And so we reach the end of the year and the obligatory retrospective edition. This year we’ve opted for a slightly different format, bringing together our three regular shows – RIPL, RIRS and Rhythm Incursions – into one bumper 3h edition that looks back at our favourite music from 2011. With each of us selecting one hour of music, this end of year show features primarily music and tracks which we’ve previously aired as well as a few additions culled from releases and/or artists we’ve supported this year.

We start with the Rhythm Incursions mix presented by Laurent which features a mini feature on the label of the year which is Keysound Recordings, the London label headed by Blackdown. Despite having had a fairly quiet year in comparison to other labels, Keysound’s put out three outstanding albums from Damu, LV & Joshua Idehen and Sully, as well as a handful of 12″s that have all been featured on previous shows and been staples of many sets. As the adage goes quality not quantity and while it’s true that this has actually been a busy year for the label we feel that they really deserve the accolade. Alongside Keysound, the mix features regulars from the past year as well as our favourite releases including Om Unit, Shabazz Palaces, Slugabed, EAN, Kode 9, Yosi Horikawa (with his track from the Nihon Kizuna compilation), NastyNasty, Mark Pritchard under both his solo and Africa Hitech aliases, Machinedrum, Sepalcure and 1000Names.

Primus Luta meanwhile also showcases his favourites – many recognisable from his own 2011 shows – in his mix. A straight up one hour mix with no talking it features some of this year’s best releases from both the electronic and rap world with the likes of 2562, Busdriver, Kendrick Lamar, Blk.Adonis, Welder, Shigeto, Lorn, Siriusmo, Madlib and Dibiase, DRC Music alongside Om Unit, Sepalcure and Sully who all make additional appearances.

And as for Raid System they opted to do another top 20 countdown of their favourite tracks of the year, though this time it isn’t live. Their mix starts with a short run down of our Nihon Kizuna release as well as Broken Haze’s joint EP with B.Bravo before getting into their top 20 for the year featuring many of the artists and labels they’ve been supporting including Joker, Nino, Rustie, Hudson Mohawke, Funkystepz, Zdot, Bobby Tank, Toddska, Starkey, Daniel Haaksman, Knight Riderz, S-Type, Munchi and more.

So there you have it, 2011 the year that was. As always a big thank you to all our listeners and fans, all the labels and artists and a special thanks to everyone who has kindly donated via the Nihon Kizuna compilation we put together while in Japan in March this year. We’ll see you in 2012 with the first show of the year our new BLN.FM syndication, the first of which is curated by Raid System. It will air live on the first tuesday of each month before being podcasted both here and on the BLN.FM site. Before that though there’s one more guest mix, part of our Friends of Friends mix series dropping on New Year’s Eve – it’s a surprise one so be sure not to miss.

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Laurent’s mix [Running time: 00:00 to 69:50]
Yosi Horikawa – Passion – Nihon Kizuna
EAN – Clever Carl – Finest Ego
Kode 9 & Spaceape – Am I – Hyperdub
Goth Trad – Babylon Fall – Deep Medi Musik
Africa Hitech – Gangslap – Warp
E.S.T – Ajar (Klic’s Unofficial 2step edit) – Unreleased
Mini Feature – label of the year ‘Keysound Recordings’
LV & Joshuya Idehen – Northern Line – Keysound
Sully – 2hearts – Keysound
Damu – Ridin’ – Keysound
Mini feature ends
Jonwayne – Progstep – Alpha Pup
The Phantom – Artic (Devil Mix) – Senseless Records
Slugabed – New Krak Swing – Ninja Tune
Andreya Triana – Far Closer (Live) – Ninja Tune
1000Names – Milky Plastic – Project Mooncircle
Pritch & Trim – Kiss My Arse – Planet Mu
NastyNasty – Jelly – Rwina Records
Jneiro Jarel – Balada45 (Brasilian Girl) – Mochilla
Mo Kolours – Biddies – One Handed Music
Samiyam – Wonton Special – Brainfeeder
Com Truise – VHS Sex – Ghostly
Om Unit vs Kromestar – Merkabah – Cosmic Bridge Records
Baobinga & Jack Sparrow – Trans-Pennine Express – Build Recordings
Danny Brown – Die Like A Rockstar – Fool’s Gold
Adam F – Circles (Phillip D Kick Footwork Jungle edit) – Free download
Krampfhaft – Spit Thunder – Saturated Records
Machinedrum – Fantastix – Planet Mu
Sepalcure – Yuh Nuh See – Hotflush Recordings
Lorn – Stranger – Hoya Hoya
Nicolas Jaar – I Got A Woman – Circus Company
Shabazz Palaces – Free Press and Curl – Sub Pop

Primus Luta’s mix [Running time: 69:50 to 123:00]
Om Unit x Lorn – Obsidian – Free download
Kuedo – Truth Flood – Planet Mu
Raffertie – Twitch (It Grows & Grows) – Ninja Tune
The Black Dog – Greedy Gutter Guru – Dust Science
Siriusmo – Feromonikon – Monkeytown Records
Sully – In Some Pattern – Keysound Recordings
2562 – This Is Hardcore – Doubt
Sepalcure – Breezin – Hotflush Recordings
Helixir – Cooly Groove – 7even Recordings
Blk.Adonis + Rizzla – GO STR8 vs SO FINE – Self-released
Eligh & Amp Live ft. Busdriver – L.A. Dreamers – Legendary Music
Kendrick Lamar Ft Busta Rhymes – Rigamortus (Remix) – Free download
Dibia$e - Deep Winter – Self Released
Adrian Younge – Sirens – Wax Poetics
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – Deep – Stones Throw
Small Professor – Chappelle Show Back – Self Released
DRC Music feat. Ewing Sima of Tout Puissant Mukalo – African Space Anthem (A.S.A.) – DRC Music
Shabazz Palaces – Swerve… The reeping of all that is worthwhile (Noir not withstanding) – Sub Pop
Blue Daisy ft. Stac – Only For You – Black Acre
Welder – I Still – Weldersounds
Shigeto – Self Compassion – Ghostly

Raid System’s Top 20 of 2011 [Running time: 123:00 to end]
1. Nino – Buio Omega – Donky Pitch
2. Rustie – Ultra Thizz – Warp
3. Zdot – Fire Bars (Remix) – Catapult
4. Taz – Hedge your bets – Rwina Records
5. Opiuo – Moose Tooth – Additech
6. Kavsrave – Your Love – Tighten Up
7. Daniel Haaksman – Bomba feat. Roxxxy Bione (NEKI Edit) – Free download
8. Virus Syndicate – Your Life (Funkystepz Club Dub) – Safe and Sound
9. Knight Riderz – Drop This – Seclusiasis
10. S-Type – Found (ACP Remix) – Free download
11. Drums Of Death – Cold Lazarus (Starkey Remix) – Civil Music
12. Hudson Mohawke – Thank You – Warp
13. Toddska – Cowboy – Girl’s Music
14. Bobby Tank – Needing Me – Vermin Street
15. Munchi – Paperchase – Rotterdam Juke
16. Rustie – Hover Traps – Warp
17. Baobinga & Hyetal – Anything for now – Build Recordings
18. Schlachthofbronx – Backup Run – Enchufada
19. Joker – Lost – 4AD
20. Blawan – Bohla – R&S Records

Brand new show from Primus Luta taking a detour from the usual selections with a theme that looks at the links between noise music and the beat. I’ll let him explain:

Toward the end of last year I went out on a limb and made the prediction that noise would become a player within the music we’ve all come to love. Having conquered rhythm, deconstructed melody and on the whole redefined the relationship between sound and music within the realm sequences, I saw the next frontier for the beat. Not that noise is new at all, or even new to beat music. In fact there are direct links between the beat scenes we see today and noise, particularly when one takes into account the history of industrial music. But what I hoped to see in 2011 was a full on embrace of noise as a primary element in beat construction, and to put it simply, I am quite pleased with the results. This set is a reflection of this past year and how different artists have taken to and utilized noise in their work.

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Tracklist:
Mark Fell and Peter Rehberg – Zikir – Editions Mego
Cut Hands – Rain Washes Over Chaff – Susan Lawly
Yves De Mey – Resonating Red – Modern Love
patten – Rubylith film – No Pain in Pop
Funckarma – Grone – Funckarma
Rrose – Pointilism (Variation Two) – Sandwell District
Miles – On The Fly – Modern Love
Venetian Snares – Where You Stopped The Heaviest – Planet Mu
Sun Araw – Trireme – Sunaraw
Danny Drive Thru – Prescience – Mind On Fire
Blue Daisy – Raindance – Black Acre
Andy Stott – Posers – Modern Love
Ras G & The Alkebulan Space Program – If U FEEL (No Ego)
Kuhn – Stone Skipper (S Mahabra Remix) – Civil Music
Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Beans & HPrizm – Going To Another Place – Thirsty Ear
Dem Hunger – Squint Fucker – Vlek
Demdike Stare – Caged In Stammheim – Modern Love
Pinch & Shackleton – Monks On the Rum – Honest Jon’s
Laurel Halo – Head
G.H. – Ground – Modern Love
Emptyset – Tangent – Subtext
Byetone – Opal – Raster Noton
Richard Colvaen – Polimetria – Vlek
Actress – Harrier ATTK
Downliners Sekt – rising saudade – Self Released
Xhin – This Is What You Drew While You Were Half Asleep – Stroboscopic Artifacts

We wrap up the month of October on the spookiest day of the year with a much delayed RIPL edition. While not actually tied into Halloween at all, this show Laurent’s Rhythm Incursions podcast which will instead go out in the following week due to some delays with travelling and work.

If you’re feeling fed up with all the Halloween spookyness overdose, this month’s RIPL will provide you with a perfect musical antidote as Primus Luta runs through some of the most exciting releases of the last month including new music from Kuedo, Slugabed, Blue Daisy, Plaid, Krampfhaft, Ras G, Rustie, howse, Gescom, Ekoplekz and Andy Stott among others! This month’s tracklist perfectly summarises what’s been a busy autumn and what will be a just as busy winter music wise.

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Enjoy!

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Tracklist:
EOS – F.O.W. – Unreleased
Blue Daisy – Shadow Assassins – Black Acre
Freestyle Fellowship – Government Lies – Decon
Modeselektor – Humanized – Monkeytown Records
Krampfhaft – Congo Blade Runner – Rwina Records
Ras G & The Alkebulan Space Program – Disco 4000 – Poobah Records
DJ Shadow – Run For Your Life – Universal
Plaid – Upgrade – Warp
Raffertie – Twitch (It Grows & Grows) – Ninja Tune
Rustie – Cry Flames – Warp
Altered Natives – My Game My Rules – Eye4Eye Recordings
The Black Dog – Heavy Industry – Soma Records
Conforce – Lonely Run – Delsin Records
Luomo – Form In Void – Mood Music
patten – Fire dream – No Pain In Pop
Boom Bip – Automaton – Lex Records
Kuedo – Onset (Escapsim) – Planet Mu
Slugabed – Dragon Drums – Ninja Tune
Andy Stott – Bad Wires – Modern Love
Gescom – Seventh Stone Triangle – Skam shop
Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Beans & HPrizm – This Is For My Brother The Wind – Thirsty Ear
DRC Music – Customs (feat. Bokatola System) – DRC
Ekoplekz – Arkrite – Mordant Music
Old Apparatus – Zebulon – Deep Medi Musik
howse – resin – Astro Nautico
Samoyed – Maybe Yes – Astro:Dynamics
Robin Hannibal – Voltaire – Plug Research
Robot Koch – Bugs – Project Mooncircle
hectic zeniths – then and now – Self Released

Bit of event news for you to announce that Rhythm Incursions will be repping at an amazing event next Friday, September 23rd, in London at the Corsica Studios in Elephant Castle. The event is organised by Tempo Clash who have recently established themselves as fine purveyors of beats and bass in London with some great free parties at the Rhythm Factory with the likes of Om Unit, Kid Kanevil, King Cannibal and more.

The guys are stepping up their act with their first paying party at Corsica next Friday featuring two rooms of the finest electronic sounds London has to provide and we’re very honoured that we’ve been asked to do a set in room 2 for the occasion, alongside the mighty Seiji and Offshore!

The line up includes Kromestar, Kid Kanevil, Blue Daisy, Slugabed and Naive Machine in room 1 alongside Seiji, Offshore and Laurent in room 2 – you know this is going to be a party to remember.

Full details are below including links to advance tickets which are still available for £7. Regular listeners will be no stranger to any of these artists as we’ve aired and supported their music regularly over the last few years and you can expect to hear some seriously amazing live shows and DJ sets on the night. And if you do come down come say hello!

Big thanks to Open Sauce (who are hosting room 2) and Tempo Clash for the invite!

When: Friday 23rd September, 2011
Where: Corsica Studios
Tickets: www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?282307
FB event page: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=266984313315131

Line Up
Room 1 [beats/bass]

► KROMESTAR (Bass & Love)
► SLUGABED (Ninja Tune)
► KIDKANEVIL (First Word)
► BLUE DAISY (Black Acre)
► NAIVE MACHINE (Hit & Hope)

Room 2 – [house/bass]
(hosted by Open Sauce – www.opensauce.co)

► SEIJI (Seiji Music)
► OFFSHORE (Big Dada)
► LAURENT FINTONI (Rhythm Incursions)

Our good friends over at Project Mooncircle are continuing to develop their Finest Ego concept – started last year with a compilation of Japanese beatmakers – into a platform for supporting producers and beatheads worldwide.

To that effect they’ve just released the second volume in the Finest Ego series, showcasing Australian and New Zealand talent, and are hosting a weekend event in Berlin later this month.

Finest Ego New Zealand/Australia is out now and available as a free download from Bandcamp for a few more days. You can also purchase a cassette version from the HHV shop. With a lot of unknown names (to me anyways) on the line up, this latest Finest Ego comp definitely does a good job of shining a light on the antipodean beat scenes and hopefully giving these guys some future exposure.

Alongside this latest comp, PMC are holding a Finest Ego weekender in Berlin on the 19th and 20th of March. The two day event will feature live performances from PMC artists including the mighty Robot Koch, Flako and Comfor Fit alongside London’s Blue Daisy and Brainfeeder’s Teebs and Jerimiah Jae. The saturday will also an afternoon series of workshops with the producers and a beat battle – the perfect way to spend two days nodding your head and hearing some of the finest producers on the planet today.

Peep the trailer below to get a taste and head over to the Finest Ego website for more details and ticket links. Also check them on Facebook.

Oh and good luck to the homies from Overknights who are entering the competition

Following on from our first guest mix of the year from the Overknights crew in Florence, Italy, we have the first regular show of the year from our man on the U.S East coast Primus Luta.

As always with the RIPL shows you can expect over an hour of fresh new sounds and older favourites/classics covering the spectrum of electronic and post-hip hop sounds. This month includes quite a few forthcoming releases we’re very excited about including Morgan Zarate, Himuro Yoshiteru, Dimlite, Sepalcure, Virtual Boy, Long Arm and James Blake alongside the likes of Prefuse 73, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Com Truise, Blue Daisy, fLako, Mux Mool and more.

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Next up we’ve got more guest mixes from Snatchatec, Danny Drive Thru and Mophono as well as our RIRS show from Tokyo.

Enjoy!

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Tracklist:
SoiSong – Koi Ru – Self-released
Himuro Yoshiteru – The Angle – Forthcoming
Mr Lager – Kailis – Various Production
Jimmy the Hideous Penguin – Grain – Forthcoming
Nerve – Grey Market – Self-released
Prefuse 73 – Enfermo Abrazos – Asthmatic Kitty
fLako – Doldrums – Project Mooncircle
Ghostband – Mongols (Mux Mool Remix) – Forthcoming
Cepia – Ithaca – Cepia Music
Raja The Resident Alien – CopaSetIcFlowin – Self-released
Ritchie Valens – La Bamba (Mexicans with Guns remix) – Friends of Friends (free download)
Sensational meets Koyxen – Sensational – Skam
Morgan Zarate – Buy Bye – Forthcoming Hyperdub
Blue Daisy Vs TOKiMONSTA – USD – Team Acre
Georgia Anne Muldrow – Strike – SomeOthaShip Connect
Virtual Boy – Mass – Forthcoming Alpha Pup
Dark Party – Pilot – Old Tacoma
Space Invadas – Done It Again – BBE
Com Truise – Tripyra – Self released
Cyrus – Decisions – Forthcoming Deep Medi Musik
Shigeto – Relentless Drag – Ghostly International
Dorian Concept – Toe Games Made Her Giggle – Nod Navigators
Dimlite – Kitty Cradle Fog – Forthcoming Now Again
Jaytram – Joy me – Asthmatic Kitty
Afta-1 – Tuesday – Love Is
Sepalcure – No Think – Forthcoming Hotflush Recordings
James Blake – I Never Learnt To Share – Forthcoming ?
Long Arm – When Children Sleep – Forthcoming Project Mooncircle
Sun Araw and Matthew David

We round off the summer with our regular podcast, the perfect end to a busy two months that have seen guest mixes from DJ Pain, Vangel, Katzuma, My Dry Wet Mess, Sven Swift, Mr Beatnick, B-Ju and a live set from Draco alongside the regular shows from Primus Luta in the US, Raid System in Tokyo and our goodselves in London. If you missed any of those the show archives are the best place to start.

This month’s show features plenty of forthcoming releases for the autumn as well as some of highlights from the year so far including FaltyDL, Actress, Blundetto, Mount Kimbie, Lorn, Teebs, Blue Daisy, Hint, Skream, Om Unit, Hyperdub, King Midas Sound, Shigeto, Sideshow, Kelpe and many more.

No mini feature as such this month but instead we’ve got two tracks from the latest releases on the A Future Without label, who gave us an exclusive download from Baba Yaga last week in case you missed it, and Exile’s Radio remix project including one from the free album and one from the official AM/FM remix album.

Not much else to say apart from enjoy! As usual the show can be download and streamed below – or just subscribe via RSS or iTunes to receive the shows directly to your inbox/desktop/reader.

Thanks as always to the artists and labels – if you like what you hear be sure to click the links and support the music.

Stay tuned for more guest mixes in September, from Russia and Japan among other places. The long overdue site redesign should also happen sometime next month.

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Tracklist:
Lorn – Until There Is No End – Forthcoming Brainfeeder
Ana Caravelle – Black Canyon (Shigeto’s As I Inhale remix) – Non Projects, free download
Robot Koch vs Charles Mingus – Moanin’ – Free download
Cooly G – Phat Si – Hyperdub
Doc Daneeka – Hold On – Forthcoming Ramp Recordings
Will Saul and Mike Monday – Sequence 1 – Forthcoming Aus Music
Actress – Maze – Honest Jon’s
CV313 – Subtraktive (King Midas Sound Mix) – Echospace
Pupajim – Frequencies – Forthcoming Hyperdub
Pure Phase – The Silent (Om Unit remix) – Forthcoming
Skream – Listening to the records on my wall – Tempa
Aquadrop – Hyper – Eight:FX
FaltyDL – Endeavour – Forthcoming Planet Mu
Aloe Blacc – Femme Fatale – Stones Throw
Baba Yaga – Circe – A Future Without
Memotone – Friend – A Future Without
Chanes feat Karen O – Lights Off – Self released, free download
Kelpe – Margins – Forthcoming Team Acre
Exile – In Love (Kan Kick remix) – Dirty Science, free download
Exile feat. The Grouch and Eligh – Population Control – Plug Research
Eskmo – We Have Invisible Friends (Washed mix) – Forthcoming Ninja Tune
Funkineven – A Heart Pound – Eglo Records
Oriol – The Process – Planet Mu
Hint feat. Josie Stingray and 1OAK – Give It Up – Tru Thoughts
Mount Kimbie – Mayor – Hotflush Recordings
Shed – Atmo Action – Forthcoming Ostgut Ton
Fink – Q&A (Sideshow remix) – Forthcoming Aus Music
Teebs – Wind Loop – Forthcoming Brainfeeder
DJ Krust – Self Belief (Benjamin One remix) – Free download
Pieces of Shh – Diablo Riddim – Forthcoming Svetlana Industries
DVA – 32DA4 – Forthcoming DVA Music
Dibiase – Skullcrack – Forthcoming Alpha Pup Records
Ahu – To:Love – Forthcoming One Handed Music
Blundeto feat. Hindi Zahra – Voices – Heavenly Sweetness
Foreign Beggars feat. Audra Nishita – Breakfree (Blue Daisy remix) – Forthcoming Dented Records
Robot Koch vs Boxcutter – Cloud City – Forthcoming Project Mooncircle
Sam IRL – Beat Tape #1 – Unreleased

We wrap up 2009 with part 2 of our ‘best of’ mix. This is the last show of the year and continues to run down some of our favourite tracks from the last 12 months.

The mix starts with our second ‘Labels of 09′ mini feature looking at Ramp Recordings, a label that for me has had an incredible year and put out good music, consistently without worrying about scenes, genres and things like that. Doing eclectic isn’t necessarily hard though, doing it well however is and for me Ramp is one of those labels who managed to do just that: serve up a truly eclectic mix of releases, artists and styles and do so with a cohesion, quality control and consistency that only makes the music shine that much more. Add to this some quality artwork and an ear for snapping up producers that are bubbling under, like FaltyDL, Shortstuff or Tokimonsta, and you have a label which you need to make time for if you haven’t yet.

As I said they’ve had a rather busy year with something close to ten or so releases so I’ve managed to fit as much as I can in this mini feature with pretty much one track from every release this year, bar one or two. If you like what you hear then check the website and catch up with some seriously good music.

Elsewhere part 2 of the best of 09 features music from the likes of Darkstar, Peverelist, Joker, Dorian Concept, Daedelus, Clutchy Hopkins, Soundspecies, Mount Kimbie, Hudson Mohawke, Floating Points, Machinedrum, Poirier, Blue Daisy, Jamie Vex’d, Quarta330 and many more.

As usual tracklist and download links below. And if you haven’t yet may we suggest you sign up to the newsletter, RSS feed or iTunes feed and this way you’ll never miss a show.

So that’s it for 2009, and the first decade of this century/millenium. Many thanks to all our listeners, all the labels and artists we’ve worked with and who’ve supported us, all our guests, our extended family, DDay One, Mr Trick, 2tall and everyone else. It’s been a great year and here’s to 2010!

Peace

Laurent

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Tracklisting:
Mini feature – Labels of 09: Ramp Recordings
Easy & The Center of the Universe – Legend of Selda – Ramp Recordings
Ras G – Lisa Bonnet – Ramp Recordings
Maxmillion Dunbar – Bare Feet – Ramp Recordings
Declaime and Flying Lotus – Lit Up – Ramp Recordings
Tokimonsta – Let Me Trick U – Ramp Recordings
Computer Jay – Distance – Ramp Recordings
Slugabed – Gritsalt – Ramp Recordings
FaltyDL – To London – Ramp Recordings
FaltyDL – Party – Ramp Recordings
Zomby – Godzilla – Ramp Recordings
Shortstuff – Stuff – Ramp Recordings
Desto – Disappearing Reappearing Ink – Ramp Recordings
Mini feature ends
Dorian Concept – Trilingual Dance Sexperience – Affine records
Starkey – Miracles (Jamied Vexd remix) – Planet Mu
Martyn ft dBridge – These Words – 3024
Pangaea – Mosaix – Hotflush
Breakage ft Newham Generals – Hard – Digital Soundboy
Sibian Mobile Disco ft. Beth Ditto – Cruel Intentions (Joker remix) – Free download
Krytics Minds – One of Us – Swamp 81
Peverelist ft Pinch – Revival – Punch Drunk
Jose James – Black Magic (Untold remix) – Brownswood
Mark Pritchard ft. Om’mas Keith – Wind It Up – Hyperdub
Quarta330 – Bleeps from Outer Space – Hyperdub
XLII – Podgy Swing – Raid System
Darkstar – Aidy’s Girl is a Computer – Hyperdub
Ben Sharpa – Off the Rails – Jarring Effects
Build An Ark – In Her Smile (Daedelus remix) – Kindred Spirits
Clutchy Hopkins – Tune Traveller – Ubiquity
Pearson Sound – Wad – Hessle Audio
Deadbeat – Lessons in Darkness – Superheadz
Blue Daisy – The Fall – Black Acre
Poirier ft Face-T – Enemies – Ninja Tune
Machinedrum ft Mickey Factz – Freshkids – Norm Rex
Aardvark – Duntit – Eat Concrete
Non+Hermutt Lobby – Saved (Cupp Cave remix) – Catune
Hudson Mohawke – Overnight – Warp records
Mount Kimbie – Serged – Hotflush
Floating Points – Love Me Like This (No Nonsense Dub) – R2
Mos Def – Quiet Dog, Bite Hard – Downtown Records
Shafiq Husayn ft Fatima – Lil’ Girl – Plug Research
Dam Funk – Kill Dat – Stones Throw
Mr Chop and CL Smooth – T.R.O.Y – Five Day Weekend
Toddla T ft Mr Versatile – Rice and Peas – 1965
Soundspecies ft Ahu – Can We Call It Love? – Burntprogress

Despite it being nearly one week into November, we’re bringing you the October show which suffered the delaying combo of both my laptop dying and a rather nasty cold hitting me in the same week. The show was actually wrapped 2 weeks ago but we couldn’t get it out till now. Lucky you though, as you’ll be getting another show in a few weeks with our November edition.

I realised as I was putting the tracklist together that for some reason this month features a rather high number of freely available tracks. This is in part a reflection of my own listening habits (and the fact I spend way too much time on the internet) but also I think of the move by artists and labels to make more music available freely as a way to promote paying releases, gigs and other merchandise. Lastly I would also say that the increasing number of free tracks in our playlists this year is a reflection of the increase in quality in free music. Whereas before free tracks where often throwaway material, today an increasing number of artists are releasing bootlegs, remixes and their own tracks for free and keeping a high quality control on it. Again I think this is something that plays into the aforementioned ‘free music as promotion’ vehicle. All the artists with a freely available track in this month’s show also have physical, paying releases and quite a few are actually established artists in their own ‘scenes’.

What about the music though? This month we take in a rather wide range of music, reflecting the diversity of what’s been trickling into our inbox/hands. From the psychedelic meets Afghani traditional music of Ariana Delawari to straight beats (and some incredible flips) from KenLo, fLako, Fulgeance and Dibiase via tribal house vibes from Blue Daisy, 21st century boogie from Dam Funk, hard-hitting hip hop from Kids in Tracksuits and Mr Lif and forward-thinking productions from Om Unit, Mike Slott and Talen. And that’s only part of it, there’s more and it’s all high quality as far as I’m concerned.

This month’s mini-feature is a tie-in with the 5th anniversary of the Hyperdub label. Headed by Kode 9, Hyperdub has long been a favourite at Rhythm Inc, with Trick regularly playing the label’s early releases as both the show and label share roughly the same birthdays. To celebrate their anniversary Hyperdub have curated an incredible compilation, called ’5′, spanning two CDs or 5 12″s and featuring classic material from the label’s archive, unreleased one-offs and 15 or so brand new productions from the label’s artists and friends including names like Flying Lotus, Mala, Martin, Samiyam, Ikonika, Quarta330, and more. It’s fair to say that ’5′ is the final nail in the coffin for lesser labels, if it was even needed, that shows just how influential and forward thinking Hyperdub has been as an independent over the years. From its humble beginnings to its current wide palette of sounds, Hyperdub continues to do what everyone least expects, and that’s just one of many reasons why we love them and their music. For the feature we’ve got four tracks from the compilation taking in The Bug under his King Midas Sound alias, Mala, Kode 9 and Samiyam – music as different as it comes and yet somehow logically intertwined.

So enough with the words, sit back and crank the volume for 2h of the latest and freshest music. And stay tuned for some special shows coming up in the month. For now enjoy!

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Tracklist:
KenLo Craqnuques – Noir 19 – Taken from Noir beatape (free download)
Dday One – Natural Balance – Superdheadz
Ichiro – NarcoSystem – Oil Works
Frank n Dank – Shut It Down (devremix) – Unreleased (free download)
Geiom – Flic en Flac – Fabric (free download)
Reason or Romanza – Seven Uses of Potential Difference (Blue Daisy Tribal Remix) – Civil Music
Ariana Delawari – Laily Jan – David Lynch MC
Erikah Badu – Real Thing (fLako remix) – Unreleased (free download)
Sound Scientists – Evil Violin – DVent
Talen – The Morning Rush, An Oddatee Tale – Mouthwatering Records
Mini feature – Hyperdub 5
King Midas Sound – Meltdown – Hyperdub
Mala – Level Nine – Hyperdub
Kode 9 & Spaceape – Ghost Town – Hyperdub
Samiyam – Return – Hyperdub
Mini feature ends
Aufgang – Barok (Fulgeance remix) – Unreleased (free download)
Loops Haunt – Dusk Mechanics (Samoyed Remix) – Fortified Audio
Om Unit – Lavender – All City
Jose James – Black Magic (Untold remix) – Brownswood
Jose James – Black Eyed Susan – Brownswood
Little Dragon – Fortune (Afta 1 remix) – Unreleased (free download)
Dam Funk – Hood Pass Intact – Stones Throw
Kids in Tracksuit – Zone ft Mr Lif – Fluid Ounce
Filewile – Number One Kid (Robot Koch remix) – Mouthwatering records
Breakage and Skream – Skreakage – Digital Soundboy
Quest – The Unknown – Deep Medi Musik
Hyaku Mado – Red Line (Scorn remix) – Murder Channel
Sibian Mobile Disco – Cruel Intentions (Joker remix) – Unreleased (free download)
Helixir – Convultions – 7even
Sound Species – Psychedelic Xylophone – Unreleased (free download)
Mike Slott – 23 Halfs – LuckyMe (free download)
Jogger – Champing at the bit (live) – Magical Properties
Ave Blaste – Sega – Keep Up
Cignol – Tumnal – Alphabet Set
U-N-I – Castle Vee Re-Up ft Black Milk (prod. by Dibiase) – Taken from ‘Before There was Love’ mixtape (free download)

It’s friday and, despite the fact that we’ve been putting up free tracks rather randomly up until now, it’s time for another free download. This week’s freebie comes courtesy of the nice people over at the Civil Music label, UK home to the likes of Debruit, Rusko, Kotchy, Starkey and Drums of Death, and their latest signing: Reason or Romanza. Not the easiest name to roll off the tongue, which is lucky considering we’re primarily bothered about their music.

What’s more we’ve got more than just one free track for your listening pleasure. Read on to find out more.

Reason or Romanza (let’s call them RoR from now on) will be releasing their debut EP on the label, titled ‘EP1′, in early November. ‘EP1′ boasts four tracks from the duo, firmly rooted in the electronica and instrumental hip hop/beats styles that have cemented themselves over the last few years, and four remixes which take the originals into much further territories, touching on dubstep, minimal techno and even tribal house rhythms.

Here’s what the press blurb has to say:

Sitting firmly between Soulful Electronica and Forward-Thinking Soundscapes these two south-end on sea beat collaborators have found new pastures in the fields between Four tet and Flying Lotus. Reason or Romanza have buckets of credits to their ever growing name, they won the ‘best music’ award at the Intel short film awards for the soundtrack to Mahalia Belo’s film ‘Silent Music’, they’ve been getting regular plays across the airways from excited Beat junkies through to Classic fm, Run the London’s Superdisco night and also held residency at Multivitamins minimal/electronica nights in East London. Reason and Romanza have provided remixes for Cheju (Boltfish Recordings) and Kirmann (Lobe Recordings, Lona, Records), with more in the works and now with their debut on civil music, they have been lent a hand with remixes by luminaries from all strains of electronic music – Loaf Recordings top boy Vincent Oliver, Planet Mu’s Skweee legend Eero Johannes, Black Arce’s spacey dub new boy Blue Daisy, eclectic Finnish producer Recue and Electronic legends Posthuman. Four equally eclectic remix’s from the new masters of their respective sounds…

Civil Music are very nicely letting us giveaway ‘Sunflower’, which you can download or stream below, a spacey, electronic number perfect for the current autumn vibes. And you’ll be able to check out the Blue Daisy remix of ‘Seven Uses of Potential Difference’ which is by far my favourite on the release, taking the track deep into tribal territories without sounding cheesy.

And on top of this, they’ve also given us three exclusive remixes of tracks from the release (which we assume didn’t make the final cut). These come from Vincent Oliver (Lo Recordings), Loose Fit (Allez Allez) and Posthuman (Seed, Warp). These 3 exclusive remixes can be downloaded as a zip on the link below. They include two remixes of ‘Seven Uses of Potential Difference’ and one remix of ‘Two Times, Three Times’.

Downloads Reason or Romanza exclusive remixes (right click and save as)

You can pre-order ‘EP1′ from Civil Music directly here, or look out for it to land in your local shop or favourite online spot in the first week of November.

Big thanks to Civil for the hook up and look out for more from these guys including a new EP from Debruit.

Download Reason or Romanza ‘Sunflower’ (right click and save as)