New Band Of The Day

1. Resident Advisor
Every week a new mix and everyone is of high quality. The genres are diverse from heavier Berghain techno (Dettmann, Fengler) to Experimental (Surgeon), Discoish (Brothers Bouaziz), straigt club (Carl Craig) or dubby and steppy (Applebim).
Here is an example by Scuba ak SCB
RA198 100315 Scuba vs SCB Resident Advisor Mix by Surefire

2. Ninja Tunes Solid Steel
Ninja Tunes used to be and is one of my favourite labels, with their Solid Steel radio show they always manage to surprise and show the diversity of their taste. Bass filled music, rare funk tunes, club bangers come together in this always very well selected and presented mixes. Here is an example of Clubb Rock’s Darren Judge & Mikee Lazy with tracks from Lady Chann, Seiji and MJ Cole, Untold, Joy Orbison and Ramadanman.
Solid Steel Radio Show 18/6/2010 Part 1 + 2 – Clubb Rock, Zero T by Ninja Tune

3. Drumandbass.de
Holding up the Drum’n’Bass flag for the German scene, J-Cut and Kolt Siewerts unregularly present fresh tunes from the drum and bass universe, pretty straight, with J-Cut leaning more to the liquid, said easy and dense, side of the range, Siewerts with more jumpy and wobbly stuff. With a very entertaining style of presenting their show they soon hit the German podcast charts. Here is one of their own production, also a hit last year, the “Flute Tune” to get an idea.
J-Cut & Kolt Siewerts – The Flute Tune feat. Demolition Man – Fire (Freeze Dubplate) by Michelsen

4. Fabric London
Despite the tragic fact that London’s probably best club has gone into administration their podcast is one of the podcast pearls at the electronic music’s heaven. Great mixes and music presentations by people like Four Tet, Surgeon, Vadim and Jazzanova. Absolutely listenable.

Update No.1 (thanks to Philipp)
5. Xlr8r
Big names like MJ Cole, James Holden or Trentemöller present a very diverse range of electronic music.

Update No.2 (thanks to Kay)
6. Also very awesome and for all the dubby dubstep lovers (just like me) around here is the Wax Treatment Podcast. The regular sunday dubstep night at Horst Berlin features DJs like Pete and Surgeon. Dubstep from its nonwobbly, but atmospheric and complex side.

found via drumnbass.de

A somewhat more temporary way of producing this kind of feel is maybe this song
Cruel Intentions by Simian Mobile Disco (Joker Remix)
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found via Pluggednotthugged, one really great blog about bass music.

To end this post, I have to admit that it would be stupid not to download this great resident advisor podcast by Pete, found via Monday Edition

So sieht es aus wenn aus einem schönen leeren 50er Jahre Zimmer eine durchgerockte Partybude wird. Sehr schön gemachtes, aufwendiges Stop-Motion Musikvideo für Comfort Fit’s Bit by Bit.

Nach dem Klick gibt’s noch mehr, u.a. ein Klasse Mixtape!
Comfort Fit ist Boris Mezga und stand schon mit 12 hinter den Plattentellern. Anschließend machte er sich einen Namen in Kölns Musikszene, vor allem in der Creative Commons Landschaft und als einer der herausragendsten Künstler auf Tokyo Dawn Records, die seit 1997 extrem gute Musik frei im Netz veröffentlichen.

Cologne Commons beschreibt seinen Stil sehr gut:

Ursprünglich inspiriert durch minimalen Detroit-Techno, Ninja Tune, Nujazz und Hiphop, feilte er schon damals an seinem sehr intelligenten, vielfältigen, aber immer klar erkennbaren ganz eigenen Stilmix zwischen cinematischen Soundlandschaften, schlurfenden Hiphop-Beats mit stolpernden Bässen gepaart mit Samples und akkustischen Instrumenten und teilweise Gesang namhafter Künstler wie z.B. den Blaktronics oder Mercury Waters, die seinen Stücken eine musikalische Hörspiel-Note verleihen.

Sein neues Album heißt “Polyshufflez“, auf der u.a. Blaktronics und der legendäre Howards Marks aka Mr Nice mitgewirkt haben, und erscheint ebenfalls als Download auf Tokyo Dawn Records, dazu gibt es eine sehr schön designte limitierte CD-Version.

Wirklich unglaublich deepes, cooles, verschwurbeltes, hoppiges, steppiges, verrauchtes Zeug!
Hier ein Snippettape des lohnenswerten Albums, weiter unten dann noch ein tolles Mixtape von Comfort Fit. Die LP “Forget and remember” ist noch unter Creative Commons erschienen und als freier Download erhältlich.

comfort fit – polyshufflez lp teaser by tokyodawnrecords

ZOE.LEELA “DESTROY SHE SAYS” from Zoe.Leela on Vimeo.

Zoe.Leela is hot new stuff from Berlin, out of the very active urban electronic pop scene: A very charismatic singer, great tunes and melodies, something in between Jahcoozi and Zero 7. The first album “Queendom Come” will be released by netlabel Rec 72, free, with a Creative Commons license. Release party on sunday, 13th, at Zapata, Berlin.

[Disclaimer: Wir helfen Zoe aus dem P3000 Team heraus mit der Online-Promotion]

And now listen to this before you go out and get in the close-your-eyes-and-get-lost-party-mood.
wester by Nils Westerlund

Bald kommt sein Album “Yes!”, hier ist das Video “4 3 2 1”.

K-Os – 4 3 2 1 – MyVideo

“I wish I knew Natalie Portman” hat man auch schon das eine oder andere Mal im Radio gehört.

K-Os auf MySpace
K-OS auf Facebook
K-OS auf Hypemachine

Besides this guy turns 33 on 20090909 – so it’s a present he has for us. Massive thanks and happy birthday!

Enjoy: “Spaß mit Bass” by Kolt Siewerts
Download audio file (kolt_siewerts-spass_mit_bass.mp3)

Download “Spaß mit Bass”

If you like his style, here you can watch the video to his own smash hit “The flute tune”

and the Ralph Lawson mix

Now, it has gotten some very mentionable mentions from Japan and Italy, good feedback from Timo Maas and Laurent Garnier and, amongst others, charted by Ryan Elliot.

You can listen to Squalid and download it at whatpeopleplay or order it as good old vinyl at Juno

Here is Patrick’s latest mixtape!

You can book Patrick at Confidance booking or just follow him on MySpace or Soundcloud.

Stylewalker says thank you with Rocca Zilla

I hope Next09 did not mind the little community campaign I pushed here, I think it was a nice idea to demonstrate a little of that internet community power in real time when it’s exactly the subject I want to talk about. Plus, Next09 got some nice promotion – some people (enthusiasts and professionals about the internet by the way) had not heard about it before. So, let’s see if I make it, I bring you presents from Hamburg for sure if I go!

And here’s one already: “Bring me the head of Zilla Rocca”, by Zilla Rocca, superb oldschooly hip hop shit, especially the second song “The first order of business” which features a Talk Talk sample I would have liked to use as well. If I was a producer. Other influences: El-P, RZA, Kanye West, Dan the Automator, David Axelrod, J Dilla, Havoc, Rick Rubin. Check the Rocca Zilla profile on Soundclick.

Download Zilla Rocca – Bring me the head of Zilla Rocca. [via Passion of the Weiss]