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bassmusic says...

Its been a while since my last post as touring and getting BASS=WIN set up has kept me busy 24/7 (launching in 2 weeks by the way!).Anyway heres a VIP freebie thats got good support from the few people Ive sent this.The original remix with even heavier wobble will be on the Top Billin release with ton of other remixes from the likes of Act Yo Age , Small Town Romeo,Dj Beware & Motorpitch etc.

-Rico

Top Billin: Playboy Anthem (Rico Tubbs VIP Mix)  by  bassmusic

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bassmusic says...

Yep - this Friday we have not one, not two, but THREE exclusive tracks for you - a full EP in fact.

It comes from Manchester's finest (now that we don't live there anymore - arf) Unbalanced Jack.  They're a duo who mash up dubstep with breaks and jungle influences, and including loads of cool vocal talent, like Killa Benz (who's just been vocalling a track for Baobinga) and Dub FX, who are on tour in Australia with Unbalanced Jack as we speak/type.

They've now decided to release their next EP for free with us - titled 'Puff Puff Give EP', it's three tracks of chunky, rolling dubstep for you to light one up to, featuring the Manchester MC Crown Jewelz.  Here they are, complete with artwork!  So without further ado; the Puff Puff Give EP from Unbalanced Jack.

Unbalanced Jack - Swollen (Jeep VIP)  by  bassmusic

Unbalanced Jack - Calling My Name ft Crown Jewelz  by  bassmusic

Unbalanced Jack - Manc Skank 320  by  bassmusic

Important message:

Remember, this is the new economy - the freeconomy, the one where you people get stuff for free and artists live on mice and gruel because Britney Spears stole all the money.  Or something like that.

Anyway, this release is free to you the people, so if you've enjoyed it and want to thank the guys, please twitter it, put it on your facebook, link to it on your blog, myspace page or anywhere else and help UBJ get some exposure!   Big!

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i.d.

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bassmusic says...



Easy all!

A couple of weeks back we gave away the vocals for 'We Here' by The Body Snatchers (aka Ginz & Baobinga) ft. Yolanda, and today we've decided to showcase some of the stuff you lot have got up to with em.

First up we have DJ Mellow from Brussels, who runs the Low Up parties which I can describe as being properly amazing. Anyways, he's taken the We Here vocal and laid it over a track by Schlachthofbronx called 'Regulate' - check it out here:

Next up we have Borai, aka Boris the studio manager at www.dubstudio.co.uk - Bristol's dedicated dubplate studio, and one of the few places in the UK that cuts direct to vinyl dubs. I've had a couple of these done and they are well impressive - sound great and last plenty long, so definitely worth trying out. Anyways, Boris has built a totally new Funky-inspired riddim around the vocal - top stuff, check it here:

If you've had a crack at doing something with the vocals we gave away, please get in touch and let us take a listen!

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bassmusic says...

The emperor feeding a dissenter to a lion.

It's Friday, yes it's Friday.  We've got some extra fast fun for you this week - some 175BPM fun in fact.  Our free tune for the week is Baobinga & I.D. turning our hands to Drum & Bass, in a slightly techy, slightly twisty kind of a way.  

It even featured in Bao's recent DJ mix for Lower End Spasm - so you know it's hot!  And we're giving away the 320k mp3 for free, to you great unwashed.  Hope you enjoy it!

Baobinga & I.D. - Jah  by  bassmusic

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i.d.

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bassmusic says...

I've been meaning to do this for ages, but I've finally got round to it, and maybe in a way the delay was for the best. 

Well that was a confusing start, but in my defence, it's 6:15am and I haven't slept yet.

Right, this week's Free Tune Friday is The Body Snatchers (aka Ginz & Baobinga) ft Sirplus & Yolanda 'Dangerous' - Club Edit. All this means is I've got hold of the stems and tagged a vaguely mixable intro onto the start of the tune, but credit where credit is due - I've uploaded it as a full mastered AIF. So no crappy MP3 stylings in your clubs, straight up baddaman goodness.

The Body Snatchers ft Sirplus & Yolanda - Dangerous (BassMusicBlog Club Edit) - Passenger  by  bassmusic

This is one of my favourite tunes off the album, and it feels like maybe its time has come somewhat - there's a distinct Karnival-type vibe to the tune, which is obviously helped by the superlative vocals of Sirplus and Yolanda - both ridiculously good Bristol heads, who we really need to get back in the studio with. The beat kinda has a B-More feel to it, but the swing, and lack of a Think or Sing Sing gives it more of a dancehall / garage feel, possibly with shades of Funky. All those vibes are getting shine now, hence my opening gambit of 'maybe the delay wasn't so bad'.

Sirplus - seen above countenancing infinity - always comes with great lyrics, and no exceptions here:

'True so we're paid to buss,
But it's gully and I still gotta take the bus
And it's funny how I swear but I hate to cuss
But I could have had the money and be flavourless'

Big.

Anyways, if you feel this, show some love and check out the album - digital here, CD here, vinyl here - and also check the DJ Woody mixtape here, which has some fresh stuff from us and Plus, and is of course minto.

Right. Sleep!

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Binga

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bassmusic says...

Kovas - Wax On Wax Off (HeavyFeet Remix) - Ghetto Beat 2009:

So, here's the first ever HeavyFeet 'Free Tune Friday', in the form of a remix we did a few months back. Kovas (vocalist, producer and label don) is best known for remixing the likes of Justin Timberlake, Chris Brown, Usher and De La Soul. Some of you may also remember him from an early career appearance on Freq Nasty's 'Bring Me The Head Of...' LP. After hearing the original of 'Wax On Wax Off' on YouTube we were really keen to do our own version of the track as we were so into the original radio mix. As Kovas was also feeling what we were up to musically we set about putting together this version for the official remixes release (coming soon):

Kovas - Wax On Wax Off (HeavyFeet Remix) - Ghetto Beat 2009  by  bassmusic

Check out the official video for the single (out now on Kovas's 'Ghetto Beat' imprint, via iTunes) featuring The Beat Freaks, who are a sick all-female dance troupe:

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Watch this space for more HeavyFeet and Kovas shizzle, believe.

Mike HF  

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bassmusic says...

Fabric double whammy.  Oh yes.  As you may have noted - it's all over the interweb at the moment - it's going to be Fabric's 10th birthday this month.  Over the weekend of the 16th/17th October, they have put together some of the biggest lineups they've ever managed, featuring quite literally a MILLION DJs; with the real plus that from Saturday night, the whole place doesn't close until Monday morning.  I'd imagine that room 2 at 4am on Monday will be the most hilarious/frightening scene you've ever witnessed - worth it just for that, surely.  For more details, check the Fabric site.  It's hard to believe it's been 10 years - I remember trekking down to London just to see the magical clubbing mecca shortly after it opened.  It might not seem obvious now, with our Funktion Ones and our tastefully designed flyers here in the luxury of 2009, but Fabric was one of a few clubs that helped usher in a new era of dance music clubbing.  Up until the late 90s, if you wanted to hear dance music it was probably going to be in a club that had barely changed since the 1970s, with the sound system (and the toilets) barely updated either (yes Club Phoenix, Manchester, I'm talking to you).  So for a specialist dance music club to open - and to be done well - was really something.  Which is why people like me were making 400-mile round trips to see what it was all about.  If you've never paid 10 quid to go raving to some local resident DJs in what is basically a social club, with carpets on the floor, you might not realise how impressive this really was.

So.  We were pretty buzzing about this birthday anyway, when Fabric got in touch and asked if Baobinga might be up for writing a special birthday track, just for this one event.  And he did!  It's a riotous soca/ghetto-tech affair, laced with cheeky chords and a hammering beat.  Not cool, but great.  If you close your sets with this track, you win.  It's in the rules.  And we're giving it away for free!

Baobinga - Miami2Trini - Fabric 10th Birthday Exclusive  by  bassmusic

But!  That's not all!  We're also giving away two free guestlists to Fabric on Friday 16th, featuring Simian Mobile Disco, DJ Craze, Rusko, Zinc, the Scratch Perverts, Baobinga and loads of others.

All we want you to do is send us your Fabric top 10s.  Any top 10 - best DJs (or worst mixes!), best nights, best moments, best messy confusion, fittest girls/boys, best hands in the air moments on the stage in room 1.  Email them to us at thebassmusicblog AT gmail DOT com, we'll post up a selection of the best - a top 10 of top 10s, if you like - and the two funniest, or most interesting, or otherwise great will win the guesties.   Simple.

It doesn't even have to be 10 really - just give us a good story!

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i.d.

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bassmusic says...

Pow!  Why can't all art be like that?  Instead of a picture of a horse or whatever.  

Anyway, that's my Brian Sewell moment out of the way.  It's my birthday today, so to celebrate I am giving away a tune that is simply too good to be signed.  You can all wish me a happy birthday by downloading it and listening to it on your phone speakers on the top deck of the 85 bus in Moss Side.  Or, I suppose, some other place.   Don't forget my DJ mix from this week, either!  

I.D. Tweaking LTD 320  by  I.D.

Hope you enjoy it, please pass it around!

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bassmusic says...


Ok so we're gonna do things a bit different this Friday cos we've given yous a bunch of free tunes recently.

Instead we're gonna open the hard drive vaults and bless you with not one but TWO full quality accapellas - yep, the original WAVs used to make the tunes.

First up we have the incredible Yolanda's work for The Body Snatchers on 'We Here (Big Pimpin)' - grab the vocals here. There's two files - the main vocal, and the extra flava she dropped over the top.

Yolanda is ridiculously amazing to work with. When she steps in the booth and literally starts creating the most amazing harmonies, in real time, off the top of her head, you know you're dealing with someone with actual talent, not one of us click-clacky mouse-pushin' fakers. I think my favourite bit in this vocal is: 

'Get off my titties baby, I'm a little ticklish, 
Just wet your lips and lick up on my liqourice
You're going too slow, could you work a little quickerish? 
Wanna hold me down - honey I don't give a shit'

D.U.T.T.Y.G.Y.A.L.

Next it's the original Mancunian grime legends, Virus Syndicate, with the vocal for me and I.D.'s 'Jump Up Get Hype' - grab them here.

Again, its amazing being in the studio with Virus - the level of energy you hear in the vocal is definitely apparent in front of the mic! The opening to Nika D's verse (the first one) properly sent tingles up our collective spine when we got the vocal back - a great example of a vocal instantly going in and creating an energy. And normally, after such a hype first verse the next MC would struggle to match it but from the first bar of JSD's verse, you know that's not going to be a problem.

Should have a new Baobinga vs Virus tune soon - you heard it hear first fammo.

If you're feeling all this good ish, show some love to the original tings: herehere and here why not :)

 

   
Click here to download:
FREE_TUNE_FRIDAY_-_Pure_Pella_.zip (76 KB)

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bassmusic says...

Snap vs Rico Tubbs - Rhythm is a dancer
 
(Based on a true story)
Have you ever been in a promoters car in some far flung part of the world on the way to a gig? As he navigates some mountain pass on two wheels at 70mph, your trying to understand even just a couple of words of his pigeon english, while desperately trying to use hand signals to let the guy know your desperate for a piss after the 16 local beers you just got bought by him and his mates at the truck stop to accompany your dry blue meat and lettuce sandwich. While all this time his tinny sound system blasts his mates DJ demo. "Dis Gooood yeeeees" he shouts over the bur of the passing traffic with the drivers side window open as he smokes something that looks more like a manikins leg than a spliff. Then.......Silence. The music stops, and there seems to be peace in the world again. He turns to you and says, "Now, we goooo old schoooool".... What can this mean? you think to yourself... Old school what?
The "pish pisssh" sound of the ejected CD, then the small clatter of CD against plastic as he struggles to slot the next one in while still navigating with one hand and one eye closed due to manikin leg smoke. Finally the cd finds its slot and for the slightest of moments you grind your teeth and hunch your shoulders in expectation of some techno re-work's of the local folk music. (this has actually happened to me, and all 7 members of the promoters entourage that were squeezed into the VW golf sung along to all 10 tracks on the cd, while slapping me on the shoulder with massive smiles, one of them even did a solo in the breakdown and was applauded by his mates after) Then like a bucket of soft feathers being tipped on your head, the warm and comfortable first few bars of Snaps "Rhythm is a Dancer" strokes your ear drums with a comforting familiarity. Then everything feels right with the world again. your ignoring the fact he just overtook a coach into the path of an oncoming haulage lorry and managed to miss its speedy advance by merely inch's, and that your about to piss like a race horse in your levi's if you dont stop at what is considered a toilet in this country. but a hole in the ground in any other.

SNAP - Rythm Is A Dancer (Rico Tubbs Remix) - bassmusicblog.com  by  bassmusic


https://www.yousendit.com/download/YkxJblFOUnFkMnRFQlE9PQ
 
enjoy

- Atomic Hooligan

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