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Monday, February 25, 2008
----- Suff-x -----
Suff-x AKA Bryce Elder has sought to push the boundaries of breakbeats in the Pacific Northwest for over ten years and also been featured at gigs alongside Uberzone, Terry 'Atomic' Hooligan, KiloWatts, Tipper, Radioactive Man, Ben Milstein, Kraddy, Dov & Bil Bless and many more luminaries of the breakbeat / electro scenes.
His connection to Muti Music began with a 'Virus Crew' gig that Muti owner 'Dov' played at in 2002, there meeting the very unique and standout talent in the form of Suff-x.
This chance meeting resulted in a few years of back and forth with Suff-x coming down to San Francisco to be featured alongside Radioctive Man AKA Keith Tenniswood, Dov & Kraddy venturing up to Portland and Seattle to play with Suff-x and Terry Hooligan and then sharing the stage that Suff-x put together at the Phoenix Festival that also featured Ben Milstein and Dave Tipper.
In the picture Kraddy, Terry 'Atomic' Hooligan, Dov and Suff-x 'post-gig' in Seattle
Suff-x shows up at gigs with what looks like a regular DJ coffin and when he opens it up reveals one of the most unique live setups most people have seen, setting him well apart form most 'laptop' live sets and DJs alike.
His armada of gear includes two samplers, X/Y controller pads, DJ mixer and a multitude of little gadgets that blink, glow and glitter in nightclub settings.
He juggles tracks, effects, broken tidbits, squiggly snippits, and boogie-down basslines off of his dual samplers set up in battle-style fashion, giving a nod to his turntablist counterparts--the majority of which wouldn't keep up versus a "scratch mode" session on his korg kaoss mixer!
Suff-x Live @ Someday Lounge Portland, Oregon, scratching to his track ' CyberFreq' out on Muti Music.
After Drum & Bass white labels and digital releases on So Broken records, 2006 saw the release of his CybersetFreq & Electro Medicine EP on Muti Music and has gone on to receive huge support on dancefloors domestically and abroad. His track 'Phantasm' was featured on the widely acclaimed compilation CD Clipping Paths. Hear 'Phantasm' featured on the Youtube video of Suff-x playing Live below:
2008 sees Suff-x delving into even more diverse genres, while always keeping it bass-driven and urban.
His new EP, 'Suff-x - Six Pack EP' (Muti012), kicks off with a Dubstep outing,'Belmont Break' and then rolls into the bass and percussion driven Drum & Bass track 'Trunk Nuggets' and from their into deep breakbeat, electro and back into two drum & bass tracks to close things out, this EP is a good taste of even more to come from this diverse producer.
The EP comes with awesome cover art from Phidelity
Suff-x Myspace
Suff-x Affiliations: Virus! Crew (PDX), Muti Music (SF) File Under: Breaks, Drum N Bass, Dubstep, Glitchy Electrobreaks
Free Download (limited period link): Suff-x - CyberFreq (Muti007_a1) 320 MP3
Check out more Suff-x Live performance and 'scratching' in the videos below:
More Suff-x 'scratching' :
Monday, February 11, 2008
an-ten-nae 'Dark Side Of The Dub'
Dust storms and bio-diesel generators vibrating amongst a haze of awe, exaltation, celebration and emotion, bass blasts out of a mutant vehicle set up at 'no-where in particular', roughly lining up between 3.15 and 'The Man' and near the snake sculpture, a crowd moshes and bounces to bass-driven, crunk mutations of something that must be dance music, by the fact that people are clearly dancing to it.
Justice - Nazereth tears the sound system a new portal and the systems grinds down to a shreak, radio waves pulsate through the air and a PA announcement,"You are listening to an-ten-nae radio 91.1FM." This is 'an-ten-nae' AKA Adam Ohana, bringing it amongst the likes of Freq Nasty, Adam Freeland, Lee Coombs, Glitch Mob and many more dance music luminaries at Burning Man.
We have featured his remix of 'Elixir' in our blog last year but feel that it is time for a more extensive look at the man who is as likely to be rocking designer fashion line launches in Tokyo as he is festivals around the globe and freaky scenes across USA.
Adam has more than 10 years of recording history and releases on a plethora of labels including; Functional Breaks, Superstition, Ceiba, Edgecore, Sessions, Return To The Source, Positiva, Pyramid Records (UK), Moonshine, Transient, Big Booty and of course Muti Music amongst even more and a few white labels too. He has as many aliases and styles to match the output and has proved a production maestro to be taken note of.
Adam currently produces as 'an-ten-nae' and is also one part of 'Orgasmotron', 'Ruined' and 'D'n A'. His remixes and mashups make his sound and his sets as unique in sound as they are in flavor, he's been known to classify past sets as 'Punk-Rock-Country-Hop' and the sound he's dropping now could loosely be classified as 'Dubstep' and 'Glitch Hop' fused into a bass-driven twisted dancefloor crunk that leaves little option but to get down a groove to.
An-ten-nae has used his musical vision to influence the San Francisco nightlife scene for more than a decade and resulting in him revitalizing super-club 1015 over the past 3 years and more recently launching a broader production company that produces some of the most dynamic nightlife events in the San Francisco Bay Area.
So after all this verbose praise we feel we have to share his latest mixset outing called 'Dark Side Of The Dub'. Keep your ear to the ground in 2008 (or just watch this space) for his new series of releases on Muti Music including remixes from the likes of Lawgiverz and Dov.
AN-TEN-NAE - DARK SIDE OF THE DUB
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1. Pink Floyd - Breathe/On the run (an-ten-nae remix)
2. Puppetmastaz - an-ten-nae remix
3. Bob Marley - Exodus - (an-ten-nae remix)
4. Damian Marley Vs Scuba - Culture United - (an-ten-nae refix)
5. Noble Society - The Swarm
6. Skream - (an-ten-nae mashup)
7. loefah vs sizzla - Obstacles (an-ten-nae refix)
8. an-ten-nae ft samba - Griot
9. Modeselektor - let your love grow
10. Mad world - an-ten-nae remix
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Dov - 6th & Fairfax Radio Show (Proton Radio)
We thought we'd share a mix that Dov did for Proton Radio's 6th & Fairfax show in November 2007. The mix includes the forthcoming Muti Music gem of a remix that the Lawgiverz did of an-ten-nae's 'Destroy The System' (Muti011). The track will be dropping at online retailers in February 2008.
Download: z share link
:: Tracklist ::
1. D'nA - Elixir (Si Begg Genome remix) - Muti Music
2. Proxy - Din Dah - Turbo Recordings
3. an-ten-nae - Destroy The System (Lawgiverz remix) - Muti Music
4. Unique 3 - Rocks The Bass (Si Begg Warehouse remix) - Fat Records
5. Ursula 1000 vs Sista Widey - Step Back (Deekline remix) - ESL
6. Apollo 440 - Dude Descending A Staircase (Stanton Warriors Remix) - Skint Records
7. Backdraft - Nicotine - Botchit & Scarper
8. Unique 3 - I'm The ... (Gella Remix) - Fat Records
9. Ils - Burn Again - Botchit & Scarper
10. Long Range - Vultures Over Croydon - Lee Coombs remix (CDR)
11. Sam Hell - Bone Snow (Dopamine Remix) - Sinister Recordings
12. Noisia - Yellow Brick - Division
13. Beat Assassins - Play The Game - Mofo Recordings
14. Spoon Wizard - Shoe Monkey (Tom Real Vs The Rogue Element Remix) - Functional Breaks
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Ghislain Poirier's Bastard Bass Mutations
Prior production includes work for labels; Institubes, Intr_version, 12k, Scape and Resofantom.
His 2003 and 2005 albums, 'Beats and Politics' and ‘Breakupdown’ on Chocolate Industries helped break the mold and his latest outing, No Ground Under(ZEN138CD), was snatched up by none other than Ninja Tune and is setting a new standard for wompy, bassline bounce driven tracks.
The popularity of midtempo and also what many breakbeat fans would call half-time (ala dubstep tempo) tracks is booming and somehow I feel we have barely scratched the surface. Albums like No Ground Under, the forthcoming Freq Nasty album, 'The Missing Channel' and the work that Switch and Freq Nasty have done with Santogold, are taking this interpretation of dance music to a level not yet defined.
This 'new' use of bassline driven urban beats without rigid genre boundaries is only about to bloom.
Add to all that the rapid growth of the US west coast "Glitch Hop" phenomenon with artists like 'Kraddy' and large electronic labels like BPitch Control (Berlin based) with producers 'Modeselektor' and 'Apparat' and some labels like 'Colony' in the UK and of course Ninja Tune, who've quietly been plugging away for years at fusing Hip Hop beats with IDM and the electronic music scene's dance-floor vibes, all embracing more sound design elements in dubstep, midtempo breaks, soca and bassline house.
The future looks very bright for those who like basslines to bounce to.
For a sampling of what the future holds, check out the mix that Ghislain Poirier very generously put on his website featuring samplings of his latest album, No Ground Under:
MP3:> Ghislain Poirier : “Bastard Bass”
http://www.zshare.net/audio/6265785991fc7e/
1. “No More Blood” [ft. Face-T]
2. “Road Ride Riddim”
3. “East Montreal Riddim”
4. “Propaganda Riddim”
5. “Exils” [ft. Abdelhak Rahal]
6. “Dizzee Rascal: “Fix Up, Look Sharp (G. Poirier Remix)”
7. “City Walking” [ft. Abdominal]
8. “Hit & Red”
9. “La Ronde”
10. “One Hand Can’t Clap”
11. “Bounce-moi”
12. “Robe Riddim”
13. “Ladies & Gentleman” [ft. Ambitieux, DJ Netik]
14. “DJ C / Zulu: “Darling (G. Poirier Remix)”
15. “Go Ballistic” [ft. Zulu]
16. “Outkast Riddim (G. Poirier Refix)”
17. “Blazin (DJ C Remix)” [ft. Face-T]
18. “Blazin” [ft. Face-T]
19. “Pampa Pimp”
20. “Mangnen l’boulé” [ft. Nik Myo]
21. “ESG Riddim (Ghislain Poirier Refix)”
22. “Diaspora”
23. “Bunji Garlin & JMC Triveni: “Doi Festival (G. Poirier Remix)”
24. “Jusqu’en haut” [ft. Omnikrom]
25. “Lil Wayne: “Dopeman [ft. Birdman] (G. Poirier Remix)”
26. “Pour te réchauffer” [ft. TTC, Omnikrom]
27. “Close The News”
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Clipping Paths Compilation
Clipping Paths is a compilation showcase of the sounds that are moving the west coast at the moment as well as many other areas around USA, including small pockets in Colorado, Texas, Oregon and New York.
The CD ranges from deep urban vibes from Suff-x, Undecided and Vibesquad, to ethereal bass-driven tribal midtempo and Trip Hop from an-ten-nae, Nanda, KiloWatts, Timonkey and Dov, to a crunky mixed genre mid-tempo track from Ooah, that is sure to rock most dancefloors, but deep enough at the same time to prove the perfect segway heading into the deeper territories of IDM, Leftfield and Nugaze inspired tracks from Audiovoid, Kraddy and Slidecamp ending the CD in a very warm and luscious space.
Many of the styles featured have been growing in popularity and seeing large exposure with the emergence of a similar musical tastes in scenes growing in Berlin, San Francisco, London and even Cape Town. This 'newer' sound has partially been an homage by producers to the Hip Hop and Big Beat along with early experimental electronica that they loved in the nineties and bootlegging the hyphe and crunk of the new millennium with the new digital tools and a new production based prowess.
Muti Music is known for finding new and unique talent, this compilation features most of Muti's regular roster and then a group of closely related artists that we are feeling, who are also emerging on labels like Alpha Pup, Interchill Records, Dirtybird and Native State.
This compilation is as fun for a come-down session, a groove and a mingle, a fire warmed cabin or even a hang on the beach, so go and get it for someone for the holidays.
By MutiCD004 (digital or CD) here:
Also available on all major download outlets including iTunes
Monday, December 10, 2007
an-ten-nae on the map
It's been out for a month or so, but we thought we'd share one of our tracks that has been gaining quite a lot of support on Podcasts, online radio and review sights.It's one of our labels key players 'an-ten-nae' doing a remix of our D'n A - Elixir release (Cat # Muti010).
If you're not familiar with an-ten-nae, he's a multi talented producer who's done everything from techno, trance, downtempo to narly breaks and very tasteful crunky beats. His mashup remixes on his 'Punk Rock Country Hop' mix saw wide acclaim and he has seen support on highly acclaimed labels Functional Breaks, Superstition and many more including Muti Music.
Discography Adam Ohana
Discography an-ten-nae
His latest mixes on tour have been rocking floors alongside the likes of Surkin, Freq Nasty, Z Trip and many more with a uniques blend of midtempo breakbeats, dubstep and 4 to the floor bass-driven beats that will rattle most genre classifications off the shelf. At one stage an-ten-nae was named by Adam Freeland as the American breaks artist to look out for.
an-ten-nae has a whole slew of tracks coming out on Muti Music in 2008, including the forthcoming Muti011 release which includes a remix from the Lawgiverz.
Adam Ohana / 'an=ten-nae' is also the man behind San Francisco's most musically diverse and most consistently well attended club nights 'Get Freaky', which has burst the seems of many a smaller night club in San Francisco before finding a home for the larger nights at San Francisco super-club 1015 Folsom
Download his remix on Muti010 here:
D'nA - Elixir (an-ten-nae 's Baltimore Remix)
By Muti010 (digital or vinyl) here:
Also available at all major download sites.
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