DUBSCOVER: Valentines Special

Dubscover are celebrating their Valentines Special at Gramaphone with some super fresh lady artists. They will be battling it out for the winning title so be prepared for a claws out night of heavy low frequencies from some of the finest undiscovered females in the scene. Girls, show 'em how it's done!

As usual there's the podcast for some interesting listening and hype about the night.

DOWNLOAD: Podcast 005

First up they have Manchester’s number one Dubstep duo, The Steppahs, followed by the two ladies of ATG LDN, Moxie & Elvee. They also have huge props from the east London renegade Slauka. Last but not least, the Dubscover 004 winners, Slugz & Boyson are returning to the decks. As always, there's support from the Dubscover residents; Hylu & Jago - this time they're rolling out a 2 hour special birthday set. Maybe with some exclusives thrown in, like in here...

DOWNLOAD: Minimix 005

1. Hylu & Felipe Moura - Untitled [dub]
2. Krooks & Boyson RMX ft. Nanci Correia - Midnight Marauders [dub]
3. Seven & Elvee - Waves [forthcoming Aquatic Lab]
4. Boyson & Krooks - Insufflate [dub]
5. Seven & Elvee - Step In To A Dream [Subway]

Stream available for both on Soundcloud.

If you're unfamiliar with Dubscover, here's what goes down. Each artist has 1 hour to perform, and a further 20 minutes to battle each other, to help you decide who is the best. All you have to do is scream and shout for your favourite artist. The most noise gets the podium.

What's even better is that they are offering this all for free and there's a little treat for the first 30 people there.

£2 for a Stella bottle before 11pm, and £3.30 on all pints, all night.

Closest tube is Aldgate East and Liverpool Street...

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B. RICH does Europe...

"B. Rich is about to hit the UK and Europe for his first overseas tour. To kick it off he is giving out this free EP where the heavier side of his production shows through. The EP is rounded off with 3 extreme remixes by DZ, J. Rabbit and HavocNdeeD, resulting in a seriously heavy and diverse collection. This release is a must have for fans of Dubstep, Drum and Bass, or Heavy Bass."

DOWNLOAD: We Ball Harder Remix EP [right click save as]

01. We Ball Harder (Original Mix)
02. We Ball Harder (DZ's Spy Harder Remix)
03. We Ball Harder (HavocNdeeD Remix)
04. We Ball Harder (J. Rabbit Remix)

If you are in Europe, be sure to check out the myspace for more info on the tour dates.

EXCLUSIVE MIX #006

Having taken a little break from our mix series over the festive season we're back up and running. What a way to start the new year. London new boys Dark Sky bring us this colourful selection of tunes oozing talent from themselves whilst also keeping the other tracks intertwined to a high level. Their style fuses garage with the deeper side of Dubstep leaving us with tight beats and warm subby bass.

However, I shouldn't say they're new because that wouldn't be true. 2009 was an exciting year for two of the three. You may be familiar with The Boogaloo Crew already. This is their side project. They've dragged in another producer and things are kicking off. Another example of people seeing where the sound is heading and taking full advantage. While on the subject of Boogaloo - we'd like to congratulate them on their forthcoming release on Trouble & Bass. 'Days Go By' and 'Calling All Dancers' (which are in a couple of our mixes if you haven't heard them) will feature on 'Heavy Bass Champions of the World: Vol 2'. Big!

Dark Sky have forthcoming releases on Black Acre as well as a host of other tricks hidden up their sleeve...

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01. Ghost Notes - Dark Sky
02. Duke St Dub - Sully
03. Nouvelle Histoire - Von D
04. Higher - Breakage
05. Purple City - Joker
06. Concrete Jungle - Silkie
07. Leave - Dark Sky
08. No More Tears - Geiom
09. Poetics - The Boogaloo Crew
10. Neon Speech - Hyetal
11. Radiates (Joker Remix) - Primary 1 + Riton
12. Kesha - Rustie Remix
13. Fuse - Hudson Mohawke
14. Inhale - Synkro
15. Rainbow Road - Gemmy
16. Beautiful Complication - Guido
17. Crystalized (Dark Sky Remix) - The xx
18. Something To Lose - Dark Sky
19. Digital Fauna - Zomby
20. Drowned City - Dark Sky
21. Phonebox - Sully
22. Over (Breakage Remix) - Zarif
23. Love Cry (Joy Orbison Remix) - Four Tet
24. Brandy (Fantastic Mr Fox's Nature Boy Rerub)
25. Sacré Cool - Young Montana

It's worth getting the mix just for a sneak preview of The xx remix!

When you hear dem sirens...

Who dislikes Borgore? Glad we cleared that up.

Here we have some treats from the Dub Police fam. In preparation for their few nights in the US with Scion, they've put together a pretty surprisingly good compilation. Surprising, not because it's Dub Police but because it's 14 tracks, one from each of them (excluding Tes La Rok and a couple of others), for FREE! Not all are so great so I thought I'd be nice and not waste 180MB of your time or download allowance. If you have plenty of time or generally disagree with my taste then I'd advise you to download the whole album as you may find something you prefer on there. Or not. You know where you heard about it first though.

In descending order of rowdiness, nevertheless - all sweet tunes.

Quantum Leap - The Others

Turf W*rz - Matty G

Oh Yeah - LD

Strawberry Kiss - Orien

Light Ina Distance - Unitz

Time is of the essence round these parts at the moment so I'm sorry for the 'Slow Down'. Submit your top 10 tracks downloaded in the last year and get a special treat. The idea behind this is not so we don't have to do any work - we want to keep the gems alive. You might have missed one or maybe not looked back far enough. Who remembers this for example?

Endgame (Two Oh One Remix) - Forensics

Leeds people - 9th March, it's a date.