Fed. - 902BassDrum

Band / Artist: Fed.
Year: 2015
Genre: Jungle, Breakcore, Drum and Bass

My Review:
Some days, jungle is just a good way to start out the day. Today, that is the case for me. Plus the art has a kitty.

I've heard a few things from Fed. in the past. Best I can remember, this is my favorite. Its much more wild and jazzy, which is really getting me going. It rolls into hiphop or anthem house or reggae, then wildly dissects it, then pulls back to lounge jazz, only to fuse both into the next wave of crazy breakcore wildness.

If this is your jam, here is a long list of other works by the artist (Igor Fedshin)

         [SRmp3 247] Fed. - Hold your gun Babylon 

[SRmp3 205] Fed. - Lion Conversion

[SRmp3 180] Fed. - Mashup Business

[SRmp3 167] Fed. - Fedish Animal

[SRmp3 119] Fed. - Noise, Hash and Meat

[SRmp3 091] Fed. v.s. Annoying Ringtone - Baking

[SRmp3 064] Fed. - Everybody Sucks

Alright, well I'm gonna let this one out into the world now. Enjoy.

Fed. - 902BassDrum

-{:(.SINGLES.):}- All Electronic, All the time (Nnls, Aardonyx, Notch, Rameses B, Alex Tune)

Band / Artist: Nnls, Aardonyx, Notch, Rameses B, Alex Tune
Year: 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017
Genre: NRG, Hardcore Techno, Nu Breaks, Electro House, EDM, Electronica, Techno, Trance, House, Drum and Bass, Lo-fi

My Review:

Notch - Listen To The Rhythm / Descent
Some great old style uplifting trance/house stuff. I really enjoy the use of the rhythmic repetition of the vocal tracks and atmospherics. I posted them not long ago actually.

Nnls - Connection
This has a great lo-fi feel and a really well done atmospheric quality.

nnls about the release: „Roads are more comprehensive than any other human sign, nothing is shared more than them, sometimes they last for thousand years. So, while listening to the album you can try to work out road names from titles and draw my own non-existing non-spiral non-jetty.“

Here is the website built as advertising for the full album.

Aardonyx - Dedicated
Drum N Bass is always a welcome return to the table. This one is very similar to Hybrid, for the mix of the techno sound with orchestral suites and ethereal female vocals. Here is their bio.

aardonyx are a UK born production duo writing Drum and Bass in minimal, abstract and liquid styles, with a wide variety of musical influences.
After making music separately for many years they joined forces under the name Aardonyx in 2016.
This is just a taste of what's to come...
For DJ bookings or correspondence please contact theaardonyx@gmail.com  

Rameses B - Russ EP 
This is sort of that Pop-anthem EDM (Electro/House) you hear these days, and its got a good hook to it. Would be good music for a compilation video of someone doing crazy cliffhanging stunts or skiing barefoot on youtube.

Alex Tune - Takes Me Higher
Some gritty Hardcore or Progressive Breaks/NRG/Nu Breaks with that late ninties to 2010 sort of rap-rock singover style going on. I like it some, but I'll need to listen to it when I'm more in the mood.

(Special Post) The Collected Works of Ken Smith

 


 
Band / Artist: Ken Smith
Year: 2004-2007
Genre: Techno, Gabber, Drum and Bass, Electro, Power Noise, Ambient Techno, Hip-Hop Beats,

My Review:

Ken was a friend of mine. We met in 2001 on a friends message board. We would talk online intermittently, but Ken was the sort of personality that even if you never met him in person, he would shine through. When I went off to Europe and heard frenchcore, Ken was the first person I thought of sharing it with. We shared a love for music, especially techno. We also had a lot of conversations about religion and art (and the chan), but music was always on our minds, and we were always sharing and collecting new artists between one another.

Ken died at the beginning of 2007. When I found out he was gone, I was confused, startled, and saddened. Like many who knew him online, we knew his computers would come and go in terms of working. I found out he had passed away in October 2007, long after he was laid to rest. I decided to try my best to find and contact all of his old friends, and collect every song or part of a song they still had from him.

It took a few years, and it came to a dauntingly large amount of music. After that the thing to do was sort it into albums the most like he would have made. I have to thank Briana Rhodes, Matt Clark, and Patrick Durbin, because they are the only way I could have found all of his music.

Some tracks have been edited to make them fit together better, or to provide closure to a track. A few tracks I remixed to make them work (especially on our collaboration album). Not every track is perfectly how I found it, or under the same name it was done under. Some song titles were altered, or in the cases of no original title, renamed with something Ken would like. The album art was all created with references or images ken had made or been in, with exception where needed.
 

I hope you enjoy this memorial to my friend. All the tracks are under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (Details can be seen at; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/). Please feel free to remix, play, sample, or redistribute these anywhere or anyhow you wish. If you would like to ask about using any of them for commercial purposes, please email me.

So please enjoy. Spread it and share it with anyone you know, chop it up and make beats, use it for DJ shows, whatever you want. Ken would have loved other people sharing and celebrating his music.

Individual CDs

Angerstatic & Johnny Deadman

 

Brainwhacker - OMG NO TITLE

 
Brainwhacker - DJ NIFTY

 
Brainwhacker - NEEJAY DIFTY

 
Brainwhacker - Highlights Of Lowlives

 
Brainwhacker - Because Life Was Meant For Headphones

K Breaks - Chemical Illin'

Ken Smith - Demos

Kinverji – Butterflies

Lucifers Cute Little Kitten

Mantis Shuffle - Works By Ken Smith

Stratum Automata - Choir Anus

 
Stratum Automata - Short Shits

 
Stratum Automata - Short Shits 2, The Revenge

 
Stratum Automata - Fracture

Zer0 Fidelity - Deconstructure

 
Zer0 Fidelity - Eat My Liver

 
Zer0 Fidelity - Echo Kill Demos

 
Zer0 Fidelity - Echo Kill

 
Zer0 Fidelity – Mindmatter

 
Ser.aph & Zer0 Fidelity - Duets In Augmentation

The full pack of all of these works is about 1.2 gigs. I'll upload it directly if anyone is interested, just shoot me a comment

Thanks

Free Singles - Crown the Invisible, TheAnonymousDJ, Felix Da Housecat, Memcave

This is a really interesting tune, with a really interesting backstory. Basically there was a musician long ago in the UK I believe, who wrote this song, and aeons later, it became a public domain track with little interest.

http://freemusicarchive.org/curator/WFMU/blog/Revitalize_Music_Contest_The_Winning_Song

A contest was put on, with the intention of letting new artists interested in public domain, do covers and remakes of these songs to bring them into the 21st century. This was one of the most noteworthy tracks. They are out of Brooklyn, and they are working on a new album right now.

Crown The Invisible - The Spaniard who blighted my life

TheAnonymousDJ is back again
This time he's releasing a couple of his own mixes. I picked this one especially because of the tech house influences, and because I enjoyed it.

Lana Del Rey - Born To Die (The Anonymous DJ's Born To Dance Remix)

He also had an original track on there as well. Its pretty awesome. An even more tech house/electro track. I've enjoyed both, and I'm glad to see him moving more toward making his own tracks here and there.

TheAnonymousDJ - Low Frequencies (Original Mix)

On the other end of the techno spectrum today is some Felix Da Housecat. He did a bunch of electropop and electroclash back in the past 10 years or so, and its worth looking more into him, for being all trashy and magically dancey. This song is all about manly men and penis size, as explained by a catty drag queen. Hope you enjoy.

Felix Da Housecat - Frankie Meets Pauline (Clandestin Edit) 

I've been sitting on this EP for a long while, and I've been waiting for a time to get to posting it. As luck would have it, I have a few minutes right now.


Memcave is an artist on a record label called Memnet. You should stop in there and check them out if you like what you hear. Here is their blog.


http://www.memnetia.com/

This is a short release based around ambient, IDM, Drum & Bass, and weird samples.

Memcave - Cheap Frrrz EP

The Queenstons - Figurehead Remastered

Band / Artist: The Queenstons
Year: 2011
Genre: Drum & Bass, Dubstep, Electronica, Breakbeat, Jungle

My Review:
Ok, so the label is called Lapfox, or Lapfox Trax. And I guess its one guy (Renard Queenston) doing many different styles under different aliases? I don't really know. I couldn't give two shits though, because its some really decent music. He even made a little promo video for it coming out.



The first version of this album came out a few years ago, a drum & bass anthem album for the most part. Some very game-y sounding moments here and there. The Original was not available for free, but the remastered version, which sounds more clean and full, is. This has a pretty huge number of additional tracks, and it really pleased me to find it.

Fairly tuned voices, sound like they were recording on shitty mics but they did a very good job of masking it and presenting something that comes together as solid as a marble. A pretty professional sounding album that makes for a great listen,  especially if you like Dieselboy, BT, and AK1200, or Paul Oakenfold and DJ Keoki vocals. It feels like stepping back toward 2004 and getting a nostalgic look. There are definitely dubsteppy moments here and there, but they don't undermine the strength of this album overall.


I'd rank this at a rate high enough that it may be in my top 10 DnB albums now (yes I really do have more than that many, I really love techno). So give this a chance, and expect to see me sharing more from Lapfox in the future.

The Queenstons - Figurehead Remastered

Icky Sticky - Fractals

Band / Artist: Icky Sticky
Year: 2012
Genre: Jungle, Drum & Bass, Electro, Dubtronics

My Review:
An album of somewhat atypical jungle coming from a gentleman in the UK. Here's his myspace page.

http://www.myspace.com/imacsm

He is a crew member of the Amen-tal label. They specialize in Breakcore, Drum & Bass, and other types of fast electronica. Here's their site to explore if you'd like.

http://www.amen-tal.co.uk

I wish there was a little more to say about the guy, but I couldn't find much else. So here's what I have to say about the album itself. It reminds me of Luke Vibert (especially as Plug), or Source Direct. There could have been a little more to it here or there, but I ended up listening to it a few times in a row because of its sound. There are ethereal, dubby, jazzy, and sometimes droney soundscapes layered into jungle beats of varying complexity and depth, sometimes bending into Amen Breaks and Breakcore flares. The tracks can be pretty long, and sometimes offer very slowly changing sounds, which can leave you wanting, depending on how your tastes for techno are.

Hope you enjoy it.

Icky Sticky - Fractals