Radio 1 Dubstep Doc

Check this D.O.T.S produced slideshow to accompany the lovely Radio 1 Dubstep documentary put together by Mary Anne Hobbs and her team.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/documentaries/080207_dubstep.shtml

Maximum respect to Orson, Shaun B, Liz, Claire, Rebbekka, Seckle, Kuduphoto & Miro for their photographic contributions

SKREAM FAMILY FUNk

D.O.T.S DANCE N PRANCE at PLAN B

6TH SEPTEMBER

SKREAM (exclusive funk / disco / soul set)
WADADDA (punk / reggae / dub)
ONEMAN (dubstep / garage / house )
VERSION (dub / reggae)
SUBEENA b2b DOT (dubstep)
INFINITE (no idea!)

8pm - 2am

£5 / £3 conc


www.myspace.com/joindots

CHECK SKREAM'S recent FUNK podcast courtesy of RINSEFM.BLOGSPOT.COM

"Hold tight all the mums and dads"

New photos up

Boundaries
Originally uploaded by infinite.

Stella Sessions in May 2006.

War for '94 / Drumz V.I.P

The year of the Wonder-bra, the international year of the family and in Drum n Bass terms- the year when Amen and vocals really infiltrated the sound.

Thanks to Bailey for letting me sit in on this week's Intasound show on which he provided listeners with wonderful mix and blend of some of the best tunes of what was a truly fertile year for DnB.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/bailey

Engineers Without Fears – Spiritual Aura (DJ Recordings)
Rude Bwoy Monty – Out In da Streets (Frontline)
DJ Taktix – The V.I.P (Back 2 Basics)
DJ Hype feat GQ – Roll The Beats (Suburban Bass)
Johnny Jungle – Johnny (Origin Unknown Remix) (Suburban Bass)
Renegade – The Terrorist (Moving Shadow)
DJ Mayhem – Inesse (Ray Keith Remix) (Face)
DJ Buzz & Nico – Slave (No U Turn)
DJ Gunshot – Wheel Up (No U Turn)
Tom & Jerry – Lover To Lover (Tom & Jerry)
Back 2 Basics – Horns For ’94 (Back 2 Basics)
D.M.S & Bone Man X – Sweet Vibrations (FX)
Da Intalex – What You Gonna Do (Flex Records)
Undercover Agent – Oh Gosh (Juice)
Asend & Ultravibe – What Kind of World (Back 2 Basics)
Shy FX & UK Apache – Original Nuttah (Sour)
Dead Dred – Dred Bass (Moving Shadow)
DJ Hype - You Must Think First (Ganja)
Randall & Andy C – Sound Control (Ram)
Roni Size & DJ Die – Music Box (Full Cycle)
Foul Play – Foul Play Volume 4 (Moving Shadow)
Fallen Angels – Hello Lover (IQ)
Dillinja – You Don’t Know (Logic)
New Blood – Worries In The Dance (London Some’Ting)

TX

Badman – War For ’94 (IQ)
MA2 – Rollers Music (Formation)
Higher Sense (feat. Maxine Francis) - Cold Fresh Air (Liftin' Spirit)
Splash – Babylon (Deejay)
The House Crewfeat S.E.S - Superhero (My Knight) (Production House)
Dillinja & Bert – Lion Heart (Lion Heart)
Remarc – Drum & Bass Wise (Whitehouse)
Doc Scott – Drumz V.I.P (Metalheadz)
Krome & Tyme – The License (Tearin’ Vinyl)
Asylum – Bass Too Dark (Metalheadz)

Gis a kiss

Crazy D and Hatcha's first Kiss 100 fm show. What better place to start then at the beginning? Good to hear Pathwayz and Indian dub again...
>> Kiss 100 , see 'The Dubstep Show'

On tha run

www.ilovefwd.com

Arcade Road Trip
Originally uploaded by infinite.


Skream Stella Sessions feat. Benny Ill, May 30 Rinse FM>>

Out to Boom Noise

Watch out for that tree...

BREEZEBLOCK OLD-SKOOL JUNGLE SPECIAL - Bank Holiday Monday 29th

DOC SCOTT
RANDALL
REMARC
PHOTEK
BIZZY B
CONGO NATTY'S SPIKEY

1am-3am

BBC Radio1

www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/maryannehobbs

Out to Mary-Anne and the Junglist massive. Big...

Everybody needs good neighbours...

inhale080606.jpg
Originally uploaded by infinite.

New night alert... the sound of LDN hittin Australian shores in connection with www.southernsteppa.com. Bonzer. Flyer images taken at Radio1 Breezeblock Dubstep Warz back in January.

Stttteeeellllaaaaa!

Not guilty
Originally uploaded by infinite.

If you aint been listening to Skream's Monday night 'Stella Sessions' where in the dizzle have u been? The best show on the ray-dee-i-oh? Damn straight and they're getting better by the week... Loving Skream's cheeky energy and abundant dub plates. Last night was Stella extra strength.. Skream b2b Mala b2b Chef... Mala's new one "Learn', Dutch Flowers, Left Leg Out, Summer Dreams... the list goes on I tell ya. Knocked my stripey socks off, I'll be listening to this on loop forever.

Where to find such delights? Rinse 100.4 FM, every Monday, 1-3 am and for archives, there's only one place... www.barefiles.com Big Up the one and only Rinse FM. Big up the rip and upload crew. Big up Skream. Big Up Mala. Big Up Chef. Big Up Croydon.

The Joe Show

Baltimore
Originally uploaded by infinite.

Take a trip down memory lane with Joe Nice's recent history of dubstep interview for Theory Radio , which includes a bag full of classics such as Red, Sholay, Horror Show and Request Line.

www.myspace.com/joenice

There's something about Mary-Anne...

notion
Originally uploaded by infinite.

She's got to be the only woman I know who rides around London on a 650 cc Kawaski engine listening to dubstep and she's gorgeous and glamourous to boot. Read more about Mary-Anne Hobb's toy of choice plus her dubstep addiction in her recent article for Notion Mag out now in all good retailers. Amongst a whole ream of heavyweight places and faces that she talks about in the piece, Drumzofthesouth's Breezeblock Dubstep Warz photos even get a shout. Bless!

www.myspace.com/maryannehobbs, www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/breezeblock,

Loefrequencies

man bites dog
Originally uploaded by infinite.

Check Rwd Magazine for another interview with Loefah courtesy of Martin Clark. Also check last nights Breezeblock show for Loe and Sgt Poke's dark and dutty Mud VIP alongside news of he and Bug's forthcoming ragga & dancehall night "Bash" at Plastic People.

Hit with a breezeblock

Radio 1 Live Lounge
Originally uploaded by infinite.

Photos from Tuesday mornings Breezeblock Dubstep Wars show now online. See below for further info

Dubstep Wars

image courtesy of Radio 1 Breezeblock team.

Big love to Mary-Anne Hobbs and the Breezeblock show who on Tuesday provided the history books with one of the most beautiful moments in dubstep and let me come along for the ride.

At first it felt a little weird being in a darkened studio full of mic's and equipment (especially for one as clumsy as myself) but Mala, Kode9 & Space Ape, Skream, Hatcha & Crazy D, Vex'd, Loefah & Sgt Pokes and Distance
plus an entourage that included Coki, Benga, Chef and The Bug soon made themselves comfortable.

Each DJ was allocated 15 minutes during which time each of them quite literally tore up the radio waves in their own unique way. The mixing was ridiculous, the tunes were big and bad, and the vibe, well, even my Mum said she could feel the excitement through the airwaves.

What was so good about the show was the selection of DJ's. Mala with his deep, meditative beats, Kode9's soundscapes, Space Ape's words and wisdom, Skream's pure energy, Hatcha and Crazy D's funtime, the edgey but beautiful sounds of Vex'd, Loefah's psychologically devastating half-step minimalism with Poke's on mic and the heavy metal sounds of Distance. The interviews gave that extra bit of education. If you didn't know about dubstep before, this show was one helluva introduction.

In fact, somebody in the studio even whispered that if the place was set on fire, dubstep would be wiped out. They weren't far from the truth. Speaking of fire, I wonder if Steve Lamacq who walked into the smokers room when nuff dubstep man dem were fogging it up had the faintest idea of what was going on.

Go to www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/dance/breezeblock Listen again, and whilst you're there, take a peek at their fantastic photos (you might even spot me in the back!) and exclusive signed vinyl competition (great question!). More of their photos can be seen at www.dubstep.blogspot.com and my own will hopefully be online a little later.


Tracklist:
D1 - Untitled (white)
Mala (Digital Mystikz)
Digital Mystikz - '10 Dread Commandments VIP' (white)
Digital Mystikz - 'Haunted' (white)
Digital Mystikz - 'Left Leg Out' (white)
Skream - 'Request Line' Mala remix (white)
Digital Mystikz - 'All Of A Sudden' (white)
Digital Mystikz - 'Anti-War Dub' (white)
Skream
Skream - 'Midnight Request Line' (Tempa)
Skream - 'Tapped' (Tempa)
Sunship and Warrior Queen - 'Almighty Father' Skream remix (white)
Skream - 'Glamma' (Tempa)
Skream - 'Deep Concentration' (Tempa)
Skream - 'Rottan' (Tempa)
Digital Mystikz - 'Ancient Memories' Skream remix (white)
Horsepower - 'Egypt' (Skream remix) (white)
Skream - 'Music 2 Make Us Stagga' (white)
Kode 9 and Space Ape
Benny Ill, Kode9 & the Culprit - 'Fat Larry Skank' Kode 9 remix (white)
Kode 9 and Space Ape - '9 Samurai' (Hyperdub)
Kode 9 and Space Ape - 'Backward' (Hyperdub)
Kode 9 and Space Ape - 'Kingston Dub' (Hyperdub)
Burial and Space Ape - 'Space Ape' (White)
Vex'd
Vex'd - 'Saturn' (white)
Vex'd - '3rd Choice' (white)
Vex'd - 'Wavescape Remix' (white)
Vex'd - 'Killing Floor' (white)
Hatcha and Crazy D
Benga - Untitled (white)
Benga - Untitled (white)
Coki - Untitled (white)
Coki - Untitled (white)
Coki - Untitled (white)
Skream - 'Request Line' Remix (white)
Benga - Untitled (white)
Benga - Untitled (white)
Benga - Untitled (white)
Digital Mystikz - 'Ancient Memories' Skream remix (white)
Loefah and Sgt. Pokes
Loefah - 'Mud' (white)
Loefah - 'Ruffage' (white)
Loefah - 'Sukkah' (white)
Loefah - 'System' (white)
Loefah - 'Root' (DMZ)
Distance
Distance - 'My Demons' (white)
Distance - 'Fallen' (white)
Distance - 'Tuning' (white)
Distance - 'Cella' (white)
Distance - 'Cyclops' (white)
Distance - 'Night Vision' (white)
Distance - 'Traffic' (white)
DJ Pinch - 'Qawwali' (white)

DMZ Update

Lots going on for DMZ at the moment... through the wonders of modern technology we get to hear about it...

DMZ -Kiss fm show

tracklisting.

Skream - Request Line (Mala Remix) - Dubplate
Coki - Shattered - Dubplate
Mala - Left Leg Out - Dubplate
Skream - Hag - Tempa
Coki - Haunted - Dubplate
Coki - Molten - Dubplate
Loefah - Ruffage - Dubplate
Loefah - Goat Stare - Dmz
Skream - I Remix - Dubplate
Mala - Wrath Vip - Dmz
Skream - Rotton - Dubplate
Search & Destory - Candyfloss (Loefah Remix) - Hotflush

Thanks to http://dubstep.forumsplace.com and Blacklay for the recording

DMZ @ 3rd Base
Brixton – SW2 Saturday 7th Jan 2006 £ 5 members £ 7

Line up:

DIGITAL MYSTIKZ + LOEFAH
HATCHA
DISTANCE
KODE 9
CHEF
PINCH

Mc’s: SGT POKES, CRAZY D

Come Meditate on Bass Weight

Pubsession @ The Old Blue Last, 39 Great Eastern Road, EC2
DMZ, Kode9 & Guests

7 til Midnight, free all night


THE BREEZEBLOCK - BBC RADIO 1. Dubstep Warz – with Mary Anne Hobbs

9th Jan 2006

The show goes live 1am-3am Monday night >>> Tuesday
morning.

Guests...

DIGITAL MYSTIKZ
SKREAM
KODE 9 & SPACE APE
VEX'D
LOEFAH
HATCHA
DISTANCE

DUB WAR @ Rothko
NEW YORK CITY - Friday - January 27 2006.

DIGITAL MYSTIKZ
JOE NICE
DROP THE LIME
DAVE Q
MC JUAKALI

DMZ: ROAD TRIP PART 1 - LEEDS

SAT 4th Feb 2006

SUB DUB presents:

TRANSMISSION ROOM: Grooverider, Shy Fx, Visionary, TC1, Steppa, Essence
MC's: Topcat, Eksman, Tonn Piper, Ramin
Sound System : Iration Steppas (Ridiculous weight)

DMZ ROOM:
Digital Mystikz, Loefah, Skream, Distinction and Kode 9. With Sgt Pokes and
Crazy D.
Sound System: Sweet Potato

Leeds West Indian Centre, Laycock Place, Leeds
10pm-Late
Tickets £10+ b/f...MOTD / £5 for people travelling on the coach from London

www.dmzuk.com

Skreams from the Radio

Not guilty
Originally uploaded by infinite.

Possibly one of the most consistently good producers around at the moment and someone who's been receiving a huge amount of attention over the past few months, Skream's being heard on pretty much every radio station stored in my stereo's memory at the moment.
Having dropped Goat Stare and Request Line last week, Giles Peterson dropped Request Line for the second time on his weekly Radio 1 show and now there are whispers that it might chart...who knows. The boy wonder will also be appearing on The Breezeblock's forthcoming Dubstep Wars alongside Kode9 and Space Ape, Digital Mystikz, Loefah, Vex'd, Hatcha and Distance. Great to hear Radio 1 spreading the sound, John Peel would have been pleased I'm sure. Lock in to 97-99 fm next Tuesday between 1-3am or http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/dance/breezeblock Most importantly, don't forget to tune in to Rinse FM 100.3 which has been playing host to the man himself a lot recently- for archived shows check www.dubstep.blogspot.com

Xmas with Joe Nice

Joe Nice December Gourmet Beats show

FILE SIZE - 78.8 mb @ 128kbps

TRACKLISTING:
01_ Ken Boothe. Aint No Sunshine
02_ Alton Ellis. It's a Shame
03_ Caspa. Cockney Flute
04_ Digital Mystikz. Changes
05_ Loefah. Monsoon Remix
06_ Skream. 0800 Dub
07_ Skream. 0800 Dub - RELOAD
08_ Kode 9. 9 Samouri
09_ LWiz. Mindgame
10_ Selector Moldy. BlackForest Dub
11_ Selector Moldy. BlackForest Dub - RELOAD
12_ Skream. Aggy
13_ Skream. Aggy RELOAD
14_ Skream. Aggy RELOAD II
15_ Pinch. Guilty Pleasures RMX
16_ Caspa. I've Lost My Marbles
17_ Digital Mystikz. Shattered
18_ Digital Mystikz. Shattered - RELOAD
19_ Digital Mystikz. Summer Dreams
20_ Digital Mystikz. Summer Dreams - RELOAD
21_ Distance. Blue Velvet
22_ Plasticman. Mammoth Remix
23_ Plasticman. Mammoth Remix
24_ Distance. Traffic
25_ Scuba. Nomad RMX
26_ Virus Syndicate. Ready To Learn
27_ Virus Syndicate. Ready To Learn - RELOAD
28_ Mark One. Loungin'
29_ Mark One. Loungin' - RELOAD
30_ Skream. Dub Island
31_ Digital Mystikz. Cowboy Dub

Prang'd

How the funk do they do this to me? Even in my comfortable bedroom environment, Vex'd scare the shizzle out of me, no more so than during their remix of Toasty's Knowledge as featured on this week's Breezeblock show. For some reason, knowing the original Knowledge inside and out makes it all that much weirder; the Vex'd remix adding pure filth and horror, to the innocence and playfulness of the original Knowledge making it all that more twisted. Because of this the track pretty much brought me to tears- the shock of the darkness that they've given to Knowledge was all a bit much.

I remember catching the beginning of Vex'd's set at Bristols Subloaded night and after 20 minutes felt like I simply had to get out of the room due to the intensity of their basslines on a 10k soundsystem. Since then, they've grown on me thanks to the likes of Crusher dub which is a slightly softer tune that sounds a bit like someone trying to tune into a dub station on a crackley radio. I've been a quite a fan of Lion and Pop Pop since I heard Plasticman drop them a while back, but in many ways I feel Vex'd's music improves with age. Whether that's because it's ahead of it's time I don't know but interestingly I currently prefer the original Lion to the remix which I've heard a clip of via
Planet Mu, which has released their album Degenerate. Whilst I havent managed to get my hands on the album yet, the samples, bits and pieces I've heard on Rinse FM and the recent mix for Radio 1's Breezeblock show have made me very excited about doing so. Mary-Anne Hobbs often describes Vex'd as Dubstep pioneers, but I'd be inclined to describe them as Darkstep pioneers. Their music definitely incorporates the deep sub bass, ragga patterns and other styles that influence dubstep but the fury, overwhelming power and progressiveness makes for a sound that is truly individual.

Enough of my chatter though; here's the tracklisting for the Breezeblock show mix. Check for Distance's Fallen which is one of the most beautiful things I've heard for a while and provides a little space in which to be calm in the middle of Vex'd's extremely dark but addictive sound. Oh and watch out for the Knowledge remix if the Zombies in your garden aint buried deeply enough... they're coming to get you.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/dance/breezeblock/

Vex'd - Destruction
Vex'd - Bombardment Of Saturn
Vex'd - Thunder
Vex'd - Fire
Vex'd - Angels
Vex'd - Killing Floor
D1 - Crackbong (Loefah VIP Remix)
Distance - Fallen
Vex'd - Venus
Toasty - Knowledge (Vex'd Remix)
Vex'd - Gunman

Mix also available to download at www.dubstep.blogspot.com

www.vexd.blogspot.com

Rinsed Again

Thanks to Blackdown for this offering which includes links to another episode in Prime Minister Yunx's weekly Rinse Show this time featuring Youngsta and D1 B2B and some Grime and Dancehall gems.

I've said it before and I'll say it again...

Pure Youngsta Style
Originally uploaded by soulsnatcha.

...Youngsta for president

I locked into Youngsta and Task's show just in time for 'the power hour' and kicked of a mean party in my room with Skreamz 'Late night request line.' Smokes, a cup of tea and Rinse FM on a Thursday aint a bad late night affair.

If you didn't listen you missed out on a big show. Task's energy gravitated through the speakers as Youngsta took all headz (I heard ya!) on a special Skreamz and Loefah journey. 'I'/808 Bass into Goatstare into the flutes of Monsoon remix and an evil teaser of Horror Show is one helluva super troopa power move when executed by Youngsta. As if we weren't already tormented enough with his oh so baad habit of mixing dark, moody bass lines with warm dub laced tracks, he then dropped in some D1 before hittin with Twisup remix into Neverland. My stomach is still churning and my toes tingling after this one. The only problem is, my speakers are now fukked.

www.rinsefm.com