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Freefl ow 45 Left/Right vs Digital
Fellowship Of The Pizza
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Bass/Droid Smoothie Gangbang
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Bombtraxx Sound Of Habib
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A snaking serpent b-line Superb lurching bassline
track, backed by some bad- like a dinosaur about to
ass busy robotic bizness. hurl, and natty dubstep
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sensibilities.
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Where’s My Money? Freestylers
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(Caspa Remix/Elite Past, Present & Future
on, BN1 3JB
Force Re-Fix) EP
U&A Freestylers Records
One of Shack’s superb, wob- ‘Cracks’ is a dirty warehouse
bly, fl uttery re-fi xes, from rave cut, ‘This City’ has
the upcoming ‘ReVamped’ junglist MC Tali and ‘Bounce
selection about to drop very To This’ is a booty-shaker
soon. that mashes up reggae.
MONE
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Mr No Hands
SHO
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Plaza De Funk feat Miss sensibility make this mix marginally the
The Chit Chats Trouble pick of the bunch.
Air Push N Pull It
Mofo Jinx
The irrepressible Mr No Hands seems Bo Selectro
to be moving it up a few notches this Those Mofo mofos have just acquired Hi Grade
year, and this jackin’ fi zzy electro notoriously diffi cult diva Plaza for the
303-athon certainly has plenty of label, and an inspired signing it is, too. Bristol-based Jinx is a somewhat under-
clever stuff going on. There’s enough The Italian stallion will undoubtedly rated fi gure in breakbeat, but he never
lunar funk to chase mice up towers, bring more of a feminised touch to pro- fails to deliver the goods when given
and the bit where it stops for a ceedings, if the disco-funk stylings of the chance. ‘Bo Selectro’ has a mas-
solitary chime is genius. Breakdown’s this piece with Miss Trouble is anything sively deep burrowing b-line and some
rework is quirky enough for the to go by. Gigi Barocco adds a post-fi dget natty old hardcore vocal snippets, while
kooler kids, yet retains big room ravey quotient in a top-notch jackin’ ‘Higher’ seemingly makes judicious
dynamics for the Beatport electro rejig. use of a sample from an old Stereo MCs
house massive. single to elevate the cerebral content up
The Losers a few notches.
No Man Is An Island
Cut La Roc Distiller Bill Vega & New Decade feat
Electric Forces Funk Louisa Ware
Westway List songs usually date pretty quickly, Taking Over
but the vocodered references here Badbwoy Bass
Just as his superb ‘Larger Than Life’ are achingly cool yet still universal.
artist album is about to drop, Lee La Rhyming “Freskanova, Mo Wax, Skint” The growling, warehouse party
Roc squeezes one out for Westway. with “French electro, Keithy Flint” gives reminiscent slab of old hardcore that’s
PEO DE PITTE FLATOUT RECORDS ‘Electric Forces Funk’ is a futurist robo it great legs, and the Utah Saints fl uff the ‘Ways & Means Mix’ really takes
techy belter great for late-night fl oors up the electronics to qualify it for the this listener back to east London
01. SIDNEY SAMSON ‘Riverside (Peo de Pitte ReRub)’ Sneakerz Musik
at twisted o’clock. The 601 guys turn in synth-pop/electroclash olympics. High free parties of the mid-’90s, before
“Started out as a DJ tool with samples from the original. Big!”
a great overhaul that almost has shades Rankin’s mix occupies the territory Hackney/Shoreditch became trendy.
02. SUB FOCUS ‘Could This Be Real?’ Ram Records
“If this one doesn’t crossover, I don’t know what will.”
of ‘Knights Of The Jaguar’, while Zero between d&b and breakbeat before Still sounds great, while the ‘Lose Your
B continues his back-on-the-money dropping down to dubstep, and this Mind Remix’ is more fi zzy and electronic.
03. YEAH! WOHO! ‘Hit That Organ (Peo de Pitte Remix)’ FlatOut Records
“Next one on my own imprint.”
rebirth with another corker. guy is really going to break through Dom Almond supplies the big basslined,
this year. phuture tech-step rework.
04. FLORE FEAT SHUNDA K ‘Feel Me (Peo de Pitte Remix)’ Botchit &
Scarper
Dub Pistols
“Usually end my sets with this one. Live drum madness at the end.”
Ganja Enough Weapons Anarchy Rice
05. PASSION PIT ‘Little Secrets (Jack Beats Remix)’ Sony Sunday Best Supersonic (Remixes) Running The Show
“Works extremely well.”
Ape Acidphonic
06. LOOPS OF FURY ‘Soap (Peo de Pitte Remix)’ U&A Ben & Lex expertly inject some dubstep
“One of my harder remixes. Peak time, for sure.”
into the Dubs’ latest single (no prizes The scintillating ‘Supersonic’ receives This sort of accessible, neo-commercial
07. REFRACTURE ‘Eternal (Mr No Hands Remix)’ Dusted Breaks
for guessing what it’s extolling the the big remix treatment, with Freefl ow trancey breaks tune is probably what
“You can’t argue with this bassline!”
virtues of), while Jinx In Dub rolls out 45 concentrating on the huge electronic you think the scene needs if you have
08. THE FREESTYLERS ‘Cracks’ Freestylers Records
a THC-evocative red-eye skank that top line. The ever-improving That Girl DJ no soul. Seemingly written by a couple
“The Freestylers are back.”
uses much more of Rodney P’s killah mines a burbling bass furrow before the of Ibeefa post-hard dance dudes, it
09. DEADMAU5 ‘Strobe (Plump DJs Remix)’ Virgin
“Hard and melodic with solid production — just as it should be.
rhymes. NiteNoise, meanwhile, nice up electronics go into overdrive, and bright actually works every time, and it’s prob-
the dance with more of a straight breaks new hope Eshericks from Japan applies ably only a few po-faced NSB forum DJs
10. TC ‘Where’s My Money? (Caspa Mix/Elite Force Re-Fix)’ CDR
“Great DJ tool that just makes the crowd go insane!”
reworking that goes elegantly dubby in plenty of science to his re-jig. Superb who’re putting a stop to more stuff like
the middle. zippy production and a ravey-davey this fi ltering through.
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