Feel my Bicep

MCDE is on fire. We cant get enough of him, seriously amazing quality control with his productions. This is no different, all the emotion and rawness he usually provides and some more. We still haven’t dropped Raw Cuts #1 from the record bag, never mind #3 or #5…shit and the bassline remix of DJ Sprinkles isnt going anywhere for a while. A friend of mine said his music is almost like a love child between Burial and Moodymann! Big words to get spoken in the same sentences as Moodymann, but i do admit that he is one of the finest producers out there right now.

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Here’s a little mix I did for Halloween a few years ago, with lots of nice eerie ethereal interludes. It was off the cuff with no prior tracklisting worked out, so a little hit or miss in places, but the mixing and some of the tracks are nothing short of inspiring. ;-)

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1. Ennio Morricone – Paranoia Prima

2. Redshift – Ether

3. Rainbow Brother – 818_323_01

4. Bagarre – Dirty Love

5. Burial – Raver

6. Redshift – Heaven is a Turquoise Avenger

7. Dynarec – Secret Tactics

8. Poni Hoax – Antibodies

9. Redshift – Nails

10. Cabanne – Can’t stand

11. The Chemical Bros vs. Primal Scream – Don’t fight control

12. We are Wolves – Fight and Kiss

13. Flower Travellin Band – Satori

14. Ghost – Kiseichuken

15. Mark Shreeve – Storm Column (ha ha ha)

I have also included some random samples by ‘NednedPlay’, ‘John Carpenter’ and other bits and and pieces

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When sent this track a couple of years ago I never knew it was produced by the dubstep Don himself…at the time I was ripping it over minimalish tribally style techno, thinking it was like some darker M83 or something. Pretty Epic…Everything about it is great, the pong synth with the pitched up vocals and the dark atmosphere reverb-ing on top. Less beats please!

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Melodic tech-y track new from Kompakt, charming bells resonate throughout the track keeping it pretty chilled whilst being upbeat at the same time. It reminded me slightly of the Burial/ Four Tet collaboration, but more like Gui Boratto meets Pantha Du Prince. “Sum” also on the B-side is an awesome deep, dubby track, really smooth and grooving…with a good helping of delay action.

Coma- Reprise

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Coma- Sum

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Hate the word “dubstep”, it makes me think of cheesy electro house wobbly bottom beats. For me I like the top ends, the shuffling aspect of tunes in this dub, dub techno, dub- whatever the fuck genre…There is some great tunes out there with tones of producers creating and improvising to great effect, but in my opinion there is no one better than Burial. I have loved all of his productions, with this EP one of many highlights. His style is very crossover friendly and so a lot of people can relate to it. South London Boroughs actually reminded me of  Kenlou- the Bounce (one of my favorite tunes), when I heard it for the first time.

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