Oct 30, 2010

Stanton Warriors have been releasing loads of remixes and bootlegs recently, and if you’ve got their recent live recording from the Nottinghill Carnival Promo Mix you’ll have heard this tune first… it sounds like they’ve sampled a classic Bomb the Bass tune… Anyways enough of the chin stroking, here’s a Making Of video that they’ve put together…

Oct 27, 2010

Well it’s that time of year again, and the annual top 100 DJs poll has been weighed and measured and the results are finally in. Unfortunately there is no mention of Deekline, Stanton Warriors or A Skillz. I can’t understand why some of these DJs don’t get voted for. Every year it seems to be the same genres and DJs swapping places… but I digress… Anyways here’s the list, what do you guys think?

Oct 22, 2010

Back in the 80s boomboxes were everywhere. I remember having a metallic red Grundig one that the speakers could detatch from. Back then I used to use it to listen to music on my Atari ST or Commodore C64… check out this wicked little documentary by someone that knows more about it than me

Oct 21, 2010

Preparing You DJ Mixes For The Internet

Oct 21, 2010

Track Listing

1. Crackerz & Jam – Can You Find Me [Original Mix]
2. Crackerz & Jam – Freq [Original Mix]
3. Crackerz & Jam – Freq [Chamber Remix]

Genres: Breakbeat
Label: Dusted Breaks
Release Date: October 2010

Crackerz & Jam are back with a wicked little three track release on Dusted Breaks. This one features two original tunes as well as a remix by Chamber. First up is Can You Find Me which kicks off nicely with an old school piano riff before dropping into a nice little breakbeat driven number. It’s got enough nice little amen-esque builds in there to keep your head nodding adding variance to it’s main hook.

Next up is Freq which starts nice and calm before dropping a wickedly chunky bass hook. The bass groove on this has a nice little swagger, building and dropping quite nicely. The changes, builds and breakdowns in this mix really keep you interested right up to the end. This is my favourite tune on this release!

Chamber has provided the breakbeat remix for Freq on this release and it’s clings nicely to the original’s style and shuffle, but still allowing it to go in a different direction. The lead hook makes a few changes and twists, building into a rather manic breakdown.

Rating: 4/5