I'm Shady (Kat Fyte Re-Deployment)

If you're on my monthly email blast then you know I like doing pop edits and remixes to take them to strange and unfamiliar places. This is the first in my "NOUGHTIES" remix series and it's been getting a solid response so I decided to make it available for download.



I'm Shady (Kat Fyte Re-Deployment) by maxpearl



This is also an exclusive for TRADE, the new DANCEHALL / HIP HOP / R&B party at the Phoenix Landing in Cambridge that I've got going with DJs Rizzla and Justincredible alongside the Bona | Fide production crew. Our launch party was last month and it was a m a z i n g so check out the info here if you're in Boston and you wanna come party.

WHERE MY GIRLS AT

So I guess R&B is back? So Bones has been predicting the revival for some time now and I was just diligently waiting for everyone else to catch on. Once dismissed by "educated white people" as sappy commercial garbage, R&B has made the move from ironic / half-hearted "guilty pleasure" to genuine object of affection. Whereas other parts of the world have stayed loving R&B, we hipsters are becoming reacquainted.

We can thank people like Kingdom and Brenmar, and generally the recent movement back towards 2step and garage in the UK (which have R&B sensibilities at their core), for the reintroduction of these styles into our cultural landscape.

Also, I assume y'all have been watching the Nicki v. Kim beef closely and I just wanted to say: GOOD PR MOVE KIM!! honestly I've been listening to Lil Kim more in these past two weeks than I did at any point in my life and it's all because she picked the right time to pounce.

ANYWAYS, here's a classic that I found in time for a party I played on Saturday in Cambridge. It's low bit-rate but its certainly good enough for the floor. Just listen.

702 - Where My Girls At
702 - Where My Girls At (Fanatic Remix)

Fact Mix 206: Ikonika

Sorry about the delay, we've both been busy. I'm working on the planning stages of my own magazine right now and Oliver's been trying to kick ass at academia while also keeping up the good work over at Palms Out. Anyways, on to the content:

So Ikonika is sent from the future to educate us about unrealized musical configurations, bringing us DJ mixes, singles, and albums that at first feel completely nonsensical because they break with tradition to the extent that they do. There is so much wrong with the aesthetics she's pushing; odd syncopations, dissonant melodies and chord progressions, raw, unpolished synthesizer sounds, and with these avant-garde instincts she has pried open the the UK's beat box, calling established practice into question and destabilizing any orthodoxy built around notions of what is or is not aesthetically acceptable.

She's done it again with this week's FACT mix, showcasing a lot of material from her new record label, Hum + Buzz, and oddities from other left-field electronica labels like Warp, Planet Mu, and Hyperdub.



Direct download: FACT mix 206 – Ikonika

(Available for three weeks)

Tracklist:


1. Ikonika – Rope (Hum+Buzz)

2. Don Morris – In Da Groove (Bok Bok Remix) (Deep Teknologi)

3. Martyn – Shook Up (3024)

4. Ikonika – Off Mode (Hum+Buzz)

5. Karizma – The Damn Dub (R2)

6. Ikonika – Dance There & Back

7. Egyptrixx – Liberation Front (Night Slugs)

8. Distal – Feed Me

9. Ikonika – Fleas

10. Optimum – Light Year (Hum+Buzz)

11. Terror Danjah feat. Baby Face Jay – Breaking Bad (Hyperdub)

12. Ikonika – They Didn’t Bury You Deep Enough (The Last Of The Bleeps)

13. Girl Unit – I.R.L (Bok Bok Remix) (Night Slugs)

14. Optimum – Max Power (Planet Mu)

15. Nu Design – Subsonicfreedomskyank

16. Africa Hitech – 93 Million Miles (Warp)

17. Dro Carey – Candy Red (Hum+Buzz)

French Reggae Bootlegs?

So I was in Paris this past winter, you know, scouting for culture. The city kind of sucks in general (closes relatively early, very expensive, exceptionally conservative -- or maybe that's just my experience) but I did find this amazing record store called Patate Records, which pretty much only sells reggae. I'm talkin' all types of reggae- roots, conscious, digi-dub, ragga, some jungle refixes, but the real gold-mine was their selection of 7" bootleg remixes.

That's where I first heard about the Bombists, a french production team that puts out super DL bootleg remixes of popular party tracks. I was getting my set ready for a night at the Enormous Room in Cambridge, MA, and I came across one of the few Bombist remixes available digitally, a sweet remix of Cassie's "Me and U." I also came across a fabulous roots remix of Daft Punk's "Harder Better Faster Stronger."

You can order Bombist 7 inches from Juno. But for now you can have this awesome Cassie bootleg. And the Daft Punk remix. All yours.

Download: Cassie "Me and U" (Bombist Bootleg)

I can't stream the Daft Punk remix 'cuz it's hosted on mediafire and isn't a direct download, but seriously just take my word for it -- you should cop this.

Download: Daft Punk - Harder Better Faster Stronger (Bombist Bootleg)

GRIME 2012

Well if you missed the Maxsta EP you should really hear that one; it's got grime sensibilities transplanted onto Jerk instrumentals. Aggressively syncopated flows with tasteless brazen synthesizers and PS2 beats. But these new-jack MCs must be listening to American Top 40 charts 'cuz you can hear Kanye, Trey Songz, and the New Boyz' influence on Maxsta's song-writing, especially in the choruses where the MCs aren't deep in machine-gun bars. Honestly, "Progress Is My Religion" is the jam on that tape.

That's what's up.






Then there's also Shorty's Short Man Syndrome mixtape. Also good. Maybe better. This one came recommended from Jammer in an interview over at XLR8R magazine... It's got cameos from the biggest and best in the scene; Jammer, JME, Boy Better Know, Skepta... my goodness!

Download that here.

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The Bug feat. Hitomi - "Catch A Fire"

The Bug, one of the dirtiest and most innovative producers on the UK scene right now is set to release a new EP with Autchre, Roots Manuva, Hitomi and Scratcha on November 15th. Roots, according to FACT, is going to be voicing over the "Poison Dart" rhythm on "Tune In". Shit is bound to be epic. The video above is "Catch A Fire" and you can hear that "Skeng" instrumental bumping in from the beginning. Tamed, but still strong.

via FACT

J-WOW & Toy Selectah, “Mo’chaxo” MP3

Thanks- once again- to Julianne over at the Fader magazine, who has done an amazing job providing a respectable media platform for new and unusual sounds and artistic movements.
I would say this is Kuduro or Guarachero or one of those things but honestly it's probably caught somewhere in the Atlantic ocean floating around untethered to any pre-established musical category. Let's call it... "brown atlantic rave wave" ??
Love this tune!

Download: J-Wow & Toy Selectah, “Mo’chaxo”