A couple of years back, Baobinga had a little feature in iDJ magazine where he was asked to define his music. He quite simply called it bass music – A term perhaps a little bemusing to the breaks community in which he grew. This obvious name however turned out to be quite the epoch as within a small length of time bass music seems to be the umbrella term of choice for some of today’s most exciting artists.

Another big turnaround for musicians in general is the advent of the free album. In a sense, there just isn’t that much money in recorded music anymore, so in an attempt to expand artists fan bases, free albums are primed and pimp to the new era of digital music digging enthusiasts.

ID & Baobinga’s free album ‘Bass Music Sessions’ dropped this week, and it couldn’t have came at a better time! The co-op ran bassmusicblog.com has grown into the essential blog of choice for many underground party goers, producers and DJ’s and this album defines what the varied forms of bass music are all about, from the kuduro led Man Down to twitched out but mellow drum and bass of The King . Get your mittens on it here and spread the low end laden love.

I can’t believe how good this track is! It’s a reality check. Hoping this does really well for Zinc. Go buy it, don’t share it, and prove to the public there is more to life than Jedwad!

It’s voting time! Breakspoll comes around just once a year. This year we’d love to get some recognition for our efforts in the breakbeat scene, and also for our associates and the work they have done.

So, if you’d like to consider some of the below as worthy of your vote, we would be uber happy

Best Remix: K.GoL – Pusher (Ben & Lex Remix)
Best Label: Silo Breaks
Best New Label 2009: Fly Beat Music
Best Producer: Flore
Breakthrough Producer 2009: 2 Bit Thugs
Best DJ: Flore
Breakthrough DJ 2009: 2 Bit Thugs
Best Website / Blog: http://www.thisisbreaks.com

Go here to vote and buy your tickets to the event held at Fabric http://www.breakspoll.com/vote.asp

Safe safe : SometimesSean

We sent our compadres over at bassmusicblog.com a promo of the latest release on FBM, DJ Jonny Blaze: The Remixes Vol.1, and low and behold they’ve featured the remix of DJ Patrick King – La Bestia Pop on a rather insightful look into Bmore music. Go check it out, bassmusicblog.com is simply the most essential read on the web!

http://bassmusicblog.com/bmore-club-in-2010

Now this is just nice! The rhythms and sounds of cumbia are becoming well known in DJ circles, and in the home region of South America (Colombia being the motherland) there are as many sub-forms of cumbia as there are types of breaks music in UK. So you can imagine there’s a lot to get schooling on if you’re a European native.

However there are already plenty of European DJ’s and producers who divulge in the global street music sounds. Belgium’s Tupolev Sound Crash for example have re-riddemed the popular sample filled tune Chase the Devil by Max Romeo, and also dropped a mix on their Soundcloud. Essential listening, and hopefully a taste for a bit more digging.

 Chase the cumbia devil rmx by tupolevsoundcrash

Cumbia villera mix by tupolevsoundcrash

DJ Enfusion has been busy carving a name out for his incredible drum & bass work on Fly Beat Music and Cadence Records. With Spiritual Technology he launches the new sub label of Fly Beat Music – Flytronik7, a label that will focus on the deeper, tech and dubwise side of the rave scene.

Jungle techno is a sound that has made a massive come back over the last couple of years thanks to the likes of Modular & Outrage, Ratty & Tango, Randall, Pilgrim and a whole host of other. Now going under the title of J-tek, the new sound drags the old skool straight into 2010 with crisp production techniques and new influences. DJ Enfusions Spiritual Technology captures the essence of the 92-94 rave movement, with a deep melodic bassline, an underlying four to the floor beat, and the all important infectious breakbeat that ups the ante for many new school producers.

Full release penned in for around March with a mad, mad Mike Lennon dubstep remix.

DJ Enfusion – Spiritual Technology (Original Mix) by Fly Beat Music

Crikey, after the post the other day Flore has managed to blow me even further away with this raunchy vid, banned from MTV, banned by my g/f and no doubt soon to be banned from youtube.

WARNING: This vid has tits and bondage type themes in it, so be careful at work/in front of your mum etc… etc…

Flore has dropped a heavy remix of her latest release – Feel Me feat Shunda K of Yo Majesty!. Transgressing tempos between kuduro and a drum & bass track this is sure to throw any dancefloor into a frenzy. The vocal floats really well over the bass, pulling your head away from your feet in a way that feels almost euphoric. Most notably this remix represents the barefoot sound which just keeps churning out really interesting club tracks at the moment. We love Flore for sure, and with an imminent album heading for the shelves via Botichit & Scarper, this girl is one to watch in 2010!

Click the down arrow in the Soundcloud player to grab this track.

FEEL ME FLORE RMX by flore

Buy Flore tracks from Beatport

DJ Assault and Deekline, DJ Nasty and Baobinga, now DJ Omega takes leave from the Detroit ghetto to join forces with two European counterparts for some filthy club action on Tim Healey and DJ Deekline’s Giant Pussy Records!

Any avid booty fan will know DJ Omega’s name, if at least his voice, as he lends his dirty vocal hooks to many a ghetto banger. With Stripper Anthem he drops a vocal line to the wobble stomp from the new, as yet unknown production duo, Stripper. I’ll save you the hassle of embarrassing google searches and post their myspace for you. I’d safely put a tenner on the label directors though.

More interesting on this release is the techy, occasionaly glitchy, dubstep remix from Edingburgh based Akira Kiteshi. Atari samples, heavy beats, plenty of swoosh’s and ghettotech hooks all just make for perfection in this versatile remix.

STRIPPER ft. DJ OMEGA – STRIPPER THEME – (AKIRA KITESHI REMIX) by Akira Kiteshi

CLICK TO BUY STRIPPER FEAT DJ OMEGA – STRIPPER THEME

Botchit and Scarper have e-mailed us with this dub heavy down trodden slugger from London based Frenchman Son of Kick. This is a bit different from SoK’s usual bass heavy club sounds, focusing more on the vocal element. In fact if you picked up that Chase and Status and Snoop Dogg track earlier in the year, and was perhaps a bit eeeee?! about it, then this one actualy does the whole hip-hop meets dubstep thing some justice. No Fixed Abode is the vocalist in queston waxing lyrical about the less brighter side of Christmas… though chips and beer doesn’t sound like a bad xmas dinner to me.

Son of Kick is one of the growing producer on the barefoot tip, much like our own K.GoL. With releases on Botchit and the Stanton Warriors Beats label he’s got the wobble breaks tip down to a tee, and continues to expand his sound. Keep and eye on him for 2010 if you haven’t got him on your hype list already!

  NO FIXED ABODE & SON OF KICK “Xmas Dubnas” by Sonofkick

Son of Kick – Byrdkick/Hustle Muzik on Beatport