2009 T&B RELEASES IN REVIEW
We'd like to take a minute to review our selective releases this year, and give you some free mp3's while we're at it! I'ts been a busy year for everyone over at T&B, check out what we've accomplished this year.
Blackfinger - Fearless
Who is the mysterious Blackfinger?! Hailing from Nottingham, Blackfinger has been producing some of the best underground UK garage, bassline, and funky house coming out of Great Britain. This Midlands don is best known for his hit “Mistreated” on Rossi B and Luca’s More 2 Da Floor label, as well as his records on Northern Line and Gridlock’d and his remixes of Little Jinder and Ramzi. “Fearless” and “UMF” (a.k.a. “Up Middle Finger”) are two up-yours slices of classic UK 4/4 bassline with a dark and stripped-down twist. Manchester’s rising stars HeavyFeet deliver a heavy-pounding remix with a cool half-time drop, Polish duo Supra1 lightens up the top end with some funky synth lines, and Canada’s DZ grafts bassline and dubstep in true T&B style, stretching bass and synths like taffy up and down the octaves. Simply sick!
Blackfinger was also named in URB's Top 100
Download Blackfinger - UMF (Supra 1 Remix)
Buy it Here: Beatport / Itunes / Juno / Boomkat / Amazon
Mikix The Cat - Movin Around
“This is the year of the cat!” said Mikix in January 2009. After huge releases for T&B, huge amounts of press (including being voted “One To Watch in 09” at Limewire.com), and the debut of his Afro-house alias Momma’s Boy for Sound Pellegrino, we have to agree. Just in time for WMC 2009, Mikix released this second EP for the label, featuring four endlessly playable originals that blur the lines between house, techno, heavy bass, and electro. He told us he’s been spending hours on his kick drums and it shows with these bangers! The EP includes the sawing synth madness of “Movin’ Around,” the sneaky playground sucker punch of “Trouble Maker,” the Euro dance-influenced piano madness of “Check Dis Out,” and the regal Afro-influenced boom-tchak of the clap-happy “Zulu King.” Big tunes!
Download Mikix The Cat - Movin Around
Buy it: Beatport / Itunes / Juno / Boomkat / Amazon
Star Eyes - Disappear
Brooklyn first lady of bass Star Eyes calls the style of her first EP “haunted house” so be warned: this is five tracks of gothic dancefloor madness straight from the darkest corner of the warehouse. “Disappear,” an original track written by Star Eyes with Drop The Lime, is a song about the agony and ecstasy of rave, with gurgling bass, massive reverb, and brain-twisting backwards vocals. “Happy Haus,” a Siouxsie & The Banshees cover co-produced with Math Head, mixes ’80s goth vibes and Booka Shade synth lines with a Pandora’s box of terror breaks and Star Eyes’ own vampire vox. On the “Disappear” remix tip, Mikix The Cat turns in a hard-hitting house number that will have you punching walls, while Dexplicit comes through with a heavy bassline wobbler, and Cardopusher slams down a spacey, sub-rattling dubstep version to clear out the cobwebs.
Download Star Eyes - Disappear (Mikix The Cat Remix)
Check out the video for Disappear HERE
Buy it: Beatport / Itunes / Juno / Boomkat / Amazon
Scion CD Sampler V. 25 - Trouble & Bass
New York City's own bass heavy club music champions, the Trouble and Bass crew, deliver the goods on this latest installment of the Scion CD Sampler series. Featuring 10 original tracks from Drop The Lime, AC Slater, Mikix The Cat, Acid Jacks, Little Jinder, Starkey, Udachi and Math Head
Download AC Slater - Calm Down
Download Drop The Lime - Tabac Theme
Download Trouble & Bass Scion Promo Mix
Buy it: Beatport / Itunes / Juno / Boomkat / Amazon
Drop The Lime - Set Me Free feat. Carrie Wilds
Where do we start with this one? “Set Me Free” is one of those records that breaks all the rules. It’s so fierce and blatantly in your face that most people’s initial reaction is to shy away, but experience it on a packed dancefloor and we promise the memory will be stuck in your head for days. “Set Me Free” leads off with a fright night intro straight out of a classic horror film, before a colossal breakdown sends forth a chemical explosion of huge kicks, demon claps, and that singularly dirty Drop the Lime bass. The whole thing melts down into a white-hot core of devil gospel sung by Brooklyn diva Carrie Wilds. If that wasn’t enough, remixes come from some of the biggest in the game: Sound Pellegrino’s newest house talent Harvard Bass, UK funky don Lil Silva, bassline guru Dexplicit, up and comers on Made To Play, Zombie Disco Squad and a beautiful Dubstep remix by Reso for the end of the night. This release has gotten big support from Laidback Luke, Diplo, A-Trak, Steve Aoki, Nadastrom, Buraka Som Sistema, and beyond, so don’t sleep.
Download Drop The Lime - Set Me Free feat. Carrie Wilds (Zombie Disco Squad Remix)
Buy it: Beatport / Itunes / Juno / Boomkat / Amazon
Jinder - Youth Blood
In August 2008, Little Jinder released her debut EP, Polyhedron, for Trouble & bass. A little less than a year later, after loads of touring and working on her album, Jinder returned to us with “Youth Blood.” It appeared on our Scion compilation, and turned out to be such a hit with the young club vampires that we had no choice but to give it the remix treatment, six times over! This epic disco-house blood sucker gets a Joker-esque dubstep vibe from L.A.’s 12th Planet & Flinch, two monster-mash electro-bass remixes outta Finland (courtesy of Rico Tubbs and Sharkslayer), a UK funky slow-burner from London’s Bok Bok, and a tasty morsel of fast ‘n’ tweaky garage from Squire of Gothos. Rounding it off, our French bass fiends Chateau LaTeuf deliver a wild bouncy ball of Bmore ‘n’ house chops.
Download Jinder - Youth Blood (Bok Bok Remix)
Download The Captain's Youth Blood Promo Mix
Buy it: Beatport / Itunes / Juno / Boomkat / Amazon
Jinder - Youth Blood (Scandinavian Remixes)
Jinder called us long-distance from Stockholm and told us she wanted to curate her own slew of remixes made up of strictly Scandinavian producers on a house and techno tip, and so we thought, why not? She really went for it, calling in seven knock-out remixes, including two seriously big jams from legends Tony Senghore and Tomas Andersson. Eric Ericksson, Boboes Kaelstigen, and YourHighness hit you with various house flavors, from percussion-heavy and melodic to minimal, while Erase and Villa serve up moody techno bits that are perfect for those 8 a.m. sunrise sets. Whether you’re looking for a big-room fire starter, a classy 4/4 floor burner, or something to put on for the long drive home, this package has it all.
Download Jinder - Youth Blood (Tony Senghore Vocal Remix)
Download The Captain's Scandinavian Remixes Promo Mix
Buy it: Beatport / Itunes / Juno / Boomkat / Amazon
Blackfinger - Fearless
Who is the mysterious Blackfinger?! Hailing from Nottingham, Blackfinger has been producing some of the best underground UK garage, bassline, and funky house coming out of Great Britain. This Midlands don is best known for his hit “Mistreated” on Rossi B and Luca’s More 2 Da Floor label, as well as his records on Northern Line and Gridlock’d and his remixes of Little Jinder and Ramzi. “Fearless” and “UMF” (a.k.a. “Up Middle Finger”) are two up-yours slices of classic UK 4/4 bassline with a dark and stripped-down twist. Manchester’s rising stars HeavyFeet deliver a heavy-pounding remix with a cool half-time drop, Polish duo Supra1 lightens up the top end with some funky synth lines, and Canada’s DZ grafts bassline and dubstep in true T&B style, stretching bass and synths like taffy up and down the octaves. Simply sick!
Blackfinger was also named in URB's Top 100
Download Blackfinger - UMF (Supra 1 Remix)
Buy it Here: Beatport / Itunes / Juno / Boomkat / Amazon
Mikix The Cat - Movin Around
“This is the year of the cat!” said Mikix in January 2009. After huge releases for T&B, huge amounts of press (including being voted “One To Watch in 09” at Limewire.com), and the debut of his Afro-house alias Momma’s Boy for Sound Pellegrino, we have to agree. Just in time for WMC 2009, Mikix released this second EP for the label, featuring four endlessly playable originals that blur the lines between house, techno, heavy bass, and electro. He told us he’s been spending hours on his kick drums and it shows with these bangers! The EP includes the sawing synth madness of “Movin’ Around,” the sneaky playground sucker punch of “Trouble Maker,” the Euro dance-influenced piano madness of “Check Dis Out,” and the regal Afro-influenced boom-tchak of the clap-happy “Zulu King.” Big tunes!
Download Mikix The Cat - Movin Around
Buy it: Beatport / Itunes / Juno / Boomkat / Amazon
Star Eyes - Disappear
Brooklyn first lady of bass Star Eyes calls the style of her first EP “haunted house” so be warned: this is five tracks of gothic dancefloor madness straight from the darkest corner of the warehouse. “Disappear,” an original track written by Star Eyes with Drop The Lime, is a song about the agony and ecstasy of rave, with gurgling bass, massive reverb, and brain-twisting backwards vocals. “Happy Haus,” a Siouxsie & The Banshees cover co-produced with Math Head, mixes ’80s goth vibes and Booka Shade synth lines with a Pandora’s box of terror breaks and Star Eyes’ own vampire vox. On the “Disappear” remix tip, Mikix The Cat turns in a hard-hitting house number that will have you punching walls, while Dexplicit comes through with a heavy bassline wobbler, and Cardopusher slams down a spacey, sub-rattling dubstep version to clear out the cobwebs.
Download Star Eyes - Disappear (Mikix The Cat Remix)
Check out the video for Disappear HERE
Buy it: Beatport / Itunes / Juno / Boomkat / Amazon
Scion CD Sampler V. 25 - Trouble & Bass
New York City's own bass heavy club music champions, the Trouble and Bass crew, deliver the goods on this latest installment of the Scion CD Sampler series. Featuring 10 original tracks from Drop The Lime, AC Slater, Mikix The Cat, Acid Jacks, Little Jinder, Starkey, Udachi and Math Head
Download AC Slater - Calm Down
Download Drop The Lime - Tabac Theme
Download Trouble & Bass Scion Promo Mix
Buy it: Beatport / Itunes / Juno / Boomkat / Amazon
Drop The Lime - Set Me Free feat. Carrie Wilds
Where do we start with this one? “Set Me Free” is one of those records that breaks all the rules. It’s so fierce and blatantly in your face that most people’s initial reaction is to shy away, but experience it on a packed dancefloor and we promise the memory will be stuck in your head for days. “Set Me Free” leads off with a fright night intro straight out of a classic horror film, before a colossal breakdown sends forth a chemical explosion of huge kicks, demon claps, and that singularly dirty Drop the Lime bass. The whole thing melts down into a white-hot core of devil gospel sung by Brooklyn diva Carrie Wilds. If that wasn’t enough, remixes come from some of the biggest in the game: Sound Pellegrino’s newest house talent Harvard Bass, UK funky don Lil Silva, bassline guru Dexplicit, up and comers on Made To Play, Zombie Disco Squad and a beautiful Dubstep remix by Reso for the end of the night. This release has gotten big support from Laidback Luke, Diplo, A-Trak, Steve Aoki, Nadastrom, Buraka Som Sistema, and beyond, so don’t sleep.
Download Drop The Lime - Set Me Free feat. Carrie Wilds (Zombie Disco Squad Remix)
Buy it: Beatport / Itunes / Juno / Boomkat / Amazon
Jinder - Youth Blood
In August 2008, Little Jinder released her debut EP, Polyhedron, for Trouble & bass. A little less than a year later, after loads of touring and working on her album, Jinder returned to us with “Youth Blood.” It appeared on our Scion compilation, and turned out to be such a hit with the young club vampires that we had no choice but to give it the remix treatment, six times over! This epic disco-house blood sucker gets a Joker-esque dubstep vibe from L.A.’s 12th Planet & Flinch, two monster-mash electro-bass remixes outta Finland (courtesy of Rico Tubbs and Sharkslayer), a UK funky slow-burner from London’s Bok Bok, and a tasty morsel of fast ‘n’ tweaky garage from Squire of Gothos. Rounding it off, our French bass fiends Chateau LaTeuf deliver a wild bouncy ball of Bmore ‘n’ house chops.
Download Jinder - Youth Blood (Bok Bok Remix)
Download The Captain's Youth Blood Promo Mix
Buy it: Beatport / Itunes / Juno / Boomkat / Amazon
Jinder - Youth Blood (Scandinavian Remixes)
Jinder called us long-distance from Stockholm and told us she wanted to curate her own slew of remixes made up of strictly Scandinavian producers on a house and techno tip, and so we thought, why not? She really went for it, calling in seven knock-out remixes, including two seriously big jams from legends Tony Senghore and Tomas Andersson. Eric Ericksson, Boboes Kaelstigen, and YourHighness hit you with various house flavors, from percussion-heavy and melodic to minimal, while Erase and Villa serve up moody techno bits that are perfect for those 8 a.m. sunrise sets. Whether you’re looking for a big-room fire starter, a classy 4/4 floor burner, or something to put on for the long drive home, this package has it all.
Download Jinder - Youth Blood (Tony Senghore Vocal Remix)
Download The Captain's Scandinavian Remixes Promo Mix
Buy it: Beatport / Itunes / Juno / Boomkat / Amazon
Labels: Releases, Trouble and Bass
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