It’s no understatement that Toolroom Records is one of the strongest independent labels pushing underground dance music and it’s culture. It goes without saying that the label plays a prominent role in breaking big names and accelerating the careers of the talented artists releasing material on the imprint. The label’s success has been proven time and time again.

Their latest compilation, Toolroom Ibiza 2014, showcases an unmistakable selection of Toolroom approved grooves that perfectly encapsulate the sound of the White Isle. In perfect time for the opening parties, it is an essential accompaniment to lazy days by the pool, hedonistic club nights, and hazy after parties spread over 65 tracks (yes 65!) and three lovingly crafted dj mixes. With the essential blend of new cuts and 28 exclusive tracks from the worlds finest producers, the compilation includes music from label boss MARK KNIGHT, Breach, Tensnake, MK, Route 94, Hot Since 82, Rene Amesz, Nice7, Prok & Fitch, Doorly, Ben Pearce, Tourist, Maya Jane Coles, My Digital Enemy, Hannah Wants, Bontan, UMEK, Jay Lumen, Chus & Ceballos, Beckwith, London Grammar and many many more.

The entire release runs over 10 and a half hours. Like, what!? You read that right. Over 10 hours of quality house music. This might just be the only musical purchase needed for the entire summer. Honestly, it’s kind of stupid how good this is. Below you’ll find a few previews but for the full tracklist, just click here and pre-order it from iTunes now.

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What a mess, ladies & gents. This is how it sounds when i put up my favourite summercrates to one hour of audio. Less rules - more fun.

Feel free to comment, show some love and put in your stereo instantly.

Sub Slayers Records  Artist  Toronto is Broken  drops a Fresh Mix   For The Summer .

He  Cuts  his way  Through 19  DnB Bangers  ,

Big Mix  J

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TRACKLIST:

01. KING YOOF – Soundboy Love (TORONTO IS BROKEN Remix)
>>> METRIK – Drift

02. NOISIA – Deception

03. POSIJ – Close Call

04. THE QEMISTS – Stompbox (SPOR Remix)

05. STATE OF MIND – Mr. Cover Up

06. SCHEMA – Fumin’ (TORONTO IS BROKEN Remix)

07. ANODYNE INDUSTRIES – Deep Dive
>>> NOISIA – Soul Purge

08. WIZARD – Buss It Up
>>> MIND VORTEX – Gravity

09. SUB FOCUS – Follow The Light
>>> TORONTO IS BROKEN – Hanging On

10. XAMPLE & LOMAX – Remember
>>> BROOKES BROTHERS – Crackdown (SHOCKONE Remix)

11. SUB FOCUS – Eclipse
>>> WILKINSON – Tonight

12. BLACK & WHITE – Get Ya Hands Up (TORONTO IS BROKEN Remix)

13. TORONTO IS BROKEN & ANODYNE INDUSTRIES – Ghost Network

14. TORONTO IS BROKEN – Die For You (ANODYNE INDUSTRIES Remix)

15. ANODYNE INDUSTRIES – Angel March

16. BILLAIN – Colossus
>>> SKREAM & FRICTION – Kingpin
>>> NOISIA & PHACE – Program

17. ED RUSH & OPTICAL – Chubrub

18. RAM TRILOGY – No Reality

19. MISANTHROP – Going Down Slow

Another classic mix up for this weeks Throw Back mix, this time from the living legends The Stanton Warriors. It was only a matter of time till they featured…

Recorded 13 years ago (woah!) the duo cut through some classic sounds, underground dubs and exclusive remixes, blending garage and breaks in true Stanton style. Turn it up!

T Power feat Amaziree – Running (Botchit & Scarper)
Unknown – Let’s Get Ill
Jeremy Sylvester – D-Bop (Azuli)
Azzido Da Bass – Dooms Night (Stanton Warriors Mix) (Edel)
Belushi – Evolution (Gilleon & Rob H Remix) (Loaded)
Dudmarines – Cayo La Luna (TCR)
Artful Dodger – Please Don’t Turn Me On (Stanton Warriors Fabric Dub) (ffrr)
Stanton Warriors – Da Virus (MOB)
Wookie – Scrappy (Manchu Recordings)
Mr. Reds – Can You Feel It (Dexit)
Stanton Warriors – The Antidote
Stanton Warriors – Right Here
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Raze – Break 4 Love (Future Funk Squad Mix) (Champion)
S.I.A. – Little Man (Exemen Works) (Long Lost Brother Recordings)

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This years Noisily Festival is now less than 60 days away (get your tickets) and the countdown to mayhem has officially started. Today we have an exclusive Noisily Promo mix from one of the main players in the UK Glitch Hop scenes, Mike Wallis whose new project Krymes will be playing on the Noisily stage this year.

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Check the new directors cut of the 2014 promo vid, read our interview and check out the mix at the bottom of the page.

1. Thanks for taking the time to answer our questions. For those that don’t know, who are you and what do you do?

I’m called Mike Wallis and I run Colony Productions with Sam Ashwell. I Dj under the name Krymes with Ben Parker.

2. So you’re playing at this years Noisily Festival right? What are you most looking forward too?

I’m really looking forward to opening the Noisily stage on friday alongside the rest of the UK Glitch Hop family, the funktion one system and seeing Joe Ford and Skope play myself and just having the chance to spend a bit of time listening to wicked tunes in such a beautiful setting. I’m counting down the days..

3. Noisily is a fairly new festival to the scene, whats so appealing to the UK’s underground DJ’s and musicians and festival goers alike?

I think that the festival scene has changed quite a bit over the years, it’s not just a way of seeing bands play like it was when I was a kid and electronic music has really got a stronghold now but there are some really big festivals and some very commercial dance acts playing them. Noisily is fresh, the people running it are passionate about what they are doing and they seem to have seen a gap in the market with the situation with Glade Festival. We played on The Meteor stage at Glade in 2012 and it was one of the best gigs I’ve played to date, I believe that weekend was a turning point for what has now become widely know as Glitch Hop or mid tempo in the Uk and massive props to Andy Ellis and Lowri for curating that and getting us involved. I’d also like to thank James at Liquid/Noisily for getting us involved at Noisily this year!!

4. Mike you have been a part of the Glitch Hop scene from the start really. How have you seen things progress since the early days?

It’s come a long long way. Dave (Tipper) and I were writing beats at this tempo back in 2000 and so were a lot of other artists. Danny Breaks, Harmonic 33, Tipper, Luke Vibert, Push Button Objects, the list is extensive if you go back to where I believe it all came from. Others would say it started with the Glitch Mob, Opiuo, Bassnectar abroad but I think it is widely acknowledged that the Uk has always had a thriving bass and breaks scene. I came in to production back in the days of Hardcore and early drum and bass along side a whole heap of electronica and found sounds often referred to as Trip Hop, all the Mo Wax stuff, Ninja Tune. For me it is a combination of all of that and the more abstract sounds that Warp artists like Autechre, Plaid, Boards of Canada, Prefuse 73 were producing, I also have to big up Aphex Twin just purely on the basis he’s a living legend in my mind. There are no real rules in glitch hop and that is what makes for good music in my opinion, the freedom to do what you want.

5. And out of the new breed of artists that are emerging, who are your favourites?

There are a lot.. my favourites at the moment are Mouldy Soul and Skope if I had to pick two out of a hat but there is a real feeling that a lot of producers are pushing into this genre, certainly that mid tempo 95-115bpm window.

6. You run the long standing Glitch label Colony, alongside Vent, whats coming up?

I wouldn’t say we were necessarily a Glitch Hop label exclusively. We like to think of ourselves as artist based rather than genre based. Saying that however we have released a lot of music in that vein from Vent, Opiuo, Schema, Bran Richards, Mouldy Soul, Krossbow, Earegular, Tryptich, Dephicit, Crunch, Crush (one half of DC Breaks) but we’ve also put out stuff from Bit_Meddler, Kelpe, Point B, Sevenark, Cane aka Funckarma, Funkstorung, Loden, Lone Drum both remixes and original material along the way. Coming up this year we have some really good music we are very proud to be releasing from Nimbus, Kursa & Duskky, Skope, a new Earegular EP, a long awaited Mouldy Soul album, the next Vent EP, a sweet release from a chap called R2EQ and two wicked tracks from Fybe:One. I put out a cheeky free d/l as Psi Spy last year and we just had a Kursa & Shamanic Technology track come out as a free d/l as a warm up to their tour of Canada which kicks off in June. We are always on the lookout for what we like to hear and always hoping we can get it signed up to the label. Sam and I work on the basis that if either of us would want to play it out we’d also like to release it whether it be mid tempo, down tempo or even straight up drum and bass or techno.

(Kursa and Shamanic Technology :: Power Animal)

7. And UK Glitch Hop is your baby too? Tell us about that. It’s a label but you’ve also got a radio show and recently held the uk glitch hop awards?

It’s not a label as such more of a collective although we did put out a free compilation at the end of last year and intend on putting out more. I am certainly a part of it and do consider it like another child if we are talking in terms of babies but props need to go to the one and only Morbidly Obese Midget aka Chris who really was the founder of UK Glitch Hop. Chris pulled myself, William Breakspear who runs Skanky Panky Records, Your Niece aka Rhys in early on alongside Mouldy Soul aka Rich and Harley Davies who runs Beta Test Records and Beta Birmingham and together we’ve been pushing the scene along as much as we can alongside the many other people who are making it what it is and is becoming and we’ve had a heap of support and mixes and guest dj’s from people like Wonkay Records, Omni Temple, Automaton, Krossbow just to namecheck a few. Koan Sound have really helped bring the scene in to a wider audience in the UK too as an example so we consider ourselves a part of something bigger really and are just pleased to be a part of it.

The idea behind UK Glitch Hop was to create an open platform to showcase the sound by way of a regular weekly show on Glitch.fm and via our soundcloud archive and with the help of the facebook page a way for people to hear about new releases and events going on. Since the conception we have ended up all pooling our contacts and have hooked each other up to the point where we now really are beginning to play as a collective and have been lucky enough to host rooms at Carousel Festival a couple of times with the next one on 13th June, at Liberated Empire where we played alongside Griz who played in the main room last Friday whilst we hosted the other room, at Sub Audio Festival later this month you can catch me and ben playing as Krymes alongside William Breakspear, Noisily Festival is a big one for us though!! We’ve roped Vent into playing with us too for that one. Really looking forward to it.

We are hoping to get a regular UK Glitch Hop residency sorted out later this year too but we need to find the right venue and we’d rather wait and get it right than to just do it for the sake of doing it. We’ve been doing the awards for 2 years now and we do a little tour to celebrate that anyway but a regular night will be wicked when we get there. The awards are our way of letting the people who actually listen to Glitch Hop give back a bit of a thank you for all the effort the promoters, producers and labels are making themselves really. Come check us out here.. https://www.facebook.com/UKGlitchHop and you can listen to some of the shows archived here.. https://soundcloud.com/ukglitchhop

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8. So the UK scene is really thriving? Why do you think that is?

The UK is a funny place for music, we have some of the best music on the planet originating here. Drum and Bass, Breaks the list is long (I’ve seen a flow chart online a few times) all the way back to the heyday of the Beatles, the Stones, the Happy Mondays, the Cure and all the music that has come in between that and now. It’s just something we seem to do well. Truth is though we make great music but we don’t party like they do abroad really, there is a different vibe partying somewhere that isn’t cold and wet most of the year and there are less people chin stroking and contemplating production methods but right from when I used to go to Speed on a thursday to see Bukem and Fabio to now there is nowhere else like the UK. I like to think that in 50 or a 100 years time people are going to look back and see what we’ve done for music and sub culture in the UK but what we are also good at is taking sounds and scenes from all over the world and making them ours, or our own take on them and I think we’ll always see fresh ideas coming from this little island we call home.

9. Who else from overseas is doing it right in the Glitch Hop scene?

Opiuo is wicked, Gramatik although he’s his own monster, Stickybuds who played at our awards this year, I’m partial to a bit of JPod and some Gruff, far too many to mention them all really but Mr Bill needs a big ups, his Collaborative Endeavors was something else with my favourite track on there being Rmyth.. Go and d/l this right now if you haven’t got it, you need this in your life!!

10. Krymes is the new project? What can we expect?

Ben and I are in the studio and we put up a free track a little while ago but we’re slow, lots started and just left as we move on to the next thing, it’s a learning curve and we are really focusing on getting out sets right at the moment primarily but we plan on getting a single out later this year. Ben is working on another project with a friend of ours Q called Shake N Herb which is coming together really nicely and Sam and me have been back in the studio writing together as Basik and just had a track out on a 12″ that Beta Test Records pressed up earlier this year. As far as what to expect from Krymes though, a rocking party set of solid mid tempo, glitchy goodness with some unreleased edits from us and anyone else we are digging at that point in time too and a single later this year and a follow up EP and a couple of remixes we’re working on somewhere in between. Links below..

11. Any possibility of some new collaboration material with Tipper?

Haha.. Well we’ve been talking about it for the past two years on and off but I don’t want to be in a situation where we are sending each other stems whilst he’s in Hawaii and I’m over here so when I get round to going there or when I can get him in to a room here and lock the door and hide the key you may just see something else emerge from us. We put our whole discography up for free d/l over a year ago and it has had quite a few d/l’s and fundamentally we are both still very much into what we were back then and in a similar headspace still so let’s see. Luckily his surgery went well last year so we’ve got time on our sides I hope. I’ve been listening to his latest work a lot recently as he just released Forward Escape and it’s next level as always.. Again if you haven’t got that in your life get over to addictech.com now and purchase it immediately!! You won’t regret it, I guarantee you that or I’ll personally refund your money!!  If you’ve never heard any of the Crunch material you can check us out here too.. https://soundcloud.com/crunchdiscography

12. Anything else you’d like to add?

Yeah, thank you for giving me the opportunity to spout off about what I love most, glitchy goodness. Hope you like the Noisily promo mix and look forward to seeing some of you at Sub Audio Festival, Carousel Festival or Noisily Festival over the next couple of months!! Gonna be a good summer..

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So big thanks to Mike for his answers and now onto the mix. A pumping, fast paced riotous mix of all things Glitchy, taking in Funk, Swing, Ghetto, House and many other influences all Glitched up and whomped out! This needs to be played at high volume!

Don’t forget you can still grab your Noisily Tickets HERE.

1) Kursa & Duskky – Crypsis – Colony Productions
2) Steely Dan – Peg – Dj Twister Edit
3) TC – Burning Starlight – Stickybuds Remix
4) Hit it Maestro – Listen to Jpod
5) Skope – Roll Em – Caliber
6) Love & Light – Monster
7) Vent – Monkey Chew – Hardcore Beats
8) Dephicit & Don Johnston – Babushka Remix
9) Vent – Jump – Skope Remix – Colony Productions
10) Tipper – Off Kilter VIP – Tipper Music
11) Kill Paris – Catch You – Owsla
12) Slynk – Fried Chicken Remix – Rufus Thomas
13) Slynk & Crazy Daylight – She’s Got That
14) Cheshire – One More Dance – Adapted Recs
15) Tipper – Bubble Control VIP – Tipper Music
16) Romor – Kicking Auld Styles
17) My Love – WBBL Remix
18) Tryptich – Eucalyptus – Colony Productions
19) Basik – End of Days – Beta Test Records
20) Krymes – La Dubiously
21) Sammy Senior – Goin’ Crazy

KRYMES – Noisily Promo Mix + Interview

And so the bearded one returns for another round up of bass bangers to rattle out the remaining teeth you possess!!!!!

We begin with 2 new EPs on Stay On Target from Darkhalf & Stormski, ‘Music Of Life’ featuring The Demon Boyz & Daddy Freddy has been a mainstay of this writer’s radio shows for months and I can’t sing its praises enough, Darkhalf’s deep Detroit influenced take on the 140 sound fits perfectly with the Brit Hop vocals and really should be in the DJ box of any truly good Future Jungle DJ, its that good, believe me

On the Jungle/DnB tip, Stormski teams up with Daddy Freddy for 2 94 style rollers, big sirens, chopped up breaks, ragga sensibilities and bundles of energy, Stormski once again combines his amazing DJ abilities with great production and knowledge of what rocks a crowd, firing!!!!

Exit Point debuts on the mighty Kode 5 with a punchy slice 0f 140 Jungle, almost with a hint of Jump Up DnB/Ragga Jungle, kicks off with a lively opener and indeed rocks ya soul!!!!

Duckem & Cryogenics have a new release on Audio Theory, a 2 tracker of finely crafted DnB, ‘Nightshades’ takes it back to the mid/late 90s with a smooth Metalheadz inspired roller while ‘Unforgiven’ goes for the late night melodic approach, loaded with sweeping pads, nicely filtered breaks and heavy 808s lurking in the mix, essential DnB

Digital’s ‘Figjam EP’ is out now on both vinyl & digital format via Horizons Music, the title track is just mind blowingly good, a ‘Shadow Boxing’ for 2014, dark brutal stabs over a clicking and whirling amen break, ‘Waiting’ is futuristic funk taken to the next level & ‘Therapy’ is dubbed out brilliance

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Lifestyle Recordings continue a fine 2014 with a first class EP from Jazzatron, 4 tracks that take in elements of the old and new in DnB, a fusion of sound that deserves to be called unique and progressive and projects a range of emotions, Jazzatron is another producer at the top of their game which is amply demonstrated here:

Now time for a few free downloads, starting with an amzing hybrid trap tune from Lumberjvck with some seriously twisted bass

Animal Music are on fine form with their free remix of The Killers ‘Mr Brightside’ half step DnB style

Ekstra Records continue with quality output with this excellent chill trap banger by Kuzzo Fly

Lenkemz reworks Nativ-Shifty into a rabble rousing juke jungle track

This previously unreleased track by Von D is an incredible dubstep/breakbeat crossover with shades of techno and jungle

And for the real hardcore ravers, Pursuit takes it back to the old skool with ‘Pull Up’

Salarayman’s remix of Adam F’s ‘The Original Junglesound’ is just a beast of a tune, dance round like a looney material, just so infectious!!!

2Brainz deliver another masterpiece of classic amentalism in the shape of ‘Jungle Dreams’

Kinetic Eon serves up some deep, dark and mystical jazz infused vibes with ‘Sub Lounge’

6Blocc gives another classic the low down bass assault treatment, this time its La Roux ‘In For The Kill’

DJ Ziyad gives a heavy re working of one of the most popular old skool anthems ever and with a nice subtle touch, adds in a little more of that CeCe Rogers vocal and the pianos from ‘Someday’

Chump Change law down the 95 vibes in this dreamy slice of footwork, another one of Dred Collective’s great Thursday giveaway tracks

Strange Rollers celebrate 25000 downloads on soundcloud with a 3 track EP covering Future garage, Bass & 140 Jungle

And Tony Rocky Horror has a free 4 track EP of deep rolling 140 bass out via the Fat Kid On Fire soundcloud page thats just so good, it would be criminal not to feature it here

Bass, 140 & DnB Round Up 14.05.2015

Vancouver’s PAT LOK has been making noise the past few years with his ability to weave disco, pop, R&B, into soulful house jams. Recently he’s been taking his productions a bit deeper, both in terms of the genre and the sonics he’s applying to them. Fans and peers alike are taking notice as he’s celebrating a million plays on SoundCloud with a free download.

Taking vocal snippets from the 1995 classic, “Freak Like Me” by Adina Howard, Pat infuses the track with some bassline wobble and piano stabs to puncture the most discerning house music aficionado.

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For more from Mr. Lok, check his SoundCloud page. Below are a few standouts though.

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Beating The Crates 20140512 by Hong Kong Ping Pong on Mixcloud

Morphosis once again brings you ‘Beating The Crates’ in a Hong Kong Ping Pong Styleeeeee in association with www.ghettofunk.co.uk with the crates brimming with some of the freshest promo business going… so what you waiting for, get amongst it. x

This show is now available to download from the NSB Radio Archives and to stream on Mixcloud!

Tracklist:

01 Skeewiff – Sailing Boat
02 King Porter Stomp – Pocketfulofrocketfuel
03 General Trix & Max RubaDub – Sweet Like You (Krak in Dub Remix)
03 Mungo’s Hi Fi – Put it on ft. Shanti D
05 Skeewiff ft Bam – I Blame It On Rio
06 KOAN Sound – 7th Dimension
07 ill.Gates & Mimosa – Pharma Sutra (Mr Bill remix)
08 Odjbox & Port Limbo – Sloth
09 Opiuo – Snorkle
10 Defkline & Red polo – Streetwise Rock Box
11 Smash HiFi – Feel It (Original Mix)
12 Captain Flatcap ft Kitten & The Hip – Blaze Up
13 Mr Bristow feat Benny Silver – My Life (B Side Remix)
14 Defkline & Red Polo – If You Really Want To Party With Me (Hip Hop Mix)
15 Skeewiff – The Girl From Cannes
16 Tom Booze – Never Knew
17 Valentino Khan & Will Bailey – Rukus
18 Hammond Classics – Tao Boa
19 Double 99 – Ripgroove (DJP’s Moombahton Refix)
20 WBBL – Around U
21 Skeewiff ft Rayna – Sambahton
22 Funk The System – Crush On You
23 Tom Booze – gET oFF yO aSS
24 Bryx – Pop That
25 DJ Twister aka Vinyl Cat – Hammer Banger
26 A.Skillz & Nick Thayer – Drop the Funk
27 Mr Bill & Video Cat – Rusty Wonderland
28 Anthony Atcherley – Beef (Original Mix)
29 Tigerlight – Crown (original)
30 Kuplay – Don’t Stop
31 Cut La Roc – Bugle
32 Dutty Moonshine Featuring Nano Sigo – Nano’s Revenge
33 Captain Flatcap – On Your Bike
34 Smash HiFi – Ready For This (Original Mix)
35 Ying N Yang Ft Marc Spence – Gunna Tickle
36 Jason Laidback – Fools Gold 2014
37 King Yoof – Soundboy Love feat Rony Blue & Mr Williamz (Capital 1212 remix)
38 DJ Hero – The Big Room (Original Mix)
39 Captain Flatcap ft Dutty Moonshine – Bonklet
40 Hoomicide – Restoration (original mix)
41 Eli Crust ft Sirreal and Manners – Machine Gun (Original Mix)
42 Kid Digital & Rubi Dan – Attack The Speaker – 6A

The brand new longplayer from Future Funk Squad has officially hit the download stores today. Darker Days is a cinematic-breakbeat masterpiece. Get yourselves a copy HERE.

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Hailing from the small island of Jersey, Crashgroove slams together this glitch/bass mix in fine tradition. Mid tempo grooves throughout and a selection of new tracks including one from himself !

Tracklist

Opiuo- Snorkle
Dusty Tonez- Get Em High
Cut La Roc- Sunday Morning People (Herbgrinder Remix)
Wicked City- Sensation
Warp 9- AstroDisco (Funkanomics Remix)
The Funk Hunters & Skii Tour - Keep On Moving
Skope- Broken Soul
Cheshire- Mr. Bingle ft Beat Fatigue
Captain Flatcap ft KATH- Blaze Up
The McMash Clan- Swing Break (Opiuo Remix)
Crashgroove- Rotten Dancer (Unmastered Demo)
Minoru - Ain't No Coolin
Phibes- Till The Break Of Dawn

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