Showing posts with label Techno. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Techno. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Milkman brings it fresh! Be sure to get your Milkmoney!





Milkmoney Music, An up and coming force in the Dubstep and Bass Music realm of things, has just TODAY released a Free EP entitled Hallucination. Now you might think, "Hey, that sounds familiar". Well you are probably very familiar with Beat Chemist and curator of Illbient Music DJ Spooky, who has long been a force to be reckoned with in the underground. Hallucinate is a track by DJ Spooky which The Milkman felt so inspired by one night that he decided to release a remix EP and give it away for free on the internet. Probably to avoid all those pesky legal copyright issues. I am all for it. Fuck You RIAA! Either way, I'm sure DJ Spooky will think most of these remixes are sick. Which they are. In fact they are all stompers. Depending upon what you are in the mood for.

Now about the remixes themselves.

DJ Harp Remix

DJ Harp has a more minimal take on the DJ Spooky concoction. This one definitely has that DJ Harp/Specops feel to it. A broken minimal techno dub beat adding tension into the air.

The Milkman Remix


Milkman remix sounds just like you'd expect it to. Typical Milkman fashion. Heavy Kicks and Bass, Minimal Hi-Hats, and a stuttered ambience that leaves you with the image of a bad acid trip. Sick stuff as always from Milkman

Zillion Remix


I have always liked Zillion and this particular Zillion remix is pretty spot on with the rest. Bass Heavy (Like every tune on the EP!) and Groovy with a steppy drum rhythm. That is much like 2-Step or Garage, but the melodics are way more tech rather than funky.

Crosus remix


Crosus delivers a dark, deep, bass heavy take on the DJ Spooky recreation. Dark and Disturbing like walking through the shadows of nightmares awaiting an ambush of wild wolves or an army of marauders coming to slit your throat and take you for all you have.

303 Sumatra Remix


I guess every "Dubstep" remix EP should include a dance floor wobbler and the 303 Sumatra remix is that. Personally this my least favorite remix of the bunch, not really enjoying the bass wobblers as much. I have enjoyed 303's other work, particularly The No Disco EP. It's not a bad tune and is quite dubby and I'm sure that it would make a moving dance floor lose it's head.

Cursed Chimera Remix

Cursed Chimera doesn't really make Dubstep. I don't know what to call it. Techno. IDM. Something new and different that's for sure. I have heard other releases by this man and they are great. This remix is no different. Some of the unmelodies in this tune reach a certain frequency that is almost abrasive, but not quite enough to make you cringe. Switches between a half beat to a floor on the floor. Excellent break tune for you IDM or Experimental Electronic people.

Abrasion Equation Remix

I am not sure how is missed this tune completely. I am glad that a reader (Thanks Jared) pointed it out. I am glad he did. This a smooth remix of Hallucinate. It has a psy-ambience vibe to it and takes you on a aural journey through various tones and layers. This sounds like something I would hear on the dancef loor during a Bassnectar set. Beautiful tones, heavy Bass!

Erin Jale Remix

Who is Erin Jale?! This person has utterly decimated this EP. Holy Shit what a sick remix! I almost missed it entirely due to a spelling error. I'm glad I didn't. My favorite on the EP for sure. Dark, deep, rolling bass lines, technical drum precision with a tense high frequency melody that brings visions of a haunted house of horrors where they are murdering children who come to walk through the haunted house on Halloween. This tune is grimy! I dig it. Give me more Erin Jale!


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Any of these remixes would fit into a variety of places on the dance floor, or they are great for listening to at home. They are each quite unique to themselves and all quite bass heavy. Some more forward moving bass music brought to us by Milkmoney Music. AND IT"S FREE GO DOWNLOAD IT NOW.

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Tuesday, May 19, 2009

So....Dubstep

Dubstep was lurking is the shadows for years before it finally burst into the underground's mainstream roughly 3 years ago (Atleast on this continent) only to explode as the most relevant evolution of next generation electronic music to emerge so far this century. While some naysayers dismissed dubstep early on as too slow for the dancefloor and was going to be a living room genre like trip-hop or atmospheric drum & bass;And it also took a bit for the dancefloor to catch on to the spaced bass rhythms as well. It wasn't long however before the dancefloor "got it".

Nowadays anywhere there is a dubstep exclusive event, which was unheard of 3 years ago, there is ussually a packed out dancefloor with thicker vibes than I've ever felt on any dancefloor. Dubstep has brought many influences with it and people from all sorts of musical backgrounds are getting involved. You'd meet people at a dubstep party that you would definitely never expect.

Dubstep is all over the place right now, and so far it has yet to be sub-categorized. (but there are people that try) There is definitely dubstep which is meant for one place and that is the dancefloor. Driving and Bouncy, most dancefloor dubstep has its roots in Dub, Techno, Rock n' Roll, Hip-Hop, Funk, Electro and Drum n' Bass. There is also some dubstep which is a little less energetic but still follows the same rhythm structure with spaced bass melodies. This dubstep has its roots in Blues, Soul Jazz, Funk, House, Trip-Hop, Ambient, Classical, and even Folk Music. Even though, even the more ambient Dubstep sounds absolutely amazing with a couple thousand watts of sound and some bass bins.

So what is Dubstep? What is its Impact on Music? Where is it going?

Well, I would say that dubstep is a next generation electronically produced music genre defined by a BPM of about 140, with spaced drum patterns and rythmic sub-basslines.

Its impact is that it is the most relevant Dancefloor and living room genre of electronically produced music in the 21st Century and probably the largest evolution of electronic music since Jungle in the mid-1990's. Dubstep has, in a way, changed the electronic music "scene". Relying highly on the internet for promotion and networking....sometimes it may seem that dubstep is a digital internet genre, but you only have to go to the events to realize that this genre is moving people; And not just one kind of person but many inds of people have found something in this rhythm, something that unifies them and moves them to one beat.

It can only go where we want it to. Dubstep This is the future of music.

Saturday, August 23, 2008



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In the immortal words of Bob Barker......."Please, spay and neuter your pets!"

Tracklisting:

01 Brian Sanhaji :: Kappa Effect :: Sonata
02 Karo :: Chatroom :: Italo Business
03 Heinrichs & Hirtenfellner :: Bazar Inflagranti :: Highgrade Records
04 Onkel Brutalo :: Selva :: Resopal Schallware
05 Cesare vs Disorder :: Mother :: Stock5
06 Lauhaus, David Labeij :: Hush Hush :: Sushitech Purple
07 Heinrichs & Hirtenfellner :: Delayed :: Highgrade Records
08 Nathan Joy :: Melineo :: Bambu Records
09 Krilo :: Further Bigger :: Miniatura Records
10 Leeks :: Ninja :: SL Supreme Records
11 Dragosh :: Cut :: Monomental Digital
12 Holgi Star :: Not For Me :: Rompecabeza
13 Nico Diorio :: Shop :: Mamba Tune
14 Wighnomy Brothers :: Somewhere Over the Slippybergun :: WB Records