Sammy Senior is a regular hear on the ward as many of you will already know. This visit however, he’s joined by his friend Ben Fox, who he has collaborated with on their Royksopp tinged midtempo banger ‘EV Altitude‘. The intro will have you feeling like your tucking into an easy going slice of funky summer goodness but oh no, not when these two are in town because when this one drops it drops hard, even harder than you think!

That phat beats are rife in this post because Sammy has put together a huge promo mix that features a large number of his own tunes and a few from some of his funky brothers. I’ve been giving it some hammer and I’ve no doubts many of you will do to.

Download ‘EV Altitude’ here via Hypeddit.

Links for Sammy Senior :

Soundcloud / Facebook / YouTube

Links for Ben Fox :

Soundcloud / Facebook / Hearthis / Mixcloud / YouTube / Twitter / Instagram

Tracklist

Ante Up (Sammy Senior Remix)
KRS Jam (Sammy Senior Edit)
Boulder Skit
Sammy Senior – Portal Gun Funk
The Recipe For Concentrated Dark Matter (WBBL & Father Funk Remix)
Sammy Senior – Be Funky
Sammy Senior – Bring It Back
Tanya Stephens – It’s A Pity (X-ray Tedit)
Slappin Plastic & MC Shureshock – it Shocks (OG Mix)
Featurecast – What you Want
Shaka Loves You – In My Soul
Sammy Senior – Shake
Rusty Cravers – Eighth
WBBL & Howla – Jumper
Sammy Senior – In The Mood Remix
Sammy Senior – Tutti Booty
Grid Division – Get Up
Sammy Senior – Uh Oh
Sammy Senior – Wiggle
Sammy Senior – Ditty Committee
Sammy Senior – Lucid Dream
Sammy Senior & Ben Fox – E.V.Altitude
Basement Freaks – That Summer
Sugarbeats – Down to the Science ft Em Harriss
Featurecast – La La La
PRofit – True Colours (Sammy Senior Remix)
Funk Hunters – Word To Spread (Sammy Senior Remix ft Lyndi Lush)

When I got wind that Cockney Nutjob was going to be releasing an EP on Scour Records, I knew there would be some seriously hot skankin’ business thrown down and it’s all to evident that I was bang on the money this time around! His 4 track ‘Badman‘ EP is an absolute masterpiece and showcases his Reggae flavoured, midtempo Breaks, bass heavy sound that we’ve become so accustomed to and enjoy so much. Do not these prime cuts ladies and gents!

Buy the ‘Badman’ EP here from Juno.

Links for Cockney Nutjob :

Soundcloud / Facebook / Website / Bandcamp / Mixcloud / Twitter

After recently discovering Andy Buchan and his treasure trove of music, this stunning Disco edit of Shalamar’s ‘Right In The Socket‘ is one that just shone that little bit brighter in a sea of mighty fine music. It’s not the most recent track from him, but once you get it spinning, the infectious Disco vibes will most definitely take their grip on you and then watch your fever rise. Grab this gem and then make moves towards his Soundcloud page, because there’s plenty more to be found and not just on a Disco tip either as Andy loves to spread his skills across many different genres.

Andy now bases himself in Leeds after living out in Dubai for a while and he now holds a residency at, Audio Tonic in Manchester, so if you’re out partying that way, be sure to track him down for a night of proper dancing.

Download Andy Buchan’s edit here via Hypeddit.

Links for Andy Buchan :

Soundcloud / Facebook / Mixcloud

Traxsource – bit.ly/2rxQgDZ
Beatport – https://www.beatport.com/track/narco-original-mix/9323051
iTunes – apple.co/2tueCLe
Spotify – spoti.fi/2rCQepx

Hip Hop meets Tech Bass in GAWP’s new track ‘Narco’ on Get Twisted. ‘Narco’ has enough swagger to get the jeeps bouncing from Sinaloa to Tijuana and right across the globe!!!

G’d up for the dancefloor, ‘Narcos’ by GAWP comes at you with the brute force of a ‘grupo de bandidos’, this is Bass Tech at it’s slickest and most contagious, something that this artist has down to a fine craft. This addition to the Get Twisted catalogue will get the ravers bouncing from the Gulf of Mexico to the beaches of Brighton and beyond!!!

GAWP – Narco

We’re well versed in bringing pieces of class from Tonbe’s alter ego, Loshmi, and this latest one really is another to be admired! His groovin’ House take on Dr Dre’s ‘Ring Ding Dong’ is going to provide the vibes at many summer shindigs now it’s free for everyone to get their hands, you can be sure of that!

Download Loshmi’s dub mix here via Hypeddit.

Links for Loshmi :

Soundcloud

Those beat loving gurus Hong Kong Ping Pong (HKPP) are so excited about the upcoming Leopallooza Festival at the end of July this year that they have gone and made a promotional mix for it. Reaching into their bag of beats the lads have have done themselves proud with this exclusive sensational new mix.

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Tracklist

01 KLO – Gangsta Beat
02 Emiljo AC – Light My Cigar, Please (ft Sinead McCarthy & Pinta)
03 Royal Blood – Cheektooth
04 Boifrenz – Like That
05 Damon Rush – Freak Flowz (Wsahl Dope Hip Hop mix)
06 Lack Jemmon – Can’t U Feel
07 Luniz & Frankee More – I Got 5 On It (Frankee More Bootleg)
08 Nick Thayer & A.Skillz – Get Got (VIP Mix)
09 Royal Blood – Pretty Lights (ft Rkayna)
10 Extra Medium – Beatnik Boogie
11 Qdup – Joyride (Dub Mix)
12 Featurecast – Take It Down Low (Dub:ra Remix)
13 Feel Good Productions – Stupid Disco (Remix)
14 Grid Division & Groove Mind – Leopard Gecko Dance Party
15 Frankee More – Dance Now
16 Tom Booze – How We Do This
17 Kid Panel & Blade – Freak (2017 Version)
18 Prosper & Stabfinger – Wonderful
19 WBBL & Howla – Jumper
20 The Vaude Villainz – Evil
21 Taisun – Senorita Remix (Perfect Driver Music)
22 Smalltown DJs – You Walk ftErica Dee
23 Marten Hørger & Neon Steve – You Don’t
24 Plump DJs – Fear The funk
25 Thunderball – Strictly Rude Boy (Fort Knox Five Remix)
26 Mooqee & Beatvandals – Rock The Discotech
27 Mista Trick with Sam & The Womp – Balkan Bass
28 Electric Swing Circus – Empires (Aries Remix)
29 M-Beat – Incredible General (Slynk Remix)
30 Origin – Chasing Funk
31 Featurecast – Coco Loco
32 Numa Crew – Bass Hater ft Dub FX (Brian Brainstorm Remix)
33 K+Lab – Rock The Funk Beat

If Funk is your thing then this mix is right up your alley. Forrest Funk brings the Funk in this special guest mix for Germany’s La Boum De Luxe which is aired every friday night and has been since 1995! Funky Breaks all round topped off with some Ghetto Funk stylings.

Tracklist

1 KraftySkillz – Another one bites
2 Quincy Jointz Remix (Jayl Funk) – We got the Funk
3 The Breakbeat Junkie – Linguistic Funk
4 Goodgroove Remix – Lets Dance
5 A.Skillz & Nick Thayer – Jungle Banger – Another one bites
6 Slynk Remix (Parliment) – Aqua Boogie
7 Detta Remix (C2C) – Down the Road
8 Dubra & Arteo – Fat Ass Beat
9 Skeewiff feat. Sammy Senior – Setting it Off
10 Skeewiff – Get down the pumped up Funk
11 Mooqee & Pimpsoul – To the Beat
12 Arteo – Everywhere I go
13 Mr. Stabalina – Money
14 Featurecast – Run for Cover
15 A. Skillz – Poppa Soul – Nut (White) Bootleg
16 Tobe Tronic – Night Drums
17 Qdup Foundation Remix (Basement Freaks) – Thats Right
18 Freestylers – Freestyle Noiz
19 Dub Pistols – Blaze the room (Horn Mix)
20 Nick Thayer – Gonna Getcha
21 Neon Steve – Purple Haze

The Niceguys are back with a blinding new mix of beats and funky treats. This is volume 4 of their Beats On Decks series of mixes a really great mix with 22 tracks in just over 30 minutes. Wrap your ears around this one.

Tracklist

01 The Niceguys – Garage Funk Intro
02 Arteo – Funky Technician (The Niceguys Come Baby Come Mash)
03 Tom Booze – Work Signs (The Niceguys Milkshake Mash)
04 2Pac – Letter 2 My Unborn (The Niceguys Remix)
05 Smoove & Turrell – You Could’ve Been A Lady
06 The Temptations – Cloud Nine (FKJ Remix)
07 Mark Ronson & Keyone Starr – I Can’t Lose (Pomo Remix)
08 The Temptations & Rick James – Standing On The Top (Loshmi Edit)
09 Jean Tonique & Dirty Radio – Lit Up
10 The Get Down Soundtrack – Set Me Free (Warson Remix)
11 The Crusaders – Don’t Let It Get You Down (The Niceguys Don’t Stop Bootleg)
12 B-Side – Dance To The Drum (Drum Edit)
13 Andrew Block – All I Need feat. Ivan Neville (The Noisy Freaks Remix)
14 FK5 & Empresarios – Cinco To The Brinco (Farid’s 22 & P Remix The Niceguys Jiggy Mash)
15 Diana King – Shy Guy (The Niceguys Remix)
16 Gregory Porter – Liquid Spirit (20Syl Remix)
17 Raphael Saadiq feat. Q-Tip – Get Involved (Jean Tonique Edit)
18 Manic Focus – Stronger (feat. Jennifer Hartswick, Late Night Radio & Adam Deitch)
19 Sylow – No Diggity
20 Moby – Natural Blues (The Niceguys Remix)
21 Slowz – Holding You
22 Amadou & Mariam – Senegal Fast Food (SLY Remix The Niceguys All Good Mash)

https://kniteforce.bandcamp.com/album/kf71-luna-c-project-zero-ep-pre-sale

Luna C takes us on a journey back to where it began with the ‘Project Zero EP’ This a journey back to 1992 using the hardware that fuelled those happy and hedonistic sounds. It’s like the man who once reached No2 in the UK top 40 hasn’t missed a beat Going off on a slight tangent here but one of the first records (vinyl) I ever bought was co produced by Chris Howell aka Luna C. I was a spotty 13yr old who loved ‘rave music’ much to the disdain of my Guns N’ Roses loving peers at school. I lived in Andover, Hants and the only record store nearby was an Our Price. I remember my ears pricking up when I heard Smart e’s ‘Sesame’s Treet’ played on Pete Tong’s ‘Mad Music Sweep’, part of his Radio 1 Essential selection show. My Nan bought me three records, The XL 4 Play EP, Urban Hype ‘A Trip To Trumpton’ and the aforementioned ‘Sesame’s Treet’

Without any real access to radio stations and record stores, I relied on nameless mixtapes to get my fix of ‘rave’ or ‘hardcore’ and it wasn’t until around 97′ or 98 that I learned of the legendary Kniteforce imprint. I first heard Luna C’s ‘Piano Progression’ on a Low Price Music 4 CD compilation titled ‘The Best Of Happy Hardcore’  and now, 20 or so years later I am glad to review the amazing ‘Project Zero EP’

‘Into Insanity’ is 1992 personified, a track that takes a vocal snippet from Oceanic ‘Insanity’ and slams down on the pedal before hurtling down Hardcore Lane in a raving ‘Road Rash’ fashion (now there’s a reference for you oldies like me) stopping off at a Ragga party and passing through the Jungle of Tekno for good measure.

And then there is ‘ Back To Cause Mayhem’, Wow, Bob, Wow said the little man in the red suit. He proceeded to do his little dance around the red curtains across the mosaic floor while the man in black spilt his coffee. Uplifting vocals? Check, mental mentasm riffs and hoovers? You betcha Bob!!! Is this the future or is the past? OK, that’s enough of my obsessive Twin Peaks references but Damn, this a fine tune!!! Some of that Luna C piano magic and fast slammin’ breaks top off a wonderful piece of musical mayhem.

‘Black Static’ channels the energy of the Black Panthers, Malcom X and Samuel L Jackson into Ragga Rave slammer Mk II  for ‘Project Zero.’ This has me thinking of some of the late 92/early 93 Suburban Base/Moving Shadow material in a soundclash with early Kniteforce. It’s like an alternative Tarantino movie soundtrack breakbeat hardcore style. Picture those fight scenes from Kill Bill and replace the Japanese 50’s rock with this badboy, way better I’m sure you will agree!!!!

We close out with some more hoovers n’ spray cans by the name of ‘Alice’. There’s a really cool speed up slow down vocal in ‘Alice’, a dash of Zero B ‘Lock Up’ style stabbage and a whole lotta interesting things going on in general. There is also a massive happy drop with more trippy vocals. The thing that stands out about this EP so much is the wonderfully authentic sound. I would say that is down to the hardware but more importantly its down to Luna C’s knowledge and history of producing countless anthems on that very hardware. In very simple terms- if you’re a true lover of the oldskool, you cannot miss out on this latest chapter in the history of hardcore!!!!

Luna C- Project Zero EP

We get sent a LOT of new music!!! And we do our best to cover it all so here is a round-up of some fine new releases across the dance music spectrum new out to purchase and download

Dave Skywalker- Life & Crimes of a Raver EP

Its always nice to hear new music from Dave Skywalker who puts his unique hybrid Jungle/Hardcore/Techno stamp on a fun and bouncey selection of brand new tunes

Lex & Wood – Like This EP

DJ SKT launches his new House Music label with a massive EP from Lex & Woods. You know this duo from the numerous Data Transmission features they have had and you will know before even pressing play that the three tracks on this EP are high quality productions played by the best DJs and danced to by the best crowds!!

zinc- Slippy Boots (FREE DOWNLOAD)

DJ Zinc drops a bass booty of ‘Born Slippy’ for free, it goes without saying its a B.A.N.G.E.R

Jay Tripwire – Filament Burst (Viva Recordings)

Trippy Deep House from Jay Tripwire plus Omotani remix among the fine selection of musical treats. Our pick is the blissful title track, the whole EP is a winner of course!!!

Ivaylo – Manga (Bogota Records)

The latest release on the ever tasteful Bogota label comes via Ivaylo with dreamy synths and mellow kicks aplenty on ‘Magnotronic’ and ‘Nectar’ and the lovely remixes supplied by Arildo & Danny Kotz

Rawsome Ibiza 2017

Rawesome Records bring gifts of thumpin’ n’ bumpin’ House heaters for the white isle. Featured artists include Yade, Fraser Whalen, Jack Swaffer/Rich Pinder and more on this 10 track album of essential upfront House & Tech House

DJ Hybrid – Addicted To Audio EP

DJ Hybrid is unstoppable right now, we can’t begin to count the sheer volume of excellent tracks he has put out over the years and yet here is six more, each with their own style, all outstanding examples of DnB at it’s best. We’re addicted to listening to ‘Addicted To Audio’

Anonymous People- On Fire

The latest release on Highly Swung is by Anonumous People. ‘On Fire’ takes its cue from the golden era of vocal UKG and if you like a bit of House and/or Bass, the Ayrton Hood, Sunship and Zemon remixes have what you need!!!

New Music Round Up 07/07/2017