Dead Sound and his other production outfit with Videohead as DVF is ticking all my boxes and then some when it comes to dancefloor aimed shit hot broken techno. Just blown away by his production ability and his work is taking up more and more of my record box.

Being Friday it’s time for a rave/old skool inspired style mix. And what better mix that an old skool hip hop mix put together by Dead Sound. Even better for those of you in the UK, it’s a bank holiday, so you get an extra day of weekend and a 4 day week to follow. Good times.

This mix isn’t just rammed with some of the illest old skool hip hop joints, Dead Sound also lets loose with some understated scratching and turntablism. And why the hell not. So sit back, turn the amp up to 11 and get down with the heavy vibes ebbing outta this mix.

Wanted to do a hip hop mix cos I fucking loves it… old school cos I hate this new shit.
Bit of turntablism involved cos that’s what got me into DJing… bit pissed when recorded it so a couple of mistakes but is all live so might aswell keep it that way. Gonna have to do another mix I thinks cos I couldn’t fit on all I wanted too…. too many good hip hop tunes hope you like

Dead Sound – Old School Hip Hop Mix
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TRACKLIST
01. Gravediggaz – 1-800 suicide
02. GZA – B.I.B.L.E.
03. Redman – Yesh yesh Ya’ll
04. Large Professor – The Mad Scientist
05. Redman – Superman Luva 3
06. Group Home – Livin Proof
07. Royal Flush – Movin on your weak productions
08. Redman – Do What you Feel
09. The Nortorious BIG – Machine Gun Funk
10. Nas – It Ain’t Hard to Tell
11. NTM – Chacun sa Mafia
12. Binary Star – Masters of the Universe
13. Raekwon – Ice Cream
14. ODB – Raw Hide
15. Capone n Noreaga – Illegal Life
16. Method Man – Johnny Blaze
17. Redman – Redman Freestyle
18. Gangstarr – Mass Appeal
19. Dilated Peoples – The Platform
20. Termonolgy – 50 Bodies
21. Nas – The World is Yours
22. Fugees – Electric Avenue
23. Nas – Nas is Like
24. Large Professor – Ijuswannachill
25. Redman – Throw your hands in the air
26. GZA – Shaddowboxin
27. Gravediggaz – Diary of a mad man
28. Tha Alkaholiks – Only When Im drunk
29. Lords of the Underground – Madd Skillz
30. Redman – The Message
31. CNN – Invincible
32. Wu Tang – 7th Chamber – Prt2
33. Dead Prez – Hip Hop
34. Rodney P – It’s On

soundcloud/deadsound
digitalfilthmusic

This mix was recorded about 2 years ago and would seem on hindsight to be a proto-future garage mix, before even the term was coined. I like a lot of the future garage stuff I’ve heard, but the name leaves a lot to be desired. I think perhaps my idea of “garage” in general is pretty weak, so the connotations I draw with that genre term stem from that.

Growing up in Greater London meant that the whole rude bwoy/shite garage scene was huge when I was in my early teens. I grew up not that far from Staines/Slough so you can appreciate what my understanding of garage is. Still I’m fairly open minded and have heard some great garage tracks since (from the likes or Oris Jay, El-B, Zed Bias etc…). I think that most of what I have since grown to hate was the speed garage rubbish combined with Craig David and the ilk.

Anyways, enough of my past. To Watoo‘s mix which in his own words:

Recorded about 2 years ago it’s probably the finest mix I’ve ever done and is blatantly reppin the Future Garage sound before the term had been coined (or at least before I heard it).

Watoo is the founding member of the Redub collective, a 5 man group.

Your average dance booking involves an individual: a disc jockey and his or her record box…er…obviously. Your average rock booking involves a band of like-minded interacting musicians and their influences…apparently. Two seemingly completely different approaches to the purveyance of musical pleasure. Welcome to the sound of ReDub: a band of DJs offering a cohesive group presentation of cutting edge dance music that’s already making waves on internet radio, and with a collective wealth of experience of rocking conventional clubs and free parties.

Watoo – proto-Future Garage mix
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TRACKLIST
Coleco – Campfire Funk
Jus Wan – Action Potential
Martyn – Suburbia
Shamanji ft. Maggie Horn – Break Your Heart
Luke Envoy – So
Sully – Phonebox
Pimp and Soul Sessions – Sahara (Zed Bias remix)
ID – Akusative
Unknown – Human Resources
XI – Strategy
Breakage – Untitled
RSD – Pretty Bright Lights
Roni Size ft. Represent – New Forms
Silkie and Harry Craze – French Knickers
Landslide – Dreams and Visions
Skream – For the Heads Who Remember
Zed Bias ft. Simba and Juiceman – Jigga Up (Ring the Alarm)

redub

Regular listeners to the MANTIS Radio show will have heard C. Mantle crop up before. With a showcase mix back in the 1st year of broadcast, as well as a follow up showcase extra. He also performed at Plex in London last year, of which, yes, we have the archive recording. Hopefully you’ve gathered that we here at darkfloor HQ are somewhat fans of his work.

This is his latest release, 3 tracks that take no prisoners. Together with the rather excellent Myuzyk label we have the Wie Es Eigentlich Gewesen Ist EP, which you can download for free in 320kbps mp3 or FLAC. Sharp, direct and unique sound, heavily in both the electro and techno camps.

Myuzyk first became aware of Chris Mantle’s detailed brand of electronic music in 2005 through an interview and session hosted by Basterdized. Recent releases with Handsette and Subgrade explore finely tuned techno and steppy rhythms that sound like it’s been made on a computer infected by an extra terrestrial intelligence. For ‘Wie Es Eigentlich Gewesen Ist’ there’s an emphasis on powerful bass, sharp percussion, shifting layers and patterns weaving a web that brings with it darkness and raised aural perception.

C Mantle – Wie Es Eigentlich Gewesen Ist
320k MP3 / FLAC

TRACKLIST
01. C Mantle – L Mink
02. C Mantle – P Ricoeur
03. C Mantle – J Jameson

myzuyk

Two mixes from members of darkfloor techno favourites: Forward Strategy Group recently broadcast on the Musik Aus Strom radio show in Germany.

Forward Strategy Group special
mix 1: Smear / Alan Matthews
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TRACKLIST
01. M.Pittmann – Cherry Lee (Down Syndrome mix) [FXHE]
02. Harvey Lane – Scooly [Veto]
03. Jackmaster Hater – Your Mind (Passion) [Warehouse Trax]
04. Kre – A1 [Numb]
05. Steve Bicknell – How Can We Know? [Cosmic]
06. Corrado Izzo – Lovely Redwine [DUM]
07. Mannequin Lung – Bias [Plug Research]
08. Alka Rex – Traux [Supralinear]
09. Khixbrrr – Fairies [Northern General]
10. Tangtron – State Of The Art [Cytrax]
11. Cheap and Deep Productions – Darkroom Beats [Cheap And Deep]
12. Steevio – Orjiva [Mindtours]
13. Surgeon meets Outline – Untitled [Blueprint]
14. Coopers – Mini (Melody mix) [DUM]
15. Studer Two DJs – Galeria [Prowax]
16. Traversable Wormhole – 4 [Traversable Wormhole]
17. Casual Violence – Briefly Sexual [Aftertaste]
18. James Ruskin – Prevention Beyond Cause [Blueprint]
19 Tommy Gillard – Patterns [Continual]
20. Frank Hunter – Orlake [Mono]
21. Hubris – B1 [XLR]
22. Torchlight – Transitions [Figment]
23. Retail & Leisure – Positional Stability [Retail & Leisure]

mix 2: Patrick Walker
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TRACKLIST
01. Temple of Shard – os_1 [dub]
02. Jeff Mills – Cubango [Purpose Maker]
03. Robert Hood – Omega [M-Plant]
04. Steve Bicknell – Primative Streak [Cosmic]
05. Max Duley – Seeking Comfort [dub]
06. Smear – Form Constant [Kaktus]
07. Steve Bicknell – Why For Whom (Surgeon Redefinition) [Cosmic]
08. Mike Parker – Protolanguage [Spectral Sound]
09. Phuture – Acid Trax [Trax]
10. Cottam – Untitled (Walker FSG mix) [Unreleased]
11. Planetary Assault Systems – Haiku [Mote Evolver]
12. Cari Lekebusch – Secrets (edit) [H Productions]
13. Regis – Baptism (edit) [Downwards]
14. Digital Mystikz – Ancient Memories [DMZ]
15. Function – Dissafected (Norman Nodge mix) [Sandwell District]
16. Unknown Artist – Untitled (Function edit) [Sandwell District]
17. Scion – Emerge (edit) [Chain Reaction]
18. Delta Funktionen – Silhouette (Marcel Dettmann remix) [Delsin]
19. Delta Funktionen – Pretermission [Ann Aimee]
20. Giorgio Gigli – Tempo [Prologue]
21. Milton Bradley – Minus 126 in Berlin [Do Not Resist The Beat!]
22. Michaelangelo – Andromeda 13 [Labrynth]
23. Basic Channel – Lyot (Phylyps remix) (edit) [Basic Channel]
24. Steve Bicknell – In Order to Remember One Needs to Know (edit) [Cosmic]
25. Max Duley – 21number4 [Arc]

musik aus strom
myspace/forwardstrategygroup
soundcloud/patrickwalker

MANTIS 067 + RABID GRAVY + STURQEN
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broadcast 22/08/2010

hour 1 / DVNT

Com Truise – Pyragony [comtruise.com]
HoeHLE – Neon Rhodes [bak$hish music]
Mr. Seavers – Dishonourable Discharge [dub]
Hatikvah – In The Spirit (Rod Modell / Deepchord remix) [Soma] forthcoming
Audioelectronic – Two Trains Running (Swayzak ‘Brun’s Dunb’) [XLR8R]
UKV – Network Places (Dr. Schmidt Uranium mix) [Ghost Technology]
DVF – Warehouse [dub]
Mad-Tek – The Dark Age (Teutonic Kaboom remix) [Digital Distortions]
Spuntic – Manifold [Enough Records]

showcase 1 / RABID GRAVY

Rabid Gravy – Blam [dub]
Rabid Gravy – Rosebud [dub]
Rabid Gravy – The Clap [dub]
Rabid Gravy – Lifetime of Dither [dub]

hour 2 / DVNT

Slim Twig – Slit to the Hilt [slimtwig.bandcamp.com]
MOTOR – Fire [Shitkatapult]
Jimmy Edgar – Hot, Raw, Sex (Instra:mental remix) [dub]
DVF – Brain Dead [dub]
Orien – Decaying Corpse [Urban Graffiti]
Roguestar – Cold Shivers [Urban Graffiti]
DJ Shufflemaster – EXP [Tresor]
Si Begg – Revolution (GBASS mix) [dub]
Mad-Tek – The Dark Age (Mazzula remix) [Digital Distortions]
DeFeKT – Stimulus [Takeover Recordings] forthcoming
DeFeKT – Replicants Mind [Takeover Recordings] forthcoming
Neat – Lime + Sugar [Airflex Recordings] forthcoming

showcase 2 / STURQEN

Sturqen – Zincu [Unreleased]
Sturqen – Suner [Unreleased]
Sturqen – Nupak [Unreleased]
Sturqen – Fsf [Kvitnu]
Sturqen – Kik11 (Edit) [Kvitnu]
Sturqen – Kie (Edit) [Unreleased]
Sturqen – Dyo [Unreleased]
Sturqen – Alk (Edit) [Kvitnu]

067 /

It’s the 67th show people, and this week, not 1, but 2 showcases, both of which are on an experimental hardware techno tip.

the SHOWCASE (01)

Rabid Gravy is a project of the South London musician Jonathan Stowe. Jonathan has been making music for more than thirty years and for most of that time has been an experimenter and improviser, influenced by all the waves of underground music that have passed in that time, with an eye on the wealth of experimental music of the twentieth century.

The sound of Rabid Gravy is best described as noise with beats in it, forged with a hand selected set of real instruments rather than software, making each performance and recording unique.

soundcloud/rabidgravy
twitter/rabidgravy

the SHOWCASE (02)

Sturqen are César Rodrigues and David Arantes, a duo from Portugal. Their  music explores a vast amount of sonic rhythmic sound where as they put it: a techno-trance universe is combined with a constant noise attitude. Sturqen’s first album Piranha was released on Ukrainian label Kvitnu in 2009. This year, they followed that with the digitally released Peste EP also on Kvitnu.

The music on their showcase, is a mix between released and unreleased stuff. 100% analog sound.

myspace/sturqen
twitter/sturqen

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A new artist with the UK Trends crew, of which the supplied bio couldn’t put it better.

In the days of desperate genre hopping to find the definitive ‘next big thing’ Koncode has bucked the trend and stubbed out his bass cigar on the eyeballs of the industry…..

Rather than chase scenes and suck off pretentious pricks he has just made f**ked music which is unique, unclassifiable and uncompromising.

The tracks are instantly mixable within a number of genres and encourages the cross pollination of disparate sounds which Koncode actively promotes (he did after all famously mix the Vengaboyz into Squarepusher live on the mighty Sub FM!). His sounds take influence from all over the spectrum but a signature warped, triplet, bass heavy sound has been characterised on the few dubplates which have surfaced in 2010.

His first action as a UK Trends artist is to do an astounding 60 minute genre-hopping mix taking in Fidget, dubstep, plonky, glitch-hop, bleepcore, future garage and whatever other genres your mum and dad don’t approve of this week… it however does NOT include the Vengaboys!

Koncode – 17-in-1 Electronic Glitch Kit Mix
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01. Koncode – So Deep [dub]
02. Succulent-C – Grime Time [dub]
03. Rogue Star – Wing Zero [dub]
04. Shakira – Did It Again (Koncode’s Future Grime remix) [dub]
05. Fabio Lendrum – Trouble (Drop The Lime remix) [Road Records dub]
06. MJ Cole – Thekla Riddim [dub]
07. Shimmer – XXX (Hedfukkah remix) [dub]
08. Tin Dog – Amber [Asif dub]
09. KingThing – Flutter [L2S dub]
10. Kuoyah – Angels (Sully remix) [Frijsfo dub]
11. Threnody – So Many Tears (Shonx remix) [F.UK/TRNDZ dub]
12. Autopilot – Less Talk, More Bass [Deepstep]
13. Koncode – SWNGSWNG [dub]
14. Nodul – DDSSFF [dub]
15. Outlaw Breaks feat Gemma Fox – Dutty (Wiley remix) [Left Records]
16. Resketch – You & Me [L2S dub]
17. Koncode – Glitchlet [dub]

uktrendsmusic/koncode

Happened across this mix on a music forum I frequent and whilst from the outset the tracklist doesn’t seem anything too out there or anything, the feedback received was. The description definitely intrigued me. I’m glad I checked this one out, as it’s bloody fantastic. It really is something different and puts these tracks into a new light. First time I’ve come across the Broken20 folks and this mix is the 4th in their podcast series.

Really get on this one guys. Hearing The Bells as Erik XVI presents it is just wonderful.

In a parallel dimension not often intruded upon by the living, the sounds to which we dance took a decidedly different turn around the time of the latest millennium change. In this twilight world at the 90th parallel, the custodians of the 90 drums beat out their steadfast but languid rhythm at an ever-decreasing pace year after year. Ghostly apparitions flicker in the dusk and mysterious semblances shimmer in the cold, entranced by disembodied choirs of haunted voices singing in the distance.

As the dance progresses, the plaintive hymn to the machines gradually escalates into a preparation for battle, as the holy technocrats push their sacred machines to ever more intense configurations of desire. The cascading shards of ice that envelop this polar scene give rise to magnificent and otherworldly echoing tones, but sadly also contribute to the terminal decay of the ancient technology favoured by the undead to create their hypnotic sounds.

Intrepid explorer Erik XVI gained unprecedented access to the fading splendour of this parallel future, and succeeded in bringing back this unique audio artefact, a field recording of what happened to the music we call techno in an alternative universe.

Erik XVI – The Fading Splendour of a Technological Future
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tracklist
01. Bandulu – Redemption (Dub)
02. Unit Moebius – World Turns Round
03. Shape Changer – Welcome Change
04. Thomas Chrome – Burn Rubber Burn
05. Oliver Lieb – Metropolis
06. Umek vs. DJ Misjah – K’pr Norcih
07. Mr. Barth & The Persuader – Snorkelmannen
08. Monika Kruse & Patrick Lindsey – U Like
09. Steve Poindexter – Computer Madness
10. Jeff Mills – The Bells
11. Dave Clarke – Storm
12. Adam Beyer – Pumping Mate 1
13. Phylyps – Trak
14. Bandulu – Redemption (Dub)
15. Technasia – Future Mix
16. Underground Resistance – Kamikaze
17. DJ Misjah & DJ Tim – Keep Your Love
18. Hardfloor – Roarrh
19. Mescalinum United – We Have Arrived
20. Marco Bailey & Redhead – Watch Out
21. Thomas Krome – Woodcarver Remix CR01-B1
22. Unknown – Fade to Techno

broken20
erik xvi

sun 22/08/2010 from 16:00GMT
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It’s the 67th show people, and this week, not 1, but 2 showcases, both of which are on an experimental hardware techno tip.

the SHOWCASE (01)

Rabid Gravy is a project of the South London musician Jonathan Stowe. Jonathan has been making music for more than thirty years and for most of that time has been an experimenter and improviser, influenced by all the waves of underground music that have passed in that time, with an eye on the wealth of experimental music of the twentieth century.

The sound of Rabid Gravy is best described as noise with beats in it, forged with a hand selected set of real instruments rather than software, making each performance and recording unique.

soundcloud/rabidgravy
twitter/rabidgravy

the SHOWCASE (02)

Sturqen are César Rodrigues and David Arantes, a duo from Portugal. Their  music explores a vast amount of sonic rhythmic sound where as they put it: a techno-trance universe is combined with a constant noise attitude. Sturqen’s first album Piranha was released on Ukrainian label Kvitnu in 2009. This year, they followed that with the digitally released Peste EP also on Kvitnu.

The music on their showcase, is a mix between released and unreleased stuff. 100% analog sound.

myspace/sturqen
twitter/sturqen

rest of the show

Inbetween our 2 showcases this week I’ll be pushing out some of the newer darkfloor sounds to come my way.

theDrome + MANTIS Radio

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I came across this mix whilst searching out some of the back catalogue of a forthcoming showcase artist for the radio show MANTIS. Collectively called the VACU SESSIONS. This, the first in the series, starts abstract, and continues with glitched technoid textures. Rising stuttered beats, rough electronics and a healthy dose of techno. If you are a fan of the Raster-Noton approach to sound design and forward thinking techno inspired beats then you’ll enjoy this.

The series remit is very much like our own here at darkfloor:

Heavy or light, new and old, predictable or totally unknown: the important here is the dynamic of the music.
A continuous exploration of sound.

VACU SESSIONS 01 – VACU MIX
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TRACKLIST
*0 – [0,-1,0]
Numan – Skull Crusher (edited)
Psycoded – Chemtrails (Elektronova remix)
Spit – Marina
Tantcui Tantcui – Looking For Drugs
Hakan Lidbo – Hypocrites
Massimo – Fal.so
Massimo – Fales.ny
Kid606 – Mr Wobble’s Nightmare
White Zone – Lost In A Supermarket
Pom Pom – Untitled A2
Cristoph De Babalon – Dark Background I

blogspot/vacu-sessions

Ahead of my set at the Slackers Convention 8th Birthday I’ve put together this short 30minute promo mix to give the Brighton crew a fresh peek at some of my current darkfloor tracks. You can catch me down in Brighton on the Sunday 29th August (full details below). If you are making the trip, drop me a comment or email and come say hi.

DVNT – Slackers Convention Promo Mix
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TRACKLIST
.at/on + v4w.enko – fokus_51103_04_ [Entity.be]
wAgAwAgA – Eerieish [Acroplane]
Anodyne – Close Your Eyes (Corporation Street Mix By Autechre) [Psychonavigation Records]
Dead Sound + Videohead (DVF) – Bang On [dub]
The Bee – Blues Company [Audioexit]
Dessben – El Especialista [Offaudio]
Electromeca – Cruisin’ for Concrete [Acroplane]
Vector Commander & q p d b – Modulation Complex (original mix) [Extreme Forces]
Rory St John – Wasted [Statis Records]
Hoth System – The Flesh is Weak [dub]
Herv – Northern Souless [theCentrifuge]
Molez – Fields VIP [Syndetic Recordings]
Vandalizer – Fake Orbit (molotov ape mix) [dub]
Moderat – Seamonkey (Untold remix) [BPitch Control]

Its Birthday time people and the Slackers Convention who are no strangers to Birthdays is rapidly approaching the heady heights of THE BIG 8! To celebrate their 8th they’ve interrupted their summer of festivals, loungers and fields to head to the ideal party surroundings of the newly renovated Madame Geisha. Its bank holiday, its our birthday and we’re bringing together some of the best our city and beyond has to offer.

AQUASKY [Passenger]
CAKEBOY & DOUBLETHINK [Mutate]
BLACK NOISE [Southern Fried]
DVNT

PAV & LuQas / MATT SLACK / DIRTBOMB / MOAI / DJ ACTIF / DJ Y-NOT / FUNKCOLLECTIF SOUNDSYSTEM
visuals by VJ TOMMY KC

If Sunday partying is your thing look no further after all its the last bank holiday for a while and should know after all these years its all about the ‘beats, bass and party nonsense for discerning underachievers’!

Geishas will be putting on special drinks offers on beers and shots etc. for us so better than normal prices folks. Will kick off at 8. Friendly ticket prices on the door & even nicer for early arrivals.

Sunday 29th August
Madame Geisha. 75-79 East Street, Brighton
£4 before 10 £7 after / 8PM – 3AM

myspace/slackersconvention
madamegeisha

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