Turboweekend, “Trouble Is (Joker Remix)” MP3

Joker, can we just tell you how much we feel your skunky bass vibes? Natty Danes Turboweekend’s angsty single “Trouble Is” is like their One Republic “Apologize” as seen through the bass lens of Blank Dogs, which kinda on principle we’re not that mad at. In lesser hands a remix coulda gone the way of a Filene’s dressing room but Joker never, ever goes out like that. He’s clearly been busy since he’s been “IN DENMARK” as his myspace says, processing Turboweekend’s new-wavy bassline through a dubinator and translating the concept of “GUITAR LICK” into a slick riff in the futurezone. It’s an excursion into the dark crevices of your feelings, but don’t EVEN try and tell us you’re not at least a little emo. Meanwhile we’re counting the days till he hits the States (New York on the 21st!).



Download: Turboweekend, “Trouble Is (Joker RMX)” (Via Neonized)

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)

Von D’s Bass Music Blog Mix MP3

Bass Music Blog is rad because it’s a collabo experience between a grip of hot bass/dubsteppy/purple producers across Europe, like Mumdance, Ginz, Baobinga, High Rankin, etc, on which they conduct Q&As with their compatriots and drop exclusives and whatnot. The most recent interview, with French producer Von D, not only investigates his general fromage intake (fascinating stuff), it comes with a mix of his own work that reflects his background in OG dub musics—a low-end chill out with serious futuristic irie vibes. (And there is also an as-yet unreleased Joker track on there, so holler at les dieux.)

Download: Von D, “Chacha’s Leggings Mix” (via Bass Music Blog)

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The ABSOLUT FADER Visionary Podcast #4 — Leads To

Turning the halfway corner in the Visionary Podcast series, curated by The FADER and presented by ABSOLUT as part of our ongoing efforts to advance and advocate the art and music we love, we come to the phrase, “Leads to.” These two open-ended words instantly made us think of some kind of narrative, so we tried to tell a little story through the song titles—a story that of course ends with us soaking up some sun.

After going fairly hard on #3, we mellowed this one out a little bit, traversing its length with the coastal vibes of Foreign Born, the slightly nautical Friend, a fluid jam from White Denim, Purple Wowness via a Joker and Ginz remix and the wobbly pop of our man Theophilus London. Check the tracklist after the jump, and come back soon for “Something” on podcast #5.



Download: The ABSOLUT FADER Visionary Podcast #4 — Leads To

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Simian Mobile Disco f. Beth Ditto, “Cruel Intentions (Joker Remix)” MP3

The consensus on Simian Mobile Disco’s newest album Temporary Pleasure is that it’s not as earth-crumbling as their debut, Attack Decay Sustain Release, but some of the criticism seems to be aimed at the fact that SMD recruited some all-star guest vocalists instead of relative unknowns like Ninja and Char Johnson as they had before. Considering the quote/unquote all-stars are Alexis Taylor, Chris Keating, Telepathe, Young Fathers, Gruff Rhys, Jamie Lidell and Beth Ditto, and we’re pretty sure 99% of the human race doesn’t know who at least 75% of those people are, that doesn’t seem like that valid a criticism. A better one would be that SMD made a mostly mid-tempo, one-note pop album instead of another crazy disco one. But there are still some jams, including “Cruel Intentions” with The Gossip’s Ditto, a smoldering open-ended request for “good times.” One of our young favorites, Bristol’s Joker, got license to turn it into an, uhmm, electro/house/dubstep/purple/strip club/early/late/anthem? Whatever it is, Joker can do no wrong right now, and he should get as many famous people as possible on his debut album, in the works right now.



Download: Simian Mobile Disco f. Beth Ditto, “Cruel Intentions (Joker Remix)” (via NME)

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”

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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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Stream: Crookers f. Kelis, “No Security”

What with the epic “Scars” with Basement Jaxx and this sparkly dubstep joint from our Milano party brethren Crookers, we’re impressed by Kelis‘ sudden ubiquity, having just popped a kid and gotten divorced and all. As Annie Mac (that’s Annie Mac, right?) says on this radio rip, the new US mainstream’s interest in dubstep is kind of bazonkers, though we’re still waiting for that Jay-Z/Joker collabo. But then Ms Rogers has always been adventurous—you’ll recall her early work with Neptunes when they were the hottest shit in space—and we hear she’s been working on her new album with our beloved Switch, which sounds like one of the best ideas ever. Until that transpires, we’ll marvel at this YouTube rip of “No Security,” which Crookers put up on their own blog. That’s kind of funny, right?
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Jahdan Blakkamoore, Bazooka Shot Mixtape

We’d like to think that if this was 2004, people would be going nuts and spending actual dollars on this mix like it was Piracy Funds Terrorism (did people spend money on that?). It doesn’t have the same balls to the wall range, but it does have balls to the wall bass and dancehall experimenters taking the Busy Signal route and voicing over just about anything the Dutty Artz crew can think of. Jahdan Blakkamoore doesn’t get quite as weird as Busy on any of these tracks, but he does get on a couple well known instrumentals (and Joker’s “Digidesign”) as well as a bunch of songs with laser noises. Less heavy than his upcoming Buzzrock Warior, but the perfect way to ride out the rest of your Summer.

Download: Jahdan Blakkamoore Bazooka Shot Mixtape

Ginz Purple Podcast for Data Transmission

A forever interesting peculiarity of UK dance culture is its constant incremental evolution. Where US hip hop and JA dancehall are always hip hop and dancehall no matter how massive the shifts in style and technique, the Brits sometimes seem to tweak genres just so they can make up a new name. The newest of these is purple, a G-Funked and massive bisection of antecedent dubstep, whose most provocative purveyors are Joker (who first appeared on The FADER over a year ago) and Ginz, incidentally collaborators on some of the most ridiculous purple remixes so far. The former was profiled in FADER #61 (photo above) and the latter recently made a mix for UK site Data Transmission that collects a ton of their recent work. It is insane. Check the tracklist after the jump, even though you probably won’t recognize a name on it.

Download: Ginz Purple Podcast for Data Transmission

UPDATE: If you want to hear more stuff like this, preview and pre-order Hyperdub 5 over on Bleep.

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