Little Jinder, “Youth Blood (Bok Bok RMX)” MP3
Last night we went to a Fuck Buttons show and, though we were mostly sober, there was one moment where this white light was shining in our eyes, the chords were so glimmering and intense, and everything was so heightened we felt like someone had dosed us. Certain music just sounds like church! The twerky funky chords in Jinder’s excellent electro-disco “Youth Blood” were already like that (sidebar, why do so many Swedes have so much soul?), but one of our fave Brit dudes Bok Bok elevated ‘em with an extra kick in the junk, extending out the warm chords for a bit then letting congos and toms fall apart like candy coming from a pinata. We can dig this and will be digging further on the 21st of November, when Bok Bok plays NYC’s Santos with Joker and L-Vis 1990 (it’s on our calendar in red sharpie with a bunch of stars and exclamation points, so see you there).
Download: Little Jinder, “Youth Blood (Bok Bok RMX)” (via Fact Mag)
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posted on Nov 3, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS, Uncategorized tags Bok Bok, electronic/dance, Joker, L-Vis 1990, Little Jinder, Trouble & Bass
Fabric Birthday Treats: Caspa & Baobinga’s Promo Mix MP3s
This weekend Londoners will not sleep for three days straight if they are lucky: legendary club Fabric is hosting its 10th birthday party and everyone who is awesome in the general vicinity of the UK will be DJing a citywide housequake whose reverberations are so big we may feel them on American shores. Does the phrase “10 pm to 6 am” mean anything to you people? Actually just looking at the lineup here kind of makes us want to cry with longing. In advance of Baobinga’s set (on Friday, room three, before Rusko), he made a hot autumn mix showcasing a lot of the nuevo bass musics gripping the London scene, by some of right now’s hottest producers (also, The-Dream). And dubstep captain Caspa, who plays there tomorrow with fellow bass warriors Skream and Benga (ahhh), and is still amazing despite the fact that he likes the worst American sitcom of the last decade, ponied up some subterranean tremors for his own mix promoing Fabric’s bday. Full Baobinga tracklist after the jump, download Caspa’s mix here. We are still crying, all stuck in New York like it ain’t no thing.
Download: Baobinga Promo Mix
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posted on Oct 14, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Baobinga, Benga, Bok Bok, Caspa, dubstep, electronic/dance, Fabric, L-Vis 1990, skream, The-Dream, uk funky
Photomachine, “Burn Up” MP3
This clicky heatrock from Brixton boy Photomachine puts a little xerox shimmy in its warm rhythm party—his creative beat-layering parallels the super-fun creative free vibes coming from a younger generation of non-boxable Brit producers like our faves Bok Bok and L-Vis 1990, and stateside folks such as Kingdom and, to a more bananas extent, Toads. Not to mention that the assortment of alarms, sirens, beepy countdown sounds and yelling-man samples totally remind us that the final season of Lost is coming up, and what in god’s name are we gonna do after it’s over? Go back to living our lives? Start playing Settlers of Catan? The prospect is literally unthinkable.
(via The Fast Life)
Download: Photomachine, “Burn Up”
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posted on Oct 5, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Bok Bok, electronic/dance, funky, Garage, L-Vis 1990, Photomachine
Bok Bok & L-Vis 1990, “Night Slugs Dubplates 2009″ Mixtape MP3
Brit badboys Bok Bok and L-Vis 1990 have been purveyors of some of our favorite music this year, between getting creative with new, self-coined genres (dubblestep? hyper bass?) and bodying dancefloors and headphones with their regular Night Slugs club nights and mix show on Sub.FM. They’re about to drop a Night Slugs EP, so to promo it they made this mix of all their actual dubplates, most of which sounds like seeing yourself getting injected with adrenalin from the vein-and-blood cell point of view a la CSI/House. Sprung with boingy syncopated basslines, triumphant twerky synths, they’re working in the most basic confines of genre—bassline, funky, garage, whatever—but have a super fresh, nigh cartoony approach that inspires energy and reflects creativity. Tracklist after the jump. Also if you’re in New York, prepare yourself—they’re playing a bananas lineup at Santos on November 21 with “purple”/dubstep producer Joker.
Download: Bok Bok & L-Vis 1990, “Night Slugs Dubplates 2009″ Mixtape (via Discobelle
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posted on Sep 15, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags bassline, Bok Bok, electronic/dance, Joker, L-Vis 1990, Night Slugs Dubstep
Kingdom & Bok Bok’s Night Slugs Mix MP3
- story Julianne Escobedo Shepherd
- photo John Francis Peters
Two of our favorites right now, Brooklyn’s Kingdom and London’s Bok Bok, linked up for the Night Slugs radio show last month and their 1-for-1 mind-meld turned out kind of perfect, a warm and melodic superjam of UK funky, dubstep jiggle and mucho Kingdom exclusives. Tread lightly, it gets pretty fast and loose up in there, or, as the Brit radio personalities say, “massive.” Really, the only thing disappointing about it is the lack of atmospheric club lighting in the office. Track list after the jump.
Download: Kingdom & Bok Bok’s Night Slugs Mix
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Exclusive Freeload: Dre Skull, “I Want You (Bok Bok Remix)” MP3
- story THE FADER
Brooklyn’s Dre Skull has been rather busy lately, having somewhat detonated the dance/dancehall faction of the internet with his Sizzla-featuring “Gone Too Far.” Now he’s gone and traversed genres with a balloony synth track called “I Want You,” wherein Mr. Skull compresses Shannon Swain’s vox into a robotic crumple. On this awesome Bok Bok remix, most pop traces are sucked into a boomerang of UK funky, anti-gravity bass and soul claps and all. Bonus beat: Bok Bok made a mix for you to download that perfectly captures the interception between American music that just happens to be incredibly bass heavy and UK jams that are actually supposed to be bass heavy.
Download: Dre Skull, “I Want You (Bok Bok Remix)”
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posted on Jun 8, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Bok Bok, dance/electronic, Dre Skull, exclusive freeload, Sizzla
