New Year here!

New web up. Better for longer articles and interviews.

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New Year here!

Electroputas - XX RECORDS

Electroputas from Barcelona got a new album and a new compilation out, on their freshly founded own label XX Records. As Spain is headquarter for multicultural music and bastard sounds, Electroputas just combine their love for eclecticism, genre smashing and their own roots. The result is a mixture of Flamenco, sounds from the 20's and digitalism. Music fuses with videoart and fresh beats hit chants from periods time ago.

Electroputas love to play with contradictions and breaks, electronic sounds and melodies, bastard mixes and colorful visuals. But at the same time they represent what Barcelona is: A vast mixture of rough culture of many influences, traditional sounds and techno, past and future.

The project that started in 2004 with Edu Chifonis and Toni Bello as bass and beatmakers, was soon completed with Danilillo as the visuals expert. From the beginnings in old Bodegas in Barcelonas underground, Electroputas now made their way up to festivals all across Europe and a tour through the whole of Spain in 2008.

To check out Electroputas and the music from XX Records, get a free download of their new compilation from XX Records here.
Check tjhem!

Blitzbeats goes Sonett77

New Bitzbeats show here.

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Playlist:
The Platform - No al alca
Pe de Pano - Abre e relaxa
Gata Aggresiva - Kuduro pra qui e pra la
Edu K - Headbanger
Sinden - Dirty Basement
Busy P / Crookers - To portect and entertain
Missill feat. Sasha Perera - Glitch
South Rakas Crew - Mad again
Sammy Bananas - All the girls
Diplo - Favela strikes back
Vybz Kartel / 77 Klash - Catch you breath
Leo le Bug - Takatakatakata
Henrik Schwarz - I exist because of you
El Guincho - Cuando maravilla fui

Scribes "Not many" in Remix Version from DAM

Yeah, DAM, the only and first hip hop group from Palestine, are really rockin it.They have been in Berlin to performe here last year and now they are making their way up all around the world. Scribe on the other hand is a dude from New Zealand who lend his song to those dudes from Palestine to get something real fresh out of it! All recorded for "Macking Tracks" by Nick Dwyer. And the story behind: Dam had seen the music video to that song before on tour, but never got to see the name of the artist (Scribe). And they loved it. And then two years later Nick Dwyer sends them the track and asks them to rap on it. So DAM was pretty WOW. Global connections and coincidents :D

DJ / Rupture - UPROOT

"Cosmopolitan Bass"

Legendary DJ pioneer DJ Rupture aka Jayce Clayton returned after 7 years in Spain back to the States, to release his new album "UPROOT" on The Agriculture. Well-known for his turntabelism skills and his profound knowledge of hip hop, ragga, eclectic fusion and global sounds, he now defines the word rupture in a new way.

"Uproot" goes straight into the dubstep direction, defining itself by dark basslines, harmonic piano interludes, string sections, breaking beats and a very unique way to bring artists from different musical backgrounds together. It's not one of the usual soft, ever same sounding mixtapes. "Uproot " needs some special attention, to reveal it's own logic to you and Claytons way of bringing things together. "Uproot" is a two-piece release with the original tracks on one CD and the DJ mixes on the other one. That's special. Furthermore, the "Ingredients" are free to download, so that you get to see what happened with them after they went through the hands of a sound architect. All in all t"Uproot" is made of several unreleased tracks by artists such as Filastine from Ruptures Soot label, Ghislain Poirier, Maga Bo from Brazil, Prof. Shehab, 77 Klash and Team Shadetek from Brooklyn and Breakcore-Freak Istafari Lasterfahrer from Hamburg. However, as DJ Rupture states himself, "Uproot" is an album to "sink in", obviously not to dance the night away, as his live actions or his first mix "Gold Tieth Theef" were before.

And that's the point. I just remember this crazy party in Barcelona's La Makabra (which has been torn down by now), where people were piling all the way down to the place to get in. I've never seen La Makabra so crowded, and therefore expected "Uproot "to be more partying. But things change, La Makabra doesnt exist anymore, the party was like three years ago and we are in the era of dubstep. So Uproot is not comparible to DJ Rupture turntablism and live actions, it's a kind of it's own. But as interesting as well. May it be the Spanish squat scene or dubstep or the global sound investigations that lead Jayce Clayton to "Uproot", it's certainly very remarkable and not to be mixed upt with any other release of any other DJ.

DJ Rupture
Uproot

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Juakali - Breakground

Yeah, Juakali, MC and producer from New York, celebrates his first EP Breakground (GunJah Records /Foreign Familiar) virtually on Dec 2 and throws out some reggae, electro, bass heavy dub sound clash mixes!

Juakali is from Trinidad but lives in New York. He's been around the scene a lot before and made himself a name as resident MC at New York’s dubstep event Dub War and at the well-known Sub Swara parties. Furthermore Juakali appeared in several collaborations with Dub Gabriel on "Anarchy & Alchemy", on Process Rebel "Other Weapons", as well as on Sub Swara and Badawi releases (which we actually presented some years ago on Berlin's Voice of Culture). And: Juakali calls for revolution through change in a new way: "Revolution now", the first single, celebrates community and cooperation as the roots of justice and peace. That's a statement.

Juakali has been influenced a lot through New Yorks dub scene and through his travels. In 2006 he even performed at FIFA World Cup, so that the magazines called him an artist "on the forefront of the Reggae, Jungle and burgeoning Dubstep scene in the US and around the world."

Pretty clear, init? So come and join Juakali's myspace and check his new EP out! Certainly more things going to come soon.