Our man on the US East Coast returns with his mid-year report and awards for the July show, looking back at the first six months of the year to showcase the cream of the crop of sounds that have impressed him most.

Tune in for an hour of the freshest sounds so far in 2011 taking everything in from Bjork to 2562, Om Unit and Lorn’s facemelting collaboration to Dego’s much awaited return, footwork reworks and flavours to deep sub assaults. It’s as always a hell of a ride punctuated by Primus’ own comments on each tracks and why they’re worthy of your time, money and attention.

You will find a full tracklist below and as always you can download and/or stream below as well. You may also want to consider subscribing to our RSS/iTunes feed to get all the shows directly to your inbox.

So sit back and enjoy the best moments of 2011 so far with Primus Luta’s mid-year awards!

RIPL July 2011 – mid year awards (right click and save as)

Tracklist:
Om Unit x Lorn – Obsidian – Free download
Mophono – Cut Form Crush Jam – CB Records
2562 – This Is Hardcore – When In Doubt
Dego – Late Night Fright – 2000Black
Siriusmo – Feromonikon (Original Mix) – Monkeytown Records
Munchi – Mamajuana – Self Released, free download
Gremino – Face It – Car Crash Set
Drexciya – Hydrotheory (Phillip D Kick Footwork edit)
Digi G’Alessio – Gretsch Blackhawk vs Space Invaders – Fresh Yo
Chris Brown & Busta Rhymes – Look At Me Now [Monolithium Look At Busta Re-Up] – Free download
Freddie Gibbs x Mexicans with Guns x Bun B – Highway To Hell (Ridin Dirty 7″ Mix) – Friends of Friends
Na’Tee – Back 2 Da Block – Na’Tee
Small Professor – Chappelle Show Back – Self Released
Santigold – Go – Roc Nation
Alison Carney – Off with her head – Free download
Barbara Panther – Empire (Lorn Remix) – Free download
Laurel Halo – Aquifer – Hippos in Tanks
Björk – Crystalline – Forthcoming
Blk.Adonis – So. Fine – Free download
Venetian Snares – The Identification Circles Levitate – Planet Mu
Matthewdavid – Today, Same Way – Brainfeeder
Junip – Always (Prefuse 73 Remix)
Old Apparatus – ?? – Deep Medi Musik
Demdike Stare – Desert Ascetic – Modern Love
Hiatus – Insurrection – Hiatus
Nicolas Jaar – I Got A Woman – Circus Company
James Blake – I Never Learnt To Share – Universal
AFTA-1 – Tuesday – LOVE
Africa Hitech – Light The Way – Warp
Prefuse 73 – The Only Hand to Hold (feat. Shara Worden) – Warp

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!

Download RIPL May 2011 (right click and save as)

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

So with a little delay here comes the February podcast from my good self, aptly retitled to March pt.1 – expect another show end of month as usual. With the shorter amount of days last month and relentless work I’ve had to finish before my upcoming trip (more on that soon) it just wasn’t possible to get the show done in time without rushing it. Add to this the fact that this instalment is a seriously heavy affair and I felt it was only right to take a few more days and give you something worthwhile.

Putting the tracklist together I’ve just realised that out of 41 tracks in this show, 34 are forthcoming – a good reflection of the quality and amount of good music we’ve been privileged to receive in the inbox. And there were another 10 odd tracks I wanted to include. This month’s show is also a reflection of labels we’re feeling this year. Brainfeeder, Flying Lotus’ musical child, is the subject of our mini feature with new music from Mono/Poly, Taylor McFerrin, Matthewdavid and Jerimiah Jae covering the spectrum from blunted beats to smooth, modern jazz. And then we’ve also got the Friends of Friends label (close friends of ours) represented with 3 tracks from upcoming releases by Shlomho, Groundislava and Mexicans with Guns, our other good friends at Project Mooncircle are featured with two recent releases from Robot Koch & John Robinson and Long Arm and then there’s Car Crash Set who’ve sent us new music from Pixelord and John Lemmon (awesome name btw).

Elsewhere we’ve got new music from Uncle Lew & Coco B, Kode 9 & The Spaceape, Julio Bashmore, SCB, Danny Drive Thru, Lorn, Non Projects, Rick Wilhite, Austin Peralta, Subeena, Quantic, Chrissy Murderbot, Om Unit, Nicolas Jaar, Lopez, Siriusmo, Royalty, 1000 Names, Prefuse 73 and more – covering a broad range of music. I somehow feel that this month’s show really lives up to our tagline of discerning music for discerning ears. It changes and moves and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did putting it together.

As always be sure to check the artists and labels (all linked below) if you feel the music. Download and/or stream below or simply subscribe to the RSS/iTunes/newsletter to get the goodies directly in your inbox.

I’ll be back late march – live from Tokyo as I’ll be in Japan for six weeks from next week. Expect some udpates on the site in that time, guest mixes from our FoF series, Skyence and more including a mega special secret download dropping in the next two weeks. No more details but it will be worth it trust me. I’ll also be joining the Raid System boys on March 25th for a special party in Tokyo that’ll be broadcast on Ustream. More details soon.

Meanwhile enjoy, bump loud and share.

Download Rhythm Incursions – February 2011 (right click and save as)

Tracklist:
Austin Peralta – Ode To Love – Brainfeeder
a.d.l.r – Supreme Sunlight – Non Projects
Uncle Lew & Coco B ft. Kid Sublime – Let Me In – Unreleased
Rick Wilhite – Cosmic Jungle – Forthcoming Music4Life
Royalty – Royalty – Five Easy Pieces
Subeena – Wrong For Me – Forthcoming Opit
Quantic – Mas Pan (DJ Day Remix) – Forthcoming Tru Thoughts
Groundislava – Panorama (Clive Tanaka remix) – Forthcoming Friends of Friends
Brainfeeder Mini Feature
Jerimiah Jae – Raw Tape$ – Forthcoming Brainfeeder
Mono/Poly – Manifestations – Forthcoming Brainfeeder
Matthewdavid – Today, Same Way – Forthcoming Brainfeeder
Taylor Mc Ferrin ft. RYAT – Place in My Heart – Brainfeeder
Mini feature ends
Lopez – Kongo Beats – Forthcoming Keep Up
Danny Drive Thru – Psychedelia Smith – Unreleased
1000Names – La Boheme – Forthcoming Svetlana Industries
Debruit – Lil Zuma – Forthcoming Civil Music
Robot Koch & John Robinson – The Planet is My Canvas – Project Mooncircle
Siriusmo – Idiologie – Monkeytown Records
Prefuse 73 ft. Trish Keenan – The Only Trial of 9000 Suns – Forthcoming Warp Records
Long Arm – Dummy – Project Mooncircle
Boxcutter – LOADtime – Forthcoming Hotflush recordings
Kryptic Minds ft. Alys Be – Can’t Sleep – Forthcoming Black Box
Pixelord – Kiwi Dream – Forthcoming Car Crash Set
Take – Paper Garden (Low Limit remix) – Alpha Pup
Daedelus ft. Busdriver – What Can You Do – Forthcoming Ninja Tune
Jon Lemmon – Furrr (Coco Bryce remix) – Forthcoming Car Crash Set
Wagon Christ – Sentimental Hardcore – Forthcoming Ninja Tune
SCB – Future Unknown – Forthcoming Aus Music
Kode 9 & The Spaceape ft. Cha Cha – Love Is The Drug – Forthcoming Hyperdub
Julio Bashmore – Batty Knee Dance – Forthcoming 3024
2562 – Aquatic Family Affair – When In Doubt
Shlomho – Places – Forthcoming Friends of Friends
Profisee – Movin’ (prod by Poirier) – Forthcoming PhutureLabs
Ta’Raach – Lemonade (Guru Mix) – Forthcoming All City Records
Lorn – Stranger – Forthcoming Hoya Hoya records
Naive Machine – Afrika – Forthcoming Hit and Hope Records
SCBS – Don’t Drink The Water – CSS
Chrissy Murderbot – Braaaain – Forthcoming Planet Mu
Mexicans with Guns ft. MC Nocando – Got Me F_cked Up – Forthcoming Friends of Friends
Comma – Mezcal Hologram (Om Unit remix) – Forthcoming Frite Nite
Nicolas Jaar – Too Many Kids Finding Rain in The Dust – Circus Company

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

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

You can download and/or stream the show below or simply subscribe to our RSS/iTunes/newsletter (links below or in sidebar).

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

Enjoy!

Download RIPL January 2011 (right click and save as)

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

We return with a guest mix on this fine monday as our monthly shows for August have been pushed to friday. Next up in our ever growing line up of guests is Vangel, a Canadian producer and DJ who I think I first came across via the work we do on Turntable Radio. Details are hazy but for the last couple of years he’s been on our radar with various releases and collaborations, notably his EP for Scientist’s Equinox records (which we aired last year).

Over the last few months we got talking about a guest spot on the show for which the man came up with ‘In My Rumination’ a mix that fits more than perfectly within the Rhythm Inc cannon. Over 50 minutes Vangel takes you everywhere and back, weaving the likes of DJ Shadow, Four Tet, El-P, Prefuse, Caribou, Battles, Koushik, Thom Yorke and more together alongside some of his own productions. The result is a blissfull ride into music perfect to help get over the monday morning blues.

For more on Vangel be sure to check his site where you can find more info and links on all his releases and more.

Update: Vangel just told us he’s currently working on a debut LP entitled Breadth Control and you can get some free and not-free bytes right here http://vangel.bandcamp.com/.

And for now just crank up the volume and enjoy!

Download In My Rumination a mix by Vangel (right click and save as)

Tracklist:
Sixtoo – Sidewinders (Ninja Tune)
The Beach Boys – In My Room (EMI Records)
Louis Armstrong – What a Wonderful World (ABC Records)
Jackson and His Computer Band – Utopia (Warp Records)
el-p – How to Serve Man (Def Jux)
Four Tet – slow jam (Domino)
Prefuse 73 – Simple Loop Choir (Warp Records)
Helmet – Beautiful Love (Interscope)
Amon Tobin – Slowly (Ninja Tune)
Ceschi – Half Mast (Equinox Records)
Vangel – Central Pocketier (5&1/4 Records)
Diplo – Way More (Big Dada)
Dj Shadow – Midnight in a Perfect World (Mo’Wax)
Camu Tao – When You’re Going Down (Def Jux)
Bibio – Cry! Baby! (Warp records)
Dj Shadow – Building Steam With a Grain of Salt (Mo’Wax)
Masai Bey – Paper Mache (Def Jux)
peterdeadpan – Bicyclette (Remix) (5&1/4 Records)
Koushik – Be With (Stones Throw)
2econd Class Citizen – The Day You’re Lost Or Found (Equinox Records)
Born Ruffians – Badonkadonkey (Warp records)
Dday One – Omega Point (ContentLabel)
Prefuse 73 – the Color or Tempo (Warp Records)
Frederik Teige – Elevate (Independent)
Thom Yorke – The Eraser (XL Recordings)
Maxime Robin – Ma generation (Erobote)
Vangel – Elevator Talk (5&1/4/Equinox Records)
Caribou – Hello Hammerheads (Leaf/Domino)
Battles – Atlas (Warp records)
Squarepusher – Male Pill Part 13 (Warp records)
Brian Borcherdt – Preserver (HandDrawnDracula)

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!

Download Rhythm Incursions / Primus Luta – May 2010 (right click and save as)

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

Our latest guest mix (and the 4th one this month already!) comes from London based Throwing Snow, someone you may not yet be familiar with but with whom you’ll want to get acquainted real soon. Trust us. As has happened a lot in the last couple of years the hook up came from Twitter and Four Square. Even stranger (or is it normal?) I actually first met Throwing Snow while in Plan B, Brixton, for a FaltyDL gig. I’d Four Square-d (can you even say that?) my location and as I stood there someone walked up to me and showed me my twitter profile on their iPhone before introducing themselves as Throwing Snow. Who said technology and the internet have to be impersonal eh? Big shouts to Orsii for being the connecting link between our tweets and Four Square sharing.

Following this unusual meet we kept bumping into each other at various events and got talking, especially after I’d given his Soundcloud a close listen – suffice to say I was really into what he was doing and curious that no one else had given him more shine, as I really felt the tracks deserved it. So it was only logical to hit him up and ask for a guest mix. A month or so later it’s ready for your consumption, following a computer crash and the need to pull out some unreleased tracks which he couldn’t get the ok for yet. Still it’s an hour of total musical bliss, taking in some serious ground in the process from God Speed Black Emperor to Martyn via his own productions. He joked at me that giving him free reigns for a guest mix may be a mistake, but I think this proves my firm belief that if you give someone free reigns often the results will be better than you could ever expect. This mix most definitely fits our ethos of discerning music for discerning ears to a T.

Here’s some words from the man and if you want some more background info, well do your homework as they say. We’ll just tell you that he works as head of digital and licensing for Lightsong music, co-runs a label with Will Plowman (someone else we’ve been keenly listening to on Soundcloud) and has a release coming out soon that will no doubt be big, it goes by the name ‘Un Vingt’ b/w ‘Chronos’. Stay tuned for more on that.

This mix is meant to ease you in and out, confound and con-fuddle, wake you up and send you to sleep. Showcasing a few of my favourite tunes at the moment: things that have influenced me, some from friends and some just straight classics. I wanted a bit of eclecticism on top of a few tracks from A Future Without, the label run by myself and Will Plowman, and a smattering of my own tunes and collaborations.
*Disclaimer: this mix contains folk music and music by Throwing Snow*

For more on the man hit up his website www.throwingsnow.co.uk and check his label’s site too www.afuturewithout.com. And be sure to hit up his Soundcloud for more from him, trust us it’ll be time well spent. Also look out for previews from the man in our May show.

That’s it for now though, I’ll leave you in the very capable hands of Throwing Snow for an eclectic hour-long musical ride. Download and stream links/players below as well as a very thorough tracklist with notes. Perfect for that Friday morning feeling.

Download Throwing Snow Rhythm Incursions guest mix (right click and save as)

Tracklist:
God Speed! You Black Emperpor // Moya (Part 1)
This track is best appreciated on a long train journey while looking out the window, with an imaginary post apocalyptic scene running in your head.
Manu Delago // Hang Solo
I first heard the ‘hang on a holiday to Barcelona with my ex, played behind a church by someone wearing chain-mail gloves. Since then I’ve loved it’s sound, and there is no better exponent of the instrument than Manu Delago. A Future Without is releasing a track of his on a forth coming compilation.
Baba Yaga // Circe (A Future Without)
Next up are Bristol boys, Kahn and Vessel, with their collaboration under the name Baba Yaga. This is a bewitching tune that is only the start for what will be a bright future. Should be out on A Future Without in the near future.
Dave Brubeck Quartet // Take Five
Simply the most perfectly constructed piece of music you will ever hear. Stand out track from the best year in jazz, 1959 and one of my top ten, without a doubt.
Throwing Snow // Un Vingt (Ho Tep)
New 12″ by me coming out on Alex Nut’s new imprint, Ho Tep, very soon. Featured by Subeena on her Fact Mix and by Benji B on his BBC show. Cross fingers people will like it!
TRG // Broken Heart (Martyn Remix)
Moving in to a few classics and perfect track in every way to kick it off. I remember listening to this on repeat.
Zomby // The Lie
Such a tune, probably the definition of swagger haha
Joy Orbison // Hyph Mngo (tease)
Mr Orbison is all over it at the moment and never fails to hit the mark. Unwittingly sucked in to a new genre by the recent ‘Joystep’ incident. Just a tease, as no one wants to overplay a beauty.
Throwing Snow // Cronos (Ho Tep)
The flip side to Un Vingt coming out on Ho Tep. Lightspeed travel while stumbling backwards on a conveyer belt.
The XX // Crystalise (Dark Sky Remix)
Massive, massive tune from good friends Dark Sky. Deservedly, a hot tip for this year, after their debut on Black Acre. We are both releasing EPs on the new London label, Pictures. There will be some stem swapping as soon as I get my act together.
Simian Mobile Disco feat Beth Ditto // Cruel Intentions (Joker Remix)
Bristol connection for me and a dancefloor destroyer.
2562 // Morvern
Huge delayed stabs in to what seems like a cave, another sure fire classic.
Kahn // Stalker
Watch out for this lad, I don’t quite understand why he isn’t already everywhere. Huge talent and A Future Without are lucky enough to have a truly stunning EP from him coming soon (remember the track name, Altar). This will destroy your function.
God Speed! You Black Emperpor // Moya (Part 2)
Slow motion zombie chase ending in an unlifting, blood bathed crescendo.
Petter Worland // Tibeat (A Future Without)
Enter the onset of insanity. Petter Worland’s mind is to marveled at, madness contained. The first in a mini showcase of a few of the different faces of AFW
Memotone // Half Remembered (A Future Without)
Multi instrumentalist and true gent, Will Yates, is another undeniable talent. Well known for his live performances in forests (to be found on youtube) and his, what can only be described as, bizarre fans and their response videos. His dad is also a childhood fishing legend of mine, Chris Yates… the genes is good blud.
Qman1 // Mission (A Future Without)
Prolific producer harking from the USA. Some of the most raw and forward looking sounds out there. You will hear his name again.
Zhou // Marsh (A Future Without)
Waaaahhhh Bristol boys and sub lovers, Zhou, are the epitome of laid back. Fresh to AFW with vinyl on it’s way. I cannot express how much I love the string line when it drops, it pulls my heart from my chest.
Moabi // Going West (A Future Without)
AFW’s heavy weight French connection, Moabi, crisps up and drops a dentist chair bassline. Check out his music videos online for imagery to match.
Somnambulist // Misanthropy (A Future Without)
Sit back and settle in to an armchair, maybe with a pipe. Seriously, seriously good. EP will be out for the AFW relaunch.
Daniel Dixon // Falling Asleep (A Future Without)
Some how it reminds me of Kilhope Wheel in Weardale, back home. Lethargic and melancholic folkestry (or some other equally fitting journalistic phrase).
Chewy Benson feat Non Generic // Under The Shadow of the Rose Moon (A Future Without)
Awake in a Tim Burton film. Chewy Benson is a good friend of AFW and does some of our radio shows on Samurai FM… we owe him a lot!
Will // Tic Tac Toe (A Future Without)
Will Plowman runs A Future Without with myself and he is also one of the most knowledgeable music heads I know. He’s in a band with my bro, Kabuki Mono, and he writes with me under Will It Snow. He is practically family and I owe him muchly. Big up the Stoneground massive
Prefuse 73 feat Kazu // We Got Our Own Way
Dabrye and Prefuse were waaaay ahead of the game. Not only has he moulded my music but he also collaborated with another of my favourites, The Books (check out The Lemon of Pink).
Chairman Kato // No Coincidence
Yes, yes! Next up is the man, the legend, Chairman Kato. Founder of Work:Ethic and as of yesterday (if this goes out on time) fellow collaborator. Abletron ahoy(a). He will be also releasing on Pictures, so it looks like Alex and Matt have their A&R heads tightly locked down.
Illum Sphere // Agent White
Ryan killing it again as per usual, Hoya Hoya style. Massive congrats on his new release and big up the Manc connection. PS it ends with the vocal ‘burn’ which slots nicely in to the next track, ‘The Rizla’.
Session A9 // The Rizla
Scottish folk music often finds itself automatically associated with Micheal (bloody) Flaterly. I only hope people can appreciate it for how good it is without conjuring up an image of an over grown lepracorn. I was given this CD by a boss in a brief stint working as a security guard at Wimbledon and in Glasgow during the G8, because he was so surprised I knew who Capercaillie were. I was the most unthreatening security guard in history.
Snow Ghosts // Lost at Sea (Unsigned)
To finish off is a collaboration between myself and the amazing Hannah Cartwright of Augustus Ghost (watch out for their EP soon). Sometimes a happy coincidences pay off. Apart from meeting Hannah while working for De Wolfe Music, I only finished the track only after doing this mix. The delayed string line from the Session A9 track worked so well that I ended up sampling a snippet for the final tune (please don’t sue me, I can’t afford it)

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

Prefuse 73 isn’t really a name that should need introducing round these parts. One of Guillermo Scott Heren’s various musical aliases, Prefuse has been synonymous with forward thinking hip hop and electronic music productions for close to a decade, both on his own Eastern Development label as well as the Warp label, which has been his home for quite a while. I wouldn’t necessarily go with Pitchfork’s description of Prefuse’s work as ‘basicially a walking factory of glitch-rap beats’ not least because the word glitch hyphenated with anything else to describe a musical style makes me want to commit acts of violence, but let’s say that were it not for his work, as well as that of his peer Dabrye, the sound of today’s hip hop underground would be a lot different to what it is. A lot.

2009 sees Mr Herren back in full swing with no less than 4 releases in the course of about 6 weeks, including:
- A new Prefuse 73 album on Warp, ‘Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian’ out April 20th (peep the February Rhythm Inc show for a preview of that)
- A new Savath y Savalas LP on Stones Throw, ‘La Llama’ alongside singer Eva Puyuelo Muns out on May 12th
- A new album from his Diamond Watch Wrists side-project with Zach Hill of Mars Volta, ‘Ice Capped at Both Ends’, out on Warp May 4th
- And a new EP under the Prefuse 73 moniker on June 1st on Warp called ‘The Forest of Oversensitivity’

Now while high output might not necessarily always equate quality, there’s definitely exceptions to the rule and Herren is one of them for me. Each of these releases explores different styles, moods and influences, from a more trademark hip hop and electronic beats sound to the Latin influences of Savath via new, warmer and deeper tangents for the Prefuse EP and apparently acid folk and krautrock on Diamond Watch Wrists.

Personally the new LP ticks all the boxes, taking it back to a shorter, more instantly gratifying sound that was found in the earlier Prefuse albums, and the forthcoming releases are all eagerly anticipated.

To help cull the anticipation a little the lovely people at Warp records have given us a track to give out for free from the EP that will be released in June. Called ‘Preparations Kid’s Choir’ it’s a more ‘classic’ Prefuse sound and yet still holds enough to surprise and keep you wanting more.

Look out for more previews from the LP and other projects in April’s Rhythm Inc show.

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We stay in L.A. as Dday One takes the reigns once more for his regular show. Taking a departure from his ‘In Session’ series, this time round we’re treated to a late night set of influences and favourites from the man’s vault. We hand over to him.

Hello!
Looking at my clock and it’s about that TIME! It’s good to be back for community service Rhythm Incursions style. This session was recorded around 4am after a recent show, hence the title After Hours. SUPPORT THE ARTISTS!

P:S Questions or comments http://www.myspace.com/ddayone + http://myspace.com/contentlabel

Peace**
Dday One (Los Angeles, CA)

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AFTER HOURS SET
1. Blak King speaks
2. Dextah – I can’t handle dischord (http://www.myspace.com/contentlabel)
3. Hedfunk – Freedom
4. Belle and Sebastian- Space boy dream (Joe Beats /Dj signify Remix)
5. Chop Shop – The Tribute
6. Om Unit – The Corridor
7. Q-Tip – Work it out (Dela Remix)
8. Amon Tobin – At Work
9. Force of Nature – Just Landed
10. Deckard – Future world
11. Azzurro – Solaris
12. Dj Smash – Mad Graffiti
13. Dday One – Gettin’ Sentimental
14. Scott Matelic – Broken Wings
15. Odd Nosdam – Zone Coaster
16. King Knut – Grazing On Empty
17. Asher D & Daddy Freddy – Ragamuffin Hip Hop
18. Olde Soul – Along the Way (http://www.myspace.com/contentlabel)
19. Jyager – Frozen In the Wind feat. Foreign Beggars and Kashmere
20. Dj Shin G – Kanbel Run
21. Mad Doctor X – Hanzup
22. Jay Scarlett – The Jawn
23. Cold Crush Brothers – Pump It up
24. Prefuse 73 – Preparation’ Kids Choir
25. Dj Signify – Bollywood Babies
26. Blak King – Pusher
27. Reanimator – Everything Disintegrates
28. Le Gooster – How Many Dj’s
29. Two Fingers – Better Get That Ft. Ms. Jade