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
Premiere: Caspa f. Dynamite MC, “The TakeOver” MP3
If you read this site regularly you know we are on a single-minded campaign to get more rappers on dubstep beats so it can be more popular in the States so its purveyors can tour here more, and also because Jay-Z on Joker would be a monster. Take for example this spooky beat from Caspa aka “The Dopest Ghost in Town”: the wobble sounds that much harder with a dude rapping on it like he maybe wants to punch you in the face. Go in, Dynamite! Coincidentally, Caspa is consistently amazing (ok, maybe we’re obsessed) and touring the States (he hits NYC on Wednesday, September 23 at Le Poisson Rouge). This track comes from his album Everybody’s Talking, Nobody’s Listening, which is heartbreakingly bonkers. North American tour dates after the jump.
Download: Caspa f. Dynamite MC, “The TakeOver”
Caspa & Rusko, “Power Shower” MP3
M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening was about nature completely warping peoples’ brains and making them commit suicide in some sort of sub-vibration earth-generated ecological war on humanity. The movie sucked mucho balls but the idea was kind of dope and there was a lot of ear-bleeding. This track by Caspa and Rusko, which they’ve been playing out for like a year but just dropped for public consumption/death-knelling, is a far more successful take on the concept: mass levels of utter mutilation in the form of devastating bass metallurgy. The idea of the two dubstep giants collabo’ing together at all in the first place is mind-rattling, no matter how often they do it, but “Power Shower” takes the hinterlands of their brains to a fully other level of monster. The track starts out all nice and misleadingly light with some planetarium sparkle synths, then some dainty Brit lady comes on chatting about a shower, then BOOM! ACID RAIN OF BASS! HUMANITY IS OBLITERATED! Or at the very least you just play it on repeat in your headphones until you permanently screw up your sense of equilibrium.
Download: Caspa & Rusko, “Power Shower” (via LA Friendly)
Caspa’s “Essential Mix” MP3
London bass-ranger Caspa recently put down a two-hour mix of dubstep subquakes for Radio 1, flipping in a grip of his own jams and those of his Dub Police bredren (aka himself, Rusko, etc, you know, only the vanguard of London club tremors, nobody special). He kicks it off with his remix of Deadmau5’s “I Remember,” which is like if dubstep took a break from skulking the underworld and went for a swim in a river, and wobbles appropriately from there. Good primer if you’re going to any one of dude’s next gigs, there are 9000 in a row (select US dates in September!).
Download: Caspa’s Essential Mix
Multiple Freeloads: Dubblestep Mansanity MP3s
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As creative people, we like to invent things like shoes that turn into rollerskates and time-traveling hologramic earrings, so when producers invent genres like dubblestep that cater to our incredibly truncated attention spans, we salute them and think about sending a thank you note, until we forget. L-Vis 1990 did this, and we also want to shout out Jakwob. Yo if dubblestep wasn’t crazy enough for you, now it’s two times not as crazy!
Download:
Joker + Jakes, “3Klane (L-Vis 1990 Dubble Step Edit)” (via Mad Decent)
Download: Caspa, “Where’s My Money (L-Vis 1990 Dubble Step Edit)” (via Mad Decent)
Download: Benga, “26 Basslines (L-Vis 1990 Dubblestep Edit)”
Download: Ellie Goulding, “Starry Eyed (Jakwob RMX)”
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posted on May 29, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Benga, Caspa, dance/electronic, Ellie Goulding, freeload, Jakes, Jakwob, Joker, L-Vis 1990
