This is the archive of gabba.cc, one of the first mp3 blogs.

So a track about my hometown (nearly), Birmingham isn't really manchester in terms of musical heritage (erm, 40 years of metal and ocean color scene...) , so its hard to find much stuff that references it, and to be fair this doesn't really either, but its very quiet round here, anyone got any tracks about there hometown (sorry london doesn't really count, unless you can get postcode specific..) ?

Oher than the personal associations this is a vintage Nancy Sinatra / Lee Hazelwood B side, strings like a southern grawl and Nancys voice, you can't really go wrong..



SebastiAn exaggerates Kelis's original temper tantrum by throwing all his toys at the wall.

The duo Ratatat have been for a few years trying to solve the equation that joins the pop and electronic variables in a more or less imaginative way. Their second LP "Classics" maintains the same equilibrium between the two variables while accentuating their love for 80’s sound.

“Wildcat”, the first single from the album and my favorite summer track, is one of the greatest digi-pop numbers of the year, if not of the decade. A futuristic, intricate groove with a Mozart-channeling guitar thrown in at the middle and a panther growl serving as a rhythm counter. Instrumental genius.



OK, I might seem terribly one dimensional as I only ever seem to post house music up here, but no one seems to mind and I do love this track.

Anyone who didn't live under a rock in the nineties is probably familiar with the original of this tune, and here man (men?) of the moment Switch loop it up in to a teasing, frenzied peaktime tune. I mostly love the little echoey drops, followed by a two beat break, then it kicks back in. Eric Prydz (surpisingly an awesome DJ) dropped this in the Bedrock tent at Global Gathering and it went riiight off :)

Also check out their mix of Kelis - Bossy (which I would have posted up had it not been already up under a different form), which is similarly looping and likely to make you dance around the room.  

Though Maus has been universally reviled by the critics, I will always stand by "Do Your Best".  The ghostly backbeat, comatose vocals and ethereal strings...it's the best thing since Q Lazzarus.

I know gabba is about new music, but I wanted to post this for those on here who might not know about Arthur Lee and his band Love. He was a musical genius, and a great poet, who struggled most of his life and never really got the recognition his music deserved. This is my favorite track from Love's 1967 album 'Forever Changes'. The lyrics are just amazing, as are the rest of the songs, its highly recommended. You can read a brief history here http://phinnweb.blogspot.com/2006/08/arthur-lee-of-love-rip.html He passed away on Thursday, August the 3rd after a long battle with leukemia. He will be missed, but his music will live forever.

Pitched somewhere between the Velvet Underground and Spacemen 3 for the post-club generation. Like the b@stard child of Beck and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Stephen McBean as 'Pink Mountaintops' seems to effortlessly straddle the alt/country/rock/folk/electronica devide. This rollin' sing-along number from the 2006 album 'Axis of Evol' sees him in upbeat, straight down the line anthemic mood but visit his website for more from this enigmatic, future-retro artist [includes mp3s from the equally excellent self-titled first album Can You Do That Dance? and Rock'n'roll Fantasy].

I think (though I couldn't be sure) that this is an example of the style known as "desi beats" - anyway, it's Pharrell's hit bootlegged over the top (yeah I know, original idea) of some silghtly crazy distorted Indian/bhangra samples, heavy beats, scratching and a sort of xylophone sound. It's pretty mad but I really like it, some great little vocal edits too. It came on in the car on BBC Radio 1 and I decided I had to get hold of it :)

Apologies for the quality, it's ripped from the BBC RealAudio stream so it's less than ideal. Hopefully I'll be able to find a proper quality copy sometime soon (it's a bootleg, the BBC site claims it is on D Style Recordings but they look like a d'n'b label to me..) As always, also apologies for the zshare.

The essential baile funk anthem everyone should hear. Crazy horns & beats. Sadly, you cant buy any copy, but it's sampled in the infamous song 'Injeção' from Deize...

Sorry about the sound quality of this - ripped from 7" to a wack work laptop via a mono mic socket. Dont know anything about this, other than it might be Bent with guest vocalist and apparently whoever made it were one of the headliners at the big chill. it works for me...

A killer Funk Track Off the 2nd edition of the Schoolhouse Funk Comps. by DJ Shadow, The Album consists of records recorded in the 60's and 70's by highschool bands in the US. 

If there's a Big Swinging Dick of the minimal scene, it's Anders Trentemøller, who burst on to the scene last year or so with a series of EPs and remixes that have powered their way through countless DJ sets & mixes. So it's a surprise when about four minutes into the first track off his debut album the throbbing bass gives way and turns into . . . Mazzy Star? One wouldn't have suspected such sensitivity from toughman Trentemøller. Lest you get the wrong idea, though, after that strange interlude he overcompensates with pointedly live drumming & electric guitar - there's something for everybody here.

There was a time when seeing something elsewhere on the Internet would mean I'd be weary of posting it here, but f**k it, the Internet might as well be the mp3net at the moment, every shite band and singer songwriter has there own myspazz site, and theres a mp3 blog for everyone out there..

So anyway, this is a bit saccharine and more of a "dance anthem" than I'd usually be into, theres something of the Gigi D'Agostino to it, a shameless E music duet that uses all the tired dance music presets in just the right way..

MANASYt is Petar Tassev. Born in Bulgaria ('76), he moved to the US (Detroit) in the late 90's and began making tracks around 2002, eventually relocating to Holland. Inspired by hardcore/metal and electro, MANASYt is very psychotic and energetic electro hell. GET YOUR ASS INTO THE HELLTAXI

No. 2 in a sporadic series: this track doesn't exactly stretch the gabba envelope but it's a real contender for my favorite bassline. it's a fat wobble rather than the punch of the kiko track i posted ages ago but it's just as good. try not nodding.

Didn't actually like the original - heard it a couple of months ago, but it didn't make it to my iTunes library. But this remix is absolutely fantastic - could dance all night long to it.

I got this track from a friend who got it off the artist's myspace page. Not really gabba stylistically but is a nice wry comment on nursery rhyme pop.



ndw christmas carol.  did you know the germans have an evil santa claus called krampas?

Most hip-hop producers make beats. RJD2 makes dope instrumentals that you can rhyme over. There's a big difference. Known as DJ and producer for the merely decent crew MHZ, RJ has really come into his own, and his debut full-length is quite an impressive piece of work.

Excellent Moog solo and fine production. 

Chardiet Sessions is a revolving cast of talented musicians.

The Ring Leader is Michael Witwicki.



bad music >, cellophanesky uploads banned for 1 week!

Nice Moog and great production. 

Chardiet Sessions is a revolving cast of talented musicians.

The Ring Leader is Michael Witwicki.



Rhytmic noise mixtape created by dj lost (Russia) special for nnm.ru portal. Mixtape includes tracks of : 1979, Ah Cama Sotz, Synapscape, Mono no Aware.



Walter Meego have been posted on other mp3 sites of late but nowadays if we refrained from posting any tracks that have appeared on other mp3 sites we'd never post anything at all.

Wobbling, emotive, vocoder over urgent, stuttering rhythms and narly, grinding synths. Lovely.



Since im living in sweden i am only alive for about five months of the year. Spring and a the precious few months of endless summer. The sun never sets, people are happy beatuiful and very very very rich. The rest of the time we either sleep, die, drink vodka and vote for the social democratic party. The times of warm weather, blue skies and summer are materielized in this remix of Magnus Ugglas massive banger 'Sommartid' done by scandinavias hottest dj-duo 'Just Like Music'. These guys are going to bl0w the scene in a short while, lets just say that jönköping is the new bergen. Neo-disco comes from the heart of depressed norsemen, dont ever forget that my friends.

This weekend I watched zombie movies, ate candy and had the best s3x I've had in a long time.

I also recall listening to some noisy discopunk montreal band the morning after while making breakfast.

Marvin was going all electro-funk at the end of his life. "Sanctified Lady" is a prime example, plenty of drum machines and vocoder to keep with the times. Marvin died before the track was completed; interestingly, he sings a quite different word than "lady" and the backup vocals don't quite cover it up.


German acid from Cologne. The releases from DJ.Ungle Fever or in this case DJungle Fever are sometimes too hard or just too boring but when it's good it's brilliant. Like the old Walker 10"s.

This is distinct, fun and bouncy, get down and groove.



This track starts off as straight electro, does the stuff it's suppose to. Bleeps, Clonks and breaks down in some sort of phonetic filter bass. I liked it but it didn't make any big impression on me.
But then...
3.40 into the track things take off. And the lead synth with all that noise in it takes off 30 seconds later and I'm so hooked.

The Magnus Uggla track made me think of this one. Swizz loopie music that makes you turn your top off your convertable and drive through the city towards the raster sunset in an Out Run fashion.



Miami Bass originator MC A.D.E. stayed true to his muse as the music he helped start got smuttier and smuttier. Like many great electro tracks from the era, this one samples Kraftwerk's "Numbers." What can I say, I have a vocoder fetish.


Cut n Paste dub house disco. House music that sounds like its been spliced to the point of destruction and left jittering on the studio floor..

Agoria's "Cute & Cult" was a surprisingly good mix CD from last year that didn't get as much attention as it deserved. This track appeared at the end of it; it hasn't had a release anywhere else as far as I can tell. It's a cover of Derrick May's "Strings of Life" by Francesco Tristano Schlimé, a piano player reasonably well known for his performances of classical and new music (note the John Cage-style closed piano bit at the end). Perfect for the end of the night.

Dub goodness by Scientist.
Echo laden textures, murky drums and several layers of sparse bass. From the 1981 release, "Scientist meets the space invaders", truly among the best dub ever waxed.

Now, who wants to join me in the dark room for an atari match?

Nice little electro-poppy song my cousin told me about. Maybe it's a little bit twee but it's pleasant to listen to and I enjoy the slightly New Orderish bass line and the little bleepy synth line.  

Polyrhythm percussion and African style vox meet vocoders and synth washes with some mellow trumpet doing the introductions. What if Blade Runner had been set in the Serengeti?

It's a rare and wonderful thing for an artist's second album to be as good or even better than the first. And I'm thrilled to bits with Dani Siciliano's new album 'Slappers', from which this song comes. I've had this album on repeat for a week now, but it's only in the last day that Big Time has emerged as a real favourite. The chuggy electronic bassline throbs along underneath syncopated beats and glitchy pops and whistles. Eventually, at the cue of an understated whisper "This is big time", the track opens opens up, like a flower, into a harmonious chorus of Dani Sicilianos that tugs at all the right emotional cords.

I was Bar-DJing with a friend when all of a sudden he handed me this album and said: "Take it. You may actually play this." And I did. And I often play this album at home.

As a musical description, I quote the album cover:

"Is this Jan Delay and Tropf recording under a different name in a last ditch attempt to get their cruddy music on the radio?"



It's been a while since I uploaded anything, but I bought the new Lindstrøm (of L. and Prins Thomas) album today and thought I could share. This track stands out from the others being the only one with vocals, it's got deep throbbing bass and 80's synth stabs - I think it's excellent. Anyhow, posting Lindstrøm should be pretty safe I guess :)

Suited prog-pop. A bit of a swan song to Trevor Jacksons great and sadly demised output records. This is taken from San Serac's unreleased new album, in which our hero seems to play a confused business man over some jittery sample programing that makes me think of Max Tundra's MBGATE.



Weapons grade acid from turbo records. CAUTION! May cause internal bleeding.

Hearing the newish David Banner/DJ Shadow track made me think of this one, from the version of "Mississippi" screwed & chopped by Michael Watts of Swishahouse. Chuck Eddy once described this particular track as sounding like a "Dixieland funeral-wake 20,000 leagues under the Delta" which is fairly accurate - it certainly doesn't sound like anything more easily identifiable.
 

Gimmick overload. Throw enough combinations of cartoon characters/dance crazes at a riddim and surely somethings gotta stick. 


Techno in a general sense, it's all electronic. Straight out of the collegiate stomping grounds of the Illinois Institute of Technology, it's nerd-inspired "computer music". It carries the characteristic of once hailed "hand-cramped" synths and drum machines to create a clearly trance-like track.



A slightly acidic electronic track, no words, dance-y bass and crunchy melody.

Queen of War is a dj brit from the eastend of london.  There's some calculated clumsiness (the producer is Gordon Raphael who I believe produced The Strokes) and some signature changes-I'm quite into the latter right now (especially the Times Square Mix of Andrew Zernicke's Organ Player).It's more minimal techno than electro, which is refreshing.  More acid than cocaine, one might say...also, the sound quality is not the best but if you like it, I figure you should drop some change and buy the proper version anyways.

a simply beautiful winter song, good to see you again