For the 13th instalment of our Friends of Friends mix series we had a bit of a synchronous moment when both Leeor (who runs FoF) and myself suggested a retrospective mix of the label’s expanding catalogue. And seeing as how I’d opened the series back in March last year, Leeor asked if I’d be up for doing the retrospective, an offer I couldn’t really refuse (and no horse heads were involved either).

Going through the label’s catalogue and putting this together was a lot of fun. It also made me think a lot about this idea of friends which the label is based on. This year has taught me a lot about bonds of friendship and their importance. From my time in Japan during the March 11th earthquake to various other musical projects like Original Cultures and the Finest Ego compilation, 2011 has been the year of friendship for me in many ways. So when Leeor and I discussed the next episode of the Friends of Friends mix series, it felt almost normal that we would both suggest a retrospective look at the expanding FoF catalogue – after all we became friends because of the label. ’What Friends Are For’ celebrates the label, its musicians and their friends. I hope you enjoy it just as much as I did putting it together. It’s such a pleasure to work with these guys and I know that the day we finally meet will be a good one. Enjoy!

If you like what you hear then you should definitely check the back catalogue and purchase away. You’ll find all Friends of Friends releases in one handy place right here. And look out for more in 2012. The Friends of Friends mix series has featured the likes of My Dry Wet Mess, Streets of Beige, Ernest Gonzales, Groundislava, Darkhouse Family and more. You’ll find all the mixes here.

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Tracklist:
1. Ernest Gonzales – Dancing In The Snow
2. Daedelus – L.A Nocturn
3. Daedelus – L.A Nocturn (Elliott Lipp remix)
4. Shlohmo – Birthday Beat
5. Bauchamp – Calypso
6. Salva ft. B. Bravo – Obsession
7. Robot Koch – Devil Drums
8. Mexicans with Guns – Icaros
9. Shlohmo – Things I Lost
10. Salva – Issey Miyake
11. Mexicans With Guns ft. Tiffany Preston – Sell Your Soul (Lunice remix)
12. Gun Selectah – Como Un Perro
13. Mexicans with Guns ft. MC Nocando – Got Me F_cked Up
14. Shlohmo – Just Us
15. Groundislava ft. Shlohmo and Jon Wayne – Shlava
16. Shlohmo – Hot Boxing the Cockpit
17. Jogger – Nice Tights (Nosaj Thing remix)
18. Shohmo – Antigravity (Fulgeance remix)
19. Groundislava ft. Weary – Panorama (Clive Tanaka remix)

I’m very happy to introduce our first (of two) brand new regular presenters to the Rhythm Incursions airwaves. Primus Luta from AvantUrb joins us for a new monthly show direct from the East coast of the United states. Alongside DDay One’s semi-regular show from L.A we’ve now got two presenters repping both sides of the country.

Regular listeners will remember the name as he’s guested on the show quite a few times in the last year, first with the retrospective Beat Construction mix in April, and then with 3 parts of his four-part The Vanguard series earlier this year. An avid music fan and musician, he holds the same interest in new music as we do and brings to the show the same open minded and embracing attitude that we try and put into ours. After chatting by email, following his work and putting his mixes on the show for the best part of a year, it felt like a natural progression to bring him on board.

Here’s some words from the man himself regarding the new show, which has been dubbed RIPL:

For the first episode of RIPL the aim was to give a broad idea of the type of stuff you can expect to hear over the coming months. This is an incredible period in music, with folk from the four corners really representing at the leading edge, where sounds and styles are being born every minute. We like to umbrella these into singular genres for simplicity, but the truth of the matter is that genre’s themselves have become modular.

Each genre, each sub-genre, is like a pebble dropping into the ocean of sound sending out ripples in concentric circles. They bounce off of each other, absorb one another’s energy, intersect, and create new ripples, new sounds, new genres, new sub genres. This show is all about the ripples. Okay I just made that up. It sounded good though, nowhere near as good as the music itself. Bring on the RIPL!!

Primus Luta will be holding it down on the second week of each month starting next month with his RIPL show. He will be followed by our other new presenters XLII and Broken Haze from Raid System in Tokyo – who regular listeners will remember we featured recently in a 3-part special – who will hold down the third week of the month starting in June (their debut show goes out next week). And then on the last week of the month our regular show will continue to go out. So that’ll be 3 times the amount of regular music coming your way each month, each from a different continent but with the same aim of bringing discerning music to discerning ears.

Please leave your feedback on this show so we can continue to build and take in your input as well.

Enjoy!

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Tracklist:
Pariah – Detroit Falls – R&S
The Glitch Mob – Beyond Monday – Forthcoming Glass Air
Dark Party – Status – Mush Records
Free the Robots – Orion’s Belt Buckle – Alpha Pup
Shlohmo – Hot Boxing The Cockpit (Tokimonsta Remix) – Friends of Friends
Take – Quartz for Amber – Alpha Pup
Lorn – Army of Fear – Forthcoming Brainfeeder
RJD2 – A Spaceship for Now – RJ’s Electrical Connections
Paul White – Unnamed Beat – One Handed Music
Phat Kat – Katakombs (Demo) – Look Records (free download)
Busdriver – Least Favorite Rapper (Anti-Pop Consortium/Mega Man Remix) – Anti (free download)
Jahcoozi – Powerdown Blackout – Bpitch Control
H Prizm – Unnamed Beat – Unreleased
Ras G – Discipline 09-3 – Leaving Records
Alex B – Hot Chop – Elm & Oak
Pretty Lights – Still Rockin – Self Released
Blockhead – Only Sequences Change – Ninja Tune
Prefuse 73 – Return From Home – Beat Records
Scuba – Before – Hotflush Recordings
Electric Wire Hustle – Thank You Steve – EWH
Onra – Jeeps – All City records
Bonobo – All in Forms – Ninja Tune
Lusine – Think Of It – Ghostly International
Portformat – U$ (Dandario Remix) – Tokyo Dawn Records
Jneiro Jarel – Android Romance 2 – Who?
Baths – Mecha Joy – Forthcoming Anticon
Shlohmo – Post Atmosphere – Friends of Friends
Autechre – Treale – Warp
Tim Exile – A Little Bit More – Warp
Jogger – Superman – Magical Properties
Shafiq Husayn – Rebel Sawyer – Plug Research
Flying Lotus – Mmmhmmm – Warp

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)

‘Friends of Friends Remixed’ features remixes of the original tracks by Daedelus and Jogger from Nosaj Thing, Mexicans with Guns, Grahm Zilla, Michna and Eliot Lipp among others. The remix EP will be released on July 28th. In addition T-shirts made exclusively for the first release are still available on the label’s site. The t-shirts come in a bundle with a copy of the EP and a download card for the remix EP. Check the FoF site for details and to buy.

As for the remix project, visit this link for full details. By submitting your email address you’ll be sent the stems for Jogger’s ‘Nice Tights’ track and then the rest is up to you. See below for additional details:

One winner will be selected by FOF Music and Jogger, the second by you, the fans. Both winners will have there remix posted on the MXP4 FOF Music widget, along with the original and official remixes. Winners will also receive a merch pack with music, t-shirt, stickers and other surprises. The contest will run from June 18 to July 19, 2009. Winners will be announced on or around July 22.

The MXP4 FoF widget is embedded below and you can use it to buy the releases, view videos, photos and stream music as well as more.

That’s it, get stuck in, remix, share and most importantly buy the music if you like it and support the label and artists. And look out for more from FoF in future Rhythm Inc shows.

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Despite having come down with a nasty bit of flu we soldier on this month with another show full of musical goodness, including plenty of new and exciting forthcoming bits. Just ignore the gruff tone of voice. EDIT: I’ve also just realised I forgot to edit the intro, so it doesn’t repeat for ten seconds. Apologies all but I thought it best to put the show out rather than wait another couple of hours. It goes with the whole being ill thing.

2009 continues to be a pretty interesting year, with each month bringing new releases from new and established artists and labels, and we’re not about to complain. This month is no different with our selection box full of some great music including new bits from the likes of Bibio, AM Architect, DOOM, Take, Lorn, Daedelus, Nosaj Thing, Martyn, Hudson Mohawke and many more. From downtempo moods to straight up hip hop boom bap to deep dubby styles and mashed up electronica and chiptune, it’s all covered one way or another.

The mini feature this month looks at the recently launched Friends of Friends label out in L.A., which we wrote about a few weeks back. As usual check the playlist below for full details, and links to where you can buy the music. If you like what you hear, go out there and support the artists.

And stay tuned to the site for more guest mixes in the coming month, including the last of our L.A. specials and a guest mix from the Musique Large label in Paris, as well as more to be announced. For now though, sit back and enjoy!

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Soundspecies – Can We Call it Love – Burntprogress
Mono/Poly – The Beatles – Unreleased
Starkey – Miracles (Jamie Vexd Remix) – Planet Mu
Vangel – Broken Jazz Hands – Equinox records
Bibio – Odd Paws – Mush Records
AM Architect – What If – Exponential
Martyn – Vancouver – 3024
Architeq – Sleeping Bear (Take remix) – Tirk Records
Paul White – Alien Nature Extended version – One Handed Music
Mini feature starts
Daedelus – C’est Super – Friends of Friends
Jogger – Nice Tights – Friends of Friends
Daedelus – LA Noturn (Eliot Lipp remix) – Friends of Friends
Jogger – Nice Tights (Nosaj Thing remix) – Friends of Friends
Mini feature ends
Nalepa – Monday (Glitch Mob remix) – 1320 Recordings
DOOM – Ballskin – Lex Records
Debruit – Echtah – Musique Large
Lorn – Of Hearts – Unreleased / Forthcoming Brainfeeder
Hudson Mohawke – Monde – Warp
Quarta330 – Ahirskew – Maltine Records (free download)
Dorian Concept – Her Marshmallow Secret – Kindred Spirits
Fink – See It All – Ninja Tune

We received word of a new label in the last week or so which combines great music with an interesting concept that makes the most of the current situation in the music industry.

Friends of Friends is the name of the label. Based in L.A their first release features L.A ‘legend’ Daedelus and Jogger. We’ll let them explain the concept in more detail:

The concept in short for our inaugural release is FoF invites an artist to join the FoF family by signing on to do a split EP; they in turn invite another musician or group to complete the split release and commission a designer to create the EP’s artwork on a limited edition T-Shirt which will include a download card (100% seed paper card). Included in the download will be the release, exclusive remixes and special content: ie videos, mixes etc

So as you can see it’s definitely not your average release but what really struck us is that this is exactly the kind of release and idea that can help bridge the current issues between physical and digital and how artists can make money in an age where music is seen as increasingly disposable and people want the music product free but are actually willing to pay for good quality, relevant physical products like t-shirts, designs etc…

The release features 3 tracks each from Daedelus and Jogger, and the remixes come from the likes of Nosaj Thing, Thunderheist and more. We’ve had the EP for a while now and we’re definitely liking the sound of it. Expect to hear some of the music in coming shows and if like us FoF caught your interest and raised your curiosity then head over to the site to check where and how to buy. The first EP is out now.

http://www.fofmusic.net