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Chris Wood from the goodie-packed Word the Cat blog recently dropped us a line about the splendid new mix he's concocted. It brought to mind Hanuman's and El Kano's playlists (two of our fave DJs here at Spannered) — a slew of moods from the grime and dubstep worlds, liberally sprinkled with flavas stretching from bassline house, bumpy ragga and old skool to 8-bit dub, Nepali lok pop, frosty minimalism and chiptune breakcore; he's even managed to slide in a few words of hillwalking wisdom from the late, great Alfred Wainwright.

 

Chris has kindly let us host the mix here in Spannered's radio archive. He asked it we'd link listeners up to the 8bitcollective site — 'the first completely open chiptune-related media repository and file sharing community'. The electronicMESS track is available there for use under a Creative Commons License, along with a stack of other great 8-bit jams. Go check it.

 

Tracklisting: 

BBC Field Recording - The Skuas

Caspa vs Art of Noise - Moments in Love (White)

Squeezer f/ Nature - Yote Ni Yale Yale (WTC Screw)

Matt Shadetek - Warm Heart Turns Cold (mp3)

Joker - J. V. Anderson (Earwax)

Doc Scott & Rufige Kru - VIP Drumz (Metalheadz)

6Blocc - Babylon (Tribe Steppaz)

Terror Danjah & Durrty Goodz - Reloadz (Aftershock?)

Zomby - Spliff Dub (Mr Figz remix)

Dub Melitia - Screwface Slugs (Heatseeker)

Dexplicit vs Cassie - Juicy Fruit / Long Way to Go (WTC Refix)

Elephant Man - Dirt Bed (Remix) (Lokal Stage Show Riddim)

Bishnu Majhi - Driver Dai

Bishnu Majhi - Driver Dai (WTC Refix)

Alfred Wainwright - Helm Crag guided walk

Gatekeeper - Let Go (Punch Drunk)

Peverelist - Roll With the Punches (Punch Drunk)

Shackleton - In the Next World (Clandestine Cultivations)

Appleblim - Vansam (Skull Disco)

Sleeparchive - Hospital 01 (Sleeparchive)

Quarta330 - Sunset Dub (Hyperdub)

Dubmood - Pressure Drop (Jahtari)

ElectronicMESS - Beautiful Girls (mp3)

Leleo — Quem Me Salva É o Samba (Lucio K Remix)

DJ Farrapo e Yanez — Pirasamba (DJ LK Remix)

Brasov — Gonzalito Airlines (Lucio K Remix)

Freak Do Brazil — Prefiro um Leito Vazio (Café Satado Mix)

Leo Gandelman feat. Seu Jorge — Dançarará (Bossacucanova Remix)

Anvil FX — Sambinha do Piscapunga

Otto — Condom Black

Ladrão — Ijexá

Digital Dubs & B Negão — Sorriso Aberto (Curimba Riddim)

Forró In The Dark — Suor de Pele Preta (Mawglee's Remix)

DJ Farrapo & Yanez — Untitled (Demo version)

Mestre Curica Feat. Isaar — Carimbó Para Maria (DJ LK Remix)

Forró In The Dark — Baile da Bio Laurinda (Flavinho Megabyte Remix)

Zabé Da Loca — A Briga do Cachorro com a Onça

DJ LK — Funk do B.E.M. (Versão Beats)

Voltair feat. Mr. Catra, MC Mascote e MC Gil — Representando

Zero db — A pomba Girou

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The grandmaster of wonky techno sees in the festive season by recording an exclusive mix for Spannered, chock-full of spazzed-out dance music and questionable humour. The set, recorded in a north London cheese factory in honour of the late, great Leonard Rossiter (we shit you not), is probably now the stupidest radio set on the entire site — an accolade we're sure Jerome will be pleased with.

 

Comes complete with special edition hand-scrawled tracklisting!

 

 

Check out Jerome's new radio show on uncut.fm, every Wednesday starting 25/02/09!

If you're not familiar with the sound of London's Combat Recordings, this recent live set from label artist Point B should serve as a fine introduction — a 24-minute blowout of dubby, grimey electronica and plucky 2-step flavours, featuring unreleased tunes alongside two tracks from his latest Combat EP.

 

Richard Bultitude's music has also found its way onto SCSI AV, Erratica, Colony Productions and Orson Records. This live mix was recorded for Boomnoise and Pokes' Sub FM show. Sub FM is an excellent web radio station, whose archive features an absurd amount of shows spanning grime, breaks, dub, dubstep and garage — go check it out...

 

You can catch Point B next playing on the 22 December, in London, when Combat Recordings teams up with local filth merchants Plex and Yardcore for a Christmas knees-up at the A10 Bar on Kingsland Road (complete with mistletoe and grime, and poledancing in the basement). More info here.

 

Tracklisting:

Point B — Cornered

Point B — Gymede (Combat Recordings)

Point B — Saw Dust

Point B — Angular Rounded

Point B — Out Side In

Point B — Embryonic (Combat Recordings)

^ Cinder Cones and Animal Bones is out now on Combat Recordings

Ever since Spannered launched, we've been clammoring for Kid Kameleon to put together a mix for the site, and finally it's here. Well, it's half here, in fact: Aim Low is one part of a dual mix release from the Kid — a pair of selections representing 'the weird end of dubstep' while giving plenty of props to up-and-coming artists, he tells us. The other half, Aim High, is hosted by our good friends over at the Mashit site — and while you're there, take plenty of time to check out the spread of mixes and other great stuff on offer.

 

Big up Inkcore for the cool artwork!

 

Tracklisting:

Boxcutter — Windfall (Planet Mu)

Clouds — Shallow (Dub)

Blackdown & Dusk — Northside Cheng Dub (Keysound)

Flippo — Rain (Dub)

Reform — Untitled (Dub)

Secret Agent Gel — Banker (Dub)

Sky City Rising — Glock Box (Broklyn Beats)

Sarantis — Why Dem Fight ft. Bunnington Judah (Subsonik)

Distance — Tuning (Planet Mu)

Loefah — Disko Rekah (Deep Medi Musik)

Tes La Rok — Cold Blooded (Dub)

Massive Music — Find My Way [Kode 9 Rmx] (Hyperdub)

DZ — Slums Dub (Hot Flush)

Elemental — Bleep (Pitch Black)

Burial — Homeless (Hyperdub)

Ramadanman — Every Next Day (Soul Jazz)

6Blocc — Creal (Lo Dubs)

Appleblim — Gold and Silver (Skull Disco)

Shackleton — New Dawn (Skull Disco)

Bombaman — Rise Against (Lo Dubs)

Cult of the 13th Hour — Wickedness (Soul Jazz)

Dhruva & Sharmaji — Koli Stance (Sub Swara Dub)

Matty G — 50,000 Watts [Loefah Rmx] (Argon)

Alchemyst — Biorythms (Dub)

Saviour — Stampede (Dub)

Alchemyst — Kilik (Dub)

Ghislain Poirier — Blazin ft. Face-T [Starkey Rmx] (Slit Jockey Dub)

Pinch — Get Up ft. Yolanda (Techtonic)

Rustie — Fin Remix (Dub)

Babylon System — Dancing Shoes (Argon)

Flat Fizzle — In Da Air (Dub)

DLX — You Wan Dead (Steps in Time)

Cat Power — Moonshiner [Exillon Rmx] (Dub)

Moving Ninja — Alien (Dub)

El Carnicero — Northgate Riddim ft. Tiny Bee (Slit Jockey)

^ Aim High, the accompanying part of this mix, is available over at the Mashit site.

Back in the peak of the “disco sucks” movement, Ted Nugent-adoring redneck crowds would promote “disco demolition derbys”, where they would proceed to torch piles of disco records. They were expressing their hatred of a music that was: a) pansexual; b) of black, Latin and gay origins; c) produced by studio boffins; d) exuded cosmopolitan savoir faire.

Disco was, then, also ‘dying’ in the mainstream, thanks to an onslaught of extremely cheesy tunes that clogged the airwaves. Unfortunately, to a lot of people this is the disco they know: Village People-style crap, bad karaoke fodder.

Disco, of course, was so much more than that. It not only carried on breathing, thanks to a creative and thriving underground, but also became the blueprint for the next dancefloor revolution just round the corner — namely house music. To this day, it remains one of the key influences in the music many of us dance to.

This podcast pays tribute to this magnificent movement by ‘demolishing’ disco in a much more positive way: mixing, editing, juxtaposing and mashing up new and old interpretations. From the galactic bliss of Orlando Riva Sound to the symphonic sass of the Salsoul Orchestra, from the synthetic homages of Lindstrom & Prins Thomas to the shiny funkiness of Le Grand David, from the leftfield proto-garage of Loose Joints to the classic italo sounds of Klein & MBO, there is a bit of everything in here. You'll also hear Chicken Lips, Giorgio Moroder, Jermaine Jackson, Donna Summer, Dinosaur, Padded Cell and, erm, The Glitter Band (funky as fuck, check it out!).

Brazilians make two decisive contributions: Azymuth's anthemic Jazz Carnival and Jorge Ben's discofied samba Taj Mahal (which Rod Stewart stole for Do Ya Think I'm Sexy — Ben sued and won, you'll be pleased to know).

Before you ask, this mix was done in Ableton Live, so those ever-shifting live drummer beats from the 1970s would behave and sit where they were told.

 

Camilo Rocha, November 2007

 

Tracklisting:

MFSB — Love is the Message (12” remix) (Philadelphia Intl', 1978)

Dinosaur — Kiss Me Again (beats) (Sire, 1978)

Donna Summer — Summer Fever (bits) (Casablanca, 1976)

Concorde Music Club — Models are not Angels (Le Grand David remix) (Stereofiction, 2003)

Salsoul Orchestra — Chicago Bus Stop (Salsoul, 1976)

Mock & Toof — Black Jub (Tiny Sticks, 2007)

Loose Joints — Is It All Over My Face (edit) (West End, 1980)

Phreek — I'm a Big Freak (R U 1 2) (groaning) (Atlantic, 1978)

Chicago — Street Player (Pseudo-Bucketheads edit) (CBS, 1979)

Orlando Riva Sound — Moonboots (edit) (Salsoul, 1977)

Padded Cell — Moon Menace (DC, 2007)

Roxy Music — Angel Eyes (12" version) (vocals) (Polydor, 1979)

Cosmic Hoffmann — Space Disco (edit) (EMI-Electrola, 1982)

Alden Tyrell — Disco Lunar Module (Lindstrom & Prins Thomas remix) (Clone, 2005)

The Trammps — Zing Went the Strings of My Heart (guitar) (Buddah, 1972)

Giorgio Moroder — From Here to Eternity (Oasis/Casablanca, 1977)

Chin Chin — Appetite (Chicken Lips Dub) (Dialect, 2007)

The Spirals — Permission to Fly (Darkroom Dubs, 2007)

Klein & MBO — Dirty Talk (USA Connection Instrumental) (25 West, 1982)

Gaz Nevada — IC Love Affair (vocals) (ZYX, 1983)

Michel Polnareff — Lipstick (Atlantic, 1976)

Klein & MBO — Dirty Talk (beats) (25 West, 1982)

Jermaine Jackson — Erucu (edit) (Tamla, 1976)

Azymuth — Jazz Carnival (Milestone, 1979)

First Choice — Let No Man Put Asunder (accappella) (Salsoul, 1983)

Mekon — Boy Bitten (Padded Cell remix) (PIAS/Wall of Sound, 2006)

Dinosaur — Kiss Me Again (edit) (Sire, 1978)

Le Grand David — Montre-Moi Ton Experience (Stereofiction, 2007)

Richard Dorfmeister & Madrid de los Austrias — Boogie No More (Reverso 68 remix) (G-Stone, 2007)

Donna Summer — Summer Fever (edit) (Casablanca, 1976)

Dinosaur — Kiss Me Again (beats) (Sire, 1978)

Vernon Burch — Get Up (edit) (Chocolate City, 1979)

Glitter Band — Makes You Blind (Bell, 1975)

Jorge Ben — Taj Mahal (Philips, 1977)

 

Camilo Rocha lives in São Paulo. He is widely credited for helping establish Brazil's dance music scene during the nineties. As a DJ he has performed throughout South America and Europe, and as a journalist he has written articles for magazines, newspapers and websites both in Brazil and the UK.

Bobby cut his teeth in the big bad hip hop scene of Cambridge, before moving on to provide the scratches for Earthling where Geoff Barrow left off. More recently he's been vomiting mixes onto the internet at an astonishing rate, covering as many musical bases as humanely possible.

 

Despite having an unhealthy obsession with rappers whose names begin in “S”, Bobby is probably best known for Melancholy Flowers, the big girl's blouse of the mix world, but has also made mixes for Solid Steel, the Cactus Island label, and (mainly) his own head.

 

In this, his latest mix, he revisits some classic dancehall and lays it on a crispy bed of hip hop, drum 'n' bass and dubstep. And some Schoolly D.

 

Tracklisting:

White Mice — Roots Music/Version (Basic Replay)

LTJ Bukem — Danny’s Song (Good Looking)

Chaka Demus — Original Kuff (Metro)

Skream — Auto-Dub (Tempa)

Schoolly D — Here We Go Again (Jive)

Pan Sonic — Kuumuudessa (Blast First)

The Specials — Concrete Jungle (2 Tone)

Ed ‘Roughneck’ Robinson — Roughneck Sound/Dub (Greensleeves)

Ganjah Posse — Say Listen To Me (Punani Mix) (Nervous)

Goodie Mob — Cell Therapy (instrumental) (La Face)

Daddy Freddy — Baba Loo (acapella) (Fashion)

Hopeton Lindo — Slaughter/Dub Slaughter (Greensleeves)

DJ Krust — Warhead (V)

Willi Williams — Run Them A Run (Light In The Attic)

Bunny General — Played By Dis Yah Sound Alone (Fashion)

Cutty Ranks — Muder Sound Bwoy (Jamdown)

Royal Flush — Worldwide (instrumental) (Blunt)

Jahtari Riddim Force — Vigilante Dub (Jahtari)

Sandoz — Monopolize and Destroy (Soul Jazz)

Red Rose — Hotter Junglematical Style (Greensleeves)

Iration Steppas — Wat Dem Ago Do (Dubhead)

RSD — Pretty Bright Light (Punch Drunk)

Styward — Dub Cowboys (Digidub)

Skream — Irie (Soul Jazz)

I-Roy — Run For Your Life (acapella)

Rusko feat Danman — Jah Love (Tempa)

Mala — Lean Forward (DMZ)

2562 — Kameleon (Tectonic)

Peverelist — Roll With The Punches (Punch Drunk)

Mala — Changes (Deep Medi Muzik)

Phuture Assassins — Phuture Sound (Suburban Base)

Omen — Aphrodite (Tectonic)

Pinch feat Rudey Lee — Step 2 It (Soul Jazz)

Kromestar — Quicktime (Fantastic 3)

Alcione — Sem Perdão

Elza Soares — Não é Hora de Tristeza

Georgette — Festa de Santana

Nelson Sargento — Vai dizer a Ela

Xangô da Mangueira — Catimbo

Bezerra da Silva — O Filho da Juremá

Jair Rodrigues — Lendas do Abaeté

Clara Nunes — Mulata do Balaio

Chico Buarque — Feijoada Completa

Roberto Ribeiro — Coité, Cuia

Stan Getz & João Gilberto — Corcovado

Elis Regina e Jair Rodrigues — Reza

Maysa — Agua de Beber

Os Cariocas — Rio

Elizeth Cardoso — Cidade Vazia

Jorge Ben — Chove Chuva

Tamba Trio — Samba de Verão

Sergio Mendes — Mas Que Nada

Nara Leão — O Morro (Feio não Bonito)

MPB4 — De Palavra Em Palavra

Vinicius de Moraes — O Mergulhador

Lenine — A Ponte

Autoload & MC Gaspar — Mameluco Urbano

Drumagick — Aí Maluco

from Electronic Music Brazil (Mundo Mix Music)

Mikrob — Genotype

Maga Bo — Tomada (Feat. B Negão)

Fat Marley — Criy

from Electronic Music Brazil (Mundo Mix Music)