CVNT TRAXXX on DO ANDROIDS DANCE

Big up to the folks at the Do Androids Dance website, who are exclusively giving away "Super Moon" the lead track off my Cannabis Kitsch EP on Knightwerk. In a lovely review of the EP they say:

"CVNT TRAXXX is a producer that’s probably known more for his work in vogue house, but the influence on his latest album Cannabis Kitsch is all over the place. Jungle sounds, juke licks, deep house vibes, trap hats, and Baltimore club loops all intertwine for a massive body of work, and display advanced taste. In a world where people devour music as if it were 30 second commercials, this release has enough subtle changes and variation to keep us on the edge of our seats. It also includes remixes from Traxxx Romay, Vjuan Allure, Doombah, and Slagz. We decided to offer a stream to highlight the lead track, “Super Moon,” but you can feel free to skip past that and click the purchase link, which will redirect you to the free download of this marvelous release courtesy of Knightwerk Records."

CVNTY EXCLUSIVE: Creepside ft Traxx Romay "Gold Gift"

EXCLUSIVE DOWNLOAD! For the CVNTY blog from the peeps at Knightwerk Records, it'a a heavy track by Creepside featuring future CVNT TRAXXX collaborator Traxx Romay:

TRAXX ROMAY Functionality EP [Knightwerk007]

OUT NOW on CVNT fam Knightwerk Records, it's the Functionality EP by Traxx Romay, featuring a sample you may recognise:


You can buy the EP at the link above, but here's an awesome free remix from DJ Fade:

SUPRAMAN Thriving EP [Free Download]

FREE CLUB BANGIRRZZZZ

24 free tracks from SLAGZ

If you like music, if you like "club" sounds, if you like the simple fact that you are alive, then be sure to grab all the tracks you can from the SLAGZ 2013 GREAT CLUB TRAX GIVEAWAY!! Some of the tracks are on this here mix:

面白くなる可能性がある X 汚れた駄ら - 要約ミックス
1. VICTOR NIGLIO - JIGGY FEAT MR MAN (SLAGZ X SUS B EDIT)
2.SPENCA &AFK - DIAMONDS ON MY NECK (SLAGZ EDIT)
3.SLAGZ X SUS B - GWANN MAKE IT CLAP
4. SLAGZ X SUS B - KEEP SHOOTERS UP TOP
5.TRAMPA - WILD DOG (SLAGZ EDIT)
6. SLAGZ X HUSH X KRINJAH - WASTED (VIP)
7. WAKA FLOCKA FLAME - FUCK DIS INDUSTRY (SLAGZ REMIX)
8. YHETI - IAFAGUSGS (SLAGZ SUS B REMIX)
9. KONEKTA - RESET THE ATARI (SLAGZ VIP)
10.KENNEDY JONES - CAME TO PARTY (SLAGZ & SUS B EDIT)
11.SLAGZ - ON THE BLOCK
12. GANGSIGNS - GANGSIGNS SUCKS (KONEKTA & DEVI REMIX)
13.TC - WHERE'S MY MONEY (KONEKTA & DEVI EDIT)
14. JACKAL - BOUNCE (SLAGZ EDIT)
15.WATAPACHI - AIN'T NOBODY (KONEKTA & DEVI EDIT)
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B AMES IS ON FIRE {Free Downloads]

GODAMMIT! I would never normally play any Gaga in my DJ sets, but between this and remixes by Boyfriends and Jay Neutron (and my own hi-nrg remix fo rMenergy) I've been made to eat my own words. In fact, ArtPop contains some of the first music by Gaga that I genuinely like. Hmm. ANyway, hats off to B for the awesome remix (as usual): 

LADY GAGA & R KELLY Do What You Want Remix
 

BONUS! A dj set featuring some of her own work and influences: 
 
FUTURE CLASSICS MIX
1. Disclosure - Voices (Wookie Remix)
2. Enur + Natasja - Calabria 2007
3. Tyga - Rack City (DJ Diz Remix)
4. I Wanna' Be Down (Lucifuck Remix)
5. The Ha Dance
6. David Guetta + Rihanna- Right Now
7. Kid Sister- Switch Board
8. Leggo - I Chant, You Vogue
9. Manila Luzon - Bring It! (B. Ames Remix)
10. Early Ross - Why Don't You Do Right (B. Ames Remix)
11. Unknown - Circular Motion (MikeQ Club Edit)
12 . Unknown - Work Me (B. Ames Remix)

TRACK MEET Mixtape Vol 2 [Free Download]

BOOOM Track Meet are back with a brand new comp, free to download from their Bandcamp page.

"Ding" free download from DJ MAG

Woop in DJ Mag again! *happy*

Mancunian DJ and producer CVNT makes what he calls ‘VOGUE GRYME FUTUR HOUZE’, which for the uninitiated is a mixture of New York ballroom, US house music and various strains of UK bass. 

If that hasn’t made things clearer then fret not as you can download his track ‘Ding’ below, a slice of mutant 808 trap that samples The Chakachas’ ‘Yo Soy Cubano’, most famously used in The Mighty Dub Katz’s ‘Magic Carpet Ride’. 

'Ding' is taken from CVNT's ‘Statement EP’, a recent DJ Mag Killer. Released by the excellent and varied Body Work label (check their Facebook here), you can pre-order the vinyl here and stream the other four tracks from the EP below too, our pick of which is the speed garage infused 'Feminine Destruction'. To find out more about CVNT and vogue ballroom visit his blog here.

ZOUK BASS primer with DJ UMB for Boing Boing

My latest piece for Boing Boing is online now, though credit where it's due, most of the writing and explaining is by DJ Umb of the wicked Generation bass label and blog. It's an introduction to the relatively new genre Zouk Bass, which is a kind-of relation of Moombahton (though ZB is originally from Angola, rather than the Caribbean like Moombahton, and other subtle differences). Anyway, Umb can explain this much better than I ever could (and Generation Bass are also giving away two compilations of the stuff to judge for yourself):

What exactly is "Zouk Bass"?

It's a sound, the roots of which derive from Africa and the Caribbean, and which has been updated with modern Electronic Club/Bass sounds (which sounds nothing much like traditional "Zouk", really.)

Where and when did this genre originate?

I'm not even sure whether it is a fully-fledged "genre" yet, maybe it is a sub-genre or just a new name for a scene. Buraka Som Sistema coined the term during a Boiler Room DJ set in February 2013, so it's barely 6 months old. They were playing some awesome tunes that many of us had not heard before and their MC, Kalaf, was shouting "Zouk Bass" all over them and saying it was "a brand new sound". That's how it started, and a lot of people in the Transnational Bass scene were going nuts about this sound. There was no track list for the set and people were desperate for the track ID's for the first 15-20 minutes because the sound was dope and fresh! Eventually, some of the tracks and artists were discovered from comments left on the Boiler Room site. It was also discovered that some of the featured tracks already had a name for a pre-existing genre that pre-dated Zouk Bass. It was called Tarraxinha or Tarraxo and came from Angola.

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Wait, so Zouk Bass isn't really "zouk bass", it is Tarraxinha? What is Tarraxinha?

Many didn't know what Tarraxinha was and had never heard of it, but some of us did know. Generation Bass knew a little about it and had been blogging some of it since 2009. However, we did so very rarely and without actually knowing too much, because you couldn't find enough of this music online or anywhere else and there was no information about it either. Plus it was kind of overlooked and slept on in favour of the public's greater interest in Kuduro, which incidentally Buraka were also involved in bringing to the world's attention.

Read the whole article on Boing Boing.  

And don't forget to grab the two comps on Generation Bass:

ZOUK BASS Volume 1
ZOUK BASS Volume 2