Promos and audio of the recently relaunched Underfire Recordings are starting to surface. Nice to hear Stakka & Skynet are working together again. Distro is by Nu Urban Music, the promo is for "Timelines / Nightlore (Stakka & Skynet remix)", and you can get a quick audio fix:
UDFR020 - audio on "Timelines" is messed up, but you can skip to the next side
This was an un-edited English translation of the interview originally run in Hungarian on the ImpulseCreator site.
01:33:10 PM_ ransom
03/24/2006
Friction will be at the next Five DnB Session in April, with Noisia. His label Shogun Audio will have a site up soon at www.shogunaudio.co.uk, and there is new material forthcoming from newcomers Shock One (the next single), then EPs featuring D Bridge, Friction, Break, Commix, K-Tee, Blu Mar Ten, Breakage & SP MC & more. And then following all of that will be the 2006 remixes of the classic "Altitude," originally by Stakka, Skynet & Friction.
Crazy.
Oh yeah, Andy C's next mix on Ram Records ('Night Life 3') is out in the next week or two, and the tune clips for it are hot. Can not wait to hear it.
07:09:42 PM_ ransom
I probably should of posted this sooner, but Nation will be shutting down in mid-July to make way for the new Nationals baseball stadium. Buzzlife released the following:
From what I have heard, Buzzlife will continue to throw events, but there is only speculation as to where. The April 1st event with Roni Size, Dj Marky, MC Armanni Reign and Bobby Jae at the 930 Club might be one glimpse of the promoter's future event production work.
07:06:03 PM_ ransom
03/23/2006
Concord Dawn's new album is about to drop! Here is the online info:
Been busy with work, school projects, Djing, and entertaining friends in town on their spring break. Thanks to everyone that came out to Five last night, was really good, had a lot of fun. I hope everyone going down to Miami this next week has a good time and stays safe. Let us know what the hot tunes are at the dnb parties this year.
07:14:37 PM_ ransom
03/14/2006
Years ago friends of mine from the NY area had sent me mixtapes by Blueline, a resident at the Physics parties in NYC, and a member of the Mathematics crew. They were numbered, but with a theme; Fifth Element, Sixth Sense, etc. I even think his bio was printed out on lab report paper, which was really cool looking.
A couple years later, Mathematics had established themselves as class producers, and those mixtapes were lost... but this week I checked out Mathematics's recently launched label site:
Been bogged down at work all week, hence no updates. Ink & Rohan were in town last night, Commix and John B are playing Friday night, and there is a lot coming up soon. I'll get a nicer update together soon.
Bailey announced a new Metalheadz sub-label is in the works, headed up by him and Goldie. Releases will be free of artists' names, so might be very interesting to see what surfaces. Check out his interview on Dogs On Acid.
Soul:R now has a bustling website up, with a good bit of info about upcoming releases (an ablum and a Break single forthcoming on Soul:r?!?), plus audio of releases. Right now there are two addresses:
From what I understand, the www.soulr.co.uk will be the main site address, there was just an issue with DNS information updating, which could take a couple days.
05:55:07 PM_ ransom
03/01/2006
Spring is just weeks away, and that could (should?) mean in increase in local events. Leading the charge in DC will be local upstarts Upfront Industries (UFI), headed up by Bobby Jae and Yvonne Sayres, and their crew which includes Ken Lazee, Kristen Sanchez, Steve / Sushiminus, and Ali / Hitoi.
Tonight they host Calibre and MC DRS at Five, and a second event in March featuring Pendulum and Subfocus. Mary Morris recently wrote an article about UFI for local rag Music Monthly, and cross posted it on the DOA forum:
