We roll into the month of December with the prerequisite end of year best of’s and playlists. Up first is Primus Luta with his RIPL show. He runs down his favourite joints of 2010, well the ones he managed to fit in, using his award system – which he premiered back in the summer with the mid-year awards.

In there you’ll find a veritable who’s who of labels and artists we’ve supported this year and since we started. Labels like Planet Mu (who got label of the year from me in November), Hyperdub, Warp, Brainfeeder, R&S, Project Mooncircle all feature alongside Alpha Pup which Primus decided to make his label of the year. The mini feature looks at the Alpha Pup’s output as well as that of the labels it distributes like Elm & Oak, Brainfeeder and Friends of Friends.

Here’s some words from the man himself on the show:

Awwe man this was probably my hardest show to compile, because there was just way too much good music this year. I feel bad for all of the amazing stuff that I left off. Even more, the whole time I’m compiling goodness just keeps dropping. Makes for an exciting 2011, but first of course a little recap of the incredible 2010. Back in August we did the RIPL Mid-Year Report, and so for this episode we’ve got the 2010 RIPL Awards. Tried to cover a good spectrum of things with this and give the respect where it was due, but again there was just way too much music to possibly represent it all in just one show. See you in 2011, promises to be killer.

We won’t bore you with more words and instead just let you get stuck in with what is definitely a great opening show for our end of year recap. It’s going to make my end of year show certainly more difficult to compile!

As always you can download and/or stream the show below. Or subscribe to our RSS, Itunes or newsletter and never miss a show (details and links below). Full tracklist with links to all labels and artists also below as always.

And don’t forget to check RIPL’s growing archive – there’s nearly 12 hours of music in there already for you to enjoy and discover!

For now though over to Primus who’ll take you through the RIPL end of year awards. Enjoy!

Download RIPL December 2010 – End of Year awards (right click and save as)

Tracklist
Pretty Lights – Still Rockin – Pretty Lights Music
Lunice – Purp Walk – LuckyMe
Model 500 – OFI – R&S Records
Oriol – LW – Planet Mu
Terror Danjah – Ride 4 Me – Hyperdub
Mux Mool – Death 9000 – Ghostly
Leonard Dstroy – Latitude – Innate Sounds
Gold Panda – You – Ghostly
Pavel Dovgal – Sacred Chants of Shiva – Project Mooncircle
Ill-esha – Cold Hands – Daly City Records
Hudson Mohawke – Snapdragon – Warp
Untold – Stereo Freeze – R&S Records
Modeselektor – VW Jetta – Monkeytown Records
Autechre – rew(1) – Warp
Slugabed – Clunk Clunk – Planet Mu
Demokracy – Shapeshifter – Error Broadcast
Eskmo – Starships – Ninja Tune
Pariah – Railroad – R&S Records
Robot Koch – Threats – Project Mooncircle
Mexicans With Guns – Dame Lo – Anti Records
Homeboy Sandman – The Essence – High Water Music
Shabazz Palaces – Breaksdale Corners – Self released
High Tone – Dub What – Jarring Effects
Quest – Wind Tunnel – Deep Medi Musik
Darqwan – Jah Wan – Tectonic
Take – Face the Firing Squad – Dublab
Mini Feature – Label of the Year – Alpha Pup
Alex B – Hot Chop – Elm & Oak
Nosaj Thing – Us (Jon Hopkins Rmx) – Alpha Pup
Lorn – Army of Fear – Brainfeeder
Dibiase – Dubwreck – Alpha Pup
Jneiro Jarel – Android Romance – Alpha Pup
Shlohmo – Post Atmosphere – Friends of Friends
Gaslamp Killer – Shattering Inner Journeys (feat. Computer Jay) – Brainfeeder
Free the Robots – The Eye (feat. Ikey Owens) – Alpha Pup
Teebs – Double Fifths – Brainfeeder
Mini feature ends
Flying Lotus – MmmHmm (feat. Thundercat) – Warp
James Blake – I’ll Say – R&S Records
The Roots – Antiquity (feat The Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Dillchestra) – Mochilla
Scuba – Before (After) – Hotflush Recordings
Pantha du Prince – Welt Am Draht –
Downliners Sekt – From Under Spinning Lights – Self Released

Stepping up first as always this month is Primus Luta with RIPL. Slight change this month as he takes the occasion to look over the first half of the year and highlight favourites and must buys. I’ll leave the explaining to him but one eye over the tracklist and you’ll see Rhythm Inc favourites everywhere including All City records, Alpha Pup, Flying Lotus and Brainfeeder, Ghostly and more.

So this month as the summer nears end I decided to do an early reflection on the year and highlight some of the standout work I’ve heard throughout the year. So we’ll call this the RIPL Mid-Year Report with the very special RIPL Mid-Year Awards. Overall the selection gives a good picture of just how much ground is being covered by producers in 2010. With categories ranging from the “Wobble the Bass” award, the “Ultimate Break Beat” and the “Dr. Dre’s Detox” award, well lets just say it’ll put a smile on your face.

All of this in prep to actually do some sort of award thing for the end of the year. If not for the dope music and occasional vibes, check this out to see where my head is about ‘awarding’ the beat scene and fall through with some comments to let me know if there’s awards I got wrong, ones you really like, or ones you think I missed.

So that’s it. As the man said comments are much welcomed, let us know what you think!

As always show is available to direct download and stream below alongside full tracklist. Or just sign up to the RSS/iTunes feeds and never miss a show. Stay tuned for a guest mix from B-Ju next monday, RIRS August next friday and a very special guest mix from My Dry Wet Mess, the latest signing to Daedelus’ label, the following monday. It’s gonna be a good end of summer trust us.

Download RIPL August 2010 (right click and save as)

Tracklist:
Primus Luta – Oscar et al… – Unreleased
The Young Jazz Rebels – Forces Unseen – Stones Throw
Negrosaki – You And Me Part 2 – Self released
Houseshoes – Newports – All City Records
Exile – In Tune Static (Mike Gao Remix) – Dirty Science, free download
Ill Cosby – Hold On Dub – Car Crash Set
Pale Sketcher – Tiny Universes (Interstellar) – Ghostly International
Shigeto – After the Smoke – Ghostly International
RJD2 – The Stranger – RJ’s Electrical Connections
Onra feat. Walter Mecca – To The Beat – All City Records
Himuro Yoshiteru – Bold Lines – Murder Channel
Take – Horizontal Figuration – Alpha Pup
Jahcoozi feat. M. Saayid – Powerdown Blackout – Bpitch Control
Leonard Dstroy – Bubblin Hot – Innate Sounds
Lorn – None An Island – Brainfeeder
Free the Robots – Global Warning – Alpha Pup
Flying Lotus – Pickled! – Warp
Jimmy The Hideous Penguin – Blue – Nozl
Daedelus – The Finishing of a Thing – Brainfeeder
Ras G – Dak Leaver Mix – Leaving Records
Robert Hood – Think Fast – M-Plant
Mono/Poly – Antibodies – Tasteful Licks
Tokimonsta – Lucid Walking – Art Union
High Tone – Dub What – Jarring Effects
Nerve – Squobbler – Self released
Ramadanman – A Couple More Years – Hessle Audio
Sepalcure – Every Day of My Life – Hotflush Recordings
Scuba – So You Think You’re Special – Hotflush Recordings
Guido feat. Aarya – Beautiful Complication – Punch Drunk
M.I.A – Space – XL recordings
Slugabed – Clunk Clunk – Astro:Dynamics, free download

We continue June’s installments with our new regular Rhythm Incursions x Raid System show aka RIRS. Presented by the dynamic duo of XLII and Broken Haze from the depths of the Tokyo undergound, or more accurately the comfort of the former’s rather nice studio in the Tokyo suburbs, RIRS June continues the good work they started last month by delivering over 60 mins of new and recently released tracks peppered with exclusives and remixes from their vaults.

For those who weren’t here last month when we announced our new shows, RIRS is presented in both English and Japanese by the Raid System crew and follows our regular show format with a tracklist of recent releases, favourites and forthcoming tracks going out every 3rd week of the month. Each month they’re joined by Primus Luta for the RIPL show (second week of the month) and ourselves for the regular Rhythm Incursions show (last week of the month).

As usual direct download links and stream below, and if you don’t want to have to download each time why not grab our RSS or iTunes feeds?

For now though sit back and enjoy another fresh selection which includes newness from Tokyo Dawn, Africa Hightech, Ital Tek, Soul Litchfield, Starkey, UpMyAlley, Steve Spacek, Himuro Yoshiteru, Poirier, Oilworks, Hessle Audio, Roska, Guido, Rustie, Freddy Todd and many more.

Download RIRS June 2010 (right click and save as)

Tracklist:
XLII’s selection
Swede:art – Wonkybikez – Tokyo Dawn
Ital Tek – Babel – Forthcoming Planet Mu
Slugabed – Titans – Planet Mu
Swede:art – I’m a R.O.B.O.T feat. Blaktroniks – Tokyo Dawn
Soul Litchfield – Myers – Saturn Never Sleeps
Africa Hightech – One Two – Warp
Funkineven – She’s Acid – Eglo records

Broken Haze’s selection
Big Gigantic – Get Your RowDY ON – 1320 Records (free download)
JSBL – The Flu (Dorian Concept Remix) – Affine Records
Blackpocket – Ur A Sta (dBridge Remix) – Exit Records
Lapti – Ghost With Motor (Demokracy In The Shell Mix) – Unreleased
fLako & Berghem – Put Chur Hand Up – Up My Alley
RLP – bits n .dots. 1 – Oilworks
Himuro Yoshiteru – Pay For What – Bedroom Research (free download)
Ramb Camp – B-Boy Shit (Tommy Wealth Remix) – Ramb Camp

XLII’s selection 2
Loops Haunt – Dusk Mechanics (Samoyed Mix) – Fortified Audio
Poirier – Enemies feat. Face-T (Sticky Remix) – Ninja Tune
Poirier – Gyal Secret Pictures feat. MC Zulu (Baobinga Remix) – Ninja Tune
Roska – Squark – Rinse Recordings
Virus Syndicate – Me and my ghetto blaster (Starkey Radio Edit) – Contagious Music
Jammer feat. Skepta, JME, C Gritz & Frisco – 10 Man Roll – Big Dada
Joe – Claptrap – Hessle audio
High Tone – Ollie Bible – Jarring Effects
Guido – You Do It Right – Punch Drunk
Mochipet – Turbo Thizz Petnation (Mindelixir) – Daly City Records

Broken Haze’s selection 2
RQM – Color Fade (Broken Haze remix) – Forthcoming Baby Sumo
Ikonika – Look(Final Boss Stage) – Hyperdub
Mr.Rodgers – Bird Box (Starkey Remix) – Innerflight
8Bitch – G41 (Rustie Remix) – Slit Jockey
Flux Pavillion – Normalize – Circus
Freddy Todd – Exponential Time ft.Rihanna – Bootleg
Passion Pit – Sleepyhead (Borgore Remix) – Passion Pit Jams
The Infesticons – Bombs Anthem (Kraddy Remix) – Big Dada

Primus Luta returns for the latest installment of his RIPL monthly show, and once more it’s a killer selection with 100 mins of fresh new sounds and recent favourites.

This month’s RIPL brings you new and forthcoming bits from Breakage, Charless Trees, 8Bitch, High Tone, Deru, Killer Mike, Lopez, Swede:art, Africa Hitech, Quest, Rudi Zygadlo, Soul Lichtfield, Ital Tek, Homeboy Sandman and more while we check in with recent favourites from Mike Slott, Ikonika, Venetian Snares, Four Tet and more. From pop-minded hip hop to heard hitting beats and disjointed electronica to sub bubblers we cover a lot of ground for an exhilarating ride.

Look out for a brand new RIPL logo and a full site revamp next month that will make it easier to follow all our new regular shows and guest mixes and in the meantime get comfy and get stuck into RIPL June 2010. Next up is the June edition of RIRS next week and then our regular Rhythm Inc show in two weeks.

Download RIPL June 2010 (right click and save as)

Tracklist:
Breakage – Together (f/ Elucid) – Digital Soundboy
Africa Hitech – Blen – Warp
Mexicans With Guns – Me Gusto (f/ Chico Mann) – FoF Music
High Tone – Liquordub – Jarring Effects
Quest – Wind Tunnel – Forthcoming Deep Medi Musik
Mochipet – Ghetto Puddin Pet (Lilyliver Remix) – Daly City Records
Slugabed – Clunk Clunk – Astro:Dynamics
Himuro Yoshiteru – We, Mess-Age – Murder Channel
Swede:art – Wonkybikez – Forthcoming Tokyo Dawn
Mono/Poly – Black Box Matrix Death – Tasteful Licks
Actress – The Kettle Men – Honest Jon’s
Venetian Snares – Chainsaw Fellatio – Planet Mu
Nerve – Ghost Life – Nerve
Rudi Zigadlo – Magic in the Afternoon – Planet Mu
Ki En Ra – Ghanacondor – Forthcoming Up My Alley
Ital Tek – Infinite – Planet Mu
Soul Litchfield – G – Saturn Never Sleeps
Leonard Dstroy – Latitude – Self released
Homeboy Sandman – The Essence – Self released
Killer Mike – Swimming (prod. Flying Lotus) – SMC (free download)
The Groove – Jordan Rockswell – All City
Charles Trees – Mahjongg – Musique Large
Mike Slott – Amanallah – LuckyMe
Lopez – Neon Lights – Keep Up
Ellen Allien – Dream – Bpitch Control
Subeena – Morphic Chaos – Opit
Ikonika – Psoriasis – Hyperdub
8Bitch – G41 – Slit Jockey
Jose James – Warrior (Rockwell Remix) – Brownswood Recordings
Robot Koch – Now – Project Mooncircle
Jade<3 - He Needs Me - Jade Is Music
Sonnymoon – Houstatlantavegas – Sonnymoon Music
TOKiMONSTA – Line to Dot – Ramp Recordings
Deru – Days, Then… – Mush
Justin Deremo – Blue Whale – Unreleased
Four Tet – Love Cry – Domino

We begin our short series of guest mixes to see in the end of the year with France, courtesy of Opti and the Jarring Effects label.

Based in Lyon and providing music and good vibrations since 1993, Jarring Effects have been on our radar for a while but came to front this year when they hit us up with promos for a range of their recent releases including French dub outfits like High Tone and EZ3kiel as well as South African MC Ben Sharpa, British sub bass ‘freak’ Scorn alongside and many more.

We got talking and out came this guest spot. Originally intended to be a label showcase they’ve instead asked Opti to provide a mix of dub-influenced tracks that trace the links between the traditional dub and its many modern, electronic variants. Additionally the mix also links the label’s output in terms of French dub outfits such as High Tone and their primarily UK counterparts such The Bug, Architeq or even Boxcutter.

It’s a real ride into modern dub vibrations that benefits from a crank on the volume knob (or buttons) and some room to skank a leg.

Below are some words from the label as well as some links for both Jarring Effects and Opti:

Jarring Effects is a Lyon-based independent label. Recognized as leading the French dub scene, Jarring Effects’ sound continues to ramify and proliferate, in the process exploring all fields of electronic, urban and bass music.

Over more than a decade, Jarring Effects has released close to a 100 records, from pure live dub (High Tone, EZ3kiel, Brain Damage, Scorn), to underground hip hop with no boundaries (Ben Sharpa, Playdoe, Oddatee, Reverse Engineering) and advanced electronic music (R Zatz, Interlope, Von Magnet).

Beside this main label activity, Jarring Effects also runs a record studio (JFX Studio), organises a yearly festival called Riddim Collision, runs a booking agency and is one the founding members of the platform CD1D, which gathers more than 100 labels to provide digital and physical music.

We are glad to introduce listeners of Rhythm Incursions to our label with a DJ set from Opti (Airflex labs / Jarring Effects crew). We hope you will enjoy this dubwise mix.

For more Jarring Effect related info check the website, as well as the associated Riddim Collision festival and CD1D collective. For more on Opti check the myspace.

Next guest is from Ben One out in Bristol and goes live in 5 days. Stay tuned but for now, as they say, let’s get on with the music. Download link and tracklist below. As usual iTunes and RSS subscribers should have the mix on its way to them and if you’re not yet subscribed be sure to hit the relevant buttons on the right hand side.

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Tracklisting:
Dino feat Pupa Jim – Business of War (DUBPLATE)
Flaba Stone – The Gift of The Gun (Jarring Effects)
High Tone – Keep On Fire (Iration Steppa redub) (Jarring Effects)
Rusko – Sound Guy is my Target (Subsoldiers)
Twelve – The Last Step (Jarring Effects)
Led Piperz – Plan B (Airflex Labs)
Aku Fen – Infected part I (Jarring Effects)
Mungo’s Hi-Fi – Wickedness (Scotch Bonnet)
High Tone – Dehli/Katmandou (Jarring Effects)
Brain Damage – My Father (Hammerbass – Jarring Effects)
O.B.F – Rock De Nation Dub
Architeq – Birds of Dub (Version) (Tirk Recordings)
Mahanee feat Mickey Murka – Police (Police in Helicopter)
Mahanee – No Joke Ting (Phokus remix) (Police in Helicopter)
Led Piperz vs Ben Sharpa – Hegemony Dub (Airflex labs / Jarring Effects)
Digital Mystikz – Changes (Deep Medi Musik)
Brain Damage – Let Me Be (Hammerbass / Jarring Effects)
Skream – Sub Island (Soul Jazz)
The Bug feat Flowdan – Jah War (Loefah remix) (Ninja Tune)
High Tone – Bass Temperature (Jarring Effects)
Augustus Pablo – Jah Rock (Heartbeat)
Boxcutter – Gave Dub (Planet µ)
Jus Wan – Submersive (Scuba version) (Naked Lunch)
MRK1 – Infection (Earwax)
Skream – Auto-Dub (Wire Magazine / Tempa)
Mala – Level Nine (Hyperdub)
Uzul – Airwaves Wobble (Expressillon)
Martyn – Natural Selection (3024)
Natural High – Dub On Air (Jarring Effects)
Basic Channel – Tikiman (Basic Channel)
Highvisators – Pusher Dub (Jarring Effects)
Manutension – Politic Weapon (Hammerbass)