This Is Not A 320...

Slow.

Moody.

Bass.

Beats.

Echo.

Dubstep.

Future Dub.

A Selection.

Track : BUDGIE @ THE PIPE - "CECI N'EST PAS UNE 320"

Tracklisting :

// Burial - Night Bus / Various Production - Lost / Blackdown - Crackle Blues (Burial Remix) / Geiom ft. Terrible Shock - Feel So Bad / RSD - Love Of Jah Light / Juju - Red Up (Pinch Remix) / L-Wiz - Egyptic / Hijak - Nightmarez / Skream - Hag / Burial - Distant Lights / Appleblim - Vansan / Pinch - Punisher (Skream's Heavy Duty Remix) / Reso - Toasted / Caspa - Velvet Rooms / Burial - Unite //

15 Tracks / 70 minutes / 192k (not 320...)

Enjoy.

Feel free to leave a comment about this in The Pipe section of the forum.

Ta,
Budgie

Next Time : Foo / Brine's Dubstep Selection...

I intended to have a mix/compilation ready for uploading to The Pipe, but I've been distracted too many times away from it. I aim to try and get it finished in the next couple of days, so in the meantime, to tide you over, have a couple of deep, tech house thumpers that I've been enjoying over the past couple of weeks...

Both tracks are taken from Matt "Radio Slave / Rekid / Quiet Village" Edwards first compilation round-up of his own "Rekids" imprint. A rather great compilation featuring tracks and remixes by the man himself and artists such as Prins Thomas, Luke Solomon, Toby Tobias and Matt O'Brien.

Track : AUDIOFLY & PAUL HARRIS - "MISCALATE"

Track : RADIO SLAVE - "MY BLEEP (ROMAN FLUGEL REMIX)"

Enjoy.

Go Buy : Various Artists - Rekids One

Go Visit : Rekids

Feel free to leave a comment about these tracks in The Pipe section of the forum.

Ta,
Budgie

See? Told you it was a quick one...

Can you see me lord?

A tenuous post...

Track : MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO - "PSYCHE-OUT"
Track : MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO - "DEVIATE"

At the late 80's / early 90's, when I was in my clubbing prime, I used to knock up mix tapes of the current 12"s and the like for booming out in friends cars on our way to wherever that nights clubbing was taking us. If I ran out of the countless remixes of Moby's "Go" or Bizarre Inc's "Playing With Knives" I used to raid my collection of Industrial records by artists such as Nitzer Ebb, Front 242, Consolidated and Meat Beat Manifesto to pad those C90's out. As the "rave" sound has becoming harder, tracks by those I just mentioned used to fit in nicely. Often these tracks would prove to be a bit harsher than what we were hearing out.

I got introduced to the music of Meat Beat Manifesto via a guy working in a Glasgow record shop. Whilst discussing sampling in records he uttered the inevitable "have you heard this?" and proceeded to play some tracks from "Storm The Studio". It was a right ole racket. Samples flying off in every direction, hip hop beats crunching up the speakers, dubby basslines rocking the shop, guitars piercing through it all and no to mention the primitive vocals... It got some funny looks in the shop, but I was hooked, bought a copy and gleefully went home knowing that this would soon be echoing out of my bedroom and terrifying my family...

"Storm The Studio" is still a frightening experience today, as was the next release I picked up by them, the aptly titled debut album that never was, "Armed Audio Warfare". Inbetween these releases came an album called "99%". It wasn't as harsh as the previous things I had heard, it was still hard enough, but it saw the band tighten up and their sound start to change. After that album they veered away from the industrial sound and explored more dance orientated things. The next 12" "Radio Bablyon" would go on to become a seminal rave track and would cement Meat Beat Manifesto as UK dance music pioneers with their techniques being echoed through scenes such as Drum & Bass and Big Beat. That's not to say the band don't exist anymore, far from it, they're still going strong...

"Psyche-Out" and "Deviate" are from "99%". Both still sound fierce 17 years on. Both indictive of the bands change from Industrial to Dance - "Deviate" being the more dancey with it's Todd Terry / "Disco Circus" break all the way through it.

Degrade Yourself.

Track : MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO - "RADIO BABYLON"

What can be said. It's a classic. Boney M sample. Soundsytem bleeps. Killer bassline. Dubbed out drums. What more do you want? And this came out the same year as the above 2 tracks. The change in sound is staggering.

Enjoy.

Go Buy : Meat Beat Manifesto - 99%

Go Visit : Meat Beat Manifesto

Feel free to leave a comment about these tracks in The Pipe section of the forum.

Ta,
Budgie

It's Only Words That I Say...

I love my Edits, so here is a quick post of a couple of Psych Rock ones that have been kicking about my ears for a good wee while.

Track : BEYOND THE WIZARDS SLEEVE - "WORDS"

Beyond The Wizards Sleeve is the collaboration of remixer, producer, club promoter and all round busy bee Erol Alkan and The Grid's Richard Norris. Together they explore the outer reaches of psychedelic rock and folk. Under this guise they have put out EP's of re-edits of old tracks (in limited numbers, no doubt down to copyright issues) and a handful of remixes for people like Midlake, Tracey Thorn and Peter, Bjorn & John. Well, not for people like them. Actually for those people...

"Words" is from last years Beyond The Wizards Sleeve EP, "Spring". I don't have a clue who the original version of this track is by (if anybody does then please let me know via the forum...) but I do know that I am a huge sucker for it's dubbed up vocals, it's freak out sound effects, it's piercing guitars, wigged out organ and killer chorus.

Track : CAN - "MOTHER SKY (PILOOSKI EDIT)"

I am a bit more familiar with Can and their legendary, rhythmical Krautrock. This, albeit shorter, re-edit of "Mother Sky" from their 1970 "Soundtracks" album is a belter. "Soundtracks" was the album that both saw the departure of their first vocalist, Malcolm Mooney, who was replaced with the legendary Damo Suzuki, and it also saw them veer more towards the more electronic sound they became famous for and away from their early Psychedelic sound. "Mother Sky" sits with the latter. Here, Pilooski, from the rather excellent D*I*R*T*Y Edit's crew out of France, prolongs the appearance of the freak out guitars by letting the rhythm and Suzuki's woozy vocals take hold first. Strap yourself in for the second half...

Enjoy.

Go Buy : Beyond The Wizards Sleeve EP's @ Hard To Find Records
Go Buy : Can - Soundtracks

Go Visit : Beyond The Wizards Sleeve
Go Visit : Can
Go Visit : Pilooski
Go Visit : D*I*R*T*Y

Feel free to leave a comment about these tracks in The Pipe section of the forum.

Ta,
Budgie