Rhythm Incursions – February 2010

It’s February, the weather on this side of the world could still be primarily described as apocalyptic and the recession is still going on apparently. All of which means you need some fresh new music and aural pleasures more than ever. Fear not, we’ve got you covered.

Up this month we take a close look at Mux Mool, an NYC-based artist we first discovered thanks to Jakub at Ghostly Int and who will be releasing a new album on the label in the coming weeks. We look at some new and older tracks of his, showing his versatile approach to hip hop and electronic music. It goes without saying we’re big fans.

Elsewhere this month we’ve got lots of new, forthcoming tracks including new Big Dada and Ninja Tune releases by Infesticons, Bonobo, Jagga Jazzist and Juice Aleem, new tracks from Fulgeance, Pixelord, FaltyDL, Daisuke Tanabe, Kyle Hall, Nocando featuring Busdriver, Soul Litchfield, Rudi Zygadlo, Oh No and some tasty exclusives from Wrongtom, Om Unit, Tatsuki and Depakote which you won’t hear anywhere else (unless the artists themselves are bumping it).

So without further ado I’ll leave you for another 2 hours of musical goodness, and excuse my rather gruff tone of voice on the presenting tip but I’ve been fighting a cold (or is that man flu?) for the last week and haven’t been feeling very well. Still you can’t stop the good shit so get stuck in, sit back and crank it up to 11 on the volume dial.

As usual the playlist, see below, includes full links and details to all artists and labels pages/websites where you can buy or download the music. If you like what you hear than go support it.

See you next month for more of the same and look out for more exclusive mixes from Primus Luta and Himuro Yoshiteru in the coming weeks.

Laurent

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Tracklist:
Jay Electronica – Suckas – Unreleased
The Infesticons – Bombs Anthem – Forthcoming Big Dada
Whitefield Brothers – Gifted (The Oh Remix ft. Edan and Mr Lif) – Stones Throw
Bonobo – Eyesdown (Floating Points remix) – Ninja Tune
Prins Thomas – Uggebugg – Full Pupp
Dynooo – Fuh Real (with Naboobia) – Mac Fly
Depakote – Painful Bells – Forthcoming Highpoint Lowlife
Soul Litchfield – Throw Ups – Saturn Never Sleeps
Singing Statues – Forestry – Self Released, free download via Myspace
Clouds – Timekeeper (Dave Aju remix) – Ramp Recordings
Mini feature starts
Mux Mool – Lady Linda – Forthcoming Ghostly Int.
Machinedrum – Late Night Operation (Mux Moox remix) – Norm Rex
Mux Mool – Ladies Know (Live Edit) – Ghostly Int. (free download)
Mini feature ends
Roots Manuva meets Wrongtom – Tings Proper Juggled – Forthcoming Ninja Tune
Tatsuki – Kiyasu Breaks – Original Cultures
Om Unit – The Timps – Original Cultures
Rudi Zygadlo – The Udu and The Clave – Forthcoming Planet Mu
Eprom – Never (FaltyDL rephresh) – Surefire
Kuedo – Glow – Planet Mu
Pixelord – Quartz Boy – Error Broadcast
Four Tet – Love Cry – Domino Records
Juice Aleem ft. Serocee, Rider shafique, Charles Moopowe, Blackitude, Kosyne, TY, TheWhatSupreme, Justice Hotep – Higher Higher (revox) – Ninja Tune
Kraddy – Android Porn (Fulgeance remix) – Equinox Records
Quetzal – On The Road – Tumba Republic Records
Saukrates – Wednesday – Forthcoming
Daisuke Tanabe – Vestige – Circulations
Epstein – El Condor Deplerta (El Conjuto edit) – Asthamatic Kitty
Southpaw Chop – Sounds So Smooth – Forthcoming Southpaw Chop Music
Pretty Lights – Can’t Stop Me Now – Self released (free download)
Computer Jay – Maintain – Forthcoming Ramp Recordings
Jagga Jazzist – One-Armed Bandit – Ninja Tune
MusSck – Finding Forever – Daly City Records
Nocando ft. Busdriver – Two Track Mind – Alpha Pup
La Roux – Bulletproof (Himuro Yoshiteru remix) – Nytebug (free download)
Kyle Hall – Kaychunk – Hyperdub

Rhythm Incursions – Best of 09 pt 2

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

Rhythm Incursions July 09 pt2

As promised we round off July (just in time too) with another 80 mins of fresh new music, exclusives and all that good stuff. Summer is generally a quiet time for music, but it’s fair to say that this year is a bit of an exception with quite a few releases worthy of your attention that have either just come out, are about to or will be out once summer ends (that last part not applying to anyone London obviously, as summer seems to have already ended).

In no specific order we’ve got new music Blue Daisy, Foreign Beggarz, Poirier and Face-T, Shackleton, Shortstuff, Floating Points, DJ Buzz, Disrupt, Elaquent, Tranqill, XLII, Nosaj Thing, Lorn, Guilty Simpson, Fulgeance and more.

Having realised that the last few mini features have all been about west coast producers (without meaning to) this month we turn our attention to Europe, and Austria in particular with 5 tracks from the young producer Dorian Concept – a man who’s been a pleasure to discover and follow with a truly unique take on the whole beat/electronic hip hop thing, backed by some of the most ridiculously exhilarating synth melodies. Peep this really good interview with the man by On-Point for further proof/explanation. The 5 tracks span Dorian’s short but fairly intense discography so far.

So that’s about it for July, stay tuned for more guest mixes in August as well as the regular show, sometime towards the end of the month. For now though, sit back, relax and enjoy!

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Tracklist:
Shafiq Husayn – Nirvana – Plug Research
Guilty Simpson – Stress – Stones Throw
DJ Buzz – Stardust ft Frank Nitty Dorian Concept – Personal Records
Floating Points – Truly – Forthcoming Eglo
Moderat – Rusty Nails (Shackleton remix) – Bpitch Control
Shortstuff – Rustling – Ramp Recordings
Martyn – For Lost Relatives – Aus Music
Poirier – enemies ft Face T – Forthcoming Ninja Tune
Mount Kimbie – Serged – Hotflush
Foreign beggarz – No More ft. Jehst, Kashmere, 2tall – Forthcoming Dented Records
Om Unit – So Sirius – Unreleased, Om Unit myspace
Diamond District – In The Ruff – Self Released, download from website
Mini feature starts – Dorian Concept
Dorian Concept – Leave Before It’s Too Early – Project 168
Dorian Concept – Two Hour Power – TrebleO
Dorian Concept – Sweet Yard Sale – Nod Navigators
Dorian Concept – Fort Teen – Nod Navigators
Dorian Concept – Seek When is Her – Earstroke records
Mini feature ends
Nosaj Thing – Coat of Arms (Daedelus remix) – Alpha Pup Records
Notorious Big – Suicidal Thoughts (Lorn remix) – Unreleased, Lorn myspace
Blue Daisy – Space Ex – Black Acre
Illa J – Sounds like Love (In Space remix) – Delicious Vinyl
Dak – Stand This – Leaving Records
Tranqill – The Supplier – Unreleased, download here
Bretzel Zoo – Shugaring Emrod Baywatch – Eat Concrete Records
Dam Funk – On & On – Stones Throw
XLII – DOn’t Sleep – Forthcoming Fubar Recordings
Elaquent – Ronin Code – Self Released, download from Myspace
Disrupt – Bruce Lee – Jahtari
Architeq – Birds of Prey (Debruit remix) – Tirk
Fulgeance – Sour Soca – One Handed Music

Rhythm Incursions: July 09

We’re back with a much delayed regular show. Apologies for the lack of updates and shows in June, but life got in the way with work, other projects and my own Original Cultures work. Still the upside is we’ve got quite a lot of stuff to get through, so this month there’ll be two regular shows, with the next one dropping towards the end of the month. In between we should also have a few guest mixes and other surprises so stay tuned to the site.

As for this month’s new show, it’s another 80 mins of fresh new sounds and older favourites taking in music from Cooly G, Awol One, Busdriver, Milanese, Om Unit, Clutchy Hopkins, FaltyDL, Mr Dibiase, SA-RA, Push Button Objects, Prefuse 73, Joker, Bibio, Ras G and many more. Full tracklist below.

This month’s mini feature shines a light on L.A. producer Take aka Sweatson Klank. Take is by far one of my favourite producers in the whole ‘beat scene’ movement, and someone who I think is quite often forgotten or underated when discussing the recent rise in popularity and attention surrounding the whole beat thing. More than that, having been around for 10+ years, Take links the old and the new as far as the beat thing goes, having helped to usher in the beat movement in L.A. alongside people like Kutmah, Eric Coleman and others. His work, like that of people like Prefuse and Dabrye, nicely shows this and this mini feature shines a little light on this acting as a nice introduction to those who may not know of him. Peep the tracklist for full details and check his myspace for all the latest release news. Also look out for an interview I did with the man coming out shortly, here’s a sneak peek.

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Enjoy and catch you in a few weeks.

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Tracklist:
Cooly G – Love Dub refix – Hyperdub
FaltyDL – Human Meadow – Planet Mu
Floating Points – J&W Beat – Planet Mu
Jungle Drums – Walk – We Ain’t Music
Prefuse 73 – Overkill Choir – Warp
Flying Lotus – Camel (Mr. Dibiase remix) – Unreleased, download from here
Mr. Dibiase – Mario Galaxy –
The Clonious – Fogged Spacesuit – Ubiquity Records
SA-RA – Bitch Baby – Ubiquity Records
Clutchy Hopkins meets Lord Kenjamin – Tune Traveler – Ubiquity Records
Build An Ark – Dawn (Ras G and the Afrikan Space Program remix) – Kindred Spirits
Bibio – Fire Ant – Warp
Mini feature – Take aka Sweatson Klank
Take – Walk Away ft. Gaby Hernandes – Innercurrent Recordings
Take – The Start of our Ending – Buttermilk records
Take – Sugar – Eat Concrete
Take – Wonderman’s Flask – Unreleased
Mini feature ends
Debruit ft Ommas Keith – Going wit’ You – Civil Music
Juice Aleem – Who is He? – Big Dada
Awol One – Glamourous Drunk – Fake Four Inc
MRR-ADM – Track 1 – Stone Throw
The Gaslamp Killer ft. Gonja Sufi – Kobwebs – Milan Records
Om Unit – Cradle – Terror Rhythm
Milanese ft. Ben Sharpa – Disclosure – Planet Mu
The Heavy – How You Like me now (Joker remix) – Counter records
Mark Pritchard ft Ommas Keith – Wind it up (freak mix) – Hyperdub
Pantyraid – Beba – Marine Parade
Busdriver – Split Seconds – Anti records
Push Button Objects – Breakers delight – Chocolate Industries x Adult Swim, download compilation for free here

Rhythm Incursions: April 09

While it’s been a bit of a quiet month here at Rhythm Inc headquarters (life has a habit of getting in the way like that), the music has kept coming in thick and fast. This month’s show is therefore another slightly extended edition with 70 minutes of fresh new music and exclusives. From the live, funky sounds of El Michels Affair and The Heliocentrics to the dubbed out riddims of Dubterror, T-Woc and Ras G via 21st century gfunk from Joker, Funky stylings from Kode 9 and boom bap headnodders and the new school hip hop flavours of Willie Isz, Paul White, Dorian Concept, Jamie Vex’d, G.O.D and GB.

The mini feature this month looks at the work of West Coast producer Dert, a man who’s produced for KRS One among others and made a name for himself through various beat tapes and mashups releases including the excellent ‘Sometimes I Rhyme Slow’ and his reinterpretation of the Pink Floyd classic ‘Dark Side of The Moon’. For the feature we’ve hand picked 5 beats/tracks from previous releases as well as from his forthcoming CMYK EP, which is out now. Peep the playlist for full details of where to cop everything, and also look for Dert on iTunes where you can buy a few of his albums (can’t seem to find a way to link to the page directly, but it’ll come up if you search for Dert in the iTunes store).

So that’s it for this month, as usual grab the show directly below or subscribe via iTunes or your podcatcher of choice so you never miss a show (and save yourself a few clicks along the way). Subscription details can be found on the right hand side!

And stay tuned for some more guest mixes in May as well as the usual dose of fresh new music. Oh yeah and if you haven’t already be sure to check the Trick and Tom show’s weekly goodness and keep an eye on Turntable Radio for some special video and audio podcasts in coming weeks.

Enjoy!

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Tracklist:
El Michels Affair – CREAM – Fat Beats
Paul White – Hustle (Bullion Remix) – One Handed Music
Floating Points – Love Me Like This (Nonsense Dub) – R2
Flying Lotus – GNGBNG (Blu vocal bootleg) – Download this track
Willie Isz – Georgiavania – Lex records
Three Six Mafia – Stay Fly (Dorian Concept remix) – Kindred Spirits (download free zip file)
Jamie Vex’d – Radiant Industry – Planet Mu
G.O.D – Night of the Flavigator – NozL
Mini feature starts
Dert – Funky New World – Taken from ‘Talk Strange’ beat tape, download
Dert Floyd – Untitled 28 – Taken from ‘West Side of the Moon’ beat tape, download
Dert – You Are Here – Take from ‘The Seattle Situation’ beat tape
Dert – Trucker Hats & P.B.R – Taken from ‘Fledgling’, buy (CDbaby)
Dert – Black ft Surreal – Taken from ‘CMYK’ EP, buy (iTunes)
Mini feature ends
Paul White – Floating Free – One Handed Music
Ras G- Eunice in White – Brainfeeder
Prince Kong – Crossroads (T-Woc remix) – Alphabet Set
Joker – Psychedelic Runway – Kapsize
Kode 9 – Black Sun – Hyperdub
Dubterror – Tetradis dub – Universal Egg
Mulatu Astatke & Heliocentrics – Chinese New Year – Strut
Soundspecies – Brazilya pt 2 – Burntprogress
Little Dragon – After The Rain (GB interpretation) – Unreleased, download
Joker – Digidesign (Om Unit remix) – Unreleased

Rhythm Incursions: February 09

We’ve been quieter than usual this month, but that hasn’t stopped music coming in by the bucket load into our inbox. 2009 already started on a high (see last month’s podcast for more on that) and it’s not showing any signs of stopping with labels and artists gearing up for the first quarter of the year with a lot of interesting projects and releases.

As with January, this month’s show comes with just 2 days left in the month but we reckon the wait’s been worth it. We’ve got lots of new stuff and a few bonus, exclusive treats too. We have new material from Robert Logan, Equinox Records, Bullion, 1000 Names, Mr Scruff, Yppah, Two Fingers, Computer Jay, Uncle Lew, Mr Beatnick and more. And we’ve also got a mini feature on the Warp label, who are celebrating their 20th anniversary this year with a string of releases including a new Prefuse 73 album and quite a few more which are yet to be officially announced.

So strap up and get comfy for 70 minutes of audio goodness. And stay tuned as March will see the return of fellow presenter Dday One and a few guest mixes including one from Parisian producer Onra and more to be announced soon.

Enjoy!

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2tall – Scatterclocks – Bleep
Computer Jay – Distance – Ramp Recordings
Mr Scruff ft Roots Manuva – Nice Up the Function (Remix) – Ninja Tune
Sage Francis, B.Dolan and Sleep ft Buddy Peace – Sea Legs (prod. Aupheus) – Strange Famous Records (free download)
Mobb Deep – G.O.D PtIII (Uncle Lew remix) – Unreleased, Uncle Lew myspace
Two Fingers ft Sway – Straw Men – Big Dada
Robert Logan – Accurate Spit Boy – Slowfoot
Warp Records mini-feature starts
Clark – Growls Garden – Warp, taken from forthcoming ‘Growls Garden’ EP
Harmonic 313 – Don’t Panic – Warp, taken from ‘When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence’ LP
Prefuse – Regalo – Warp, taken from forthcoming ‘Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian’ LP
Warp Records mini-feature ends
Letherette – In July Focus Rite – Normrex
Floating Points – I Wait For You – Eglo Records
Bullion – Time For Us All to Love – One Handed music
1000 Names – Rhythmatic Train Behaviour – Eklektik records
Yppah – They Know What Ghost Know – Ninja Tune
Mr Beatnick – Daily Bread – Unreleased
Kero One – On and On – Plug Research
Deckard – Surgery – Equinox Records
Pangaea – Bear Witness – Hotflush Recordings

2tall – The Space Race

A deep space transmission reached us at Rhythm Incursions this week, coming from somewhere familiar and signed by none other than 2tall, universal astronaut, extended Rhythm Inc family member and producer at large. The sounds of the transmission are warm and comforting, much needed in these cold and snowy times. Once we decoded the transmission, the result was an hour of the latest sounds from across the planet beamed straight into your speakers.

So we suggest you turn it up to 11 and strap up for a race across the universe carried by basslines and some of the finest beats, new and old.

Also look out for 2tall‘s forthcoming release under his Om Unit moniker, which should be incoming on Terrorhythm records in the coming months. It’s been getting support from Benji B on BBC 1xtra and Alexander Nut on Rinse FM and having heard it we can tell you it’s well worth the wait.

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2tall – The Space Race
Architeq – Sleeping Bear (Take Remix)
Onra feat Hazel – Super Genesis
Floating Points – Love me like this
Harmonic 313 – Flaash
010 – Beatdatazz
Daniel Savio – Flogsta Danshall
Beem – The future
Jay Dee – B.B.E (instrumental)
Mr Scruff – Hold The Dub
2tall – Grazing On Empty (King Knut’s 80′s Dub)
Uncle Lew – Mandy’s Uh
Om Unit – Ether
Bullion – Young Hearache
Saul Williams – Coded Language (live at def comedy jam)
Ras G – Sloooooow Doooooowm
Tranquil – Payroll (paul white’s clean dub)
Dr Who Dat – Ghetto Dreaming
Madlib – Left On Silverlake
Sugoisounds – Many Grams
Actress – Hazylude
Afta 1 – The Time In Between
Afta 1 – Honey Dip
Lukid – Time Doing So Mean
Dwilt Sharpp – Will You Tell Me Where You Are

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