UH OHHHH!! Now we've done it!! A new year and a slight change in direction for BASS GUN with E.P No. 12 : GET BITCH OR TRY DYING. Whether you like RAVEY, 'ARD AS NAILS BREAKSTEP, STONE-COLD ELECTRO, ABSOLUTELY RINSIN' TECHNO or SKIPPY, ATMOSPHERIC DUBSTEP then this E.P answers YES to all the above. Kickin' off the E.P is label father SMASHBACK's BRICK SHITHOUSE : a pitch-bending rave binge which switches from breakstep to dubstep in the twitch of an eye with the added WOB factor on the bass which kicks in halfway through. TEUTONIC's RHUBARB RHUBARB is bursting with veggie goodness, packed full of Vitamin C and bursting at the seems: RIPE!!! Speaking of vitamins, last of the original tracks is from newcomer VITAMIN: an English gentleman from Scarborough whose already well known for his MC work on SMASHBACK's BOOTY BOUNCE track on WIDE RECORDS. His track GROUP JOB is just a taste of the tough sound that you can be sure to hear more of this year.

to compensate for the caps usage in the press release i'll stick to only lower case letters. as usual, i'm enjoying the teutonic kaboom remix the most. she seems to have a taste that makes my ears grin, although the vitamin track is solid too. i don't exactly have complaints about the rest. nothing that really matters anyway. too fast for my liking or using those wobbly mid range bass lines that seem to be springing up again are my chief irks, but i'm sure plenty of you enjoy the tracks for those very reasons. if that's the [lower]case, then you'll find this bass gun digi release right up your alley. go nuts and enjoy!

I met 'Little Liquidize' last year via Myspace. Yes, Myspace is actually handy once in a while. I checked out a few of her broken beat Techno sets and offered her a Bleep spot right away. Flash forward to about 2 weeks ago when the guest mix finally arrived courtesy of a mutual friend (Marcin M.).

The order that arrived in the ol' mailbox today is from Juno. It's just a wee little thing of only four records. I don't typically make large orders from Juno, but I do use them once in a while to fill in the gaps.

Mark Hawkins has put together another set under his ### moniker. It looks like it spans a good chunk of time and styles and will probably benefit anyone who needs a Techno set to listen to while sitting in the sun.

I had mentioned the Luke's Anger set plus interview over at the Fenchurch site without realizing that there were even more goodies sitting there right beneath my nose. Debasser, Michael Forshaw and Ben Pest, alongside some others as well, but those are the ones I'm grabbing.

Not exactly full length sets it seems, but even 20 minutes of mostly new Ben Pest was enough to make my day.

Dave Shades recorded this mix for his regular night "Mount Heart Attack" and has another recorded especially for Bleep Radio. This one will have to hold you over though as Bleep had a sudden spurt of excellent guest mixes pop up and it may be 3 weeks before his airs...

One of my favourite distributors has a booth at this years Bloc festival. You like music? Check em out.

Cultivated Electronics is a label that seems to be putting out Electro that's right up my alley. None of that 'electro house' stuff that should be ashamed of itself for the way it's redefined the word Electro. Just good, solid, beats and bleeps. Sync 24 seems to be one of the residents at large for the label and I'm glad for it. Him and Matt Whitehead were only found by me/fitm because of their contribution to the label and it's been appreciated so far.

Today being 3-03 is the driving force behind the Acid House theme in this week's Bleep Radio show. I would have missed that small coincidence entirely if it wasn't for Malcolm noticing it and bringing it to my attention some 2-3 months ago.

Acid is what snared me and began my interest in electronic music. My very first experience with it was on a local radio station back in the 90's called "Energy 108". On that station Richie Hawtin's old "Transmissions" radio series was aired and Terry Mullan was the first show in that series I caught. To this day I still appreciate it. It was shortly after that I began finding my way to parties in Toronto to check this stuff out first hand.

And now we're all here. Bleep bleep.

Scott Robinson has been popping his nose up in places lately. The latest of which is Mark's Singals From Southwark podcast. It's a live set so there's no tracklist supplied and apparently it's similar in content to a recent Berlin set Scott played. Check 'er out.

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