source: sulekha.com

Hi everyone, got some ex-USSR bass I want you to hear. So open up your ears, turn down the missile defense system if you live in America, and prepare yourself for some serious….

BASS MUSIC

There are a few songs that always make it into my sets, Baile Funk by Chuck Upbeat is one of those.

Chuck Upbeat – Baile Folk by Chuck Upbeat

I covered Chuck Upbeat’s release on Midget Ninjas Soundsystem back in June. The release is still available for download.

There are some new sounds from the man including a preview of his upcoming Tropical Bass album which is sounding very promising. Make sure you give him some feedback as the album is coming together!
Chuck Upbeat – Album Sampler by Chuck Upbeat

Bout’ a month ago, the beat killer from Russia did a nice experiment slowing down drum and bass to make it sound closer to dubstep.

He wrote to me,

Actually I was inspired by the track of Donaeo – Riot Music (with Shy FX). I can’t say I managed to make it properly but at least I tried to show the remixes as an idea of such music. The musical atmosphere of the D&B music, the rythm of dance music, dubstep wobble sound and jamaican acapellas (or smth like that).
I have an album coming soon that is going to be very massive, atmospheric and tropical.

The result is freaking dope if you ask me, he actually made a Guetta track tolerable to my ears, the Mr Vegas track is full of energy and it is one of my favorite old dancehall cuts,  and I just love the way the drums are layered on it. My favorite of the trio is the I-One – La Bas remix, man do I love French in song, and his remix makes this all so epic and gives the song a whole new take. Props on that one man, where did you come up with that original?  Chuck commented on it that, “I made my best to make it sound good … really … I did everything I could … I hope, I didn’t disappoint u too much …” No worries there bro, it is excellent!

Slow down the D&B! by Chuck Upbeat

BASSME (love the name!) is a new record label from Kiev, Ukraine. Already a successful Russian bass music blog (props for that), Bass Me is charging forward with their first release by the Label/Blog Founder, Minikin. Listening to this release I can tell he means business. Packed with BIG powerful sounds superbly mastered to rampage large clubs, Pray For Love is an EP I expect to hear played all over the place. Minikin is just toying with sounds in this, just listen to the first minute and half of the title track Pray for love and you’ll hear what I mean :P   Scroll down for the full press release, since it is their first release I posted the full thing so BASSME info is out there, yea!?  Tons of free downloads on BASSME blog right here: http://bassme.org/free-download/

Minikin “Pray for Love” EP BASSME01 by BASS ME . Records

ARTIST: Minikin
TITLE: Pray for love EP
CAT NO: BASSME01
LABEL: Bass Me Records
RELEASE DATE: 15.11.11
FORMATS: Digital Download
ONE LINE: Heavy bass music on 140 bpm
Cover: Katya Miller
All info, photos, bookings contact: info@bassme.org
Label: www.bassme.org
www.facebook.com/bassmenow
www.youtube.com/user/BASSMENOW
Artist: www.facebook.com/minikindj

The beginning of summer 2011 for Ukrainian underground music was signed with founding of a new project called Bass Me. Its founder DJ & promoter, who was in the nearest past the one of participants of Kievbass project, Alex Minikin.

New-born project started its existence as blog bassme.org – permanent source of new music, new releases previews and information about bass-music artists from all around the world. Very frequently the blog presents new bass oriented podcasts, which are mixed and recorded specially for the project by DJs all over Ukraine and the colleagues from nearest neighbor countries. The second stage of project development started in September with running of Bass Me events – at famous night club “Xlib”. First two parties had enjoyed hundreds of bass-maniacs from all over the country.

Rhythm of movement of project participants and their audience took them to third stage of maturing – launching of Bass Me label, where the first release will be EP by the founder of Bass Me – Minikin, who’s tracks were released at labels Rag&Bone and Ministry of Sound. Release titled ‘Pray for love’ consists of two powerful dubstep tracks, which differs by their character, but both of them are similar deep and furious.

First track which is titled ‘Pray for Love’ is a massive dance floor hit that can get everyone to be involved into the dancing madness from the very first notes even despite its romantic name and vocal samples.

The second one, called ‘Wot’, might already be familiar to you because it was used as musical background during video-report from Bass Me Night series launch. ‘Wot’ is a mixture of classic techno sound and aggressive bassline; this track stands right in line with best examples of massive dubstep tunes from all over the world.

The “Phillip D Kick” experiment
By Om Unit

The Phillip D Kick experiment was originally conceived as an anonymous alias project of mine. However being useless at keeping secrets I let the cat out of the bag to close friends and musical compadrés shortly after starting it. As it would only be a matter of time before rumours become eye-rolling fact I have decided to end the project 8 months after starting it with volume 3 thus ending my work under this alias on what is, at least to me, a high note.

Phillip D Kick is an idea I had at the beginning of 2011 during a discussion about how fun it had been to mix Juke and Jungle tracks together at shows. The idea, very simply put, was that both genres were basically the same thing – frenetic syncopation at 160bpm or thereabouts.

Taking this idea a little further, I came up with a simple concept: take classic Jungle tracks and make edits of them with a footwork aesthetic. But rather than do this under my own name I would release them anonymously as a social experiment. The ‘story’ would be that Phillip D Kick was in fact an old jungle producer mate of mine who had fallen in love with footwork beats and had sent me the edits to put out.

For those unaware, the name Phillip D Kick is a flip on Phillip K Dick, a highly influential science fiction author whose work has been the basis of many classic sci fi movies such as Blade Runner (based on his “Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep” short story).

Something worth noting at this point is the principle of a “Shared Social Consciousness”, or put more simply: no idea is original. The theory goes that if you’re having an idea someone else is either having the same idea at the same time or has already completed that process.

Ergo the same day that I started working on the first volume of PDK edits back in February I saw Machinedrum mention on Twitter that he was making Jungle edits. In my excitement I contacted him asking if he was making footwork edits of Jungle tracks. His response: “yep!” – Machinedrum’s edits can be found on his Ecstasy Boom EP which was given away for free to people who bought his recent ‘Rooms’ LP on Planet Mu.

This really highlights to me the concept of a shared social consciousness, especially as this particular idea of blending footwork and Jungle together is likely quite obvious to any DJ who enjoys both genres. As far as I know however Machinedrum and I were the first to actually bring this idea into the real world.

Rough drafts of the first edits were sent out to great response and support came almost immediately from footwork and Jungle enthusiasts such as Mark Pritchard, Kode 9 and Machinedrum himself. In the weeks before and after Footwork Jungle vol.1 was released in March the edits had been played to audiences in Europe, America and Japan.
READ THE REST OF THE VERY COOL STORY RIGHT HERE

Footwork Jungle Vol.1 by Phillip D Kick

Footwork Jungle Vol.2 by Phillip D Kick

Footwork Jungle Vol.3 by Phillip D Kick

Here’s a truly gorgeous track given an equally beautiful bootleg DrumST3P make-over by our homie ConRank.

Snow Patrol ft. Martha Wainwright (ConRank Drumstep Remix) – Set The Fire To The Third Bar by ConRank

A quick remix of a beautiful track by Snow Patrol – Dedicated to my wonderful fiance xx

This is Sam and he produces and DJ’s under the name Taste Tester in Atlanta, GA and this is his brilliant new freee EP.

The EP consists of 6 tracks and covers a wide range of dubstep sounds.

Remix stems are available too for anyone who wants them Here.

:::open comm link:::channel-GenerationBass:::transmit:::

Some new shit from Subinfinity Recording Labs. Scout Ship has been dispatched to explore future-rim sonics in garage, drum & bass, breakbeat, dubstep and electro, and to report back with next-step hybrid productions.

The debut from Subinfinity Recordings artist Scout Ship presents versions of ‘Soundboy Murderstyle’ featuring the glitched vocals of newcomer Bondgirl69.

The release activates with the lush drones and driving breakbeat of Harmonic Garage Mix forging a magical trance inducing juggernaut first track.
Scout Ship – Soundboy Murderstyle (Harmonic Garage Mix) by processrebel

Next up is the pulsing 80s-esque tour de force of Dubwave Mix, where classic arpeggiator patterns propel the brazen glitched-out chant.
Scout Ship – Soundboy Murderstyle (Dubwave Mix) !!Free Download!! by processrebel

In track three, Jazz Ghost Mix shows off a fresh minimal arrangement with a tough junglist attitude and sensibility.
Scout Ship – Soundboy Murderstyle (Jazz Ghost Mix) by processrebel

Lastly, Soundtrack Instrumental Mix shows off the songs 172bpm with a head-nodding four-on-the-floor and by hook or by crook plays like a recently unearthed neo-gothic cold wave classic.
Scout Ship – Soundboy Murderstyle (Soundtrack Instrumental Mix) by processrebel

We and you, are very lucky today to have an xclusive from one of the American pioneers and reigning kinGs of the DrumSTeP scene, The Dirty Deeds.

If you recall we briefly covered these dudes a few weeks ago HERE as part of the DrumSTeP friday post in which, and much to to the astonishment of the DrumSTeP scene, Ozzy made a special guest appearance…lol…

DrumSTeP, of course, has not yet been fully accepted as a sub-genre all on its own.  Some say it’s just DnB or half time DnB, whilst others are all embracing of the term including our goodselves ;-)

Here’s what another respected source, GenXGlow.FM Radio,  says:

Many of us that pay attention to post-modern sub-genres in today’s electronic music culture would have some difficulty putting this fresh and unfamiliar term into perspective. The answer is simple; Half-step Drum and Bass. Tunes still weigh in at 170 to 180 BPM and possess that intoxicatingly wompy drum pattern with the snare hitting at the 3rd beat of every bar instead of the doctrinal 2nd or 3rd. The low end bass structure is slowed down to half, giving it a Dubstep feel.

Let’s leave those arguments behind for the moment and focus on the chiefs of today.

Here take a listen to what they’re all about, this is gonna BLOW U AWAY!

Dirty Deeds – Lose It (Drumstep Mix) CLIP DDIG #007 by DirtySynergy

Ok man, let’s get on with the Interview:

BACKGROUND

For those who might not be familiar with who you are, please tell us a little bit about yourself.

We’re Dirty Deeds (SDF1 & Blitz), a couple of fun-lovin’ guys from the L.A. (Los Angeles, California) area who enjoy making music.  Dating many years back, we’ve headlined & been supporting artists on many BIG events and acts here for quite sometime.

For several years we produced Jump Up/Dancefloor style Drum & Bass for several labels in the UK and here in the states.. Our long time performance & release schedule eventually led us to include Dubstep tunes into our repertoire as well.

Shortly after this we embarked on the production & performance of the Drumstep genre, which has become quite a secure fit for us at this time. Of course we still include many styles of DNB & Dubstep into our sets, because really we just like going BIG with the music we play.

DRUMSTEP

How would you describe your musical style?

BIG Fun energetic intense music that you can party, drive around or walk your dog to.

How would you define Drumstep?

Drumstep is… well how about we let people decide by listening. ;)

When did you first hear Drumstep?

We were on the search for Mokele-Mbembe, when off in the distance….

Who would you credit as starting it all off?

Dunno for sure, but we’d like to thank Gregory Sylvester Coleman for his input.

A lot of people say it’s no different to Drum and Bass and does not need a new name like Drumstep, what are your views on this?

Jungle, Tech step, Jump Up, liquid, nuero funk, hardstep, drumfunk, clownstep, dubstep, J Tek…

Is there a Drumstep scene anywhere, and if so, what new names do we need to look out for coming from this scene?

It’s definitely emerging that’s for sure.  We’re seeing more quality artists play it around, and more fans gravitating toward it.

Artists new and established alike are producing it as well:

Dub Foundation
Taxman
Bassnectar
Heist
Danny Thunders
Hoogs
Stick Bubbly
Skorpio
Macky Gee
Mischief & Mayhem
Brockout
And many more talented artists as well.

UP COMING RELEASES

Tell us a little about some of your past & upcoming projects/releases.

Our Captain planet VIP tune came out early this year and was widely accepted by many including DNB Legend Grooverider, who played/rewound it on his BBC Radio 1 show.
Just recently we released ‘Lose It’ on our label and that tune includes vocals by one of us (Blitz), expect the Dubstep remix of this tune out soon as well.

Comin out soon is our Drumstep remix of ‘Hearts Under Fire’ by Vocalist Lea Luna, set for release on Reid Speed’s PLAY ME records.  Much more to come as well.

MUSICAL INFLUENCES

Please give us your TOP 5 Records, dance or otherwise!

In no particular order:

1. Goldie – Timeless
2. Dillinja – Twist em out
3. Prince – Let’s go crazy
4. Wu tang Clan – wu tang forever
5. Vince Black – Standing up for love

Who/what are your musical influences, music or otherwise?

Life experiences mostly.  The world around us / Crowd Reactions.

Your all-time favourite song/piece of music?

Is that possible?!

THE FUTURE

What is next on your musical agenda?

More releases of our music on various labels including ours. Also more drumstep releases by us and other artists on our own Dirty Digital label.

Oh, and we’re getting the live band back together for Dirty Deeds, something we haven’t done since 2008. This will include our music as well as other big tunes with live instrumentation as well.

Where do you see yourself in another 5 years time?

Making music & having fun.

If there is one thing you would like to say to the world, what would it be?

Love – Life – Music.

Do your good works while your here on earth & don’t let ANYONE stand in your way. Most people who try to stifle what you do or say you can’t do something are afraid to do it themselves.

Let the music take you to a higher more positive level.

I couldn’t agree more man with that last statement!

Awesome stuff guys, thanks so much from all of us here at Generation Bass.

I already feel that we’ve just spoken to boyz who are gonna go on and make it MASSIVE and that we’re very lucky to have had this brief opportunity to chat with them, cause soon they might be far too BIG to talk to us..lol..

Grab this XCLUSIVE free choon that we’ve been given especially for all of you Generation Basers’ from these cool dudes, it’s an AWESOME DrumSTeP remix of a Kosheen track:

Kosheen – Hide U (Dirty Deeds DrumSTeP Remix)

To finish, listen to that awesome mix again:

Dirty Deeds – STEP OFF: The Drumstep vs Dubstep Showdown. by Dirty Deeds = Drumstep

ALT DOWNLOAD LINK

TRACKLISTING:

*DRUMSTEP*
1 Bassnectar – Teleport Massive
2 Taxman – Look what you’ve done
3 Heavy Hittahz – The Pearl
4 Dirty Deeds – Lose it
5 Original Sin – Without You
6 Lea Luna & Mike Balance – Thrill of the Chase (J Rabbit Remix)
7 Dirty Deeds – Captain Planet VIP
8 The Force – Darkside
9 Original Sin – Step on
10 Hazard – Wicked So
11 Dub Foundation – The Gunmen
12 Sqlosh – Step off
13 Danny Thunders & Blitz – War of the Worlds
14 Danny Thunders – F*ck ‘Ardcore

*DUBSTEP*
15 Dr Dre & Snoop Dogg – Next Episode (Jay Robinson Clubstep remix)
16 Rusko – Da Cali Anthem
17 Borgore – Foes (16 Bit F*ck Hoes remix)
18 Champur – Punisher
19 Birdman & Lil Wayne – Pop Bottles (Dirty Deeds VIP dub)
20 Simon Bassline Smith & Drumsound – R U Ready (Dubstep mix)
21 Doctor P – Sweetshop
22 12th Planet – Reasons (Doctor P remix)
23 Flux Pavillion – Voscillate (Roxsonix Remix)
24 Barenoize – Chucky
25 Emalkay – When I look at You
26 Bassnectar – Cozza Frenzy (Bassnectar’s MEGA Bass remix)
27 J Messinian & Zound Collector – Terrorize

Dirty Deeds web links:

Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dirty-Deeds/125255598715?ref=ts

Twitter:

http://www.twitter.com/dirty_deeds_

Myspace:
www.myspace.com/dirtydeeds

Drumstep vs Dubstep Mix:
www.soundcloud.com/dirtysynergy/stepoff

Dirty Deeds – Captain Planet VIP
www.soundcloud.com/dirtysynergy/captainplanetradio1

Dirty Deeds – Lose it:

Dirty Digital Music Label:

http://www.youtube.com/user/dirtydigitalmusic

It was a day, during the year 2004. 6 years ago, already.

It was in a small flat of a friend of mine, down the grey suburbs of Budapest, Hungary.  A certain type of border with the very close Balkans territory.
An afternoon end, where the late sunlights were burning the curtains, and my face, getting me out of a too late nap.

This friend just came back from a small trip to Romania, a few hundred Kms ago.  In his suitcase, not only alcoholical souvenirs, but also musicals stuffs. A contempory piece of music.  An audio tape, called « Etno party »

On the top picture of the tape, you can see it, a well done mix of amateur photoshop art and romanian rural bad taste. Don’t smile, hiphop mixtapes are as ugly as that sometimes.  « Crazy things ! It is folkloric dance music ! » he told me.  He keeps on telling me things about this tape, arguing that in Romania, this type of sound is heard everywhere, by everyone. Olds, youngs, in bus, taxis, restaurants, bars…

Then, we decided to listen one tune.

Radu Ille : Sam ca Cant sa cant. Something like « when we sing ».

Radu Ille, the tune : Sam sa cant sa cant.

http://www.mediafire.com/?iyjtmg0tzjz

The singer and artist, originaly from the Maramures Montains, in North Romania, is a bit like a superstar in Romania, a big boy into the Etno Music, or Manele, industry.  Folk bling bling, traditionals suits and bimbos smelling like fresh cutten up grass.Brand new Mercedes rolling down the broken roads of romanian countryside.  Here it is for the visual.

At that time, it sounds incredible for me. It was like a crazy impossible wedding, but wich seems very actual and modern for romanian peoples.

Hip-hop, Dub, Drum n’ bass was for me very new things. I mean, I was living in it, passionately.  No, there, it was allready part of the popular sound landscape. And for a country like Romania,  there, the witheout-big monney producers and Dj’s were playing with thoose codes since few years allready.

They were mixing digital riddims with very tradionals folk songs, tzigans melodies, rural tunes.  Maramures Drum n’ Bass.  Digital reggae from Bucurest.  Fusion Hip Hop from Cluj.

All that mixed with the singer echos, and a big dose of Romanian and Eastern Europe Kitsch Folklore.  Of course, I am conscious that this tune will not sound good according to purist of Bass music, or also to true Folkloric lovers.

Of course, you can tell me « bad taste »…Anyway, it is something.  Like reverse Sono Global.

Here, it is the folk businnes, that samples digital riddims. Not the other way, as usual.  When folk music, takes pieces and parts of bass music to create a new style, in order to send Folk into the 21st century, for everyone.

Latter, when I used to travel down across Eastern Europe, I decided to bring with me a few CD’s and tapes of Etno everytime.  Every single track is symbolic of this strange musical globalisation, for the good, and the bad.
Le meilleur et le pire.  Now, I use to play a tune like this at every gig and party when I am « at the control ».

Peoples sometimes look at me, smiling weirdly, but still dancing like crazy.
Try to listen to this, maybe be you will take pleasure doing that.  And they are so many different styles of Etno and Manele, a huge universe of unknown music for a frenchy like me.  It stills drive me mad sometimes, a little vodka or Palinka glass alongside with me.

Here is the videoclip of this tune. A desert highway, some fresh romanian girls, and here we go !

(to be continued, with romanian Hip-Hop band Parazitii and others crazy balkan culture mixes…)

Ok, more stuff from Poland from this dude, Sulphur Phuture!

This is more Transnational Dubstep orientated with a good measure of  old skool dub, DnB and breakbeats decorated with Polish, Indian and Arabian flavas.

You can download one track free and stream some others

Sulphur Phuture – Tree of Conscience by sulphur_phuture

Sulphur Phuture -Outside Consciousness by sulphur_phuture

Sulphur Phuture – The Last Day Before by sulphur_phuture

Originally posted on JANUARY 18 2010!

I thought we’d give this another re-run because it’s just such an exceptional and extraordinary album.

This album is one of the best Dubstep albums I’ve ever heard.

I was guilty of picking out tracks from the album mainly to DJ out and I didn’t until a few weeks ago give this album the justice it deserved and needed, that is, to play it in full and listen to it in one sitting.

With FLeCk’s stuff you have to give it more than the benefit of a once-over or just hone in to find tracks to play out in a DJ set or to include in a mix.

You really need to “LISTEN” to it too.

The brilliant thing about this album is that it includes a variety of moods and atmosphere and it just gels so well into one cohesive whole.  Each part is related to the one previously or the the one forthcoming, it’s all inextricably intertwined.

The danger is that unless you to listen to it in full, you will miss this aspect of it, which is one of the most important aspects of it.

It’s an album that will in my oopinion stand the test of time because it’s not all about following a fashion or fad, there’s real depth and emotion in this album.

It’s not a quick fix, it’s permanent therapy :-)

So please do check it out and listen to it in full in one sitting as it was meant to be heard!

It will only help to enrich your life!

Some streamers/downloads here BUT grab the whole album in full 320 glory below!

MUZIK IZ A GIFT by FLeCK

FLeCK – Genocide Denied by FLeCK

Proceed with the original post:

DUBSTEP MONDAY @ GENERATION BASS

FLeCK is a producer from Athens (Greece).

FLeCK makes music called DUB*******STEP!

He is the Dubstep Prince of Greece.

GENERATION BASS EDITOR DJ UMB says he is ONE to watch out for in 2010!

We have covered him previously on a few occassions because we LOVE him and his work is HOT & UNIQUE!!

Although he focuses mainly on Dubstep, he also produces in a whole range of other genres from downtempo via dub and drum’n'bass to jungle.

He started back in the 90’s remixing hip hop tunes into jungle and writing music for the theatre, plays and short films.

At the same time, he started dj’ing in Greece and in Italy, dropping jungle/drum’n’bass sets.

Recently, FLeCK got  introduced to Dubstep and started writing tunes that immediately caught the attention of many djs from all over the world.

His first dubstep release was his debut album called “dub muse” in 2009.  The album has 13 tracks ranging from dubstep through to dub and jungle sounds.

You can download it here FOR FREE in excellent 320kbps sound quality.

Generation Bass is the official download site for this free download.

This is the tracklist:

THIS IS THE DOWNLOAD LINK FOR HIS 2009 ALBUM “DUB MUSE”

HIS NEXT ALBUM IS SOUNDING PHENOMENAL AND WILL COME OUT THIS YEAR AND WILL PROPEL HIM INTO THE DUBSTEP SUPER LEAGUE!!!!!

Here’s a mix which contains some of the tracks from the forthcoming album and some which appear on DUB MUSE!

FLeCK-Pesky Plates. by PeskyPlates

SPREAD THE DUB GOSPEL!