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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Enjoy and happy new year!

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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

With a good couple of months that has seen them take over the infamous Dommune Ustream broadcast, announce new releases and just generally being great at what they do, Tokyo’s very own Raid System return for another show packed with dancefloor riddims and sweaty numbers.

XLII and Broken Haze once more put together a carefully selected hour of music from the likes of Joker, Gemmy, Modeselektor, Bobby Tank, ill Gates, Knight Riderz and three cuts from the excellent Frite Nite ‘Surreal Estate’ compilation among others. From grime to dubstep, hard edged 4×4 riddims to juke and bass heavy hip hop the boys provide a relentless ride that’s the perfect way to end our month.

For more on the pair’s ongoing activities and releases be sure to stop by their website www.raids.jp.

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Enjoy!

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Tracklist:

XLII Selection 1
Kahn – ILLY – Punch Drunk
Ill Gates – Pharma Sutra – Muti Music
Schlachthofbronx – Coolie Fruit feat. Gnucci Banana – Man Recordings
Knight Riderz – Drop This – Seclusiasis
Modeselektor – German Clap – Monkeytown

Broken Haze Selection 1
Dizz1 – Decay feat. Royalston – Black Acre
Bobby Tank – Needin me – Vermin Records
Monky – Hipster – Hoya Hoya
Dark Sky – The Lick – 50 Weapons
Salva – Policy – Frite Nite

XLII Selection 2
LV & Joshua Idehen – Northern Line – Keysound Recordings
Joker feat. Buggsy & Shadz & Scarz & Double KHK-SP – Back In The Days – 4AD
Preditah – Gargoyle – Earth 616
Kuru & UFO! – Aoki – Frite Nite
Zdot – Harpoon – Elite Music

Broken Haze Selection 2
NastyNasty – Suffocating – Frite Nite
Joker – My Trance Girl – 4AD
Gemmy – Too Far – WoW Music
DJ Rashad & Gant-Man – Heaven Sent – Planet Mu
Hourglass Sea – Another World – Chill Mega Chill

September’s Rhythm Incursions session comes at you once more in a live format, recorded on September 29 live from Rhythm Incursions Towers aka La Maisonette Electronique as part of our Ustream series alongside Om Unit.

This month’s show also features our good friend from Manchester Danny Drive Thru who dropped by for a guest mix, a selection of new music from Laurent and a selection of fresh dubs from Om Unit. The podcast features Laurent and Danny’s sessions in full plus the first 15 minutes of the Om Unit session. You can however stream back the entire 3 hours on the Ustream archive page right here.

Up this month as always lots of new music for you to check including music from Roots Manuva and Dizz1, A Future Without, new Project Mooncircle releases by Robot Koch and Long Arm, Mochilla’s Timeless remixes, Krampfafht, NastyNasty, MED and Madlib, EAN, Fink, Welder, Phillip D Kick’s brand new Footwork Jungle vol.3, the awesome Gang Gang Dance rework of King Midas Sound and much more. Full tracklist below (aside from Danny’s set) including links to all artist/label sites where you can purchase and support.

Look out for new releases from Danny Drive Thru including a 7″ called Psychedelia Smith on Man On Fire records in October and a release on Fat City later on this year. Full info and more on his Facebook fan page. Om Unit also has new releases upcoming on his Cosmic Bridge label, in the shape of a Kromestar 4-track EP dropping in November. You can hear previous of this in this month’s show.

Disclaimer/Apology – There’s a fair amount of swearing in this month’s show on my part. My apologies, it’s been a long week and I sort of forgot I was recording this for posterity.

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Tracklist:
Laurent’s selection
Suite for Ma Dukes – Fantastix (Georgia Anne Muldrow remix) – Mochilla
Hawthorne Headhunters – If You Were My Baby (Reprise) – Plug Research
Fink – Perfect Darkness – Forthcoming Ninja Tune
Roboth Koch – Glassdrops – Forthcoming Project Mooncircle
MED ft. Planet Asia and Kurupt – Roll Out – Forthcoming Stones Throw
Roots Manuva – Here We Go Again – Forthcoming Ninja Tune
El-P – Drones Over Bklyn – Adult Swim
NastyNasty – Jelly – Forthcoming Rwina Records
Vessel – Trapped Wave – Forthcoming A Future Without
DDay One – Unstable Material (2econd Class Citizen remix) – Forthcoming Content Label
Ital Tek ft. Boxcutter – Whip It Up VIP – Forthcoming Atom River
Long Arm – When We Fall (Daisuke Tanabe remix) – Project Mooncircle
EAN – Untitled remix – Unreleased
Welder – Skybend – Ancestor
The Game ft. Lil Wayne and Tyler, The Creator – Martians vs Goblins – Interscope
Kromestar – Don’t Make Sense – Forthcoming Cosmic Bridge Records
King Midas Sound – Earth A Kill Ya (Gang Gang Dance rework) – Forthcoming Hyperdub
Danny Breaks – Droppin Science vol.1 (Phillip D Kick Footwork Jungle edit) – Forthcoming
Blu ft. Sa-Ra and Nola Darling – Never Be The Same – Free download
GoldFFinch – Dirty Bird – Forthcoming Airflex Labs
LV and Joshua Idehen – Primary Colours (Extended Mix) – Keysound Recordings
Gun Selectah – Villa Ghetto (Matt Shadetek remix) – Friends of Friends
Attica Blues – The Blueprint (Photek remix) – Mo Wax

Danny Drive Thru selection
One hour no tracklist!

Om Unit selection
Kromestar ft. Team Starfleet – Outer Space – Forthcoming Cosmic Bridge Records
Kahn – Illy – Forthcoming Punchdrunk
Chrissy Murderbot – Art of Noise vs Trim – CDR
Krampfafht – Makin Magic – Rwina Records
Barrington Levy – The Vibes Is Right (Om Unit edit) – Free download
Click here to stream the rest of Om Unit’s set (no download!)

So after a two month hiatus partly due to earthquakes and other natural disasters we’re back with a regular Rhythm Incursions podcast, unsurprisingly shock full of new music and exclusives as I try and work my way through the backlog accumulated in the last two months.

Over two hours we cover a lot of ground this month with new and forthcoming music from Machinedrum, Cardopusher, Anti-G, Mr Beatnick, Neon Jung, Mark E, Downliners Sekt, Tom Trago, Jon Wayne, Africa Hitech, Shabazz Palaces, Com Truise, DZA, Eliot Lipp, LV and Joshua Idehen, Ossie and much more. We’ve also got some sneak peek exclusives from NastyNasty, Machinedrum’s Juke/Footwork project, our old friend from Amsterdam Coco B, Klic and a few others. Also on this month’s show a preview of the forthcoming Greensleeves dubstep remixes, with The Bug and Goth Trad. As I said a lot to showcase and a varied two hour ride into the freshest sounds we’ve been blessed to receive recently.

As always full tracklist and details are below as well as download and stream options. Or simply subscribe to our RSS/iTunes feed and receive the shows directly in your inbox.

Stay tuned for details of forthcoming guest mixes including live audio from our recent adventures in Japan. Also coming up in June are all our regular podcasts from Primus Luta, Raid System and myself as well as DDay One who’ll be back for one of his sessions. Oh and stay tuned to our Ustream channel for some surprise shows this week and next month!

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Tracklist:
Reprazent – New Forms (MD Juke edit) – Forthcoming
Cedaa – Glen Close – Car Crash Set
Chrissy Murderbot ft. Rubi Dan – New Juke Swing – Planet Mu
NastyNasty – Bleeding – Forthcoming
Young Montana? – Sacre Cool – Alpha Pup
Slugabed – New Krak Swing – Forthcoming Ninja Tune
Jon Wayne – Time Trial – Alpha Pup
fLako – Sun Ba – Project Mooncircle
Exile – Distopian Utopia – All City Records
Airliner – None She Is – Self Released
Kan Sano ft. Repeat Pattern – Oops Hops – Circulations
Co.Fee – Kali – My Hollow Drum
InfinitiRock – Glass Balloon – Asthmatic Kitty
Letherette – Hold Close – Ho Tep
Coco B – Date Theory – Unreleased
Throwing Snow – Pyre – Unreleased
Brotto – Grasslands (Railster Remix) – Tea and Cake Records
Ossie – The Power of Love – Forthcoming Hyperdub
LV & Joshua Idehen – Melt – Keysound Recordings
Downliners Sekt – Locked Faces – Self Released
Mark E – Quatro – Ghostly International
Cuthead – The Sinner – Uncanny Valley
Tom Trago ft. Ommas Keith – So Cold – Rush Hour
Mr Beatnick – Synthetes (Architeq Remix) – Forthcomin Don’t Be Afraid
Neon Jung – Just Can’t Leave It Alone – Magic Wire
Medlar – Terrell – Forthcoming Wolf Records
E.S.T – Ajar (Klic Unofficial 2step Edit) – Unreleased
Eskmo – We Got More (Loops Haunt remix) – Ninja Tune
Maga Bo – Ransom – Senseless Records
Ding Dong – Badman Forward (The Bug ft. Flowdan Remix) – Forthcoming Greensleeves
Pampidoo – Synthetizer Voice (Goth Trad Remix) – Forthcoming Greensleeves
Kansas City Prophets ft. Linton Kwesi Johnson – Cams – Kaboogie
Bass Clef – So Cruel – Forthcoming Punch Drunk
Foreign Beggars – LDN (Prod. Alix Perez) – Forthcoming Dented Records
Shabazz Palaces – Free Press and Curl – Forthcoming Sub Pop
Africa Hitech – Gang Slap – Warp
Gucci Mane – My Chain (Jon Wayne’s Basement mix) – Free Download
Machinedrum – Sacred Frequency – Forthcoming Planet Mu
Drive Me Home – Don’t Play Around With That – Forthcoming Citinite
Com Truise – VHS Sex – Forthcoming Ghostly International
DZA – Softgram (Planet Soap remix) – Forthcoming Error Broadcast
The Midnight Eez – Digging In The Crates – All City Records
Eliot Lipp – Baby Tank (Leo123 remix) – Brolabs
Anti-G – Inspiration Meets Bubbling – Forthcoming Planet Mu
Lando Kal – Further – Hotflush recordings
Skyfish ft. Rumi – Judgement (Skyfish 808 remix) – Unreleased
Depakote – Jacob’s Ladder – Fly Definition
Cardopusher ft Juakali – Nice Up – Forthcoming Tigerbeat 6

Primus Luta returns for the May instalment of RIPL after skipping the April edition due to our recent hiccups. Once more he steps up with a deep selection that goes across the board taking in a lot of recent and forthcoming releases.

Up in this month’s show we’ve got new music from Caural, Prefuse 73, Chrissy Murderbot, Mo Kolours, Jazzsteppa, Instra:Mental, Circle Traps, Braille, LV & Message to Bears, Jamie Woon, Jon Wayne, Saul Williams, Shabazz Palaces as well as a few cuts from the forthcoming Brownswood Eclectic compilation 2 – including DJ G, Stray and Funk Ethics – as well as new music from Amon Tobin forthcoming on Ninja.

As always you can download and/or stream below or simply subscribe to our RSS/iTunes feed (links below and to the side) and receive all the shows directly in your inbox!

Next this month we’ve got our regular RIRS and Rhythm Inc podcasts as well as some live sets from both the Nihon Kizuna and Skratch Evolution 3 parties – more details on these soon!

Turn up the volume and enjoy!

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Tracklist:
Caural – Sorry Underground Hip Hop Happened Ten Years Ago (For Regan) – Eat Concrete
Santigold – Go – Hypetrack
Saul Williams – Girls Have More Fun (Album Version) – Volcanic Sunlight
Chrissy Murderbot – Break U Off – Planet Mu
Barbara Panther – Empire (Lorn Remix) – Free download
Jazzsteppa ft Foreign Beggars – Raising the bar (Wascal Remix) – Rough Trade Records
NastyNasty – No Names – Forthcoming Planet Mu
Niño – Buio Omega – Forthcoming Donky Pitch records
214 – Come On – Forthcoming Car Crash Set
Machinedrum ft. Wheela – Flycatcha – Forthcoming Planet Mu
2562 – Cheater – When In Doubt
Roska – Error Code – Forthcoming Hotflush recordings
Comma – Ken Griffey Jr. – Forthcoming Frite Nite / Free download
Braille – Leavin Without You – Forthcoming Rush Hour
DJ G – Automatic – Forthcoming Browsnwood Recordings
Instra:Mental – Waterfalls – Non:Plus
Laurel Halo – Aquifer – Hour Logic
Young Montana? – Mynnd – Alpha Pup
Stray – Break Your Legs – Forthcoming Browsnwood Recordings
Eskmo – Moving Glowstream (Amon Tobin Remix) – Forthcoming Ninja Tune
Amon Tobin – Goto 10 – Forthcoming Ninja Tune
Atropolis – NYChero – Dutty Artz
Chancha Via Circuito – Puente – ZZK Records
Mo Kolours – Drum Talking – Forthcoming One Handed Music
Flying Lotus – Melting3 – Warp
Ivy Chokes – It’ll come to me – Unreleased
Shabazz Palaces – Are you… Can you… Were you? (Felt) – Forthcoming Sub Pop
Jonwayne – Trilla G – Alpha Pup
fLako – Sluggish Thing – Forthcoming Project Mooncircle
Circle Traps – Bo! Symbol – Forthcoming Opit Records
Airliner – Hush Hush – Self Released
Brotto – Grassland (Bunny On Acid Remix) – Tea and Cake Records
Spatial – 80723 – Infrasonics
Funk Ethics – Step In – Browsnwood Recordings
The Midnight Eez – New York Devils – Forthcoming All City Records
Blk.Adonis – So. Fine
Lost Twin – No es una elipse – A Future Without
LV & Message To Bears ft Zaki Ibrahim – Explode (DJ RUM’s remix) – 2nd Drop Records
Jamie Woon – Spiral – Polydor
Prefuse 73 – The Only Hand to Hold (feat. Shara Worden) – Warp
Secret Sidewalk – Depth Charge – Free download

And so the end of year arrives and with it our last show of 2010. The last of our end of year shows, this one follows the 2009 best of mix I did last year though instead of spreading across two shows I tried to squeeze all I could into one session. Make no mistake, despite the naysayers and the doom and gloom surrounding the music industry in general, for me 2010 has been a rather good year music wise. On one side there’s seemingly more music than ever, and with that comes a certain lack of quality control. On the other, this lack of quality control and breakdown of the traditional models within the industry has I believe given various labels and artists in the ‘underground’ a lot more potential for flourishing. As the old saying goes, you’ve just got to look closer to find the gold among all the noise.

I originally had 160 odd tracks earmarked for this show. A couple of days of ruminating and trying things out and I managed to keep it down to 60 or so, as well as the mini feature on All City Records, my label of the year (as you should know by now – they did two guest mixes for us earlier this month). In the process of putting the mix together it first occurred to me that if you consider the amount of music I received this year for the show (at a guess I’d say 500 odd releases, maybe even more) then there really is a big job of sifting through everything to find the stuff that’s actually worthy of a best of mix. Even then I had to leave stuff out that I wished could have been fitted. The criteria (if you will) was a mix of what I’d played on the show in the last 12 months and which I considered to be well above par, as well as tracks that have been staples in my DJ sets and tracks from albums that have barely left my portable player all year. The result is the following tracklist. Apologies to those I missed, but if anything it’s the perfect excuse for you to go over all the shows we’ve put out in the last year (hint hint). I also tried to avoid too much duplication with the previous two end of year shows from Primus Luta and Raid System.

So that’s it for 2010, another year under the belt and onwards. Rhythm Incursions has seen a lot of changes this year – new website, new presenters, new regular guest series. It’s been an absolute blast, and I want to thank everyone who’s made the show what it is and who works out of their own time towards continuing to make this one of the finer podcast series out there. In no specific order much love and thanks to Primus Luta, XLII, Broken Haze, Dday One and Leeor at FoF for their work. A big thank you as well to all the labels, artists and PR who send us stuff and take time to talk to us, sometimes even bowing to our pressures for guest spots. Among them (too many to mention) special thanks to Olan at All City, Gordon at Mooncircle, Marcus at Planet Mu & Hyperdub, Flip at Error Broadcast, Melissa at Tailored, the Outpost, Alex Nut and Alex Chase. Lastly big thanks to my close friends and inspirations Om Unit and Vinilificio.

Right then, enough of the chatter. I’ll let you enjoy the mix. It’s roughly 2h15, with the first 2 hours taken by the mix and the last 15 minutes the All City records megamix celebrating some of their releases from 2010. I was intent on doing a proper megamix of all the releases, but just couldn’t due to time and other engagements. Still this should give you the last push to check their stuff if you haven’t yet. No talking, all mixing and music!

As always stream and/or download below, or simply subscribe to the RSS/iTunes/email. The playlist is so long I can’t find the energy of linking all the labels/websites this time so PLEASE if you like what you hear than check the playlist and go out there and support the artists and the music. You can browse all available shows by artists on this page, and all previous shows have full, linked tracklists.

Love and blessings, see you in 2011!

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Tracklist:
Blundetto – Nautilus – Heavenly Sweetness
Daisuke Tanabe – Artificial Sweetener – Circulations
Dibiase – Skull Crack – Alpha Pup
Lorn – Until There Is No End – Brainfeeder
Recloose – Insomnia in Dub – Rush Hour
Space Dimension Controller – Simmering Emotions – R&S Records
Teebs – Double Fifths – Brainfeeder
Roots Manuva – Witness remix – Ninja Tune
2phast – Crickets – Unreleased
Breakage ft. Roots Manuva – Run Em Out – Digital Soundboy
Scuba – So You Think You’re Special – Hotflush recordings
Wrongtom & Roots Manuva – Tings Proper Juggled – Big Dada
Jose James – Blackmagic – Brownswood
Electric Wire Hustle – Longtime – BBE
Exile – In Love (Kan Kick remix) – Plug Research
Foreign Beggars ft. 2tall and Dabrye – Gravity – Dented Records
Arp101 – Galactic Warriors – Eglo records
Tranqill – Deadly Wintaz – One Handed records
Om Unit – Ether – Terrorhythm
Afrika Hitek – One Two – Warp
Bullion – Say Goodbye to What – One Handed records
Fulgeance – Chopped and Screwed – Musique Large
Miguel Atwood Ferguson Orchestra – Fantastic (Georgia Anne Muldrow remix) – Mochilla
Aloe Blacc – I Need a Dollar – Stones Throw
Soul Litchfield – Autumn – Saturn Never Sleeps
Paul White – Goes to Hollywood – One Handed records
Jneiro Jarel – Wave Trip – Rush Hour
Andreya Triana – A Town Called Obsolete – Ninja Tune
Lazer Sword ft. Turf Talk – I’m Gone – Innovative Leisure
Robot Koch – Cloud City – Project Mooncircle
Chanes – Lights Off – Self Released
Take – Begin End Begin (Take remix) – Alpha Pup
El-p – Drunk with a Loaded Pistol – Gold Dust Media
FaltyDL – Filthy Divinity – Planet Mu
Dimlite – Elbow Flood – Now Again
Jazzneversleeps – Nattevinger – On Point
JSBL – Jimbo (Sam IRL remix) – Affine
Flying Lotus – Do the Astral Plane – Warp
Darkstar – Gold (John Roberts remix) – Hyperdub
Mux Mool – Enceladus – Ghostly
Oriol – The Process – Planet Mu
Aardvark – Re-spoken (Nubian Mindz remix) – Rush Hour
Four Tet – Sing – Domino records
Yosi Horikawa – Cook From South – Ubeat
Mount Kimbie – Mayor – Hotflush recordings
Sepalcure – Every Day of my Life – Hotflush recordings
Caribou – Sun – Merge
Bonobo – Eyesdown – Ninja Tune
Pariah – Railroad – R&S Records
Maddslinky ft. Omar – Special (Simbad 4×4 remix) – Tru Thoughts
Illum Sphere – Sweat the Descent – Fat City
Boddika – Boddika’s House – Naked Lunch
Untold – Mass Dreams of the Future – R&S Records
Harmonimix – Bills, Bills, Bills – White label
Mala – Pop Pop Epic – DMZ
Helixir – Ride the Wind – 7even Recordings
Joe – Claptrap – Hessle Audio
Nocando – Hurry Up and Wait – Alpha Pup
Digi D’Allesio – Morning Jam with Darth Vader – Overknights
LV & Quarta330 – Suzuran – Hyperdub
The Bug ft. Flowdan – Skeng (Autechre remix) – Ninja Tune
Kuedo – Joy Construction – Planet Mu
Mini feature – All City Records, label of 2010
Jordan Rockswell – Winter Warfare – L.A 10×10 Series
Onra – Oper8tor – Long Distance LP
Musinah – Always Smile – 7″
Om Unit – Lightgrids – 7″
Mike Gao – California – L.A 10×10 Series
Ras G – Breakfast Blunts – L.A 10×10 Series
Take – I Miss my Brains – L.A 10×10 Series
Dam Funk – Night Stroll – L.A 10×10 Series
Krystal Klear – Boogie Wan – 12″
Teebs – Anchor Steam – L.A 10×10 Series
Mini feature ends

We finish September with our usual podcast, bringing you once more a 2-hour fill of fresh new music for your ears.

It’s been a rather busy summer for us here in the UK, and the new show reflects that – no mini feature this month as I instead wanted to focus on all the new music I’ve received over the summer, not least following my recent trip to Hoya:Hoya in Manchester at the end of August alongside Lorn and Om Unit.

Up this month we have new and exclusive bits from the likes of Mochilla, Lazer Sword, Computer Jay, Brey, My Dry Wet Mess, Letherette, Teebs, Pariah, The Gaslamp Killer, Krystal Klear, Peverelist, Zed Bias, Take, The Bug (remixed by Autechre!), Slugabed, Offshore, Floating Points Ensemble and many more. Alongside this are some recent favourite bits from Om Unit, Rudi Zygadlo, Sneaky, Darkhouse Family, Themselves, Wrongtom and Aardvark among others.

It’s a busy two hours so without further ado I’ll let you get stuck in. As always the show is available for download/stream below and the easiest way to stay updated is to subscribe to the RSS or iTunes feeds.

Up in October we have guest mixes from Robot Koch, Mweslee and Salva as well as some more goodies to be announced soon alongside our regular shows. Till then, crank up the volume and enjoy!

Download Rhythm Incursions – September 2010 (right click and save as)

Miguel Atwood Ferguson – Fantastic (Georgia Anne Muldrow) – Forthcoming Mochilla
Kordan – Mirror (No Reflection remix by Take) – Forthcoming
Om Unit – The Corridor – Terrorhythm
Sneaky – Toytown Elegy (Danny Drive Thru Re-Do) – Unreleased
Ritchy Pitch – Ye Fre Mi Ritchy Pitch – Forthcoming BBE
Computer Jay – Phantom – Forthcoming All City Records
Letherette – Cherryade – Forthcoming Ho Tep
Ratatat – Drugs – XL
Rudi Zygadlo – Song of Praise – Planet Mu
My Dry Wet Mess – Diagonal People – Forthcoming Magical Properties
LV feat. Okmalumkoolkat – Boomslang – Hyperdub
Pariah – Crossed Out – R&S
Beak – Ears Have Ears – Invada records
Madlib – Further Adventures of Walkman Flavor – Stones Throw
Teebs – While You Doooo – Forthcoming Brainfeeder
Floating Points Ensemble – Post Suite – Ninja Tune
Gaslamp Killer feat. Computer Jay – Shattering Inner Journeys – Forthcoming Brainfeeder
Themselves – Skinning The Drum (Odd Nosdam remix) – Anticon
DJ G – With U – Self Released (free download)
Wrongtom and Roots Manuva feat. Seanie T – Big Tings Redone – Big Dada
Peverelist and Hyetal – The Hum – Punch Drunk
Artek – We Save Lives (Brey’s Red Cross Remix) – Unreleased
Tropics – Melorr – Forthcoming Planet Mu
Krystal Klear – Greensilver – Forthcoming Dub Organiser
Dam Funk feat. MC Eight – Hood Pass Intact – Stones Throw
Untold – Stop What You’re Doing (James Blake remix) – Hemlock
Zed Bias – Lost on Tenori Street – Unreleased
Darkhouse Family – Darkhouse Meditation – Fat City
Jon Wayne – 1 For Kutmah – CDR
Knxwledge – Aromatik – Funraisers
Lazer Sword feat. Turf Talk – I’m Gone – Forthcoming Innovative Leisure
Fulgeance – Vengeance – Forthcoming Musique Large
Pavel Dovgal – Andromeda – Forthcoming Project Mooncircle
Aardvark – Breaking Bad – Forthcoming Eat Concrete
Daedelus – Vous Ites Stereo – All City Records
The Bug – Skeng (Autechre remix) – Forthcoming Ninja Tune
DVA feat. Fatima – Just Vybe – Hyperdub
Offshore – UTG 2 – Big Dada
Dibiase – Clocked Out – Alpha Pup
Slugabed – Donky Stomp – Forthcoming Donky Pitch

Being currently trapped in some sort of odd twilight zone-esque real life situation I’m not very inspired for this month’s accompanying text blurb. So instead I’ll get straight down to business. Rhythm Incursions May 2010 rounds off a very busy month for us here at Rhythm Inc towers, possibly the busiest since we started. We’ve had guest mixes from Cafeteria and Monday Jazz, Fulgeance and Donky Pitch, Marques Lafelt and the Content Label, Throwing Snow and Kper and FoF Music. Alongside this we’ve also debuted new regular shows from two new presenters: Primus Luta over in the US who heads the new RIPL monthly show, and Broken Haze and XLII in Tokyo who head the RIRS monthly show. And now this, our regular 2h monthly show. I’ve never been good at maths but I’m pretty sure that’s close to like 20h of music in one month. Not bad eh? Click here to view all this month’s show, download them, stream them, comment etc…

So this month’s show follows our usual format with 2 hours of new and forthcoming music from the likes of Hightone, Breakage, Ceschi, Kraddy, Si Begg, Paul White, The Bug, The Roots, Houseshoes, Machinedrum, Ital Tek, Digital Mystikz, Danny Breaks, Dday One, Charles Trees, Roots Manuva, Foreign Beggars and Dabrye, The Blessings and many more. Alongside this we’ve got a world premier of the EAN remix of Om Unit’s Searching, which is forthcoming on Stretched Records. The mini feature for this month continues our recent Japanese theme (last one for a while promise!) with a look at the work of Olive Oil, a producer we’ve rated for a long time and who was definitely pioneering the whole beats/electronic hip hop thing since 05/06 in his native Japan. As with many other Japanese producers he’s not that well known outside Japan but his work definitely deserves a closer look so we’ve got four tracks from releases over the last 5 years to give you an idea. And if you like what you hear be sure to check his guest mix for us from last summer.

So that’s about it, as always download links and stream players are below alongside the exhaustive tracklist. If you like what you hear go out and support the artists and labels please, and where available download stuff for free even.

We’ll be back next month alongside our two new shows, RIPL and RIRS. You can also expect some very special guest mixes, the next in our Friends of Friends mix series and a site overhaul and relaunch, which should be late June/early July depending on how busy we are. As always feedback is appreciated so hit us up in the comments and enjoy!

Laurent

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Tracklist:
The Roots – Stars – Dilla Joints Mixtape, download here
Houseshoes – Newports – All City Records
Eccy – Grease Spot – Troop Records
Charles Trees ft. Shigeto – Gratiot Gowanus – Musique Large
Grace Jones – All For Love (Digital Mystikz Remix) – Wall of Sound
Om Unit – Searching (EAN Remix) – Forthcoming Stretched Records *world premiere*
Rudi Zygadlo – Missa Per Brevis – Planet Mu
LV – Early Mob – Keysound Recordings
The Blessings – Moranis Riding Ants – Nod Navigators
Ital Tek – Subgiant – Planet Mu
Jonny Faith – Crimson Ride – Forthcoming Civil Music
Maga Bo ft. K Libre – Nakhil (Kusha Arora and Bakir remix) – Kusha Arora
Ghost Monkey – Who Wouldn’t – Self released
Q4 – Look Again (DDay One remix) – Project Mooncircle
Guilty Simpson ft. MED – Futuristic (Oh No remix) – Stones Throw promo
Paul White – Ride With Me – Forthcoming One Handed Music / Now Again
Danny Breaks – Space Maidens – Groove Attack (re-issue) / Droppin’ Science
Mini feature – Olive Oil
Olive Oil – Super Star – Oilworks (2005)
Olive Oil vs K Bomb – Town After Town – We Nod Records (2009)
Soloal One aka Olive Oil – Positive = Negative – Romz Records (2006)
Olive Oil – I Change U – Oilworks (2009)
Mini feature ends
Ramadanman – Tumble – Hessle Audio
Throwing Snow – Bring Me Back – Unreleased
TWoc ft. Afrikan Simba – Good Father – All City Records
Hightone ft. Ben Sharpa – Space Rodeo – Jarring Effects
2phast – Output 1-2 – Unreleased
The Bug ft. Flowdan – Run – Swamp81
Andreikelos – Call For The Last Stand – Forthcoming Equinox Records
Praveen and Benoit – Embers (Machinedrum Remix) – Moodgadget
Foreign Beggars ft. Dabrye and 2tall – Gravity – Forthcoming Dented Records
Breakage ft. Roots Manuva – Run Em Out – Digital Soundboy
Kraddy – Android Porn (Si Begg and K-The-I??? Remix) – Forthcoming Equinox Records
Prosoulytes – J’Aime (Instrumental) – Feelin’ Music
Houseshoes – The Makings – Do Over
Numaads – Wanting – Forthcoming Project Mooncircle
Funkineven – Must Move – Eglo Records
Ceschi – Bad Jokes – Forthcoming Equinox Records
Oriol – Memories – Forthcoming Planet Mu

It’s with great pleasure that we kick off a new monthly series of guest mixes in conjuction with the Friends of Friends label. FoF should be no stranger to regular listeners, as we’ve been strong supporters of the label ever since it started in late 08/early 09. We’ve worked with them in supporting the releases and spreading the word, and even hooked them up with Om Unit for a forthcoming release, so when Lazy Brow who runs the label got in touch recently about starting a series of guest mixes and asked me to do the first one it was a no-brainer. Not to mention a real honor and pleasure.

Once the mix was wrapped we got chatting about how best to get it out there to as many heads as possible and so the next logical step was to do a Rhythm Inc/FoF team up. So starting this week, once a month we’ll be dropping an exclusive mix as part of the Friends of Friends mix series – each mix will be brought to you by a friend of the label. The next one in the series is already done, but we won’t give out who it is just yet. Expect to be hearing sounds from worldwide producers who are doing things we love. It’s a friend and family thing really.

Each mix will be podcast on Rhythm Inc and also available via FoF’s Soundcloud page and website.

The artwork for this one comes from a friend of FoF, of course. Photographer Oliver Kish snapped this truly incredible picture and had this story to tell regarding how it came about. It is not staged! (click it for a bigger version)

“This photo was taken during my first tip to the blooming poppy fields in Southern California. Thinking the day was over, I turned a corner and there he was, the tinman. I took a quick snap on my original Russian made LC-A, then headed home. I’ve been to the poppy fields since and have never run into the tinman again. Right place, right time, channeling the Wizard…”

As for the mix when I was asked to do this the idea of a theme for it came pretty quickly – showcase music from friends and family worldwide. People I know and have worked with over the years in various music scenes. In my 8 or so years as a music journalist and in various other roles relating to music I’ve had the pleasure to meet and work with some amazing artists, many of whom I feel lucky and honored to call friends, and quite a few who are close personal friends of mine and continually inspire me and drive me on. This mix aims to represent that by showcasing as much of the talent I feel close to – it covers scratch music, jungle, dubstep, beats, hip hop, electro and much more. The mix also reflects the truly worldwide spread of exciting music today and my own times spent in various countries, including the UK, France, Italy and Japan.

The mix itself is a pretty intense ride with 27 tracks in 45 minutes but I hope people get as much enjoyment from it as I did putting it together and that it leads to them checking out the artists and supporting them. The mix features a heap of exclusives, unreleased tracks and forthcoming releases. I have worked with every artist and/or label featured in this mix, so this is truly a snapshot of my friends and family.

So I won’t blabber on much longer and let you enjoy the music. As always embeds for stream and direct download links are below. Subscribers to the RSS or iTunes feeds will have the mix on their way to them now.

I’d like to just thank all the artists for the music but also their support over the years. It’s been a pleasure working with each and everyone of you in whatever capacity and I hope to continue to do so in years to come. And huge thanks to FoF for asking me to do this. It’s truly a pleasure!

Peace

Laurent aka Kper

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Tracklist:
Ken One – Mind Rain – Unreleased (Japan)
Danny Breaks – Hemisphere – Forthcoming Groove Attack (UK)
Dday One – Contamined Energy – Unreleased (USA)
And – Untitled beat – Unreleased (UK)
Onra – Iron – Forthcomig Ubeat (France)
Uncle Lew – Chop Chop remix – Unreleased (Ireland / Canada)
Lorn – Running Ink – Unreleased (USA)
Tatsuki – Kiyasu Breaks – Original Cultures (Japan)
Ernesto Gonzales – Self Awakening (Take remix) – FoF Music (USA)
Othello Grey – Feeling (BJu remix) – Unreleased (Germany)
Fulgeance – Smartbanging – One Handed Music (France)
2phast – MoynaQ – Unreleased (Italy)
Paul White – Body Spirals pt2 – Forthcoming One Handed Music (UK)
Throwing Snow – Elephant Trees – Unreleased (UK)
Grems ft Foreign Beggars – Brockabilly (Machine Drum remix) – Forthcoming (France/UK/USA)
Skyfish – Heso Cha remix – Unreleased (Japan)
Om Unit – Searching – Forthcoming Stretched Records (UK)
ENA – Drop – Unreleased (Japan)
Foreign Beggars – No Holds Barred (Goth Trad remix) – Forthcoming Dented Records (UK/Japan)
Dong – Suzuran (LV + Quarta330 remix) – Hyperdub (UK/Japan)
Lone Wolf – Badman – Unreleased (UK)
100 Mado – Club Asia – Unreleased (Japan)
Jamie Vex’d – Saturn’s Reply – Planet Mu (UK)
The Bug ft. Flowdan and Killa P – Skeng (Kode 9 remix) – Hyperdub (UK)
XLII – Podgy Swing – Raid System/Fubar (Ukraine/Japan)
Om Unit – The Corridor (Shigeto remix) – Forthcoming Terrorhythm (UK/USA)

After nearly a week of blue, planeless skies here in London I guess we can confidently say that spring has arrived – and hopefully summer isn’t too far behind. So as we do every month let us celebrate with some music and another 2 hours of new, upcoming, old and unreleased bits for discerning ears.

On the show this month we’ve got new and forthcoming music from B-Ju, Ras G, Robot Koch Lando Kal, Lorn, Jahcoozi, FaltyDL, Om Unit, Letherette, Uncle Lew, Alex B, Take, Deru, LV and Quarta330, Shigeto, Skitz, Tokimonsta, Space Invadas, Yosi Horikawa, Dimlite and more alongside some favourites of recent times from RSD, James Blake, Uyama Hiroto, Mount Kimbie, Daisuke Tanabe and Flying Lotus among others.

This month’s mini feature meanwhile looks at the work of Japanese producer O.N.O. Probably best know as the producer for Tha Blue Herb, one of Japan’s most famous rap crews, and hailing from the northern island of Hokkaido, O.N.O has also been releasing under his name as a solo artist for well over ten years now. And it’s his work as a solo artist that’s always fascinated me since I discovered him thanks to Waxfactor about five years ago. This mini feature aims to shine a little light on the man’s incredible production range which runs from hip hop to dub, jungle to house, ambient to abstract and at times crazy electronic music. The constant in a lot of his music is his use of machines to create the sounds, something which really takes meaning when you see his live shows (youtube here and here) where equipped with 2 MPCs, a sequencer and effects units he puts on one of the most fascinating and enjoyable live electronic music shows I’ve ever seen. On the mini feature we’ve got 4 tracks from releases spanning most of his solo career and which as I said gives a nice idea of his diverse output. For more on the man check his website and those of you in/around Tokyo can catch him playing with Flying Lotus for a Tokyo Brainfeeder session soon – hopefully this might help shine some more light on his work outside Japan.

For now though sit back and enjoy another two hours of discerning music for discerning ears. As always you can grab the show directly at the link below, stream at the bottom of this post, or subscribe to our iTunes and/or RSS feed and you won’t even have to click through and read through all this every time we drop a new show. Look out for more guest mixes coming up next and some news regarding the shows. Until then enjoy!

Rhythm Incursions – April 2010 (right click and save as)

Tracklist:
Flying Lotus – I Feel Like Dying – Bootleg, free download
Robot Koch – True – Forthcoming Project Mooncircle
UpHigh Collective – Blend – On Point
Tycho – Adrift (Shigeto’s A Dream Mix) – Ghostly International
Jahcoozi ft. M. Sayyid – Powerdown Blackout – Bpitch Control
Foals – Spanish Sahara (Mount Kimbie Remix) – Free download
Dong – Suzuran (LV and Quarta330 remix) – Forthcoming Hyperdub
RSD – Naked Mario Kart part 2 – Black Box
Sepalcure – Down – Forthcoming Hotflush recordings
Uncle Lew – Little Wolf – Unreleased
Letherette – On Video – Unreleased
Onra – Oper8tor – All City Records
Mini feature starts
O.N.O – KRK – TBHR
O.N.O – Light Velocity – TBHR
O.N.O – Hazed Over – Nike Run
O.N.O – Night Scene – Rambling records
Mini feature ends
Daisuke Tanabe – Artificial Sweetener – Circulations
Tokimonsta – Smoke and Mirrors – Ramp Recordings
Alex B – You and I Both Know – Elm and Oak
Take – Neon Beams – Alpha Pup
James Blake – Harmonimix (Bills, Bills, Bills) – White Label
Mount Kimbie – Serged (FaltyDL remix) – Hotflush recordings
Lazer Sword – Shot In The Nite – Innovative Leisure
Self Says – Same Space (Just Easy) – Self Says (free download)
Uyama Hiroto – Ribbon In The Sea – Hyde Out Recordings
Deru – Cottonmouth Lothario – Mush Records
Lando Kal – Fuzzy Ankles – Numbers
Lorn – Bretagne – Forthcoming Brainfeeder
Vex’d – Fire (Blood 1 remix) – CSM (free download)
B-Ju – Dog Day – Error Broadcast
Skitz – Born Inna System – Forthcoming Dragon Drop
Foreign Beggars – Move Higher (Om Unit’s Lights Down mix) – Forthcoming Dented Records (exclusive premiere)
Portformat ft. Blaktronics – It’s On (Swedeart Remix) – Forthcoming Tokyo Dawn
Yosi Horikawa – Cook From South – Forthcoming Ubeat Records
Dimlite – Elbow Flood – Forthcoming Now Again (free download)
Space Invadas – Imaginist – Invada records
Antipop Consortium – Lift (Audace Remix) – Unreleased
Aquadrop – Strong Vibes – Unreleased (free download)
Ras G – Discipline 1 – Forthcoming Leaving Records