Posts by Oliver
Jacques Greene – Tell Me (Kingdom Edit)
By Oliver | February 24, 2011
Jacques Greene is 21, loves old school R&B, 90′s UK garage, and running his snares through a really low-cutoff filter, which means he’s a perfect candidate to be the next brooding heartthrob among the ranks of James Blake, Mount Kimbie, Koreless, Dark Sky, Burial, etc. However, his debut EP, which came out in December on the Lucky Me imprint of the same-titled Scottish artist collective, is anything but dreamy. “The Look” straight up swings like some circa-’92 London pirate radio fodder, four-to-the-floor kicks, pitch-bent shakers, bubble-bass and all, which if anything, just goes to show how much relevance the 2-step sound still has today. On this edit, Kingdom tackles the most sonically abstract composition on the EP, bringing it back to NYC.
Pick it up at RCRDLBL.
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Stagga – Genik Riddim ft. Skamma & Joe Blow
By Oliver | February 15, 2011
Stagga’s been pumping out OG dubstep for awhile now, and he’s got the testosterone-fueled death wobble sound on lock. However, it wasn’t until I encountered tracks like Rub On Ya Bass Binz and Face Gets Splat that peripheral interest became pure, unadulterated love. This new collab with Joe Blow and Skamma is a propa chune, bruv. It’s nice and minimal, but with a jerky, off-time quality to the rhythm that makes the producer’s moniker all the more appropriate.
If you happen to be in London on the 26th, you can see the trio live at Corsica Studios with a bunch of other awesome names in bassline, grime, dubstep and bashment. See you there.
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DJ Orion – Animus EP
By Oliver | February 15, 2011
Thank the good Lord for the internet. Now that we can Ustream basement grime parties in Shoreditch from the comfort of our New York apartments, find Shangaan electro music vids on youtube, and get a hold of fresh cumbia techno joints made by adolescent boys at the same time they drop in Monterrey, there’s not a lot of real detective work left to be done for most DJs. Borders between genres of dance music are starting to blur as their auras of provinciality deteriorate with exposure, and classifications like “global bass” and “tropical” are being taken seriously, for better or for worse. As a DJ, one way to respond to this chaos is to take a purist attitude: to let juke be juke and reggaeton be reggaeton, even though that Tego Calderon track would sound really sweet with triplet toms and an 808 hi-hat roll over it. The other way to go is to just surf the post-modern wave into the electro hyperreal, slapping whatever the fuck sounds awesome together and hoping things turn out alright in the end. That’s what DJ Orion has been doing for a while now. His new “Animus EP” cuts up 3ball guarachero and heavy wobble dubstep, and splices them together into a bass-crazed Frankenstein monster. It’ll either induce involuntary booty-shaking or an epileptic seizure. Either way, it’s going to make you move. If you like this, check out his bmore/cumbia “Carajo Colombia EP” as well.
via Ghetto Bassquake
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“Turn It Up” and “Westside” Riddims
By Oliver | November 28, 2010
So, that time I sold my soul to the devil for a Kaoss Pad and a pair of KRK studio monitors finally came back around and collected on my karma debt by having every piece of technology I depend on stop working at once. Now I’m back up with a new Macbook Pro (big up Ma and Pa dukes) and I’m slinging two new yard rhythms that brought me through the upper-middle class whiteboy crisis of figuring out how to DJ the Tribeca Grand without my computer. I’m assuming the irony in this situation is obvious enough.
Anyways…
Special Delivery Music‘s “Westside Riddim” is a classicly epic dancefloor instrumental with blaring synthy horns and an 808 kick that still retains some reggae syncopation and bounce. It’s stacked with some awesome names on the album. Here’s the full riddim mix and I Octane’s cut.
Mad House Records are good peoples too. They’ve got Baby Cham and Spice signed, which demonstrates their excellent taste in deejays if nothing else. The label’s “Turn It Up” riddim is a straight up club catalyst–clean, bare bones, and to the point. I actually tried listening to this without dancing, and the riddim won. Cham’s “Tump Mi” (haven’t yet figured out exactly what that means) features Timberlee and vies with Bounty Killer’s paranoid gangtsa “Enemies” for hottest track on the release.
(Bounty Killer actually uses the term “hunky dory” on this)
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Electric Sea Spider – Mohican Beats EP
By Oliver | October 27, 2010
Everyone has their own take on how the independent music industry (if that’s even an appropriate term anymore) is going to sustain itself in this new decade. Some people say artists will make most of their money touring. Some people claim they can continue to support themselves with record sales–most of those people aren’t artists. Up-and-comings leak their EPs first, let the internet media dust settle, and then take them to the distributors. And then their are those reckless few who just release everything for free and feed their empty bellies with blog love and compliments. They are lying on cots in their mothers’ basements like 19th century Russian consumptives, smoking Top tobacco and smiling into the pallid glow of their Macbooks. Jim Sellars, the young Australian behind Electric Sea Spider, is one of those people (except for that last part, I’m just speculating). This new release has taken the producer away from the reverby emotional lethargy of “The Thief” (2009) and the trippy ambiance of “Fear God Fear Satan” (2008) and “In Lucid Dreams” (2009) toward a more funky post-Dilla stumble that could be matched up with the likes of Baths and Slumgullion.
Listen to this track: Electric Sea Spider – “Milk Bar”
Then cop the EP for free on Mine All Mine Records.
p.s. you can grab his last two releases on the same site until 4pm today
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Sammy Bananas – “My Body”
By Oliver | October 1, 2010
I’m not so sure about this guy’s name, but he’s definitely got a couple other things going for him. For one, he produced this song. He’s also on Fool’s Gold. And he actually rocks the full mustache with melancholy grace and dignity, or at least he does in this picture. Just peep that lugubrious gaze of windswept heartache.
My mind is telling me yes, but my body’s telling me yes…
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Busy Signal Jumps On Owl City and Alphaville
By Oliver | September 28, 2010
So, I don’t know where Busy Signal is getting all of these instrumentals, (one could imagine him running through the halls of Warner Brothers, a woman’s stocking pulled down over a his face, a sawed-off in one hand, and a burlap sack full of studio tapes slung over his shoulder). I can’t think of a single other artist in hip hop, dancehall or reggaeton who so avidly jumps to voice over the dubs from just about anything that blows up on the radio. Let’s just say, “Big up Owl City” is not a phrase you hear every day.
Below are some of his newest contributions, in order of brilliance (“Between The Eyes” takes the cake)…
Busy Signal – “Between The Eyes Mix”
Busy Signal – “Jamaica Love Mix”
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DJ Hause N’ Benz aka Hot City – “More Girls”
By Oliver | September 27, 2010
I kind of slept on this but this is a track I think people should be grabbing from this site if they didn’t already lift it off some other blog last week.
Hot City, under the alternate moniker of “DJ Hause N’ Benz” ran the acapella off “Too Many Man” from Skepta’s 2009 album, Microphone Champion, and slipped a trademark plastic housey rhythm underneath. So, they basically took a grime track about a sausage fest, and turned it into a song American girls will actually be able to dance to. Much respect.
DJ Hause N’ Benz – “More Girls”
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Mount Kimbie – “Serged” (Headshotboyz Edit)
By Oliver | September 17, 2010
It’s amazing what a little bass drum can do sometimes. Headshotboyz take the elements of Mount Kimbie’s wallowing sentimental soundscape, line ‘em up to a no-swing pulse, nail them together with some friendly quarter note kicks, sprinkle in a little egg-shaky-shaky and SHAZAM… You can dance to it!
Mount Kimbie – “Serged” (Headshotboyz Edit)
(sorry kids, it’s 192 kbps)
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Some Things to Dance to From The New Guy.
By Oliver | September 9, 2010
First off… hello.
My name is Oliver and it will be my pleasure to be the newest inductee into the Palms Out clan/underground militia/secret occult fraternity. I am 20 years old, I have brown eyes, and an eleventh finger hidden in a special place on my body. I use it to hold my loosey cigs. The rest is classified.
Since this is my first, I am going to do a little super-post, starting by shamelessly throwing up a track I just got on XLR8R, who apparently got it from Fader, but it’s definitely worth a re-re-visit.
Lazersword’s Batman is the first peek into what their upcoming self-titled LP is going to sound like. (Sources say it’ll be out Nov. 2). While maintaining their signature glitchy vibe, they undoubtedly jumped into the same post-garage/dubstep/UK funky/fuckoffwiththereductivegenretagging salmon stream, which has left heavy wobble and giant ear-shattering snares behind to pursue quick, cutty syncopated hits that dance over ethereal and whispery synths and moaning female vocals. These days, it sounds as if the women who used to sing from the front line in popular bassline and garage tracks are now just standing in some far corner of the room, trying to get a word in. I dig it.
via XLR8R
In a more club-friendly vein, Bambounou’s remix of Redux and Maelstrom’s “Wide Open” is a heavy swing funky banger. You can listen to clips of all the songs from the “Wide Open EP” on at Maelstrom’s soundcloud.
Redux & Maelstrom – “Wide Open” (Bambounou Remix)
via Discobelle
Also, Lady Saw, one of dancehall’s major (and most physically intimidating) female stars released her new album, “My Way”, yesterday. You can also taste-test to the whole thing here.
She released one single for a limited time for free in which she explains the extent of her financially security and sexually alluring anatomy. What does she do with these positive attributes? What else? Party for a really, really long time.
Lady Saw – “Party ‘Til December”
Finally, also from Jamaica, Chimney Records just dropped the Sex Appeal Riddim and it’s got some big names on it. The video below shows all the cats voicing over this one and of course, Bounty Killer is the best and most mesmerizing in the video. Movado’s verse isn’t on the video for some inexplicable reason, but here’s his track below…
via Shimmy Shimmy
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