V/A - "White Lighter"

Number 27 for the Bludclot Recordings catalog is another ridiculous compilation of ruffneck jungle and core varieties spiced up with other flavors and elements familiar to our output. After a rough patch that seemed to spell the end for the label and Grindthieves family, the passion and drive to press on – even and especiallythrough the truly terrible times in life – we banded together with another sick batch of artists for the tongue and cheek titled/themed “White Lighter” compilation. A sort of slap in the face and homage to the so-called “27 Club” of famous musicians who’ve passed on too early at the age of 27 and peculiarly found with a white lighter in their pocket, Bludclot brings it rough, rugged, and ruthless once more for number 27 on the 27th of April in the year the world is supposed to end.

Some familiar Bludclot names plus a nice helping of artists not before featured on a Bludclot release that you’re probably familiar with already, this is yet another world class gathering of rudeboys and soundkillers aimed at demolishing your speakers and ruining the dance in the best way possible.

+ Various Artists – “White Lighter”

01 : Ghost – “Crystalize”
02 : Kungfused – “No Way”
03 : unsoundbwoy – “Angel”
04 : Mirra – “Freedom Dance”
05 : FFF – “Breathing Fire”
06 : B.I.N.T. – “36th Chamber”
07 : Mr. Bad Monkey – “Those Damn Rasta’s Took E Again!”
08 : Stivs – “Boom Wah Tek Ruff”
09 : Stazma The Junglechrist – “Meltface (Sir.Vixx Remix)”
10 : Wanklerotaryengine – “Smoke Fi Fyah”
11 : Apzolut – “Strange Things Moving”
12 : Nebulist – “Chat So Much”
13 : C3B – “CHEW-Z”

- DCKR

Hue Jah Fink - "We Snare Because You Do"

Clever yet straightforward, Hue Jah Fink delivers a helping of older tunes available to own for the first time on this compilation, just released the end of last month. Forward thinking, even by comparison to today and previous forward thinking intelligent music icons, you got prime rollin' choppage that owes something equally to 1992 UK breakbeat hardcore, mid 90s hardcore darkstep drum'n'bass, far out futuristic choppage vibes that you could here from the likes of the Scientific Wax crew, and the oldschool IDM masters. Basically, this is pretty damn good.

Hue Jah Fink - "We Snare Becase You Do"

- DCKR

Twin Cities Drum'N'Bass Volume Five

Big love goin' out to my home town and its sister city, Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN! All the heads that are pushing a jungle/drum'n'bass sound for the dancefloor and wall systems get together every now and again for a compilation of original tunes mixed up by one of the DJs and the result is increasingly awesome with each volume.

A big variety of dancefloor aimed numbers from some deeper and soulful rollers to hardcore dub laced skankers to some sort of newschool jump up flavors with some dubwise drops through to some upfront in your face freakouts and beyond. Personal highlights are both of Virgo's offerings; "Hardest Drummer" featuring I-shack with some future reggae jungle'n'skank jazz and the shady private intvestigator vibes on "Better Killers", Fact's "Rhinoceros" with its nod to the sparse yet intelligent chop suey drum'n'bass from the latter 90s, and Idol's alien language cyber rain forest colony d'n'b on "The Void".

MBC assembles these monster tracks, wide range of styles and vibes they each bring, incredibly well and manages to lay down some seriously deep and creative mixing between them. Brace sounds at home among the tracks and mixing, never too loud and only complimenting the music and blends. Nice mastering and sick cover art to top it all off.

The fresh flavors from several of the area's heads who were around and managed to help shape my mind musically in my formative jungleraver years, as well as a helping of younger heads I know to varying degree carrying on their idea of that framework, plus even more cats I'm not too familiar with.

Free download, CD for $5.00, and Tshirt for $15 - get it!

Twin Cities Drum'n'bass Volume Five

- DCKR