ASC Poland Rinse

Tidy little video from ASC's gig in Sopot, Poland, on his recent European Tour. (shot by Maciek.)

(Damn we need to get James to the east coast! Toronto show is a must!)

Apparatus Recordings

Recent New York transplants, Glitch and SST (formerly of Orlando, FLA) have finally stabilized their studio and are moving forward with the launch of their own imprint, Apparatus Recordings. Focused on catering to their solo works and collaborations respectfully, AR001 debuts on digital format September 1st through Beatport, with possible vinyl releases down the road.

I love to see this kinda action. Two vastly underrated artists making some big time drum and bass, taking full control of their creative output, offering it to the public at a small cost and in a much more desired format. True they might not be well known as of yet, but with this news, I expect a lot more deserving attention to be thrown their way.

To commemorate the launch, they've done an outstanding promo mix featuring previously unreleased works and forthcoming releases on Apparatus. Check it!

Apparatus Recordings Promo Mix
-Intro
-SST & Glitch - In Gods Eyes
-SST & Glitch - The Architect
-SST - Fear Inside
-SST & Glitch - Swelling Bodies
-Glitch - Underoath (Remix)
-SST - Just Can't
-Glitch - Open Valve
-SST & Glitch - Ten Plagues
-Glitch - She's Smoking Again
-SST & Glitch - Intake
-Glitch - To Set Fire
-SST & Glitch - A Better Day

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Sounds [August]

Been a while..

An aray of killer sets kickin around the net at the moment.
Choice audio not to be missed. If you ain't gots, I suggest you gets. ;)

Calyx - Live On 1Xtra

Calyx & Teebee feat MC Verse – Dual Processed (Momentum)
Phace – Hotrock (V.I.P) (Dub)
N Phect – Encryption (Subtitles Dub)
Calyx & Teebee – The Divide (Momentum)
Spor – Bitten (Lifted Dub)
Noisia & The Upbeats – Unknown (Dub)
Break & Silent Witness – Kickback (Quarantine Dub)
Mindscape & Safire – Heatstroke (Dub)
Calyx & Teebee – Telepathy (Momentum Dub)
Andy C, Ant Miles & Shimon – Cause ‘n Effect (Ram)
Calyx & Teebee – Vortex (Momentum)
Apex – Nowhere To Run (Lifted Dub)
Noisia – Concussion V.I.P) (Dub)
Phace & Rawtekk – Life Goes On (Dub)
Calyx & Teebee – All That Remains (Momentum)
Spor – Knock You Down (V.I.P) (Dub)
The Sect – Axon (Audio Remix) (Obscene Dub)
Spor, Ewun & Evol Intent – Levitation (Lifted Dub)
Icicle – You Know It (Dub)
Calyx & Teebee – Warrior (Momentum)
Noisia & Phace – Cannonball (Dub)
Calyx & Teebee – End Yourself (Dub)
Alix Perez – Resolution (Shogun Audio Dub)
N Phect – Slices (Subtitles Dub)
Break – Submerged (Calyx & Teebee Remix) (Subtitles Dub)
Lomax – Metal Flanger (Subtitles Dub)
Calyx & Teebee – Make Your Choice (Momentum)
Drumsound & Bassline Smith – Damages (Technique Dub)
Calyx & Teebee – Confession (Momentum)
Calyx & Teebee – Enygma (Momentum)
Calyx & Teebee – Follow The Leader (V.I.P) (Dub)

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Nocturnal - Live On Pyro Radio

Sabre & Icicle - Sentry (Hardware)
Prolix - The Last Hour (GanjaTek)
Sabre & Survival - Wiretap (Hardware)
Nocturnal - Paralyzed (PRSPCT)
Stakka & Skynet - Decoy (Underfire)
Prolix & Nocturnal - Bad Blood (GanjaTek)
Vicious Circle - Between The Lines (Hardware)
Prolix & Nocturnal - Crater (Hardware)
EBK - Retina (Hardware)
Nocturnal - Nightvision (DSCI4)
Konflict - Roadblock (Hardware)
Nocturnal - Cross The Line (Freak)
Bulletproof & Optiv - Camouflage (1210)
Nocturnal - Musk Up (Hardware)
-> break
Icicle - Weak Moments (Subtitles)
Limewax - Golden Path (Freak)
Demo & Cease - Ladies Night VIP (Human)
Teebee & Calyx - Telepathy (Momentum)
Vicious Circle & Nocturnal - Welcome To Shank Town VIP
Bloc Party - The Prayer (Silent Witness & BreakDNAudio) Instrumental Mix)
Verse & SP - Lost Souls (Crunch)
Cause 4 Concern - Never Acid Again (C4C)
Jade - Unexist (BSE)
The Sect - Axon (Audio RMX) (Obscene)
EBK - Skatter (Hardware)
Nocturnal - 3rd Rail (Hardware)
Phobia - Singularity (Hardware)
Noah D & Focus - Submerge (Idiom)
Current Value - Fear & Ecstasy (Future Sickness)
Subtone & Stalker - Vindictive (Resolute)
Limewax - PRSPCT EP001
Gremlinz - Annexed VIP (NVBR?)

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Axiom - Sanctuary Mix

Axiom - Soulscavenger [Unsigned]
Jade - Ready [Unsigned]
Axiom - Phalanx [Cyanide dub]
Nphect - The Sphere [Shadybrain dub]
Catacomb - Arms in Reach [Syndrome Audio dub]
Axiom - From Another World [Hostile dub]
Cerebral Productions - Meltdown [Unsigned]
Rregula - Corner Hash Man [Unsigned]
Axiom - Recoil [Cyanide dub]
Bulletproof & Optiv - Camouflage (2007 Remix) [Cyanide dub]
Axiom & State of Mind - Deadzone [SOM Music dub]
Optiv - Brainworm [BSE dub]
Axiom - Last Singapore Sling [Hostile dub]
Vicious Circle - Welcome To Shanktown VIP [Unsigned]
Rico - Mr. Freeman [Unsigned]
Catacomb - Foul Matter [Syndrome Audio dub]
Cern - Satellites [Unsigned]
Chook - Descend [SLR dub]
Concord Dawn - Chloroform (State of Mind Remix) [Uprising dub]
Chook - Retrograde [Unsigned]
Dementia & Rregula - Slicey [Unsigned]
Verbal - Exorcist [Symptom dub]
Chris SU & Mindscape feat. MC Ryme Tyme - Planet X [Citrus]
Axiom - Air Raid [Syndrome Audio dub]
Cause4Concern - Pandemic [C4C dub]
Subtone & Stalker - Tonne de Brique [DSCI4 dub]
Rregula - Shits Dope [Unsigned]
State of Mind & Black Sun Empire - Red Velvet [BSE dub]
Rregula & Dementia - City of Dogs [Unsigned]
State of Mind & The Upbeats - Fuck Knows [Uprising dub]
Axiom & Psidream - Shadowpath [SLR dub]
Chris.SU & State Of Mind - Flawless [SOM Music dub]
Axiom & Dementia - Continuum [DSCI4 dub]
Bulletproof - Smoke & Mirrors [Unsigned]
Axiom & Optiv & Psidream - Break In [DSCI4 dub]
Vicious Circle - Bleak [Unsigned]
Nphect - Ultraviolet [Shadybrain dub]
Bulletproof - Made in Detroit [Unsigned]
Cause4Concern - Dreamkillers [C4C dub]
Jade & Cell D & M-Tech - Synth City [Unsigned]
Mindscape - No Escape (Noisia Remix) [Citrus dub]
Cause4Concern - Control Freak [C4C dub]
Dementia - Unnamed [Unsigned]

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Mayhem - 404 Audio Live

Fanu - Tears Of The Killer - Lightless Recordings
High Contrast - If We Ever - Hospital Records
Matrix + Futurebound - American Beauty VIP - Metro / Viper Recordings
Commix - Electric - Metalheadz
Break + Survival - Cronk - Exit Records
Culture Shock + Brookes Brothers - Rework - Ram Records
Matrix + Futurebound - Sandstorm - Metro / Viper Recordings
State Of Mind - Flashpoint - Uprising Records
SKC + Matt-U - Prime Evil - Timeless Recordings
The Upbeats + Teknik - Poison - Project 51 Records
N.Phect - Credo - Subtitles Music
Noisia - Exorcism - Moving Shadow
Misanthrop - Evacuate - Renegade Hardware
Spor - 103 Degrees - Lifted Music
Culture Shock - Vice Chase - Ram Records
Tactile - Can't Stop - Dispatch Recordings
Bachelors Of Science - Anytime She Goes Away - Horizons Music
Culture Shock - Asteroids - Ram Records
Redeyes - Hey Lover - Bingo Beats

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Evol Intent - DOA Mix

Calyx & Teebee - Enygma
Audio - Missing
Apex - Breathe
Noisia & Phace - Cannonball
Lifted (Spor, Ewun, Apex & Evol Intent) - Untitled (Dirge)
Apex - In Motion
Calyx & Teebee - The Divide
C4C - Never Acid Again
Psidream - Roadrage 2007
Spirit - Scanners
Tech Itch - Alone
Audio - Non Human
Ewun - Untitled (Cop Killa)
Psidream - Tech 9
Gridlok & El Hornet - Hollywood
Noisia vs Black Sun Empire - Winter Wars
Apex - Nowhere to Run
Spor - Molehill
Ewun - Phone Tap
Evol Intent & Ewun - 8 Bit Bitch (Spor remix)
Spor - 1up
Hive & The Upbeats - Dresden
Unknown Error - Same Old Blues

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Did I miss any? Nope, don't think so. :D

Future Forces - One In The Jungle - 97

A blast from the past!!!!

Just posted on DOA, this massive, classic tech step set from Future Forces. [D-Bridge & Maldini - pre Bad Company years] This is the exact shit I listened to and rinsed so many times in cars and at random house party's back in the day! I had the orig. on tape, until it went missing a year later, but god damn I;m so happy right now this is available in MP3!!

GET WITH THIS!

Future Forces - One In The Jungle - 5/12/97

01. Dj Kane & Future Forces - Morpheus
02. Dom & Matrix - Vandal
03. Dylan - The Kombat
04. ??? - ???
05. Nasty Habits - 4 Da Cause
06. Nemesis feat DJ Kane - System (Optical & Fierce remix)
07. Ed Rush & Optical - Funktion
08. Shogun - Slipstream (Technical Itch remix)
09. Dom & Optical - Anaesthetic
10. Future Forces - Dead By Dawn (Chapter 2)
11. Legion - Deeper Still
12. Genoforce - Germs
13. Future Forces - Strontium Jazz (Dillinja remix)
14. ??? - ???

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Catacomb Updates [8-2-07]

About a week ago now, I updated the Catacomb Virb and Myspace pages with some forthcoming audio. Tracks on Syndrome Audio, PRSPCT and Cyanide are featured in the update and are getting a bunch of good feedback on all fronts. (so go ahead and check any of those links for beats.) 'Farewell', which was unsigned at the time of the upload, was instantly snatched up by Marco and Benino at Syndrome Audio. Good lookin out guys! :)

Also, 2 monster collabs have been completed with good buds from MTL, Subtone and Stalker. Interest has been instigated and a few big names have them in their hands. They'll hopefully find a good home in the upcoming weeks, so look for them in the future.

And Finally, Catacomb is now an official resident of DCS905 Toronto Drum and Bass Radio. They've recently restructured their team and weekly schedule to feature residents on a 6 week rotation. So great news, the Cata will be inside CIUT studios, every month and a half! Big up Ty and the crew!!

Misspent Music - ICR's New Home

Misspent Music is about freedom. Artistic freedom to be precise. Misspent Music is a digital label set up by hungarian drum & bass artist Zoltan Gal as known as ICR who has been a key figure in the country's thriving dnb scene, established it's online magazine and community site, ImpulseCreator.hu in 1999 and releasing on dozens of diverse labels worldwide such as Offshore, Covert Operations (incl. debut album 'Daytrip'), Good Looking, Nerve, Fokuz, Counter Intelligence, Flatline Audio and X-Tinction Agenda. His creativity forced it's way to write and self-release his personal musical diaries ('The Public Diary', 'Empty Pages') which are both acclaimed as beautiful and unique work noted from the likes of Tony Colman (London Elektricity) to Elhornet (Pendulum). This kind of deep and leftfield drum & bass barely find it's way to proper label releases but truly represents his musicality which he beleives is worth to showcase. From now on, Misspent Music is here to cater this sound and make ICR's unreleased tunes available in digital format for all of his fans worldwide! Despite his off-key sound, some of his music has lately been featured on major leauge DJ's shows like DJ Flight, Fabio and Grooverider and Marcus Intalex and thus his priority is to give his music a wider audience, focusing on vinyl and CD releases aswell. Keep your eyes peeled on both and don't miss out on his music!

Misspent Music 001
A. ICR - Misspent
B. ICR - Long For You
cat nr: MISSPENT001
release date: 2007/??/??

Shying away from the blueprint of techy liquid rollers or formulated drumfunk, ICR goes for leftfield sonic aesthetics to express his own take on progressive, positive music. 'Misspent' is a moody piece of drumandbass that sets off with an incredibly physical and epic soundscape that brings complex architecture to mind. The drumwork reclaims his Offshore affiliation with a driving yet understated b-line and sub stabs that punctuate the tune's discourse. Misspent is cinematic and emotional, a Mihalkov movie set to music of a higher form and function. 'Long For You' follows the same aesthetics but in a more optimistic, liquidy manner over a straight 2-step pattern, with instrumental elements that make this one for the sunrise crowd.

-Words by TRG

Nike Training - Summer Shift

Here's the latest Nike Training commercial that's doing the rounds here in Canada, featuring memebers of the Gold Medal Winning World Junior Team ( Sam Gagne, Brad Marchand, Karl Alzner, and First Round Picks' Keaton Ellerby and Claude Girroux) I'm posting about this because not only is it my current favorite commerical, but I was involved with it. Half of the commercial was filmed at York University, where I work. For those who don't know, I take care of the sports feilds and stadium on campus. Cutting grass, fertilizing, irragation, seeding, line painting, etc.. and in the commercial, you can clearly see the football feild lines I painted for them. Cool eh?! 8)

Noisia @ Loaded Review

Noisia played a special last minute gig at Inside last night, put on by the good people from Loaded. A mini tour set up because of a festival booking in Edmonton, Alberta on the 14th, other cities included Los Angeles, Chicago and of course, Toronto. (NICE!)

Anyways, it's been 3 years since Thijs was last here. Back in July of 2004, Earwaks threw a killer jam at Starlight in Waterloo that featured Noisia & Pacific for the first time in Ontario. (Neither were booked in Toronto for that tour) At the time, they were just starting to make a name for themselves and this was their first ever tour on North American soil. (Thijs was djing that tour) Now, as the years have past, they've gone on to achieve massive success and are in constant demand to tour all over the world for one-off gigs and summer festivals. With Martijn already booked in Holland and Hungary for the weekend, Thijs got the call. It was great to see him, catch up on things, share some drinks, and watch him kill it..Toronto dead.













Now let's get into the set. Stepped up about 1am. First 3 tracks sounded like some signature Noisia and Phace collabs along the lines of 'The Feed', baring some strong resemmblences to Tech Itch's Diagnostics LP. Heavy experimental drum and bass, borderline industrial. I was loving it! From there, moved into some hot hits of now, Teebee & Calyx - Confession, Phace - Hot Rock Remix, Spor's Toxic Shock Remix all killed the floor and T and Calyx's Submerged Remix got the rewind! Then into the breaks and the crowd was loving it! Total dancefloor smack job. 'Gutterpump' ' Yellow Brick' 'Lekker' 'Raar' and some sick new Upbeats housey/breaks thing. Slick and slippery grooves! About 20-30 minutes left, started to finish things off with some classic Noisia bits, 'Facade VIP' 'The Tide' 'Subdue' 'Bad Dreams' 'Messiah Remix' and 'Block Control VIP' (Fight Music Intro) all before 'Exodus' brought the house down. FIN. But the crowd called for more and they would not be disappointed. That long lost Noisia Remix of Pendulum's 'Masochist' was the final nail in the coffin and Toronto was layed to rest.

Fuckin baaaaaaaad!

And check this short video recorded half way through the set. No idea on the track ID, but god damn it was sick!

Mistaken For Strangers

You have to do it running but you do everything that they ask you to
cause you don’t mind seeing yourself in a picture
as long as you look faraway, as long as you look removed
showered and blue-blazered, fill yourself with quarters
showered and blue-blazered, fill yourself with quarters

You get mistaken for strangers by your own friends
when you pass them at night under the silvery, silvery citibank lights
arm in arm in arm and eyes and eyes glazing under
oh you wouldn’t want an angel watching over
surprise, surprise they wouldn’t wannna watch
another uninnocent, elegant fall into the unmagnificent lives of adults

Make up something to believe in your heart of hearts
so you have something to wear on your sleeve of sleeves
so you swear you just saw a feathery woman
carry a blindfolded man through the trees
showered and blue-blazered, fill yourself with quarters
showered and blue-blazered, fill yourself with quarters

You get mistaken for strangers by your own friends
when you pass them at night under the silvery, silvery citibank lights
arm in arm in arm and eyes and eyes glazing under
oh you wouldn’t want an angel watching over
surprise, surprise they wouldn’t wannna watch
another uninnocent, elegant fall into the unmagnificent lives of adults

You get mistaken for strangers by your own friends
when you pass them at night under the silvery, silvery citibank lights
arm in arm in arm and eyes and eyes glazing under
oh you wouldn’t want an angel watching over
surprise, surprise they wouldn’t wannna watch
another uninnocent, elegant fall into the unmagnificent lives of adults



So after a strong recommendation from EHL, The National are a new favorite band of mine. Their second album, Boxer, came out back in May and I recently picked it up. Some amazing stuff, bit of a resemblance to Interpol noted, and that's definitely not a bad thing. The first single, 'Mistaken For Strangers' has been on repeat for the last half hour here and will probably be for another 10 minutes until I retire to bed.
Check them out.



And holy shit!$$^!!@#$ does the drummer ever bare a shocking resemblance to Graham March!?!?@#$! Kelly, are you seeing this?!