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Aug19

Azari and III and Friendly Fires “Stay Here” (MP3)

There are simply no words to express how beautiful, cool, wavy and fresh this track by Azari and III & Friendly Fires titled “Stay Here” is. This song is part of Bugged Out! Presents Suck My Deck which Friendly Fires mixed. The release features cuts with people like Redshape, The Egyptian Lover, Bot’ox and many more. I love what sounds like a Donkey Kong inspired conga break. I’m going to have to bust out my wig and ball gown cuz this songs got my heels on fire! You can pre-order this release over at Rough Trade

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Mar11

Martyn: Unifying The Grooves Worldwide

A conversation about electronic music, then, now and everywhere. 

The dancefloor is an ever-changing world that twists and turns night by night. With so many different rhythms taking over parts of the world, it’s becoming increasingly challenging for DJs to put things together fluidly in sets. Enter producer and DJ Martyn. Born in the Netherlands and based in Washington, D.C., he spins a clever of mix of everything from classic New York house and Detroit techno into “post-dubstep” and funky tunes. Melding his own “Martyn music” with the current sounds of mutated dubstep, extraterrestrial funky house and tribal drums, Martyn makes sure his tunes are just as immersive as his DJ sets. When he was approached to do Fabric 50, he took the idea of shifting the mix into his own mind and putting out the sounds he loves. Needless to say, Martyn is a fantastic DJ and producer, and makes sure whoever is listening will hear a history of music–not just the now. He took some time to speak with URB about his current musical endeavors, his love for classic tunes and how he’s never been to Detroit–until DEMF 2010, of course.

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Jan25

Sonic Router: Suburban Sine Wave Surfing (Video & MP3)

Dubstep Prospects in 2010 

For some, the start of a new year means a fresh start, a smattering of new beginnings and the welcome opportunity to suppress any previous personal woes and move on to better things. For others, though, it’s simply business as usual, whether it be another monochrome day in the rat race, another shunt against the omnipresent recession or another day spent at home pointlessly filing paperwork and eating yoghurt in your underpants.

The real beauty of 2010’s forthcoming operations for some dubstep labels, though, is the ability to disguise their fierce forward motion as regular operation.

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Dec22

Sonic Router (Video & MP3)

Suburban Sine Wave Surfing 

As it stands right now, on the eve of 2010, bass music is a beautiful mess. Stretched and tortured by numerous influences and the possible avenues for producers to take, its become splintered but, in the same way the T1000 glooped back together in Terminator 2, it constantly manages to gel to its roots, evolving away from its half step/atmospherics in what seem more like ellipses than cycles. And whilst London remains somewhat of an epicentre for many of dubstep’s microcosms, other bubbles of ingenuity have sprung up around the globe with keen producers and promoters ready to move with the ethos of dubstep and put their own distinctive slant on the sound.

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