Tension / Tension remix by Hector & Bryant / Appleblim & Al Tourettes (Phonica 001)
Released, finally! I’m delighted that Phonica have started a label, since I’ve discovered so much great music through their shop. (Plus, it’s nice during these times to see a new vinyl venture pop up). Getting Appleblim on the remix is a canny move, but the original is actually my favourite side of the record, taking in influences from all over the shop (as it were) - a bit of deep house, some dub techno, some Berlin techno…my only criticism is that the high sustained string note towards the end is a bit corny…but still, this well-named track is really impressive.
Um…that’s it for this week really. A bit overwhelmed by my queue of downloaded audio and can’t pick a favourite. My subwoofer arrived a few days ago so I’m going back through a lot of older dubstep records (Loefah etc) and enjoying all the new frequencies I hadn’t noticed before (and getting myself an ASBO if I’m not careful…)
Techno-fetishistic geek fixation: Twitter
As a sickening early-adopter constantly on the lookout for a new nerdier-than-thou technofix to a nonexistent problem, I’ve been on Twitter for a couple of years now, having signed up long before the free London papers started blathering on about it. (Why am I telling you this? Because I am a twat!) Nevertheless this weekend I’ve noticed a bit of an influx of dubsteppers to the Twittersphere, so I’ll list a few of them here for you to stalk at your leisure - all marginally more interesting than knowing what Jonathan Ross fed his dog this morning. In no particular order:
- dBridge
- TRG
- Maryanne Hobbs
- Ben UFO
- Immerse Records
- Grievous Angel
- Martin Clark (Blackdown)
- Gutterbreakz
- Dub U
- Snoop Dogg