This simple but amazing remix of House of the Rising Sun by The Animals was made by a person I simply know as PURETUNE. We would love to work with this cat. The instruments used are listed on his Vimeo as follows:

“a. HP Scanjet 3P, Adaptec SCSI card and a computer powered by Ubuntu v9.10 OS as the Vocals. (hey, the scanner is old)
b. Atari 800XL with an EiCO Oscilloscope as the Organ
c. Texas instrument Ti-99/4A with a Tektronix Oscilloscope as the Guitar
d. Hard-drive powered by a PiC16F84A microcontroller as the bass drum and cymbal”

No sampling or audio effects were used to produce this.

Go follow PURETUNE on his FB: https://www.facebook.com/PURETUNE?sk=info
and his Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/puretune

Our friends at I <3 House Music just recently ran a contest for original house tracks. With over 11,000 followers, the amount of submissions were through the roof and they asked us to help select a winner. Styles ranged across the map and it took quite awhile to get through all of them.

Our selection was Duke Braun, aka Bionic Funk from Saskatoon, Canada, an up and coming electro/tech/prog house producer and also co-host of “Bass Destruction,” a monthly live mix show that airs on www.dubsub.net. 90′s house vocals, electro synths, driving basslines, and even a sick little dubstep breakdown make this a fun little funky house track that transcends decades.

Bionic Funk – 21st Century Disco Rock (Original Mix) (right-click and save to download)

The audience award of the contest went to GO$T, aka Christian Teofilo & Francisco Arellano, also from Canada. Congratulations to GO$T for racking up the most likes on their track.

Finding Happiness by GO$T

MartyParty drops 3 illy tracks in preparation for his Six Shots of Jameson LP coming out January 30 available on iTunes. He will be on tour starting February 14. Peep the schedule here: http://martyparty.com/live/

MartyParty – Pretty Thoughts (courtesy of TheUntz.com)

MartyParty – We Don’t Give A Damn (courtesy of ThisSongIsSick.com)

Clint Mansell – Lux Aeterna (MartyParty Remix) (courtesy of IndieShuffle.com)

Bwomp Beats recently caught up with MiM0SA at his Austin,Tx gig with Vibesquad for a quick and dirty interview.

We asked him about his intro to music? How his crowds are reacting to his new heavy 808 infused album, “Sanctuary”? And if he uses a template when starting a song?

On top of sitting down with one of bass music’s youngest and hottest names, what struck us was just how fast this has all happened. Bass music and electronic music in general has simply exploded in the last few years. America has fully embraced the music. Yes, there is dubstep in commercials. Yes, Skrillex was nominated for 5 Grammys and did a song with The Doors. But underneath that all, real careers and are being made. More and more artists are playing more and more shows and the production of festivals and shows are reaching never before seen heights with record attendances happening across the country. Bassnectar, The Glitch Mob, MiM0SA, Big Gigantic, PANTyRAiD, 12th Planet, Diplo, Skrillex, Deadmau5, Nero, and the list goes on.

America – THESE OUR YOUR ROCKSTARS!

Snag this 22 minute mix MiMOSA just did for URB.com

MiMOSA’s FUTURE TRiLL MiX 2012

Somehow while being on a hectic US tour, playing dates with both Lunice and Kastle, MiM0SA has managed to whip up quite the mix for you to download. The mix covers some of the best tracks we’ve been digging lately and clocks in at a to-the-point 22 minutes. Check out the tracklisting & download MiM0SA’s Future Trill Mixxx below, and follow the jump to see a full list of upcoming tour dates:

1. NiNA SiM0NE – Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
2. THE T0UCH – Bodies Waiting (FRENCH FRiES REMiX)
3. DARK SKY – Be Myself
4. MiM0SA – Pink Sprite
5. DiSCL0SURE – I Love… That You Know
6. STAGGA – Wild For The Night (D0SHY REMiX)
7. LUNiCE – I See U (GiRL UNiT REMiX)
8. TEETH – Shawty
9. JAY-Z KANYE WEST – Niggas In Paris (MiM0SA REMiX)
10. MiM0SA – Ice Box
11. AFRiKA HiTECH – Out In The Streets
12. MiM0SA – Dirty Money
13. Sleepyhead – Summer Lovin

MiM0SA upcoming US tour dates:

Thurs, Jan 19 – Georgia Theatre (Athens, GA) – w/ Lunice
Fri, Jan 20 – Music Farm (Charleston, SC) – w/ Lunice
Sat, Jan 21 – Neighbourhood Theatre (Charlotte, NC) – w/ Lunice
Tues, Jan 24 – Zydeco (Birmingham, AL) – w/ Lunice
Wed, Jan 25 – Lyric Theatre (Oxford, MS) – w/ Kastle
Thurs, Jan 26 – The Valarium (Knoxville, TN) – w/ Kastle
Fri, Jan 27 – Cannery Ballroom (Nashville, TN) – w/ Kastle
Sat, Jan 28 – The Pageant (St. Louis, MO) – w/ Kastle
Sun, Jan 29 – Granada Theatre (Lawrence, KS) – w/ Kastle
Fri, Mar 2 – Snowball Music Festival (Avon, CO) – Festival runs March 2nd-4th. MiM0SA’s day TBA.

Thanks to Gravitas Recordings and Abboriginial Productions for the interview and video work.

-BREDE

Beastie Boys – Intergalactic (Psymbionic Remix Instrumental)
 

-Tate La Rock
3 Stripes
 

- Metranohm

Bassnectar’s popularity seems to have no bounds. He’s arguably the most well known bass music producer in the world today, and with his non stop tour schedule, it’s amazing that he has any time to for new music or upcoming projects. But the man clearly has the golden touch and this latest release is no exception. With an all-star cast of producers, each remix of “Divergent Spectrum” has a unique interpretation and sound.

Don’t take our word for it, read Lorin’s description of the release.

This pack kicks off with a collaborative remix I did with my good buddies Terravita. We traded the files of “Upside Down” back and forth for a few months, and the final master that Seth did makes this one of the loudest, wildest drops to date!

After that is a remix of “Red Step” by none other than Dim Mak’s label boss, Steve Aoki. A definitive electro house banger with a beefy halftime drop, he has been the only DJ with this weapon for a few months; now it’s yours too.

The third track comes from long-time friends and collaborators, The Glitch Mob, who took “Head’s Up” into dubstep territory, with the unmistakable glitch-bass flavor.
Up next is a collaboration with Amorphous Music artist ill.Gates who spent a few days in the Bassnectar Labs this summer building synthesizers and samplers with me in Ableton. As we worked and geeked out, we built this drum & bass version of “Voodoo”, which then became a staple of my sets for the last fall tour.

Another mix of “Voodoo” follows; this time the bastions of creativity known as Beats Antique flip the original into an antique bass version with live instrumentation and some surprises.
We decided to include the full version of “Color Storm” in this package since it was never properly released, and this rounds out the package.

We hope you enjoy!!!!

 
Bassnectar – Upside Down (Bassnectar & Terravita Remix)

Basnectar – Red Step (Steve Aoki Remix)

Bassnectar – Heads Up (The Glitch Mob Remix)

Bassnectar – Voodoo (Beats Antique Remix)

Bassnectar – Color Storm

Voodoo (Bassnectar & ill.Gates Remix)
 
-Brede
 

If you get a chance to see DJ Shiftee live, make sure to hop on it – he’s very fun to watch as a master of keeping you dancing and interested throughout his entire set.
 

Let me be frank: I usually despise mash-ups. I normally would rather listen to the actual songs. With DJ Hazmat, however, this is not the case. Out of Burlington, VT, Matt Weston is an up-and-coming DJ that is killing it with creative mmixes that capture the energy and tremendousness of everyone’s favorite songs in the best possible way. Energetic combinations, like Jay-Z and Flux Pavilion/ Eminem and Gramatik, are combined in a keenly simplistic manner. He can get a party going anywhere and makes the kind of mashups you can easily recognize and sing a long to. He has been very productive lately, putting out a lot of of songs on his soundcloud. Also available there are higher quality versions of the songs for anyone who wants to really blast them. Make sure to see what he has to say on twitter - he’s a funny guy as well as a great DJ!
 
I also I caught up with Mr. Weston last week to see what he had to say about being a DJ:

Dastardly: How’d you start djing? What was the beginning like for you?

DJ Hazmat: It’s kind of funny, I didn’t even listen to electronic music before college, or mainstream hip hop, or anything I play now, I was a dispatch bro, bro. But DJing was always something I was interested in but never really had the facilities to try. I got my first piece of equipment, a numark mixdeck in like november of my freshman year and taught myself on the free trial of virtual dj until actually manning up…and stealing it from the internet. I did my first legit gig in January at a fraternity party where my laptop was promptly murdered halfway through by a beer. Even with that, it was still incredible to control a party like I did, so I started taking it more seriously, upgraded my equipment and music library and have been trying to take it as far as I can since. its crazy to look back and see myself doing a party with just a laptop and a dance library of like 100 songs, probably 40 of which were deadmau5, I was nervous as f*ck too, can’t even remember how many requests I had to shoot down, but minus the whole laptop dying, it was amazing and I knew I wanted to do this for a while.

Dastardly: Why mashups? They are often really tricky to make well and it takes a creative guy to see which songs would fit well together. How’d you get into it?

DJ Hazmat:  I chose mashups to kind of bridge the gap between house and mainstream music. You can only listen to instrumental electronic music for so long before your head pops, but if it has a well known song or songs in it, it definitely gets and keeps peoples attention for a longer time. That’s ultimately what I’m trying to do at any performance, make sure the audience is interested so regardless if I’m playing my stuff or someone else’s, it’s always nice to expand the target audience to people who were like me and didn’t really listen to electronic music, and mashups do a great job of that. But also, I mean what drunk girl doesn’t want to hear LMFAO dubbed over…well over anything really? Yeah they can be tricky, but it’s also that much more rewarding when I put a song up and get someone telling me something like “they sound so good together, I would have never thought of that!” or something along those lines. It’s kind of cool to try and merge two or more things that originally were never thought to be similar and see the product work out. (i.e. midnight rizzo, can’t imagine HOV was thinking about flux pavillion when he wrote izzo.

Dastardly: What are your top 3 most played songs on your iTunes?

DJ Hazmat: Hmm currently, 1. Sweet Disposition (Axwell and Dirty South Remix) 2. Levels (Skrillex Remix) 3. Kick Out the Epic Motherfucker by Dada Life. but with all the new music I try to find, that list changes all the time.

Dastardly: What are we gonna see out of DJ Hazmat in the future?

DJ Hazmat: Alot! lots of talk about gigs in several locations, both east and west coast. I’m getting into actual electronic production so in addition to mashups there will some DJ Hazmat originals coming out in the near future. Things are looking good, but I’m not one to try and Jinx em’ so we’ll see. Hopefully everything works out because this is something i could see myself doing for a long long time.

DJ Hazmat – Never Take Me Alive (Emenim vs. Gramatik)

DJ Hazmat – Midnight Rizzo (Example and Flux Pavillion vs. Jay-Z)

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We’re proud to present Drumsmuggla, alias of one George Ybarra aka DJ CRS? in this newest installation of the BWOMP! Mix Series.

Most LA bass heads already know that several times a year, you can catch George at “I Love LA” which he organizes with fellow jungle veteran and partner, APX-1. He also hosts “The Revolution Show,” a Monday night weekly internet radio show that, like his parties, showcases many known as well as not-so-known talent in the LA area, in addition to the Drumsmuggla himself.

A propensity for evolution has seen George in the past transition effortlessly from jungle like a boss as a testament to his adaptability and experience. On top of that he’s a nice and humble dude. Whichever name you may know him by, George remains one of the champions of the LA bass scene of the last 2 decades and this mix shows why. Contrabandit is dark, tough, and mixed with the flair of a man who knows his craft. The opening minutes quickly set the tone for the mix with a fat street bassy Starkey cut, warming up your neck muscles for the griminess that follows. After that, it’s down the dubstep rabbit hole you go.

BWOMP! Mix Series 013: Drumsmuggla – Contrabandit

Subscribe to the BWOMP! Mix Series Podcast through iTunes, or check out all of the mixes here.

Tracklist:
Drums of Death – Cold Lazarus (Starkey RMX)
Stenchman – What The Future Holds
Trigon / Dave Gee – Murda Style
Top Cat – Ruffest Gunark (Urban Knights Inst. Mix)
Dub Head – Freak
Eptic – Stick Up
RadioKillaz – Murda Sound (Redneck RMX)
Megalodon / Conscious Pilot – Gangsta Shit (Culprate RMX)
Greg Packer – Sound Kriminal (Killafoe RMX)
Nais – People Couldnt Understand
Downlink feat. Depone – Antimatter
Vaski / Downlink – The Scientist
Skuvlow / Megatron
Original Sin – Air Raid
The Freestylers – Over You
Mr. QT Smith / The Mister – One More Story

If you’re in LA NYE, join Drumsmuggla and a slew of dope DJs to ring in 2012 at A New Beginning presented by I LOVE LA with support from BASS GOES BOOM.