [Ingredients]
19. Kid Drama - One 6 Eight [Exit]
20. J Kenzo - One Drop [Exit]
21. Seba - Physickl [Secret Operations]
22. Deep Blue - Destroyer (Seba Remix) [Scale]
23. Black Rain - Uptempo [Scale]
24. Nuage - Don't Hide These Feelings (N4M3 Remix) [Interactive]
25. A/T/O/S - A Taste Of Struggle [Deep Medi Musik]
26. Hatti Vatti - Synthesis [New Moon]
Episode 69 - a dreamy mix of fragmented microfunk rhythms and shattered beats. Peppered with elements of dub, bass, electro and soul, this one is perfect for late night listening. Tune in.
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CHRONO [Open Set]
Heart Drive - Format Affection
Consequence & FIS - Cultural Trauma
Bop - Weird Thing
Jon Convex - With You [Kid Drama Remix]
Heart Drive - Automated L0ve
FIS & Tokyo Prose - The Dares
AnD - FVS
Theme - Theme 3
Pessimist - Girl Wants A Bisquit
Cern & Overlook - Nevada Ghost
MTWN - Darkened
DBR UK & Structured ft. Amanda Seal - The Storm
Skeptical ft. Collette Warren - Always Been
Dexta & Mauoq - Krave
Subwave - Rain Dance
Fixate - Pum Pum
Chango - WhatITis
Dub Phizix ft. Fox - Never Been
Fracture & Sam Binga - Grippin' Grain
M-Zine & Scepticz, Axon - Shittlecock
DBR UK - Kick'n Ya Door
Coleco - Tryptamine
Fanu - Paracosm
Om Unit - Timelines
GRAPH [GUEST MIX]
Clearlight - Circular Thinking [Subaltern Records]
Danny Scrilla x Om Unit - Hunch (Epoch Remix) [Cosmic Bridge]
Thomas White - Missin' You (BWWWOYS Remix) [Hyperboloid Records]
Dark0 - Sweet Boy Pose (Boxed VIP) [Boxed]
SPF666 - Scorpion Cache (Mike G Remix) [Club Chemtrail Records]
Mumdance - Take Time (feat. Novelist) [Rinse]
Sleeper - Civil War (feat. Jamakabi) [Aquatic Lab Records]
Machinedrum - Diablo [LuckyMe]
Rattraps & Ganz - Flames [Never Slept]
Sideswipe - Bad Habit [Ground Mass]
HomeSick - Want To Put U On [Forthcoming Modern Ruin]
Plot Twist - Fold It (The Renegades Mix) [Forthcoming Dynamix Records]
Fanu - Who Dat [Lightless Recordings]
Mark Kloud - ??? [Dub]
Graphs - ? [Dub]
Jukker - Dream Dust [Ground Mass]
Touchy Subject - Travelling [LowRise Sounds]
House Of Black Lanterns - So Tell Me (To Detroit) [Dub]
Graphs - Schemata [Lifted Contingency]
Hyroglifics - Bun Dem [Mixmag Exclusive]
Calculon & Austin Speed - Get Murked (Deft Remix) [Forthcoming Shoot Recordings]
Om Unit - The Hand [Metalheadz]
01. Consequence - 11 Circles [Exit]
02. Dominic Ridgway - Lost In Space [Tribe 12]
03. Skeptical - Turning Point [Soul:R]
04. Joe Seven - Juiced [Exit]
05. Stray - Easy Boy [Exit]
06. dBridge - Not Known [Auxiliary]
07. ASC - You And Me [Auxiliary]
08. Sam KDC - All Roads Lead Somewhere [Veil]
09. Om Unit - Corridor 2013 [Civil Music]
10. Kiyoko - Something To Think About [Samurai Music Horo]
11. Tiiu - All Good Things [Blu Mar Ten Music]
12. Nether - Neptune [Space Cadets]
13. AnD - Calmness [Auxiliary]
14. Synkro - Progression (Indigo Remix) [Exit]
15. Bulb - They're Losing Themselves While I'm Fading [FREE]
16. Tiiu and Faib - Be With Me [Blu Mar Ten Music]
17. Depeche Mode - Agent Orange [Mute]
01. Om Unit ft. Charlie Dark - The Road (Civil)
02. Croms - Invisible Cities (Exit)
03. Parhelia - Luminosity (Stunna rmx) (Absys)
04. SND - Seller Of Dreams (Audio Plants)
05. Blue Motion - How can I love you more (Spearhead)
06. Frederic Robinson & Stray - Bloom (Blu Mar Ten)
07. Pearson Sound - Down with you (Darkestral Galaxicos)
08. Everything but the girl - Single (Photek rmx) (Virgin)
09. Eraser & delPurr - Imagine (Blu Mar Ten)
10. DFRNT - Dark blue (Cut)
11. Etherwood - Say life (Med School)
12. Circa - Ida (Med School)
13. Etherwood ft. Georgia Yates & Bev Lee Harling - Falling out of consciousness (Med School)
14. Instra:Mental - Photograph (Darkestral)
15. Bulb - Tenderness (kokeshi)
16. Evocativ - Lixir (Absys)
17. Submorphics - Organ grinder (Rubik)
18. Daat - Orange line (Offshore)
19. Calibre - Go back to go forward (Signature)
20. Chimpo - All over (Soul:R)
21. Blu Mar Ten - Famous Lost Words (Blu Mar Ten)
22. Alaska - Zoranine (Arctic)
23. Synkro & Manos - In My Arms (Apollo)
24. Method One - Under the same stars (Veil)
25. Instra:Mental & D Bridge - Translucent (Darkestral)
26. Synkro & Indigo - Guidance (Exit)
27. Rockwell - The Rain (Shogun)
28. Etherwood - Borderline (Med School)
29. ASC - Lost for words (NonPlus)
30. CMX & dBridge - Tesserae (Exit)
31. Kid Drama - In mind (Exit)
32. Rhyming in fives - Hindsight (Narratives)
33. Om Unit - Corridor 2013 (Civil Music)
34. Cutworks & Bulb ft. Julia Marks - Against the grain (Occulti)
35. June Miller - Neurosis (Horizons)
Though he got his start as a hip hop production wunderkind and scratch DJ known as 2tall, Jim Coles has since moved on to greener pastures with his particular brand of electronic bass music under the alias Om Unit. It’s paid off: after dropping releases on respected underground labels such as Civil Music and Dublin’s All City, Coles has taken the Om Unit sound around the globe to critical acclaim. For this special Boiler Room London set, he teams up with the original “King of the Rollers”, Scott McIlroy aka Doc Scott. A true‘n’bass legend with musical roots steeped in electro, hip hop, techno and house, it was the early 90s rave scene that led to Scott’s initial headlining DJ sets. In 1991 he released his first studio production, the N.H.S. EP, containing the monster Surgery track, and soon after was signed by the Reinforced crew who, under the Nasty Habits guise, put out Scott’s As Nasty As I Wanna Be EP, with the era-defining Here Comes The Drumz track. Alongside Goldie, Scott played a key role in the early Metalheadz years, releasing tracks on the label and becoming resident DJ at the legendary Sunday night Blue Note sessions.
Introducing a new member to the Foundation Collective – Skwiffer, a DJ that has invested years of time into honing his craft. Covering both a deeper and more technical side to Drum and Bass via turntables and an extensive collection of vinyl, Skwiffer’s mixes demonstrate a profound knowledge of the genre, alongside a fine-combed selection that any enthusiast would approve of.
Track list:
1. B Traits - Fever ft. Elisabeth Troy (dBridge 's Delirious Remix)
2. Breakage - Cooper
3. dRamatic & dBaudio - No Return
4. Dom & Roland - Outta Endz
5. Xtrah - Soundclash
6. Halogenix - Each His Own
7. Foreign Concept & Stray - Bang It
8. Instra:mental - No Future
9. Loxy & Resound - Inversion
10. Brain Crisis - Fight Ogres
11. Digital & Spirit - Backlash (Digital & Spirit Rework)
12. Dom & Roland - Unofficial Jah
13. Ulterior Motive - Forgiven
14. dBridge - Mourning Dawn
15. Loxy & Ink - Skitzaphonic
16. dBridge & Vegas - True Romance
17. Om Unit - Grey Skies Over Chicago
18. Foreign Concept - Tag Team
19. Spectrasoul - Organiser (Foreign Concept Remix)
20. Om Unit - Sleepwalkers
21. Origin Unknown - Truly One
22. Villem - Splinter In Your Mind (Break Remix)
23. LSB - Overthinking (Enei Remix)
This just landed in our mailbox. And how excited are we. The 1996 original version is an absolutely essential slice of drum & bass. Now Om Unit is on remix duties, keeping the menace while working the half step thing. Listen and buy NOW.
Om Unit x Moresounds - Nuff Music (Cosmic Bridge)
Slickshoota - Keep Bussin' (Om Unit remix) (Apothecary Compositions)
Shawn T - Country Livin (feat. K-Aze)(All Roads Music)
Stray - Chatterbox (Exit)
Moondoctor - Twerk, Pop (everywhere you go) (dubplate)
Weedo - One Spliff (dubplate)
Fracture - Loving Touch (Exit)
Calculon & Pawn - Larchmont (Om Unit remix) (Shoot)
EAN - Ibusthemic (Cosmic Bridge)
Sinistarr & Silent Dust - The Chant (none60)
Om Unit - Timelines (Metalheadz)
Theme - Theme 2 (Samurai Horo)
Distance - System Reset (dubplate)
Heist - Great White (Metalheadz)
Dexta & Hyrogrlifics - Box Groove (dubplate)
Villem & Mccloud - Putting Down Roots (Warm Communications)
Chimpo - Out And Bad (Exit)
Nasty Habits - Shadow Boxing (Om Unit remix) (31)
Seba - Mesmerism (Secret Operations)
Om Unit - Untitled Dub
Trace - Mutant Remix (S.O.U.R)
Special Forces - The Bleeps Tune (Photek)
Rufige Kru - T3 (Metalheadz)
Ed Rush - Mothership (No U Turn)
Splash - Babylon (Trace remix) (Deejay)
PFM feat. Conrad - Western (Good Looking)
Die - Achilles Heel (Full Cycle)
Die - Play It for Me (remix) (V Recordings)
Die - Special Treat (V recordings)
Firefox - Buck Rogers (Philly Blunt)
Krust - The Last Day (Full Cycle)
Firefox & Glamour Gold - Bass Switch (Philly Blunt)
MA3 - Those DJ's (Formation)
Brain Kilers - Jungle Love (3rd Party)
Doc Scott - Last Action Hero (Reinforced)
Tom N Jerry - Papillon Love Song (Tom N Jerry)
65 episodes in and the latest Subvert HQ podcast delivers more 170BPM themed high drama and intense melancholy in one tidy package. Featuring music from men of the moment Machinedrum, Om Unit and Etherwood to the always reliable ASC and Blu Mar Ten, we hope you enjoy this selection as much as we do.
Track list:
01. SKV18 - Trampolin Queen [FREE]
02. Machinedrum - 11 Over Come [NINJA TUNES]
03. Machinedrum - Stirring [NINJA TUNES]
04. Jon Convex - With You (Kid Drama Remix) [Convex Industries]
05. ASC - Impasse [AUXILIARY]
06. OM UNIT - Governer's Bay [CIVIL MUSIC]
07. Homemade Weapons and Gremlinz featuring Collinjah - Afterdark (J:Kenzo Remix) [SAMURAI MUSIC]
08. ASC - Symmetry [VEIL/UNVEIL]
09. Etherwood - Spoken [MED SCHOOL]
10. Dominic Petrie - Empire [INGREDIENTS]
11. Dominic Petrie - Soho [INGREDIENTS]
12. Sam KDC - Ascetic [VEIL/UNVEIL]
13. Machinedrum - Gunshotta (Fracture's Astrophonica Remix) [NINJA TUNES]
14. SpectraSoul - Slippin' [SHOGUN AUDIO]
15. Phil Tangent - We Don't Talk Anymore [IM:LTD]
16. Hybrid Minds - New Orleans [SPEARHEAD]
17. Pennygiles - Stories Untold [IM:LTD]
18. Blu Mar Ten - Half The Sky [BLU MAR TEN MUSIC]
19. Etherwood - Falling Out Of Consciousness [MED SCHOOL]
20. Bass'Flo and Ziyal - A Temporal Existence [COSMIC ORIGINS]
21. Method One - Biscayne [AUXILIARY]
22. Method One - Under The Same Stars [VEIL/UNVEIL]
23. Depeche Mode - Agent Orange [MUTE]
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.
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
01. Fracture and Neptune - Clissold (Machinedrum VIP) [Astrophonica]
02. Om Unit and Sam Binga - Small Victories [Exit]
03. Om Unit and Sam Binga - Electric Riddim [Exit]
04. ASC - Sonic Assault [Halocyan]
05. Future Engineers - Exhale [Transference]
06. Felix K - Ugners [Blueberry Musik]
07. Hibea - White Owl [IM:LTD]
08. Survey - Treibgut [Protect Audio]
09. Chroma - Knock Knock [CIA]
10. Mindmapper and Fre4knc - Collessius [Translation Recordings]
11. Andrezz - Resistance [Liquid V]
12. Andrezz - Senzala [Liquid V]
13. Michael McCann - Deus Ex Human Revolution Theme (LM1 Remix) [FREE]
14. Queensway - Run [Blu Mar Ten Music]
15. Sapphire - Via Lactea [FREE]
16. Mr Sizef - Subway, Which Is Unknown To Us [Med School]
17. Etherwood - Unfolding [Med School]
18. Anile - Another Year [Med School]
19. Mr Sizef - The Second Before Snow Turns Into Water [Med School]
20. Nuage - Eversky (Anile Remix) [Absys]
21. Blue Motion - Meteoric Shower [Reverse Audio Group]
22. Joe Ford - Frozen Sound [Med School]
23. Jade Parker and Synkro - Maintain [Jade Parker Music]
24. The Subdivision - The Kiss [Kokeshi]
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.
