Eerie is a great word

Jakwob has always been so good at the atmospheric Dubstep that I love, oh so very much.
This track is sublime in the way it controls your tapping fingers, stomping foot and/or swaying head, which by the way kick off straight away.
It kinda wobbles professionally from eerie voices and instruments to electronic beeps in a way that not many other dubstep producers do.
At Glastonbury Jakwob really hit the hard and deeper dubstep as obviously the crowds were there for that and not any remixes they had already heard a hundred times. But its this kinda track that gets me and Jakwob does it so well. Can I call it funky soulful classical dubstep please?!



Jakwob - Here With Me - Offical Video from James Jacob on Vimeo.


From start to finish, this next track will always have 100% of my attention.
McMess over at The Smoothest Gooch kindly shared some new remixes of an already super mixed track and arguably Skream's first remix of 'In for the Kill' by La Roux, allowed the masses to indulge in a bit of dubstepping. Many moons later and some more mixes are out. Danger's Ocean Remix (click to download) is slow but by no means does it lack punch. Like a lesson in French electronic house and sublime vocals, it also reminds me greatly of something older, which I can't put my finger on. Pure gold.


Tensnake - Coma Cat (Treasure Fingers Remix) by Mister Bibby


I shall reduce my wordage for the above track.
I played it twice the other night at the Earl of Manvers because I couldn't bare having three hours of my life inbetween listening to this.
I hope you'll feel the same.

Saturday @ Glasto

So onto Saturday, and with the whole place anticipating a footballing victory on Sunday we went to see the Lightning Seeds first thing. Now the lead singer is a little old and his voice was never really super amazing but here (click for link to video) is a video of a wonderfully acoustic version of 'Three Lions'.

A quick visit to the Dance Village to see Parker who wasn't really on his game, but then one of the highlights and Lissie. I was sent a promo of her new album just before we left for Glastonbury and was clever enough to listen to it and then  make plans to see her. For she has a magical voice on CD but its even better live. Plus she is gorgeous, so if you're bored of Ellie Goulding being beautiful then listen to some Lissie.

Start with this track... 'Cuckoo' is one of many good ones on the album 'Catching a Tiger'. (MF Links)

 Lissie - Cuckoo by Mister Bibby (Soundcloud)

Jakwob (Video link) was very good, but also on the tiniest little stage so was mega busy. 

So I trundled up to the acoustic stage to see ole Eavis chat to Radio 2 favourite Johnny Walker about the festival so watch 'A very poor quality video clip of the interview'.


The early evening passed me by as I wasn't too fussed about the line up, but set off out again to see a very poor Kelis performance which we all ignored and then set off in different directions. I stuck with the danceness and had a very good system of dancing, then pissing, then drinking... and so on and so forth most notably to A Skillz (Video link), then to Kissy Sell Out and also a bit of High Contrast (Video Link)

and so goes Saturday....

Tuesday T

So after monday, comes tuesday and a suitably mega post.

Mason is Dutch and apart from that 'Exceeder' track he did, I reckon both you and I don't know much about him. This is a new track from him and it features the short but sweet vocal of Sam Sparro and the very welcome inclusion of DMC (Which added to Run, makes a good combo), both people we know about.

They apparently met after a Hyde Park performance of 'Walk this Way', all loved each other saw dollar signs (£$$$,$$$) and came up with this:

Corrected feat DMC and Sam Sparro

Not ground breaking, but harmless enough and also different from the countless Guetta + random R'n'b star shit that David has been making.

This next one is also a pretty average track in my humble opinion and is really only up here because it was produced by Diplo. Enjoy it anyway though yeah?

Snoop Dogg feat. Kid Cudi - That Tree

Couple of dubstep tracks up next, JSaxton first.

1. 'He's not even 18 yet' say the bloggers, well that surely just shows how easy Dubstep is to produce if you have a computer, some money for software and half a brain?!

Given, I cannot produce music as of yet, so throwing my stones from a glass house isn't a good idea but the wonky additions to this track (1.19 onwards) don't, I think, really add to it and I reckon he got a bit too adventurous putting them in. It's a fab remix otherwise though!

Little Boots - Earthquake (JSaxton Remix) by JSaxton

2. Secondly, Jakwob does his wonderfully wonky wobbled best to give a dubstep re-smack to Mr Foggs - Moving Parts. Soothing vocals make way for dubstep vibes here. Nice. Apparently Mr Fogg mastered the guitar and four-track recorder by 12, and by 14 was an expert drummer.

Been sitting on this next track for a while, but it's climb up my iTunes play count list has made me realise how much I like it and how good it is. Miike Snow get an Ibiza summer treatment - Silvia - (Sebastian Ingrosso and Dirty South remix)

C. U. Next Tuesday.

Go Go Dubstep + Hip Hop

So I was listening to Drake - Forever (Nero remix) (trust me you want to download this) and at last I thought, someone has realised that the wonky beats and bass that we always associate with Dubstep can go so screamingly well with some rap shiz. There are so many highly requested average hip hop/rnb tracks around the 140 bpm dub mark that could have some wonky bass beats shoved up there arse for proper dancefloor action... maybe i'll try this myself (the remixing that is). The Dubstep I am so naively into, usually involves some vocals. A hot lady i.e. Ellie Goulding (+ Jakwob) would be a good example. The deep Dubstep really doesn't do it for me, I love deep house, dirty electro and the like, and can dance like a retard to it for ages, but Dubstep of this sort is just soo slow! I don't know much about Dubstep if i'm honest, but I do take time to find the bouncy stuff (usually remixes done by accomplished dub artists) that always sound good on the dancefloor. So I challenge those reading this (it may only be me!) to listen to this dub track and not nod your head, tap your foot or get up and fully wonk about - Turboweed enjoy