Summary: Psychedelic beats, experimental bass, Italian beat maker comp (Beat It) and grime mix (Rinse)… http://bit.ly/sp4jkw.
While you could argue I may be a little biased, the strength and importance of radio seems abundantly clear. Take for example the popularity of stations like Rinse FM - even in this rich media landscape with an apparent spoil of choice. The flood of internet options does not seem to dilute but rather strengthen and provide greater audience connection. With that said and given grime is another underrepresented genre on the station we featured the latest Rinse offering from Elijah & Skilliam, Rinse 17, in full. Their story via Rinse is worthy of your time and words from Boomkat provided here (below) as usual. Also worth noting is that Butterz was named as one of the 10 best for 2011 thanks to Fact Mag.
Ask anyone “who’s the best grime DJ on road?”, the answer will likely be Elijah & Skilliam. With their expertly-curated Butterz label and regular radio show for Rinse they’ve stirred up something of a resurgence of instrumental-lead Grime and given a solid base for new producers such as Royal T, Swindle and TRC to flourish besides scene veterans Terror Danjah & D.O.K., keeping the sound self-sufficiently underground and almost as urgent as it’s ever been.
It would be remiss of me not to mention the other major offering of this evenings program, the Italian beatmaker comp BEAT.IT. We talked of Eastern Europe being a hot bed of producer talent, see the Oknai post, now Italy demands your precious attention. While we may have covered the likes of Ad Bourke, Grillo and Digi G’Alessio there are plenty more offerings on the release to wet your musical palette.
a project focussing on an exciting musical movement.
The compilation we put together features tracks from a number of Italian underground producers, with musical genres ranging from funk to abstract, and including some of our most interesting and contemporary experimental sounds.
BEAT.IT | This Is Not A Revival by BEAT.IT
Artist - Track - Album - Label
1. dj food - magpie music - magpies maps and moons - ninja tune
2. *** break ***
3. 5ill - entro - skatter brain fokus - united states of mind
4. 5ill - brain freeze - skatter brain fokus - united states of mind
5. kone - destiny manifest - the tractatus - alpha pup
6. 2econd class citizen - jazz break - divided reality - equinox
7. kone - wax & wane - the tractatus - alpha pup
8. kone - no guarantee - the tractatus - alpha pup
9. 5ill - see you soon… - skatter brain fokus - united states of mind
10. *** break ***
11. akhnaut - abscess making tree smoulder - wishing well - indy
12. jimmy flamante - hey girl - hip beats vol. 01 - jus like music
13. bmb aka space kid - russhh - paramind - indy
14. fulgeance - montefalco mato - to all of you - melting pot
15. 1000names - machine city - machine city - svetlana industries
16. free the robots - press, power, services, police - na - viral radio
17. *** break ***
18. colossius - kentacky - beat.it: this is not a revival - beat it
19. ad bourke vs. costa - ominide - beat.it: this is not a revival - beat it
20. kappah - 52 - beat.it: this is not a revival - beat it
21. grillo - tasty satellites - beat.it: this is not a revival - beat it
22. *** break ***
23. various - various - rinse: 17 elijah & skilliam - rinse
Free Downloads
Here’s the free tracks/albums we played:
(consider adding some of your hard earned in ‘name your price’ where appropriate)
2econd class citizen - divided reality
5ill - skatter brain fokus
jimmy flamante - hip beats vol. 01
bmb aka space kid - paramind
free the robots - press, power, services, police
various - beat.it: this is not a revival
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