Dusk + Blackdown Rinse FM May 16

**Dusk + Blackdown Rinse FM May 16**

Dusk + Blackdown “What do you mean?! (parro mix)” [unreleased]
Threnody "Forward Levels" [unreleased]
Mark pritchard “The Blinds Cage Feat Beans” [Warp]
Fox "Chaos (prod. by Samrai & Platt) [unreleased]
Blackdown “Hackney Vandal Patrol” [unreleased]
Delo "Can You" [unreleased]
Squane “Bog”  [unreleased]
Yak "Anju" [unreleased]
Champion “Chrome” [unreleased]
Nuvaman "Phosphorus" [unreleased]
Plaza “Backhander” [unreleased]
??? ”00lemon" [unknown]
Yilan “Contortion Mix” [forthcoming Circular Jaw]
Yilan ”Double Blind Trials” [forthcoming Circular Jaw]
Yilan "Exoskeleton (Wooda's Endoskeleton Remix)" [forthcoming Circular Jaw]
Yilan "Phantom Limb" [forthcoming Circular Jaw]
Blackdown “What do you mean?! (nutty mix)” [unreleased]
Arma "Safari (FoxMind Remix)" [unreleased]
Detboi "Fully Loaded" [unreleased]
Nuvaman "Run tha Dance" [forthcoming Circular Jaw]
Unkey “Shadow Punch” [unreleased]
??? Defibrillator [unreleased]
Delo x Nuvaman “Point Blank” [unreleased]
Unkey “Slaughter House” [unreleased]
Sully “Blue (Max D refix)” [unreleased]
ISLAND "Lil Melody" [forthcoming Tombstone]
Samuel “Killr” [Luv Cry]
Majora "Rio Citrus (Roska's Fusion Mix)" [forthcoming Service]
Distro "Nothing to Prove (Roska x Majora mix)" [RKS]
Holloway "Speed" [unreleased]
Fox "Downtown Uptown (produced by Murlo & Samrai)" [forthcoming Swing Ting]
Donae'O "My Circle feat. big Tobz & Blittz" [Party Hard Records]
Asher D & Mike Delinquent “Fools” [forthcoming]
Anz "Panrico" [unreleased]
DJ Sinclair “Gunman What” [unreleased]
Jammz “Just Eat (Prod. By Yung Anz)”  [Underdog Season 1 Mixtape, free DL]
Stormzy & Sir Spyro “Scary (FX)” [forthcoming]
Lloyd SB “Peach's Palace” [forthcoming Nervous Horizon]
Lloyd SB “Boida Flare” [forthcoming Nervous Horizon]
Anz "Frost" [unreleased]
Glot “Vassals” [unreleased]
Etch “Yo Yo Riddim” [forthcoming BTG]
Ilk “Yes, Ruff! (Moresounds Remix)” [forthcoming BTG]
Nasty Habits “Shadow Boxing (Om Unit remix VIP)”  [31 Recordings]

Keysound Allstars on SWU FM

An hour of dubs from me. Truce & Damu in two very different mixes to follow.

Keysound show Rinse FM April '16

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**Keysound show Rinse FM April '16**

Blackdown “Keysound Sessions Anthem (feverish weightless mix)” [unreleased]
Becoming (N)one “Becoming (N)one” [v1984]
Becoming (N)one “Pre, Post, Pre(-lude) i” [v1984]
Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke “Beautiful People” [Warp]
Anz “Functioning on the low” [unreleased]
Beneath “Fuck Y’all” [unreleased]
Beneath “Cack” [unreleased]
Caski “Traitor” [unreleased]
Divided “Black Swallower” [Project 13]
Ebb "Loa" [unreleased]
Atlas “Calm” [forthcoming Keysound Recordings]
Dusk + Blackdown “What Do You Mean?! (rollage mix)” [unreleased]
Backdown “Keysound Sessions Anthem (techrollage mix)” [unreleased]
Lack “Saffire” [unreleased]
Alfred English “Piston (Tsvi & Luru rmx)” [forthcoming Infinite Machine]
Cadenza "Hacienda ft. SYV" [unreleased]
Flowdan “Horror Show Style” [forthcoming Tru Thoughts]
Blastto "Future Drama Oh" [unreleased]
Alex Coulton “Ambush” [forthcoming Tempa]
Folding City "The Heat" [unreleased]
Grievous Angel “DMX” [unreleased]
illGates "More Tea (Mr Bill Remix)" [Muti]
Otik “Kankles” [unreleased]
Unkey “Twisted Bob” [unreleased]
Lyeform “Elements” [unreleased]
Lil Silva “Lines” [forthcoming]
Okzharp & Samrai ft Ruffest “Woza Uzova ft Ruffest (Gated vocal)” [Keysound Recordings]
Mina "Shake Shake (Lorenzo BITW Remix)" [forthcoming]
Tom Shorterz “Don’t Stop” [forthcoming]
Deadline "In One Ear" [forthcoming DPR]
Ahadadream “Lady Saw Drum Dub” [forthcoming]
Fox “Big Man Ting” [unreleased]
Ahadadream “Yep, Gyal”  [unreleased]
Cliques "The 8th" [forthcoming Tempa]
Wen ft Riko “Play Your Corner (Sully remix)” [unreleased]
Lack "Zoomtec" [unreleased]
Wiley “Step 20 (Alphabets Heaven Dayglo Remix)” [unreleased]
Zha "F" [forthcoming White Peach Records]
Tawny “Open Door Policy”
illBill "More Tea (Sonia Callico remix)" [Muti]
Krud Fam “Does Dis”
Throwing Shade "hashtag IRL" [Ninja Tune]
Rihanna “Work (Murlo remix)” [forthcoming]

Keysound Rinse show March + Yak interview

Keysound Rinse show March 16

Atlas “Solitude” [unreleased]
Desto “untitled”  [unreleased]
Aphix “Chemtrails” [unreleased]
Walton “Caught in a Trap” [unreleased]
Walton “Black Hole”  [unreleased]
Beneath “Giv Sum” [No Symbols]
RS4 “Be Free”  [unreleased]
Near “Lurk” [unreleased]
Blackdown “Where we come from” [unreleased]
Tsvi "Tropical Panamax" [unreleased]
Blackdown “untitled (WIP for Koast)” [unreleased]
Yak “Mido” [unreleased]
Ghost “Black Halo” [unreleased]
Ghost “We See You 2016” [unreleased]
Ghost “Ripple” [unreleased]
J:Kenzo ft Juiceman “Urban Gorilla (Ghost remix)” [unreleased Tempa]
Orson “Fabrik” [forthcoming Version]
Lace Trust “unknown”  [unreleased]
Wen “Kotal” [unreleased]
Aphix "50Thrifty" [unreleased]
Dusk + Blackdown “Clueless” [unreleased]
Barla "Out Here" [unreleased]
Okzharp & Samrai “Body Deh ft Shokryme (Gated vocal)” [unreleased]
Caski “Rare Groove VIP” [unreleased]
Lokane “Levels” [unreleased]
Near “Shapeshifter” [unreleased]
Strictface “Cupids Breeze” [unreleased]
Ebb “Totem” [unreleased]
Horsepower Productions “Ruf Justice” [forthcoming Tempa]
Nuvaman x Gully Creepa "0121" [unreleased]
Terror Danjah ft Jamakabi “Juicy Patty (Logos refix)” [unreleased]
Spurz "Nine Hundred Bells (Brief History)" [Spurz Bandcamp]
Fresh Paul “EZ 4 U” [unreleased]
Fresh Paul “U Have 2 Do”  [unreleased]
Distal “The Big Gheti Star” [unreleased]
Archer "Fukd Differentialz" [unreleased]
Archive “Keep Guard” [forthcoming Tumble Audio]
Detboi “Fragile” [unreleased]
Detboi ““Chimera / Own Thing” [unreleased]
K-Lone “St Louis” [unreleased]
Samrai & Platt ft Kemikal “Tease Me (Puppy Disco remix)” [Swing Ting]
Oris Jay “Mic Man Riddim” [unreleased]

[holes to be plugged when Dusk ID's his tunes...]

Yak interview & free DL

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Tell me about your lone refix?

"I absolutely love the original, the melodies and sound design are amazing but it didn't really fit into my sets so well without losing a lot of energy due to the lack of driving percussion and long breakdowns. I wanted to make an edit for my sets and so sat down one afternoon when I should have been revising for exams and made it as procrastination. I wasn't even planning on sending it out but I get really good feedback from mates and am really stoked at it's response since it was played on the Keysound show."

Where are you based?

"I'm originally from Surrey but currently based in Sheffield where I co-run a night called Pretty Pretty Good with recent guests including Palms Trax, Hunee, Wen, Walton, Paleman and Alex Coulton and upcoming shows with Ploy and Midland."

Who do you roll with, musically?

"I'm part of an ever growing circle of up and coming producers where we constantly share tunes and give feedback to each other, it's really sick and motivates me to keep my work-rate high. There's too many within the group to list them all but it includes the Circular Jaw guys, Agrippa, LKY, Denham Audio, Sensei, Meta, Mort, Kinsman and loads of others."

What musical styles are you into making & DJing?

"Production-wise I'm massively into tribal-drum influenced music right now, not many people are making this sort of style in the UK bass scene but I'm really finding my groove with it at the moment. I always try and produce different styles and tempos though, the last three tunes I finished were 110, 126 and 140 respectively so I always like to keep it fresh to avoid recycling the same sounds."

"My sets always vary greatly depending on what the vibe is, but what I'm mainly into at the moment is anything coming out of the Swamp 81, Livity Sound, Keysound camps or anything on a similar vibe. Recently, I've also been playing a lot more dubs from mates within my circle as everyone is massively upping their production game at the moment!"

Where have you released music, free or otherwise?

"I've got my first EP coming out 21st March on Circular Jaw which is a 5 track EP containing collabs with Nuvaman and Agrippa. I've also got a few tracks forthcoming on compilations including Classical Trax and Eatmybeat and another EP in the works which I can't say much about yet. Plenty of stuff to come though!"

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Rinse FM Keysound show Feb 16

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**Dusk + Blackdown Rinse FM Keysound show Feb 16**

Lyeform “Dead Angel” [unreleased]
Atlas “Solitude” [unreleased]
TWWTH "Animal(a), Forcible, Corporeal, Object" [forthcoming Signal Life]
Atlas “On the cusp” [unreleased]
TWWTH 6 "New Epilogue (Post Everything)" [forthcoming Signal Life]
Lyeform “Bright Night” [unreleased]
Lyeform "Elkish" [unreleased]
E.m.m.a. “Indigo” [unreleased]
Deadboy "Sad Sniper (Santa Muerte bootleg)" [unreleased]
E.m.m.a. “Glacé” [unreleased]
Holloway “LPS” [unreleased]
DBM “Squeeze?” [forthcoming DBM Productions]
Callosum "Snapback (ft. V. Geels)" [Classical Trax]
Lone “Counter Glow (Yak refix)” [unreleased]
Akcept “Sewer Rat” [unreleased]
Blackdown “Godlike Power” [unreleased]
Folding City "Grand Entry" [unreleased]
Jurango “Sticky Bomb” [unreleased]
FoxMind “Left Swing” [unreleased]
Plaza “Murdah Circa '02” [unreleased]
Unknown “untitled" [unreleased]
Big Tobz “Uno My Style  RMX feat Avelino, DonaeO & Wstrn” [forthcoming]
O'Flynn "Oberyn" [forthcoming Blip Discs]
Lokane “Knuckles” [unreleased]
TSVI & Lorenzo BITW feat. Nico Lindsay “Rain (Rough vox)” [unreleased]
Blackdown “Keysound Sessions Anthem” [unreleased]
Pinch ft Riko Dan “Screamer” [Tectonic]
Terror Danjah ft Jamakabi “Juicy Patty (Blackdown’s big size 12 remix)” [unreleased]
Alma Negra "Tananka (Version)" [forthcoming Sofrito Super Single]
OKZharp & Samrai ft Ruffest “Woza Uzova ft Ruffest (Gated vocal)” [unreleased]
Noir “Early Hours” [unreleased]
Stormin Feat MC Neat "Bad Bassline (Ghosty 4x4 House Remix) [forthcoming Rhythm Rollers]
Self Evident “Flicker” [unreleased]
Footsie ft Giggs “Hot Water” [Braindead Ent]
Vaphorie "Beton" [Classical Trax]
Glot “Hold” [unreleased]
Merouac "Artemis" [unreleased]
Boylan “Fire on Mars” [unreleased]
Aryia "Night Tales" [unreleased]
0h85 “They Got Me In the Streets Again (The Jimmy Jamz Anthem feat. Spednar)” [unreleased]
Strand "Suculens" [Lowriders Recordings]

"We tell them f**k off 'ow you mean?!"

Dusk + Blackdown January '15 Rinse FM tracklist

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**Dusk + Blackdown Rinse FM Keysound show Jan ’16**

Prayer “Ghetto Kyote” [unreleased]
Tarquin Magnet “Sassafras Gesundheit” [Blackest Ever Black]
Damu “0001 2-Audio-1-1” [unreleased]
Gage “Iono U, Withdraw" [free Crazy Legs DL]
Doline “Levee Dancers” [Sound Pellegrino]
Agrippa “Mygraine Urgraine Playable” [Unreleased]
Agrippa “Call Me” [Unreleased]
Mumdance & Novelist “One Sec (Lorenzo BITW funky flex refix) [unreleased]
Lorenzo BITW “Hey” [unreleased]
Lyeform “Migration” [unreleased]
Lamont “One hour” [unreleased]
Lokane “Bomba (Test)” [Nervous Horizon]
Lloyd SB “Pirate Bay (TSVI rmx)” [Nervous Horizon]
Krytikal “Illusions (Yilan remix) [Circular Jaw]
Blackdown “Godlike Power” [unreleased]
Otik “616”  [unreleased]
Truce “Uhh” [forthcoming Keysound Recordings]
Cisco “Strange” [unreleased]
Truce “Be There” [forthcoming Keysound Recordings]
Lyeform “Internet Generation” [unreleased]
JT the Goon “Oil on Ice (version 3)” [Keysound Recordings]
Barrow XL & Trimmer “Mono” [unreleased]
E.m.m.a. “Gold” [unreleased]
Maribor “Kevlar” [unreleased]
Damu “Holed up in the Hovel (Aerotonin Imanzis Dog Beautiful refix)” [unreleased]
Cimm “Can’t touch us” [unreleased]
Otik “Vasectomy” [unreleased]
Lyeform "Nebula" [unreleased]
LKD Beats “This tune is the Winner” [unreleased]
Farsight "The Confuser" [Prjkts]
Aerotonin & Nights “Jazz Lick” [unreleased]
Farsight “Hymn Of Safe Passage (Luru remix)” [Prjkts]
Blackdown “Keysound Sessions Anthem” [unreleased]
BNRY "Still Ballin' (Fresh Paul remix)" [unreleased]
DJ Sinclair “Ricky” [unreleased]
Murlo “Wisp” [unreleased]
P Money & Sir Spyro “10-10” [unreleased]
Farsight “Faded Memory” [Prjkts]
Sully “limb assembly2” [unreleased]
Nozinja & Mumdance "I Won't Rush You” [The Vinyl Factory]

Dusk + Blackdown November '15 Rinse FM tracklist

**Dusk + Blackdown November '15 Rinse FM tracklist**

Yonurican “Boriken Soul (Agrippa edit) [unreleased]
Lack “Span” [unreleased]
Ramsey & Fen ft Rikko, Lynsey Moore “I’m Ready (DJ Fen Deep House mix)” [Bug Records]
Kiri & Nab "Ain't Nobody" [unreleased]
El-B “Running” [Vex]
Lorenzo BITW “Shall we Roll” [unreleased]
J Hus “Lean & Bop (Syv_Remix)[Black Butter Records]
Ahadadream "Gunshot" [unreleased]
Walton “Agu” [unreleased]
Lack "Zoomtec" [unreleased]
Yak & Agrippa “Rosa” [unreleased]
Murder He Wrote "DS9 Riddim" [forthcoming Sounds of Sumo]
OKZharp & Samrai ft Shokryme “Gated vocal” [unreleased]
Mya "Ponytail (Mapalma Edit)" [Oracles]
Alex Coulton “Radiance” [Wisdom Teeth]
Anubi "Alteration" [LuckyBeard]
Simo Cell “Escape The Fate” [Wisdom Teeth]
Lokane "Body Double (TSVI WIP remix)" [unreleased]
K Lone “Rude” [Badimup]
Klient “Fragment” [unreleased]
Unkey “Karate Club” [unreleased]
Circo "Rise" [forthcoming Heretic]
Lyeform “Dead” [unreleased]
Geist "Overturn" [unreleased]
Nuvaman “MTHH” [Brunswick Sound vol1]
Lyeform “Annihiliation” [unreleased]
Dusk + Blackdown “Peng One Two VIP” [unreleased]
Lyeform “String Theory” [unreleased]
Detboi “Get on up” [unreleased]

Superficie "Fog Shield" [Oracles]
Mic Ty “Knewham (To The City Remix)” [unreleased]
JT the Goon "50 Days of May"  [Oil Gang]
JT the Goon “King Arthur” [Oil Gang]
Neff-T & LTHL "Requiem" [Brunswick Sound vol1]
Dread D “10 Missed Calls” [Local Action]
Grim Sickers "Matcha Freestyle (prod. by Scruloose)" [Durkle Disco]

LKD Beats “Tape Crush” [unreleased]
Wen “Simpl” [unreleased]
Sully “Assembly 2” [unreleased]
Etch “Cozmiq B-Boy” [unreleased]
Boi-a-Gutz “Detroit Style (Jungle mix)” [unreleased]

Rabit “Foetal” [Triangle Records]

Dusk + Blackdown Rinse FM October 15th tracklist

**Dusk + Blackdown Rinse FM October 15th tracklist**

Wen “Float” [unreleased]
Lyeform “Represent” [unreleased]
Cliques “Untitled” [unreleased]
Joedan “Underdog” [unreleased]
MC Shantie & Joedan “No Verse Two” [unreleased]
OKZharp "Glonet" [Hyperdub]
Okzharp “Dearribane feat Manthe” [Hyperdub]
TSVI & Lorenzo “Drag Queen” [unreleased]
OKZharp & Samurai “Gated - Ruffest vocal” [unreleased]
Coldpast “Chap Lapz” [free download]
TSVI “Memorex” [unreleased]
Maribor & Body Double “3.142” [unreleased]
Jurango “No Sign” [unreleased]
Mythra "Chet" [unreleased]
Nuvaman “Jawstomp” [forthcoming PRJKTS]
Wen “You Know [Maribor VIP]” [unreleased]
Vern & Milla “Sub0” [PRJKTS]
Unknown “Collective Unconscious” [unreleased]
Caski “Tunnel Music VIP” [unreleased]
Etch “Glass Shores” [unreleased]
Loco Dice “Get Comfy (Underground Sound Suicide) [feat. Giggs]” [released]
Otik “Achne Downs” [unreleased]
Jus Now “Cyah Help It ft Miss Dynamite & Bunji Garlin” [unreleased]
Walton “Tailko” [unreleased]
Vern & Milla “Wierdo Dub” [unreleased]
Murlo “Furnace” [forthcoming Mixpak]
Murlo “Lanced” [forthcoming Mixpak]
Lowquid "Death Note" [unreleased]
E.m.m.a. “Pumpkin Emoji” [unreleased]
Krotone “DSPD”  [unreleased]
Lamont ft. Nico Lindsay “In The Field [Devils mix]” [unreleased]
Wiley “Born in the Cold (Epoch refix, Dusk + Blackdown special)” [unreleased]
Spokes “Tshirt Tan” [unreleased]
Impey "Bangclap" [Sector 7]
TSVI “Yeah” [Nervous Horizon]
Merouac "Solo" [forthcoming AfkaSound]
Logos “Marsh Lantern (D version)” [unreleased]
Lloyd SB “4D Hypercube (final edit)”  [unreleased]
Corporal F “Flunk” [free DL]
Murlo "Cascade" [forthcoming Mixpak]
Finn “Finn Theme” [Local Action]
Nodnol "London Spoke" [Circular Jaw, free download]

Dusk + Blackdown Rinse FM September 2015 tracklist

Dusk + Blackdown Rinse FM September 2015 show



Airhead “Stretch” [unreleased]
Atlas "Alone in a Timespan" [unreleased]
Sully “Hours, Miles & Still.... (130 VIP)” [unreleased]
Walton "You Tried" [unreleased]
Kastle “Polytopia” [Symbols]
Deadboi “It Did Not Feel Right VIP” [Local Action]
Deadboi “Rye Angel” [Local Action]
Maramza "Hungry Ingcuka" [Bombaada]
Maramza feat Ruffest “Sekwa Sithi feat. Ruffest” [Bombaada]
Jus Now "Cyah Help It" [Gutterfunk]
OKZharp & Samrai “I know ft Specialist Moss (Gated vocal)” [unreleased]
Lyeform “Temper” [unreleased]
Wen “Sun Thru Blinds”  [unreleased]
Nuvaman x Gully Creepa "Shots Fired" [unreleased]
Truce “Uhh” [unreleased]
Cooly G "Horrors in the Dance" [Hyperdub]
Piezo & Nodef “So Many Frogs” [unreleased]
Caski "Structures" [unreleased]
Lamont ft. Grim Sickers “Death Slide (dub mix Dusk & Blackdown spesh)” [unreleased]
Riffs "The Back Seat" [forthcoming]
Lamont ft Nico Lindsay “Walk round Ere” [forthcoming]
Jurango "Oldboy's Corridor" [unreleased]
Wen “1003 Radio Trak” [unreleased]
Otik "Oddball" [unreleased]
GHSTGHSTGHST “Bad Boy” [unreleased]
Piezo "Super Vega" [unreleased]
Lyeform “Stigma VIP” [unreleased]
Madd Again! "Koolout" [Swing Ting]
Jus Now “Badder Than Feat. Olatuni Yearwood” [Gutterfunk]
Nuvaman "Eastside" [unreleased]
Detboi “Dark Energy” [unreleased]
Detboi "Shots VIP" [unreleased]
Etch “Trust No One” [unreleased]
Bloom "Quartz VIP" [Gobstopper]
Lloyd SB “King of the Castle” [unreleased]
Lokane "The 5th" [Infinite Machine]
Lloyd SB vs. Wiley “X Out” [unreleased]
Mattwizard "Tapanga Kapowski" [Slit Jockey]
Juicy Patty “Terror Danjah ft Jamakabi” [unreleased]
Sully "We're Here" [unreleased]
Gremino “Lightspeed” [Lista]
Sam Binga & Deft ft. Chimpo, Fox & Redders "Steppin VIP" [Critical]

Dusk + Blackdown July 15 show

Wen “Untitled (Tropical)” [unreleased]
LV ft Tigran Hammasyan “Jump and Reach” [forthcoming Brownswood]
TQD “Day & Night [forthcoming Butterz]
Maribor “Have a Word with Yourself” [unreleased]
Durrty Googz “AKA Kingah” [free Bandcamp DL]
Qualifide “That Bass Redone” [unreleased]
Durrty Googz “Rudeboyz Keep It Real” [free Bandcamp DL]
Caski “Overgrown” [unreleased]
DJ Dino “Ridgeview Funk” [forthcoming Townshiptech]
DJ Dino “Wozuzobhenga (ft Arow Da Oash)” [forthcoming Townshiptech]
Nativ “Lost” [forthcoming House Not House]
Jook10 “Certified” [unreleased]
Jook10 “The Underground” [unreleased]
Nativ “That Night” [forthcoming House Not House]
Dusk + Blackdown “Wot do You Mean!? (role remix)” [unreleased]
Caski “Untitled” [unreleased]
Parris “Untitled” [unreleased]
Otik “Hunga” [unreleased]
Detboi “All I Need” [unreleased]
Otik “Strangelove” [unreleased]
Otik “Big Bad Wolf” [unreleased]
Vern & Milla “Let's Go” [unreleased]
Lamont Ft. Grim Sickers “Death Slide” [unreleased]
Otik “Central Nerve”  [unreleased]
Old Apparatus “nfsb 150611 loud” [unreleased]
Fela Gucci “Sho Guluva (Gantz Escapism Remix)” [unreleased]
[unknown] “Installation Nº4” [unreleased]
Slackk “Martial Law” [unreleased]
Slackk “Trona Pinnacles II” [unreleased]
Dyant "Aleph” [unreleased]
Slackk “Seaside Lovers” [unreleased]
SYN “Flood” [unreleased]
Matt Wizard “Proof” [unreleased]
Utah? “Velocity [Symbols]” [unreleased]
Matt Wizard “Slippy Slide” [unreleased]
Dark0 “Fuschia” [Tempa]
Royal-T “Shotta (Wen Remix)” [Butterz]
Royal T “Shotta (Kahn & Neek Remix)” [Butterz]
Jon E Cash ft Novelist “War” [Rinse freestyle]

Rinse June 2015

Sully “Small Victories” [unreleased]
Pastiche “Nothing to say” [unreleased]
Lockah “Push Off My Wire (Bliss)” [DonkeyPitch]
Mr Mitch “Honor Oak” [unreleased]
Atlas “Versus3” [unreleased]
?? “Acton V1” [unreleased]
Wen “Arlington CT9” [Soundman Chronicles]
Epoch “Arrival” [unreleased]
Wen “M2” [unreleased]
Zgjim “Pulldat” [unreleased]
Lyeform “Things Betwixt” [unreleased]
Scalade “Way back (Blackdown version)” [unreleased]
JT the Goon “Oil On Ice (Blackdown VIP 3)” [unreleased]
Mandeep “Han zo” [unreleased]
Charlux “Don't Say Literally” [unreleased]
Fresh Paul “Time On You” [unreleased]
GXi “So” [unreleased]
Chaams “All No Thing” [Car Crash Set]
Joedan “Contrived (Original)” [unreleased]
Lyeform “Unbroken Solid” [unreleased]
Joedan “Roman” [unreleased]
Nativ “Nerve” [unreleased]
Majora “Tech Leopard (Doctor Jeep Remix)” [forthcoming]
Craig Walker “21 Grams” [unreleased]
Lamont “Circa” [unreleased]
Dokunen “Strong Meds (Boxwork remix)” [unreleased]
Della “Descendant (Lyeform Remix)” [unreleased]
Aerotonin “That North (Maribor Mix)” [unreleased]
Roska “Frst & Frmst” [unreleased]
AD, Joedan & Da Freeez “RiRi (Original Mix)” [unreleased]
Lorenzo “Steel Drums feat Mina”  [unreleased]
Nozinja “Mitshetshoi” [Warp]
Nozinja “Xihukwani” [Warp]
Kemikal, Platt, Samrai “Tease Me” [unreleased]
Majora “Benny Blanco (Conducta Remix)” [forthcoming]
Maribor “Tell Me” [unreleased]
Mobb Deep “Up North Trip (Etch ReVibe)” [unreleased]
Ill-esha “Hyperbolic Space Crochet” [Seclusiasis]
Sizzla x Savona “Cold War (Om Unit remix) [forthcoming]

Dusk + Blackdown Rinse FM May '15 tracklist

Dusk + Blackdown Rinse FM May '15 tracklist

Atlas “Solitude” [unreleased]
Damu “0004 22-Audio-1” [unreleased]
Lorenzo bitw “Drawing” [unreleased]
Truce “Audience Audio” [unreleased]
Lyeform “Streetwise” [unreleased]
Lorenzo bitw “Congo Natty Dub”
Woz x Chubba “HBK [Black Butter” [free DL: http://www.unlock.fm/34n]
DJ Luck ft MC NEAT (G.A.R.A.G.E EVM128 RMX) [forthcoming Chronic]
dB “Else” [unreleased]
Lyeform “In Memoriam” [unreleased]
Maribor “Fortress” [unreleased]
Facta “Calypso“ [unreleased]
Pastiche “The Happy Fool” [unreleased]
Detboi “Scatter” [unreleased]
Dankhauz - Dynasty [unreleased]
Dusk + Blackdown “Wot do you mean (rollage mix)” [unreleased]
Rudeboyz - Japanese Sax [Goon Club Allstars, free DL: https://soundcloud.com/hyponik-com/free-download-rudeboyz-japanese-sax]

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Amen Ra in the mix:

Amen Ra feat No Fixed Abode “One Door Isn't Enough” [forthcoming Keysound Recordings]
Amen Ra “Mud and Root” [forthcoming Keysound Recordings]
Double Helix vs Raggatwins “Street Wise” [Keysound Recordings]
Double Helix and Lumin Project vs Raggatwins “Exodus” [Keysound Recordings]
Double Helix “Geller's Hand” [Keysound Recordings]
Amen Ra “The Fullness Awaits” [Keysound Recordings]
No Fixed Abode vs Amen Ra “Alchemy Trials 3”
Amen Ra “Wet Harmonic” [forthcoming Keysound Recordings]
Double Helix and Low Density Matter vs Raggatwins “2000 Dust” [Keysound Recordings]
No Fixed Abode feat Amen Ra “Dew” [Keysound Recordings]
Amen Ra “Natural Boost” [forthcoming Keysound Recordings]

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Becoming Real - GrimeLord (Loom's OKLO  Remix) [unreleased, c/o Get Some UK]
Cimm “Vilified” [unreleased]
Blackwax “Faded Hearing” [unreleased]
Loom “Noctilucent” [free Blacklink DL]
Slackk “Posrednik” [R&S]

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OKZharp in the mix, more here: https://www.mixcloud.com/blackdown-keysound/okzharp-ok-bheng-mix/

1.Natural Mafias by Citizen Soul
2.Mad Hatter by DVA
3.Outkast by Wet Boyz
4.Underground NBB gqom trakbyNatural Black Boyz
5.Ashuuu (Wanglimaza uQoh) by Emo Kid
6.Aibo Heyy (dub mix) by Sbucardo Da DJ
7.Kokeye by Julz
8.Ikologo by DJ Lag
9.Rude Ghost by Rudeboyz
10.Wosh (club bang) by Thobzin
11.iDry by Citizen Boy
12.Murder by Minister
13.Blast by DJ Lag
14.War Dance by Champion
15.Newlands Piano by Julz
16.Get Down by Rudeboyz
17.Skanker by Lighter
18.Botala by Albert Axe & Big Space
19.Keep It Warm by Deamonds and Dean Lyon
20.Senza Ikaka (instrumental) by Boolz
21.Let It Go (Sucker) by Moroka
22. kzin featuring Amajita - Unsindo by Nhle
23.Amashangane by Novelty featuring Citizen Boy
24.The Man Waits by Mr Mitch
25.Unknown by Albert Axe
26.Drum Tek by Albert Axe & Big Space
####################

Dusk + Blackdown Rinse FM April

Dusk + Blackdown Rinse FM April '15 tracklist

Atlas “On The Cusp” [unreleased]
Aphix “Ruby Grooves” [unreleased]
Graintable “Magnetic North” [Platinum Fade]
Monday Club “Black is the colour of my true love’s hair” [unreleased]
RS4 & Lombardo “House Music Was Born” [unreleased]
Mssing No “Limits Power” [unreleased]
Truce “Be There” [unreleased]
Deadbeat “Bleak” [unreleased]
Qualifide “You Cannot Hide” [unreleased]
Brenz "Codeine 98" [unreleased]
Lamont “The Glass House” [unreleased]
Lojik “Saracen” [Durkle Disco]
Lamont “Locust” [unreleased]
Menchess “Mitzibishi Song” [Goon Club Allstars]
Facta “Alsatian” [unreleased]
Roska "This Could Take A While (JD Reid Remix) [Roska Kicks and Snares]
Samrai & Platt ft Trigganom “One Step” [Swing Ting]
Argo "Silencers VIP" [unreleased]
Joedan “Rag N Bone” [Vex]
Lyeform “Cavemen” [unreleased]
Lyeform “Stigma” [unreleased]
Klient "Vultures" [forthcoming Tessellate]
Maribor “BodyBag” [unreleased]
Archer "Final Ending" [unreleased]
Arctic “Sweet Like Hawaiian” [unreleased]
Filter Dread “Space Beams” [unreleased]
Braaks “Palace” [unreleased]
Jade Wells "Salem WIP" [unreleased]
Detboi “Own thing” [unreleased]
Strict Face "Mylar Swamp" [unreleased]
Double Helix (LHF) ft Ragga Twins “Fugese” [forthcoming Keysound Recordings]
Invader Space "Knicks" [Blanklink, free DL]
Skream “Midnight Request Line (Just Geo rerub)” [unreleased]
Deadboy "Copwar" [forthcoming Local Action]
Royal-T “Glacier” [Butterz]
Sharp Veins "Yamaha Wave Venture" [Blanklink, free DL]
Island “Cypher”  [Crazy Legs]
Salute "Thunder Shorts" [unreleased, was a free DL but link dead]
Damu “0004 22-Audio-1” [unreleased]

Rinse Mar 15

Keysound Rinse show March 2015 - All Keysound Special

Download here

Dusk + Blackdown “Akkaboo” [Keysound Recordings]
Dusk + Blackdown “Submerged” [Keysound Recordings]
Dusk + Blackdown “Drenched” [Keysound Recordings]
Blackdown “The Danger Line” [Keysound Recordings]
Dusk + Blackdown “Malarial Mind” [unreleased]
Dusk + Blackdown “Mantis VIP” [unreleased]
Dusk + Blackdown ft Farrah “Simplicity” [unreleased]
Blackdown “Crackle Blues (Burial remix)” [Keysound Recordings]
Blackdown ft Tavis Triance “It’s Been Six Months” [unreleased]
Blackdown “Northside Cheng Dub” [Keysound Recordings]
Dusk + Blackdown “The Drumz of Nagano” [Keysound Recordings]
Dusk + Blackdown ft Farrah “Iqbal’s Groove” [Keysound Recordings]
Dusk + Blackdown ft Teji & Farrah “Kuri Pataka” [Keysound Recordings]
Dusk + Blackdown “Rolling Raj Deep” [Keysound Recordings]
Dusk “Focus” [Keysound Recordings]
Blackdown ft Durrty Goodz “Concrete Streets” [Keysound Recordings]
Dusk + Blackdown ft Trim “The Bits” [Keysound Recordings]
Geeneus Ft. Riko, Wiley & Breeze ‎”Knife & Gun Knife & Gun (Blackdown remix)” [Keysound Recordings]
Geeneus Ft. Riko, Wiley & Breeze ‎”Knife & Gun Knife & Gun (Blackdown devil mix)” [Keysound Recordings]
DVA Ft. Badness, Riko, Killa P & Flowdan ‎”Bullet A' Go Fly (Dusk + Blackdown remix)” [Keysound Recordings]
Starkey ft Durrty Goodz “Gutter Music vocal VIP” [unreleased]
Mavado “Dying (Blackdown refix)” [unreleased]

Amen Ra “Akashic Visions” [Keysound Recordings]
Double Helix “LDN” [Keysound Recordings]
Double Helix  Chamber of Light [Keysound Recordings]
Amen Ra “Simple Things” [Keysound Recordings]
Double Helix “Voyages” [Keysound Recordings]

LV & Josh Idehen “I Know” [Keysound Recordings]
LV & Joshua Idehen “Melt” [Keysound Recordings]
LV & Josh Idehen “Lost” [Keysound Recordings]
LV & Josh Idehen “Island” [Keysound Recordings]
LV & Joshua Idehen “Northern Line” [Keysound Recordings]

Rinse Feb 15

** Dusk & Blackdown Rinse FM Feb 15 ft Epoch **

Sully “Thema” [unreleased]
Deadboy “It did not feel right” [Crazy Legs]
813 "Tinky Tonky (Slugabed remix)" [DonkyPitch]
Funk Ethics “A13” [unreleased]
OKZharp & Samrai “Baddies” [unreleased]
Busy Signal “Tamara (Swing Ting 125 remix)” [forthcoming]
Lyeform “Voudou” [unreleased]
DJ Julz “Bass Push(skoteni)” [free DL]
Fang Lillies “BK stomp” [forthcoming Signal Life]
LKD Beats “Untitled 4” [unreleased]
Funkystepz “Witchcraft” [unreleased]
Lorenzo “Flashback” [unreleased]
Lorenzo “Guava VIP” [unreleased]
Lamont “Concrete” [unreleased]
Zenwan “Cosmic Divination” [unreleased]
Grim Sickers + No Lay - Jenga [Wen Celestial Mix]
[unreleased]
Lyeform "Xibalba" [unreleased]
Damu “Whirlybird” [Keysound Recordings]
unknown "Milk” [unknown]
Wen “Play Your Corner (ft Riko Dan) (Walton Remix)” [unreleased]

**Epoch in the mix**

D Double E “Lovely Jubbly (Epoch's Strongarm Refix)” [unreleased]
Epoch “Ville” [unreleased]
Epoch “Next Door” [unreleased]
Dusk & Blackdown “Wot Do U Mean (Epoch's S.D.O Remix)” [unreleased]
Epoch “Fight For You” [unreleased]
Epoch “Bombs” [unreleased]
Epoch “I Want My Life Back” [unreleased]
Epoch “Techboys” [unreleased]
Epoch “Tiger” [unreleased]
Epoch “Only You” [unreleased]
Unknown “Novel” [unreleased]

— **Dusk & Blackdown**

 Etch “Untitled Hardcore #2 (Skelriddim)” [unreleased]
Prizma "Amazonian" [forthcoming Tessellate Records]
Debt “Off Switch” [unreleased]
Detboi “Joyride” [unreleased]
Sully “Hours, Miles & Still…” [forthcoming]
Abtomic "Keep on" [forthcoming]
Novelist & Mumdance “1 Sec” [XL Recordings]
Fang Lilies "Color Crop" [forthcoming Signal Life]
Moleskin “Bit” [unreleased]
Matt Wizard “SMOKING FAKE POT WITH PETER FRAMPTON” [unreleased]
Shreiking Specialist “Step Back and Have a Look” SRC "Rat Road" [forthcoming Progressive Intelligence]

Rinse Dec 14 & Jan 15

 

Dusk + Blackdown rinse Dec '14 tracklist

Jakob Glock "Passing Time" [unreleased]
Hodge & Facta "Spheres of Costa Rica" [Tempa]
Roska "Wave" [Kicks & Snares]
Cimm "Bladed" [unreleased]
Walton "Wrench" [unreleased]
unknown "Outcry" [unreleased]
Cimm "Blackout" [unreleased]
Sepia "Introduce the game" [unreleased]
Matta "Decoder" [unreleased]
Detboi "Pin Point" [unreleased]
Detboi "The Hunt" [unreleased]
DAT Oven "Icey Lake (Mickey Pearce remix)" [unreleased]
Roska "Light Dem Up ft. Illaman" [Kicks & Snares]
The Crane "Ascendancy Pyromancy Flame" [Scrufix]
Qualified “Take that away” [forthcoming]
Luke B "Don't Get Better Than Me And You (Sully remix)" [unreleased]
RIP Productions “Back Again (Unreleased DJ Mix)” [forthcoming]
Folding City "Ice Riddim" [unreleased]
DJ Q “Ordinary People” [Q Recordings]
Catching Notes "Our Sound"  [unreleased]
Zed Bias "Shizam ft. Stylo G & Scrufizzer [My Nu Leng Remix]" [Black Butter]
unknown “IMY” [unreleased]
Hybrid Theory "Thats What It Is (Flava D Remix)" [forthcoming]
Mr Mitch "Hot Air" [Planet Mu]
Walton "Bulldoze" [unreleased]
Rabit "Air Port Systems (Underclass RMX) [unreleased]
Dusk + Blackdown “Wot do you mean?! (Epoch's S.D.O. Remix) [unreleased]
Amen Ra "Natural Boost" [unreleased]
Matt Wizard “Rainbow Road” [unreleased]
Thriftworks "Pearly Whites" [Bandcamp DL]
Matt Wizard “Cosmic Ray Gun” [unreleased]
Swindle "Summer Fruits" [Brownswood Recordings]
Torus "Ethereal" [Rwina]
Sharp Veins “Pompelmo” [Coyote]
Damu “Holed up in the Hovel” [forthcoming Keysound]
unknown “Moko” [unreleased]
Novelist x Mumdance “Shook (Vocal)” [XL]
First Grandson "Dried Prawns" [Inna Riddim]
Mr Mitch “Wandering Glaciers” [Planet Mu]
Atlas "Solitude" [unreleased]

Dusk + Blackdown Rinse FM Jan ’15 tracklist

PHSNWSKY “Mystic” [forthcoming]
Logos “Omega Point” [unreleased]
M.E.S.H. “Scythians (Logos Remix)” [released]
Aphix "Into Spheres" [unreleased]
Wen “Pace Myself” [unreleased]
Venin and Knowledge "Soundboy Digs Own Grave Before Kissing His Wife and Children Goodbye" [unreleased]
Okzharp & Samrai “Gated” [unreleased]
unknown Cutting Spree [unknown]
J-One “Some Vibez” [unreleased]
Eva 808 “You Know” [unreleased]
Parris DJ “Let's Stretch, Then Workout!” [unreleased]
Lamont and Piezo "Jack Flash" [unreleased]
Damu whirly bird [forthcoming Keysound Recordings]
Gage "Telo (Suda remmix)" [free DL]
Truce One Blood [unreleased]
unknown “Method” [unreleased]
Lorenzo “Fantasies” [unreleased]
Double Helix “Exodus” [unreleased]
Logos & Mumdance “Dance Energy (89 Mix)” [forthcoming Tectonic]
DJ Leukos “Untitled Riddim (Mike G Remix)” [Car Crash Set]
Terror Danjah & Zed Bias ft. Olivia Louise - Telepathy (Original Mix)
Madd Again! (ft. Specialist Moss) "Dem Ah Pree" [unreleased]
Detboi “Scatter” [unreleased]
Beat Pharmacy “Roll Call" [unreleased]
Sepia “Patience” [unreleased]
unknown "Out Here" [unreleased]
Amen Ra “Natural Boost” [unreleased]
Richelle "Don't Do (Samename remix)" [Free DL]
Madd Again! BAWLOUT [forthcoming]
Footsie "Move to the beat remix" [Butterz]
Wiley “Morgue (Gage fukup)” [free DL]
Just Geo "Ain't Your Thing" [unreleased]
Just Geo “Blue Tick Gang”
Loom "Burning Chrome" [forthcoming Slit Jockey Records]
Just Geo “Steady On (RF mix)”
Just Geo "Emerald City" [unreleased]
Matt wizard “Snow Forever” [unreleased]
Paper Tiger “No I in Cream” [unreleased]
Matt wizard “Jupiter Jam” [unreleased]
Fresh Paul “Blue Knuckle” [forthcoming]
Fresh Paul “Crushup” [forthcoming]
Deadboy “One” [unreleased]
House of Black Lanterns “Code of the Streets” [unreleased]

Dec 14

There's been a bunch of things going on recently...

Rinse

The last Keysound show on Rinse in 2014: here.

(tracklist to follow)

 "LowKeysound" mix 

...for Dummy mag: here. The flip of the Keysound Bangers mix.

Hyponik interview.

Me chatting ish over lunch.

Free D/L

Of "Deep Data" by Circula, here.

RIP Spaceape.

I talked about crying in public and no one's parred me yet. Remarkable.

Bob Fossil v Big Narstie

Why both are certified badmen.

NCLPad's (all) Keysound mix




Kowton – Countryman (LDN013)
Beneath – Illusion (LDN034)
Bias + Gurley – Roll (Blackdown’s A Debt Repaid Remix) (LDN021)
Dusk + Blackdown – Dasaflex (LDN033)
Dusk + Blackdown – Back 2 Go FWD>> (LDN049)
Beneath – Tribulation (LDN034)
LV + Josh Idehen – Melt (LDN022)
Moleskin – Burst (LDN 036)
E.M.M.A – At Sea (LDN039)
Sully – It’s Your Love (LDN026)
Wen – Swingin’ (LDN Mix) (LDN044)
Dusk + Blackdown – High Road (LDN032/LDN033)
Double Helix – LDN VIP (LDN036)
Dusk + Blackdown – Drenched (Facta Remix) (LDN049)
Dusk + Blackdown – Akkaboo (LDN005)
Wen – Play Your Corner (LDN044)
Dusk + Blackdown – Crackle Blues (Burial Remix) (LDN002)
Dusk + Blackdown – The Bits ft. Trim (LDN004/LDN006)
Logos – Atlanta 96 (LDN030)
Geeneus – Knife and Gun (Blackdown Devil Mix) (LDN008)
Dusk + Blackdown – This is London (2011 Riots Remix) (Unreleased)
Etch – Sphynx (LDN040)
Dusk + Blackdown – Mantis VI3 (LDN003)
No Fixed Abode – Sunset (Mumbai Slum Edition) (LDN029)
Dusk + Blackdown – Kuri Pataka (The Firecracker Girl) (LDN006/LDN007)
Dusk + Blackdown – Focus (LDN005/LDN006)
LV + Josh Idehen – Imminent (LDN045/LDN048)
Balistiq Beats – Concrete Jungle (Yardman Rhythm) (LDN020)
Skream – Angry World (LDN016)
Damu – Ridin’ the Hype ft. Trim (LDN027)
Starkey – Gutter Music (LDN009)

NCLPad on his mix...

“It’s like…they went back to go forward.”
 
"With the arrival of Certified Connections (LDN050), it felt like an ideal time to look back on the previous forty-nine releases. If truth be told, I’d been working on a ‘roots of’ type mix on and off for a while, but then Benjybars dropped his and I decided to leave it a while (that mix is absolute first-rate, it still soundtracks my drive to work regularly). So, with Benjybars’ Roots of Keysound, Grievous Angel’s Margins Music: Redux, it’s fair to say there are a few monumental mixes out there for the Keysound faithful."
 
"Anyway, with memories of that boat party still fresh in the mind, I set about putting something together myself. I was just trying to join the dots between where the label is at right now and where it’s come from. It was fun mixing the old with the new and hopefully keeping some kind of coherence. This is the result."
 
"Here’s to the next 50!"

Dusk + Blackdown Rinse FM November

Last week we had the gang up on Rinse to celebrate our new compliation. Here's the audio from the "Certified Connections" special. The comp is out tomorrow on CD, digital and vinyl (with a mixed version from Parris on the Boomkat versions).

DOWNLOAD HERE.

Dusk + Blackdown mix

Dusk + Blackdown "Wot do you mean!? (movin' parro mix)"
Dusk + Blackdown "Wot do you mean!? (dub mix)"
Blackdown "Wot do you mean!?"

Logos mix

Logos "Glass (Shapednoise remix)" [forthcoming Different Circles]
Logos "Metropolis" [Keysound Recordings]
DAT Oven x Rabit "Thuggin' At The Icy Lake (Logos blend)" [dub]
Inkke "Choong Hoe" [dub]
Mumdance "Springtime Devil" [dub]
Rabit "#Tearz" [dub]

DLVRY mix

DLVRY "Axis" [unreleased]
Spokes "Ritalin" [unreleased]
DLVRY "Airlock" [unreleased]
Spokes "Burner" [unreleased]
DLVRY "Slow Light" [unreleased]
DLVRY "Swords" [unreleased]
DLVRY "Floa" [unreleased]
DLVRY "2 Tha Streetz" [unreleased]
DLVRY "Cycles" [unreleased]
Spokes "Lo Pan Strikes" [unreleased]
DLVRY "Guilt" [Keysound Recordings]

E.m.m.a. mix

E.m.m.a. "Bijoux de Diamants" [unreleased]
Mokadem "Can't go on" [unreleased]
Mokadem "Foolin" [unreleased]
E.m.m.a.  "Light years" [Keysound Recordings]

Sully mix

Sully "Concord (Banshee Remix)" [Hsuan]
Facta "Spheres of Costa Rica" [Tempa]
Luke Benjamin "Don't Get Better Than Me and You (Sully Remix)" [Unreleased]
Sully "Little Things" [Unreleased]

Caski mix

Rowl "???" [unreleased]
Biome & Caski "Rumcatcher" [unreleased]
Perc "Take Your Body Off (Tessela Remix)" [Perc trax]
Silas & Snare Surgeon "Isonoe" [unreleased]
Caski "Tunnel Music" [Keysound Recordings]
Piezo & Seth "Pasted" [Voodoo Rebel]

Parris DJ mix

Parris "Untitled" [unreleased]
Parris "Burrrrrr" [unreleased]
Parris "Untitled" [unreleased]
Parris "Untitled" [unreleased]
Wen "Swingin' (Parris Remix)" [unreleased]

Aphix mix
Aphix "Clapsicle"  [unreleased]
Aphix "Vyro" [unreleased]
Aphix "Nyla"  [unreleased]
Aphix "Us In Knots" [unreleased]
Aphix "Trick Or Truth" [unreleased]
Aphix "White Flash"  [unreleased]

Etch mix

Etch "Toxin" [unreleased]
Etch "Elixir" [unreleased]
Etch "T-1000" [unreleased]
Etch "Overdose (One 4 Parris)" [unreleased]
Etch "Fluid" [unreleased]
Etch & Parris "SubFreq" [unreleased]

Luke Benjamin mix

Burial "Lambeth" [Hyperdub]
Luke Benjamin "Open your heart" (acapella) [unreleased]
Luke Benjamin "Open your heart" [unreleased]
Luke Benjamin "Who am I (prod Loom) [unreleased]

Happy Birthday: I am 10

Ten years ago today I started a blog only because I wanted to see how easy it was to start a blog. Five years ago to the day I shared a seminal Hatcha CD – and wished to still feel this strongly about music as I did then. Five years on and many life obstacles since, I still do so to celebrate, I want to share with you something that’s been privately sat on my iPod for quite some time.

Honestly, I think it’s the best live dubstep set I’ve ever heard recorded and it came straight out the mixing desk of Plastic People at the club night that gave birth to and raised dubstep, FWD>>:

DOWNLOAD the unreleased: Mala b2b Loefah ft SGT Pokes live at FWD>> 01.06.06

I’ve had access to this set ever since I did some archive work for Ammunition around the time of the “Roots of…” compilations. Thank you to FWD>> and DMZ for letting me share this previously unheard live recording from FWD>> at Plastic People, east London.

Now, I was there in the flesh for this set… I remember it well and wanted to share some memories to accompany the audio. Happy Birthday y’all.





0m:28s “shocking in the dark… we come through to rock the discotech.”
 
People talk about the music that came out of FWD>> at Plastic People but one of the key ingredients of the venue was its sense of focus and that very much came from how dark it was. Regulars had their spot, mine was just left of the pillar directly in front of the decks, but to get to it you risked bashing into people you simply hadn’t seen as you went across the dancefloor. But once in – with the curtain pulled behind you – it was a full sensory experience, total immersion. The physical PP sound system, the low ceiling, low lighting and strong smell of other people’s green.  Shocking in the dark…

1m08s “this one built like a Sherman…”

This is bassweight rudeboy, what do you know about that?

1m58s “Some understanding…”
 
What I like most about this set, and indeed most of the sets of this era, is that there was this sense of understanding between all the key participants. Here, two old friends were writing their own destiny together, build on a strong sense of who they were but also who they weren’t in relation to the other. If one went ying, it was yang time – especially production wise. 
 
This sense of understanding extended to most of the key producers of this era and how they interacted with each other. This music was made to be played together, they all knew they were contributing to the sound that was being built. But yet equally there was a repulsion as well as attraction interaction happening: people were very protective of their sounds and their spaces; it was massively frowned on to clone one another (even if copying/mutating/being inspired by – implicitly or explicitly – is a massive driver of scene-based musical progress). I remember Loefah saying he couldn’t use an arpeggio or an arpegiator after Skream wrote “Request Line” and “Tapped”, despite the fact that Olly had hardly invented 1-3-5-8. 
 
So it was set in this atmosphere that music was set: D1 had his trance-y sound, Loefah the dark deadly halfstep, Mala caused upward percussive euphoria, Coki that jump up insanity, Skream could turn his hand to so many styles (jazzy, warm, breaky, jump up, grimey and the aforementioned arpeggios), Kode went on his own abstract plane. People had an understanding of each other, but only some understanding. There was commonality but differentiation, dialog but distance, attraction but repulsion. Some understanding.
 
2m:33s “Head nodding ish that break your neck…”
 
It’s also worth noting that “Disko Rekah”, it was the straw that broke the camel’s back for Loefah (From my 2009 interview with him: “To be honest when I lost my confidence it was the middle of 2007. I started writing tunes like “Disco Wrekka.” I think that’s utter bullshit that tune. Terrible…”) 

A tune he hated and came to represent something he didn’t like in his music writing, be that a familiar pattern or an urge to appease dancefloor impact that he wasn’t comfortable with. It just seems crazy that even here, at dubstep’s creative peak – the beginning of the journey for so many fans, way way more that had come before this time – contained the beginning of the end for Loe.
 
3m:04s “Loefy, for Skream, jack it…”

I can remember Skream at this set, lurking in the tiny cramped space behind the decks. You really had to be VVIP to go in there, not least because you were basically on top of everyone in it, including the DJs playing.
 
And in a word association, even though it’s Pokes on the mic, the line “jack it” reminds me so much of FWD’s core host, Crazy D, and immortal post-rewind line “’taters on that as we jackit” [Jacket potatoes… get it?]. The Crazy D lexicon: did anyone ever write that down? I swear 9 and I promised a thousand times we would… wastemen.
 
4m:02s “all the gang working with the angles… spread ‘em”

Angles: elbows, shoulders, knees, toes… acute, oblique, in motion. Shocking out in the dark.

4m:54s “all you’ve gotta do is say ‘yes’…I’m about to let you know…”  “in come Mala”

Mmm Mala “Say Yes refix” [unsure of its official name...]. In a scene rich in deadly bass specialists, this refix always was a breath of fresh air. And that – despite the “formula” perception that seemed to get passed on to the next generations in later years – was the point. That beyond a tempo and an interest in bass, anything was possible and indeed encouraged to be brought to the table.
 
7m:47s “MALA! FWD?!! Some dirty digital… FWD>> THASS A PULLUP! THASS A PULLUP! Ready for the raw skanage. Sarah Soulja.”

Now, I’m not sure why he name checks her right there, beyond the fact that she was in the venue and probably reaching for the reload, but let me tell you about Sarah Soulja. 
 
Sarah Soulja doesn’t want to be written about. I mean, she probably won’t be angry at me for this, but I know for a fact she wouldn’t invite me to write about her, she’s too modest, too shy and more to the point, too eye-wateringly busy.

But without Soulja there would be no dubtep; literally.

Now I’m not going to dwell on her, mostly because she’d be embarrassed and wouldn’t want me to, but let me just quickly list the incredible things Soulja has done within music – the ones I know of at least. 
 
She’s worked in seminal vinyl emporium Blackmarket, for distribution companies (a thankless but key task for vinyl), worked in publishing (helped Dizzee, Ms Dynamite, Zed Bias, So Solid get deals, to name but a few).

She co-founded Ammunition (with Neil Jolliffe), the company that cradled dubstep before there was dubstep and ran Tempa, Soulja records, Road, Rinse recordings.

She started & runs FWD>>.  She co-runs Rinse FM with Geeneus and fought for years to get them their legal licence (see the emotional video below). She manages Skream. I’m pretty sure she’s behind Katy B’s success.
 
 

I know she’ll probably lightly hate me for this haha, but c’mon Sarah, credit where credit’s due, yeah?

8m:47s “FWD>> gang with the energy, calling all…”
 
As well as falling in love with the music, one of the things I really began to love about FWD>> parties was their multiculturalism. Obviously a community began to form around this music that everyone else told us was shit or would never work but communities can take many forms, often quite homogenous. FWD>> was entirely opposite. There were guys from Bow, Gee & Slim standing at the back not saying anything, A&Rs, media types, the Croydon lot, the north or north west guys like SLT, Anti Social or LHF, bloggers, even headz from Bristol like Pinch & Pev. Ms Dynamite came a few times, Normski even turned up once, making a fool of himself by telling Dusk he had “all those records” when Oris Jay had just played an hour of his own dubs. It was a real blend of people and in a city that looks multicultural but in fact has quite a few glass ceilings, I came to really value the diversity of people to chat to.

10m:08s “Out to Cluekid”

 

Just a small point here, but you know all this 130/jungly/Special Request/Etch/DetBoi stuff we’re on right now? Well Cluekid, LD and Skream were doing that in 2006 at ~140bpm. Obviously I love all the new wave of these beats, I think they bring some rhythmic chaos to the dance, but I’m just sayin’…
 
11m:47s “All gang getting red inside Plastic…”

The funny thing is, as a non smoker (of any kind), I actually miss smokey clubs a bit. It sorta (literally) added to the atmosphere, if not over the top. Maybe I might feel differently about this when I die in my ‘50s of lung cancer, but as an occasional vibe to be part of, it worked. Medically irrational I know I know…
 
13m:45s “All crazy legs… first one to do the caterpillar…”

Amazing how Loefah can get a rewind just for his intro beat; his snares, kicks are that heavy they demand the pullup. Or how just “I don’t give a shit” it is to go straight in with the sub, no intro waffle.
 
And in these hits you can hear past echoes of where the Swamp sound would go. Halfstep 140 beats + 80s hip hop samples classic drum machines hits > drum machine grooves, albeit now at a house tempo. In fact when I spoke to Loefah at Outlook this year, I half remember him saying a lot of his guys were trying halfstep hits (at the Swamp tempo). Connections… cycles… we go back to go FWD>>.

14m:10s “Straight out the bin bags. It’s just like man kicked over a wheelie bin. Who brung a wheelie bin into the dance?”

This is Pokes riffing on “filth”, but it’s really unique the way he does it. It’s not bars, he’s not rhythmically spitting like a full MC would or even a more fluid host like Crazy D or Shantie might. He’s just dropping in little mental fragments; narrative samples that act and react to the music and the crowd, help form those connections & feedback loops.

Wait what: connections & cycles again? ;)

16m:43s “Loefy run the border/this one chew up your tape recorder…”
 


The thing about dubstep, since it’s inception in 2000, with Ghost’s “The Club”, Horsepower’s Tempa 001, Oris, Zed, Artwork etc, is that it spans a period of massive technological change in society. There have been many seismic shifts in societies before, but I don’t know how many technological shifts this large that there’s been in Western society in the last 100 or so years (quite happy to be wrong on this, not my field…). We’ve gone from an era at Ghost 001 of DAT tapes, cassettes, vinyl, landline phones, “Personal Computers”, a touch of dial up internet but infrequently so, print magazines, CDs to… well, where do we start? 

Always & everywhere 4G data connectivity, the ability to communicate or reach nearly everyone at any time, the ability to self express (1-to-1, 1-to-few, 1-to-many/world) effortlessly (email, What’s App, Facebook, Twitter, blogger/Tumblr/Medium, Instagram, SoundCloud) not to mention all the technology underneath that allow us to connect and mashup/remix like APIs etc.
I think the impact of technology on music scenes is a much, much bigger piece than this and much harder to evaluate while we’re in the eye of the storm, but it’s fun hearing Pokes say “tape recorder”, because even by 2006 such things were an old school cultural reference (MP3s had emerged), yet 5 years before when dubstep emerged you’d still record pirate radio on tape because while high definition formats were available for sale, they weren’t easy to create. And DAT machines, well, they’d BetaMax’d themselves, the bastion of expensive studio owners.
 
But I think the point here is about how cultural references get passed down by central figures, be they MCs, between generations. You can sorta see that now with emerging (and talented) DJs like Parris and Riz La Teef cutting dubplates, actual acetate dubplates in 2014, despite the total anathema that is Technics not making decks anymore or clubs maintaining their decks in working order. It’s like the idea of dubplates, not (just) the concept of them of a tight selection process, but the act of cutting, being seen to cut, to be seen to mix with them (a much more interesting visual process than mixing with CDs btw), has been passed down via the dubstep next generations.
 
This is just like the hoards of music producers want their music on vinyl despite the fact that the digital audience for their music is 10x, 100x, 1000x maybe even 100,000x the vinyl audience (total vinyl sales crossed 1m in the UK this year yet 1 YouTube vid can get 1m views easily. Sales =! views but you know what I mean...).
 
And so maybe MCs play their part in passing those memes down (as much as key producers do/did), as well as a looser, harder to define role in sharing language, slang, cultural memes.

17m:42s “I got lost in listening to that riddim… sorry man I was lost for a minute, you have to forgive me”
 
A lot’s been said about DMZ’s “meditate on bass weight” slogan, emblazoned on their flyers, and personally I never really liked the hippy/religious overtones of “meditate” but there always was something in that line, something quite deceptively subversive to prevailing dance music paradigms.  I don’t think it would be over stating things to say that 99% of the records played by DJs are played with the intent to hype the audience up, to encourage motion or gain an energetic reaction; I mean, this is dance music after all. 
 
But in the halfstep/full time rhythmic tension and the huge basslines over serious, physical systems, dubstep dared to hold you in stasis rather than force you to react. 
 
But further to my point earlier about the progression of technology - audiences consuming music via shitty iPhone in-ear headphones (they filter out even mid bass, you noticed?), laptop & smartphone speakers, audiences unable to reach good soundsystems – much of this was lost or lost on crowds too large.

I miss it though and try to recreate it when possible when DJing, no matter how excruciating it can feel to play a beatless tune to start with or a palate cleanser just when your set is rolling. Because it just feels cool…. Not cool as in ‘fashionable’ but cool as in comfortable with self or lightly introspective.  Even as a non smoker this feels right, in the right place and space. Any guy can play a banger.
 
25m:30s Vex’d “Third Choice (Loefah remix)”

Between this and “Mud” I think they may be my favourite Loefah beats. “Mud” is near perfect reductionism but the thumb pianos/marimbas in Third Choice refix are personal.
 
27m:06s Mala "Learn"

^ My dub of "Learn"

Oi neckbeard, even the hi hats in Mala’s “Learn” intro are sicker than your best dub’s best bit. Seckle down.
 
“Learn” is one of the greatest rhythmic constructions I’ve ever heard. Words fail me… I’m not even going to try,

Though check who was lost for words at the time: Skream, Ben UFO, Bass Clef, Deamonds (Night Slugs), Dan Hancox, Corpsey, Elgato (Hessle))

30m:30s “Burnin’… PULLUP”
 
Man, you couldn’t escape this track for a period.

32m:52s “Burnin’ refix” into “Anti War Dub”>>

Can you feel the acceleration here? Back in '05 I wrote about this, the way that different rhythmic densities accelerated or decelerated the momentum and what was so creative about this time wasn’t just that there were interesting beat patterns or energy plateaus in the up, level or down arcs, but that you could zig zag between them all, creating these rushes or implosion. I still aim for that now: just having one arc, drum pattern type or energy level is dull.
 
34m:54s wait, “Anti War Dub VIP”?

VIP dubplate versions at FWD>>. Normal.

37m:27s “Out to Crazy [D], Benny [ill, from Horsepower], man Youngsta…”

All the headz inside.
 
38m:16s “Goes out to Blackdown…”

Deya.

43m:01s “Root”

You know, it’s funny that Loefah got so known for the deadly dread halfstep because his early, Big Apple era stuff had this trademark bongo/percussive streak. Of his stuff from this ear, “Root” was one of the most dense in the drum dept. Love it.
 
44m:12s “Out to Skream & the gang…”

Ollie Jones inside.

46m:52s “when I reach that place…”

The word dubstep comes from two places, a dubbier/darker variant of 2step garage, but also the “dub” (instrumental) version side of the vocal a-side, both of reggae and garage. As such vocal tunes were the exception rather than the rule but this one really stood out. I heard it here and I heard it shortly after at DMZ and remember asking Mala about it and him saying words to the effect of “this must have hit people differently, since everyone’s asking me about it…”.

Funny how certain tunes have certain breakthrough moments.
 



L-->R Jammer, JME, Wiley, Pokes, Mala on deck, FWD>>, Plastic People.



L->R Bobak, Crazy D, Skepta, Pokes, Wiley, Heny G, Toast, Yunx



56m:07s “out to Soulsnatch”
 
Now Soulsnatch was a lesser known nickname of blogger Drums of the South, aka photographer Infinite, formally known as Georgina Cook, my visual counterpart for much of the mid to peak era of dubstep, many of whose shots are on this piece.

For a visual document of the DMZ era, you need to head over here. I’ve just had full on memory flood looking at these spaces and places again. Again: putting Georgie’s work into context is an entire blogpost in itself. For now, enjoy.

 1h:01m:12s “It gets deeper… FWD>> IT GETS DEEPER STILL! FWD>> WHO SAYS PULLUP? Who says ‘appy birthday to Skream?”
 
1h:07m:57s “Out to Shackleton up front…”
 
The funny thing is about Shack is his music is pretty damn serious. When I saw him play (later) at Plastic People, I pretty much had to leave the dancefloor it was pushing those pleasure/pain barriers. And of course now he’s an internationally revered producer. But him and Appleblim were just the guys who skanked wildly down the front for the longest time. And in person he’s pretty shy. Rhythm will do that to ya I guess.
 
1h:17m:54s “The lockoff…”

The lights came on, they had to drag us out.

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Enjoyed this? Here's some links to...  

1. All my Pitchfork columns.
2. Our latest Rinse show, full of fresh dark rolling dubs (tracklist here).
3. Older interviews with Mala n Loefah, Loefah, Loefah and Kryptic Minds
 Burial, Burial again, Skream and Shackleton.