Live: Kode 9 and Flying Lotus at One Step Beyond
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We make a lot of jokes about dubstep (mainly in the context of beards, standing around and that weird crossover between jam band dances and dubstep dances that we see people doing) but it’s more like a gentle ribbing. We (sometimes) love you dubstep! Friday night’s edition of One Step Beyond at the American Museum of Natural History cemented our love a little more, because Kode 9 and Flying Lotus were playing a selection of mostly unfamiliar but entirely awesome songs (although we did catch bits from FADER-favorite and F61 Gen Fer Joker in the mix). Mainly though, the night seemed like a large scale crossover of a genre that hasn’t really hit the general public yet. Even though people weren’t really sure what to do—dance or…not dance—it didn’t matter. Apparently the bass speaks for itself, no matter what you choose to do with it. Also, shout out to Haley Joel Osment (or someone who looked exactly like him) for coming through and looking pretty much the same, only slightly older.
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posted on Apr 20, 2009 in FADER
Contest: Win Tickets to This Friday’s Edition of One Step Beyond
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This Friday, April 17th, the One Step Beyond series continues
with a night of wild dubstep from Flying Lotus and Kode 9. Nevermind Cali’s
massive Coachella crowds, or London’s, um, massive London crowds, we’ve got some of their finest. A couple free tickets are available for the lucky few who Don’t
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NYC: One Step Beyond Featuring Flying Lotus and Kode 9
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We’re taking the space theme of our monthly series at the Museum of Natural History a little more literally for this Friday’s edition of One Step Beyond, bringing Flying Lotus and Kode 9 to play by the planetarium. Hailing from California and England, respectively, the two artists promise to both fill the atmosphere with oxygen and crush space. Or whatever. Get tickets to get your face melted. Full flier is after the jump.
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posted on Apr 13, 2009 in FADER
Freeload: Flying Lotus ft. Blu, “GNG BNG Remix”
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Flying Lotus covered the New Soul edition of our digital supplement F2 last year, and we have been jamming his Los Angeles EP since then whenever we smo… thought about stuff. It’s difficult to pull a favorite since it’s more a musical voyage (to Stoneyville! oops) than a collection of songs, but one notable bonger banger is “GNG BNG.” And it looks like our favorite LA/Long Beach underground rapper Blu feels the same way since he lopped a chunk of it off for this remix. As usual, he’s posted the lyrics on his MySpace blog, the best of which are clearly With My Beef Jerky Out In The Open, Smoking Keesh/ So Danky That It Stank Like A Qweef From Ya Antie. Fans of Flying Lotus can catch him and Hyperdub’s Kode 9 at the Echoplex in LA this Friday and a week later in NY at the next installment of our One Step Beyond series at the American Museum of Natural History. Bring your vaporizers!
Download: Flying Lotus ft. Blu, “GNG BNG Remix”
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posted on Apr 7, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS
Prancehall’s Bass Odyssey, Part 6
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I like to moan about dubstep. It’s one of my favourite hobbies. I tell myself that, on the whole, I don’t like it. I also really enjoy telling other people how much I don’t like it. But dubstep producer Kode 9 is a pretty faultless figure. His productions are always interesting and his Hyperdub label is consistently groundbreaking. The newest release is no exception. It features a bassy percussion-led roller by Zomby called “Mu5h” and a Rustie remix of Zomby’s “Spliff Dub” that sounds like it’s been partly passed through a Super Nintendo. I’ve never been a pedantic record collector, but I feel compelled to buy everything on Hyperdub. It is one of the few labels that releases music solely on the merit of the material. The A-side of the forthcoming release—an understated shuffley vocoded 2-step masterpiece by Darkstar called “Need You”—is equally worthy of your attention. You may also be aware of the material released on Hyperdub by this other dude who one or two people seem to be quite into, called Burial.
Anyway, Kode 9 was playing at the FWD>> vs. Rinse event at The End last Friday so I decided to head along…
Zomby, “Mu5h”
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posted on Feb 28, 2008 in PRANCEHALL’S BASS ODYSSEY
