Mix Monday: DJ Shandy

Just picked up the brand new mix from Bristol garage don DJ Shandy. As co-founder of the legendary Crazylegs club nights, he has played alongside some of the biggest names in UK Bass music and, given the amount of dubs in this new mix, they’ve been slipping him some choice cuts under the counter. Exclusives from Zed Bias, Roska, Marcus Nasty and Hardhouse Banton nestle alongside bangers from the likes of Tony Williams, Geeneus and Seiji. Perfect fire to warm a rainy monday.

You can download it below or stream it directly from mixcloud here.

DJ Shandy - March 2011 Promo mix

Marcus Nasty & Soul Bliss - Shitta - Shandy special (dub)
Geeneus & Ms Dynamite - Crackish / Get Low (dub)
Champion - Lose Control (forthcoming Hardrive)
Hardhouse Banton ft. Tiger S & PSG - Sirens refix (dub)
Jook 10 - Dark Sirens (Soul Serious)
T.Williams - Getting Mine (Enchufada)
TRC & Trim - Skipping Rope / I Am (dub)
Roska - Jackpot (forthcoming Rinse)
Canblaster - Clockworks (Nightshifters)
Julio Bashmore - Ask Yourself (PTN)
Blaque Ivory - I Do (Phuturistix dub) (white)
Outboxx - Kate Libbys (forthcoming Immerse)
Ramadanman & Midland - Your Words Matter (Aus)
Seiji - More of You (Seiji3)
Sunday Roast - Occuring (Soul Serious)
Ill Blu - Meltdown (Numbers)
Andy Jay & S-Tee ft. Big Rob - Tutti Frutti - Shandy special (dub)
Funkystepz - Fuller (Hyperdub)
Tim Deluxe vs DJ Naughty - It Just Won't Do (dub)
T.Williams - Hard Cash (Deep Teknologi)
Photek ft. Robert Owens - Mine to Give (Astralwerks)
Altered Natives ft. Sacha Williamson - Believe in Me (FMM)
Zed Bias - Music Deep Inside (forthcoming Swamp81)

Jumping Back Slash: Exclusive Indlovu Iyajaiva Mix.

This week is an excellent one for Global Bass Music. Not only do we have the previews for STEAK 003 up but we've just heard that one of our very favourite labels have a new release due out on the 21st June. Pollinate Records, the London based label responsible for the killer Ibhithi series of tunes recently had been keeping a few tricks up their sleeves for this, their first full release since 2008's The Artworks Formerly known As Prints. Turns out that the Ibhithi tracks that we heard earlier in the year were just the tip of the tropical...ahem...iceberg. There's a full Ibhithi release on the way with a clutch of hot new afro-house beats as well as fattened up, remastered versions of the earlier tracks for those not fortunate enough to grab them previously.

The excellently monikered Jumping Back Slash is the man behind the Ibithi series. Hailing from the frozen tundra of Wigan in the north of England, he currently resides in Capetown, South Africa. His tunes marry the heavy kwaito grooves of his adopted homeland with a classic house sensibility and killer bassines. This is a record not to sleep on.

To celebrate the release, JBS and Pollinate have kindly given us an exclusive mix for the blog of some of the hottest kwaito and underground house tunes from South Africa at the moment.


The mix is the perfect antidote to the banality of the 'official' World Cup anthems by K'Naan and Shakira.

Grab it below and play it LOUD!



Tracklist:

Intro (Nkosi Sikelele Africa - Mahotella Queens)
DJ Tapatso - Dictionary Remix
DJ Mu Elvan - Bass To Bass
DJ Pacco - Lady Senbone
DJ Bazzy - Sun Of The Soil
DJ Mike Vs DJ Pacco - Slow Poison (Snake)
DJ Pacco - Destroyer
DJ Mike - Dzudza Mazeze
DJ Adjuster - I Am King
DJ Adjuster - Marathon
DJ Call Me - Mama, I'm Sorry




JUMPING BACK SLASH - INDLOVU IYAJAIVA [Mix for Steak House] by Pollinate

STEAK 002: Full Previews and FREE Grievous Angel Remix

Hot on the heels of STEAK 001, praised by everyone from Thom Yorke to Sinden comes another 12” of karnival heat from Hanuman and Atki2’s Steak House imprint.

STEAK 002 sees label bosses Monkey Steak (Hanuman and Atki2) take the helm to deliver a release that fuses Soca, Funky and Bashment sounds with global influences and trademark Monkey Steak edits. The result is a record that’ll blow the roof off any dance!

A1: Hyped Up feat MC Zulu is an instant party classic. Featuring the
formidable vocal talents of the original badman MC Zulu. This tune is pure Soca Fire.

STEAK 002 A1 - Monkey Steak feat. MC Zulu - Hyped Up! by Steak House Records

A2: Bombeiros! is the riddim of Hyped Up and a huge tune in its own right.
Chromatic Bass and galloping Soca Beats raise the temperature on this tropical banger. One for the Airhorns Crew!

STEAK 002 - A2 Monkey Steak - Bombeiros! (Hyped Up Instrumental) by Steak House Records

B1: Tigris Riddim. As featured on Toddla T.’s Fabriclive:47 mix. Fragments of Iraqi folk music collide with bubbling bass and tuff bashment beats. Global Bass at its finest.

STEAK 002 B1 - Monkey Steak - Tigris Riddim by Steak House Records

B2: Haarlem Drift is a psychedelic funky anthem. Dreamy synths and punishing sub bass weave themselves around a broken tribal rhythm. Featured in Chrissy Murderbot’s massive Mad Decent Mixtape.

STEAK 002 B2 Monkey Steak - Haarlem Drift by Steak House Records

As a special Christmas Gift from Steak House we're also giving away a free 320 of Sheffield Garage Legend Grievous Angel's remix of Tigris Riddim from STEAK 002. Feel free to blog this, share it, whatever. Just click on the arrow on the top right of the player. Happy Xmas!

Monkey Steak - Tigris Riddim (Grievous Angel Remix) by Steak House Records

Warrior One - DJ Mix

This mix has been on repeat for me since I first received it and its only fair that I share it because its huge! Warrior One are two producers from West London making some of the freshest and most exciting tunes I've heard in a while. Proper Karnival House heat! According the their bio:

"Warrior One is a master yoga pose dedicated to Virabhadra, the name of a fierce warrior incarnation of Shiva, who had a thousand heads, a thousand eyes, and a thousand feet, and wields a thousand clubs whilst wearing a tiger's skin. Deadly."

Their new EP (Including a fierce voicing by the one and only Lady Chann) is dropping Feb 15th on their own king pigeon label and you can grab the mix below.

Warrior One Mix



Tracklist

WARRIOR ONE FEAT LADY CHANN - KING RIDDIM
GRIEVIOUS ANGEL FEAT RIKO DAN - ICE RINK (FUNKY REMIX)
DOC DANEEKA - FUNKY BIT
RITON + PRIMARY ONE - WHO'S THERE? (L-VIS 1990 REMIX)
DOC DANEEKA - I CAN SEE (BUMP DUB REMIX)
TODDLA T + HERVE FEAT SEROCEE - SHAKE IT (DONAEO REMIX)
BEN ONONO - IT JUST WONT DO (WARRIOR ONES LOOSEY GOOSEY REMIX)
MAJOR LAZER - HOLD THE LINE (EDU K REMIX)
DJ ZINC + DAVE SPOON - GHOST TOWN (SOLUTIONS - WAS IT JUST A GAME - ACAPELLA)
ROSKA - GONE TO A BETTER PLACE
WARRIOR ONE - BAD LIKE JIMMY CLIFF
MAJOR LAZER - PON DE FLOOR
STICKY FEAT MAXWELL D - MAD MD
THE COUNT AND SINDEN - MEGA (DUB VERSION)
WARRIOR ONE - THE MACHINE
HOT CITY BASS - NO MORE
WARRIOR ONE - TURN THE MUSIC UP
PIDDY PY - GIGGLE RIDDIM
ZOMBY - EUPHORIA
GEENEUS FEAT KATY B - AS I (SKEPTA REMIX)

STEAK 002: MONKEY STEAK.

Exciting times. We've just got everything finalised for the next record and I can confirm that STEAK 002 sees label bosses Monkey Steak (myself and Atki2) take the helm to deliver a release that fuses Soca, Funky and Bashment sounds with global influences and trademark Monkey Steak edits. We've enlisted the formidable vocal talents of the original badman MC Zulu on Hyped Up! and the record also features Tigris Riddim (as featured on Toddla T's recent Fabric mix) and Haarlem Drift (as featured on Murderbot's recent Mad Decent mixtape)



You can listen to short preview clips on our myspace by following the link below and hold tight for full previews on our Soundcloud soon:

http://www.myspace.com/steakhouserecords

Oneman - Ragga Garage Mix for Hot Wuk

It seems like every post I write at the moment mentions the Heatwave in some way and this, I'm afraid to say is no exception. Gabriel Heatwave's excellent Hot Wuk night this week plays host to Streatham Bass Badboy, Oneman. To celebrate he's put together a mix of dutty ragga garage bangers including future STEAK 003 - Baobinga and Killa Benz and its bloody great! You can stream it at the heatwave site or download it below

Oneman - Ragga Garage Mix For Hot Wuk.


Tracklist

• DJ Deller - Romantic Call
• PD Syndicate & Elephant Man - Zoom Zoom
• B-15 Project feat Crissy D & Lady G - Girls Like Us
• B-15 Project & Lady Saw - Freak
• Ed Case & Sweetie Irie - Who?
• Toddla T & Hervé feat Serocee - Shake It (Martelo Funky Edit)
• Baobinga & Killa Benz - Wine Up
• Sticky & Heartless Crew - Jump Around
• Breach - Sizzla Remix
• Geeneus & Ms Dynamite - Get Low
• Richie Dan - ??
• Pay As U Go (Maxwell D & Plague) - Champagne Dance 09

Rubi Dan - Bashment Funky

The whole Bashment Funky takeover shows no signs of slowing down. People like Gabriel Heatwave (with his excellent Funky Bashment mix) and of course our own Steak House Crew have been pushing this sound hard recently. Sometime heatwave vocalist and all round bad boy Rubi Dan has come up with this latest Karnival banger alongside Juxci with the two of them spitting fire over The Bop Riddim. You can grab it below:

Rubi Dan and Juxci - Bashment Funky

Groucho Marxx - Mix and Free Tunes

A mix and some free tunes from one of my favourite producers on the scene right now. Groucho Marxx draws elements from house, uk funky, afrobeat, baile funk etc to create a sound that is altogether his own. I've been rinsing his tunes out everywhere recently and he's very kindly let me give a couple of them away free on the blog.

First up though, a recent mix that I picked up from his blog. You can grab it here:


Groucho Marxx - Deep Mundial Mix

Tracklist.
1.Andre Torquato Project-Manfrida
2.Dom Haywood-London
3.Dop-Lighthouse
4.Dj Romain-The Oneness Of Ro'
5.Franky Rizardo-Afrika
6.Suges-We Own The Night
7.Groucho Marxx-Voodoo Doll
8.Theo Parrish-Falling Up (Carl Craig Remix)
9.Richard Les Crees-Dengon (Frederik Stark Dub)
10.Blaze-Revolution Poem

Now the tunes. Funky Lagos is an afro house monster that sounds like 2 parts Masters at Work, 1 part Fela Kuti, served in a tall glass with plenty of ice.

Groucho Marxx - Funky Lagos

El Cubano combines latin keys with funky house beats and bass to devastating effect. Every time I've played this out it has gone off:

Groucho Marxx - El Cubano