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El Kano of London's Adverse Camber collective was one of the first artists to record a mix for Spannered when the site launched back in 2006. Flex (his fourth mix to be hosted on Spannered — check also 2007's Medication Time and this wonderful contribution to Spannered's Oddcast series) finds him on unstoppable form, spooning out all manner of mutoid ragga beats and weird bruck-stepping bassbin shit over the course of an hour and three quarters.

 

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Tracklisting:

Filastine - Blung

David Last feat Zulu - Ghettoblaster

Major Lazer feat Turbulence - Anything Goes

Pole - Sylenstein (Deadbeat Remix)

Tego Calderón - Ni Fu Ni Fa

Monkeysteak - Tigris Riddim

Filastine vs Maga Bo feat Mario z - Se Liga

Flying Lotus - Melt!

Fulgeance - Lonely Nights

Harmonic 313 - Flaash

Si begg - I Thunk Therefore

Timeblind - What the ...?

Ghosts On Tape - Equator Jam

King Cannibal feat Face-A-Face - Virgo

Wasteland - Shadow Line

Missy Elliot feat Vybez Cartel - Badman

Grievous Angel feat Rubi Dan - Move Down Low

Stereotyp & Al Haca - Up There

Ku Bo feat Joyce Muniz - Um Korpo

Aoki Takamasa - RN2-09 Pt1 & Pt2

Octa Push - Ai Nadia

Slaughter Mob - Di Hit Maker

Opal - I Said It (Taal Mala Remix)

Badawi - El Topo

Joe - Claptrap

Ramadanman - Revenue (Untold Remix)

Ramadanman - Tempest

Timeblind - Drastic Adhesive Force Remix

Ku Bo feat Sara - Lem Lem

Untold - Just For You

Roel Funcken - Martyrz

DJ C - Du Ting

Africa Hitech - Blen (Remix)

M.I.A. - Bird Flu

Maga Bo feat Teba - Abaphantsi

Loops Haunt - Rubber Sun Grenade

Semephor - Antidote

Dead Fader - J.B.E. Zorg

Fanfare Ciocarlia - Batuta La Rind

Milanese - So Malleable (Clark Remix)

DJ C Work It Out (Crazy)

Sixtoo - Jackals & Vipers In Envy of Man Part 9

Tweet feat Missy Elliot - Oops! Oh My! (Hudson Mohawke Remix)

Disrupt feat Mikey Murka - Sensi Addict

^ Check out El Kano's other mixes on Spannered here, here and here!

It's been just over a year now since the delightful DJ Bus Replacement Service — ably assisted on mic duties by MC Toilet — made her site debut. The eighth installment of Spannered's Oddcast series pointed towards an almost virtuosic understanding of that much-maligned genre: outsider music.

 

We've been sitting on this follow-up mix for some months now, allowing the dense flavours to fustily mature, much like a corked bottle of cheap wine or a furry hunk of airing cupboard-ripened camembert.

 

Special credit to Tony Surgeon for 'Turd Polisher' duties.

 

"DJ Bus Replacement Service is... the human centipede... of music." — David Cameron (probably quoted out of context).

  

Tracklisting:

Master Gunnery Sergeant Bill Dower - Warm-Up: Daily Seven - Gonna Fly Now (Rocky's Theme)

Kromestar vs. Cotti - Mozart 3000

Heino - Karamba, Karacho, Ein Whisky (In Rio De Janeiro)

The Alexandrov Red Army Ensemble of Leningrad - California Girls

Charlie The Hamster - Remember the Sabbath Day

Cycle Sluts From Hell - I Wish You Were a Beer

Eddy Huntington - Meet My Friend

Danny Boy & The Serious Party Gods - Castro Boy (Somewhat Normal Version)

E Pak Sa - Gabba Darei (Out of Key Remix)

Charly Lownoise & Mental Theo - Tiroler Kaboemsch

2 Live Jews - Oy! It's So Humid

Reh Dogg - Why Must I Cry?

Dictionaraoke - Anarchy In The UK

Dictionaraoke - Word Up

Dean Milan - Do It Like A Dog

Ogden Edsl - Dead Puppies

***w/ Russell Haswell's A Horde Of Flies Feast On A Rotting Pheasant Carcass (Extract) played over Do It Like A Dog & Dead Puppies***

Azoto - Havah Nagilah

Heino - Carnaval In Rio / Viva Espana

Young Rick - You'll Never Walk Alone (Surgeon 2009 Autotune mix)

^ Savour the delights of DJ Bus Replacement Service's first Oddcast here

Those who have listened to the latest album by Ralph Cumbers will know something of his huge love for the rhythms of Africa. Earlier this year Ralph ripped and re-edited a number of his favourite vinyls from the motherland. The resulting mix — released as part of Fact Magazine's consistently excellent podcast series — is the most colourful and crazed selection of music we've heard so far this year. If you missed it (Fact's podcasts are available for three weeks only), don't fear as Ralph recently asked Spannered to give the mix a permanent home.

 

Mr Clef talks about the mix, his current African obsessions and the recent album in an interview over at the Fact site. Those new to his work may also want to check Spannered's interview with him back in 2006.

 

Tracklisting:

Segun Adewale - Yo Pop Music

Susan Mapfumo - Dzvoko

Zani Diabete - Super Djata

Fede Lawu - Cherie Coco

Edikanfo - Da Da Edikanfo

Nyboma - Double Double

Bibi Den’s Tshibayi - The Best Ambiance

D.O. Misiani & Shirati Jazz - Sister Mary Lucy

King Sunny Ade - Synchro Feelings

Chief Dr Sikuru Ayinde Barrister - Ffuji Garbage Series II

King Sunny Ade - Sunny Ti De Ariya

George Mukabi - Bibi Mama Ngani Mzuri

^ Listen to Bass Clef's other mixes on Spannered here and here

^ May the Bridges I Burn Light the Way is out now on Blank Tapes

 

Back in 2007, Kid Kameleon dropped an excellent pair of mixes for Spannered and Mashit exploring, as he put it, 'the weirder end of the dubstep spectrum'.

 

Well, Matt's racked up another double-drop of current picks from the bass music panoramic, with the first installment landing here on Spannered and part two surfacing over at the Mashit camp. As with Aim High/Aim Low, the Kid eschews clubland's big hitters in favour of the fringe elements, packing out both new mixes with some super-deep dubstep/techno hybrids and plenty of mutant 2-step stylings.

 

Tracklisting:

Invasion Vs Shackleton - Wizards In Dub Part 1

Martyn - Is This Insanity ft Spaceape (Ben Klock mix)

Teleseen - Black Monday feat. Jah Sight

Hizatron - Telescope Dope

Deadboy - Brock Lee Riddim

xxxy - Blue Flashing Lights

Instra:mental - Forbidden

Al Tourettes - Dodgem

Planetary Assualt Systems - X Speaks To X (Al Tourettes & Appleblim remix)

Millie & Andrea - Black Hammer

Kontext - Convex Curved Mirror

Sigha - Hold Your Heart Up To The Light

Wedge & Aesoteric - Detached Reality

LV - Kowton Metronome (LV Rmx)

Untold - Beacon (W/D Franklin)

Scuba - Poppies (Substance dub version)

^ Check part two over on the Mashit site

^ Listen to Kid Kameleon's Aim Low on Spannered here

1980. A good year for Ronald Reagan and Sissy Spacek but a bad year for John Lennon, Ian Curtis, and anyone involved in the production of Caligula. Chances are, even if you were alive and aware back then, you haven't experienced anything like this big bowl of 1980 soup, featuring fragments of music, news, film and trivia gathered up and broken down by the Timestump project. 1980: it's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there. Or would you?

"People like using decades to categorise music. The 1970s: disco. The 1980s: Duran Duran. The 1990s: Take That. And the 2000s: Crazy Frog. But what if you zoom in a level and use a year instead? The Timestump project tests this out by taking a single year and turning it into a bewildering audio experience, staggering between musical genres, news stories, films, trivia and TV adverts. By showing how vast and confusing even a single year can be, it proves how daft it is to treat an entire decade as a single musical genre."

 

The Timestump Project, April 2010

 

Tracklisting:

The Human League - Black Hit Of Space

Madness - Shadow of Fear

Pointer Sisters - He's So Shy

Linton Kwesi Johnson - Reggae Fi Peach

The Gap Band - Yearning For Your Love

Telex - Plus De Distance

Brian Eno & John Hassell - Delta Rain Dream

Queen - Dragon Attack

Cheap Trick - High Priest of Rock'n'Roll

Paul Simon - One Trick Pony

Blondie - Angels on the Balcony

Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles

Tangerine Dream - Tangram 1

The Clash - The Call Up

Joy Division - Twenty Four Hours

Giorgio Moroder - Night Drive

Ultravox - Mister X

John Foxx - 030

David Bowie - Kingdom Come

Kurtis Blow - The Breaks

Zapp - More Bounce To The Ounce

Sister Sledge - You Fooled Around

[TV Soup]

Another year, another Bloc. Another week-long hangover endured by thousands, as they attempt to piece together the muddled events of four days awake in a holiday camp-cum-ravezone patrolled by terrifyingly beady seagulls.

In the early hours of Saturday morning, all the energy in Minehead Butlins seemed centred in the Jak Bloc venue, where Matt Whitehead played an hour-long live set of razor-tight electro, acid and techno.

One half of drum'n'bass duo Cyantific, Matt's been getting lots of props for his solo material following the release of his Beat the Heat 12", put out last year by long-running electro collective Rebel Intelligence. He's also released a series of excellent machinefunk tracks with Sync 24 as Signal Type.

For anyone who was miles from Minehead, or cowering in their chalet — or for those ready for a flashback — here's the recording.

Paul Blackford, one of the UK's foremost electro artists, established his Militant Science imprint in 2009 in a bid "to bridge the gap between electro and drum'n'bass". Operating solely in the digital realm, the label has already notched up a healthy discography, with new releases soon out from Robokid, Sound Synthesis, Oort Cloud, Vadz, Melogik and Blackford himself.

 

This bruising 38-minute mix by recent Militant Science signing Mossman collates new and forthcoming material from the catalogue. Enjoy!

 

Tracklisting:

Mossman - Beeboss

Philops - Elektr@n

Chordata - Geis IIt

Robokid - Eggy Bread

Alien Sex Toy - Robotic Depression

Synapse - Blast Radius

Alien Sex Toy - Anytime

Sound Synthesis - Secrets of Society

Synth Alien - Spectral Attack

Chordata - Seamus

Robokid - Beef Stew and Dumplings

Sound Synthesis - Easily Brainwashed

Synth Alien - Casimir Effect

Philops - Cell-@

Paul Blackford - Enhanced Transmat

Mossman - Vast Goblin Vessel

Zen Robots - Dark Fighters In Space

Headnoaks - Power 2 da Beats (Disko 69 mix)

Mossman - Sporophytes (version)

Paul Blackford - The Grind

Kragg - Spiral

Mossman - Protosphagnales

Kragg - Aircraft Traffic

Zen Robots - City From Space

^ Catch the Militant Science sound in full effect in London at the start of April, with Paul Blackford and label artist Scrase playing alongside Wisp (Rephlex) and plenty more. Info here

Anyone following the trajectory of London's open-eared Uncharted Audio label will know of Stephen Fiske's work as LJ Kruzer and his propensity for dispensing wonderfully emotive tracks loaded with intricate melodies and lush sonic textures.

 

Son of a Wiltshire vicar, Fiske's formative years were spent listening to his father accompanying hymn singing in church with a Yamaha keyboard — which goes far in explaining his penchant for perky re-rubs of Christmas carols.

 

Since first appearing on vinyl in 2002 (a split EP with The Council Flats of Kingsbury), the London-based producer has released a steady stream of tracks and remixes on Uncharted Audio, AI, Seed and a raft of netlabels. Last year saw the release of his widely lauded second album, Manhood & Electronics, an Eno-inspired masterpiece filled with gorgeous piano treatments, haunting synths and delicate percussive pulses.

 

Uncharted Audio's next release sees four tracks from Manhood & Electronics getting remix treatment from TVO, Trademark, Cyan341 and Ukkonen (info and audio here). To mark the occasion, Spannered is pleased to host an exclusive mix of LJ Kruzer's 'electronic picks', freshly gathered up from the interweb and glued together for your enjoyment.

 

"The mix is the result of an evening spent digging through online mp3 retailers for nice new electronic music. As someone who doesn't consume music in this format — I'm only just catching on to the convenience of CDs! — it was an interesting experience, but not as much fun as going out into the world and hunting and gathering vinyl. The one positive thing about shopping for mp3s online, I suppose, is that it's easier to avoid buying crap music. Not all the tunes on the mix are from mp3 shops — some of them are recent works made or released by musical friends. Anyway, now I have a folder on the family laptop full of new mp3s and nothing to do with them. Do I have to buy an iPod now? Are they even still called iPods...?"

 

LJ Kruzer, February 2010

 

Tracklisting:

Maps+Diagrams – Last Train Home (Yuki Yaki)

The Sight Below – Life’s Fading Light (Ghostly International)

Reinhard Lakomy – Es wächst das Gras nicht über alles (Permanent Vacation)

Asura – Peptine (Non Projects)

Aleksi Perala – Sentimenthol (Rephlex)

Asura – Asura I (Non Projects)

Oneohtrix Point Never – Russian Mind (No Fun)

Trademark – Tropic of Capricorn (Intelligent Audio)

Isaac Himself – Dad’s Garage (Myuzyk)

Erik XVI - Gravitationskraftens stilla vrede [Gravious’ Anti Gravity Mix] (Highpoint Lowlife)

Pangaea – Sunset Yellow (Hessle Audio)

Grohs – woven lake (unreleased)

Klaus Weltman – Albo Th Pigeon Brings A Letter (Strange Life)

Ciupy & Mihai Bejenaru – Jewel (Magnetik Grooves)

LJ Kruzer – Poil [Cyan341 mix] (Uncharted Audio)

Audion – Instant In You (Spectral Sound US)

Posthuman – Europa Sky (Uncharted Audio)

Reagenz – Du Bist Hier (Workshop)

^ LJ Kruzer's Manhood and Electronics Remixes is out soon

^ LJ Kruzer photograph by Jessica Love

New York-based multidisciplinary artist Daniel Perlin, aka DJ N-RON, first appeared on Spannered back in 2008 with his excellent Collaborator Mixtape.

 

The M-C-M1 Mixtape, like its predecessor, comes loaded with Daniel's own productions and mash-ups. This time around a sizzling Latin flavour prevails, with cumbia, reggaeton and baile funk jams bumping up against dark electronica, skewed pop and even the classic cover of Money (That's What I Want) by the Flying Lizards.

  

DJ N-RON photo courtesy of DJ Empirical.

 

Tracklisting:

Joseph Beuys - Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee/Larry Miller-Accord (Selections From The 2nd and 4th Movement)

N-RON - Darksteps/Grimelock - Justice

N-RON - Rap da Felicidade (Cidinho e Doca) Stepmix

Flying Lizards - Money (That's What I Want) (N-RON intermix)

Cota GV - Biling/Vandergraff - NDE/Jon Hopkins - Vessel

Celso Pina - Cumbia Sobre El Rio Interludio/Sonido Desconocido - VW Cumbia

Regadda - Instrumental/William Burroughs - Cut Up 19

El General - La Culebrita/Chico Science & Nação Zumbi - Baião Ambiental (Instrumental)

Bodran 1/Assassin Step Pon Them (acca)/Malica - Girl Hot

Molequ Manhoso & Bonde do Rodo-danca do Rodo

MC Colibri - CPI

Afroditas - Pasconcito (N-RON Rico mix)

N-RON - La Calle Es Todo

Diplo - Ward21 Bay of Figs/Pase Rock - The Motherfucking Rave is Over

Tego Calderon - Trangalanga/Alex Under - El Ganado Ovizo Blanco

Mangueira DJ - Não Gostou//Krnl Panic - Playboy's Blend - Pancic Refix Baile Funk remixAutomatic refix

Comrade Fulozinha-Obá (N-RON remix)

^ Listen to DJ N-RON's Collaborator Mixtape here

Over more than a decade, in his production and DJ work, as well as his emergent photography, West London dweller Duley has continually delighted in bringing us the oblique and unexpected.

 

In Let's Get This Party Slanted, a spare and haunting frame wears in turn several digital and analogue guises. Look for lights flashing out from the murky maisma, bits of Autechre, Chris Carter, Sun Electric and others leading towards catharsis in James Plotkin and Mick Harris's well-named Collapse.

 

Photograph by Max Duley.

 

Tracklisting:

Lustmord - Primordial Atom (Soleilmoon)

Simon Fisher Turner - Hymn For Thatcher (Mute)

Brunnen - Tippoo's Tiger (Beta-lactam Ring)

Chris Carter - Chakutut (Conspiracy International)

Autechre - Paralel Suns (Warp)

Column One - Re-Worked Transmission (Stateart)

Black Sun Productions - The Skunk (Old Europa Café)

Max Waters - Stars And Scribble (Blasé)

Andrew Liles - Auto Manipulator - 4th Degree (A Lesson To Be Learnt) (Lumberton Trading Company)

Black Dice - Endless Happiness (DFA)

The Jackofficers - An Hawaiian Christmas Song (Naked Brain)

Aerial Service Area - ETI Encoding (Fax +49-69/450464)

Pemalas - Tones (Experimental Seafood)

The Silverman - Nature Of Illusion (Beta-lactam Ring)

Danny Kreutzfeldt - Chasm (Databloem)

Satori - Paralysis (Dogma Chase)

Sun Electric - Newambi (R&S)

James Plotkin, Mick Harris - Collapse (Asphodel)