LINK VOLUME 2 MIX
LINK•VOLUME•2
VOLUME • 2 • FEB.16.09
LINK:
Link • Volume • 2 [ mp3 ]
1. Chase and Status – Running
2. Anne Rani – Fall (Tech Itch Dub Step Mix)
3. Matt-U – Chase Pack
4. Sukh Knight – Tricks of Trade
5. Twisted Redemption – II Dire (501 Remix)
6. The Qemists ft Wiley – Dem Na Like Me
7. Grimelock – Glow
8. Joman – Simple Memory (Ishe remix)
9. Enei, Ka – Opium
10. Grimelock – Darkness Falls
11. Antiserum, Babylon System – California Style
12. Egyptrixx – Godzilla Bootleg
13. K-stello – Autumn Wobblez
14. DZ & Bowzer – Another Day
15. Various Productions – Hater
16. Link – Look Around
17. Saviour – Justice
18. The Widdler – Sensi Samurai
19. Trillbass – Fuckin Hater
20. L – Vis 1990 – Change That Game (Starkey Remix)
21. Primecuts – Hit That Gash (Itchy Naan Redrub)
22. Starkey – Gutter Music
23. Antiserum – Top Shottas
24. Little Jinder – Polyhedron (SUPRA1remix)
25. Nero – Bad Trip
Get ahold of Link @
myspace.com/linkdubz / link.audio@gmail.com
Who the fuck is ?mark
Mark Hamilton, the man behind ?mark, has finally assembled something of a little personal gem of an album that he’s been handing out on burnt cds in plastic sleeves. A dear friend of mine, I did a brief interview with him asking him a few questions about his inspirations, his approach to music, and what he’s got going on right now and in the future.
S: Alright, who is ?Mark.
?M: The elusive one, escaped mental patient, abstract soldier, basically a bugged out cracker who loves digging for records.
What’s the most recent gem you’ve picked up?
African Dub, Vol. 1
For your own album, have you settled on a title?
Who the fuck is ?mark
What does it sound like?
I think it’s just a funk fusion album that’s heavily inspired by real hip hop producers.
Tell me a bit about the process?
Its really simple, I chop the records in audacity, make all the beats on the roland SP404 sampler and do all the sequencing in Garage Band, 95% of the sounds come from records I found, and each track is a collage of at least 10 different sources. I make my own beaks, I don’t sample entire drum breaks.
Process aside, what’s your approach to a song?
Discipline. Making beats is therapy for me because I certainly have trouble dealing with all the evil mentalities, I make music or I’m brought down by evil interests.
Musically, what is love?
When all the politics melt away and everyone loses control collectively.
Who or what are yours main sources of inspiration?
My mom, dad, and sister. No doubt.
Musically?
Dj Premier made me want to make beats, Madlib made me realize I could. For this album it was really just those real hip hop producers like Pete Rock, Erick Sermon, the whole DITC, Dilla, Rza, El-p, etc…
Tell me a bit about the new album, “who the fuck is ?mark”
I’m a little confused about what it is myself. I guess what I can say is that its drum music, bass music is really big these days, I love it to death, but my stuff still focuses more on drums than anything.
You’re doing something on the 27th?
My first DJ gig in over 2 years, my album release, positive vibes. Please, check all negative vibes at the door.
?mark – Stillism [mp3]
Details for the ?mark album launch night: Friday February 27th at the Global Village down at Spadina and King St. For more information about the album or the night, contact getonthegoodfoot (at) gmail.com
Sensoria Presents – BRUNCH (The Morning After) // Coffee // Orange Juice
Good enough to dance with us,
Good enough to dine with us!
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Lets get together Sunday morning (so like 2pm) for BRUNCH! Cheers to shaking off our hang overs, filling up our bellies, wiping the crust from our eyes, and telling tall tales of the night before.
I don’t know where we’ll go, or how many we’ll be, I guess we vote on it here.
Yih yih!
Taste – One of the senses for our sensoria.
E-mail me at sidenote (at) sensoria . me for details if you want to come or check out the facebook details. There may be a lot of people so maybe we’ll find a place thats dense in Brunch joints and take over the neighborhood.
Last Temptation for pints, pool, and free foosball afterwards.
Electric Sound Basement Shout
Steve does things like, pretend a subway station is a petting zoo! I love him.
Our super spectacular Sensoria friend Guy Stevos plugged our party away on his CIUT 89.5 show yesterday and even put up our flyer on his blog. Guy Stevos has been doing the Electric Sound Basement for six years, a show he started at CFRC in Kingston when he was just a Queens Film undergraduate student. Steve actually gave me my first gig back in 2003 on his radio show. There was no slipmats to be had at the station, so I had to use rubber mats! Imagine trying to cue records on that when you’re already nervous and sweating? We talked a fair bit about the drum n bass scene in Toronto and its inability to dish praise out to its locals. It’s nice to know Toronto is giving more respect and love to its locals than ever before, in every scene.
Check out his show every Tuesday from 5-6pm EST CIUT 89.5 online or if you have one and are in Toronto, a radio!!
Download his latest show ESB09_2_3.mp3.
TRACKLIST
ALEXANDER III VS THE FLASHBOYZ – Party After Party (Scott Seewhale Remix)
ROY DAVIS JR – I Have A Vision (The Juan MacLean Remix)
MANSION – Sanctified
TMDP – Glades (Barletta’s Galactic Mazer Fix)
UNDERSHOWER – Killer Sexy Guy (The Twelves Remix)
SEBASTIEN TELLIER – Kilometer (Aeroplane Italo ’84 Remix)
CFCF – Crystal Mines
ESSER – Satisfied (Egyptrixx Remix)
BOMBAMAN – Look Behind You
LA ROUX – Reflections Are Protection
LA ROUX – In For The Kil
SIDENOTE VOL 1 MIX
Sidenote Vol 1
Sidenote – Vol 1 [MP3]
VOLUME • 1 • FEB.1.09
SIDENOTE:
1. HxdB – Showdown at the Cinema
2. Headhunter – In Motion
3. Pinch – 136Trak
4. Villalobos – Minimoonstar (Shackleton Remix)
5. 2562 – Walkover
6. Von D – Truth (Forthcoming Black Acre)
7. Shut Up & Dance – Epileptic (Martyn’s No Strobe Mix)
8. Ican – Camino Del Nino (Martyn Remix)
9. Christian Martin – Elephant Fight
10. Roel H – Dancing Bears (Phil Kieran Remix)
11. Modeselektor – The Black Block (Marcel Dettmann redefinition)
12. DJ Mujava – Township Funk (Ashley Beedles Africanz on Marz Reedit)
13. Benga and Coki – Night (Geeneus Remix)
14. DJ Technic – Gabryelle (D-Malice Refix)
15. Kode 9 vs. LD – 2 Bad
16. Kevin Saunderson – World of Deep (Jesse Rose Respect to Detroit Remix)
17. Esser – Satisfied (Egyptrixx’s on your knees remix)
18. Squire of Gothos – Bounty Ice Cream
19. Movado – Weh Dem A Do (DJ Absurd Refix)
20. A Dominant Species – Its A Feeling (Reso’s Bi-Polar Remix)
21. L-Vis 1990 – Change The Game
22. UNKLE – Restless (Fake Blood Remix)
23. Boy 8 Bit – Fog Bank (Jack Beats Remix)
24. TRG – Broken Heart (Martyn DCM Remix) – /Die
Sat. Feb 7. 2009
Sensoria is a music and multimedia event that has caught a lot of buzz in very little time. – Denise Benson ’09
Sensoria | Augusta House | 152 Augusta Ave (Dundas & Augusta) | 10pm | $10
Music: DJ G (San Francisco) | Loetech (Toronto) | Sidenote b2b COI (everywhere) | Visuals: Quim (Little Farm, France) | Videocake (Toronto)
SENSORIA invites you back to the Augusta House on February 7th for an unforgettable evening promising sensational bass and eye-widening visuals. The night showcases DJ G an up-and-coming dubstep artist fresh from San Francisco. He has tracks out on record labels including Full Melt Recordings, Narco Hz. Loetech hail from Toronto and are comprised of XI and Matt Carl, two fuckheads that drop some tunes for you to skank on, they are the owners of a broken keyboard. Joining them will be Sidenote and COI b2b presenting the deepest of dubstep.
Video visuals by Videocake and Quim. Prepare to lose your conceptions of flashy geometric lines, because Quim’s VJ’ing takes homage to Brakhage and Videocake defies boundaries.
Ill.Gates’ album Autopirate
Personal friend and family of Sensoria, ill gates’ new album Autopirate is out and getting great reviews.
read ‘em here:
EYE WEEKLY – by Denise Benson
NOW MAGAZINE by Benjamin Boles
and EXCLAIM
you can listen and buy it [HERE]
DEC 6. TORONTO
SENSORIA invites you back to the Augusta House on December 6th for an unforgettable evening promising sensational bass and eye-widening visuals. The night showcases a dual album launch party for Philadelphian grime don Starkey’s “Ephemeral Exhibits (out on Planet µ, Nov. 24th) and rising Torontonian artist ill.gates’ “Autopirate” (out this fall on Muti Music) with both Dubslingers and Subtrac representing Toronto bass music scene in full force.
STARKEY (Planet µ – Trouble & Bass)
“I operate on the fringes of dubstep, like Vex’d, Darkstar and Joker. So much music nowadays lacks melodies, that’s why I stick out I think.”
Starkey is undoubtably Philidelphia’s finest dubstep / grime / bass artist and the latest signing to Planet µ. In the 2008 grime and dubstep arena, Starkey is a gleaming bright anomaly. Whereas so many producers’ default mode is darkness and gloom, Starkey’s music is saturated with upbeat colour, and through melody he harnesses a powerful, alien rave energy seldom heard enough. His latest remarkable beats are definitely going to get you bouncing and we’re excited to have him here in Toronto. Recently, he was featured on BBC Radio One through the Mary Anne Hobbs’ “Bass Generation” show – a huge honour. For a monthly dose, be sure to check out the show he hosts on “Seclusiasis Radio” every 1st monday of the month on SubFM.
ILL GATES (Muti Music) W/MASIA ONE & MEESHA
ill.gates is not so much an emerging artist as an emerging moniker of an established producer creating a new alias. ill.gates, of Toronto, is also known for his productions as the incredibly popular ‘The Phat Conductor.’ He is one of Canada’s leading underground exports, holding it down since 1995 with gigs as far as Switzerland, U.K., N.Y. and the legendary festivals of Burning Man of Black Rock City in the desert of Nevada and Shambhala Music Festivalal in the rainforests of British Columbia. His wide range of style covers all genres from dubstep / hip hop / glitch hop / electro / techno / breakbeat /dancehall / d’n'b / IDM.
http://www.thephatconductor.com/IllGates-SpeedLimit.mp3
http://www.thephatconductor.com/ill….ate-teaser.mp3
http://www.mutimusic.com/2/news/arti…ist-ill-gates/
BOMBAMAN (Subtrac, LoDubs)
Also known as Matt Carl, the other 1/2 of Toronto’s groundbreaking dubstep duo Loetech w/ fellow production wizard XI. Co-hosting their weekly “Streamizm” radio show Tuesdays 9pm – 11pm EST, Bombaman has dropped 4/4 electro-tinged sub-bass bombs on Lo Dubs, Aufect Recordings, and Dubplatelet, with upcoming releases slated from LA Dubstep Nostra, Lo Dubs and Badman Press. With his original tunes played on the regular by luminaries from Diplo to Rusko and Trouble & Bass, his in-demand remixing skills have subvertized hot product from Syntonics, Alias, Egyptrixx, DZ, Solvent, Alias and Times Neue Roman.
SEK ONE (Subtrac, Curbcrawlers)
Serving up puffy-doughed dubstep wobblers, blissed-out minimal techno delicacies and sugar-shocked microwave popcorn, Brandon Smith’s Subtrac-affiliated dubstep alter-ego wears many chef’s hats well. Self-proclaimed “genre-agnostic” yet devout sound missionary preaching a taste-making techno gospel via his influential blog thecurbcrawlers.com and its associate fine-tuned dance events and web-esthetics.
JAWBONE (Dubslingers)
Pacifist killa soundboy DJ-producer of ragga-jungle since 1995. Founding resident of Dubslingers and host of Toronto’s longest-running weekly dubstep event, Thymeless Wednesdays, you must by now know Grant McKeown. Respected for his tried-and-true commitment to community-building, Jawbone is renowned for his signature ragga-dubstep sound influenced by heavy amen d’n'b with rich roots-reggae bass, melodic vocals and aggro-toasting. He treads softly in camouflage while wielding a big heart and a deep crate to wax you philosophically. A ladies’ gentleman and a rudeboy’s artillerist, Jawbone is stag, wedding, and apocalypse now.