Flyer Than A Star Trek Ship

April 22, 2010 By 3 Comments


One thing I’ve always said that makes Freddy Todd dope is his consistency, and Freddy’s been consistently pushing the utter sickness through our airspace this year and last with his driving rhythms, unpredictable synths, and overall obese-as-hell crunkness. The result is a giant BLIP on the glitch hop radar that shows Freddy Todd making waves in 2010 and hopefully dropping bombs on more cities soon. (We’re still waiting, Freddy) Anyone who’s followed us for awhile should already be familiar with this man and the label he’s signed with: Run Riot Records, who’s still got a cavalcade of crazy talented artists just lurking in the wings.


Freddy Todd – Space 5 Penthouse Suite


Freddy Todd – Grind Baby


Freddy Todd – Detroit Gets It


Look out for Freddy Todd’s upcoming release for Space 5 Penthouse Suite on Car Crash Set. It’ll be a heavy compilation of remixes of the above tracks by Mochipet, NiT GriT, ill-esha, Samples, Inaudible, and Elfkowitz. Click them for previews or peep these two below:


Freddy Todd- Space 5 Penthouse (NiT GriT Remix) by NiT GriT


Freddy Todd – Blowin Good – Mochipet Remix by Mochipet


Bonus:


Freddy Todd – Accidental Side Effect via Squitty Bubbler.


Freddy Todd – Slaymaker


Freddy has a full length double disc with 30+ tracks about to be dropped on Run Riot Records due in late May/early June. Don’t sleep on this guy.


Check him out May 1st at the Motor City Vaudeville Review Afterparty @ The Russell Industrial Center in Detroit and the Slayers Club in San Francisco, CA May 14th.


-Ev



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Exclusive Interview: EPROM

April 18, 2010 By 10 Comments


Finally got around to finishing up the Eprom interview! This was done the night of Eskmo/Eprom back in January @ Aces Lounge, Austin, TX. Both dudes are a lot of fun and very down to earth, chill people. They really had me cracking up most of the night.. and part of me really wants to sample some of the audio from that night into an awesome breakcore track, haha. Eprom, engage!



Psymbionic: Tonight is the first show starting a tour in anticipation of the upcoming release with your friend Eskmo on Warp records. How does it feel to be a part of legacy such as Warp?


Eprom: It’s pretty humbling, man. I’ve been listening to Warp Records since I was very small. So, uh, it’s def a dream come true for me.



Psymbionic: What is your thought process in naming your tracks?


Eprom: Hahaha, I don’t think there is any.. it’s kind of like, whatever comes to mind to save the first version, I usually just end up using that. And a lot of times it’s in jokes with friends of mine. And it just ends of getting used because I can’t think of anything better.


Eskmo: I had one called Donkey Balls one time.


Eprom: Donkey Balls? You gotta send me that one dude.


Eskmo: It ended up changing to Donkey Kick.. or Donkey Punch.


Eprom: I had one called ‘Donkey Nap’ that me and Justin (Boreta) made. Which was actually a progression from Donkey Lunch.. which is a progression from donkey punch.. which is a sexual act that bears no description.. at least in context of this interview.


Eskmo: Not family stuff.. [at this point, I'm just dying laughing]



Psymbionic: Your style is distinctly nasty, yet trippy. Crunkadelic, Psyphy, AlienAbductionStep.. how do you explain your music to people who don’t have a solid contextual basis for it?


Eprom: At this point, if someone hasn’t heard it, I just say “electronic music”.. haha.. because I’ve given up on trying to come up with new genre names. It’s hard for me.. I just don’t think that any genre names can really describe it I guess, so I just try to play them my music which seems to work better.



Psymbionic: I’m sure you’re exploring new geographical territory, more and more. What kind of response are you getting from playing at places where your style is unexpected?


Eprom: Well, I’m still pretty new to the whole touring thing. Brendan’s been doing it for a while, but I am hitting up a lot of virgin cities on this little tour we’re doing. I’m always real excited to play in new places because I get to bust open some new heads, which is always fun. And I think, I definitely feed off of that energy. I really liked playing in Denver and I got to play outside of Houston recently, that was really fun.



Psymbionic: I hear that you have some tunes coming out on a new label called “Bad Acid”, which seems to be focused on the more psychoactively heavy tunes. Can you tell us a little about these guys, and when we can expect a release?


Eprom: Hopefully I’ll be getting the test presses on that in a couple weeks. Should be pretty dope, got some killer remix artists lined up, and I’m super stoked to get that out. It’s gonna be dope, the cover art is fucking sick.. it’s like this crazy skull with like this psychedelic texture in the background and it’s all cut so it looks like a blotter sheet. They are actually an offshoot label of Black Acre, and they’ve been pushing some really great sounds coming out of the UK.. Akira Kiteshi, Slugabed, and some really progressive cool artists who are doing great things at the fringes of dubstep or whatever you want to call it.



Psymbionic: I’ve seen multiple spots online where you’ve shared personal techniques or tricks that you use. How do you find the time to help others when I’m sure your schedule is plenty full?


Eprom: My schedule is actually mostly playing video games.. and I try to make to make some music occasionally. So uh, if I ever accidently do something productive for the community, I apologize.. it was a mistake on my part.



Psymbionic: About how long does it take you to finish a track to the point where you would be proud to play it out?


Eprom: I’m not sure if I’m ever really ‘proud’ to play them out.. I dunno, I get them to a playable state usually within the first two sessions, which is usually 8 hours. If I’m feelin’ the song, and I know it’s gonna end up being a playable tune, I’ll just bang out the whole structure within one night, and tweak it over the next couple sessions. I usually end up doing no more than like 3-4 sessions on a song, because after I that I just feel like I’m driving myself crazy on little detail things that people aren’t going to notice anyway. But that’s why I like having a hardware synth, because you have to commit at a certain point, and just be like, “ok, I’m just going to record what’s happening right now and just use it in the song”, and then beyond that, you can fuck with it a little bit with effects processing in the sequencer, but you’re basically committed to that bassline sound and that’s a good thing from my perspective because you’re not endless tweaking it and trying to get it more and more dialed when really it probably sounded great in the first place.



Psymbionic: What hardware synth do you use? What about Digital Audio Workstation?


Eprom: I use a Moog “Little Phatty”, which is really great for bass sounds.. really great. Super warm. It’s a dope synth, the whole signal path is analog, and the preset storage functions are digital, and it’s going to some digital functions like preset backup and you can digitally control it like a midi controller. I use Logic to do most of my stuff as a DAW, but I have been doing tracks in Ableton now and then as well, because it’s really great to be able to bang out melodic ideas using some of the melodic ideas using Ableton midi functions like the arp.. the built-in arpeggiator is real dope.. and the chord generator is real awesome. And I’m super excited about the possibilities for Max for Live. I’ve been watching people like Richard Devine use that and it’s just fucking.. pretty mindblowing.



Psymbionic: HOOKERZ AND BLOW.. really?


Eprom: Yeah, really.


Eskmo: It’s just real life, it’s the way he is.


Eprom: That’s just how I roll, pretty much.



Psymbionic: I remember all sorts of buzz about your “The Mixtape 2009″, with many tracks still unreleased from it. What’s in store for “The Mixtape 2010″ or when will see a full length Eprom album?


Eprom: Uhh, I dunno? I don’t really have plans to do an album. A bunch of those songs are actually coming out on various labels, and some of them will probably never come out. I think that I like that format, so I will probably do another tape like that, just like a beat tape type of thing.. just maybe make it shorter. That way I won’t have to put the all 4000 vocal samples on there. But I think that whole format is a good one for gaining public awareness.. I basically copied it from Lazer Sword.. and I was like, “Oh that’s a really good idea.. do a mixtape of all original beats” and make them like dropped like dancehall music style, where’s there’s not really any mixing.



I managed to dig up a couple of tunes to give away, as well as a video compilation from the night of the show that this interview was done at by none other than Mike Abb of Abboriginal Productions. The first tune is an Eprom remix of a band by the name of The Earlies out of the UK, and the second is a mashup of sorts that Mochipet put together of an Eazy-E track fused with some unreleased Eprom amazingness. The third bonus track is a Nasty Ways (Eprom + Boreta) remix of Lil’ Wayne’s “Lollipop”. Enjoy!


The Earlies – Breaking Point (Eprom Remix) (via Stay Lucid)


Mochipet Ft. Eprom / Eazy-E – Eazy-Eprom


BONUS: Lil’ Wayne – Lollipop (Nasty Ways Remix) (via xlr8r)




Don’t forget to grab the track from this video, “Bubble”, released yesterday via Bad Acid on the Shoplifter EP! Special thanks to everyone involved, especially to Polaris Presents and Scoremore for doing it BIG in Austin, TX!



-Psymbionic



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Cookin’ the Woofer

April 17, 2010 By 2 Comments



Beans might not burn on the grill, but woofers sure do cook in Canada! The new Canadian glitch-hop label ‘Woofer Cookers‘, companion site to The Glitch Hop Forum, is a non-profit label run by artists, for artists. Showcasing some fresh heat from some volcanoes (too soon?) in the scene, Woofer Cookers sports an awesome figure: 100% of the proceeds from track sales go directly to the artist! These guys aren’t just innovating the record label world, though. The artists on Woofer Cookers are dedicated to not only getting your booty shakin’, but to keepin’ your brain tantalized with powerful melodies and scrumptious edits and glitches. Don’t believe me? Well, see for yourself!


Their latest release, entitled ‘The Harvest EP‘, is four tracks sure to send you for a spin. Glitch-hop legends Dewey dB and Ill-Esha join Bevvy Swift and El Mongoose (who are two halves of the supergroup Glitchy and Scratchy) to pepper this EP with psychedelic frequencies and salt it with morphing funkiness. Ranging from purple melodies to stabbing arpeggiators, this vegetable-themed release is sure to have a little something for everyone. I think my favorite would have to be ‘Savage Cabbage’, if only because Dewey dB breaks it down in true hyphy fashion, with this stomper that’s sure to make any dancefloor bounce.



ill-esha-Risky Rutabaga (preview clip) by WooferCookers



Dewey dB – Savage Cabbage (preview clip) by WooferCookers



Bevvy Swift-Bean So Lonely(preview clip) by WooferCookers



El Mongoose-Laid-Back Lettuce(preview clip) by WooferCookers



Also make sure to check out the other Woofer Cookers releases!


First Woofer Cookers Releases by WooferCookers



But that’s not all! Ill-esha shot us an exclusive original of hers to go with these gems to give out to you Bwompers for free!


Ill-esha – Paperwork & Cinnamon (BwompBeats Exclusive!)



So head on over to the Woofer Cookers website and cop these releases: http://www.woofercookers.com/



-Psymbionic



Filed Under: Downtempo, Dubstep, Glitch Hop

Opiuoiuoiuo

April 10, 2010 By 1 Comment

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Been diggin’ on this guy Opiuo since I first heard his tunes a la Acid Crunk vol. 2 (Muti Music). Glitchy turbo crunk 2-step-hop at it’s finest, and pretty to boot! Opiuo is definetely going places, as shown by his rule over the Addictech Charts for the year. The dude is currently booking a US/Canada tour for the Fall, so keep an eye and ear out!


Opiuo recently released an EP for free on his Bandcamp, entitled ‘Physical Symptoms EP’.


Opiuo – The Freaky Bean


Opiuo – Slip


Opiuo- Monkey Crunk


Snag the tunes then roll over and donate a couple bucks to help this dude keep makin’ fire tracks! Or you can head on over to Addictech and grab some of his other tunes.



-Psymbionic



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Busy for Blap!

April 8, 2010 By 4 Comments

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We’ve been getting a crazy amount of goodness lately, and I just haven’t had time to dive in and get it all out to you adoring Bwompers. So, I just want to say ‘sorry’ to both the amazing artists who keep our inboxes stuffed with bangin’ tunes, and to all our readers who now may be going into epileptic comas from lack of BWOMP! ..Or maybe not, hahaha.


Let’s help that change today.


Fever Ray – I’m Not Done (R/D Remix) (Snag the hot new Cricket EP Remixes, too!)


Loops Haunt – Huarache (NastyNasty Edit) (via XLR8R)


Souleye – Underworld (Mimosa Remix)


NiT GriT – Lupin


Lastly, we have a new Lowriders Collective Mixtape from none other than Mr. lasers ‘n bass ‘n bounce himself, +verb.


+verb – Lowriders Mixtape 004


Tracklist:

1. +verb – Poster Boy [unreleased]

2. +verb – Drank It All [unreleased]

3. +verb – Rongg V.2 (Cricket Blap-n-Gurgle Mixx) [unreleased]

4. +verb – Mead Bass Channel [unreleased]

5. +verb – K10 [forthcoming Vermin Street]

6. +verb – Tha Inside by De Novo Creation (+verb Remixx)

7. +verb – UnedDn [unreleased]

8. +verb – What’s Good [forthcoming Vermin Street]

9. +verb – Raining Outside [unreleased]

10. +verb – Tab That Here [unreleased]

11. +verb – Why U Gangstah (ft. Tupac) [unreleased]

12. +verb – Integr [unreleased]



Hopefully this satisfied a little of that bass craving.. so until next time! :)



-Psymbionic



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Mochi-SPLAT!

April 8, 2010 By 4 Comments

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SPLATINUM from Seattle, WA just sent to a select number of blogs a treasure trove of remixes from their forthcoming album WE ARE SPLATINUM on Daly City Records coming on 4/20/10.


We got an exclusive remix of their track ‘Pumping Quarterz’ by our friendly neighborhood dinosaur, Mochipet. This track is the LARGENESS and it comes to no surprise that the buildups are as epic as the nasty drops, and the synths twist their way into the side of your face in true Mochipet fashion. Well done, SPLATINUM. Well done.


SPLATINUM – Pumping Quarterz (Mochipet Remix)


SPLATINUM has 2 releases dropping on 04/20:

1. WE ARE SPLATINUM – 9 track digital release on Daly City Records

2. Der Schplatzl 2010 – 16 track compact disc on Daly City Records (7 tracks are unavailable digitally)


SPLATINUM is also having a FREE outdoor release party for these in the middle of downtown Seattle called the Intergalactic Masquerade Dance Party on April 20th, from 6-9PM.


MOCHIBONUS:


Mochipet – Marshall Bass Stacks (Kraddy Remix) via Chrome Kids


-Ev



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