San Fransico based producer and Narco HZ label owner has made these tracks available via Soundcloud through the thankyouforthegifts account. Including tracks such as Tribute and the Gregory Isaac led Babylon refix this collection is a must have. Deep and root tinged riddims to work your headphones or the dancefloor. Bag them. All of them.
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Apple Juice – Requake
Mothership – Author
Lucid Dream – Thelem
Pit Fall – DJ Madd (Phaeleh RMX)
Speakers Corner – Quest & Eskmo (Eskmo & Antiserum RMX)
Always – Submotion Orchestra
Surge – Kryptic Minds & Youngsta
Night Bus – Burial (Londy RMX)
Skoro – Arakel
Empty Inside – Matt U
Alicia – Mala
Unleash The Ghost – Ghostek
The Shockout – C.R.S.T.
Atlantis – Falty DL
Hacienda – 2bit Thugs
Grandfather Clock – V.I.V.E.K.
Diemos – Janner
The Key v2 – Controlled Kaos
The Editor (feat. Strategy) – Dub Phizix
Watch Your Step (feat. Jeru The Damaja) – Kabuki
Snorkel – Siren
Death March – Kesek
Movements 2 Step To – Rekchampa
Easy To Leave – Broken Bubble
Parasol Stars – Actraiser
Nights don’t get much better than this bill. Hit & Run is arguably the Norths greatest night keeping it tight and intimate on Mondays and now with the bigger events moving to Manchesters Ritz venue. Combined with Shogun Audio, this event sees Icicle, Rockwell, the mighty Break all playing alongside Manchesters Dub Phizix and Hit & Run head man Rich Reason. Hosts for the night are SP:MC, DRS & Strategy. Excited? You should be.
Hit&Run presents SHOGUN AUDIO @ The HMV Ritz, Mon 28th November
ICICLE
ROCKWELL (130-170bpm set)
BREAK
DUB PHIZIX
RICH REASON
Hosted by SP:MC, DRS and STRATEGY
Early Bird tickets are a mere £5, and there’s plenty of them (400). Normal priced tickets are £6.50…. it’ll be slightly more on the door.
Made available through his Soundcloud & Bandcamp pages, Ghostek offers up this free 3 track EP. Haunting and dark beats a plenty with some great synths and trademark crackles. Absolutely loving this style of 2-step. Not to be missed.
Once again taking the unfamiliar, and unpopular route, Samurai Music / Red Seal has created a vinyl only record series for 2011. With the public’s disposable view of music rapidly increasing as we go further and further into the digital age, Horo want to put value back into their released recordings and in turn reward the people that still pay the most for their music. ‘Horo’ was a cloak attached to the back of armour worn by elite Samurai messengers in wartime. Capturing an elite tsukai-ban messenger wearing a horo was a coveted prize.The ‘Horo’ vinyl series is an exclusive limited edition series that will come as a pre cursor to a release by the same artist on Samurai Music or Samurai Red Seal. Samurai Music began it’s output on 10″ singles that identified us strongly, so we are glad to see the return to the 10″ format for these limited collectors items.
Future music at its very experimental best with these two cuts from Tokyo Prose & FIS
2 free downloads this week, both coming out of the shadows with some deep and creeping soundscapes.
First up is a track put forward as part of the Dispatch Recordings Octane and DLR sample pack competition. 40 samples were offered up for producers to make use of and Method One by Kaiju is a big favourite of us here on the Robot Bodypop.
Next is a track by Dutch duo Mykur and TMSV with Icarus. An exciting collaboration and the track was made available last month. Love this riddim.
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