No stranger to urban beats ‘Bassobese’ is new on to the Muti Music roster, but has been making waves in the Pacific Northwest for quite some time. His mashup mixtape,’$hitting In The Mainstream’ was one of the mixes fueling midtempo crunk and mashup scene with it’s audacious take on contemporary Hip Hop culture, Bassobese is now releasing an all original composition album to the greater public.
After six years of producing Hip-Hop and performing alongside acts such as KRS-One, The Wailers, Living Legends, J-Live, The Coup, Blackalicious, Heiroglyphics, and touring with artists such as Rahzel and Andre Nickatina, Bassobese has shifted frequencies, focusing instead on making music to melt the listener’s minds, while simultaneously providing the bass to shake the club.
Bassobese has crafted a unique sound that may very well be a breath of fresh air to those tired of the monotones of both the Dubstep and Hip-Hop scene. His latest album, 49 Nights Of Twilight is a psychedelic collage of samples from old vinyl seamlessly blended with cutting-edge textures and booming bass. The result is a sonic concoction bound to burn up the dance floor, yet full of melodies memorable enough to stay in your playlist for years to come.
Artist: Bassobese
Title: 49 Nights Of Twilight
Cat # Muti047
UPC # 844185007542 Tracklisting:
01. 10 Thousand Devils 6:09
02. Long Ago 5:06
03. Like An Eagle 5:16
04. Ding Ding Dong 4:55
05. Troll Trouble 5:05
06. Crunka 4:45
07. The Evolution Of Man 4:44
08. Squidface 5:21
09. Old Love 4:42
10. Basilisk 6:09
Buy now exclusively at Beatport (out everywhere January 2010)
After his debut EP ‘The Next Level’ was featured on the Bobby Friction BBC1 Radio Show, playlisted on Laurent Garniers’ world tour, featured on the Beatport Dubstep charts and saw other support from the likes of Bassnectar, Digital Rust and David Starfire, we knew that T.O.B. was just beginning to make his impact with diverse beats experimentation.
On ‘Evolutionary’, Nonku’s lyrics are the perfect accompaniment for the high impact and epic sounds of T.O.B, his experience in sound design has qualified him to produce breakdowns that have drawn comparisons to the likes of Hybrid and Chase & Status. The beats flow energetically and hard, riding the lines between Dubstep, Drumstep, Drum & Bass and general dancefloor mayhem.
Artist: Kether
Cat # Muti045 - UPC # 705105138503
Title: Layer Two
Tracklisting:
1. Spit Wods 5:42
2. Time Laps 5:36
3. Day 2 6:53
4. SuperNova feat Novatron 5:59
5. Locrian 6:03
6. Day 2 (Stephan Jacobs Remix) 6:52
Available now exclusively on Addictech (everywhere in January 2010)
Since their debut on Muti Music, KETHER has toured the US west coast and dominated the Los Angeles underground warehouse and art music scenes.
Their gigs have included rocking the Do Lab stage at Coachella, playing alongside Tipper and Shpongle and lead time slots at Norcal festivals like Stilldream and Priceless.
Their second release, appropriately titled ‘Layer Two’ is a blend of Progressive thinking music with hard urban sounds produces a unique fusion of glitched out beats drawing on influences including Minimal, Progressive House, IDM, Dubstep, Breaks and Glitch Hop and also including many ethereal, organic textures that are both melancholy and very beautiful at the same time.
Out now for a limited exclusive period on Beatport : Direct Link
(Out everywhere on November 27th)
Artist: Various
Title: An-ten-nae Presents Acid Crunk Vol.2
Cat # Muti050
UPC # 705105139203
Title - Artist - Time
1. Bang That An-ten-nae 4:02
2. Foolish Silence Ooah 4:37
3. Southpaw Datsik 4:45
4. Gangsteppin Marty Party 5:29
5. King Prawn Opiuo 3:18
6. Ulysses Akira Kiteshi 3:43
7. Bleep Gemmy 5:19
8. Do You (An-ten-nae Remix) Freeland 4:22
9. Stay Triumphant Apox 3:56
10. Caribbean Heat Samples 4:56
11. H.A.A.R.P ill-esha & dewey dB 6:04
12. Pharma Sutra ill.gates & Filastine 3:23
13. Waiting For Initiation Bluetech 5:48
14. Hard To Find Robot Koch 3:33
An-ten-nae has long been a purveyor of fine exotic beats and low slung crunk.
Acid Crunk Vol 2 started off as a free mixtape that has now been downloaded over 37,000 times. Now, what is Acid Crunk?
It’s a no rules genre bending booty shakin’ synthesis of the dirty dirty that makes that subs in your low rider bump; and it sure goes nicely with that Ice Cream paint job. In the words of Martin Turenne (Straight.com) Acid Crunk “Conjures the druggy textures of early house and the fearsome bass of millennial hip-hop, marrying the West Coast breaks sound with the brooding atmospheres of London’s dubstep scene.”
Acid Crunk Vol. 2 kicks off with An-ten-nae’s own low frequency taser, Bang That, he locks in the dance floor with a deep electro groove and then fires up on all cylinders with a flick of the switch. Next up is Ooah (Glitch Mob & PANTyRAiD) From it’s lush start to its acid tinged convulsing basslines, ‘Foolish Silence’ has devastated every dance floor it’s been dropped on and his live performances have induced pandemonium across the globe, Most recently he appeared on the soundtrack of Tim Burton’s masterpiece film ‘9’. Datsik has virtually dominated the Beatport dubstep charts for months, and here again proves why he is a new standard in audio excellence. With ‘Southpaw’, Datsik delivers the goods. The other half of PANTyRAiD (aka Marty Party) turns Acid Crunk on its head
with a jackknife of a bass-driven track. Following the current success of the PANTyRAiD album The Sauce, (Marine Parade) Marty ‘s forthcoming album, on the same label, due in January 2010.
From ‘Down Under’, our Australian agent in crunk, Opiou, adds a little funk with his crunk ‘King Prawn’. Look out for his forthcoming EP on Addictech Recordings.
Akira Kiteshi has earned support across the board from the likes of Mixmaster Mike, N-type to Mary Anne Hobbs, with ‘Ulysses’, this Scotland native delivers his own nasty brand of alien funk infused dubstep from the 31st century.
Head south to Bristol and you’ll find Gemmy, one leg of the ‘Purple Trinity’ (with Joker and Guido) His newest offering ‘Bleep’ is some Bristol / Brizzle Bass Crunk guaranteed to turn those head nodders into instant body rockers. For more of his unique brand of crunk, check out his track on Mary Anne Hobbs newest compilation “Planet Mu”.
An-ten-nae returns with a remix of ‘Do You’ by UK supergroup Freeland (feat. Adam Freeland & Tommy Lee on Drums), he dissects the track into a heaving acid tinged monster sure to make all the ladies squeal.
The next 3 tracks showcase emerging talent from the US and Canada. Apox who hails from Nevada, Colorodo’s own Samples and Ill-Esha & Dewey DB (Vancouver) throwing down tasteful and versatile tracks from the ‘Glitch Hop’ school of crunk.
Collaborations often bring out the best in artists, and ‘Pharma Sutra’ is a testament to that and this off beat slammer by Filastine (Barcelona) and Ill.Gates (Toronto) will make your jaws drop. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.
Chillout maestro Bluetech helps bring things down a bit, journeying into thedeeper shades of crunk with ‘Waiting For Initiation’.Finally, no global journey into emerging electronic genres should be complete without a stop to Berlin,so we leave you with Robot Koch and his off-kilter beauty of a track ‘Hard to Fin’, off his upcoming album Deathstar Droid.
Out now on Addictech:
(and everywhere else in the next few weeks)
Tracklisting:
1. Comfortably Crunk 4:31 An-ten-nae
2. Midnight Street 5:51 MO2
3. Skeleton Talk 4:16 The Flying Skulls
(Licensed Courtesy Of Daly City Recordings)
4. Free Energy feat. Seasunz,Firewater, Wiseproof and New Eon 5:14 Knowa Knowone
5. Whats It Worth (Jaswho Remix) 6:18 Goddess Alchemy Project
6. Fractalscape 4:50 Heyoka
7. Oriental uno - feat. Fanfara Kalashniko 4:42 Beats Antique
(taken From The Album, Contraption Vol. 1 2009)
8. San Francisco (The Rhythm) 4:49 Eskmo
(Licensed Courtesy Of Ancestor Recordings)
9. Portomental (Ribotto remix) 6:37 Spystep
10. Lights In The Night 3:39 SexyTime
11. The Weebler 4:09 Eric Sharp & Bass Cadet
12. Subterfuge 4:46 Telepath
13. Stripjoint Mathematics (Worthy’s Back Room Remix) 5:56 Deepchild
(appears courtesy of Anabatic Records)
Symbiosis Gathering in it’s 5th year has become a unique festival in Yosemite California featuring leading artists in a broad range of music styles including House, Electro, Dubstep, Breakbeat to Jamtronica and performance art groups like The Yard Dogs, artist Andrew Jones visual art project called, Phadroid and live painting by Alex Grey.
This year they contacted Muti Music to help put together a compilation featuring some of the stars and rising stars of the 2009 gathering and the result is nothing short of spectacular, Muti staples like An-ten-nae, Heyoka and Knowa Knowone are featured along with the likes of Eskmo, Beats Antique, Worthy and Goddess Alchemy Project, the compilation also features the debut release from Mimosa’s one side project with Sleepytime called, SexyTime. Pop it on and get ready for a diverse journey into festival style electronica.
File under: Breakbeat / Bigbeat / Glitch Hop
Available now on Addictech (everywhere else in October)
Artist: Great Scott
Title: Tarot
Cat # Muti043
UPC # 705105137704
Great Scott made his mark with his past two EPs; Bollygraph Test and The Grand Conspiracy, both receiving support on BBC radio and his track ‘Defcon’ being included on the new ‘LoveEvolution’ CD (San Francisco’s answer to Love Parade) along with many luminaries of dance music culture including Bassnectar, Lee Coombs, Miguel Migs, Hyper & Jhz, Chrostopher Lawrence and many more . (see http://www.epiphyterecords.com/releases/lovevolution-compilation.html)
This new EP is once again a combination of midtempo / Bigbeats and uptempo Breakbeats, Tarot is more for peak time moments, while the midtempo funk of the other tracks provides plenty to dance to and once again MC Nibu os featured on vocal duties.
Great Scott is the host of “MK Ultra,” on KTRU in Houston, is a regular on NSB Radio, has also been a resident DJ in China and was one of the NuSkoolBreaks radio DJs at WMC 2009. Recently Scott also founded and launched a new online radio show, Glitch. FM, which has fast become the centerpiece radio station for the emerging genres of wonky, glitch hop, lazer bass, turbo crunk, acid crunk and whatever else you’d like to call the new edgy instrumental hip hop and breakbeat scenes. Strongly inspired by the sounds of old-school big beat and breaks, including the likes of Fluke, The Prodigy, and Rabbit In The Moon, Scott is constantly attempting to fuse the sounds of the old with that of the new, while trying to achieve a delicate balance between producing music that’s meant to make people move, with that which inflicts various emotions and imagery.
Tracklisting:
1. SOUND INFUSION 5:04
2. cALLING THE ALLISM 4:58
3. pLUG IN 4:41
4. pLUG IN DUB 5:43
5. FLOW MOTION 5:44
6. BIG I 3:56
File under: Dubstep / Glitch Hop / Breakbeat
Available now on Addictech (everywhere else in October)
Artist: Nanda
Title: Beyond Mind
Cat # Muti042
UPC # 705105138305
Special thanks to Clay Collar (http://constantcreation.org/) for his work on artwork and design.
Nanda is fast becoming known as one of the US west coasts bass maestro’s with tracks like his ‘Yoda Knowledge’ being the # 1 seller on Addictech for 2009 and also featuring prominently on Beatport and Juno Download charts. So once again we’ve got some heavy bass driven beats, this time Nanda drops an experience of deep beats occasionally filled out with tribal vocals, light atmospheric accents and overall driven by textured basslines.
Nanda typically dips into multiple influences and emerges with something broken in beats and flirting with Dubstep, Grime, Garage, Electro Bass and Downtempo music genre classifications. The result is something that pushes a few edges technologically and somehow retains a sense of worldliness.
Tracklisting:
1. Coalbludded 1:33
2. Closet Caveman 7:13
3. The Ballad Of UO126 6:38
4. Your Mamas A Reptile 7:57
5. Lizardskin Loincloth 3:41
Available now on Beatport (everywhere else in October)
After relaunching under his new production name last year, ill.gates (also known as The Phat Conductor), has remixed Si Begg on Noodles, Eprom on Addictech Recordings, Sub Swara on Low Motion Recordings, Mochipet on Daily City Records, co-produced and remixed DJ Dan with Robb G and released a highly acclaimed album ‘Autopirate’ on Muti Music.
ill.gates is a chameleon amongst producers moving effortlessly between genres and well known for his custom Ableton performance & production templates. His production know-how and willingness to collaborate has led to him working with many accomplished musicians and this time around collaborating with Toronto based Techno producer adamduke and the pair deliver an experimental EP that moves from minimalist tech-house through to dubstep and is as twisted as it is dance friendly and very playful while at it.
adamduke has 9 years in Toronto’s electronic community, both on his own and as half of notorious DJ duo ‘The Dukes’, he’s been billed alongside numerous major international acts like Ellen Allien, Tony Rohr, Carl Craig, Matthew Herbert, Kevin Saunderson, Joey Beltram, Bassnector, Afrika Bambaataa and Miss Kitten to name but a few. This is his debut release and we’re sure we’ll be hearing more from him.
Tracklisting:
01. Vocal mix
02. Ana Sia remix
03. Dr. Woogie remix
04. Sub Swara remix
05. An-ten-nae remix
06. Sharps remix
07. Heyoka remix
08. Trillbass remix
09. Instrumental mix
10. Acapella
We are honored to have such a quality group of established and emerging artists providing their own take on ‘Irma Vep’, the styles range from Glitch Hop, to deep Dubstep and a few other polyrhythmic versions in between, some feature the vocal and others chose the instrumental route, whatever your preference there should be a version for you.
In the past year, ill.gates (also known as The Phat Conductor), has remixed Si Begg on Noodles, Eprom on Addictech Recordings, Sub Swara on Low Motion Recordings co-produced and remixed DJ Dan with Robb G and released a highly acclaimed artist album ‘Autopirate’. Meesha was first featured on ‘Autopirate’ and has since made a mark for himself in dubstep, one of his tracks was recently included on Starkey’s mix album, Starkbass, out on the Lo Dubs label.
Masia One is one of the most dynamic women in Hip Hop today, fostering a community of B-Girls and promoting independent Hip Hop in Toronto and abroad, you will be hearing a lot more from her on Muti Music.
Following up on past successes, we got some remixes done by some of the most dynamic emerging talent from Canada and USA in the dubstep and ‘glitch-hop’ scenes providing a good variety of vocal and instrumental mixes, many of which are already seeing huge support. This EP is being released along with a great new video of the original tune.
Special thanks to the video production team and artists at Tokyo based www.lightrhythmvisuals.com .
Tracklisting:
1. Dead Like Me 3:40
2. Flux For Life 4:07
3. F.T.A.M.F. 4:01
4. ETG 5:47
5. Sirius 4:32
6. The Unseen 4:03
Available now on Addictech (everywhere else in September)
Artist: Mimosa
Title: Flux For Life
Cat # Muti038
UPC # 705105138206
Since his debut last year Mimosa has made his mark on the west coast sound and has become one of the Bay Area music scenes hottest exports. Highly sought after for his production efforts, now also producing with Sleepyhead as Sexytime and with Marine Parades’ hot new artists Panty Raid, made up of Marty Party and Glitch Mob member, Ooah. The Mimosa vs Panty Raid collaborative track ‘Chaos Control’ was also recently featured on Mary Anne Hobbs BBC radio show.
‘Flux For Life’ displays Mimosa’s ‘hard and pretty’ touch, with etheric pads accompanying tough and edgy basslines and melodic synth leads.
All this is set to steady and raging dubstep beats that are dancefloor tested and certified for peak time enjoyment.
Artist: T.O.B.
Artist: Kether
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