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
Primary 1, “Foaming” MP3 (+ Weird Tapes RMX)
Primary 1 already had us at “Who’s There”, this past summer’s 3AM weed theme, as reimagined by the bol L-Vis 1990. But how didn’t we know that he made such dreamy pop jangles, almost like Phoenix’s stoned younger bro? The demo version of “Foaming” makes us want to fly a kite in the park and lie on a blanket with our lover in some JAZZ SWEATERS. It drops in limited red vinyl on November 2 on Erol Alkan’s PHANTASY records, so all you bearded dudes better cue the site up in your bloglines and get your trigger fingers psyched for clicking. The remix is a total spa jam, ultimate relaxant, with Weird Tapes sampling an erhu then sliding into mellow rave mode before pulling a total Dam-Funk three minutes in. Hey man, it’s a long song.
Download: Primary 1, “Foaming” (email sign-up required)
Download: Primary 1, “Foaming (Weird Tapes RMX)” (via PartyCMYK)
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posted on Oct 30, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags electronic/dance, L-Vis 1990, Memory Tapes, Primary 1, Riton, rock, Weird Tapes
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
Gucci Vump, “Sha! Shtil! (L-Vis 1990 RMX)” MP3
With each new L-Vis 1990 track we are a bit more astonished by dude’s versatility: a brief gander into our iTunes has him dabbling in a vast assortment of kwaito (dub), hyperbass (and its death) and “dubblestep” (his own invention) whilst nipping at the fringe of various other genres and reinventing his own united groove (that was wordplay). With his remix of Gucci Vump’s glitchy dance version of Yiddish staple “Sha! Shtil!” (available now from the impeccable Sound Pellegrino), he does something completely new again, stretching it out into a warm pulse of house with a flipped-out melody, channeling these chicks singing in Yiddish into total dancefloor divas. So what’s next, microfunky? Happy doomcore? Dalston Touch? GO IN DUDE.
Download: Gucci Vump, “Sha! Shtil! (L-Vis 1990 RMX)”
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posted on Sep 23, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags electronic/dance, Gucci Vump, L-Vis 1990, Sound Pellegrino
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
L-Vis 1990 Mid Summer Mixtape
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
Lo-fi bands making songs about the beach, we still love you, but this mix compiled by L-Vis 1990 is a nice reminder about the other summer music. And by other summer music we actually mean anything else. Including, but in no way limited to the dubbed out electronic jams that comprise much of this mix. You can dance to this, but take it slow and drink a lot of water, it’s hot out.
Download: L-Vis 1990 Mid-Summer Mixtape (via Curb Crawlers)
Riton and Primary 1, “Who’s There (L-Vis 1990 RMX)” MP3
This man L-Vis 1990 has some kind of archive of super weird, can’t-place-them, creepy/isolated synth tweakers. We tried to run on the treadmill to his Fabric Live Promo Mix and ended up having an acid flashback instead. Naturally, we’re totally obsessed with him for what his “dubblestep” remixes and crazy united grooves do to us, and we discovered via ambitious (/stalkery?) emailing that he’s working on more stuff for impeccable French selectahs Sound Pelligrino and maybe even a Passion Pit remix. For his “Who’s There” remix he cut out all the cheeky untenable elements of the original (that one googly-eyed synth, the dogged 4/4, Primary 1’s rapping) and made it much bendier, even creepier and daresay funkier. This dude is a magician on the racks, man.
Download: Riton and Primary 1, “Who’s There (L-Vis 1990 RMX)”
Lemonade, “Big Weekend (L-Vis 1990 RMX)” MP3
This dude, the so-called “L-Vis 1990,” is sort of the scourge of the universe. He is making it really hard to listen to any music that is not made by him, particularly for those of us who are dancefloor killas. Because he is apparently spastic and rad and knows his way around a remix (and WHAT) and a wicked drum pattern, also because he makes cramazing videos. This Lemonade remix is a study in looped batcave drumrolls and placing a synth hammer at exactly the right point, economical and impactful. It’s like deep-sea mindspiral diving.
Download: (via Discobelle
Video: L-Vis 1990, “United Groove”
- story THE FADER
This video was either shot in the illest imaginary interweb club ever invented, or it’s a party inside Martin Short’s veins. Dennis Quaid aka Lieutenant Tuck Pendleton at the helm, we missing you! L-Vis 1990 is an inventor, this we know for sure, and we also bet on him being a lover of humanity for creating this house-inflected cellar-bass club track for us, the people. Single coming soon from your dudes.
