ELECTRONIC EXPLORATIONS | 306 - Various Production

[rob_booth]

Hexstatic - In The Mix - TONIGHT


Hexstatic are Stuart Warren-Hill and Robin Brunson, and together they have been consistently breaking new ground in Audio and Visual entertainment.

From their early work producing video’s for Coldcut and co-producing the seminal AV piece ‘Timber’, they then went on to sign to Ninjatune records and release the UK's first fully audio visual album 'Rewind' in 2000.

Then followed the critically acclaimed 'Listen and Learn' mix for Ninja's Solid Steel series in 2003 and CD/DVD release 'Master View' in 2004, another first with the accompanying DVD containing many 3D videos!

In 2006 they produced the Pick N Mix CD for Sanctuary records and in June 2007 released their 3rd studio album 'When Robots Go Bad’. That and a cheeky host of bootlegs over the years under the Exactshit moniker.

Since their first tentative shows at early Big Chill events Hexstatic have become one of the worlds premier Audio Visual acts presenting spectacular shows around the globe containing their irreverant take on dance music with big injections of humour and good party times. They closed last years Big Chill with a celebration of the festival’s 15 years, a spectactualr performance that encompassed live Batucada and Capoeira and a special collaboration with beat box maestro Shlomo.

From dirty AV all-nighters at London's 333 to the massive Electraglide shows in Tokyo. From Working Mens club launch parties in 3D to playing on a wall of water from the middle of the Thames, from illegal Guerilla gigs on the streets of London, Hexstatic have done it all.

2010 see’s several projects from Hexstatic, Stuart leading a foray into the world of 3D performance with his ‘Holotronica’ project and Robin producing a new AV show and release entitled ‘Trailer Trax’,.. a bass heavy dance floor journey into the world of cut up ‘Drive-In’ style movie trailers and intermissions.

More info:

http://www.myspace.com/hexstatic
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexstatic
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Hexstatic
http://www.holotronica.tv
http://www.vimeo.com/channels/trailertrax




+ FRESH beats from:

George Lenton
Machine Code
Ben Bracket R.I.P.
Joker
Dark Sky
Rossi B & Luca
DJRum
Scuba
Slugabed
Headhunter & Djunya
Blue Daisy
iTAL tEK
Synthamesk


and a classic from 'Anti Pop Consortium'




Massive thanks to everyone supporting "EE" and voting for me .... 4th overall for "best radio show" is fucking unbeleivable ... so happy, which makes "EE" best podcast on the DSF Awards 2010 .. massive thumbsup to all the regulars ..u know who u are



To thank all ... I've commissioned 3 producers to mix up my 2009 best of singles

I've compiled the tracklist, it's up to them to mix it up .... from what I've heard so far its pretty fucking impressive (these 3 producers have been 'featured main guests' on EE b4 ..... expect something special
Coming Up in the next few months


Misk
Jamie Vexd AKA Kuedo
0=0
Nasty Nasty
Offshore
Architeq
Tympanik Audio
End.user
Ad Noiseam
DJ Hidden ??
Immerse Showcase
One4Ho Label Showcase
Jahcoozi
Shortstuff
Peverelist

[rob_booth]

8:30pm - TONIGHT


LoDubs - In The Mix Exclusive




Tracklisting:

[01] - Mensah – Warrior - [Dub]
[02] - XI – Vacuum - [Dub]
[03] - 6Blocc – Meditation 2 - [Dub]
[04] - Monster Zoku Onsomb! - Exterminape (Ebola Remix) - [Dub]
[05] - DZ & Sam XL – Cotton Candy - [Forthcoming 'Contagious']
[06] - XI – Lucky - [LoDubs 1208007]
[07] - Djunya – Elevate - [LoDubs 1209012]
[08] - O-Dessa – Million Dollarz - [LoDubs 1209013]
[09] - Hoodz (6Blocc & UOME) – Bad Mind - [LoDubs 1209011]
[10] - Mensah – Sahara - [LoDubs 1209015]
[11] - El Rakkas – I & I (XI Remix) - [LoDubs 1209017]
[12] - DJG – The Gate - [LoDubs 1209016]
[13] - Pacheko – Figure 8 (ENA Remix) - [Murder Channel]
[14] - MNUVR – Rafters - [Forthcoming 'LoDubs']
15[] - MNUVR – Go Up - [Forthcoming 'LoDubs']
[16] - Intima – Tierra De Java (Pacheko RMX) - [Dub]
[17] - Meesha – Block Riddim - [Forthcoming 'LoDubs']
[18] - Clubroot – Sempiternal (SPL Remix) - [Forthcoming 'LoDubs']



The American West Coast seems to have really taken to U.K. dubstep–Portland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles have developed devoted audiences for the stripped-down low-end sound that some initially surmised would be just a British thing. And helping U.S. dubstep make its mark, one bass-heavy burner at a time, is Jon A.D.’s LoDubs label.

LoDubs is not your ordinary dance music imprint, nor is Jon A.D. a young upstart. The label is run from inside Anthem Records, a record store (and label of the same name) that Jon owns, and which specializes in limited-edition metal, noise, and drone releases. This may seem contradictory, but Jon sees a strong connection between metal, noise, and dubstep. “Dubstep is so much about drum structures. And when you increase the air and rhythm in tracks, that allows drone and other frequencies to come out. Scorn’s stuff is very metal, and Burial and Boxcutter have some of those elements as well.”


The history of Jon AD reads a bit like a peoples history of innovative electronic music in the the United States. Born in Eugene, Oregon, and from a young age attracted to all aspects of sound, it was in his teens that he first discovered Electronic music, and realized that it had as visceral of elements as Punk Rock when combined with heavy amplification.

This thread ultimately lead to, and followed the beginnings of the Hardcore Techno sound of artists like Mescalinum United and GTO, and the advent of UK breakbeat hardcore like Spiral Tribe, Suburban Base/Moving Shadow/etc. As there where no record stores that even began to come close to following such musical movements, he founded the first DJ service in the region for such sounds, delivered via bicycle, much like Horsemouth in Rockers (a parallel not drawn until he saw the film many years later).

As it appeared much of the west coast was years away from an appreciation of such styles, by the time 1995 rolled along, Jon AD found himself seeing the Midwest, with its all-encompassing party scene, and its indigenous culture which was the beginnings of the Midwest hardcore sound, as a voice calling. So when a promoter heard him DJ in Oregon, and on the spot offered him a plane ticket and some money to come play a party in a rural barn near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he departed, and thus embarked on a three year "trip" which besides an endless amount of parties played also involved a long running residency at the primary club in the city, Matisse, and a featured writing position on the magazine known as Massive (massivemag.com), which is still seen as the Rosetta stone of the period, and the primary source of recorded history for such organizations as Drop Bass/Communique/Addict Records/etc.

Shortly after arriving in the Midwest, the city of Chicago, and its indigenous music, became a primary driving force for Jon AD, and once relocating to San Francisco in 1998, and starting work at a music distributor, Jon AD founded the label losonofono, in an effort to illuminate many of these artists. In the height of the San Francisco house boom, this was in effect walking a separate path, which was compounded by the fact that many of the releases contained electro/techno/ghetto house tracks, which where all forms of music seen as not very cosmopolitan at the time. Throughout this period, Jon AD still had one foot firmly planted in Drum and Bass, playing many of the events in the region, and compiling the distro lists for the aforementioned distributor.

Coming full circle at the turn of the millennium, and returning to Oregon, Jon AD found himself in a similar situation as when he left, in that there was no way for him to procure the records he needed. Thus, Anthem Records, and brick and mortal record store/label was formed, and gradually the focus shifted in part to the Garage music sub strains emanating from around the world. From there, a chance meeting with a little known producer from Philly known as Starkey at a laptop battle set the stage from what came next, and thus hearing the track known as "Dementia" that night cemented what would become the first record on the Losonofono sub-label LoDubs.

Since that night in December 2006, LoDubs has emerged as among the strongest in a short list of labels representing bass driven music in the US, and arguably the only one largely representing artists from North and South America, with over 20 releases from artists as far north and Toronto and as far south as Venezuela, in addition to those from the UK, Germany, Japan, etc.

The future will see Jon AD and LoDubs continuing to blur the lines between what is one genre or the other, be it through the releases, The multi genre monthly founded by Jon AD, Monkeytek, and Ryan Organ in 2006 known as Various, and/or through his DJ sets.

[tomre]

Sorry I have to use some emoticons

[Pistonsbeneath]

lo dubs is an amazing label...mensah and clubroot are incredible

[section 8]

biggup Monkeytek & LoDubs!

[tomre]

Uhum ... Uhuhum ... time !

[rob_booth]

my host is being a tnuc

try this in maybe 5-10 minutes

http://electronicexplorations.org/podca ... LoDubs.mp3

[fractal]

nice to see the left coast fam getting some love! good look

[Motorway to Roswell]

Big up Rob.

[rob_booth]

ok...we are live

[pacheko]

Much respect.
Electronic Explorations is great...

[mensah]

Lo Dubs and Electronic Explorations.............TOOOOO MUCH!!

BIG UP JON, RYAN AND MR MONKEYTEK

[clubroot]

Lo Dubs and Electronic Explorations.............TOOOOO MUCH!!

BIG UP JON, RYAN AND MR MONKEYTEK

Much love for the Lodubs crew.

[jon ad]

Thanks for the kind words. I have a short mix each of reggae and Burial mix stuff up here:

http://pdxindub.com/?q=audio/by/artist/jon_ad

Done back in 2003. Like the EE mix, just turntables used.

[rob_booth]

Thanks for the kind words. I have a short mix each of reggae and Burial mix stuff up here:

http://pdxindub.com/?q=audio/by/artist/jon_ad

Done back in 2003. Like the EE mix, just turntables used.

Nice one Jon, will check the link mate

[rob_booth]

NastyNasty in the mix tonight .... Busy producer, been on remix duties for both Slugabed and loops haunt



+ beats from

Akira Kiteshi vs Raffertie
Broken Note
Breakage (feat. Kemo)
Mount Kimbie - (SCB Edit)
Ikonika
Sully
Planas
DjRUM
Clubroot
Eprom
FaltyDL
Breakage (feat. Burial)
Vex'd
iTAL tEK
16bit
Ramadanman
Mount Kimbie (Instra:mental Remix)
AK Kids & Subeena
Milyoo
VVV
Jahcoozi (Milanese Remix)
Ebola




DOWNLOAD @ 11:45pm TONIGHT

[rob_booth]

STREAM::
http://media.blubrry.com/electronica/electronicexplorations.org/podcasts/ElectronicExplorations_105_NastyNasty.mp3

DOWNLOAD::
http://media.blubrry.com/electronica/el ... yNasty.mp3

[01] – Akira Kiteshi vs Raffertie – Graveyard Monopoly – [????]
[02] – Broken Note – Shark – [Sustained Records]
[03] – Breakage – Temper (feat. Kemo) – [Digital Soundboy]
[04] – Mount Kimbie – Vertical (SCB Edit) – [Forthcoming 'Hotflush']
[05] – Ikonika – Idiot – [Hyperdub]
[06] – Kuoyàh – Angels Dub (Sully remix) – [Forthcoming 'Frijsfo Beats']
[07] – Planas – Roots Music – [Forthcoming 'Immerse Records']
[08] – DjRUM – St Martin – [Dub]
[09] – Clubroot – ‘Orbiting’ – [Forthcoming 'LoDubs']
[10] – Eprom – Shoplifter – [Bad Acid Music]
[11] – Eprom – Never (FaltyDL Rephresh) – [Surefire Sound]
[12] – Breakage – Vial (feat. Burial) – [Digital Soundboy]
[13] – Vex’d – Killing Floor (MAH Mix) – [Planet Mu]
[14] – iTAL tEK – Spectrum Falls – [Atom River]
[15] – 16bit – EYE CALL (the clock is ticking) – [MTA Records]
[16] – Ramadanman – No Swing – [Forthcoming 'Hessle Audio']
[17] – Mount Kimbie – At Least (Instra:mental Remix) – [Forthcoming 'Hotflush']
[18] – AK Kids & Subeena – Spin the Bottle – [???]
[19] – Milyoo – Dasein – [Forthcoming 'OPIT']
[20] – VVV – saviours-sinners – [Dub]
[21] – Jahcoozi – Close To Me (Milanese Remix) – [Forthcoming 'BPitch']
[22] – Ebola – Alpha Paw – [LoDubs]

NastyNasty – In The Mix Exclusive

01 – Birdman ft. lil’ Wayne & Drake – Money To Blow
02 – NastyNasty – Poor Mans Reprise
03 – Sduk – You Nyt
04 – Rico Predicate – Xylostep
05 – NastyNasty – Turf War
06 – NastyNasty – Knife Play
07 – NastyNasty – Swollen Prostitute
08 – NastyNasty – The Reef
09 – NastyNasty – No Names
08 – NastyNasty – Melting You
09 – NastyNasty – Necking
10 – NastyNasty – Choker
11 – NastyNasty – West Coast Hardcore
12 – Starkey – Pleasure Points
13 – Eprom – Humanoid V.I.P.
14 – Doris & Kelly – You Don’t Have To Worry
15 – Phosho – Ninja Juke
16 – Slugabed – Skyfire
17 – NastyNasty – Hellish Monday
18 – NastyNasty – Chiropract
19 – NastyNasty – FourLetterWord
20 – NastyNasty – Damn Girl (teaser)
21 – Sduk – Clunge (NastyNasty remix)
22 – Salva – Weird Science
23 – MiMoSA – Duck & Cover
24 – Loops Haunt – Huarache (NastyNasty edit)
25 – NastyNasty – Visions
26 – NastyNasty – Bleeding
27 – NastyNasty – Myspace
28 – NastyNasty – Damn Girl

[tomre]

Hell YESSSSS, BIG show again

[07] – Planas – Roots Music – [Forthcoming 'Immerse Records']

[Chilli Perez]

NastyNasty is the shiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!

[planas]

great show rob, cheers for dropping my tune!