SUB ANTIX | Vendetta
Wipe that smile off your face- I’ve got a special treat for you: a preview of the latest production from Sub Antix (Canada). Sub Antix has been busy murking dance-floors in Vancouver and Victoria over the course of 2010 and early 2011, (as head resident for M.S.H. Sessions ), alongside Datsik, Borgore, Doctor P, Cookie Monsta, Excision, and Downlink, with no signs of letting up in the future. Look out for him before Zed’s Dead on February 10th and Bare Noize, March 3rd.
I happened to be in the studio with the producer a couple weeks ago in Vancouver to hear this tune take shape- So take my word for it- the final version is ear candy. Since some labels have expressed interest in picking up his new work, Sub Antix requested we post the song for streaming only. So here is a little sneak peak:
Wolfey
Muffler | Neurons
Mind the drop.
Hello from Helsinki. Fluent in drum & bass, Konsta Mikkonen has recently been exposing his aptitude for some savage sounding dub through Dieselboy and Smash Gordon’s label, subHUMAN . Having adopted the alias Muffler , this teeming producer continues to impress, in his third release, with an influx of militant basslines and belligerent drum samples – it would be wise to take cover.
Neurons effortlessly rolls into every beat as Muffler manages to keep the energy innate to D&B while simultaneously making you feel like you’re fucking possessed. Indulge and purchase the 2-track release gift-wrapped here .
alh
Saturday Selection
‘This world round here- you don’t wanna spend the night round ere’. Ain’t nothin nice round here- troubles what ya find round ere’
Boys and girls have I got some stellar beats to soothe your twisted minds-
A brilliant skanking gem released on Tempa (UK) in 2008 (This song is available for purchase here )-
Seven Sirens – Seven [recommended]
A cheeky and undeniably tough jam from Jakes, Joker, and the H.E.N.C.H. crew out in Manchester-
3K Lane – Jakes and Joker [recommended]
And finally for that brain massage I promised- a song off Teebs’ (L.A.) recent release Ardour on Fly Lo’s devilishly fresh L.A. label Brainfeeder . Pick up the rest of the release available for purchase here.
King Bathtub – Teebs [served chilled]
Yours,
Wolfey
Friday Selection | Empty
In the realm of dark and unforgiving sounds, Stenchman is your king.
Putrid Creature VIP – Stenchman [recommended]
Dopamine release.
Seeerious VIP – Noah D [192kbs]
Alpha Centauri – Nosia (Elite Force Revamp)
Two tracks with different approaches on how to indurate a listeners heart;
Now that you’re feeling empty and drained of your life, my idea of fun:
Love,
Wallace.
There Will Be Bass and Refreshments | Milanese
Lemonade and whisky today folks…
well, mostly whisky.
Milanese is the mysterious grime funk master of the UK, so mysterious that his album has only been released on CD! But if we have any compact-disc-diehards living this low life of ours, show some love @ boomkat.com
And without further ado, welcome to the hip-hop, bass-warp horror show that is Milanese.
Take This Love (Milanese Remix) – Unique 3
Mammoths march to their graves…
The End – Milanese [recommended]
A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down…
Night by Night (Skream Remix) – Chromeo [served chilled]
Russian down-tempo finger paint glitchery:
Blast Air – Blasta [served chilled]
Pinkies up till your fucked!
green.eggs.and.sam
Wednesday Selection | Self-Control
Get off your ass. Go outside. Have an adventure.
A friendly reminder from your friends at Low-Life.
But before you go, throw these on your ipod and let the Bass carry you off, into the night.
Fly By Night (Cyber Punkers) – Cerebral Vortex [electro]
Drop Down (Haydn Hoffman Remix) – Designer Drugs
Cinema (Skrillex Remix) – Benny Benassi
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BOUDDHA SLINKY présentent AJAPAI @ LE BELMONT Feb 3rd
Little ol’ MTL doesn’t really realize whats coming. Japanese bass heathen, Ajapai, will be raining blood on the snowiest of grounds and we here at low-life Montreal will be soaking it in. Brought to you by Low-Life’s franco-associates. I have been lucky enough to become part of the promotion team here at Bouddha Slinky Productions . These dub saints have brought such acts this year to our semi-grime lacking village this year, as Cookie Monsta, 12th Planet, Bare Noize & not to mention fellow Rottun Records crew such as Downlink Vaski and Excision.
I’ve never had the chance to catch this opener Elo!i & Heights , but the duo works with Wicket Fat Noize and thats enough for me.
Tickets are only 10$ if you buy them before hand so get them quick!
Tickets available through myself (438) 886-3810
One could find the event details here
Hope to see a bunch of low-lifers out there.
Bless,
Rader
Tuesday Selection
Making the Magic Happen – Dabii
This is Flyte One aka Tim Storey, hailing from London England. His styles encompass all arenas of the Dubstep Genre.
I Kissed a Girl (Flyte One Remix) – Katy Perry
Here’s Phaeleh . A subtle yet chilling force.
Memories (ft. Anneka) – Phaeleh [served chilled]
- TSkrizzla
Monday Selection | Some Spacey Folks
Tonight, we feature three noise cowboys and applaud them for doing their thing.
Two Fingers are Brazilian sound pioneer Amon Tobin and Joe “Doubleclick” Chapman. The pair bonded over an interest in music that ran way beyond the boundaries of electronica. They’re currently stewin” in Montreal.
From the foggy hills of scotland:
Zutopong (Akira Kiteshi VIP) – Bird Peterson
501 from Uusimaa, Finland. ya know, uusimaa.
Hats off to ya,
sam.i.am
Sunday Assortment | woke UP with a fucking tattoo
Goooood Morning! Nothing better than to wake up to a fresh batch of hand-selected tunes from your most trusted music source.
I’d like to start off with an undeniable classic from the stacks-
Off The Wall – The Others [recommended]
Me & You (Danger Remix) – Nero
D.E.V.I.L (Nerva & Wonkap Remix) – 666
Bass Down Low (Proper Villains Remix) – The Cataracs
and in case you missed the 320 the first time around…
MAD – Magnetic Man [recommended]
Nude (Eskmo Remix) – Radiohead [served chilled]
Where You Should Be ft. Sam Frank – Skream [served chilled]
- The Haggard Pigeon
Saturday Selection | Tell your friends- not the cops
(Surprise bitch!) I’ve got a bag of magical musical gems for ya- just in time to throw on your stereo for some Saturday night revelry.
BUT FIRST,
For any of you reading this who have been following us here at L O W – L I F E for a little while-
for any of you who have been appreciating our selection of sounds, may we humbly request a favor:
We want you to think of one friend who would love the sounds we have been offering up, and we want you to tell them to hit up low-life.ca to hear only the freshest bleeps from the dark underbelly of electronic music.
Alternatively, you could spray paint ‘LOW-LIFE [2010 - for life]‘ across your neighbor’s car windshield-
or suggest to the good folks at HypeM to add us to their blog directory on their ‘suggest a blog page’ .
Now- on to some excellent music-
Make Up Your Mind – Tame Impala [served chilled]
Please bear with the obnoxiously long intro on this next tune- the drop is worth it.
Open Your Eyes – Alex Metric and Steve Angello [electro]
Take Me Over (Mylo Remix) – Cut Copy [electro]
Internet Connection (Flux Pavilion Remix) – M.I.A.
I Love You So (Skream Remix) – Cassius [BBC Radio 1 Rip] [recommended]
Do It Again – Holy Ghost! [recommended]
Wolfey
Friday Selection
Here I am, gradually recovering from the revelry that was Sub Antix and Excision last night. If you managed to make it out, cleanse your aural palate with these tasty tracks, and otherwise, twist one up and do the same.
Jungle (ft. Maverick Sabre) (High Rankin Remix) – Professor Green
Switched (Cutline Remix) – Mindflow
Second Sight – Gerry R [served chilled]
alh
Thursday Selection | sam.i.am
Hello low lives, this is sam.i.am, and i am proud to be providing, along with my fellow fiends of beat, the tunes to score those evenings spent slinking around your dark, vibrating room. So tear a smile across your face boys and girls. Let’s dance.
Some dubs:
Humanoid – Eprom [recommended]
Diplodocus – Noisia [dnb]
Who don’t love some Datsik
Retreat (Elite Force Remix) – Datsik
Mhoombahtone
Firepower (Munchi Moombahcore Remix) – Datsik
Funky fresh
Sounds Like Love (Nobody’s Unicorn Dub Remix Instrumental) – Illa J
Anything Worse – The Gaslamp Killer
4 on the floor
Maintain – Computer Jay [served chilled]
sam.i.am
Excision in Vancouver tonight
If you’re in Vancouver tonight, don’t miss the chance to get battered by the sounds of the mastermind behind Rottun Records - Excision (Kelowna, BC). And don’t be late- Sub Antix (Vancouver, BC) will be opening. Get the details here.
Wolfey
Turner Tuesday Selects | Widelows Wednesday (ish)
It’s not Wednesday until I sleep. This here post is my first with le low-life. As you can tell already, I am one of the now 3 members of our Montréal chapter. Sittin’ here excited as ever about putting together my first post, I find my mind wandering constantly. I keep thinking of the 604 longingly, thus the two tracks following our feature are a few of the tracks that fueled a huge summer back there, and have stuck around to make their way to hopefully be of some service to you and yours…Enough talk about home etc, today’s focus is on Preston Lancs, and the UK’s Rob Leeming Aka Widelows . Another example of a young DJ, at only 19 years old, with a background of really only a year of serious production under his belt. A very good homie of Sine Here , whose track “Creature” was brought to our attention by Wolfey a while back.
Enemy Flak – Widelows [recomended]
My Neck My Back (Shlohmo Remix) - Khia
High School Art Class (NoiseyOneRefix) – Pretty Lights
Off Chops Ft. Jess Chambers – Opiuo
We Left – RÜFÜS [serve chilled]
Put A Smell On Me (Nicolas Jaar Remix) – Matthew Dear [serve chilled]
Rader
Coachella 2011 Line-up
There’s no place like Coachella… there’s no place like Coachella… there’s no place like Coachella. The 2011 bill (April 15-17) was released today-
And although when I first saw it, I was momentarily dismayed that ‘Daft Punk’ wasn’t staring back at me in large black font at the top of the poster. Rumours had been flying around the last week or so that they had been asked to take one of the headline spots for the festival. However, as my eyes scanned down the list of artists on the bill, I could feel excitement welling up in the pit of my guts and I quickly forgot about my initial disappointment.
The list of dubstep artists is impressive all by itself. (Not to mention the rest of the bill of incredible artists; make sure to check out the entire line-up here ):
Excision
Mount Kimbie
Skrillex
Daedalus
Nosaj Thing
Goth Trad
SBTRKT
Jakes
Caspa
Joy Orbison
Kode9
Mala
Zed Bias
Magnetic Man
We hope to have someone from Low-Life out there in April to join the party. I know I hope to make it down.
Wolfey
Sunday Selection | Virtual Boy
Thank Bass for Virtual Boy . Here is an excerpt from Virtual Boy’s Symphony No. None, which drops February 1st on 1320 Records .
Somewhere In My Memory – Virtual Boy
and a few additional sounds to colour your Sunday afternoon.
Shot Yourself In The Foot Again – Skream & Example
Behind the Disguise (Closing) – Wax Tailor ft. Marina Quaisse
-TSC
Saturday Selection
Montreal is covered in a blanket of snow and fog tonight. Lounging at my desk staring out at Mont Royal and vibing to some excellent sounds. Where are you?
Deception – Jaydan [d&b]
Lights On (Skream Remix) – Katy B. ft. Ms Dynamite
Here We Go (Lazy Ants Remix) – Autodidakt ft. Super Super [recommended]
And a couple classics from the stacks, in case you’re not already familiar.
Massage Situation – Flying Lotus [recommended]
Back to Chill – Goth Trad [served chilled]
Wolfey
Thursday Selection
Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice.
Blind Faith ft. Liam Bailey (Trolley Snatcha Remix) – Chase & Status
Beasts In the Basement V.I.P. – Reso
I Was Mine – Zeadron Del Gomez [served chilled]
Sofi Needs a Ladder (DJ Mr. White Remix) – Deadmau5 [electro]
alh
Wednesday Selection
Ajapai does it again… and again.
… and while you recover from that barrage, enjoy this new tune by Caspa & Rusko. Once again this classic duo produces a signature sound that can be pinpointed from a block away.
Now, we have Swede:art. Hailing from Germany, Swede:art sounds like a collaboration between JDilla or RJD2, and the Gaslamp Killa or Shlohmo. As you can see this sound is something unique, something unexplainable, something fantastically dynamic. With funky vibin bass-lines sometimes dressed with soulful hiphop vocals, sometimes a work of art in themselves, Swede:art’s album Emotional Colors is not one to miss.
Linguistic (Feat. Stray) – Swede:art
Sex On The Airplane – Swede:art
On a similar note, we have Slugabed. A glitchy, yet wonderfully pattern oriented sound that still appeals to the connoisseur of bass. Get the whole Ultra Heat Treated EP off Juno.
OK. Take a deep breath. We are getting into the gritty stuff now. Not that Ajapai didn’t satisfy that requisite right off the bat.
Here we have Demokracy,
Some more brutal glitch for your brain… his new EP drops in February, here’s a fat preview of Double Star EP .
…and now for your daily dose.
…[d&b]
Steady As She Goes VIP – Mensah & Eddie K
-TSC
MiMOSA | Silver Lining
MiMOSA is a multi-faceted producer who blends elements of dubstep, and breaks, trip-hop to create intricate, hypnotizing, atmospheric beats. Based out of Los Angeles and Oakland, California, MiMOSA offers polished, understated, yet unfailingly dynamic, and unpredictable chilled grooves. If you like Ramadanman, Flying Lotus, Martyn, or Kromestar, I think you would dig MiMOSA. MiMOSA’s latest release is Silver Lining (2010) on Muti Music. It is available for purchase here .
Pushing Little Daisies – MiMOSA
Wolfey
(P.S. Thanks go out to Dan G. for introducing me to MiMOSA)
Forest Swords | Dagger Paths
“I’m really interested in music that kind of echoes the environment it was created in.”
Matthew Barnes’ solo project, Forest Swords , doesn’t exactly adhere to a stylistic niche. Produced along the coastlines of the Wirral peninsula in northwest England, his full-length album Dagger Paths seems to carry the organic tone of the sparsely industrialized landscape. Barnes’ electronic soundscapes, intertwined with eerily vacant guitar melodies and evocative drums suggest that these songs were crafted meticulously simply to pay tribute to the unrefined atmosphere in which it was written.
Originally released on cassette, the six-track E.P. is now available from Olde English Spelling Bee . Purchase away here , rest your weary mind and enjoy. It resembles something like a psychedelic experience.
alh
Celebration of Simplification | Sunday Selection
…thank you .ca
Tarantula (LeBelgeElectrod Remix) – Pendulum
Know Us (NiT GriT Remix) – Love & Light ft. Jillian Ann
Hype Hype (ENIGMA remix) – SLK
Less Go! (Porter Robinson Remix) – Spencer & Hill ft. lil Jon
…[electro]
Weekends (Zedd Remix) – Skrillex
…[electro]
Rag Doll – Shorterz & Enigma ft. Little Palm
-tsc
Downlink, Vaski, LeBelgeElectrod | in Montreal Jan. 8. 2010
Our favorite Montreal party promoters, Bouddha Slinky, are throwing another big shindig tonight at Club Soda with Downlink (BC), and Vaski (US) of Rottun Records as well as the much anticipated LeBelgeElectrod (Belgium). Should be a hell of a night if you can make it down. See ya there. Details here .
Wolfey