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SUBSTANCE - SAT 10 MAY 2008

BEN PEST LIVE! Victim Records
THE WEE DJS LIVE! Touchin Bass, Input-Output, Penalty, Gassoline, SCSI-AV, [k]rack-troni[k], Noodles, etc
GAVIN RICHARDSON Substance

http://www.myspace.com/edinburghsubstance

THE WEE DJS (LIVE!)

Producing electronic music since 1992, DAVE BEING aka the wee djs is responsible for an enviable body of cutting edge electronic music. He has had numerous respected releases on the likes of Gassoline, Penalty, SCSI-AV and Input-Output, with a fantastic 2006 album 'Fear and Lothian' on Andrea Parker's Touchin' Bass. In addition, Dave has remixed for the likes of SILICON SCALLY, SI BEGG and TWO LONE SWORDSMEN. Recent appearances at this years BLOC Festival and on MARY ANNE HOBBS' BBC Radio 1 show have underlined his well-earned, solid international reputation, broadcasting to many what some have known for a long time...

An excellent producer, his live set will be tough, gritty, mashed up electro (sub) bass. Very dark, very original, very dancefloor.

New remix of Andrea Parker feat DJ Assault and DJ Godfather 'Freaky Bitches' out soon...
Check out www.thismachineisbroken.co.uk or Myspace for audio downloads [and further information].

Now I wish I had both or even all three of the night's sets, but I don't. I'm pretty sure Dave Wee recorded his own and that means Gavin and Pest were on their own. Unfortunate, but from what I gather this set was a highlight of the night so at least

Download: Wee Djs @ Substance

Bleep 113 is a dually. Not only is it a Bleep show, but it's also another entry in the 'Clearly Smudged' mix series.

CS 1, CS 2, Bleep 52 / CS 3, Bleep 76/ CS 4

The Clearly Smudged mixes are not really planned out. I think only one of them has been actually planned in advance so far. Clearly Smudged is just the category I stick a mix in once I realize it's chock full of Chunky Tech and Bleepy Funk. They're on the 'fun and bouncy' side of things as opposed to the bam, bash and tweak.

Aside from the free downloads there isn't much to share with this one. I guess Steph wanted to drop some tracks on us without any hassles.

I don't really know anything about 'Russian Techno'. From what I can tell is that it's a new(ish) crew of guys who live in Russia who also like good Techno. New(ish) in the sense that only recently they've started making a noticeable effort to branch outside of their homeland with their sounds. I'm pretty sure they've been plugging away for years upon years at home. I think the 'Russian Techno' web-site, digital label and now podcast is just their newest concerted effort to get Russia some Techno attention.

Anyway, I've already mentioned the first release on their label by Vadz. Now that the podcast is running along and sitting at episode two I thought I'd give it a bump so you didn't miss out. Episode one is a mix by Vadz, which I posted a few weeks ago. It was the space themed electro mix --as you may recall-- so I wont give the details on that one again. The second episode however is by Dj Serotanine and it looks like a great mash up of No Future versus the world.

Here's a little mix up of some good stuff you should all put in your ear holes. It's the first thing I stumbled across after coming home from work today and it's looking like I'll be listening to it while searching for more....

Mark recently visited Russia for a gig and has wrote up a pretty in-depth travel report on his site. I've also got the audio now. So read on while you download the goods. Be ready for this thing though. It's a nasty full head on set of classics both old and soon to be.

Trip Diary | Download Set

It's finally here! After we don't even remember how many months of fuckery, gl.tch & Systematik bring you our long awaited collaborative debut. For the first time ever, DJ Stud400 & Dr. Dur-A-$ell lay down a non-stop audio assault of real 80's electro, bassline breakin', miami bassin', ghetto-techy goodness for your speakers.

It's not often I find something from the local crew that I dig. They all tend to like different stuff than I (or we..) do here at Murky HQ. That's both good and bad for a myriad of reasons. Variety is needed or else we're all up shit creek, but I would like to be able to go out and hear some stuff that I enjoy more often. Or at least have the option.

These two guys have cooked up one of those options...

Alec Storey has been making quite a name for himself in techno & electro circles since his debut release on Kracktronik back in 2006. Renowned for his no-holds-barred live shows (which often incorporate stunning demonstrations of his considerable skills as a drummer), he has also been making considerable progress in the studio, with new equipment and new techniques. The 'Troglodyte EP' is a distillation of all these things and more, and although calling it 'refined' might be stretching it a bit (it's not called the 'Troglodyte EP' for nothing), it's certainly fair to say that he has honed his sound into a near-perfect combination of brutal beats, bowel-busting bass, and mind-mangling sound design ...all presented at slightly-higher-than-normal tempos, guaranteed to get the pulse racing. For remix duties we called in two heavyweight producers! Carl Finlow (aka Silicon Scally ) has been turning out immaculate electro, house and techno for over 10 years now, with releases & remixes on such respected labels as Mute, Warp, Playhouse, Satamile & SCSI-AV . Here he turns Troglodyte into an off-kilter, but driving, electro workout full of twists and turns. Kracktronik fave Volum doesn't disappoint either...he drops the tempo and increases the spook factor by a few notches, and as always his intricate programming reveals layer after layer of nutritious electronic brain-food. Catch Al playing live at upcoming dates in Bristol & London, or live to regret it ;-)

Alec doesn't have too much out there an under his belt compared to some, but those of us who dig his stuff are out there and [K]rack-troni[k] has seen fit to deliver another EP from him. Silicon Scally and Volum supply remixes of the title track and I think both of the remixes will get heavy rotation. The Volum Remix is my preferred --of the two-- and he's also someone I want to hear more from...

Once again Vadz scores points with this awkwardly named EP on Russia's Secret Weapon Digi-label. I need one of two things to happen in the future though. I need Vadz to get some of his stuff on vinyl or I need to find a free cdj. Either of those two would suit me fine as I'd be able to do more than just listen to the damn tracks.

From the site...
Release features: 1) Swedish Electrotom's 'Color Climax' erotic theme, juiced and squeezed into a kind of electic-bolt-style dancefloor-frendly techno tune; 2) An electro-greeting from Ural Mountains - Chelyabinsk-based guy calling himself Mal turned a good old 'Spider Man' track into a pure mental weirdness; 3) Holland's 'Underground Liberation' pride - DJ Ritzi Lee's heavy-weight track 'Crushed & Twisted' - really turned into a massive mechanical stomper under Vadim's hands; 4) South Russia live electronic duo Rabitza's warm-and-floating version of 'Punktire' track - ah, a perfect robot chill-out style!

Another Thursday, another Bleep.

This is the last of the batch of pre-recorded sets I've been working through. As of next week any shows done by myself will be on a new mixer. One without so much noise. I'm glad and you should be too.

This week's Bleep has some stuff in it I hadn't touched in ages. Soon to be more stuff dug out of hiding soon too. A 'music room' re-tooling was done last week and while moving the records off of the old shelves and back onto the new ones I re-discovered a healthy amount of stuff that had been lost and forgotten.

In a pretty short time span Cane has been pretty busy. Unfortunately the sound they're cooking up is losing a bit of it's edge. Out of the 8 tracks on this Double EP I only really enjoyed the title track [Non Fiction], but honourable mentions definitely go to the finale as well [Ynau].

If you were a fan of Aux 88's Direct Beat stuff be sure to check out the title track on this one. You wont be disappointed!

I was first told about this EP because of the Jimmy Edgar tracks on it. They were supposed to be uber dope or something. I think the Richard Devine remix of the Funkstörung track is what makes the EP though. It's what I'm buying it for anyway.

I don't normally post too much production oriented stuff here, but at the same time I don't have anything against doing so. It's just not at the top of my list of priorities.

I'm a fan of the stuff that Verthex Scratch has been doing lately so when he asked if I'd mention his newest project involving sample packs he has made I said of course!

Updated: May 19th, 2008
Four new samples packs have been added. "Mnml data Vol.2", "GTL Vol.2", "Digital Breaks Vol.3" and the first part of a completely new series "Dubstep Vol.1". Over 120 new premium loops in Wav and Aiff file formats ready to use in your tracks.

Again, if this is your cup of tea, go for it. Verthex wouldn't steer you wrong.

Shortly after I posted the notice about the Ntrop Recordings release with the Sutekh remix on it [ntrop 12] I was contacted by someone with something to do with Ntrop. Apparently the post and this site had been discovered by them and they were interested in Bleep Radio.

Now I'd never heard of Leon Segka before so I needed a mix of his to hear before I ok'd anything. This is the mix I was given. It's in the 'minimal / tech house' vibe that everyone goes ga-ga over right now. But it is not the same old stuff everyone else is boring me with. It's got a mid 90's chunky acid house feel to it. it's not full of big sweeping melodies that make you wonder how the Progressive act sneaked into the Techno arena. I've actually been listening to it quite a bit in the last week and I am excited to see what he puts together for his Bleep Radio show.

Now I don't have a tracklist for the mix and all I recognize is one .Xtrak track off of Todd Sines' newest EP on Yore, but not knowing much about it won't preclude you from being able to enjoy it. Hopefully as much as I did.

Electrode takes place in Manchester. These two live-sets were recorded at the party that took place in April just passed. I don't know if these are the only recordings from the night, but I do know that they are the only ones I've got to share. I'm pretty sure they're going to be enough to hold you over.

There's a lot of dirt in this week's Bleep. It starts with possibly my favorite Landstrumm track and works through Jason Leach, TSR, BeNi, Paul Birken and Steady-P only to be interspersed with only a few breaks of ...well Break beats. There area couple bass-line clashes at one point that probably only a fraction of you will notice, but I'll apologize for those anyway. Such is the odd occasion when things are done in one take.

Enjoy!

When it comes to Acid House I spent years virtually ignoring anything new that came out. It lacked that raw energy that the first wave of Acid had. It seemed to have been watered down and made too homogeneous.

Relatively recently though there have been a few people who know what's up and they've been putting out some stuff that revivals the summer of love's best. This mix isn't all new stuff. I don't know if there is enough good new stuff out there to do as much as I'd like, but this is an excellent assortment of the next generation of acid heads mixed with some of the lesser known tracks of yesteryear.

This comes courtesy of Brian Shelton who's had some of his mixes posted here before. Because he likes good music too!

The second release on Jean-Louis' new label for his Brommage Dub material is due soon. I can't seem to find an actual street date or too much info on it, but I'll keep my eyes and ears peeled and update as need be here.

I actually grabbed this as it was posted by one of the Digital Distortions fellas a few weeks ago. I then promptly forgot about posting about it until now. 'Volum' if you do not know is Jean-Paul Bondy. The most recent mention of him here on Fun in the Murky would have been his latest LP on Compost.

"Something, something is not right..."

It's a great mix which works it's way from about 90 bpm to a full on dance floor jam session by the half way point. I don't know for sure, but I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that it's all original material. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong...

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Acid Offspring", Buried In Time's 4th release, is a project that came out of several jam sessions on vintage Roland gear with label mates Ignatius and [SiK]. The hours of material were narrowed down to several tracks that will see the light of day sometime. However, there was a lot of material that was good yet not quite a complete idea. This material was chopped up into a 200MB sample pack that was shared with 11 producers who all used those samples to come up with a track. The result touches on many genres and moods with in electronic music.. from hip hop head nodders to 4/4 bangers and psychedelic electro to less accessible dense electronic mangling and processing. The final tracks yield a surprising cohesiveness and flow that avoids cliches and yet is not endless wankery for its sake. Artfully packaged in a standard digipack.

They really do touch upon a lot of different styles and moods on the one CD here. I was more partial to the up tempo bits of course. Tracks 3, 8 and 9 are my picks on this bad boy. Solid Electro and Bloopy acid takes.

Super Magnet is Oliver Rosemann and Jens Porath and in this 24 minute video they're doing their thang.

@ MonoMental | FitM Mirror

Norman´s new appearance on Snork Enterprises is splitted into two parts, the Snork10A and Snork10B.
With the "First continuous e.p." he continues his cool sound on Snork Enterprises.
Snork10A is starting with two powerfull tracks from Norman and an additional remix from Tom Clark.
Norman brought you the great Feinwerk08 and Feinwerk14 in his steppin´ Kassel style. He was influenced a lot by the famous Stammheim Club, when he played there as resident DJ and he also released on the Hörspielmusik Label which was connected to the Stammheim Club
Side A starts with "Stars and Stribes" which will be one of the next summer techno hits. This catchy tunes great melody supported from a well working rhythm should push the crowd on all of the ucpoming festival events and becoming an earworm.
Also on side A, there is the additional production by Highgrade´s Tom Clark who brings a kind of dubby Berlin influence to this track. Watch out for the actually Highgrade Labeltour, if Tom or others are in your famous club!!!
Side B is Norman´s full playground for two floorstompers like people know from his other well known and remembered releases before. This is techno!!!

The LP would have been enough to hold me over for quite some time, but here's a new Braincell EP as well. Hopefully this is something Cari will be keeping alive. No more dozen year breaks.

Contrary to my goal of playing some more older stuff I ended up throwing together fairly recent records again. I've never been that good at planning these things out so maybe I should just stick with how I've always done it... loose and off the cuff.

Remember the Dance Mania mixes should be in by May 31st, 2008.

And as far as Bleep news goes Leon Segka is putting together a mix. Leon is from Greece and is the founder of Ntrop Recordings. He approached me about it and I only had to hear an odler promo mix of his once to know he'd fit right in. It's looking like it'll be a great blend of jackin' minimal, chunky tech house, bleeps, stabs and twisted vox from him. So keep an eye out for that show!

Martyn Hare, perhaps better known as the guy who does those rockin' Emetic EPs has a new project underway. It's a Techno mix of all his own tracks. You can download the tracks for free or purchase them as the Dj mix. Kinda cool... That same idea, but with more than one artist involved is exactly what is needed to spread the love far and wide.

"To the Flo" & "I Ain't Yo Baby Daddy" feature raw ghetto chants over
Slugo's unmistakeable sound. "Big Booty Hoes" and "If Ya" make their
debut in unmixed format since featuring on the acclaimed "DJ Cutlass
Supreme Present's UK Bass" Mix on Novamute. And then, to top it all
off, we are honoured to announce two tracks originally released on the
legendary Dance Mania Records and now available for the first time in
re-mastered digital format.. Yes, it's THAT track, Ghetto House Anthem
"Cardboard Booty" accompanied by the long sought after "Higher Than A
Mutherfucker". To accompany this classic collection are remixes from
WIDE Records founders DJ Cutlass Supreme & Debasser.

The shame that is a lack of new Dance Mania releases is almost made up for with guys like the Alan at Wide and the rest of the Wide crew doing what they love. Which is partly this...

The Funckarma brothers are back again with another of their dark acid side projects. This time around it's on Oscar Mulero's 'Warm Up' label. If you're expecting an electro-ish number like their last EP think again. This time around Cane unleashes something that would have sat quite at home about --12 years ago-- in an acid set by anyone coming from the Netherlands.

Jens Porath selected and then mixed together this here promo mix for the MonoMental crew. It features mostly Oliver Rosemann tracks, but there is some Jens, Super Magnet (Jens & Oliver) and others as well.

Monomental >> Downloads
Grab it from their downloads section on their web-site.

When it comes to House releases that I enjoy it always seems to be one of two labels these days. .dotbleep or Robsoul. Of course it's the Chicagoan nature of them.

The title track on this Ep by Brazil's Prztz has some potential. When the big stabs first roll in you think it's going to go somewhere pretty bumpin. However, nothing really develops and it just struts around. Five Days of Funk feels similiar to me, it's Bling that I think I'll be playing around with the most. Maybe it's that retro Fm synth that hooked my ear. My ear has been known to be easily lured into new things by things that aren't. We'll see if it holds up once it's in my possession.

Jacob London return to Dotbleep with a wicked EP of wonky trademark house music that joins the dots between Jamie Lidell and the fidget house crew.
Remixes come coutesy of Oliver $ representing the UK and The Sound Republic republic representing Chicago.

It's been a few releases since I took a shine to a .dotbleep record, but I don't mind. When I take into consideration the fact that the few I have I can't stop playing everything is focused nicely.

Jacob London continues on with their Squirrel them. Whatever that may mean. All I know is that the Utensil EP I've got with other 'Squirrel' tracks is some pretty sweet cut funk that makes it out to House and Techno events.

There are a lot of number increases this month. Everything for page requests to failed requests. I suspect it was because of the extra live-set activity on both those counts. The failed requests were not for non-existent or moved files as in previous months so I guess the nearly 30 gigs of transfer per day is something my server struggled with (finally!).

It's been rather light on the new releases of late so more live-sets have been posted than normal. As much as I enjoy sharing those with you all. I would much rather do more new release/re-release type posts. The Techno has been lightest of all, but there seems to be an bump in the amount of Bleepy Tech House and Chicago oriented House. I've got my ear to the ground as the hunger for some new oddball Techno is pretty damn strong right now.

It's been ages and a day since we had a new Hand on the Plow record to enjoy. I guess good stuff like this either takes time to make or they're procrastinators like the rest of us.

Bit of both I suspect!

Because they're good folks they're even giving away one of the tracks as a download. ideally you'll listen to it while your copy of the record comes in the mail.

HotP article with download

I've realized just recently that there are a solid handful or two (or three) worth of records I've kinda glossed past after getting them. When 20 records or more arrive at the same time some stuff invariably gets less attention than the rest. So for the next few shows I'm going to try and work my way backwards through the last few months and see what I've gone and skimmed past. Not exclusively mind you, but enough to catch up on missed gems.