[insert obligatory apologies for not posting recently here – and on to the whomps!]

Shouts to top-notch whompbloggers Chrome Kids for posting this Starkey live show from Sub.fm. I love the internet because of things like this – you get to hear one of the best DJs in the game play all the newest, freshest, whompiest beats. Look past the Drake and Soulja Boy crust, and you’ll find a luscious futurebass frittata, bursting with tasty fillinz. Great new stuff all around with standout tracks from Monky, Gemmy, NastyNasty and Egyptrixx.

Tracklist:

01 – Starkey “Alienstyles”
02 – Drake ft. the Dream “Shut It Down”
03 – Soulja Boy “Pretty Boy Swag”
04 – Grum “Can’t Shake This Feeling”
05 – Kano “Get Wild”
06 – Egyptrixx “Rooks Theme”
07 – Helix “Untitled”
08 – Sheba “Serious (Starkey remix)”
09 – Halp “Leek (Astroposer remix)”
10 – Speaker For the Dead “illusioNaire”
11 – Mestizo “Let It Spray”
12 – Teddy “Devil’s Mansion”
13 – Royal-T “Damn It”
14 – Clairvoyants “Modern Day Slavery (Wonder remix)”
15 – Monky “Hypa Nova”
16 – SDUK “InValid”
17 – Gemmy “Jah Kno”
18 – Verb “Drank It All”
19 – Stagga “Ghetto Yutes”
20 – P-Money “Woo Riddim Freestyle”
21 – Slugabed “PO”
22 – Siren “Summer Time in Oakland”
23 – NastyNasty “Apologies”
24 – Stagga”Beyond”
25 – Miki Grems “J’Thumilie”
26 – DJ Nate “See Into My Eyes”
27 – Kastle “Better Off Alone (NastyNasty remix)”
28 – Kanye West “Power (ft. Dwele)”
29 – By Proxy “Under Ground”
30 – Epcot “Bad Dreamcatcher”
31 – DJ Nate “Footwurk Homocide”
32 – Mr. Scruff vs Kirsty Almeida “Pickled Spider”
33 – Swede:art “Wonkybikez”
34 – Amp Live “Turn It Up (Marty Party remix)”
35 – Brisco “On the Wall ft. Lil Wayne (instrumental)”
36 – Range “Ghetto Dance ft. Rick Ross”
37 – Reso & Starkey “Untitled New Thing”
38 – Innerpartysystem “American Trash (Starkey remix)”
39 – Siyoung “Eros”
40 – 8Bitch “G41 (Rustie remix)”
41 – Terror Danjah “Air Bubble (Starkey remix)”
42 – Slugabed “Sex”
43 – Drums of Death “Everything All At Once”
44 – Numan “Quezt”
45 – Mr Healan “Mad Love For Zaggins”
46 – Nelly Furtado “Turn Off the Lights (Dro Carey remix)”
47 – Grimelock ft. Rose T “Balance”
48 – Distal “Coke Bottle”
49 – Cassie “Me & U (Kastle remix)”
50 – Chrissy Murderbot “Poison”
51 – Monky “Hey Miss”
52 – Ghost Mutt “Thouroughbred”


DOWNLOAD HERE.

This is a blatant reblogging of the breaking story over at Stoney Roads, but apparently…well, you can read the title of this post. The mix just dropped today, head over to the official site give Mad Decent some demographic info in exchange for a free download.


I’m not saying this is gonna be awesome. I’m not even saying that you’ll listen to it more than once. Diplo’s a great producer, but his mixtapes always fall flat for me – I thought “Piracy Funds Terrorism” sounded like a top 40 night. But something tells me this will at least be entertaining – maybe it’s the illustration of La Roux in an Iron Man suit? Or maybe it’s this track title: “In 4 The Kill Pon De Skream”. Either way, I’m downloading this now, and suggest you do the same. 

An appropriately titled mix, as this does grow and expand the contemporary notion of lovestep. I know the last thing we need is another subgenre (and this is not the time or place to rehash the brostep debate) but lovestep is an apt term, crystallizing something significant going on in music right now; a lush, flourescent corner of dubstep, awash in gorgeous mid-heavy synths and female vocals that yearn, nourish, challenge and engage a tender part of the listeners consciousness. In a space usually dominated by buzzsaw noises and disembowling bass-drops, it’s refreshing to hear producers using the tropes of dubstep to tell a more hopeful, emotionally resonant story with their music. Beating audio swords into plowshares, as it were. . .

Biscope – Let Your Love Grow Mix by biscope

Tracklist:
1. Joy Orbison – Hyph Mngo
2. Biscope – Dragonfly featuring Zaki Ibrahim
3. Biscope – Little Dragon Versus Burial Twice
4. Cosmin TRG – Strobe Lick
5. MJ Cole – Sincere (Nero Remix)
6. Biscope – Slip featuring Black Porcelain
7. Modeselektor – Let Your Love Grow featuring Paul St. Hillaire
8. Mala – Level Nine
9. Biscope – Lace featuring Black Porcelain
10.Breakage – Higher
11.Simian Mobile Disco – Bad Intentions (Joker Remix)
12.Cinnamon Chasers – Luv Deluxe (Scuba Remix)
13.Erykah Badu – Trying to Decide (Biscope Boot)
14.Efdemin – Acid Bells (Martyn’s Bittersweet Remix)

Udachi, one of the best damn producers in Brooklyn, quietly put up this slice of pure summer gold a few weeks ago as his submission for the Yeasayer Remix contest.  I don’t listen to Yeasayer, but I’ve been listening to this on repeat. Sounds like “Graceland”-era Paul Simon driving to a summer rave in LA, at sunset, with all the windows down. Luscious, jubilant mango music. Also check out Udachi’s super-fresh Spring 2010 mix, chock full of all dat good new shit you never heard. 


Yeasayer – O.N.E (Udachi remix) [Remix Contest] by udachi

My boys Mad Zach (aka Count Spankula) and R2 the Specialist have been killing it for a minute now with their uniquely west-coast sound. This is one of the most mashing tracks from their new album, “Wolfspiders”, out now on Muti Music. It hit #1 on the addictech charts the week it was released, so you’ll be hearing this stuff out. Look for them making a SUPER SPECIAL SECRET east coast appearance this summer – I’ll keep you guys posted.

subeater! by R2thespecialist

First thing in my ears this morning is a leak of the new Chali 2na single Feat. RUSKO! My favorite mc from middle school doing a track with the King of Brostep? It doesn’t disappoint folks – 2na rides the beat with dexterity, and Rusko brings the wobble, but tones down the chainsaw noises to keep things head noddin, not neck snapping. A surprisingly tempered affair, and a good sign of things to come – not just from 2na’s album, but also intelligent, well matched collabs between dubstep producers and emcees.

Check it over at DJ Cable’s blawg< (your resident authority on the intersection of hiphop/dubstep), or just go str8 for the download link.

You know what I hate? When a DJ is talking about how good a track is, while said track is playing, so that the listener can’t really hear it, enjoy it or come to their own conclusions. That being said, I don’t mind it in so much in this case: the track is “Feldspar”, by Bay Area homie EPROM, and the DJ is Philly’s Street Bass Don, Starkey. Starkey’s enthusiasm is just so effervescent and genuine, and it’s hard to be mad, given what great exposure this is for EPROM to get biggup’d from such a preeminent tastemaker as Starkey. Nice one bruva!!


Feldspar (Starkey SUBFM Radio Rip) by eprom

The Specials have always been a very special band to me. They were the first live show I ever saw, in LA at the Key Club, when I was maybe 10 or 11 (this was when they reunited in ’96). All nostalgia aside tho, they were one of the most forward thinking and influential groups with a predominantly dub sound. If you think you’ve never heard em, pick up a copy of their self-titled LP from 1979 and you’ll realize you probably know half the tracks.

So never have I been more thrilled to hear a cover, than when Ghetto Bassquake (whom you should be subscribed to, because they are amazing) dropped this little jewels in my ears last week: Fantasma’s incredibly excellent cumbia cover of “Ghost Town” – that cumbia shuffle just works so brilliantly over a reggae song performed by Londoners featuring an orientalized snakecharmer riff… this is a quintessentially postmodern jam, with musical roots on just about every continent.

Download HERE.

THURSDAY 5/6:

METROPOLIS at Love ft. RONI SIZE
Roni Size is pretty much the godfather of Drum n Bass. If you’re reading this blog, you’ve heard his shit. Go see him rip it up on Love’s uber soundsystem with the whole Bass Fueled Mischief crew – Hellfire Machina (who have been absolutely crushing it with their Headspace parties), Code of Arms, Odi and Morphous – holding it down.

Git yr tix here. This is TONIGHT!!!!

FRIDAY 5/7:

CATURDAY 5/8:

CASSETTENYC at the Paul Robeson Theatre
Cassette is a uniquely awesome party. Pseudo-monthly, and held at a different unsexy Brooklyn venue each time, the residents include big names like Machine Drum,  Lando Kal (of LazerSword), Eliot Lipp and Praveen (who isn’t a big name afaik but deserves his props cuz he holds it down with the crew).

This time around, they have the very savvy addition of Mike Slott and FaltyDL –   who’ve both put out music on such uberhip labels as Planet Mu, Ramp and Hotflush.

What makes Cassette really awesome, though, is how all the DJs tag team, song after song. There’s usually 2 tables with 3 or 4 DJs with laptops and a gaggle of midi controllers and cables – from this techy stew arises a relentlessly danceable mash of original productions, exclusive shit, big tchunes and throwback jamz. Bring your outta-town friends, and tell them you’re takin em to the coolest party in Brooklyn – because you are.

SUNDAY 5/9

Shakey’s Record Fair at Public Assembly
Take a day off from partying and wobble, and go check out this record fair and party. 7PM to 2AM, so you 9-5ers can come too!

They wrote it up pretty damn good over at the Dubspot Blog, so I’m just gonna quote them:
“Dubspot friend, veteran NYC DJ, and founder of theWarper Party, Julie Covello, aka DJ Shakey, is hosting one of her renowned record fairs on May 9th.  Be sure to stop by, roll up your sleeves, and dig through some dog-eared gems, just like those hero’s of yours did before all this DVS digital-DJing craziness.

Sponsored by Dubspot, Wax Poetics, Turntable Lab,Cine Noir Film Society“

MONDAY 5/10: 

First lady of Bass on a Funktion 1 system? Jesus christ on a bicycle, this one is a fucking no-brainer before I even mention that it’s FREE and there’s a FREE OPEN BAR. And the legendary astral-traveler Francois K will be on decks as well, as it is Deep Space.

Lazer Sword just upped a whole buncha tracks to soundcloud from the Golden Handshake EP. Composed in ’07, but released this week, you’ll recognize a lot of these tracks from your favorite mixes. A few initial rxns to hearing these on their own:

3d Action Jackson –
Music to blast in your space cadillac on as you order get your astro-burgers with EXTRA lazer sauce. Serious top-notch glitch-disco.
Lando Kal – 3D Action Jackson  by  LAZER SWORD

Trapperkeeper –
A trackname that will thrill any 80s baby, is a mega-man boss theme on ketamine. Get into it.
Low Limit – Trapperkeeper  by  LAZER SWORD

Penguine ft. E40-
Hugg n Pepp have been doing some big things lately, evidenced by their recent collaboration with the scion of hyphy, E-40 (at least until the resurreection of Mac Dre). Big tchune here, classic ninja-turtle sewer murkin shit.
Hugg & Pepp – Penguini (Lando Kal Edit)  by  LAZER SWORD

Gold Star Radiation –
With a nice variety of robot squawks, sporadic claps, digital slap bass and chunkily-reverbed space-synth stabs, Justice comparisons aren’t that far off the mark. But there’s a nuanced funk here, that informs the listener this comes from a producer more interested in seeing your booty move than seeing his name move up the hypem charts.
Hovatron – Gold Star Radiation (Lando Kal remix)  by  LAZER SWORD

Where ya Been 7.0 –
pretty standard gangsta-blip-hop with lots of gun-noise samples, but the slowed down, glitched-out breakdown at 2:38 will have you reachin for the TURBO button on your custom SNES controller.
Low Limit – Where You Been 7.0  by  LAZER SWORD

Hot off the cloudpress this morning! The King of All Whomps himself, Bassnectar just uploaded 5 BRAND NEW tracks to his soundcloud. There’s a lot I could say right now, but I’m gonna opt for content over commentary and let the new heat speak for itself. WHOMP!!!!!

Bassnectar – Magical World feat. Nelly Furtado (FREE DOWNLOAD) by Bassnectar

Bassnectar – Bass Head by Bassnectar

Bassnectar – Timestretch by Bassnectar

DJ Vadim – Maximum ft La Methode (Bassnectar & ill.Gates Remix) by Bassnectar

Bassnectar – Timestretch (West Coast Lo Fi Remix) by Bassnectar

No background info on the creators, but this new documentary gives a really great and nuanced look at dubstep via interviews with producers who created it. Borgore, Benga, Starkey and more. There are subtitles the whole time, which is good, because between the heavy beats and heavier UK accents and all the French, German and other languages in the film, language kinda melts into the background.

watch it here, for free: http://www.dbstep.be

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BIG BIG BIG UPS to our homeboy DJ Barney Iller for snagging a spot on the lineup at Mad Breaks Tea Party on friday the 19th. He’s spinning with some of the finest: Marty Party (1/2 of pAnTyRaId with Ooah of the Glitch Mob, you can google them yourself) and Do Lab resident Braden. Incidentally, Braden started the 16bit & Beyond (warning: loud autoplay) party in LA, which is hosting whomp-faves Sub Swara in Los Angeles on friday. Between that and Bay area faves EPROM + ESKMO at Dub War the same night, there’s some SERIOUS East Coast/West Coast bass science cross-pollination going on this weekend!

But I digress! This post iin’t about that, it’s about the man DJ BARNEY ILLER. First off, hit play on this mix, then keep reading:

Barney Iller – Barney Iller Don’t Give A Fuck mix  by  barneyiller

K, now that you’re startin to feel kinda wiggly, let’s get into it: Barney Iller has been makin peeps do dances they’ve never done before for many many years now as a resident at Rubulad (I think it’s so funny that there’s a Yelp page for a legendary underground party venue – since ’94, son!). My first Barney Iller experience was maybe 6 months ago, when a certain pink-haired friend of mine told me, to paraphrase,

“You know those amazing Baptazia videos? Well there’s a party just like that at Rubulad this week. Where everyone wears there Sunday Best and loses their shit to Drum N’ Bass.”

Turns out Barney Iller is the (a?) mastermind behind that. And it was pretty much a done deal from there on out. His mixes and remixes are all choice, eclectic, and his sense of humor only serves to reinforce his sense of how to make you dance like you’re feelin the holy spirit. Fuck a tweet, follow this dude on soundcloud! RIGHT NOW!

Barney will also be gracing the decks at Bass Fueled Mischief’s next event, METROPOLIS #2 at Love, tag teaming with 45 legend Shakey (founder of the almost 4 years old now Warper parties). This event totally deserves it’s own post, but for now, just know that it is an EARTHSHATTERING lineup of NYC faves:

Art by the most excellent inumocca

AT THE FIRE
ASTOUNDING new mix from Dutty Artz’s own Mosholu Park, entitled “I’m At The Fire! Baby, Where Are You?”. According to the post,

“At The Fire Is NOT a MIX – it is an EMOTION — or rather a series of emotions”.

And he’s right – this is future emo at it’s finest. Robotic dub tears. Not party music, but more like the soundtrack to those unstoppable 3-6am creativity sessions after fighting with your lover.  It sounds like a supercomputer cluster going through a messy breakup. And it’s the first mix I’ve heard really successfully drop that new Big Boi joint, “Fo Yo Sorrows”, which I find more compelling with ever listen. Also has fresh shit from Shadetek, Terror Danjah, Schlohmo, Lucky Dragons and lots more.

GET IT HERE

PURE HEADNOD
New mix from Pure! This guys has put out tons of classic mixes that I’ve found via subnav.com. One of the few DJs that is truly and effortlessly in control at the intersection of hip hop, experimental and electronica. This one features choice cuts from Dabrye, Skipless, Machine Drum, Blue Sky Black Death, CanOx and Four Tet.

Honestly, I haven’t listened to this yet, but Pure has a flawless track record with me, and it comes highly recommended via my girl Ashton at UG Strategies. Plus, it’s brought to us by Percussion Lab, who are purveyors consistently high quality mixes.

GET IT HERE

BRING THE RUCKUS 
Brand new remix from Ruckus Roboticus. This guy is a big favorite over here at Whomptronica Industries, plays all our holiday parties. Makes the whole accounting department go dumb, every time. 

In his own words:

“My official remix for Fool’s Gold (the band). One part “World Cafe”, one part indie pop, and one part lo-fi electro… Please ENJOY!”

Fool’s Gold – Nadine (Ruckus Roboticus Remix) by Ruckus Roboticus

BONUS! Ruckus Roboticus remixes Australian rap duo KillaQueenz Boyfriend single – LOVING the sample from The Angels My Boyfriend’s Back.

KillaQueenz “Boyfriend” (Ruckus Roboticus Remix) by Ruckus Roboticus

You should be following him on Soundcloud RIGHT NOW. Get on that. And then you wouldn’t be sleeping on his hilarious mambo remix of I’m In Miami Bitch.

PARIS DJS

Grant Phabao and Djouls are two world-class diggers and mixtape maestros, running the site ParisDJs.com. While they mostly focus on world music, dub, hip hop and other funky shit, they also dabble in some whompier stuff.

One of my favorite ongoing features is their mixtape series, “Who is Molesting Laura”, now on installment 17! The “Laura” series is always all covers, but each one has a different theme.  They dropped 3 of them the yesterday, and episode 14 is a mix of roots reggae mashed with hip-hop and classic party jamz. Supreme.

Starting off with a VERY inspired mashup of Max Romeo’s Chase the Devil (famously sampled by Prodigy in Outer Space) and Lauryn Hill’s “Ready or Not”, there’s also a ragga cover of Shimmy Shimmy Ya, Jamie Liddell’s Multiply getting chopped and screwed over a totally different chord progression, and Blackstreet, MJ and Wu Tang all show up to get irie too!

GET IT HERE and subscribe to their RSS and podcast already!

Some freshness for ya face:

SUB SWARA PODCAST #008
Hot off the podpresses, Subswara’s third podcast in as many months! This used to be one of those every 4-5 months podcasts, so I’m really glad they’ve been picking up the pace. I really can’t stop saying good things about Sub Swara until I see every one of you at their shows (and they’ve been hinting at the next Sub City Sessions – the last one was epic).

Featuring superfresh unreleased exclusives from DZ, Benga, Dev79 remixing Erykah Badu, LD remix of Mungo’s Hi-Fi, and a spanking new track from Sharmaji and Juakali of Sub Swara.

You’ve Got the Love (The xx Remix) –

couldn’t find the original story, but this song was one music bloggers entire year-end list, eloquently stating that (and I’m paraphrasing here, sorry) while it might not be the most facemeltinglyskullcrushing blah blah whatever, it does exactly what all good music should do, “get you laid”!

BRAINFEEDER PODCAST – 10 YEARS OF FLYING LOTUS MIXED BY GASLAMP KILLER
ft. Art by Flying Lotus…. really nothing more to say here that the title doesn’t already. These two names are synonymous with awesome in my book.

SCHLOHMO XLR8R PODCAST
This kid is 19? Jesus, he was a freshman when I was a senior! And he’s totally killin it on chilled-synth-wonk-wobble-nu-illbient juicebox beats for introspective kids who spent a lot of time watching cartoons with spaceships and robots and staring out car windows. I mean, seriously, he drops a track by Low Limit (of Lazer Sword) called “Trapperkeeper”! 80s babies ftw.

Oh and for the record, Schlohmo is not, afaik, the UK Beatboxer Shlomo as some others have asserted.

BONUS XMAS MIX BATTLE:
DJ Cable vs Murdertronics

Both Cable and Murdertronics dropped Christmas-themed mixes this week (tho Cable’s was from last year) and both feature quite a few of the same tracks. Who killed it harder?? Both have their merits but I’d be interested to hear what y’all think…

Link to Cable’s Mix and post about it.

Murdertronics Christmas featuring MegaBone Mix 01  by  Murdertronics

flyer by the effervescently phosphorescent LenoraJayne.com


This is going to be a seriously Brooklyn throwdown…soooo many good people will be in the building tonight!!! We got Code of Arms, Odi & Diggadee representing Konkrete Jungle and Methods and the Darkroom Crew. Jubilee and Proper Villians repping Nightshifters, and American Dream Team will kill it as always,  Atom C will bring out the NYCRavers krew, no doubt, Ritalin and Sam Black (TOGETHER AGAIN!!!) for some serious Original Brooklyn flava… 


If everything goes off, this could be a historic night…see you there!!!


Info below ripped + condensed from the fbook event:


COPY:

Join us as we take you on a musical and counter-cultural experience that explores our electronic community and its long-lasting relationship with all things chemiluminescent. This evening will truly be a trip to the cutting edge of psychedelia and beyond…We encourage you to bring items of a glowing, fluorescent, luminescent, and blinking nature.

LINEUP:
MICRO
VENOM
X-DREAM
GONZO
ODI and DIGGADEE
HAVOK
THE AMERICAN DREAM TEAM
PROPER VILLIANS
COBRA KRAMES
JUBILEE
DREAD
RITALIN and MurdaMouf
JOHN BAS
CODE OF ARMS
JET VS AUDIOPHILE
KB SONIC
ATOM C

INFO:

DOORS by SAM BLACK (natch!)
TIME: 9pm sharp till the sun comes up. (10-6)
AGES: 18 to enter 21 to glow (Please have proof positive ID for entry and purchase of alcohol. In other words … no ID no entry)
LOCATION: Hello Brooklyn 18 Commerce Street Brooklyn (map), NY (F or G Train to Smith/9th) (RED HOOK)
PRODUCTION: We will be sparing no expense this evening to make this venue truly glow!

Lights, Lazers, and Black light installations by Power Trip Lighting. (this is a very good thing)
Visuals by VJ Awaiz
sound by AudioLust

FREE: U.V. face and body painting and Glow Sticks ALL NIGHT!

ADMISSION:
$15 in advance @ BROOKLYNGLOWS.COM till dec 24th
$20 @ The door Before 11pm
$25 After 11pm

Drink specials all night
$5 vodka shots with PBR
$5 vodka well mixer drinks

Happy Holla-Daze!

And a whompy New Year!

And now… a heavy dose of remixed holiday audio/video schlock from dem boys called Eclectic Method. Get your xmas Love & Hate on in under 3 minutes! Party hard with the Gremlins, Muppets and the Pumpkin King!  Heavy beats + choice samples!

Eclectic Method – Haul The Decks 2009 from Eclectic Method on Vimeo.
via Brian Life (thanks homie!)

One of the really standout artists I found this year was Streetlab. Based just down the road from us in Brooklyn, these two gents have been cranking out remixes that absolutely knock my socks off.

And today they announced via facebook that THEY ARE GIVING AWAY EVERY TRACK & REMIX THEY PRODUCED THIS YEAR. Click on that bigass link to get em! These are two prolific dudes – something like 20 remixes and another half dozen originals. And they all slay. In particular, I want to listen to that Hall & Oates remix all the goddamn time.

Their style really reminds me of The Philip Steir remix of “Magic Carpet Ride” from the GO soundtrack (anyone else play that one till your discman broke?) – they preserve the vibe of the original track while amping it up with modern production… par example, peep their most excellent remix of Gimme Shelter below:

The Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter (streetlab mix)  by  Streetlab

So what are you waiting for?! Go cop the rest of these fantastic tracks!

Streetlab – 2009 Roundup

(Dancehall reggae + 50 stars simultaneously going supernova + aural autofellatio) / 2009 =

REDLIGHT

It’s no wonder the likes of Rusko, Jackmaster, and Toddla T have his tracks in rotation…

Here’s his Badboy Crab Meat Mix (dl in link) for FACT magazine

Tracklist:

Redlight & Dynamite – Weepers* MASSIVE
Redlight – Kid Soldiers (2:25)
Redlight – Champion Style (4:42)
Redlight Feat Serocee, Dread & Omi – Be With You (Dubplate Mix) (6:00)*
Redlight – Rock Bottom (8:22)
Redlight Ft Jenna G & Jammer – Pick Up The Phone (9:44)
Redlight – Stupid (12:14)*
Redlight Ft Redskin & Scorpio – Twist Up (13:23)
Redlight – MDMA (15:12)* MASSIVE
Redlight Ft Redskin, Zaniah & Dread – Feel So Good (17:00)*

Cop Lobster Boy EP on Lala sooner rather than later.

I get so HYPED when the little blue dot shows up next to the Brainfeeder podcast in my iTunes. More than any other crew, Brainfeeder makes me miss the West Coast. And today’s mix is extra hype because it’s chock full of fresh exclusives from one of my absolute all-time favorites….from San Francisco, California: