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The Debut Album From The Plastician - "Beg To Differ".....

Tracklisting:

1. Intensive Snare (feat. Skepta)
2. Symptomatic
3. Shallow Grave 2006
4. I Can't Believe Its Not Benny
5. Real Things (feat. Chronik, Skepta, Tempa T, Frisco, Esco)
6. Hocus Pocus
7. Vio-Lent
8. Walk In The Carpark
9. Badboy
10. Japan

Is now being released on June 18th on Terrorhythm Recordings on CD & Download, with vinyl singles following including remixes of the tracks.

Finally after lots of setbacks we can confirm a release date!

that intensive snare song has a crappy hook but its good otherwise. bit quick to release it isnt it? no promo or anything.

oh boy oh boy oh boy! yay!

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=37739

THE WORLD’S HEAVIEST DUBSTEP, GRIME & BASS TRACKLIST!

CD1 DUBSTEP

1. CASPA – Cockney Violin
2. CLUE KID - Halogen
3. DQ1 – Wear The Crown
4. LOEFAH – System
5. CASPA & RUSKO – Custard Chucker
6. N-TYPE – Way Of The Dub
7. WHITE BOI vs KOMONAZMUK – Shank Step
8. PINCH & P. DUTTY – War Dub
9. JOKER – Stuck In The System
10. JAMIE WOON - Wayfaring Stranger (Burial Remix)
11. GOTH-TRAD – Back To Chill
12. EKSTRAK – Mass Dampers
13. ELEMENTAL - Tribute
14. SKREAM – Bahl FWD
15. KOMONAZMUK – Love

CD2 GRIME

1. FAITH SFX Ft. HYPA FEN, MARCHIEPHONIX, FLIRTA D, BIG MIGHTY, EARZ, JAMMER, Y.O., & NARSTIE - Oh My
2. LADY SOVEREIGN - Chi Ching (Cheque 1 2)
3. SWAY – Baby Father
4. DOCTOR Ft. DESPERADO, JENDER & FRAMES – Play Around
5. ICEKID & SICKMAN Ft. STYLO-G, LITTLE DEE, LIONESS, DIZZMAN & YOUNG DOT - Don’t Talk
6. MAN LIKE ME - Oh My Gosh
7. YES BOSS - Meet The Boss
8. ESKIBOY Ft. JME & EARS - Grim
9. TEAM SHADETEK Ft. SKEPTA - Reign
10. VIRUS SYNDICATE – Neva Argue
11. ESKIBOY Ft. JME – Carry Out Orders
12. STYLO-G Ft. ICEKID & SICKMAN – My Yout
13. ROSSI B & LUCA Ft. GULLY GANG - Music Money
14. ROLL DEEP - Flame Grilled Whopper
15. DAVID E. SUGAR vs EARS – First OK

CD3 BASS

1. DEEKLINE & ED SOLO Ft. MC FLIPSIDE - Handz Up Right Now
2. AQUASKY Ft. ACAFOOL – Have A Good Time
3. NAPT Ft. SKIBADEE - Get Back
4. BACKDRAFT – Off The Wall
5. BASSROCK MEETS ANTI-SCIENCE - Locked On!
6. SHANE THE CUTTER – Blood Runs
7. ED SOLO & SKOOL OF THOUGHT - Babylon Breaks
8. SCAM - Killer (Deepcut Remix)
9. BAOBINGA & I.D. – Extravaganza Man
10. BACKDRAFT - Popcorn
11. THE BREAKFASTAZ - The Pressure (Aquasky Mix)
12. DEEKLINE & WIZARD Ft. TOP CAT - Special Dedication
13. FREESTYLERS Ft. PENDULUM & SIRREAL - Painkiller (Ed Solo & Skool Of Thought Remix)
14. DEEKLINE & WIZARD – Woah
15. AQUASKY, FRICTION AND SPYDA – Control Freek

I have no idea if it's any good or just a shameless cash-in but I sort of approve of shameless cash-ins when they spread the net a little wider than the usual...

nu burial yaaaaaaaaaooowwwww!

that third disc looks like the worst music in the world hands down

What a weird collection. I've been listening to the Skull Disco comp like crazy, but haven't had time for much of the rest (Box O' Dub kind of made me wonder why I was bothering.) Really nice interview with Shackleton by /rupture on WFMU Wednesday night btw.

Alex, search Mala's Changes/Forgive!!!!

Actually I do have that. It's good!

New Burial is very good btw.

God it's beautiful, I had it on repeat all last night.

"Stutta" is fascinating, like a warehouse full of speakers crammed into my headphones. I find myself chasing the groove, finding it for half a measure and then losing it, over and over.

I think I prefer "Unite" off the box of dub compilation to "Ghost Hardware" tbqh

also: skream - essential mix

that skream mix is pretty amazing, thx for the link!

From last year, but I love Pinch's remix of Monkey Steak's "Lighthouse Dub". The closest thing to "Qawwali" I've heard by him.

The Skream essential mix is sounding awesome - so bouncy!

When I think of my favourite dubstep of the past two years (which basically means my favourite stuff by Skream, Pinch, Burial, Kode9, Skull Disco and DMZ peeps) it makes me disbelieve the whole "you need to hear it over the right soundsystem" argument even more than usual - this sounds great in any setting! I refuse to believe that it's because these guys are like the blog house of dubstep... it's because they make dynamic tunes!

More and more I just feel like dread-ladened, bass-dominated halfstep tunes are basically indefensible. As is crash scrape crash scrape dirgestep.

# Klaxons-Not Over Yet(Skreamix)-EMI

!

Yeah, I haven't heard that yet but apparently Skream is a fan!

More and more I just feel like dread-ladened, bass-dominated halfstep tunes are basically indefensible. As is crash scrape crash scrape dirgestep

^^ who would this be??

I saw Vex'd the other night and it was a bit crash scrape crash.

This is old I know but I've only just discovered how much I love Hatcha's disc of Dubstep Allstars Vol. 4. Very fun and bouncy, loving the Kromestar tracks. On the other hand, while I admire the uncompromising dirge of Youngsta's set, it really makes me want to rip my face off.

Also would like to confirm how lovely new Burial 12" is.

imo skream's essential mix is a good example of how dubstep producers are about incorporating a lot of different sounds (dread rasta, dirge, garage, tech, even the klaxons) in creative unpretenious ways.

it's very encouraging to a drum & bass head who watched the genre produce itself into redundant irrelevance.

and i've still never heard it on a big system (!)

fart bass and agressive drums was what i thought dubstep was, folks up in leeds are all well into that sort of thing. i've only heard the odd track from mala and burial, so is there lots more like this? please tell me more...

There are plenty more Mala and Burial tracks.

mala and related: http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=23775
burial and related: http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=31732

probably about 2 days worth of samples amongst that lot, knock yourself out 8)

(myself i prefer vex'd and distance and the tectonics bunch. and scuba)

http://www.gotdarker.com/?fileref=c6521d92e4eb00df5eb311d776faffd0

Kode 9's Sónar mix.

Oh wait, this file was borked for me after about 40 minutes.

"More and more I just feel like dread-ladened, bass-dominated halfstep tunes are basically indefensible. As is crash scrape crash scrape dirgestep

^^ who would this be??"

Stuff like Distance, Vex'd, Scuba basically.

I dunno, there's a real... tenuous quality to dubstep. Like, it's unlikely to work unless it can get its influences exactly right (e.g. Metalheadz meets Locked On).

Like, this Destructive/Stormin records mix from a while back is mostly bad post-breakstep, but then Search & Destroy and Toastyboy will pull out these amazing choppy tracks that are like Source Direct c. Controlled Developments. But it's such a fragile briilliance, like they're balancing precariously on top of a lot of bad potential directions.

I'd give Scuba another shot if I were you Tim, Paul's been pushing some of the more delicate and interesting sounds on Hotflush since way back.

Have you heard anything by Gravious?

i like scuba when they occasionally sound like a 2step drexciya ("harpoon")

His New Mix is evidence of the kind of line the Hotflush and Scuba labels have been walking lately.

I'm not 100% behind his selection here, but you can't fault some of the newer Vaccine material.

Its stellar, IMO.

It kind of reminds me of progressive trance a bit (like Vibrasphere),
tends to be more rhythm based though.

The drums don't suck.

And yeah there's definitely a Detroit thing going on with some of the more laidback Scuba beats.

Scuba = Paul Rose

Hotflush Label founder, initially recorded as Spectr.

in fact i think he lays it on a bit thick with the aquatic theme!

back off dude, that's someone else's terrtiory!

I'm not really sure if its deliberate or not.

Braille Diving is one of my newer favorites of his, the synths on that remind of Avalon era Roxy Music for some odd reason.

He's one of those guys I have to respect for all the effort he puts in, but I still only end up liking like every third track he makes.

That ratio's been getting higher though.

What I meant was I'm not sure if he's deliberately trying to cop Drexciya's thing or not.

Theres a clip of Braille Diving at Boomkat if you're interested.

Ooooooh.

Ammunition and Blackdown present: The Roots of El-B

After the Roots of Dubstep, a process which was a total joy to do, compared to dealing with 679 for Run the Road 1, I began to wonder how the compilation could be furthered. “The Roots of Dubstep 2” would have been easy to do, but would it have been better? Instead I decided to build out the El-B section, to focus the whole next compilation on him. Of the three founding trinity – El-B, Zed Bias and Horsepower – the latter two have CD albums you can find. Yet El-B’s peerless material, as Groove Chronicles and as part of Ghost, is scattered across 40 or so obscure and long since gone white labels. The El-B LP never happened: I have a recording of the DAT of what did get done, but in truth his best work came out on the 12”s. The plan is to pull them all together. As I said on Radio 1, this is unfinished business.

http://blackdownsoundboy.blogspot.com/2007/08/seven-years-after-gorgon-sound-benny.html

Quite liking these new Hyperdub L.V. sides. Very Rhythm & Sound! Also excited about the new Bug and Flowdan thing, "Skeng".

the new dubstep allstars by ntype starts off really well, quite a bit of energy, but then it slides into dead-step sounding stuff which just sounds like producers really not wanting to venture out of the genres trademarks at all.

Yeah I couldn't be bothered to even download it. I've been liking some of the more cross-over-ish type dubstep stuff (that Geiom track with Khaled is particularly nice.)

Haha I guess I am liking the stuff that sounds more like digital dub (which is not too surprising I suppose.)

I can't find the grime thread but: grime got banned from rinse :(

did grime get banned from ILX too?

Why did it get banned? And is anyone listening to grime anymore?

i keep reading the posts on dissensus all excited where everyones all excited but cant say much of it seems all that good. especially when half of it seems really dubstep-influenced (but less boring obv) and not very hyper anymore. the eski beat artists are meant to be good but ive not heard them.

the new dubstep allstars by ntype

Isn't really new, stop chatting shit as usual.

xpost. Grime is already unbanned from Rinse. It was just because of the behaviour of certain MCs, little rap on the nuckles from Geeneus.

half of it seems really dubstep-influenced (but less boring obv) and not very hyper anymore
You couldn't be more wrong. For different reasons. Dubstep is too hype at the moment if anything. Lots of really jump-up tracks, too many really. Halfstep hegemony, which never really existed fully, is completely done with (really, actually try going to a dubstep dance or listening to a recent dubstep record, or even just listen to that N-Type mix you mentioned, "Make me", "Punks", "Kalawanji 2", "Crunked up" all come in the latter part of the mix, not exactly "deadstep"). Not much grime that sounds like your made-up idea of dubstep either. Too much that's trying to sound like hip-hop and only succeeding in being boring. But there's still hype stuff. Logan Sama Kiss FM show from the other day with Skepta, JME, Badness, Ghetto and Wiley touching mic, ridiculously hype:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/x1bkhu

The crossover of Benga and Coki's "night" (see Benga's myspace) is cool but has came a little late because the tune has been ridiculously rinsed.

Is "Night" the track on that extremely overrated Doogz EP?

"Isn't really new, stop chatting shit as usual."

might not be new but its the last one in the dubstep allstars series.

Is "Night" the track on that extremely overrated Doogz EP?

I've not heard Axiom but I know Goodz spits over Coki's "Shattered" on it. Not sure about "Night".

Oh actually, Night is on Benga's myspace: http://www.myspace.com/bengabeats

I still listen to the Newham Gens sets on rinse they are awesome although tubby spins dubstep mostly I guess.

Also I think the Grime people are finally starting to become aware of what "bait hip-hop" is doing to their scene.