S P A C I A L

http://infrasonics.net/

If you enjoy your 2-step in a ghostly kind of skeletal style not unlike the still pretty damn anonymous Burial then Spatial is going to be right up your street. Now, now don’t be going ape-shit over the Burial comparison this is just some more futuristic garage in a slightly atmospheric vibe for you to enjoy.

He dropped a 10” recently that Boomkat fell over it’s self to feature as it’s single of the week, which all at once makes me a bit weary and a bit proud. Weary because Boomkat have a habit of hyping a lot of things that just sound like basic channel and / or Burial when the mood takes them, but proud in that I had seen Spatial’s name before on dubstepforum and really dug his dubs well before I saw the wax was pressed.

Spatial kind of came out of know here with me, I just heard the dubs and though to myself now that would be nice to see on wax. Then low and behold here they come on Infrasound, which I’m pretty sure is his own venture. A nice bit of marketing maybe? Who cares you have to check out these tracks…

The 10” has the same sort of sound as the two free tracks he is giving away on his website. One is really minimal like a skeleton knocking out a 2-step beat, no I don’t mean like Skull Disco I mean like someone did a job on Horsepower and left them for glue. Then the other is like a mixture of said garage and pure soulful Detroit techno all mixed up, you know for kicks. People like Pangaea, Untold and Ramadanman do something similar at times, but Spacial has his own slant on it.

Your mind will not be blown by these tunes; they are far too subtle for that. They will just kind of fit into your listening habits with ease whether you are a DJ or a casual listener. I for one am looking forward to fitting them into a mix; they just sound like house and 2-step history combining in one 10” future garage platter.

Pick up 70707 & 80723 free of charge from here…

http://infrasonics.net/dubs/infra001

Devotional Dubz

I mostly just stole all this from dubstepforum as it came back up earlier and then I found this mix posted by Grievous Angel himself, I will let him do the talking:

The first Devotional Dubz mix is now up. It accompanies the Lady Dub release. I am grateful to FACT magazine for hosting and promoting it for me. Big up all at FACT. You can find it here.

And this is what FACT had to say:

The same way fat kids famously do cake, we love Grievous Angel. If there was ever a man you can rely upon, not just to release great music (his ‘Lady Dub’ twelve and Belief is the Enemy double album are two of 2008’s highlights) but to knock out cracking mix after cracking mix, it’s him, and that’s why we’re chuffed to have him release the first of his Devotional Dubz mixes through FACT.

As old Grievous puts it, “In the summer, [I] released Lady Dub, the first of [my] Devotional Dubz series of dubstep / dark garage refixes of r’n’b tunes, which was the counterpart to the harder ragga techno styles on the double album, Belief is the Enemy"

"‘Lady Dub’ is a refix of D’Angelo’s nu-soul classic ‘Lady‘, or rather of DJ Premier’s remix of it; it turned out to be fairly popular, helping to propel the garage revival that we’ve seen this year. It also offered a different vision of dubstep, one that reaffirmed the form’s original tolerance for sweetness and vocals while offering the biggest booming 808 sine waves I could manage. Each Devotional Dubz release will be accompanied by a DJ mix that acts as a sonic manifesto, and I am delighted that FACT has offered to host the first one. The mix includes exclusive refixes and blends of r’n’b tunes, alongside unreleased Grievous Angel garage tracks that have previously only been heard on Blackdown’s Rinse show, and some special edits of dark garage classics"

"It’s lush, it’s spacey, it’s skippy, and at the end it’s unremittingly heavy, but all the way it’s pure garage flavour. Turn it up and feel the sunshine. Volume two will be out in a few months when I’ve got some funky stuff out of the way. Thanks to FACT for the support!”It's a mix of deep space, refixed and dubbed r'n'b and garage. It's the one Blackdown alluded to in the big interview with me on his blog - a few people emailed me about it. It's probably the best thing I've ever done.


00:00: Jill Scott: Slowly Surely (Grievous Angel's Erzulie Edit)
02.20: Craig Mack: Brand New Flava (Grievous Angel's Iron River Edit)
05:19: Grievous Angel: Lady Dub
08:07: Jill Scott: Watching Me
09:30: Vaccine: Wishful Thinking (VIP Mix)
12:03: DJ Abstract: Touch
15:18: Jill Scott: Crown Royal (Grievous Angel's Fucking In Sunshine Edit)
17:07: Jill Scott: My Love (Grievous Angel's Deeper, Tighter Edit)
19:29: HorsePower Productions: Gorgon Sound
21:56: Grievous Angel: Lady Dub (2Step Remix)
25:10: Groove Chronicles: Be Happy
28:09: Grievous Angel: What We Had
31:47: El B: Bison
31:58: Groove Chronicles: Faith In You
34:13: Dru Hill: Freak Like Me (El B Remix)
39:11: El B: Two Thousand
40:34: Our Lady of Rage: Afro Puffs
42:00: Grievous Angel: I Love Dem
49:13: Ends

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