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Soulful track turns in hip-hop madness by the grace of Madlib. I've heard this happen many times before.

The latest release from The MFA on Bpitch Control sees them taking a slightly different path from the previous tech-house releases, this time including breakbeats and rave-ish synths, and equipped with a bassline sure to shake the speakers. 

iv been rollin that variable rate on the conversion, but anyway this gets me goin. I cant help but see the girls taken that extra suck on the straw before they put theyre drinks down and skip to the floor. Incredibly obvious (predictable) and virtually flawless. they walk the line- so do i !

Debut album featuring rock hard drum-offs between Silke from Germany & Chi from Japan, distorted campfire harmonica from Ian, car crash electric thrashings from Sam Dook, pumping bass from big, hairy Jamie Bell & joyous MCing from Ninja. Memphis Industries. 2004.

Cuban Doo Wop from the '60s. Check out when the beat comes in on the second verse.

I'm not quite enough of a completist to know if this was the last of Mark Ernestus & Moritz von Oswald's straight-up house tracks before they moved permanently to dub, but it feels like a culmination of the genre. Everything you could possibly want out of a deep house track - deep dubby bass (of course), soulful vocals by Andy Caine about a breakup that's not quite taking, melancholy synths, a hint of possibility - it's all right here.

Iggy does a great job of slipping on his crooner smoking jacket for this spare, late night ballad. Been a favorite since I first heard this in 1988. Recently saw a used 12" version of this at one of the best record stores in the world and it brought back memories.

This is for Misterjib. Admittedly this is not a risky upload as it's an absolute classic but maybe there's a few gabba listeniers who will not have heard it before and for the rest of you I'm guessing you'll not be too unhappy to hear it again and that it'll bring back some fond memories.

From the Glider remixes ep it stands up there with weatherall's best remixes, totally distinctive to this day, I remember hearing him drop this for the first time, needless to say the place went completely mental.

Anyone interested in checking other weatherall materpieces from this period I can recommend among many others his mixes of : S'express - Find'em fool'em forget'em, Love Corporation - Give me some love, and, The Impossibles - the Drum. If anyone else cares to dig out another of his great mixes I for one would be gratefull.

From the sublime to the.. well crap, here's an euro dance version of a David Bowie track, unashamedly appalling and I'll no doubt get banned for another week for posting it.  

But since my local BT line went from 512k to a full 2 meg, and with the car boot season in full swing, I'm currently collecting and listening to far too much music, sometimes the only thing that stands out is something as shocking as this. Not much of an excuse I guess, but there's not been much music on gabba recently that's made me as surprised, or made me laugh as hard as this, its all getting a bit safe, so lets have some more throwaway pop-crap (thanks to NYPLM as ever).

Fresh track from New Zealand's Baddie, heavy dubstep influence.

Ok I know I'm new but I thought I'd give some dubious self promotion a go. This was a remix I did for a competion on the Team Sleep website before a realised that the competion wasn't open to people outside th US. Which is a shame 'cos I thought it turned out pretty well. Anyway it'd be good to know what people think.

Thought I'd follow up my recent Diefenbach post with another Simian Mobile Disco gem, this time a recent release on Cassette Records outta East London.  They continue to defy folk who attempt to define their sound, but I suppose if you wanted to label it, punk-funk should just about do it.  Hope you enjoy!!

from Algeria by جلول the same badboy who have done raï over 50¢ riddim (check it on the web somewhere...) & that's about all i know, love it bad tho xxx sufi

Simian are a group that apparently like the Beatles and the Beta Band in equal parts. This track sounds pretty much exactly what you'd imagine that sounds like (minus the atonal experimentation); fortunately, it's also about as effervescent and catchy as one could possibly hope.

I was always a fan of Atari Games, particularly System I & System II hardware from the early 80's - arcade platforms which gave us games such as Marble Madness, 720, Super Sprint and of course Paperboy. I came across Aerophonon (a Japanese collective) pretty much by accident whilst reseaching Hal Canon, Brad Fuller and Earl Vickers (when i say "researching" i really mean trying to find out what the hell happened to those guys) three of Atari's audio designers from that golden era and were responsible for the sound design of the games i just mentioned amongst others (i was hoping to find some bizarre experimental one off albums of their f**ked up musical meanderings - no such luck). Well god only knows what those guys are doing right now, but in Japan there is a scene where groups of musicians perform covers of the music from video games, which, in my estimation, can only be a positive thing. Aerophonon have produced several arcade music cover CDs ranging from Ecco The Dolphin to Namco - space games name entries, with much integrity (didn't stereolab use some Namco name entry bits many moons ago?). I rate this, the whole Golden Age of Atari Games Musics CD is just perfect, inspired for elevators or 'on hold'. I advocate this 'cartoon' moozak in the same way as Franco Godi's "Viva La Felicita" or Viva Happiness, (composed for a prior created, visual artform - although not interactive for Godi's) the title moozak from "Signor Rossi" or Mr Rossi - which you should check out, if you didn't already. Having said all that, you'll most likely think its rubbish if you never played the game. JIB X. me better go to bed now, I've done too much, much too Peroni.

2005 track from the Loops from the Bergerie release from this London based deep dub-house duo

I love you baby
I love you so much

Maybe we can stay in touch.

Pankow's cover of Prince's 'Girls & Boys' from the forthcoming 'channel 4' compilation on Output recordings. Stays very faithful to the original but with added robotic vocals...

Certainly this must have been recorded before Katrina - in all probability it's about last year's Asian tsunami - but it's impossible for me to listen to this track from the forthcoming Dirty Three album as anything but a dirge for the lost city of New Orleans.

My current obsession - throwaway club track that I can't seem to throw away. ManE Fresh lays down an MTV cribs soundtrack and everyone goes to work. The video too. Same old same old but Trina just kills it.

Yeah - summer's back in Germany. At least for a couple of days. To enjoy it the best, listen to the upcoming single by Robert and the Roboters from Dresden. 60's surf beat to put a smile on your face - don't You dare to get rid of that sand on Your feet...Also, check out their website www.roboters.de. There are samples of many other tracks.

Yeah - summer's back in Germany. At least for a couple of days. To enjoy it the best, listen to the upcoming single by Robert and the Roboters from Dresden. 60's surf beat to put a smile on your face - don't You dare to get rid of that sand on Your feet...Also, check out their website www.roboters.de. There are samples of many other tracks.

Yeah - summer's back in Germany. At least for a couple of days. To enjoy it the best, listen to the upcoming single by Robert and the Roboters from Dresden. 60's surf beat to put a smile on your face - don't You dare to get rid of that sand on Your feet...Also, check out their website www.roboters.de. There are samples of many other tracks.

One of my favorite projects Ki-Oku, A synergy between Dj Krush, laying beats for, Japanese avant trumpeter Toshinori Kondo. This track is a Bob Marley cover

In response to andre’s Kik o challenge, I present a track from Austrian duo Princess Him.  Although little more than a bassline and a diva, Gone is one of the s3xiest, slinkiest productions I’ve ever come across.  Barca’s vaguely eastern European accented vocal evokes Bond-girl seductiveness and thoroughly sells the singer-as-stalker lyrics.  If the vocals make it a good track, Lizer M’s sinuous bassline makes it great.  Who knew Austrians were so s3xy?

Stalker house, posting this to make a point about that Princess Him record really, again this is very minimal, just a spooky synth and a typical Jonson bassline over layed with a vocal, but the sounds seem more unique and atmosphere far larger than a lot of electro-house..

Pneumatic dubstep, Aylesbury's finest create something that transcends "dubstep" there's  almost a Juan Atkins feel to this, play, then go and buy the 12"..

What is it with rock covers of dance tracks, is Acid-house that similar to garage rock, or is it just a gimmik..

Focus group POP, everything about the Robyn album seems calculated for mass pop appeal, following Gwen Stefanis lead, its got electroclash/japanese fetishism/songs for the teenage girls/nods to the grown ups, I could go on, but I can't really be bothered to listen to the whole thing.. This however is a perfectly constructed pop-gem, Robyn comes on like Gold Chains over some nice 8-bit bleeps and before we realise we're being suckered it comes to a end at 2:38.

Metronomy ups the pitch considerably and strips everything except for the vocals, replacing the instruments with some clean, crisp electro-funk. Anyhow, it's delish... almost makes me think of just what a good electronic record from Scritti Politti could sound like in the 21st Century.

Ever seen the video for FS's "Sweetness?" Here is the version of the song heard therein. Fabulous.

Karen O and Spike Jizzle's brother on a track for a commercial I vaguely recall seeing. Very pretty. Very fun.

Lo-fi space-pop Northern Cali act Grandaddy's latest--fun, sing-songy, purely inconsequential--power pop at it's best. Some cool cursing, too. Cursing rawks.

I first read about these guys just after christmas when I was going though a real MBV faze. The description Public Enemy meets My Bloody Valentine really got me (although I'd add Alec Empire to that too). This is real uncompromising and original hip hop that tears down boundries that's a million miles away from the Kanye West template.

I think that it´s time for some euro cheese a ´95. This is sort of how I remember artist like Mrs. Wood and others. Enjoy.

From the latest batch on the awesome Micromusic.net - bass-heavy stomper not exactly regular 8-bit stuff, very groovy and smooth.

Also check out Music for Joggers, the latest release from the Microshop, nice track from Tokyomatik there as well...

Ghostface from WU TANG remix of some new shit

Wasn't sure whether to post this, as I'm not sure it's of the gabba remit... Bit of background. Recently had a week in New York and decided to take my minidisc recorder to do a bit of an audio diary, lots of sound effects and conversations, you know. Well anyway, on our final day we were on the subway back to brooklyn and this frail old blind guy, no more than 5' and 80+ is walking very slowly through the carridges towards us, and he's singing*. Everyone goes quiet... I hope some of what I heard is captured in this crap recording of an ASTONISHING voice. Bear with the track as you'll hear more the closer he gets. *Anyone know what the song is?..

The flip-side to jk’s rock-covers-acid-house coin, this track showed up in my gmail last week and is, to my surprise, golden.  As covers go, it’s nearly perfect; it has its own sound, yet maintains enough of the original to be recognisable as a cover.  Some fruitless googling for track info led me to a post on another music blog call stereogum.  Given the history it seems unlikely that any release, official or otherwise, will ever see the light of day.  Since the link was broken, I decided to re-post it here.

Hurricane Katrina Track with link that works

French overhaul of my favourite Canadian noise merchants' Death From Above 1979. latest release.  In the same vain as 'Rubicon (previously posted on Gabba), so chances are you know what to expect?

Had to comment myself out from deep in the negative points to bring you this bit of german cheesereggae... just to prove germans CAN have a sense of humor ;) im not real sure howmany of you can 'get' this one, understanding some german sure helps cuz musicaly this is not that special, a simple bit of digital reggae... but with funny voices on top
ah well, let's see how this goes down...
 
(from the various artists 12" Pudel Produkte Einz, 2005)

Found this album in the thriftshop by the French artist JJ Burnel (Euroman Cometh, 1979). Who was bassplayer with the stranglers, but this sounds nothing like the stranglers far more experimental and punkish... this is a strange track, the bassline seems to be twice as fast as the drums and Burnel's voice is distorted like a voice from hell (or a pig in the abatoir)... the rest of the album is not as 'heavy' as this one, more New Wave flavor with old drummachines and synths and stuff.

Collabo with Ellen Allien from his new album on mute. I'm hoping all you experimental heads and pop junkies can find a common ground on this one.

A bit crusty (01) but I couldn't resist one more German song. Quality lyrics...something like "all my friends say/man, you look wasted."

Though better known for some of their member's day job at !!!, Out Hud have proven themselves far more versatile and creative than a side project for a party-till-you-puke funk-punk band has any right to. While still firmly rooted in dance territory, Out Hud have demonstrated a willfully adventurous spirit that's given birth to two full of albums that are sprawling and eclectic, yet somehow still ass-shakingly tight --- something lacking not just in !!!, but in much of the post-post-punk (or whatever) scene as well.Case in point: this tune, the first single from their second album. It comes on funky as hell, but as soon as you're bobbing your head, the track veers hard to the left, travelling through electro and finally coming out in a guitar workout that's more than a little indebted to classic krautrock, and somehow, it all makes perfect sense.For the record, I'm not unaware of the fact that most of you are probably not unaware of this band, but I just found the album today after having lost it for a while, and was reminded of how great it actually is. So, for those of you how aren't in the know, here you go.

Simply because there will never be another band quite like Leicester's finest, and more's the pity. Loses a bit of impact not watching them do it live, but the track on its own can stop an entire room of people stunned as it winds up (well the twice I've heard it played when out, anyway). And one of the few of theirs I've an mp3 of. Some will probably recognise this but plenty more won't so hope it's worthwhile...

was trying to decide between this and an os mutantes track..but couldn't decide which o.m. track..and turn the heater on is a newly rediscovered favourite.

Perfect girl-group soul that is heartbreaking and weirdly triumphant at the same time. Downloaded this on a whim after hearing it praised on ILM and it pretty much knocked me sideways. Probably already familiar to you Northern Soul geeks out there (but hey, I'm an American...)

Roaring proto funk, before Funkadelic there where The Parliaments, its the horns on this that get me..