Tokimonsta has to be one the best producers in the game. She is often called the female version of Flying Lotus. Disregard the fact that she is a lovely Asian woman and totally captures my heart with her every beat. Jennifer Lee is an EXTREMELY talented producer. She might get a lot of attention because she is a women but please listen to her music because it has soul!
Jennifer Lee is a self proclaimed night owl. She makes her music in the hours of 2am and 7am. It makes perfect sense to me as she is constantly touring around the world and must take breaks from it all once the day is over. I’ve been having trouble sleeping myself because I function and do so much more work in the late hours as well.
This album is genius in my opinion. I would call this easily one of the sexiest and groovy album of 2011. I can not get over the Little Pleasures track featuring Gavin Turek. I have listened to it over 20 times since I got a copy of this. Stigmatizing Sex is another glorious track which many babies will be made to over the next couple months I’m sure. The energy and raw emotion that comes out of every tune sends chills throughout me. I’ve had the pleasure of seeing Toki play twice in the past 6 months and it’s always something special. Her style and unique signature beats may not be heavy dance floor tunes but the music captures your heart and soul.
Much respect to Jennifer as she continues to share a piece of herself in her music. Thank you for sharing these tunes with us all! Grab this album May 17th via the epic Brainfeeder label.
Creature Dreams Tracklist:
01. Fallen Arches
02. Little Pleasures (feat. Gavin Turek)
03. Bright Shadows
04. Moving Forward
05. Stigmatizing Sex
06. Darkest (Dim) (feat. Gavin Turek)
07. Day Job
I have been asked to send you all a promo of Bright Shadows to give a small preview of this masterpiece.
Decibel Festival is upon us today! I’ve put together my personal picks and where I hope to make it too this week. Unfortunately I won’t be getting into Seattle till Thursday night. After the Flying Lotus showcase was announced I had to buy an entirely new ticket since I was previously arriving on Friday night. I’m beyond words excited for the next couple of days! It’ll be my first time going to Decibel and Seattle. I met many Seattle residents when out to California for Lightning in a Bottle and can’t wait to link up with familiar faces across the States. The amount of talent in this festival will take you back. I see myself running around Seattle trying to catch as much as possible. Friday night is going to be complete madness!!!
I want to personally thank my buddy Pressha! He’ll be hosting me at his house. Much love to you for that and had to mention that since it’s a big deal to me. Thank you! Also much love out to Shilo from DanceFever5000, I know you put a list of events you chose and hope they are not the same exact one but do at the sametime, LOL. Big up to Bass Drop crew and all those out who are in Seattle who made Decibel possible.
Wednesday
Workshop: WORKSHOP 3 : BUILDING A CUSTOM CONTROLLER
& THE MIDI FIGHTER CONTROLLER 4:00 pm
Event:
GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL LABEL SHOWCASE
NEUMOS : 925 E Pike
PANTHA DU PRINCE /live + av/ 12:15 am – 1:30 am
LUSINE /live/ 11:15 pm – 12:15 am
GOLD PANDA /live/ 10:15 pm – 11:15 pm
MUX MOOL /live + av/ 9:30 pm – 10:15 pm
Visuals by ZACHARIAH WALKER
Doors open at 9:00 pm : 21+ : $18 Door / Free with dB Pass
Thursday
Workshop: WORKSHOP 4 : FROM THE STUDIO TO THE STAGE 2:30 pm
Event:
FLYLO AND FRIENDS
NEUMOS : 925 E Pike
FLYING LOTUS /live/ 12:15 am – 1:30 am
ESKMO /live/ 11:15 pm – 12:15 am
LORN /live/ 10:30 pm – 11:15 pm
SAMIYAM /live/ 9:45 pm – 10:30 pm
TRUCKASAURAS /live + av/ 9:00 pm – 9:45 pm
Visuals by AUDIOPIXEL, KILLING FRENZY
& ZACHARIAH WALKER
Doors open at 9:00 pm : 21+ : $25 Door / Free with dB Pass
Friday
Workshops: WORKSHOP 6 : CREATE A DIGITAL PROMOTION PLAN 1:00 pm (Shilo & Erica’s workshop!)
LECTURE 2 : THE ILL METHODOLOGY 6:00 pm
Events:
THE ART OF RHYTHM
MOTOR : 1950 1st Ave S
BEATS ANTIQUE /live/ 12:00 am – 1:15 am
EMANCIPATOR /live/ 11:00 pm – 12:00 am
PHUTUREPRIMATIVE /live/ 10:00 pm – 11:00 pm
PHIDELITY /live/ 9:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Visuals by LOOPTID
Doors open at 9:00 pm : 16+ : $20 Door / Free with dB Pass
RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY ON THE FLOOR
NEUMOS : 925 E Pike
MODESELEKTOR feat. PFADFINDEREI /live + av/ 12:30 am – 1:30 am
MOUNT KIMBIE /live/ 11:30 pm – 12:30 am
HEADHUNTER AKA ADDISON GROOVE /live/ 10:30 pm – 11:30 pm
TEEBS /live/ 9:40 pm – 10:30 pm
SHLOMO /live/ 9:00 pm – 9:40 pm
Visuals by CPU, AUDIOPIXEL & ZACHARIAH WALKER
Saturday
Events:
dB IN THE PARK
BROAD STREET STAGE : 400 Broad St
BLUETECH presents SATORI SOCIAL /live/ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
NOSAJ THING /live/ 4:45 pm – 6:00 pm
NASTYNASTY /live/ 3:45 pm – 4:45 pm
MAT THE ALIEN /live/ 2:15 pm – 3:45 pm
SPLATINUM /live/ 1:15 pm – 2:15 pm
PRESSHA /dj/ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Live mural painting by ERIC ORR (presented by CRANE Stand)
Gates open at 12:00 pm : All Ages / 21+ Beer Garden
$10 Door / Free with dB Pass
BEATS PER MOMENT
MOTOR : 1950 1st Ave S
VIBESQUAD /live/ 12:00 am – 1:15 am
ALEX B /live/ 11:00 pm – 12:00 am
LOW LIMIT OF LAZER SWORD /live/ 10:00 pm – 11:00 pm
MACHINEDRUM /live/ 9:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Visuals by LOOPTID
Doors open to 10:00 pm : 21+ : $20 Door / Free with dB Pass
HOTFLUSH LABEL SHOWCASE
BALTIC ROOM : 1207 Pine St
SEPALCURE /live/ 12:30 am – 1:30 am
SCUBA /live/ 11:30 pm – 12:30 am
UNTOLD /dj/ 10:00 pm – 11:30 pm
INCYDE /dj/ 9:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Visuals by KILLINGFRENZY & TASARA
Doors open at 8:00 pm : 21+ : $17 Door: Free with dB Pass
Sunday
Event:
dB IN THE PARK
THE BROAD STREET STAGE : 400 Broad St
PLASTICIAN /dj/ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
12TH PLANET /dj/ 4:15 pm – 5:30 pm
MARY ANNE HOBBS /dj/ 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
PRAVEEN /dj/ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
JIMMY HOFFA /dj/ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
JUST ONE /dj/ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Live mural painting by ERIC ORR (presented by CRANE Stand)
Event begins at 12:00 pm : All Ages / 21+ Beer Garden : $10 at the gate /
Free with dB Pass
Special special Mix for Mary Anne Hobb’s Radio Show this week!
Due to the volcano ash MAH hasn’t been able to go back home to the UK so she set up shop in LA and invited over some friends to play for her on the show! This mix is to die for and so much talent!!
Flying Lotus, Daedelus, Ras G, Teebs, Take, and Tokimonsta take it away for 20 minutes each.
Flying Lotus was there also and did a mix but guess it’s a secret for now.
DAEDELUS MIX
Daedelus — Off Angeles Edges
Fantastic Mr. Fox — Over
Sepalcure — Down
Untold — I Can’t Stop This Feeling
Pogo — Alice
Riva — Riva Snake
Ludacris — How Low
Shlohmo — Spoons
Dorian Concept — Vertical Output
Floating Points — Vacuum Boogie
Untold — Gonna Work Out Fine
Daedelus — Going Incognito
Trickski — Hormony
The Aston Shuffle — I Wanna See You (Harvard Bass Remix)
D I M — Is You
Daedelus — Remix of Nothing
Kuedo — Starfox
Treasure Fingers — Cross the Dancefloor
Shystie — Pull It (Bad Gyal Bass)
Teebs — Anchor
Slum Village — Fall in Love
Yello — Bostich
The Morning Benders — Excuses
16 Bit — Pcp
Daedelus — Fairweather Friends
Mustard Pimp feat Blatta & Inesha — Pigeon Flu
Daedelus — Order of the Golden Dawn
Richard Wagner — Die Walkure
Daedelus — Stampede Me
RAS G
Ras G — Kool Out
Ras G — Holly Hood
Nosaj Thing — Bach
Ras G — One 4 Steve El
Ras G — 1nces Trize Echoes
Ras G — Beyond the Sky
Ras G — Think 06
Quasimoto — Main Gurl
Ras G — Disco 4000
Flying Lotus — Sleepy Dinosaur (Ras G Remix)
TEEBS
Nosaj Thing — Caves (Teebs Remix)
Bullion/Teebs/Dorian Concept — Mixed Up Tunes
Knxwledge — Unknown taken (from Klouds LP)
Mono/poly — Glow
Teebs — While You Doo
Teebs — Double Fifths
Teebs — Arthurs Birds
Teebs — Personal Winter (A Birds Redo)
Oscar — McClure (Boards of Canada Reworks)
Yuk — Iris Dahlia
Adwa — My Hollow Drum
TAKE
Take — Intro
Take — Summer Sun (TAKE Remix)
Take — Crystallia
Take — Neon Beams
Take — Not A Word
Take — Incrediblebright
Take — Warm Ruin
Take — Start of Our Evening (Daedelus Remix)
TOKIMONSTA
SamulNori — Al-Ari
TOKiMONSTA — Lucip Walking
TOKiMONSTA — World is Ours vs Silkie
Analogue Monsta — Nxt Msg
Jinbo — Nephilin
TOKiMONSTA — Let ME Trick You
Tokimonsta & Blue Daisy — Usd
TOKiMONSTA — Playing With Toys
TOKiMONSTA — The Block
TOKiMONSTA — park Walks
Schlomo — Hot Boxing the Cockpit (Tokimonsta Remix)
01 – Clock Catcher
02 – Pickled!
03 – Nose Art
04 – Intro//A Cosmic Drama
05 – Zodiac Shit
06 – Computer Face//Pure Being
07 – ..And The World Laughs With You ft. Thom Yorke
08 – Arkestry
09 – Mmmhmm ft.Thundercat
10 – Do The Astral Plane
11 – Satelllliiiiiteee
12 – German Haircut
13 – Recoiled
14 – Dance Of The Pseudo Nymph
15 – Drips//Auntie’s Harp
16 – Table Tennis ft. Laura Darlington
17 – Galaxy In Janaki
Stream all the tracks on FlyingLo’s myspace! (Can’t believe he’s using myspace still)
Right now my favorite track is probably the Thom Yorke track.
I’m highly anticipating getting my LP in the mail. The release is out on Warp records on May 4th, 2010. Get ready world because the king of next level sounds is finally dropping his new album. Leave comments on what you think of the album!
Glitch is starting to gain some serious momentum.
With all starts like Flying Lotus, Hudson Mowke, Prefuse 73, Dabrye, & El-P look out! The West Coast has embraced these producers with open hands. It’s time for the world to see what this glitch movement is all about.
1. Young Jeezy – I Got This (El-P remix)
2. Rich Kids – Patna Dem (Mad Decent Patna’s remix by DJA)
3. Dem Getaway Boyz – Imma G (Memory Tapes remix)
4. Good Time Guys – Is That You God? (Dabrye remix)
5. Young Dro – Take Off (Michna remix)
6. Cee-Lo – Hello Miss (Armani XXXChange remix)
7. Lil Jon feat. Kee – Give It All You Got (Danger Beach remix)
8. Gucci Mane – Photoshoot (Flying Lotus remix)
9. Gorilla Zoe – Lost (Starkey remix)
10. Shawty Lo – Dey Know (Prefuse 73 remix)
11. Kollosus – Breakin’ Bread (Phaseone remix)
12. Pill – Lookin’ (Chris Devoe remix)
13. B.o.B. – Satellite (Hudson Mohawke remix)
14. Playboy Tre- Sideways (SALEM Drag Chop remix)
15. OJ Da Juiceman feat. Gucci Mane – Good Night (HEALTH remix)
16. Lil Jon feat. Kee – Give It All You Got (Drums of Death remix)
17. Hollyweerd – Have You Ever Made Love to a Weerdo? (Dam-Funk remix)
This week LA’s finest club Low End Theory drops a new podcast mix for us! This podcast features Dj Nobody & Free the Robots.
Get ready for some serious BASS! I have yet to listen to any of these podcast and be disappointed. I pride myself on keeping up to date on all the things that come out of West Coast glitch hop scene but never am I able to figure out all the tracks that are dropped. It is my dream to one day step foot on those scared bass grounds of Low End Theory. Soon LA soon!
If you aren’t too familar with Low End Theory it’s a weekly event that goes on in LA. It features some of the hottest and most innovative producers and DJs. You can found on hearing some next level stuff every week. The residents could be headliners in any other city in the world: Daddy Kev, Nobody, GASLAMP KILLER, D-Styles, & Nocando. Expect lots of surprise guest on line-up like Flying Lotus, Daedalus, Ras G, & TokiMonsta, etc…
To download the 10th edition of the Podcast click here.
The past three years in dubstep have been quite prolific. The sound has evolved and the genre of dubstep is becoming quite a well known animal in the clubs. It has been since Benga’s follow up of Newstep EP release, Dairy of an Afro Warrior, that much hype has been surrounding new albums to me. Silkie’s new album City Limits Vol. 1 has finally graced us and boy did it live up to the hype. This is just the beginning of the albums to slap us up with bass.
One of the biggest names in Dubstep, Skream, has been non-stop since 2000 producing banger after banger. This man has blown us away with Skream!, Skreamizm volumes, and tons of masterpieces. Skream is finally at work to follow up his release of Skreamizm Vol 5 with a new album. I’ve had the great opportunity to catch Skream recently and hear two of new tracks off the album. As far as I know these tracks are still untitled but boy do these tunes carry a sound of epic proportions. The sound has become a lot more open and driven with a blend of dope b-lines meeting epic synths building the tracks to deep peaks. The sound of both these tracks have a legendary feeling as they rise your body to a relaxed groove.
Skream has been working with closely with Joker, a new comer which has taken the sound and created his own signature sound we’ve all come to love. The two taken the alias of Parma Violet. Their track Skittles has been well recieved and hope to hear more collarborations from these two.
Talking about Joker… This man is one busy producer. Digidesign put this man on the map and now the name Joker has built up the most momentum I’ve seen. His signature hard sounding synths and beats have created a new take on the genre of dubstep. Joker has’t seen an album release yet but boy is he going to make the end of 2009 and 2010 his. His recent remixes & tracks are instant hits. He is hard at work with his solo LP which will feature Tron, My Trance Girl, and work with TC. After that we’ll finally get to see what Joker & Silkie can do together when they collaborate and put out a an album together. Silkie’s recent Purple Love & Joker’s Purple city seems to be just the type of flavor I hope we see from these two. The next thing we’ll probably see from the man is a full length album with Ginz, Gemmy, & Guido. The four of them have worked with each other closely and finally coming together to release their first album as a whole. The Purple Trinity (Joker, Gemmy, & Guido) & Ginz will not let down and this piece of work will probably be a big step forward for the music.
The next set of albums that are about to be pushed out are Shackleton’s new work Three EP on October 12th 2009. The release will be pressed on three 12″s and feature nine tracks. He has mention how he decided to put together a collection of tracks and release them as three EPs and reason for this is that it’s not really a concept album just more of a collection of EPs.
2562′s new album is being released November 2nd and should be quite a crowd pleaser. It is a follow up of aerial a masterpiece of sound. This should be an album to pick up and enjoy with a good glass of wine and smoke.
Another prolific album due out late 2009 is Kromestar’s 2nd album, The Other Syde. His first album, My Sound, was on repeat for a month of mine. I have great expectations of this considering how his sound keeps mutating into all sorts of dark wild creations.
One of the most mysterious names in dubstep/downtempo is Burial. This man has created quite a name for himself and yet kept such a low profile. It was even once rumored that Burial was just another alias of Richard James. The rumors were smashed eventually. He doesn’t play out nor seem to desire the fame and hype of the culture. His debut album and Untrue are considered some of the best albums to come out in the recent years. No work on a new album from the man but we have seen a recent release from him on a split release along side, Four Tet. It has been annouced that a new track from Burial, Fostercare, will appear on Hyperdub’s next compulation.
Last on my list is a big name in music right now, Flying Lotus. His name has been growing and his tunes keep showing signs that it’s only going to get bigger and bigger. Flying Lotus has announced that his new LP will be coming out in 2010 and considering it his “most creative work yet”. His release alongside Joker is nothing short of amazing.
Dubstep is here to stay!
These upcoming months will bring many new vibes and flavors of music.
It’s safe to say that despite the growing trend of many recent releases being critized for consintrating on the wobbly bass that these albums and singles coming out will show the critics it’s not just about the wobble.
Afro Monk
April 27th by Afro Monk 
Tags: Brainfeeder, Bright Shadows, Creature Dreams, Flying Lotus, Gavin Turek, Jennifer Lee, Stigmatizing Sex, Tokimonsta
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