Tracklist

1. Countdown
2. Oh Girl - Marten Horger
3.Get Up And Dance - Drumattic Twins
3b - Poker dots (filler)- Afro Jack (Oliver Twizt remix)
4. LGFU! - Marten Horger
4b. Let's Jack - Breach(Accapella)
5. Freak Dub - Randomer
5b. Supernatural - Ursula Rucker
6. Take Me Up - Taiki & Nulight
7. Shytie's Disco - Defkline & Redpolo
8. Not Gonna Stop - Stupid Fresh & Stellar MC
9. Nobody - Bastian Van Shield (Tujamo Remix)
9b. Bananas - Gwen Stefani (Accapella)
9c. 21st Century Girl - Fidelity Kastrow (Accapella)
10. Nasty Girl - Sabb & Zenbi (Nelski remix)
11. Trap Shit V13 - UZ (Justin Martin Remix)
12. Hotsteppa - Moombaton boot
13. Bug On Out - B-Side
14. It's My Mouse Trap Thing - Opiuo, Featurecaast, Betty Moorer, Gramitik -Stickybuds Edit
15. 3-6-9 - Featurecast & Stickybuds
16. Good Thymes - Ray Charles (Opiuo Remix)
17. Love Is Love - Dj Love (Pimpsoul remix)
18. Do it Right Now - Pimpsoul
19. Ooo Wee - Mark Ronson (D-Funk & Some DJ)
20. Shoop Booty - The Funk Hunters
21. Regulate - Dancefloor Outlaws

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After his debut album, Know No Boundaries, dropped earlier this year, Ill Audio has been hard at work back in the studio constructing his next batch of bass heavy badness.  The Devolution EP is a wicked dubstep four tracker which showcases Ill Audio’s diverse ear for deeply cinematic, heartfelt anthems that are hypnotic, dark and sonically devastating! This one is coming out on the huge stateside label, Heavy Artillery label run by Faust & Shortee. Preview below.

Released 23rd September on all good digital outlets including Juno.

To celebrate the release I caught up with him to find out a little more. He also offered us his wicked future jungle remix of Laid Blak’s – Red, which was released on Ruff n Fresh Records last year, as an exclusive free download. Read through to the end of the interview for the track.

1. Thanks for taking the time to answer our questions, for those that don’t know, who are you, what do you do and what style(s) of music do you play?

I produce all tempos of Bass music as iLL AUDiO. I work with vocalists a lot and have played guitar for a long time so theres a lot of live elements going in the mix. Theres a big Rock & Dub influence in the sound.

2. Tell us a bit about what you’re working on now, any releases on the horizon?

I released my debut album a few months ago on Distinctive Records. I was holed up in studios a long time on that, and was really lucky to get to work with some of my favorite artists – Skin, Akala, Roots Manuva, to name a few, plus a full orchestra on some of the tracks. Next up I have an E.P titled ‘Devolution’ dropping on Heavy Artillery next week. The title track is about how mass media and big pharma subjugate the masses through covert means. Pre sales are hinting that it might chart as the feel good hit of the summer.

3. What other artists have you been feeling recently, who are you currently championing in your DJ sets?

Rido, Joe Ford, Memtrix right now. Really pushing the production levels, and not afraid to experiment

4. Which Club Nights do you play at regularly?

Right now im concentrating on writing music and upping my production skills. Theres loads of new material im getting ready to release over the next few months so Djing will be more for next year I reckon.

5. Worst request whilst DJing?

I got booked to play a wedding once. Everything I was getting asked to play I didn’t have, Abba was probably top of the list.

6. What are your best/worst DJ experiences?

Best so far was doing a mobile float at Nottinghill Carnival a few years ago with my mates. Everything from rigging the lorry to driving through the streets of London with a 30k system was unreal.

7. What got you into electronic music? What made you choose your current style and sound?

I got taken to some raves and big parties when I was just a kid so I got the taste for it then. I played in a lot of bands as a teenager but always wanted to do something that sounded totally different. Electronic music has always been on the front line of new sound but back then it seemed too technical and complicated to get involved in. I guess the turning point was when I broke a load of bones in an accident and couldnt play guitar. I had a crack of logic and got really into that and it all started to make more sense, and as the studio has gone more in the box over the years its been easier to get a big sound with not much gear. Im still trying to balence the live / electronic elements cause they like to fight.

8. What do you get up to outside of music?

Sometimes I eat, sleep. I have a girlfriend. I gave up drink, meat and substances over a year ago now, so my high in life comes from music, training hard and eating well. Rock and roll. I’m also learning about real science, alternative energy’s, ways to be self sustainable.

9. What do you think it means to be a “successful” DJ or producer?

To me success means doing what you love and making a living from it with the least amount of comprimise. Also the ultimate thing for me is making timeless music – if you manage to make a track that stands the test of time – thats the true test of music in my eyes.
10. What can we expect from you over the remainder of 2013 and beyond?

More music! I want up the production levels with each release. I have another album on the go. A load of EPs to drop before that. Plus I’m looking at getting a full live show together for next year and have some wicked collabs lined up that I can’t talk about yet.

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ILL AUDIO – Devolution E.P + Exclusive Interview + Free Download

Damn it..91 Scours later and it would appear that I’ve at last run out of ways of alternative ways of saying hello!? Oh well, I’ve gotten around it, let’s move on. Warm welcomes from myself (Spinforth) and my trustee blurb writing sidecarkick (Fat Harry) to this, your very latest..Spinforth’s Biweekly SoundCloud Scour #91.

Promised myself I’d only spend 5 minutes writing this boring bit up here this week, and I’ve already taken longer that thinking of a new way to say hello, so basically that’s pretty much it from me this week. Juuuust before hand you all over to FH though, here’s one final (..guaranteed, probably) shameless Spromo™ plug of recently released ‘Scoured Cream: Vol.03‘…especially for any avid Scour fans whom may have been holidaying under a rock for the last few weeks! It’s been a tremendous run of 3 weeks at the very top of Juno Download’s charts, (..all entirely thanks to YOU, and you, and you,and you, and yeah also you recurring), but at long last we’ve been very deservedly toppled by the mighty Skewiff (.featuring MC Rayna)’s ‘Ghetto Latin & Broken Ballroom LP‘! Congratulations to you dudes and dudette, took you long enough

but, I’m very happy to concede the title to you both, just for a little while at least. I trust my tail left that spot nice n warm for you!? Anyway, for anyone reading this whom hasn’t a clue what I’m talking about..I’m leaving this plain, yet somewhat fancy, SoundCloud player below in hope of picking up a few stragglers, and see if i can pull off another miracle. No harm in trying to keep this friendly little fight at the top of going eh!

Right, that’s me all Scoured out, time to hand you all over to Fat Harry for the necesary introductions!

Scour lover thumbers at the ready, aaaaand…

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Huge thanks to DJ Chamber for stepping up to the blurbage plate for the last Scour #90, I think the term ‘Ogre’s Choad’ will stay with me forever. Big happy-ending, Godzilla sumo wrestling love to you fella!

SCOUR #91 EXCLUSIVE #1: Titan Sound‘s Selecta Demo invents the musical version of the telephonic device. How on earth have we existed as a species before this point?! Rodney P wrapped around a J-Star instrumental? Of course! We all slap our heads and realise how stupid we’ve all been. Eureka! Tune in next time, we hear he’s doing something dead wrong with breast milk… Biggups for the Scour exclusive sir..grab your copy via this very kindly donated >>100% SCOUR EXCLUSIVE DOWNLOAD LINK RIGHT HERE

Warm welcome to Scourgin™ Jabberwockk! More sass than Clint Eastwood in ‘The Good, The Bad, The Ugly’ He actually knocked on the door of Scour HQ in a poncho, cowboy boots and a cigarillo hanging menacingly from the corner of his mouth, I answered in my spiderman dressing gown, elmo slippers and chubba chops lolly in the corner of mine. We both stood there staring at each other with steely eyes whilst we fingered our weapons as the music from his silver pocket watch played out…then we fist bumped, high fived and spent the day watching musicals, proving once again, that no one can stay angry in a poncho. Welcome to The Scour! ALTERNATIVE DOWNLOAD LINK REQUESTED/AVAILABLE ON SOUNDCLOUD/IN TRACK DESCRIPTION. 84bpm ▼

I love this ‘gentle easement into the Scour’ we’ve got going on. Alific keeps it on the down low, with this specially arranged freebee taken from his brand new LP ‘Echoes From The Soul‘..which is great! Unfortunately it appears we’re all under arrest, Boooo! Unless he’s a snooker player and we’re actually under a rest, or he’s been hanging out with Rocket Ronnie O’Sullivan and been throwing a few frames here and there in which case we could be both. Ah well, this is a sweet tune and the snooker analogy does nothing for a track that could be totally at home on the Justified soundtrack. Probably playing whilst US Marshall Raylan Givens shoots someone with a tattoo. ALTERNATIVE DOWNLOAD LINK AVAILABLE ON SOUNDCLOUD/IN TRACK DESCRIPTION/OR >>HERE

Scour Records superhero B.Visible returns! The man who constantly cranks out fresh sounding, quirky beats. This B.Visible slice is no different, utterly charming, odd and refreshing. Standing out from a pack of testosteroned high school jocks (I don’t know what that actually means – jockeys? It can’t literally mean Jock strap wearers surely?) like a pale skinned delicate nerd hero who we all know will beat the bullies and get the girl in the end :enter about 40 movie titles here: Or he’ll go all Glee, who knows?! He’s aces though! 90bpm ▼

Before we welcome Nerub to The Scour, i’ll need those of you that can to remove your trousers, draw the curtains and get the scented candles out. Yes friends, it’s the erection section! Let all your bits hang free and have blood drawn into them through whatever means floats your boat. Whilst I have a love of all things brassy and stabby and therefore a natural hatred of all things brassy and Kenny G-ee, I don’t care that this steps close the the Gee man, not when it’s so very classy and beautiful. If AIR did a Daft Punk, expect this to be on the album somewhere. ALTERNATIVE DOWNLOAD LINK REQUESTED/AVAILABLE ON SOUNDCLOUD/IN TRACK DESCRIPTION. 92bpm ▼

Keeping to the love theme and another warm Scour virgin welcome to Soleance! It’s like the start of an early eighties soft porn sex romp comedy with horrific innuendos and racy puns…..wait, that is what it’s like every week! Carry on up The Scour! Good Job then that Souleance keeps it stone cold funky with a reworking of Brenda Russell’s A Little Bit Of Love. Not a Porkies in sight! 92bpm ▼

SCOUR #91 EXCLUSIVE #2: Bring out your dead! Del Gazeebo‘s back! And he goes full Monty with a proper tasty mash of The Cure, who, along with Prince, holds godlike status as one of mine and Spinforth’s very favourite of artists. I led a troubled youth, a ginger kid who loved Goth music and dressed like he was in Miami Vice. I’ve since been to Miami and now know it is no friend to either the ginger or the goth! Who’d have thought ODB would sit so smoothly with Robert Smith, the man who invented putting on lipstick like you were in heavy turbulence or were auditioning for Batman’s arch nemesis. Del knows both his onions and his eggs and serves up the best Scour exclusive onion/egg surprise you will have ever tasted! Get involved in your copy of this gem via this very kindly donated >>100% SCOUR EXCLUSIVE DOWNLOAD LINK RIGHT HERE

SCOUR #91 EXCLUSIVE #3: Bruce ‘Good Game, Good Game’ Missile continues to bring all the girls to the yard. Yep, you guessed it, it’s his bloody milkshakes. I’ve watched him through his kitchen window, I’ve gone through his bins, I’ve slept in his bed when he’s gone to the yard and danced around his front room in his underwear but I still can’t find his secret milkshake ingredient! Short of threatening to kill his cows (..I never would!) or inventing the Jimmy Choo Milkshake i’m at my wits-end. Bruce don’t care, he’s there in the yard, completely oblivious of my milk plots, covered in all the girls and all the milkshakes and all the wicked mashups! Silent salute to you Sir! Grab your 3rd (of 4) kindly donated >>100% SCOUR EXCLUSIVE DOWNLOAD LINK RIGHT HERE

Switching our bitter focus from Bruce’s milky German boobs to New Zealand’s Sample Gee. I wonder how many reworks of Eric B & Rakim we’ve featured in The Scour over the years? Probably loads, none more cleverer than this moody beast. If Baloo was the jaunty prickly-pear bear from Jungle Book, this is very definately Barry, Baloo’s alcoholic, monosyllabic brother who lives in a trailer in the woods, owns a gun, drives a harley with ‘I hate fancy ants AND buzzing bees’ sticker and drinks whiskey malibu chasers all day. Big Bad Barry – Jungle Boogie! 99bpm ▼

Oh hey Stylust Beats and Wick-It the Instigator! You’re probably aware by now that Wick-It holds a special place in our hearts, we rarely let one of his releases slide past your discerning ears. Not everyone’s cup of earl grey we know, but always good value. Like a bag of tangy haribo x DOWNLOAD LINK AVAILABLE ON SOUNDCLOUD/IN TRACK DESCRIPTION. 97bpm ▼

Welcome to The Scour Orphic Official! (The unofficial Orphic can absolutely do one!). More wonk than a chocolate willy factory. Fact! Reckon you’ll like this one, if you do be sure to have a little listen to his Stevie Wonder Higher Ground edit, reckon you’ll find that tidy darts too. 98bpm ▼

Easy now! Strap yourselves in and prepare for possible nosebleeds! Twelve tracks in and we’re just about to break the 100bpm mark – this might be the gentlest of Scour’s ever! Well don’t worry, I wasn’t joking when I said strap yourselves in. We’d like to welcome and generally turn you right on to the sounds of Beat Fatigue (..remember that name!). Utterly infunkincredible blues wobble that will have you squealing like piggies, reaching for the moonshine and praying to the Lordy Lord above! Bad luck and trouble? We don’t think so. 100bpm ▼

I love to swing! I hate swings! I hated the park as a child, dangerous things, we all just used to push each other to the point of falling off the swings at high speed, same with the roundabout, and I get filled with a cold dread at the memory of the slide after the time I carved ‘Gail Stamford’ in a love heart and felt guilty for weeks over my criminal act of petty vandalism, never mind that it was driven by the pure unrequited love an eight year old ginger boy with freckles had for the Gail ‘the county swimming champion’ Stamford. I understood even then what unrequited meant even before I knew the word. She was a sleek otter though and you would have all carved her name into the underside of the slide if you knew her! Anyway, pardon me The Jenova Collective! There’s something about swing when it comes at you at 100bpm that just grabs you by the nuts (or nutletttes) and makes you want to dance like you were in Fat Sam’s speakeasy! :custard machine gun: 100bpm ▼

Talking of custard machine guns, bring with, you’ll need them again here! DJ Snatch delivers the prohibition funk with a kinky retake of Tutti Frutti. Fun, good times, and possibly the funkiest guitar lick in the world. If you owned a pony and you left him in the stables for the weekend with this tune on repeat you’d get back on Monday to find him covered in glitter and ribbons, possibly covered in pink body paint, in essence trying to become a real ‘my little pony’. It could even be where

started out. 100bpm ▼

Kind of feel a bit bad as this has been my shower song all week. Yup, I’ve been rubbing and scrubbing my bits to this since I downloaded it. Step back Ladies! Not only has Sammy Senior bought this tune out as a thank you to his 3000 soundcloud followers, he also has his very own Ghetto Funk 4 track EP out this very day! For Free! Yowzers! 105bpm ▼

Dusty Tonez has a new EP out and guess what? yeah you got it, it’s proper dance floor gold. To celebrate the latest release he’s even gone and thrown open his Daft Punk Remix of Doin It Right for our pleasure! Am I an idiot? Only now have I realised that Daft Punk have never shown their faces. I just thought they were like a French motorbike and sidecar racing team, that’s a job for me btw, being ballast. If anyone needs a ladder held steady or summat, give me a shout x ALTERNATIVE DOWNLOAD LINK REQUESTED/AVAILABLE ON SOUNDCLOUD/IN TRACK DESCRIPTION. 106bpm ▼

Welcome to RaBo & SnoB! Cracking way to make an entrance. Kicked our doors in, fired their guns in the air, shaved our cats, tattooed our goldfish and are now taking their motorbikes apart in our front room! Me and Spinforth are cowering in the bath like lilly livered lady folk waiting for them to go and buy more grease for their quiffs. Let us know when they leave – thankyouplease! ALTERNATIVE DOWNLOAD LINK REQUESTED/AVAILABLE ON SOUNDCLOUD/IN TRACK DESCRIPTION. 110bpm ▼

New Zealand’s (..oh for Godsake, please will someone based in New Zealand book him and Lady Spinforth for a tour? Sometime’s it’s like we work for the New Zealand tourist board!) Dj Alias free’s up this strolling funk beast, more swagger than a badger with a stealth technology bodysuit and a sniper rifle (and thumbs) (and the correct training). Addendum: James Evans – ‘Fingers crossed that works..gagging for a Christmas holiday!’ Dave Raybould – ‘If it does i’ll actually fully expect a postcard!’ 112bpm ▼

Aleksey! love what you’ve done here! What did I need right now? Along with my cappuccino and cigarillo? Gil Scott Heron is what I needed! I didn’t even know it. With added T-Connection to boot! Diamond geezer. ALTERNATIVE DOWNLOAD LINK REQUESTED/AVAILABLE ON SOUNDCLOUD/IN TRACK DESCRIPTION. 120bpm ▼

Shake it like you want it! Nobody puts Fat Harry in the corner! These are just two of the things going through my mind as I bogle back and forth across my desk in my wheeled office chair (not a wheelchair, i’m not ironside) Oh, what am I doing now? I’m seductively rolling you a cigarette across my inner thigh, pretend it’s the finest leaf tobacco, not Cutters Choice, oh and pretend that I wax my inner thigh and that it’s not a matt of sexy gingerness (which, ironically is where Cutters Choice is harvested from in the first place) Thanks to Hubbz for the work out and the dreams of sex, big cars and rum! 120bpm ▼

SCOUR #91 EXCLUSIVE #4: Sweet Jebus! Those pesky fellas Restless Leg Syndrome are killing me! I’m belly dancing my office chair to literally pieces! I’m stealing their blurb for this: “In the case of their second EP “Dabkeh” (**OUT NOW** and available >>HERE100% SCOUR EXCLUSIVE DOWNLOAD LINK RIGHT HERE

If jungle or D&B is your thing Jinx In Dub will need no introduction from us, you’ll be all over him like dancing ants in pants. Should by any chance you be unacquainted then please take this opportunity to have a look at his wares – this tune is massive, we know because we heard it justabouteverywhere over the summer – it’s what the word anthem was invented for and i’ve never heard a noise that so aptly defines the wob wob’s as on Liquid Stranger. Utterly butterly! 165bpm ▼

I’ve never been too sure when it stops being drum and bass and starts being Jungle, maybe it’s the massive amounts of humidity? The monkeys? Perhaps it doesn’t matter? All I really know is when a tune gives me a big grin and this is one of them! Ricky Tuff delivers the musical fire! Literally! 175bpm ▼

Where was this tune earlier when I was full of innuendo sauce and fully flowing double entendre juice?! I would have had a field day with ‘You Can Ring My Bell’ Unfortunately, like the last soft breaths of a hurricane i’m a spent force by the time we get to the Curveball. I will have been sat at this desk for 6 hours and thinking purely about how many hours of sleep are left before ‘work work’ comes a knocking. However, this is X-Ray Ted we’re talking about, Scour Records Hero and our very own bona fide ‘Saucy Jackadore’! So, just for you Ted. I reckon she’s talking about her G-Spot and possibly reaching an orgasm and likely offering the chance to do those things to you! Like Batman, myjobisdonehere – see you next Scour hombres! 125bpm ▼

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Want to know what we kept going on about? Here’s the video from our recent Electro Swing Ball including footage of Bertie Dastard rinsing it out at 5mins 30secs.

If you fancy seeing me out and about next week I’ll be warming up for The Electric Swing Circus at Birmingham’s Hot Club de Swing on the 27th September.

Right, enough of that, let’s get on to the music.

Free Music Wattie Green has posted three rather nice mixes of Caravan Palace, all ready for download. What a nice chap!

It’s always nice to have something new from the Jenova Collective and now they’re dabbling their feet into ghetto swing. Keep it up boys!

Here’s a nice light hearted tune from Kiss Me Yesterday with Extra Medium on the remix. Download from facebook.

Here’s a nice slab of balkan grooves from DJ Badre:

The new album has come out by Menage Quad. There’s a whole pile of great tracks here in a swing-hop style and it’s available from bandcamp on a name your own price basis. Here’s my favorite:

Loving the gospel flavours on this:

New Releases Skeewiff – Ghetto Latin & Broken Ballroom Skeewiff never seems to disappoint with his new releases and this ones no exception. There’s a whole range of influences going on with this album from latin, swing, tango, rumba, waltz and so, so much more. I’m not sure how many will find their way into DJ sets, it’s more suited to be taken as a whole album.

Highly recommended! Available from Juno.

Boardwalk Empire – Sounds Of The Onyx Boardwalk Empire have created a special music project entitled Sounds of The Onyx that features rare jazz recordings from the Prohibition Era remixed by some of the best contemporary urban music producers. There’s loads of good remixes to discover here and it’s available from itunes.

Scoured Cream Vol#3 On the last roundup two weeks ago I managed to miss out the other big release of the moment which was Scoured Cream Vol#3 from the mighty Spinforth. Most readers of this blog are probably fully aware of it already but in case you’re not there’s a whole load of great glitch, nu-funk and ghetto swing business going on. You can read Bertie Dastards assessment of it in the Free Breaks Blogs reviews section. Available to buy from Juno and here’s my highlight with the rather nice Jump & Jiving from The Phunk Junkies:

Bart & Baker feat Nicolle Rochelle - The Josephine Baker All Stars EP If you like the gentle, bouncy Bart & Baker sound then you should like this EP of remixes in tribute to Josephine Baker. With mixes from James Copeland, DJ Mibor and Bart&Baker themselves it’s worth a look. Available from Juno.

Jamie Berry EP – Teaser There’s a new EP coming from Jamie Berry on the 27th September and here’s the blues tinged Carnival from it which is sounding rather fine.:

DJ Mixes I’ve really enjoyed finding this mix from The Fritz this week mixing up in the ghetto funk end of the swing:

Dutty. Moonshine. In. The. Mix. Oh yes…

Last shout goes to this rather interesting mix which features live accompaniment on clarinet and trumpet:

That’s it for this week. If you’ve got anything you’d like included in future roundups hit me up on soundcloud or facebook. To find out more about my own events check out the Electro Swing Ball.

Electro Swing Roundup

So with the blog now buzzin’ with a full team of writers I thought it’s about time you meet the new additions to the blog along with a reminder of the rest of the crew.

Bertie Dastard So this is me striking a pose after the latest Electro Swing Ball. Editor, breaks fanatic and all round music nut. Currently striving to make this website the very best out there and also dabbling in DJing, production, music promotion and soon to be bringing a high quality, music sample pack store to life right here on the blog. Keep ‘em peeled. On offer below are hours of current and past DJ mixes and some simple but effective mashups, blends and bootlegs. Go fill ya boots!

Dastardly Kuts Dastardly Kuts, or Dion to his mates, has been an essential part of the team for a couple of years now, digging out the freshest and funkiest tracks and mixes known to man. He has also graced us with plenty of exclusive tracks and DJ mixes of his own, most recently the Nufunk Mix Up series, where he uses only tracks featured in the world famous Nufunk Round Up and creates a wicked showcase mix every four weeks or so. You can also grab some of his latest production work alongside Aditup in their Adz ‘n’ Kutz guise. Both of them have been working hard in the scene and their latest original release is sounding banging! Details soon but in the mean time get downloading some funky sounds below.

DJR DJR aka David Rickard has been a long time supporter of the blog and has had a huge input into the new design and technical side of the latest incarnation of the site. When he asked about an Electro Swing round up I jumped at the chance and it’s now one of the most popular parts of the blog. Whilst writing his bi-weekly piece he also runs the hugely successful Electro Swing Ball events and DJ’s Swing all over the country. You can catch him September 27th warming things up for the Electric Swing Circus at Hot Club De Swing. Check out all details HERE. Grab yourself some awesome music from DJR below and be sure to watch his competition winning mini mix video.

Tariq Tariq has joined the team recently providing us with his unbeatable knowledge of all things future jungle, hardcore breaks, drum & bass and all areas in between. Currently the major online presence in all genres mentioned its safe to say we have the expert on board.

From Tariq

“I started out in 2010 doing a radio show on Birmingham based station, Radio Youthology, the bizarely named ‘Tea With Tariq’ was one of the first radio shows to prominently feature J-Tek & Future/140 Jungle, early shows included interviews with Top Drawer Digital owner and pducer, Lucas & DJ Flashback of The Flashback Project. In 2011, I started writing for the Future Jungle Blog and moved over to nu-rave.com for a weekly show and now have a 2nd weekly show on soniczooradio.com where I continue to support my beloved sounds of 140/Future Jungle, NuSkool/Hardcore Breaks, DnB/Jungle & House N Bass.”

Catch me each Wednesday 4-6pm on www.nu-rave.com

and Thursdays 8-10pm on www.soniczooradio.com

Check out his”Free Breaks Blogcast” below for an insight to the kind of sounds Tariq is feeling at the moment.

DJ Hazard & D Minds-Mr Happy (Pyramid Refix)
Mat Tha hat-Point Blank
Jarvis Ft Ivy Jayne -Home (Mat Tha Hat Remix)
Pinto-My Sound
The Force -Full Of Stars
Serial Killaz -Dutty Sound
Dephonix-The Way I Dub
DRFNT- Tripped
Schoco – Inside My Skin (Strange Rollers Remix)
Rolling Paper – The Middle Of The Jungle
Jem One -The Bleep
Freestylers -The Coming Storm VIP
DJ Flow-Run For It
Pressa -Killa Soundboy
Bad Habit vs Strange Rollers -Dawn Of the Lotus
Bay B Kane Vs Pressa -Zen Motion Sense 10 [Beat Breaker Refix)
Strangenotes - I Just Don’t No

Fonik Another recent addition Fonik has been drafted in, again for his unwavering passion and knowledge for all things breakbeat. Having  been a stateside breaks dj since 1997 and music producer since 2001 he certainly knows his stuff. In addition to Free Breaks Blog, Fonik has a site he runs called the Art of Remix on Facebook and considers himself a devout collector of breaks with his library including the entire discography of many past labels.

As an introduction he has mixed up this epic three hour progressive/tech breaks workout as an exclusive download. The mixing is flawless and track selection is spot on. Download now!

01 – Douglas Howarth – Leap Of Faith (Timewave Remix)
02 – Douglas Howarth – Would You Make Toasts With Me
03 – OceanLab – On A Good Day (REL1 Re-Rub)
04 – Guy J – Lamur (Citriq Lines Remix)
05 – Seven Lions – Tyven
06 – Zedd – Spectrum (Detach Remix)
07 – Breakzhead – Disposis (Aggresivnes & Factorfunk vs Fonik’s Socialized Edit)
08 – Oleg Nych – When They Leave (Trukers Remix)
09 – Ste4lth – Connection
10 – AFK & Dustin H – Seismic (Stefan Anion’s Running For Cover Mix)
11 – Ste4lth & Justin Tyme – Altered Reality
12 – Hybrid – Out Of The Dark
13 – Karl Sav – Bone Marrow
14 – Faskil – Masquerade
15 – Eugene Keim – Non Addictive (Nik Mechikov Remix)
16 – The Fixionist – Pho Li Ho Mist
17 – Orbital – Halcyon (Trukers Remix)
18 – Ozgur Can & Rouzbeh Delavari – Eternity (Chris Lake Dirty Breaks Mix)
19 – Rob Curtis – The Assessment (Fonik’s Inside-Outro Edit)
21 – Jillian Ann – King Of Solitude (Faskil Breaks Vocal Mix)
22 – Kirsty Hawkshaw – Reach For Me (Future Funk Squad Mix)
23 – Product 01 – Destrukt (Curl & Dean Remix)(Never released)
24 – Trocoloco – Rhythm Diving
25 – Beta – Feel
25 – Lo IQ – Panda & Dot Dot
26 – Kemtrails – Crystal (Colombo Remix)
27 – Colombo – Sediments
28 – Aion – Destiny (Sharaz Nite Sky Mix)
29 – Starecase – Faith (General Midi’s Very Metal Mix)
30 – Scrambler & Amarevois – Free (Lostep Class Of 95 Reunion Mix)

We still have a few other writers who get drafted in when needed and they will be featured soon, but for know be safe in the knowledge that the Free Breaks Blog has some of the most passionate DJ’s, writers and producers on board to bring you the very best music we can find.

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The Stanton Warriors have released another superb edit that was featured in their Sessions 4 mixtape and it’s an absolute bass heavy cracker.

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Diplo vs Fugative – Supa Pull Up (Stanton Warriors Edit)

Lunathics is back once again with some quality breakbeats on the free download. Teaming up with Lose Your Mind he delivers another club shakin’ party track.

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I Feel This Way – Lunathics & Loseyourmind Remix

Well it appears the Beatslappaz boys have been busy, this time we have a free download from Juxtapose who has just put out his Booty Sounds Better With You rub and i’m sure you’ll all agree that we are glad he did so.

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Juxtapose vs Stardust – Booty Sounds Better With You

After a year or so away working on other projects, from adverts to Movie Trailers, Ben & Lex are back having completed their debut album!

The first single to kick off the campaign is a bit of a 140 steppas affair firmly in keeping with the Dub influenced material they and Functional have become know for For this EP they have had the privilege to work on with a certified legend of the reggae scene – None other than the mighty Earl 16.

Born in Kingston Jamaica, Earl is without a doubt a pioneer of the UK reggae scene (and beyond) having worked with the likes of Mad Professor, Boris Gardiner, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Augustus Pablo and many many more.

He is also no stranger to the Dance music scene having provided incredible vocals for the seminal dance music album ‘Leftism’ By Leftfield. He is also one of the two vocalists for the legendary Dreadzone.

When asked to pick his favourite of two tunes we sent for him to listen to – he picked both so
that’s what we are giving to you!!

‘Our music’ is an anthemic 140 steppa with reese basslines and hints of the amen thrown in for the floor while Earl’s sweet tones tell tales of ‘Our Music, the people’s music’.

The second tune, ‘Skink’ is more of a heads down Soundsystem bubbler with hints of dub techno stabs harking back to his Leftfield days and a ‘dancing culture’.

On the remix front we have two massive remixes for you. When asked who they wanted to remix the tunes these were the first and only two names the duo chose and were lucky enough to get both!

First up we have the incredibly talented Kahn & Neek AKA Gorgon Sound who have been leading the pack of the new Bristol Dub & reggae scene. The duo turn in an awesome remix,
possibly their best work to date taking the tune away from its reese basslines and amens and planting it firmly back into the Bristol Soundsystem vibe.

Next up we have the baaaadman King Yoof from the Sub Slayers stable who has given us a wicked remix aimed squarely at the dancefloor harking back to the old skool days of jungle techno, whilst keeping both feet firmly placed in a sound that would sit comfortably in the sets of anyone from Doorly to Diplo.