On a Sunday night in May I listened to some new (mostly) Dubstep stuff. In the following some information about this.
Last week, Balkan Beat Box were again in Berlin to present their third album Blue Eyed Black Boy. My first impression was that the predecessors had more catchy tracks. Anyway, I like their fusion of different cultures and music styles because it represents the more innovative approach of Balkan music in my opinion.
Same place (Festsaal Kreuzberg) two days later, there was the record release party of the Berlin band Jahcoozi‘s third album Barefoot Wanderer. My current favourite track on it is Close To Me
which has been already remixed by Milanese. He did it in a laid-back Dubstep approach. Before Jahcoozi‘s gig, their beat master Robot Koch presented some of his solo stuff. In my opinion, some more song structure would be helpful. My favourite on this evening was his cover of the track People Are Strange
by the The Doors.
Finally, the debut long player from David Starfire has been published in Germany. He has been already known from his digitally released mini EP at Six Degrees as well as from some remixes and DJ sets in the conglomerate of Asian Beats, Breakbeats, Dubstep and Mashups. His debut album is as manifold as his previous work. A highlight is his Dubstep interpretation of The Beatles‘s Hey Jude
.
Related to him is the work of the Shiva Soundsystem crew from London. DJ Nerm and D-Code released an album with various collaborations last year: Phasmatis In Machina – Asian influenced Drum’n'Bass, Dubstep and other Electro tracks from London’s Electro East.
Badawi contributes an arabic influenced monster on a 12″ to the Dubstep scene. Breakage as well as Scuba explore the capabilities of Dubstep: While Breakage is based on Drum’n'Bass, Scuba investigates the connection to Techno sounds. This approach reminds me of the Berlin production by Moderat from last year (by the way, Rusty Nails
is a really beautiful track).
More new interesting Dubstep was released from Mutt (who previously has produced beautiful DnB), DJ Madd, Cardopusher and Riz MC. The latter both were released by True Tiger, known from transglobal influenced Dubstep tracks on the Around The World 12″s and by Sukh Knight, respectively. Pinch‘s release of Get Up
stems from his album Underwater Dancehall where Dubstep was heavily enriched with vocals, whereby most of the Dubstep releases are instrumentals or with only samples.
I very like the work of Geiom. His new 12″ Sugar Coated Lover is a conglomerate of Dubstep and Garage with some nice percussion samples. 
He will be DJing in Berlin on June 5: at the “We Want More Bass” party of the Freak Camp crowd @ VCF.
Various Production were active again. They remixed a track by The Hundred In The Hands.
In the following, there are the links for the listening pleasure @ Mixcloud.
Here’s the track listing:
- Balkan Beat Box:
Kabulectro
Blue Eyed Black Boy (Crammed Discs 2010) - Badawi:
El Topo
Index 1-1 12inch (The Index 2010) - David Starfire vs. FreQ Nasty:
Baghdad (Remix)
Bollyhood Bass (Six Degrees 2010) - Mutt:
Tekdub (feat Illgates)
Tekdub 10inch (Tube10 2010) - Breakage:
Open Up
Foundation (Digital Soundboy 2010) - Jahcoozi:
Close To Me
Barefoot Wanderer (BPitch Control 2010) - Scuba:
Minerals
Triangulation LP (Hotflush 2010) - Moderat:
Rusty Nails
Moderat LP (BPitch Control 2009) - The Hundred In The Hands:
Dressed In Dresden (Various Mix)
Dressed In Dresden 12inch (Warp 2010) - V.I.V.E.K:
C My Vision
Phasmatis In Machina (Shiva Soundsystem 2009) - Cardopusher:
Gibold (Scandalous Unltd. Remix)
Gibold 12inch (True Tiger 2010) - DJ Madd:
Someone (Breakage‘s Unspecified Remix)
Someone 12inch (Black Box 2009) - Pinch:
Get Up (Guido Mix feat. Yolanda)
Get Up (MCD) (Tectonic 2009) - Geiom:
Sugar Coated Lover (Brackles & Shortstuff Refix feat. Marita)
Sugar Coated Lover 12inch (Berkane Sol 2010) - Riz MC:
Shifty (Scandalous Unltd. Remix)
Shifty 12inch (True Tiger 2009) - Moderat:
Berlin
Moderat LP (BPitch Control 2009)
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