Archive for September, 2012
PROPER VILLAINS – Rock the Horns / Vaporize feat. Rex Riot
September 30, 2012 by dj umb
From Mendez: Greetings FAM!!!! Just when you were thinking “Hrmm I wonder what’s up with El Cuco Recordings?” we come back with a VENGEANCE!! For our ninth release we bring you our good friend PROPER VILLAINS with two smashers. “Rock the Horns” stays true to the original big room Moombahton while the collaboration with Rex [...]
Tags: mendez, moombahcore, moombahton, mr lex, Proper Villains, rock the horns, vaporize
GENERATION CHILL : NOSAJ THING
September 30, 2012 by dj umb
My dude Munchi led me onto this! As y’all know I been stalking him the past few days :-) I don’t quite know how we missed this and the mix he did for Cat Woman!!! Defies belief cause this is extra-ordinary stuff! If anybody has a download link to the mix, I would be eternally [...]
Tags: generation chill, Kazu makino, mary ann hobbs, Mary Anne Hobbs, munchi, Nosaj thing, XFM
BEHIND THE SCENES LOOK AT MTV NOMINATED BANDISH PROJEKT VIDEO
September 29, 2012 by dj umb
Here’s a behind the scenes look at the MTV nominated video, which we released earlier this year in conjunction with Bandish Projekt/Bheja Fry. Read all about the Nomination here: MTV EMA – BANDISH PROJEKT Please help him and us to win by voting here: VOTE HERE Mayur thoroughly deserves this, not only because he is [...]
Tags: Bajo Fondo Tango Club, bandish projekt, behind the scenes video, bollywood, dub, dubstep, gustavo santaolalla, Infamous Bollywood director Aamir Khan and Generation Bass..., lover, MTV EMA, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Shaai'r/Monica Dogra, the dewarists
ARABIA RISING : The Gaslamp Killer – Nissim (with Amir Yaghmai)
September 29, 2012 by dj umb
Although this has just been released now in 2012, it is not too different to the kind of stuff I was playing over 6 years ago during my heady days of being one of a very few Western based DJ’s specializing in Arabian music. Reminds of stuff by a dude called Smadj (Duoud)who was doing [...]
Tags: amir yaghmai, arabia chilled, arabia rising, arabian, brainfeeder, dj umb, flying lotus, gaslamp killer, trans dub sessions, turkish
Sexxy Saturday Cumbia – The Best Genre
September 29, 2012 by El Guero Unico
After an exhausting week playing my recurring role as contrarian (due to my nature of simply questioning everything and thinking deeply while keeping an open mind for change) in the political community, I honestly must say it’s nice to wind up here composing a post about my favorite modern music. For me it is a [...]
Tags: cumbia, Don Juan Pachanga, edit, el guero unico, KONN Recordings, La Sonora Dinamita, new cumbia, nu cumbia, nu cumbia experience, nueva cumbia, remix, tropical
Himuro Yoshiteru & Out of Dots Compilation
September 28, 2012 by dj umb
Himuro had an awesome release on our label earlier this year, Glass Breaking EP, and he’s just contributed this amazing track to a free compilation called Out of dots. The track sounds like some Future Alice Coltrane/Cinematic Orchestra Chopped and Screwed Psychedelic Bass, totally awesome! Grab the whole compilation: Out of Dots
Tags: alice coltrane, Chopped and Screwed, Cinematic Orchestra, electronic, future bass, Glass Breaking EP, himuro yoshiteru, out of dots compilation, psychedelic, Red On blue
Mixed Bag 001
September 28, 2012 by Elonious
K, ive never done this, Blogging, i have to admit, i feel cooler already, and a sense that im giving back to a music community that supported me. i didnt really know what to call my post, so im going with something simple and to the point…… Mixed Bag! Here is a free give away [...]
Tags: dubstep, elonious, expendable youth, jazz, mackboogaloo, mad decent, mixed bag, play me
T.I.P. – Love You Up (Xaphoon Jones RmX)
September 28, 2012 by dj umb
Loved the OG T.I.P. version of this and really feeling this remix too!
Tags: dub, electronic, lovestep, luv u up remix, luvstep, popstep, soulstep, T.I.P, xaphoon jones
MUNCHI – ESTA NOCHE
September 28, 2012 by dj umb
Let’s remind ourselves why this young dude with balls of steel and principles, we could only dream we had, is the Original Don! Luv & Respect to the one and only MUNCHI!
Tags: esta noche, fuck H & M, montell jordan, moombahsoul, munchi, soul
The 20 best Prince songs you’ve never heard
September 27, 2012 by dj umb
[Photo Credit: Justine Walpole] If u know me or if u read this blog regularly, you’ll know that Prince means the world to me, most definitely my favourite musician of all time and of course one of my all time favourite artists. His music is with me constantly and will be till I drop! In [...]
Tags: dj umb, generation bass the guardian, His Royal Badness, Photo Credit: Justine Walpole, Prince by Matt Thorne is published by Faber on 4 October., Prince Rogers Nelson, purple, Purple God, purple wow, Roskilde 2010, The 20 best Prince songs you've never heard, The Man
