DJ Zinc is a name that should sound heavy sirens in the dome piece of any true jungle head across our sick, sick planet. After all, this native of London’s east end brought a brain melting clash of breakbeats, bass lines and samples to dance floors across the globe that helped define an important generation in UK club music. Probably best known for drum and bass hits such as 1995’s “Super Sharp Shooter” and 1999’s “138 trek“, Zinc astonished thousands of fans in 2007 when he seemingly abandoned the sound he helped define and took a hiatus from creating music. Always known as a barrier breaker, in 2008 Zinc dropped back into the scene like a spaced-out super villain with a new hybrid genre of house music he dubs “crack house”. If you have not yet heard of this stinky style that blends the likes of deep house, funky, dubstep, drum & bass and fidget house among others, be sure to dip your taste buds in the Crack House EP available from any fine digital music retailer. Wile Out is the first track on Zinc’s recent Wile Out EP, which was released on the 2nd of February on Bingo Bass Records. The track carries the unmistakable vocals of Ms Dynamite over Zinc’s Blunt Edge instrumental, first featured on 2009’s Crack House EP. Feast your earholes on this nasty nugget people, I know I did.
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It’s been a long time coming, but I’d like to introduce all you loyal PnT readers to the first official new addition to the team since we got things going last January. Coming to us with keen ears, quick fingers and a penchant for only the greasiest in heavy bass and electro knockers is a man with more nick names than real names, ladies and gentlemen… DICK DIAMONDS!
Long time PnT pal and fellow Torontonian Dirtyred just passed along this nasty new mix of deep and bouncy tech tunes that he recently put together. Well dug and tightly laced, these are 91 minutes of knock you do not want miss. I’d never heard that Bamboo by Rainer Weichhold and was damn near knocked out of my seat when it came in. TAKE HOLD, he also damn near tore the roof of Augusta House at this past February’s Major Rager and is on point running the full house gamut with this mix as well.
When I first heard this tune on a Skream Stella Sesh about 8 months ago I was feeling it instantly. Then when I heard it dropped at the Skream n Benga show @ Wrongbar in Toronto (June 2009) I freaked the fuck out. After waiting impatiently for way too long, it finally got a digital release this month on Prolific Recordings. The original is a well known UK Garage classic so there are going to be enough pissed off punters who feel this should have never been remixed but you know how it goes; haters gonna hate. I think its another awesome remix from Nero who we finally get to see coming to Toronto on March 20th as part of the massive Embrace party “Digital Future”.
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I tend to get pretty excited when anything by Munich’s Schlachthofbronx shows up in the PnT inbox… but a Schlachthofbronx remix of a DJ Mujava tune, that’s a listen immediately kind of e-mail. To promote their latest release Ayobaness – The Sound Of South African House, Out Here Records are giving away Schlachthofbronx’s rework of Mujava’s Kwaito monster nugget Mugwanti / Sgwejegweje. Though they do handle the sawtooth well, Schlachthofbronx show their versatility on this one by trading their typically aggressive bass lines for syncopated shuffles and owl hoots. Not to be missed.
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Hot off the press, some sick new shit from the Toronto based duo The Killabits. These guys are charging out of the gate so far in 2010 and their ‘Drop A Gem On Em’ remix is getting mad love around the local Toronto dubstep circuit. A month ago we dropped a few of their tunes and the post absolutely exploded in popularity. Sam (one half of Killabits) was telling me they have been on the grind, logging some serious hours in the studio. He also mentioned they have a bunch of original tracks on the way which I’m excited to check out. Check out their popular bi-weekly Bassmentality which they organize alongside their buddies Zeds Dead. These insane parties go down every other Wednesday at The Basement (751 Queen St. W).
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Freeza Chin and Plain English just sent over the second installment of their Toronto Funky mixtape series. With 31 heaters of pure funky rhythm and bass and a track list sweatier than Betty’s tits, this one is not to be missed. In fact, we liked the last Toronto Funky mix / event so much that we just had to invite the duo out to play at the March 6th installment of our monthly Major Rager co-op. If you can’t wait that long (which you shouldn’t), be sure to check the next installment of their very own monthly at Toi Bar next Friday, February 26th.
Freeza Chin & Plain English – Toronto Funky Volume 2 (divshare / sendspace)
Tonight the Plugged Not Thugged crew will be invading The Social along with Zeds Dead, Bourgeois Bass and LRG for a very special Valentine’s Day bash!!! Check this for the full rundown. Five $ before 11, Ten $ after or enter here to try and win two free passes courtesy of Salacious Sound.
A couple months back I linked Lee N.B. Funky Harris on Facebook and became a fan of his funky digital retail outlet (ukfunky.com). Though the site is a little difficult to navigate, he does send regular on point updates via fb with all sorts of goodies. Lately they’ve been pushing quite a lot from G-REX recordings run out of Holland by Gregor Salto and Co. Many of the releases from this camp reveal how heavily funky bass has been influenced by the deep tribal sounds of Afrobeat. Lying somewhere in between Afrobeat, Funky and House are Salto’s Morning Drums release from early ‘09 and Jason Cheiron’s Abokuta EP from late ‘08 (this one screams deepened Zombie Disco Squad to me). Both have heft, both have chunk and both will be getting a proper rinse. A favorite nugget from each below!!!
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