[Label] Family Tree

Family Tree records is a newly established label aiming to bring you some unique Dubstep sounds. Their first release - TREE-001 - Side Projekt - Lift Dub - is one of the strongest openers we've heard, sending forth a trippy, glitchy, bassy madness that sounds a bit like a fairground ride on acid. A bit. With Mad-Lab favourites Fused Forces pushing a hard remix on the flip, this is not one to miss!

Courtesy of Joe Muggs on FineTunes:

FAMILY TREE is founded by Nikki Acute and Tom Familytree – two very well-connected individuals within the UK scene, now putting the expertise gleaned from promotions and booking into a record label. Experts in nurturing new and established talent, they will be releasing dancefloor-targetted EPs of heavy dubstep and UK garage rhythms, starting with newcomers Side-Projekt and drum’n'bass veterans The Squadron aka Kontrol & OB1 (Metalheadz, Bingo Beats, Renegade Hardware etc).

TREE-001: Side-Projekt - Lift Dub by FamilyTreeRecords
TREE-001: Side-Projekt - Lift Dub (Fused Forces Remix) by FamilyTreeRecords

Edit: Some vital bits that I missed out on. It'll be released on the 27th of May, from all respectable online stores. Put it in your agenda!

Links
Family Tree Records Site
Facebook
Nikki Acute's tumblr

[Compilation] Dubstep Allstars - Vol. 8 - Distance

Well, it's long been confirmed that Distance is the next in line for the Dubstep Allstars crown, pitching up for Volume 8 in what's been an absolutely pivotal compilation series for the genre.

The release date has been pinned at some point in the next couple months, and his recent post looks very promising:

Edit - 13th April: 

And while you wait, make sure to revisit his older stuff, album My Demons will always and forever remain an absolute classic:

And check out the big back catalogue of the Allstars for some serious education:

Vol. 1 - Hatcha
Vol. 2 - Youngsta
Vol. 3 - Kode9
Vol. 4 - Hatcha and Yougsta
Vol. 5 - N-Type
Vol. 6 - Appleblim
Vol. 7 - Chef & Ramadanman
Vol. 8 - Distance

Pinch - Swish - Release Rumours

So Pinch has finally revealed, after months of torturing the shit out of us, that Swish is going to be released soon, on no other than Deep Medi.

He says on his Twitter (No damn way am I going to use the word 'tweet'):

Swish is coming on Deep Medi - not sure exactly when but i have a test press so hopefully not too long!

Rumour says that Kode9 is going to do a remix on the flipside, and that it's going to be the 9th of May, but we'll wait and see. This'll fit like a bug in the already powerful Medi catalogue, and will easily be one of the releases of the year; it's about time that Pinch jumped on the Medi wagon.

More rumour's saying that Quest's trying to bring Medi's catalogue of mastered tunes up to a staggering 55 by the end of May. Let's hope!

Here's a clip from Youngsta's Rinse.FM show. It's gonna have to suffice for now:

Burial / Four-Tet / Thom Yorke Collab - Limited Split

3 relatively mysterious figures in the music community - Burial, Four Tet and Thom Yorke - who, if you havn't noticed, is the front-man of Radiohead - have banded together to make a record. To quote FACTmag on the actual details:

No details are given except for the fact it’s black label, housed in a plain black bag, and is being released by Four Tet’s Text label. The A-side is by Burial, and called ‘Ego’, the B-side is a Four Tet and Thom Yorke collaboration titled ‘Mirror’.

Nice. No details. They've limited the print to an extent where they sold out in a matter of minutes from almost all online retail stores including Phonica, Rough Trade, and the rest. Personally, I feel it's a bit of a - well, the thesaurus doesn't have an entry for 'dick move' - so I'll just go with that - to limit what's bound to be such a popular record, but whatever keeps your beard growing.

Here's some audio:

Mix Round Up, Ep. 2 - Plastician & P-Money

The second mix, presented by FooMag is Plastician and P-Money - History of Dubstep. Plastician (BBC Radio 1 and Rinse.FM) - often regarded as one of the most skilled mixers of UK music scene - teams up with prime grime MC P Money to bring us an anthology detailing one the multi-faceted evolutions of dubstep from it's roots. The mix begins with some influential Drum and Bass singles such as Zinc's 128 Trek, right through to the more dub influenced classics - Anti-War Dub, the early high risers - Skream's Midnight Request Line, Rusko's Jahova and straight through to the more aggressive dubstep offshoots - Doctor P's and Flux Pavilion. All throughout Butterz crewman P Money spits his staple grimey style.

Overall, History of ... mixes are constantly subject to controversy. Whilst the mix does miss out much of the more underground plates that served as the bedrock of the genre, it's an amazingly accurate depiction of dubstep's rise from an underground scene, into a worldwide phenomena, and a highly entertaining hour and a half.

Not one to be missed.

DOWNLOAD - Mediafire

TRACKLIST on FooMag

Mix Round Up, Ep. 1 - Ramadanman

In honour of our first post, here's a big bunch of listening material from over the past couple of months, to keep you busy for a little while.

The first is Ramadanman's Bestimix, in accordance with his eagerly awaited FabricLive album, released this week. As the title suggests, it was recorded in preparation for Bestival, presenting "a blistering, exclusive session of upfront bass-heavy pressure from one of dubstep’s leading stars and brightest lights." If you've been in the loop lately, you know what to expect - oxymoronically deep highs, even deeper lows and a discerning inability to settle on any particularly genre, falling somewhere between dubstep, electro, juke and almost any other recent UK offshoots you can think of.

Bestimix 23: Ramadanman by Bestimix on Mixcloud