The Russian label, In Beat We Trust, have already set a high bar so far this year with several top draw free downloads. Now they return with a bar raising release from the consistently awesome, Freerange Djs with remixes from the equally skilled, 601 and BreaksMafia.

‘Bad At Parties’ is the new track by the, Freerange Dj’s, which sees them build on and robust, rumbling bassline with a vast swathe of broken beats and a tv/film sample layered over the top, giving the track an inherent darkness. Don’t be fooled by the darkness though, you’ll find plenty of shape making energy packed within. There’s no being ‘bad a parties’ when this monster is around. Only good times will come out of this being dropped!

601 show no signs of easing things off as they ramp up the intensity with their remix as they give the track a much more gnarly edge. BreaksMafia, throw in a heap of Spanish flavouring to their remix with a smoother but still hard hitting basseline and booty shaking beats.

Whether you choose one, or all three of these tracks, you’re on to a winner whatever!

Buy ‘Bad At Parties’ and the, 601 and BreaksMafia remixes here.

Links for Freerange DJs :

Soundcloud / Facebook / Beatport / Mixcloud / Twitter 

To celebrate the new 12" vinyl release Badass Funk EP out now on 12" vinyl on Breakbeat Paradise Recordings - here's a 60 mins promo mix to showcase all tunes from the EP as well as some other new joints from the Ghetto Funk and Funky Breaks Scene.

The Badass Funk EP features a brand new BadboE tune together with tunes by DJ B-Side, The Breakbeat Junkie vs. DJP, Roast Beatz, Mako & Mr Bristow, Dj Maars & Morongroover.

Available March 18th:

http://www.juno.co.uk/products/the-breakbeat-junkie-djp-badass-funk-ep/601250-01/

Tracklist:

01 - BadboE - Ghetto Funkalicious (WBBL VIP 110 EDIT) [Unreleased]

02 - Mr Stabalina - Rock The Party [SRAS007]

03 - Smoove - Return Of The Beats [Wack16]

04 - Jump Around (A.Skillz Re-edit) [Free]

05 - Slynk - Gorilla On The Floor [Free]

06 - Featurecast - Party Starter (FC Kill a Man Edit) [Free]

07 - Phibes - Get the fuck up [Free]

08 - Mako & Mr.Bristow - Listen To Boom Bap [BBP113]

09 - Tom Booze - Get Fonky Wit It [Bombmusic02]

10 - BadboE - Shake It Off (vocal mix) [BBP113]

11 - Cris Crucial - Big Crucial Thang [BBR004]

12 - Father Funk - Bootlegs 'n' B-Sides - Keep It Going [Free]

13 - Stickybuds - Easy (feat Greg Blackman - original mix) [ARD235]

14 - Cockney Nutjob - Easy Anthem [SRAS006]

15 - Mooqee & HerbGrinder - Sound Around Town (Beatvandals Remix) [Bombmusic022]

16 - JiggyJoe - Shake It (Rory Hoy remix) [BBP087]

17 - Basement Freaks - All That Funk! [JAL207]

18 - Cris Crucial - Anything Funky [BBR004]

19 - Father Funk - Bootlegs 'n' B-Sides - Fever [Free]

20 - Tom Booze - You Had It All [Bombmusic021]

21 - Funkliners - Mumble (Original Mix) [BBP119]

22 - TROPKILLAZ - Baby Baby (Dj Dub_ra Edit) [Free]

23 - BadboE - Green Power Funk (Chudy Remix) [BBP080]

24 - B-Side - Like This [BBP113]

25 - BJ vs DJP - Go Off [BBP113]

26 - B-Side vs. BadboE - Funk Me Again [Coming Soon]

27 - Mr Stabalina - Give It Up Gimme Five (Scour Records Freemix)

28 - Frankee Moore - Funky Mama Jama [MBCD030]

29 - Father Funk - Bootlegs 'n' B-Sides - Don't Stop [Free]

30 - Rapper's Delight (The Fundamentals Edit) [Free]

31 - BadboE - Superfly Funk [Coming Soon]

32 - DJ Maars - Work That Funk [BBP113]

33 - Morongroover - Good Old Days [BBP113]

34 - Roast Beatz - Gossip Mo-town remix [BBP113]

35 - Father Funk - Bootlegs 'n' B-Sides - Estelle - American Boy (Father Funk Remix) [Free]

36 - Mystical vs James Brown - Hit Me (Rhythm Scholar Megafunk Remix) [Free]

Made from the original stems, Jet Boot Jack remixes the sunshine pop hit from 1967. Truly uplifting hands in the air tuna, this will get your audience gleaming! A multi-talented remixer/producer/DJ/ and mash up master from North West London, keep an eye on his soundcloud for freebies a plenty. Having donned the stage with like likes of Norman Jay, DJ Yoda and Eddy Temple-Morrris Jet Boot is definitely one to watch ….

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Rare Candy have a knack for amazing vocal house/garage tracks, ‘The Bottle’ must be one of the biggest and best from their extensive repertoire, a can’t ignore/can’t miss club anthem in it’s own rights PLUS some serious legends getting on the remix action, hit play, don’t delay!!!!

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Rare Candy Ft Tristan Henry & Janine Fagan- The Bottle

Out Now on ITUNES :http://tinyurl.com/hq68rru

Five years after bursting onto the scene, Delta Heavy unveil their eagerly

awaited debut album, ‘Paradise Lost’, due for release on March 18th 2016 on

Ram Records. One of the few acts whose sound effortlessly straddles the

Atlantic, the duo’s multi-dimensional versatility is evident throughout their

inaugural LP.

2015 saw the release of singles ‘Ghost’ and ‘Punish My Love’, accompanied

by their notoriously idiosyncratic animated music videos, the former of which

was nominated for three awards including ‘One Of a Kind’ in Vevo’s Year In

Music. This year sees an extensive world tour, and this 14 track opus is the

perfect lead up, tying in all aspects of drum and bass, cinematic soundscapes

and space-age house.

The album opens with the dystopian title track, an orchestral flurry of strings

that dissolve into a grinding, half time war much that resembles Gesaffelstein

on acid. “Event Horizon’, ‘Pathways’ and upcoming club single ‘Oscillator’ see

the duo in more familiar territory, complex and thundering sci-fi dancefloor

drum and bass; whilst ‘City of Dreams’ and ‘Cut Me’ demonstrate a lighter,

more melodic touch. Soaring top lines link the epic singles ‘Ghost’, ‘White

Flag’ and ‘Reborn’ whilst ‘Conquer The Galaxy’ takes future house into the

Cosmos.

Underpinned by meticulous production and presented as a seamless

composition, ‘Paradise Lost’ represents a benchmark in the Delta Heavy

journey.

Delta Heavy

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Visit → http://www.deltaheavy.co.uk

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Crash Party, is the newly formed duo coming out of Bristol, one of the UK’s best places to find a decent party and atmosphere. Their mission is to provide a wave of ‘party rocking funky bass’ for the masses to throw their many shapes at. The best way to get to grips with what they’re all about is this brand spanking new free four track EP, released by, Ghetto Funk. It showcases perfectly the level’s of intensity they’re looking to hit and also highlights both their turntable and beatboxing skills. Get these banked for the weekend, they’re set to do some dance floor damage!

Download the album for free or pay what you like here via Bandcamp.

Links for Crash Party :

Soundcloud / Facebook

Two of our favourite ladies are back dropping another scorching Tech House release, of course, it’s Black Girl / White Girl. The tough sounding ‘Bedrock’ is their new track which has the solid drive of Techno, coupled with the fuzzy edge of House on the Techy side of things. A bit of a bruiser that you’ll be more than happy to duel with on the dance floor.

The track goes hand in hand with the music from where it has been released, the newly born, Suah Records, a label that’s out there discovering and pushing forward the raw talent underground House and Techno has to offer. This free download marks the beginning of a new series for them and with the bar already set at a giddy height by, Black Girl / White Girl, it looks like one to keep very close tabs on.

Links for Black Girl / White Girl :

Soundcloud / Facebook / Website / YouTube / Twitter

Links for Suah Records :

Soundcloud / Facebook / Website / YouTube / Twitter / Instagram

If you happen to see the, Aurora Borealis, dancing away in the skies over Norway, it won’t be because of what the solar winds has brought us , it’ll be because it’s just caught wind of, Blowshitup‘s superb new remix! The Funk and Soul levels are maxed out in the insanely cool rework of ‘Get Out My Life Woman’ by, Solomon Burke. Throw in a very decent amount of bass and horns and you’ve got a standout Funky Breaks smasher!

Download the Blowshitup remix here via Hypeddit.

Links for Blowshitup :

Soundcloud / Facebook / Hearthis

My Selecta has his first release out on Sub Nation today, you can stream it here, buy it here and check it this interview with the man below, gwaaannnnn!!!

How did you get involved in Sub Nation for this new release?

I got involved with Sub Nation through Jay Cunningham who runs the label, I Initially met Jay through using On The Rise Music which he co runs with Terry and after using On The Rise for a few releases on my own label Drum Wrks Jay asked me to do a couple of tracks for his label which became this release.

How did you get into music production? What were the initial steps?

Well I got into Music Production through DJing, I had been DJing for a while and the obvious thing to do next was to start making my own tracks. A few friends were in a band and they had decided to go to an evening course to learn Cubase at a local college so me and my friend Alex (DJ Hybrid) went along with them, after finishing the course I found out the college ran a HND in Music Production so I applied for that and I got accepted.

How would you describe your production style?

I’d say the style of my tracks are quite Dark and moody and usually focus more of the percussive side of things. I’ve always had a very eclectic music taste, which I think comes across in my tracks, there’s a little bit of a lot of styles that make up my sound.

What’s your first experience of Bass music and how did you get into the sound?

I think Outlook festival in 2010 was the starting point of me getting into that style of dance music it was the first time I had been to Outlook and it had such a great vibe about it, after coming back from the festival I started to listen to a lot of deeper, darker dance music and gradually the tracks I was producing became influenced by that sound.

Tell us about any other music related stuff you’re involved in

I run a label called Drum Wrks which I started in 2015 mainly as an out let for my own music, but I recently signed a couple of tracks from a producer from Belgium called Cabasa which will be Wrks 005 which is out on the 28th February. The label has a great response from people and I’ve had some really great support from some big names with plays on the BBC and on Rinse FM, so yeah really happy with how things are going.

Tell us a few of your all time and current fave producers?

This is a really hard one, I’m not going to list them all because we would be here for days but some of my favourite producers are Mala, Pearson Sound, DJ Shadow, Dilinja, Boddika and Aphex Twin, all these producers have had a really big influence on me and the kind of palette of sounds I use in my own music.

Tell us a few of your favourite tunes

Anti war dub by Digtial Mystikz has got be up there as one of my favourite tracks, I was pretty late on this tune but since hearing it for the first time its become one of my all time favourite’s. More of a recent tune which I love is Gosh by Jamie XX, I cant get enough of that tune at the moment every element of that track is just brilliant.

And if you could remix any tune of your choice, what would it be?

I can’t really decided on one tune but I would love to remix something by Mala, everything he makes is just brilliant and the chance of remixing his work would be amazing but I cant see it happening hahaha.

So before we hit play on this new release of yours on Sub Nation, can you tell us a bit about the inspiration behind it?

Yeah sure, both tracks are definitely a look to the past but with a more updated feel to them, both inspired by old school Jungle/ Drum and Bass but at around the 130bpm mark. 31 was inspired by late 90s dark Jungley Drum and Bass tracks were Field music is more of a ravey piano track, hands in the air business.
Any final words and shout outs?

Just like to say thanks for all the support from all the people who are feeling my music. Shout out to DJ Monki, Marcus Nasty, DJ Craze, Toronto Is Broken and all the other DJ’s supporting my releases. Finally massive thanks to Jay Cunningham and the On The Rise Music team and Luke Fletcher at Cygnus Mastering and all the Cygnus team.

My Selecta: 31 / Field Of Music is out today on Sub Nation

Buy/Stream – https://SubSlayers.lnk.to/SUBNAT07

Sub Store – http://bit.ly/SN07SubStore

My Selecta Interview

You won’t find a house imprint the calibre of Unique2Rhythm either side of the Atlantic, the label is undoubtedly one of the best with a back cat that speaks for itself with an ethos that champions pristine production and melodic goodness first and foremost. We are very pleased to share this exclusive interview with label boss and producer JC Unique, read on for some pearls of wisdom for aspiring label owners and artists…

For those who don’t know, tell us a bit about Unique 2 Rhythm Records and how it began. How did you get into music production? What were the initial steps?

As a teenager in the late 80’s I was drawn into sound technology starting out with a mates Sequential Circuits Pro One synthesizer, a Tascam cassette portastudio and a Boss hand clapper stomp box. Probably the first tracks that blew me away and made me want to produce were driven by drum machines such as Cameo, the SOS Band, Prince, Chaka Khan in fact just about anything that Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis were involved with. I must have spent years trying to get record deals meeting up with A&R people and taking their ‘position of power’ attitude on the chin. None of it was particularly constructive and we all went through it, but in one such meeting, an A&R guy trying to sound clever actually provided a moment of clarity. He said “if you think your music is so effin’ good, why don’t you go and see your bank manager and put it out yourself?” – at the time I replied “You ARE the bank manager you smart-arse !” but it did make me explore the possibilities and by the late 90’s I was releasing white-labels on P&D deals and making the regular trips to Brick Lane.

For vinyl and the underground, the world collapsed with the fall of Amato Distribution, there were simply no more P&D deals and the independent record shops collapsed like dominoes outside of London. I was producing UKG both 4 to the floor and 2-step but MC’s started taking over and the uplifting sexy vibes turned violent, dark and dirty. Frankly I lost interest in auto-tuned rappers and the surge of ‘Urban’ cast me into a 12 year musical hibernation!

By 2014, the dust had settled and I was picking up on UKG making what sounded like a return from where I left off led by Disclosure. Turns out this was to be called ‘Deep House’ but I was none too bothered by what it was called, I just felt it might be fun to have a play with Ableton. Compared to what the hardware cost back in the day, the idea that £500 of software and a reasonable soundcard could replace my old £20,000 studio was something I had to try. For me there has to be a purpose or result to produce something, so to get going I entered a Beatport remix contest for Inner City’s ‘Good Life’ – It was a fascinating experience and managed to get into something like 16th position out of over 600 entries. The more important result was my connecting with the artists Jeremy Juno, OskiDJ and extraordinary vocalist, Tommie Cotton.

What was the turning point for you in light of such a massive shift in the underground house music scene?

Things really started to move when I sent Grant Nelson a demo of a track on which I used a riff from one of his sample libraries called ‘Need It’ – It was only a courtesy but he played it on his influential Housecall Radio show and it didn’t take long for the phone to start ringing ! There was clearly a demand for the track so I looked into setting up a label with an aggregator which gave me access to digital stores such as Traxsource and Beatport. Unique 2 Rhythm the label was born.

It was pretty clear a label with one artist wasn’t going to be taken very seriously, so I began recruiting artists and doing collaborations and with fortune smiling on the newly formed U2R, producers like Stereomasters and production friends from the early days such as Macca D, Jay Funk and Mindy were more than happy to jump aboard. We were off ! – Supporting Steve Watt’s Global House Session Radio Show, I connected with Kym Sims whose records I’d played hundreds of times as a commercial DJ in the 90’s. It resulted in a collaboration that really did awaken peoples curiosity with ‘Won’t Do That’ and opened many doors including working with AM2PM and subsequently releasing a track called ‘My Feeling’ – It took off and was ultimately licensed to Defected Records although my own mix was not included on the re-release which I have to admit was hugely disappointing.

For me it was my finest work so instead of ditching soulful house, I went the other way and made it my mission to sit alongside Defected releases in the charts without their marketing machine or budget and pretty much succeeded with a track I produced with long-time collaborator, Richard Kersey and the incredible singer that is Tommie Cotton on a track called ‘Tell Me’.

The Unique 2 Rhythm label started to develop a quality following which has been further enhanced by incredible producers including 86deep, Adam Hyjek, Lombard Street, Telmo Fernandez, Groove Tools, Thomas Frake, Bassick, Twism & B3rao, Wayne Dudley and Pasha NoFrost with more exciting signings on the way.

Who inspired/s you?
As a producer my inspirations have changed somewhat from the 90’s, but those that are still valid today include Masters at Work or perhaps more accurately Louie Vega but perhaps the most recognisable influence would be from Full Intention in their heyday and pretty much anything that could be found on Soulfuric Records. AM:PM Records in the UK were pretty decent at delivering inspiration too. Currently I find myself inspired more by the scene than specific artists – Labels such as Simma Black are simply amazing at dropping ‘bangers’ but far and away the biggest inspiration is the vibe created by the producers and artists in my immediate circle such as Neil Rumney, Mike Millrain and of course the community of DJ’s and listeners who I make the music for, yeah they inspire me more than anything else…

It must be very enjoyable to be able to promote such a wide spectrum of house music on U2R

I’m in a great position to be able to dive between the rough and the smooth as a producer, just one of the benefits of being a label owner is that I can release something soulful but follow it up with a minimal banger if I want to. One thing that I don’t feel the urge to do is fit in with a specific sub-genre within house and can’t honestly say I actively try to sound like anything. Actually, to start with, my sound was the result of failing miserably to sound like something else but people started to like the results !

What do you look for when listening to demos for the label?

As an A&R for the Unique 2 Rhythm label, I’m fortunate to be able to technically appraise demos for signing. I’ll pretty much know within seconds whether a track has the magic or what might be required to take it the last bit of the way. Equally I’m very aware if a track needs too much work doing and it’s often heartbreaking to be honest ! These days the correlation between a bad A&R choice and a hole in my wallet are only too apparent. On the whole, attention to detail shines through, as does originality. Things that really turn me off are vocals in the wrong key, poorly tuned or badly timed and masters smashed with maximisers. One thing that perhaps people might find surprising is that I really don’t care if the artist has X amount of likes – I don’t even look ! If you can’t judge a good track using your own ears then you’re in the wrong game.

Can you share with us any news on upcoming releases?

Just now I’m hugely excited to see the release of two tracks I’ve produced with vocals from Sheree Hicks, JC Unique ft. Sheree Hicks – You give me fever and the follow up piano monster that is ‘Temperature Rising’ which has picked up some wonderful reactions and picking up remixes from OskiDJ, Lamont Dex and Jaegerossa which I’m expecting to be my big release for this summer. In the pipeline are stunning tracks from 86deep and Lombard Street which just spine-tingling so 2016 is turning into another great year.

‘You Give Me Fever’ is due out by the end of this month, you can stream a clip here:

86deep & Tommie Cotton ‘Tommie Dubs’ is out now Buy It Here

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Interview With JC Unique of Unique2Rhythm