enuui.org - ambient & dub excursions into the upper plateau

A wicked free number from my mate The 13th Tribe, a deep bassy backdrop to some great vocals on knowing yourself, and not to sell out to corporate greed.

Download the free 320k mp3 of The 13th Tribe - Reconstruct Your Self by right clicking here

Also via his blog, I came across this, The Tinariwen, a group of Mali soldiers who put down the guns and picked up the guitars.

Also check out the 13th Tribe's side project V.O.C.A., an Afro Latin music collective featuring artists from all sides of the planet.

I've just finished a remix of Morphy's wicked 'Warren Dub' for Nerve Recordings as part of a remix EP of his Dubtopia collection. Big dub pressure in various guises.

Check it out here.

found via the brilliant NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day

I recently came across this excellent documentary about the indiginous peoples of South Ecuador vs. ChevronTexaco in a intense judicial battle for ChevronTexaco to admit, and clean up the 18 billion litres of toxic byproducts of it's oil drilling in the area. They claimed to have dug special pits to put the toxic waste, but neglected to line the pits, so it all seeped into the surrounding soil and rivers polluting a vast area (the size of Rhode Island), which led to total devestation of plants, trees, animals, and humans living in the rainforest.

This documentary is available from here

http://http.dvlabs.com/mofilms/Justicia640.mp4 It's about 110MB big, 30ish minutes long, and plays with QuickTime, or preferably VideoLan media Player.

If you'd like to know more, or donate, then visit amazonwatch.org

Here's a few links to some albums I've had on repeat over the last few weeks. Won't go into massive detail because you could google a better review that what I'd type, but then again, words don't account for the music, so check 'em!

1. Fat Freddy's Drop - Dr. Boondigga & The Big BW
Still their great dub sound, but now moving up in tempo into dirty live dubby techno. Hear some clips on their myspace


2. Hallucinogen - In Dub - Live from Brixton Academy
Quality live versions of 'In Dub' including some new songs. Simon Posford & Ott laying it down, with Youth on Bass, Jackson on guitar, & David Nock on drums. Available from Twisted Records


3. Kaya Project - ...And So It Goes
Lovely and beautifully mixed ethnic variety of beats. Available from Interchill Records


4. Sasha - New Emissions Of Light And Sound OST
Sasha's deep and progressive sound track to a Globe produced surfing film, with lots of slow motion footage of surfing and beautiful scenery. check Globe


5. V/A - Natural Born Chillers 2
An Aleph Zero compilation featuring Hibernation, Bluetech, and Ott for example. Super chilled. Check it here.

Sorry for the lack of updates, I've been busy lately mixing a few tunes down, for bands and solo artists. I've decided to get more practice in this area, and possibly aim to become a mix engineer. It's easier than writing my own material, that's for sure. Anyway, if you'd like a tune mixed then please get in touch (leave a comment on this with an email address), and I'll get back to you. Bearing in mind, I'm not a certified mixer, so don't think my mixes are final or ready for release (unless YOUR ears say so). I just want some practice. I'm not fussy on the genre, but I'm more adapted to glitchy electronic & dub music. Bands are welcome too, but I'm even less used to mixing them.

Here's what I want you to do.
Send one tune.
I'll mix it, and send it back.
You want anything changing, I'll redo it.
If you don't like it, that's the end of that then.
If you do like it, you can pay me if you like, and what you think it's worth.
And maybe send some more tunes (more tunes will have a price per tune)
If you release them, then we'll sort out production credits (and maybe royalties).

Sound fair? SEND ME YOUR STEMS!!!!

I mainly will be working in the box, but running 2 UAD cards, with some sweet sounding plugins, Outboard gear is not much but includes Lexicon reverbs, Drawmer 1960 compressor, Alesis 3630 compressor. All running thru a Mackie analogue desk.

I know much things haven't been said lately, for I've been working a lot on my own production (coming along real nicely after some epiphanic (is that a word? ) shit), and way to keep things moving check out these latest videos made for DJ Trax. Some stunning graphics and animation to some of my most anticipated beats this year.
These songs will explain themselves better than I can. Some chilled ambient breakbeats.

If you like this then check out his website on my links to the right, and his new album 'Thoughts In Widescreen' is available with this months Knowledge, a drum and bass magazine, which can be ordered online from various places. So for £4 you get the album, and then you can do whatever with the mag, shred it up, use it as hamster bedding or whatever. Check kmag.co.uk for more info.

Have a gander at this. Another found gem from the world of Soundcloud. Let me introduce Dubtrak, a producer from Toronto, Canada.
As it usually goes around these parts, we have some dub (well quite a lot), ethnic & world flavours, big meaty beats, trancey synths, and some inner/outerspacial vibrations.

Big sounds indeed.

Check the mix on his Soundcloud, here. As far as I know, this guy is unsigned. So if ya wanna show some support, hit up www.dubtrak.com or his Myspace.