Click here to read Spannered's interview with Maga Bo.

 

Tracklisting: 

Otto Von Schirach — Ear Ointment (Maxipad Detention)

Amit — Too Many Freedoms (Warrior Dubz)

Gang Starr feat. Redd Foxx — The Militia

Otto Von Schirach — Three Billion Electron Volts (Maxipad Detention)

Prodige Namor feat. Rockin' Squat (Assassin) — Mission (Le Flow)

SiBot — Badder Dan Who feat. Teba (In With the Old)

Team Shadetek — Burndown (Swoon EP)

Otto Von Schirach — Rumbling Cork Screw (Maxipad Detention)

Suphala feat. Torture — Do It Again (Sound Ink Records - Colapsus)

Chocquibtown — Somos Pacifico (Chocquibtown)

Boikutt & Stormtrap — Qararat

Zola — Zingu 7 (Tsotsi Soundtrack)

Maga Bo — Você Não Sabe feat. Prince Wadada (Digitaldubs Remix)

Vybz Kartel and Clipse — Double Down (Reggae Riddims Pt. 06 bootleg)

Carmel — Harakiri Blues (Fluid Ounce Unmeasured)

Recycler — Katpulte (Massa Boom Boom)

Pitcho/Dr. Das — Boucan (Maga Bo Remix)

^ This mix was originally aired on Radio Luz, Poland

One of two exclusive downloads from Timeblind for Spannered.

 

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A true veteran of the UK's electronic music scene, Warlock has been busily blurring boundaries through his DJing, production work and the output and associated parties of the genre-mashing Rag & Bone label that he co-runs out of south London with Noyeahno.

 

^ Read Spannered's interview with Warlock.

 

Tracklisting: 

Crooked One — Let Us Pray (dub)

Crooked One — Voided (dub)

Crooked One — Paradroid (dub)

Crooked One — Annilhilation (Starksound)

Komonasmuk v Whiteboi — Shankstep (dub)

Soundbox — Ghost Train (dub)

Elemental — Shiner (dub)

Starkey — Shoulder Lean (dub)

Hue Jah Fink & Kirsty Hawkshaw — Out Of Reach (dub)

Blackmass Plastics — Nite boat (Dirty Needles dub)

Komonasmuk v Whiteboi — Ayatollah (dub)

Inasekt — Untitled dub (dub)

Matt Head — Thrill Kill (dub)

Matt Head — Skyjacker (Ruff)

Inasekt — Bug Powder (dub)

Warlock — Click Clack (Starksound)

Warlock — Bish Bosh (Starksound)

Sky City Rising — Fever Gasp (Brooklyn Beats)

Kode 9 — Sniper Dub (dub)

Aaron Spectre — Say More Fire (dub)

Protocol X — Screwheads (dub)

Warlock — Window Smasher (Rag & Bone)

Drop The Lime — Come To Life (dub)

Starkey — Let U Go (DTL remix) (dub)

This mix is a Taylor and Spandex production and features an unreleased version of Lies by Beckett & Taylor.

 

^ Read Spannered's interview with Steve Taylor and Laszlo Beckett from Hand on the Plow.

DJ /rupture came up with a swiftly executed and devastatingly effective musical counterstrike against the re-election of the world's least favourite leader in 2004. Previously hosted on Musicalbear, the mix combines more commercial US productions (opening with Baby Boy and finding room for Terror Squad's anthemic Lean Back) with the usual /rupture mash-up of breakcore, gabba, jungle and general intense, nose-bleeding noise. As a gesture to US Army interrogation techniques, someone really ought to shut George Bush in a steel container and play this to him at full volume until his head explodes or he experiences a sudden conversion to grime and breakcore. A crazed scream interrupts the most laid-back, downtempo part of the mix: don't relax or the Republicans might get away with even more than they already have.

The breakbeats are interspersed with evocative classics (like the Honeydrippers Impeach The President) and snatches of lyrics – 'I'm not your typical American' intones one MC, just before the music breaks down into distortion and frantic hardcore. Perhaps the most heartening thing for the UK listener is the number of British productions and MCs involved in the mix. Highlights from the UK side of the pond include the Bizzle's Forward Riddim (someone should bring the arms house to George Bush's mum's house), Lady Sovereign doing her excellent 'Ch Ching' thing and the crazy Deathsucker release Murder Dem which twists a dancehall version of Israelites into manic ragga jungle. Jamaican sounds are well represented with /rupture's own Sister Nancy collaboration Little More Oil coming through strongly, and there's also room for the all-time reggae classic, Willie Williams Armagideon Time. We hope the apocalypse isn't really imminent but, in the circumstances, it's a fair point – the battle is getting hotter and a lot of people won't get no justice tonight.

 

No tracklisting.

^ This mix was first played out on London's alternative radio station Resonance FM

The Wack/Werk Corporation invites you to "dip your fat face into this oily spume of best-forgotten cockrot".

 

No tracklisting.

 

 

 

 

 

Gabriel's December 2004 Musical Bare Dancehall Mix was downloaded thousands of times from the Musicalbear site. Twelve months on the DJ from the Heatwave collective returned with another selection of some of the hottest dancehall tunes around at the time.

The mix opens with a few of Gabriel's own blends on the massive, funked-up Doosra riddim, a production from Manchester's Spybase. The instrumental is blended with some classic 90s ragga vocals and a single from Ms Thing, plus the acapella from Sunshine, the first release on Heatwave’s own label, Scandal Bag.

Following on are extended version excursions on one of the latest Dave Kelly productions, Bad Gal and the Coolie Dance-esque Kopa riddim. Other featured rhythms include the squelchy, electro sounds of Phantom and Strip Tease, the dark 'n' dirty Dancehall Rock and the decidedly non-dancehall funk of Money Juggling, plus a bit of soca niceness, sizzling ska from Sizzla and a Heatwave remix on the collective's own bootleg label, Punchline.

 

Mixed by Gabriel on two Technics 1210s & a Numark mixer

Mastered by Daddy Henry @ Dub Studio, Bristol

Intro by Quality Diamond

 

^ Full tracklisting available on request

Formally available on the Musicalbear site, this 2004 mix from Heatwave selector Gabriel (formerly known as Xiquet) has been dusted off and rehosted for all those who missed it the first time around.

This boy has some pedigree: purveyor of the finest dancehall reggae and ragga as part of various crews for five years at dancefloors in London, Barcelona, Bristol, Manchester and Valencia. He's also been responsible for the always-rammed Santa Raid parties at Electrowerkz, The Lifthouse and various other east London venues over the past five years. To top that he's a resident at at 333's dancehall jam, Cherry Pie and his own night Heatwave at the The Pool, London.

 

Tracklisting:

The Hammer Rhythm

Chico – Gangster All The Way

Elephant Man – Exercise Time

Shams – The Hammer

Beenie man – No Under Age

Wanted Rhythm

Bobby & Burro – Wanted

T.O.K. – Gal You A Lead

Bounty Killer – Mr Wuk More

Creeper Rhythm

Sherlene Boodram – C’est Comme Ca

Hawkeye – No Vee No Va

Range Rover Rhythm

Mr G – Question

Goofy – Range Rover

Beenie Man – Real Bad Man

Degree – Good Girl

Sars Rhythm

In Time – Sars

T.O.K. – Bad Mind

Dreamweaver Rhythm

Bling Dawg – Propaganda

Lenky – Dreamweaver

Elephant Man – Blessed

Chico – Thick & Thin

Fiesta Rhythm

Lady Saw – Man Is The Least

Dave Kelly – Fiesta

Fugees – Fiesta-La (Heatwave remix)

Baby Cham – Vitamin S

Beenie Man & Ms Thing – Dude

Blackstreet – No Diggity (Real Rock remix)

Baby Cham & Beyonce – Crazy In Love (remix)

Fresh from remixing Thom Yorke and ripping up club nights in São Paulo, sushi fan and globe-trotting techno legend Surgeon has kindly put together this splendid mix for Spannered. It's 'trippy, mostly broken new stuff and a few old bits', he tells us. Well, after numerous rotations we can honestly say that it's deeper than the Mariana Trench and heavier than a swimming pool full of osmium. Enjoy.

 

Tracklisting:

Ed Chamberlain — Trapese

Go Hiyama — Unreleased

Scion — Emerge (BMB remix2)

Anstam — Aeto_b

DJ Hell — Totmacher

Add Noise — Handwerk

Basic Channel — Enforcement (Mills mix)

Inigo Kennedy — Aching To Get Beneath

Kraddy — New World Empire (DiskChordians remix)

Radial — Premium

Oscar Mulero — Baskerbill's Dog (Regis remix)

Blackham — The Crusade

Warlock — TV controls your mind

Ed Chamberlain — Resistant

ScanOne — Trotter

Surgeon — Floorshow 1.1

Makaton — 41_43

Inigo Kennedy — Kaleidoscope

Jeff Mills —Humana

Monolake — Alaska (Substance remix2)

The DiskChordians — M-329 Class A

Ed Chamberlain — Charley

Go Hiyama — LisB

Anstam — Aeto_a

Ed Chamberlain — Does Ape

Joey Beltram — Drome

 

^ Listen to Surgeon's set from !emergency! in Bristol, October 2005