Taken from the album “It’s Wes Smith Yo-Remixed Vol One” Bad Habit & Strange Rollers bring the rave to the party with their energetic laser shooting breaks/4×4 rerub of  “Hands Up” The LP also features remixes from

• Columbo
• DJ Hero
• F Word

Check out Wes interviewing Chris Bad Habit here

Wes Smith- “Hands Up” (Strange Rollers & BadHabit Remix)

As aired on Linda B’s Unisex Sessions show this an exclusive mix performed by the duo Breaks Inc.

Formed in 2008 via Phoenix, Arizona. Breaks Inc. (Xpdex & Seven) are 2 DJ’s that started producing breakbeat music for events that they were playing at the time. Shortly after their formation, the duo started to gain notoriety in the Arizona scene because of their solid productions and clean mixing skills.

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Tracklist

1. Scandalous (Original Mix) – Breaks Inc.
2. What? – Breaks Inc.
3. Watch That – Breaks Inc.
4. A World Through A Machine (Xpdex VIP Remix) – Discosynthetique
5. Don’t Stop The Drop – Dj Keith Cooke & Seven
6. 3LAU – Escape (Tyson Jeremy Remix)
7. Strange Days (Original Mix) – Breaks Inc.

Rising stars of the Bass n Breaks scene Firestar Soundsystem have dropped their latest mix full of a cross genre of electronic music all with one thing in common, Bass. Wrap your ears around this mix full of Bass bangers.

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From Berlin, Germany we’re pleased to welcome the lovely Sarah Farina to The Armory. Press play. Get down.

Over the last couple of years, Sarah Farina has become one of Berlin’s main taste-makers in underground bass. Sarah is well recognized throughout Germany and noticed by artists and music heads on each and every continent. Her sets are driven forward through futuristic break-beats and intense bass lines. Not sticking to any specific genre, she defines the music she plays as ‘Rainbowbass’.

Sarah Farina is one of the original founders of Through My Speakers, which became a record label in 2014, after being a collective and event production crew since 2010. Over the last years she supported some of the most respected of her bass music contemporaries, both locally and abroad. She contributed to Rinse.fm’s Hyperdub show with Kode9 and Scratcha DVA in London 2013 and shared the DJ booth with artists like Loefah, Disclosure, Gaslampkiller, Lunice and many many more. Being connected with crews like Teklife (RIP DJ Rashad), Buraka Som Sistema, Exit Records and similar, her network is large and constantly growing. Her two contributions to Boiler Room Berlin in 2013 and 2014 were well received by BR’s usually discriminating audience and paved her way even more for promising gigs in the future.

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Tracklist

1. Go! (Special Request Warehouse Mix) – The Chemical Brothers
2. DS9 Riddim – Murder He Wrote
3. Go La La – Addison Groove
4. Natty – Scratcha DVA
5. Floor Excitement – The Busy Twist
6. Booo! Feat. Ms. Dynamite – Sticky
7. Music Box – Roni Size &
8. U Don’t Survive – Machinedrum
9. Stayhigh – Never Forget
10. Believe Feat. Redders & Rider Shafique – Sam Binga
11. Alcaholic Danefloor – Dawn Day Night
12.Cannabis – Moresounds
13. Listen Tune (VIP Mix) – Just Jungle
14. Air Freshener – Tom & Jerry

Started out with more booty shakin’ bass with that 808 groove on this live recording from the State of Breaks. Get down with tracks from Lo IQ?, Lounge Lizard, Merlyn, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, BT, The Rogue Element, Ed Solo, Deekline, and Baymont Bross.

Direct Download: State of Breaks – November 9, 2015

The State of Breaks with Phylo on NSB Radio – 11-23-2015 by Phylo on Mixcloud

Playlist:

Hxdb & Self Evident – New Stylee (SUBCORR vs HxdB VIP)
Lo IQ? – Ghetto Tr!x
FunkySteps – Vice Versa – AudioBotz (Lounge Lizard Re-Lick)
Surkin – Never Let Go (Merlyn’s Let Go Of My Bass Re-Edit)
Julissa – A Players Eyes
Devotion – Lights & Music
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – Tapes & Money (Dub)
Red Lips – GTA (LeJack Remix)
Deee-Lite – Groove is 808 (Unknown Remix)
Joe C – Going Back
Paranoide – Turn Me Out
Starkillers – Cantina (BreaksMafia breaks edit)
Deenk – Tech Funky
Luke Selfhood & Michie One – Waterman (Feat. Olav Basoski & Colombo)
Vigi – Love – Left Leg Remix
DJ Icey – Under Constructo
BT – Somnambulist (Burufunk Remix)
J. Scott G, Imprintz, Kloe – Battlefunk Galatica (Beta Remix)
Rob Le Pitch – Twisted (Tom Real & Rogue Element Remix)
StereoDan – Play With Me (Def Inc. Remix)
The Rogue Element – Let Me Breathe feat. Miss Trouble
Ed Solo, Deekline, Million Dan – Reload (Kryptonate remix)
Agent K, Bella – Sierra Leone (The Phat Riderz Remix)
Baymont Bross, Mutantbreakz – Drop The Bass feat. MC Bestbasstard
Freestylers – Security (Ctrl Z Remix)

Cheers!

Phylo

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The main man at Lowdown, Craig Whittaker aka Red Oktober is our no #18. Getting the nostalgia flowing, he has used only tracks by PMT, False Prophet and Dirk Technic aka a man known as Will Brunner. Bringing back to fond memories of the early noughties, Craig gives a nod to the unsung hero from the darker more progressive side of the breaks in this 2hr mix. Taking us on a journey through some of his original work and remixes, this really shows off his awesome talent.

Tracklist:

1: False Prophet – Wake Up (Spatial Rework)
2: PMT – Unsound Method
3: A – Nothing (PMT Remix)
4: Ills – No Soul (PMT Remix)
5: PFN – Flow (False Prophet Remix)
6: PMT – Insinuendo (Principled Dub Mix)
7: KC Flightt Vs Funky Junction – Voices (PMT Remix)
8: Semi Detached – Who Da Fuck (False Prophet Remix)
9: Way Out West – Intensify (PMT Remix)
10: Dope Smugglaz – The Word (PMT Remix)
11: D*Note – Shed My Skin (PMT Remix)
12: Stir Fry – Breakin’ On The Streets (False Prophet Remix)
13: Dirk Technic – I Love You
14: False Profit – Pixie Boots
15: The New Originals – 1799
16: False Prophet – Wake Up
17: PMT – Necromancer
18: UNKLE feat. Ian Brown – Reign (False Prophet Remix)
19: Dan F – Rack of Respect for the Raw (Dirk Technic Remix)
20: False Prophet – Keep It Shallow

Fresh from the massive “Crunk” Siege is putting in some great remix work, like this remix of Kaz James & Ivan Gough “Inside Your Arms” out now on Armada/OneLove, remember Billie Ray Martin “Your Loving Arms”? Loved it? You’ll love this just as much, grab it now

Kaz James & Ivan Gough- Inside Your Arms (Siege Remix)

Please tell us about the label’s background. How did you get the idea for the label and what’s the vision behind it?

Affectionate Grooves is NexGen Music’s loooong time project in the making. I grew up on UK underground music in the late 80’s and early 90’s witnessing the evolution of early Dance, Rave, Hardcore, Breakbeat, and later Jungle/Drum & Bass.

In the mid-to-late 90’s I started getting deep into Downtempo, Chill, and Deep/Chill-House. I couldn’t get enough of the “alternative” sounds that labels like Goodlooking Records (UK) were putting out on their Cookin’ imprint and Earth Compilations. Likewise with the sound pioneered by Miguel Migz and Jay Denes on Naked Music (US).

With NexGen Music focusing primarily on Drum & Bass, Downtempo, Chill, Nu/Future-Jazz, and other alternative styles, and Migration Recordings focusing more on Dubstep and Bass music, we had to get a label together to provide the label group with a sound and that we were missing, particularly on the house and garage front. Affectionate Grooves is the perfect compliment to the NexGen Music Group sound.

You’re about to release the Heisenberg EP by Kachina. We love the sound, please tell us a bit more about the artist and the release.

Kachina is a tribe of veteran producers and artists from the UK Midlands, channelling their skills honed from mastery of a wide variety of electronic music styles into two very distinct and spiritual flavors of house and garage, which represent the sounds of day and night. Heisenberg represents the ‘dark’ side of Kachina – moody glitchy techno-infused bass heavy garage with some seriously funky drum work and eerie soundscapes.

Which other artists are you’re working with at the moment? What’s their backgrounds and how would you describe their sound?

So, unlike our other labels which mainly represent production artists, with Affectionate Grooves we’ve decided to give as much if not more attention to the vocal and lead artists.

Alongside Kachina, we currently have upcoming releases featuring the following vocal artists:

• Afua – with a background in Soul/RnB/Garage/House
• Lyndsey Murray – with a background in Folk music (and also an awesome guitarist!)
• Nikki Marie – with a background in RnB, Soul
• Amazee – with a background in Indie Rock and also widely know as an underground conscious MC
• Dee Ellington – with a background in Classic Soul and RnB

Being a new label, we are on definitely on the hunt for some new artists and producers to join the rank! Get those demos over!

What have you got lined up for next year?

Lots more Kachina releases! Kachina’s sound has piqued the interest of DJ’s like Bunzero, Jenna G, Che and Nappy, so we’re getting a lot of solid support. At some point next year we’re looking to perform live versions of some of our music with vocalists and musicians in full tribal headgear

Where can people hear the the sound of Affectionate Grooves next? Any gigs happening soon?

Prangman (Migration/A-Grooves) runs a night called Sous Sol usually @ Sub8ten (formerly Sophbeck) on King Street in Leicester UK. Prangman & Kachina are regulars, artists who’ve played there recently include garage legend El-B, Flava D, Mooney & Killjoy. We’ve got a mini-tour lined up next year covering New York City, Washington, D.C, Baltimore, and Atlanta.

You can also find us via our soundcloud channels:

https://soundcloud.com/nexgenrecs

https://soundcloud.com/affectionategrooves

If Affectionate Grooves was an animal what would it be and why?

Hmmm… It would have to be a fox… With Kachina representing Leicester, UK, and Leicester currently being top of the British premiere league (who would you have known?). It’s all about the Foxes right now!

Kachin “Heisenberg EP” is out 25/12/15 pre order here and stream the Certified Premiere below

Why You Need To get To Know Affectionate Grooves

We are very pleased to premiere the stream of Himalia – “Thought So” ( BRTN Remix) taken from the “Distances EP” by Himalia on Pegdoll Records, it’s a gorgeous slice of dreamy light Tech House and Future Garage blended into one. a diverse EP that also includes Despicable Youth’s warm DnB remix of “Distances”, a lovely chilled downtempo remix of “Kingdom” by Barefoot Remix, a melodic early morning vibed Future Garage remix of “Falling” by Sieren which also gets a nice deep techy DnB rerub by Type 2 & Soligen, atmospheric future bass via Thostey’s remix of “Love Like A Drug” and a slick and sleek upfront Tech/Deep House remix of “If” by Markus Jay. There’s just so many reasons to buy this right now!!

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Himalia- Thought So (BRTN Remix) Premiere

It’s been another year of sterling DnB from Technique  Recs, this new compilation is a highlight reel of wht you have missed, the good news is that red hot bangers from the likes of Drumsound & Bassline Smith, Decoder & Substance, Document One and more are all present here for you to rinse out with pleasure, 30 essential beats, go get em!!!

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VA- Technique 2015 Drum & Bass Annual