The latest mix from ( our longtime <3 ) MRK1 is pure EEEEEEVIL! Absolutely nasty bass, head-bangin beats and skull-crushin synths. Reminds me of the set he played @ the Bordello in Oakland last summer…. MRK1 is a MONSTER live!

MRK1 April 2010 Mix

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Pontone & Simon Reynolds compiled this eclectic eelectronica mixtape for the latest Pontone podcast. Reynolds says the only thing that ties these selections together is a genre he made-up to fit the occasion – “eldritchtronic” music:

“eldritchtronic”, a non-existent genre that cuts across a bunch of zones (hauntology, the trippier end of microhouse, hypnagogic/glo-fi, the Brooklyn school of “ecstatic experimental”, etc). Mostly electronic but rarely intersecting with the dancefloor, this music merges blissy and eerie, the wired and the wyrd. And because the 2000s was when the linear temporality of music definitively dissolved, there’s leakage from the remote past, musique concrete and text-sound by artists I encountered for the first time during the Noughties.

Listen to the mix and read more @ Pontone’s Special Guest: Simon Reynolds – Eldritchtronica and Wyrd Bliss Mixtape.

Eldritchtronica and Wyrd Bliss Mixtape Playlist:

1. Black Moth Super Rainbow Rollerdisco (“Dandelion Gum” Graveface, 2007)
2. Belbury Poly The Willows (“The Willows” Ghost Box, 2005)
3. Ricardo Villalobos Fizheuer Zieheuer (“Fizheuer Zieheuer” Playhouse, 2007)
4. AFX PWSteal.Ldpinch.D (“Analord 8″ Rephlex, 2005)
5. Isolee Text (“Rest” Playhouse, 2000)
6. Mordant Music The Black Crush (“Dead Air” Mordant Music, 2006)
7. Ducktails Neptune City, NJ (“Landscapes” Olde English Spelling Bee, 2009)
8. Dolphins Into The Future B9 (“Mountain Saturnus” Dreamtime Taped Sounds, 2007)
9. Oneohtrix Point Never Physical Memories (“Rifts” No Fun, 2009)
10. High Places From Stardust To Sentience (“high Places” Thrill Jockey, 2008)
11. Henry Sauguet Aspect Sentimental (“Archives GRM” Ina-GRM, 2004)
12. Harrison Birtwistle Chronometer (“Creelsploitation 1″ Creel Pone, 2006)
13. Lily Greenham Experience (“Lingual Music” Paradigm, 2007)
14. Animal Collective Panic (“Here Comes The Indian” Paw Tracks, 2003)
15. Moon Wiring Club Roger’s Ghost (“An Audience Of Art Deco Eyes” Gecophonic, 2007)
16. The Advisory Circle Sundial (“Other Channels” Ghost Box, 2008)
17. Sean McCann Look Out (“Phylum Sigh” DNT Records, 2009)
18. The Focus Group Modern Harp (“Hey Let Loose Your Love” Ghost Box, 2005)
19. Gang Gang Dance Dust (“Saint Dymphna” Warp, 2008)
20. J Dilla Won’t Do (Instrumental) (“The Shining (Instrumentals)” BBE, 2006)
21. Blectum From Blechdom Bastard Child (“Desnaunted Haus” Tigerbeat6, 2001)
22. Ariel Pink Life In L.A. (“Worn Copy” Paw Tracks, 2005)

Love this sultry booty bass track from longtime fave Stereotyp (<3 <3 ) and newcomer-to-us Arabyrd. Whoever she is, we’re in love – girl crush all.the.way. Keep this up, love!

<a href="http://crunchtime.bandcamp.com/track/drop-it-feat-arabyrd">DROP it / feat.: ARABYRD by Stereotyp</a>

DROP it / feat.: ARABYRD | Stereotyp.

It’s been a minute since i posted anything from dashing dubstep duo Vex’d… I’ve been wearing out Jamie’s solo release In System Travel in the meantime (on vinyl & I drop it every time I play out). But now we get a fresh track off their new/lost album Cloud Seed which comes out next month on Planet Mu. The tune is called “Disposition” featuring Jest pon di mic:

Listen to Vex’d – “Disposition” from Cloud Seed:

Vex’d at Underground SF in San Francisco, photo by Molli Fire

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Kode 9 just announced a new DJ Kicks mix and posted this album art:

The album is due to drop on June 21, 2010

UPDATE: TRACKLIST ANNOUNCED!!
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What you call it? Dubstep? Dance? 2-Step? It just gets funkier and funkier, like the official new technicolor video for Rusko’s “Woo Boost”:

His debut album O.M.G.! out on Mad Decent, May 2010.

via Grievous Angel:

[My] dj mix of dub-pon-dub riddim excursions, all in a grime / dubstep friendly 140bpm format. In a way it presaged the remix album that’s forthcoming on Keysound, where I remixed the whole of the Blackdown and Dusk album and mixed it together.

Get The Grievous Angel Mix Here

Via The Smoking Section:

Cashmere Agency Presents Mr. Grustle & Tha Russian’s Dubstep LA: Embrace The Renaissance Vol. 1 which is mixed by Plastician, features famed Dubstep producers Benga, 12th Planet and Caspa alongside Hip-Hop stars like Murs, Grouch and Eligh, Grand Puba, Ras Kass and Eve. It also features Snoop Dogg’s Chase & Status produced “Snoop Dogg Millionaire, ” Xzbit’s “So What” Featuring U-N-I, and Murs’ “Mad House,” which recently leaked to the web.

Get The Cashmere/Plastician Dubstep Mix Here

It seems like only yesterday our little monster was rampaging around the Bay Area like a bass wave on a sugar high. Hard to believe this will be the 5th time the loosely associated autonomous mobile soundsystems of the mutant variety have convened on an undisclosed, secret underground location for maximum sound reinforcement and fun times. That’s right – 2 monstrous walls of sound will be erected, combining the earth-trembling bassbins of 5lowershop & Army of Love with the massive mid-range towers of HAVOCSOUND, crowned by Czech-technology rocket tweeters of the notorious S.P.A.Z. soundsystem for ONE MASSIVE MONSTER OF LOVE 5!!!

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Truth is, this video is way to hippie-trippy for me. The tune is wicked and I cranked that ish as soon as i heard the bubbling synths and fidgety breaks come bouncing out of the speakers! But, I just can’t watch more than a minute of the groping hippie hands + nekkid ass hairs blowing in the wind (yeah, totally not “safe” for work among other places)… Bostonian audio/video team Zebbler “Get To The Truth” – the whole truth and nothing but the bare, naked truth:

Press play because the tune is wicked. But don’t be afraid to turn off yr monitor, close yr laptop, close yr eyes and just enjoy the audio onslaught…

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Someone needs to do this:

To The Sopranos:

Good old fashioned techno by Laurent Garnier:

Laurent Garnier – “Crispy Bacon” video

Roni Size, DJ Hype, Dynamite MC and MC Daddy Earl, all appearing at Dublin’s Button Factory on March 16th, thanks to Dublin club promoters Remedy.

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Roni Size and Pendulum Remedy DJ sets.