It’s Generation Bass (as in ‘base’ and not the fish) and it’s Friday Night, it can only mean one thing, DJ Mixfesssssssst!

DJ FLETCHER

This mix might just turn out to be one of my favourite mixes of this year, it’s original, unique, contains good source material and is quite inventive and the flow is cool. Oh, it also includes tracks by Beats Antique, a band I really love and who I have worked with in the past on a couple of my compilation releases as Shisha Sound System.

It’s by a guy called FLETCHER who comes from South Afreaka!!!

I LOVE it and I’m sure you will do too!!!

Unfortunately the only downside is that it’s not downloadable!!!!  Why some DJ’s still insist on not allowing downloads in this day and age is beyond my comprehension but he can be forgiven for that cause the mix ROCKS!!!

Crunk Up The Dub Mix by fletcher

01 7FT Soundsytem – Piped Piper – Cape Town
02 Beats Antique feat Fanfarra Kalashnikov – Oriental Uno – Oakland
03 Poirier feat Face T – Wha La La Leng [Maga Bo Remix] – Montreal
04 Narchi – Bam Bam Remix – Cape Town
05 Dj C feat Mims / Jnr Reid / Cham – This Is A Stage Show – Boston
06 Mix n Blend – Full Ahead [Krushed & Sorted Remix] – Cape Town
07 Noah D feat Anthony B – Good Sound – Portland
08 Fletcher – Elektro Riddim – Cape Town
09 Breakage feat Roots Manuva – Run ‘Em out – London
10 Narchi – Squelch This – Cape Town
11 Dj C feat Quality Diamond – Let It Billie – Portland
12 Mr Sakitumi – Secret Asian Man (Live @ Earthdance) – Cape Town
13 Beats Antique feat Sweet Snacks – Extra Extra – Oakland
14 P.H.Fat – Big Five [Liver Remix] – Cape Town
15 T.O.B – 5 And A Half Steps – Cape Town
16 Jahdan Blackamoore – Let’s Go – Brooklyn
17 Narchi – Skeletons – Cape Town
18 Vent – Itchy Feet – London
19 Artista Desconhecido – Coco Desconhecido [Maga Bo remix] – Rio De Janeiro
20 Mix n Blend – Sik Wid It [Biscope Remix] – Cape Town

DOMA TORNADOS

Great new mix from our homie Doma….this is just PERCUSSION HEAVEN!!!!!

Some of you peeps know just how much I love my percussion!

You will barely recognise some of the original tracks cause he’s just percussi-fried (nu made up word in true GB style) dem but they sound RAD!

Dame Tornados by domatornados

Tracks+loops+midi clips+live percussion+ fx

1.Rede (Doma Tornados remix)
2.Poppin (Schlachtofbronx) + Subamos (Doma Tornados)
3.Subamos-edit version (Doma Tornados)
4.What da fuck (J.Sanza) + Cuantico (Sustainer)
5.Mad Drumz (Dj Master D/Nguzunguzu refix)+ Sambador (Natema)
6.Crackish (Ms. Dynamite&Geenius) + Marioneta (Vandelklang)
7.Marioneta (Vandelklang)+ Hasret (Omar Faruk Tekbilek) + Ridim (Sheikha Rimitti) + Mentiras (Los Amigos Invisibles)
8.Pura Sangre (Pura) + Sambador (Natema)
9.Sambador (Natema) (Doma Tornados refix)
10.Phoenix City (Yamaha vs Electrico_Doma refix)
Released by: www.hipidukimuzik.com

VIVI PEDRAGLIO

Anybody who knew me (UMB) before Generation Bass will know I had around 10 commercial compilation releases which are still available worldwide.

3 of those were Tango compilations soaking in the Nu Tango scene and some of the trad stuff too.

One of my most exciting new discoveries during that period of Electro Tango was a beautiful young woman from Argentina called Vivi Pedraglio and I licensed a bunch of her material for the compilations. She has since become a good friend of mine and is simply now known to me as “VIVI BABY”.

Not only does Vivi create Electro Tango masterpieces but she also does a variety of other stuff too under her other alter- ego’s, DIAMANDA (Club) and HIJAS DEL RIGOR (Experimental/Downtemp/Ambient).

Here’s a gorgeous downtempo mix she laid down a couple of years back and please do go to her My Space to check out her Electro Tango stuff cause it’s awesome.

Set soundcloud hdr by Vivipedraglio

SONORA

Caballo covered this guy earlier in the week and here’s a great new mix from him.

Sonora – Sonido Mundial Mix by SONORAAA

WAER ROCK

Waer Rock always comes up with interesting material for his mixes and this one ain’t no different, made up wholly of unreleased and exclusive material, which as a head start always makes a mix interesting even before you’ve heard it.

Beats and Bass: NYght Out by Waer Rock

CELT ISLAM

Here’s a mix that Celt Islam did for the BBC a little while back showcasing mostly his own dark and unique SUFI DUB tunes and some dark drum and bass junglism too.

It’s a mind-bender!!!

WORLD ODDYSSEY MIX by CELT ISLAM by Celt Islam

TOMMI BENDERS

Is Tommi a Bender? who cares but he does brilliant Balkan Nights in Amsterdam.

Here’s his latest Balkan mix soaking in the real atmosphere on one of his nights and staying true to the more trad and gypsy punk style stuff as opposed to bastardized watered down club stuff, which I usually do..lol

On request a new mixtape with just “BALKAN”-music…it ended up in a sorta “greatest hits/best of..”, so it gives an impression of the balkanparty scene in the Netherlands..

TRACKLIST
C-MON & KYPSKI – circus
SHANTEL – bucovina dub rmx
VV – musika dika
MALA VITA – el cerbrero
GOGOL BORDELLO – sally
LA CARAVANE PASSE – takakadikki
ACQUINA DROM – tessaloniki
AMSTERDAM KLEZMER BAND – a chassid in amsterdam
DOBRANOTCH – fun der huppe
MAGNIFICO – hir i kum hir i go
BIJELO DUGME – rok n roll
DELADAP – goldregen (noha rmx)
RIVA STARR – i was drunk
GORAN BREGOVIC – prostitutke (samrabam rmx)
ESMA – chaje shukarija
OSTBLOCKET – rumania
FANFARE CIOCARLIA – hora cu strigaturii

DJ GREENFLY

DJ Greenfly has done the right thing and moved on to Dubstep and Half-Step.

So here’s a really listenable Dubstep mix with shades of Half-Step thrown in, the latter created by our very own Ghosryda and so of course as he’s the only guy currently doing Half-Step, those are his tracks in the mix.

Tracklisting:

ronit rasta-dvash ori schochat alarm
spoon-the ghost of you lingers (gavin holland bootleg)
FLECK-MERDA
kode 9-skeng
parker-wher’s my monkey
ghosryda-only truth
ghosryda vs ben venom-flesh eater halstep
pirate sound system-my dimension
kode 9- 2 far gone

Ok, 2009 is almost up and so it’s THANK YOU time.

Just want to say a BIG, BIG thanks to Vince who had the vision and foresight to start up this blog back in February this year, were it not for him, Gen Bass would NOT EXIST.

Believe it or not I did not know much about blogs at that time and this blog was one of the first that I came across around that time and I instantly knew this was the one for me.  I was familiar with all this music and had been into it for a while but never thought about presenting it in this way.

Vince brought me on board and we just clicked.  I hope we managed to succeed in presenting to you the best new, innovative and ground-breaking Transnational Bass sounds out there in 2009.

Man we’ve had some huge highs, like the Manu Chao thing, being voted as Top 10 blog by Afropop Worldwide and getting accolades from some major superstar djs, artists, labels and music Godfathers.  Man we never thought we’d be this influential!!!

Then there’s the stats, which we find incredible to believe.  We keep on thinking there must be a hitch somewhere on the counter running up the stats, perhaps its putting too many zeros at the end of the numbers…lol

I want to thank everybody who’s been following us here.  Everybody who has followed me via Facebook, My Space, Fairtilizer and Soundcloud.

Man I get embarrassed by some of the amazing comments you guys leave for me and I often think have they left it for the wrong person, mistaken identity perhaps…lol…..but man it makes my day to hear the things you say and I’m eternally grateful to you for taking the time and making the effort to do so, that is SUPA DOPE!!!

Many of you often ask me…UMB..where do you find this shit…..and my reply is always, I just follow my nose, I can smell it and that’s how I find it!!!

Big, Big thanks also to our other blog homies:

Hipi Duki whose amazing Soundamerica series just goes from strength to strength.  Dude thanks so much for putting all the painstaking time and effort to put those great compilations together.  They’re unique and this is what we hope this blog is all about.

Caballo, my bro’ from another mo’.  Caballo has just been on FIRE since he started making contributions.  It was not long before I realized, dude, this guy is doing a better job than you are on some of the features you set up and so it’s pass the baton time and so Magnificent Sunday Seven has become Caballo’s M.S.7. rightfully and deservedly so.  Man he puts so much work, enthusiasm and detail into his posts, it’s incredible and we’re very lucky to have him on board.

I think what Caballo and Hipi both do that me and Vince could never do is present South American flava’s in a way which is more authentic and real than we could ever do.  Cause they’re both South American and it takes a South American to get into the real South American psyche.  There are certain things, maxims and a presence that a Dutch guy and a an English guy could never represent like a true South American!!!

Then there’s our superstar bloggers..lol…Sticky K, Zuzuka and Frederic Galliano.  Man these are people we look up to and yet here they are making a contribution to our humble blog and in return it demonstrates their humbleness.

Sticky has been very busy with a variety of things and so he’s not been able to make as much as a contribution as he said he’d like to have done but he keeps on delivering those exclusive remixes for us from time to time and man that is sikkk!!!

Zuzuka, has been keeping us all up to date with all that’s been going on in NYC with her parties’ and man that’s so COOL.

Frederic who has presented some amazing exclusive stuff from some of the major players in South Africa, Tony Armado-King of Kuduro and DJ Mbuso, in addition to exclusives of his own material.

Thanks also to Dave Quam and Wear Rock who also made a small contribution earlier in the year.

So what about 2010, well Vince will tell you a little bit more in his and our final post of 2009.

All that I can add is that we hope to have a Generation Bass Digi Label up and running in 2010 where we will present some very exciting artist and compilation releases.

BIG THANKS TO YOU ALL, I HOPE YOU’LL KEEP COMING BACK IN 2010!!

“APPEAR AS YOU ARE, BE AS YOU APPEAR” – {RUMI }

Just something to remember when we are entering the new year: the future is not evil. This one goes out to sci fi readers worldwide. Also to tropicalists worldwide. aahh well, to everyone basicly innit?? I tried to blend some dif genres in this one, hope it works for you, I was going for uptempo cumbia but failed there, so this isnt a sdp cut, but a vince the prince one

VINCE THE PRINCE – THE FUTURE

Hey guys, just a reminder,  if you’re in Amsterdam tomorrow, we’ll be there too.

Vince The Prince and DJ Umb, at the Contrabanda Festival on Saturday 28 November 2009 alongside Zulu 9.30 & Rotfront at the Club Paradiso after-party.

We’ll be exactly where we belong in the UNDERGROUND, the basement bar

Hope you can make it!

As another special treat here’s an exclusive DJ MIX by DJ TOMMI BENDERS that he did especially for the Festival.

CONTRABANDA 2009 MIXTAPE

Hey guys if you’re in Amsterdam next weekend, we’ll be there too, Vince The Prince and DJ Umb, at the Contrabanda Festival on Saturday 28 November 2009 alongside Zulu 9.30 & Rotfront at the Club Paradiso after-party.

We’ll be exactly where we belong in the UNDERGROUND, the basement bar

Hope you can make it!

As a treat here’s a special & exclusive DJ MIX by DJ Yuriy Gurzhy from Rotfront that he did especially for the Festival.

IMMIGRANT RADIO MIX

Homies, some good news given to us by our good friend Garrett Baker of FlipSwitch PR who pointed us into the direction of AFROPOP WORLDWIDE, who have voted your boyz and girl into their Top 10 of the best blogs.

Man, we are very pleased with this considering we were not expecting it or any type of recognition of this sort.  That’s never been our aim.  Our aim is just to share what we love with whoever wants to lock into us.

It does feel great standing next to the other blogs in that list, Mad Decent, ZZK, Mudd Up, Dutty Artz, Ghetto Bassquake, Birdseed, Wayne & Wax, The Fader and some others.  A very impressive list of blogs, who we really look up to.

Man we’re stoked!

Thank you Afropop and thanks, everybody!

Ok we’ve set up a SOUNDCLOUD group called GLOBAL GHETTOTECH!

If you’re making beats such as Kuduro, Cumbia, Baile Funk, Dancehall, Barefoot, Gime, Dubstep. Lectro, Wonk, Tropical, Fidget and all bass heavy vbyz preferably with a Transnational element/influence, then send your track over to join the group.

So there’s like already over 40 tracks/mixes/remixes there already and so this Friday shake your booty to Global Ghettotech Heaven!

GLOBAL GHETTOTECH

Upload you tracks/dj mixes/remixes

Big ups from the durty south people! Here’s a complete album of house and bass in pretty much all it’s forms by Tilburg’s finest producers, VIRGIN FANG. Actually, this group is another thang i’ve been working on the last couple of years with my homeboy HERR MULLER, and we just decided to give away about 3 albums worth of tunes.

Some of this stuff has been released on vinyl, but didnt sell very well. We like to think we were ahead of the times or maybe people just didnt dig the fluorescent sleeves and silly imagery. Whatever the case, we still like the songs very much and are happy to now spread them for free on the www!

Check out this free album and share whereever you want:

VIRGIN FANG – ANIMAL MAGNETISM

01. you talk too much*
02. the sun, the moon and the stars
03. i eat ants
04. subhead face*
05. none of you left
06. durty
07. skidder#
08. big boys dont cry
09. black people
10. hail mary
11. fool
12. why would u

* taken from VF001, vinyl only release
# taken from VF002, vinyl only release

all tracks produced by virgin fang

http://www.virginfang.com

http://www.myspace.com/virginfang

http://clone.nl/artist/virgin+fang

Hey, we promised you an exclusive interview from the KUDURO DONS and here we have it.

The GODFATHER OF KUDURO, TONY AMADO is interviewed by the GODFATHER OF KUDURO IN THE WEST, FREDERIC GALLIANO.

Galliano (our brother, whose a very good looking boy too…hahahaha) did this exclusively for your homies’ GENERATION BASS!

Tony was in France to do a live gig and some dance performance show-cases and luckily Fred was there with him too and took the time out especially to do this short “fun” interview for US!

What can we say, THANK U Mr Galliano and Mr. Amado!

Wow, it means a hell of a lot to us to be mentioned in such ground-breaking and innovative company.  Tony and Fred are artists, who we have admired for a long time!

Not only do we have a short video interview for you but also a free inedit TONY AMADO track for download!!!

LINK TO THE INTERVIEW HERE

Tony Amado – Bo Noite

Sorry for this repeat but here’s all the official info/spiel from Akwaaba Music about the Kuduro mix:

DJ UMB of Generation Bass takes the wheels and compresses our kuduro comp Akwaaba Sem Transporte into a 30 minute get yo azz up and get to work mix, perfect for this back to school season. So download it, or better yet, subscribe to our podcast (or subscribe directly in iTunes), listen to UMB’s mix and get on your ish!!!!

UPDATE:

Seems like Akwaaba link is not working although you can listen to it on I-Tunes by clicking on their I-Tunes link OR

LISTEN/DOWNLOAD HERE