Dark Sky here with a brilliant dub re-working of a huge hit from Nelly Furtado.   From intro to drop, this track sizzles and sounds killer on a loud system.  So crank it up and dance!

Dark Sky – Promiscuous Gyal

Tru_Fix ups the tempo and adds some dubstep flavor on Charlie’s Winstons single, “Like A Hobo”.

Charlie Winston – Like A Hobo (TRU_FIX remix)

What the press say: TRU_FIX – Devoted to the art of rocking dance floors across the UK, young producer and DJ, TRU_FIX has spent the past two years honing his production skills at MI7 Records while making music across all dance genres – from his first love, Drum & Bass, to Dub-step, Electro, Trance, Pop and Tech House – proving that innovation and a fresh perspective is always the name of his game.

Solid, solid electronic track for summer.   Esser (aka Ben Esser) is a one man schmorgesborg of music.  Mixing a little dub, a pince of glitch, some ska, and wrapping the whole into a electronic pop wrapper — just perfect!   This track is taken from Esser’s full lenth, “Braveface”.

Esser – Headlock

Video for Headlock

Esser – Headlock (Spike Stent Mix) from stars redmond on Vimeo.

Video for another track called, “Satisfied”:

Dark, omnipresent, foreboding is the sound of Burial.  He lends his hand on this track from Jamie Woon.

Jamie Woon is a 21 year old singer-songwriter from SW London whose sound lies between the usually distinct genres of alternative rock and soul music.

The song, Wayfaring Stranger, is also know as Poor Wayfaring Stranger which is a folk/spiritual song about a soul’s journey through life.  This song dates back to 1816.

Jamie Woon – Wayfaring Stranger (Burial Remix)

Lryics:

I am a poor wayfaring stranger
A-trav’ling through this world of woe.
But there’s no sickness, toil or danger
In that bright world to which I go.
I’m going home to see my mother
I’m going there no more to roam;
I’m just a-going over Jordan
I’m just a-going over home.

I know dark clouds will gather ’round me
I know my way is rough and steep;
But beauteous fields lie just beyond me
Where souls redeemed their vigil keep.
I’m going there to meet my mother
She said she’d meet me when I come
I’m just a-going over Jordan
I’m just a-going over home.
I want to wear a crown of glory
When I get home to that bright land
I want to shout Salvation’s story
In concert with that bloodwashed band.
I’m going there to meet my Saviour
To sing His praises forevermore
I’m only going over Jordan
I’m only going over home

Trip Hop / Dub inspired track from Crustation.

Last.fm Bio

The trio of producers known as Crustation formed by Ian Dark, Stig Manley and Mark Taylerthe are quite connected in the fertile Bristol trip-hop community — they played in bands with Portishead’s Adrian Utley during the 1980s, and regularly hung out with Massive Attack and Smith & Mighty. They debuted in 1994 with two EPs for Cup of Tea Records (also the home of Monk & Canatella, Statik Sound System and Purple Penguin), and released their debut album Bloom in 1998.

Crustation – Purple

Don’t know too much about HiFi Hustlers other than this track is groovy and dub all at the same time. Found this up on www.thesixtyone.com. You can download for FREE their entire EP here: http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/HiFi_Hustlers

According to their myspace page, they are from the UK and San Francisco.

HiFi Hustlers – Power Version

The things I always like best about cuts like this are the facts that go with the idea that you aren’t quite sure about what you’ve just heard after it ends… you wouldn’t call it IDM, though there was certainly enough candy in the piece to keep your attention. You wouldn’t really call it techno because there is no real personally identifiable “hook.” In fact, you wouldn’t be too sure that you’d even label it a “dance” track of any sort… though you were totally groovin’. In the end, you probably wouldn’t be able to decide whether or not the piece you just heard was utterly complex or paleo-basic & elementary, which under certain listening conditions, expands the murk in multifold.

To take from the title of a terrific compilation by one of my favorite record labels (Nonplace) – “Difficult Easy Listening” – I find that to be an appropriate phrase to the question: Where’s your head at? Speaking in terms of what has currently been catching my ear, of course.

His initial releases each came in one primary colored sleeve and numbered 1-3 accordingly (which I never owned until recently), so the new cover art alone was enough for me to stop and recognize that he had something new to say.

Steingarten is Pole’s 6^th album and 4^th proper album following two releases which featured takes of older material. The track I selected here (Achterbahn) was chosen for its “bounce.” It is generally those tracks, which most find easiest to absorb upon first listen… particularly when discussing some of the more minimal music with such marrow-rich skeletal frame-work.

I chose this record as my electronic album of the year, and it was a pretty tough decision. Mostly because there was another record released last year that I think I recommended more. But in the end it came down to the artist who I think made the biggest statement in terms of how much the material appears to have challenged him (her), and represents a step forward in their careers. No one, in my opinion, made that step bigger last year than Pole.

When an artist releases something at a point in his career that it makes you go back to examine what came before from a different perspective to find out what you’ve been “missing” all along, there ain’t nothing cooler!!! And I’ve discovered even more interesting artists due to THIS record than I have any other in quite some time.

Worked for me!

Wiki:

Pole is the artistic name of Stefan Betke, a German electronic music artist commonly associated with the glitch genre as well as dubtronica.

Pole took his name from a Waldorf 4-Pole filter, which he accidentally dropped and broke in 1996. Though the filter was perhaps no longer appropriate for DJ work in its damaged state, Betke found the strange hissing and popping noises the filter now made interesting, and began using the broken filter to create music, launching his musical career.

Betke’s first four albums, titled “1″, “2″, “3″, and “R” (an intentional trilogy of albums, followed by a collection of remixes of Pole’s 1998 debut EP Raum), were all based around this filter, with songs usually taking the form of dub basslines and rhythms with percussion provided by the eponymous filter. In 2003 Betke departed from this style for the album Pole (a combination of tracks from two EPs, “45/45″ and “90/90″), which utilized more traditionally electronic but still eclectic production.

Pole has been distributed on several different labels, including Matador Records and Mute Records, and in 1999 Betke cofounded (with Barbara Preisinger) the label ~scape, also known for publishing Jan Jelinek.

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Jazz lounge (think KOOP) and 1920′s era motifs like Tango and Swing are the instruments of inspiration on the latest album release from Viennese producer Waldeck entitled, “Ballroom Stories”. If you like St. Germain, Koop, and Nicola Conte you will definitely fall in love with this album.

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Protege of Carl Craig, released this single with lead vocals by Joe Dukie.  Track has a mixture of Afro beat, dub, house, soul and a splash of pop lyrics.  Gilles Peterson named this tune the track of the year for 2006. 

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Here’s a video from another track from Recloose called “Mana’s Bounce”

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