Zeds Dead live on BBC

The insane duo from Toronto has done it again – this 20 minute mix showcases a newer, and very much electro, sound for them. They still bring some roughneck bass towards the end, but more than half these tracks have some ravey vocals – normally that’s a dealbreaker for me,  but they pull it off.

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Circus Records Winter Mixtape

You’re gonna be hearing these bangers all year, may as well get to know them now. Superbad, in particular, makes me really, really happy – fuckin great to hear what Flux Pavillion can do with live drums and real guitars. These guys are puttin the fun(k) back in dubstep.

Tracklist
0m 0s // Roksonix – Music In Me
2m 32s // Brown and Gammon – Blow My Mind
3m 41s // Scroobius Pip – The Struggle (Doctor P Remix)
5m 30s // Flux Pavilion & Skism – Jump Back
7m 48s // Roksonix – Madness
9m 37s // Doctor P & Flux Pavilion – Superbad
11m 0s // Doctor P – Tetris
13m 3s // Doctor P – Watch Out
14m 53s // Brown and Gammon – Riddle Me This
16m 29s // Krome & Time – The License (Doctor P Remix)

Revolvr – The Chamber Mix Show

Straight electro fire. I don’t know much about Revolvr except that he sent me a track on soundcloud and got an instant follow. And ever since then, it’s one burner after another from this dude. This mix is everything I love about electro – chunky synth lines, big fat fucking kicks, vocals that know their place in the mix and aren’t cheesy, and maximum jackage.
[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/30006855″]

TRACKLIST
Umek – & Beltek – Pitchcraft
Chris Lake – Sundown (Lazy Rich Remix)
Alesso – Nillionare
Afrojack – Lionhearts Get Fucked (DJ Red & DJ Spryte Bootleg)
Spencer & Hill – Say What (Revolvr Remix)
ETC! ETC! – Move Your Body
Jerry Rekonius – Powahbunga
Digitalchord – Galaxy Mask (Revolvr Bootleg)
Rektchordz – Filthy Inspiration (Jeff T Remix)
TJR, Nome De strip & Sue Cho – This Is My Life
Felguk – Jack It
Wolfgang Gartner – The Way It Was
The M Machine – Promise Me A Rose Garden
Micky Slim – I’m A Freak
Umek & Beltek – Out Of Play
Duck Sauce – Big Bad Wolf (Dada Life Remix)

From the Old School to the Newschool Mix by Dynamik

Found this mix on the ENK blog, where Wompblog fav flatline also hangs his hat. A really nice garage history lesson. It’s not a genre I’m super familiar with, so maybe this will seem facile to the heads, I dunno, but I enjoyed it from start to finish. This mix does a great job of joining the dots between a sound many people think of as “90s”, but is responsible for a lot of what’s awesome about bass music these days .

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/27856431″]

Tracklist
Sunship – Try Me out (Let Me Lick It)
Horsepower Productions – Django’s Revenge
Ghost – Lyrical Tempo
Zed Bias – Fairplay (Feat. Jenna G) [Zed Bias Old Skool Remix]
Sunship – Friendly Pressure (Feat. Jhelisa) [Into The Sunshine Mix]
Basement Jaxx – Red Alert [Steve Gurley Mix]
EL-B – The Club
Gorillaz – Clint Eastwood [Ed Case Refix]
Mosca – Bax
Sticky – Booo! (Feat. Ms Dynamite)
Mj Cole – Attitude
Ghost – 2000
M-Dubs – Bump ‘n Grind (Feat. Lady Saw) [Sunship Remix]
Hackman – Agree To Disagree
Julio Bashmore – Battle For Middle You
Hardrive – Deep Inside (Orignal Mix)
George Fitzgerald – Don’t You
Wiley & Mj Cole – From The Drop [L-Vis 1990 Remix]
Groove Theory – Tell Me [George Fitzgerald Remix]
Destiny’s Child – Say My Name
Jamie Grind – Without You
Dark0 – HYLI
Alicia Keys – Fallin’ [Mj Cole Remix]
Girl Unit – Wut
Silkie – It’s Late
WIley – It’s Wiley [Royal T Remix]
Bok Bok – Silo Pass
James Blake – CMYK
Kingdom – Fogs
Superisk – Find Your Way [Mensah Remix]
J.Sparrow – Red Sand
Pinch – Get Up (Feat. Yolanda) [Guido Remix]
Truth – Stay
Silkie – Outlook
Teena Marie – You Baby
Om Unit Vs Kromestar – Solar Cycle
The Notorious B.I.G – Big Poppa
Luther Vandross – Never To Much

The Hungarian Beat Mix by headshotboyz

A whole fuck ton of awesome spacey futurist beats from producers you’ve never heard of, most of whom come from the mean streets of Budapest. Brainfeeder fans, apply within. I had the opportunity to kick it in Budapest a few weeks this summer before Outlook, and since returning I’ve been consistently impressed by the quality output of the beat scene over there. Fine Cut Bodies, iamyank, and now headshotboys are a few of my favorite dj/producers from that city, and I can’t wait to go back.
[soundcloud url=”http://soundcloud.com/recorderhu/the-hungarian-beat-mix-by/s-8l5pZ”]

Tracklist:
01. Headshotboyz: Nightmare On Elf Street
02. iL: For (Polyklinik Remix)
03. Ypnotiq: Newbeatsontheblock
04. ICR: The Risk Of Speaking Nonsense
05. Ozon: Neon Lights
06. Toox: Minden sarkon I’m
07. Ykzn: Nagylevego
08. Dogbite: Private Dance
09. Frenk Drabin: From The Labor
10. Soul Control: Backstage
11. Nome: Svejk
12. Zomblaze: 21
13. Spctrmn: Right Down To Her
14. 9b0: Playing With Stuff On My Desktop

BIIIIIIG New mix from Tigran MiM0SA, a true master of glitch-hop production. From the first drop at 1:23 (a sped-up “far nearer” with some trademark MiM0SA percussion), this is required listening.

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/26526405″]

Also don’t miss MiM0SA headlining Girls & Boys at Webster Hall in NYC (with Wompblog favorite Mustard Pimp!) on Friday, November 11th.

Plastic Thumbs, a criminally underhyped DJ duo from the UK, have just dropped their fourth mixtape, and it’s a whomper! Their last three have all been classics, you can check them all on their soundcloud.

The Plastic Thumbs sound is a fresh mash of classic ragga party jams, big whompy basslines, and extra crunky beats running the gamut from dancehall to b-more to baile to bashment. Their sets are constantly accelerating tornados of crunky, sassy, lose-your-shit party music. 


There’s obviously a wealth of collective DJ experience between these two. Their craftsmanship as DJs is masterful. A thick, delicious undercurrent of cheeky juxtapositions runs throughout their work, like a fudge ripple in Ben-n-Jerry’s. I don’t wanna ruin anything for you guys, but there’s a point where he drops “WHOOMP! THERE IT IS” over sped-up Major Lazer and then moves right into a Drop The Lime followed by Luda. No tracklist, just get into it!

Boardrider & Insight 51 Mixtape by Plastic Thumbs

[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.

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)

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!

(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.