Lucent L'Amour 2010

I’m always a fan of The Do Lab.  This years Lucent L’Amour looks like it was major success.  With performances from Bassnectar, Ana Sia, Beats Antique the music line up was full of amazing talent.  I love the visual art and performers.  Check the video to see what you missed.

LUCENT L’AMOUR 2010 (LL COOL CUT) from Matthew F. Smith on Vimeo.

Sub Swara - Coup d'Yah

These guys have been setting my ears on fire lately. They’ll be in Austin for SXSW and I can’t wait. Check out the goodness.

I highly recommend the All Access Pack. You get something close to 100 tracks, a tshirt and a physical copy of their Coup d’Yah album.  The shirt is great quality, no cheap issh here. You also get access to their speakeasy of music. Yum!

Subscribe to their podcast as well.

Sub Swara live

Check out their souncloud.
http://soundcloud.com/sub-swara

Sub Swara – Belgrade Riddim from pictureman on Vimeo.

Sub Swara live

PANTyRAiD live @ Ace's Lougne on March 5th

I have the honor of sharing the stage with one of my favorite dubstep / glitch production teams on March 5th at Ace’s Lounge.  I’ll be doing an Ableton dj set and plan on putting on a few suprises.  Enough about me, here’s the details on the event.  Get your tickets early because I have a feeling this is going to sell out.

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Event Details:

POLARIS AND SCOREMORE PRESENT…

3.5.2010 @ Aces Lounge

PANTyRAiD (Ooah of The Glitch Mob and Marty Party)
Mad Classy
Jesse Brede
Larkside

Tickets: http://pantyraidatx.eventbrite.com/
Doors:9pm

PANTyRAiD - The Sauce

PANTyRAiD

“The sound of underground US hip-hop getting to grips with dub-step and coming out
of the collision rather well. A rich injection of transatlantic new blood into dub-step’s
gene pool.” – Mixmag

PANTyRAiD creates songs that each hold their own
unique character and intention, with the ability to
drift over into both the classical and electronic
genres. With constant variations in beat, and an overwhelming palette of instrumentation,
audio tricks, melodies, and techniques, PANTyRAiD’s production reflects close attention to
detail, taking their audience along a lavishly ambient electronic journey. The fusion between
MartyParty and Ooah has ignited a movement that revisits the power of melodic and
instrumental composition, together inventing a formula for producing intense club tracks that
unite gorgeous, electronic soundscapes with hard-hitting, grimy beats that reference hip-hop
and dub-step, with experimental, global sounds that resonate throughout. The result is a new
flavor of urban beat – a fresh, new, sexy sound that redefines the power, relevance, and
longevity of electronic music.

“Beba” featured on PANTyRAiD’s debut release The Sauce, is a “sonic safari” with
“snapping and frozen beats [that] tear into ones mind, yet its structure and groove make this
one of the hottest tracks on [the] album. LA’s Glitch Mob has splintered both literally and
musically as these shattered hip hop beats take huge strides forward for lovers of Dilla,
Prefuse, Flylo, and the more recent wUnKy upstarts of Paul White, Rustie and Bullion”
– Clash Magazine

PANTyRAiD Live

Wu Tang vs The Beatles

I love creative concept mash up albums like this.  Easy Dub All-Stars have done this for Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” which was titlted “Dub Side of the Moon”, Radiohead’s “OK Computer” titled “Radiodread” and The Beatles  “Sgt. Pepper’s Loney Hearts Club” titled “Easy Star’s Lonely Hearts Dub Band”.  And of course, who can forget Danger Mouse’s break out album – “The Grey Album” which was a mash of The Beatles “While Album” and Jay-Z’s “Black Album” which ended him up in a massive lawsuit, put him on the cover of URB and made him an overnight success leading to him working with C-Lo and The Gorillaz and doing production and engineer work for some of the best bands in the world.

This album is free for download on Bandcamp. It appears that this has been removed, let’s hope it comes back up.

Download Here or Here.

Tracklisting:

1. Wu Vs Beatles (Intro) 01:29
2. C.R.E.A.M. 03:20
3. Got Your Money 03:43
4. Forget Me Not 04:09
5. Back In The Game 04:48
6. Uh Huh 03:31
7. Criminology 03:11
8. Da Mystery Of Chessboxin’ 02:01
9. Daytona 500 03:20
10. Labels 02:49
11. Smith Bros 01:38
12. R.E.C. Room 03:27
13. Wu Vs Beatles (skit) 01:14
14. Mighty Healthy 03:11
15. Clientele Kidd 02:51
16. Cutting It Up 03:09
17. Release Yo Self 02:56
18. City High 02:12
19. Run 02:36
20. Cross My Heart 02:07
21. Uzi (Pinky Ring) 04:36
22. Bizarre 01:31
23. Slang Editorial 02:05
24. Save Me Dear 03:03
25. The Movement 02:35
26. Wu Tang Cream Team Line Up 03:28
27. Wu Vs Beatles (Outro) 02:24

Wu Tang acapellas over beats made with samples of Beatles songs. Produced by Tom Caruana www.teasearecords.net

Dustin Lyday presents GOOD TIMES

My good friend, Dustin Lyday, recently did a mix for my radio show RAW.  It’s a dirty little number that takes you through some of the best dance / noise rock of the last few years.  Check YOself before U wReck YOself.

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Tracklisting:
Disoriented State featuring “Violent Femmes” – Dustin Lyday
North American Scum – LCD Sound System
Give it up – Datarock
Shake a fist – HotChip
Phantom – part 2 ” – Justice (SoulWax remix)
Gbay – Huoratron
Warp 1.9 – The Bloody Beetroots, Steve Aoki
Dog – sebastiAn
Tthhee Ppaarrttyy — Justice(Live)
Ironman – Gtronic
Sex Bomb feat. Brody Dalle – Adam Freeland
Under Control – Adam Freeland(Alex Metric Remix)
Sweet Disposition – Evil Nine
Cold Act III – Classixx
Pianos on the Beach – Jacques Renault
We are all just pretending featuring Sigur Ros – Dustin Lyday

RAW - January 2010

RAW – Jesse Brede – January 2010 (Dubstep and Glitch Hop Mix) by jessebrede

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It’s been two months since my last RAW mix.  Not a big deal, except that in the last two months, I’ve been to hell and back.  I herniated a disc in my back, developed shingles on my face, had spine surgery and am finally starting to recover.  Nothing like a major health issue to realign your purpose in the world.  I’m blessed to have each and everyday on this planet with the family, friends, great job and amazing city I live in.  I will not take this for granted but rather choose to contribute in every way I know how.  I hope you enjoy this mix, it was done in Ableton Live using an APC 40.  It was mixed live from start to finish with no retouches or re-edits.  I’m still getting the hang of playing in Ableton and some of the mixes are sort of rough but just like life, I’m choosing to do something new for me rather than fall back to what I know.

Much Love and here’s to an amazing 2010.

Tracklisting:

Alabaster Dub (feat. Naveen Iyer / Venkat) – Sub Swara
Vaccine – Phaeleh Remix – Atrium
Lounge – Geiomix – Phaeleh
Islands (Nosaj Thing Remix) – The XX
San Francisco (The Rhythm) – Eskmo
Airy Dub – Heyoka
Turn Away feat Dandelion – LV
Somatic Frequencies (Remix by J.Tonal of The Flying Skulls) – MO2
Constructing the Absence – Sub Swara
Come Around (Mimosa) – Collie Budz
Griot feat Samba – An-ten-nae
Brok Owt – Distinction
Fresh (Brede Mashup) – 6 Tre G
Chem – Heyoka
Im A Star (Brede Mash) – Jeremih
Gangsteppin – Marty Party
Bang That – An-ten-nae
Where is my Mind (Bassnectar Remix) – The Pixies
King Prawn – Opiou
Irma Verp feat Masia One – ill.gates, Meesha
Hammer – Vibesquad
Rock On (Nosaj Thing) – Freeland
Micron – Heyoka
Whats it Worth (Jaswho Remix) – Goddess Alchemy Project
Forever (Nosaj Thing) – Drake

Beats Antique - MLK Vs MJ Mashup

MLK-MJ MASHUP – w-pied piper and BK2 – Beats Antique

Beats Antique



Nosaj Thing performing live

Nosaj Thing is pure fire at this point.  His live visual show is apparently bleeding edge.  His album ‘Drift‘ was on the list of pretty much every blogger and magazine for end of the year best ofs.  I credit his balance of melody, IDM and crystal clear clean production techniques.

Check these two remixes to see what I mean:

Drake-Forever-Nosaj-Thing-Remix

The-xx-Islands-Nosaj-Thing-remix

Check the video of his recent live show with synced visuals:

Nosaj Thing's live visual show

THE DO LAB PRESENTS THE GLITCH MOB 1.09.10 from Matthew F. Smith on Vimeo.

The Glitch Mob is working on a new album that should drop in 2010. The Do Lab continues to DO great things in LA. Something to strive for in my home town of Austin.