HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

Some seriously deep digging going on here, Dirty Dike talks to Bozak about some of his choicest secret finds…

More from the SMB radio guys here: http://soundcloud.com/smb-radio

Producer Exile (best known for his work with Blu) makes a beat using audio recording from radio. Interesting way to find samples and listen to great jazzy beat by Exile.

Nice!

I promised more, and here it is. Once again, Cuthead blends the finest bits from hiphop, dubstep, and house, and melds them all together in the most amazing slo-mo mind melting fashion you could imagine…

And while Nero and co are expecting you to shell out a tenner for the same album they brought out last year, but with different vocals and even more annoying cliche chainsaw bass all over it ‘because that’s what the kids want’, Cuthead is producing quality music, FOR FREE…

Yup, that’s right, download link is after the players..

Heavy instrumental hiphop:

Soul sampling house music

An Isley Brother’s dubstep remix

And the type of glitchy kind of dance music that if you described it to me I’d probably think sounded awful, but is in fact quite the opposite..

http://www.kunststoffbreakz.de/%5BKSB004%5D%20-%20CUTHEAD%20-%20CITY%20SLICKER%20(2010).zip

(Right Click and ‘save as’)

A short documentary about a few friends from Swindon who enjoy collecting records.

As someone who favours the sound and tactile experience of putting tracks together using actual hardware over the convenience of having everything running inside a computer, and being able to instantly flick between projects and have everything load up as you left off (jealous as I am of that aspect), it’s good to see that I’m not alone…

Continuing on from the last post, here’s another guy that I think deserves to be more widely known… Around 2008/2009, a couple of tracks by Cuthead cropped up on last.fm, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that they were freely available for download… After a brief investigate, I found they were from an album called Murdoc, 20 tracks of squelchy glitched out hiphop, electro and half tempo bassy dub type joints..

‘Scissorhands’ :

‘Bombay Calling’:

Last year Cuthead released another album, called City Slicker, another amazing collection rammed full of 23 mind meltingly tweaked out tunes, I’ll be making a post on that pretty soon…

In the meantime, you can download Murdoc for free here:

http://www.kunststoffbreakz.de/Cuthead%20-%20Murdoc%20%282008%29.rar

Be sure to check out this site for more stuff: http://kunststoffbreakz.wordpress.com/

And also check out his Soundcloud here : http://soundcloud.com/cuthead/tracks

I stumbled aross this guy on mySpace (remember that?) and was absolutely blown away by the track he had up on his player. I sent him a message, and soon after that he sent me what was to be one of my favourite albums of all time. Since mySpace turned into the most horrid piece of crap ever to grace the internet, I lost contact, although that album was still *the* one I put on whenever I wanted to chill.

So there I was, half watching ‘The Omega Man’, with Charlton Heston (actually i was watching it with my girlfriend, but Charlton heston’s in it…) and a little bit of music sparked a tiny bell of recognition… Sure enough, one of the odd spoken word samples from Crookram’s album followed and it jolted me into action. A quick google cropped up his website, http://www.crookram.net and a quick email to him and we’re back in action. Amazingly enough the afformentioned album is available for free download, but also lo and behold there is a new collection of tracks, and unlike Dj Shadow and RJD2 to name but two, this album is equally full of brilliance…

Seriously, check this out:

This track is on the 19/76 EP which you can download at 320kbps here: http://www.crookram.net/1976ep.html

and then this off the more recent album ‘Through Windows’

Which you can also get for free here: http://store.crookram.net/

Be sure to check out the website here: http://www.crookram.net/ click portfolio and have a listen to the tracks on the player, or check out  http://soundcloud.com/crookram … GOLD!

Ace mix from the Nijna Tune camp, well worthy of a sharesies-on….

Dr Rubberfunk _ Solid Steel Intro #3 _ unknown
Little Barrie _ Burned Out’ (DJ Numark Remix) _ Genuine
Beck _ Where It’s At’ (Bonus Beats) _ Geffen
DJ Shadow _ Back To Back Breaks _ Solesides
Public Enemy _ Bring The Noise’ (Instrumental) _ Def Jam
Deee-lite _ Deee-lite Theme’ (Global Village Mix) _ Elektra
Beastie Boys _ And What You Give Is What You Get _ Capitol
Tycoon To$h & Terminator Troops _ Action _ Major Force
A Tribe Called Quest _ 1nce Again’ (Jackin’ For Beats Remix) _ Archives Inc
High & Mighty _ Illadel Jackmove _ Landspeed
Handsome Boy Modeling School _ Holy Calamity _ Tommy Boy
Ice Cube _ Jackin’ For Beats _ 4th & Broadway
Z-Trip _ Listen To The DJ’ (Bonus Beats) _ Hollywood Records
Tycoon To$h & Terminator Troops _ Bed Jam Session _ Major Force
Coldcut _ More Beats & Pieces _ Ninja Tune
DJ Shadow _ Back To Back Breaks _ Solesides
Rhymefest _ Jackin’ (It Got Ugly) _ White
Itsu Uno _ Noise Of The B-Boy _ Fat Hop
Dr Rubberfunk _ Come Back Breaker _ Jalapeno
Liquid Liquid _ Cavern’ (Let’s Hear It For The B-Boy Remix) _ Mo Wax
Mash & Munkee _ Keep On Movin’ (Hero No.7 Remix) _ Hero Records
DJ Spinna _ Rock _ Rawkus
Dr Rubberfunk _ Disco Scene _ GPS Recordings
J-Rocc _ Play These’ (Bonus Beats) _ Stones Throw
The Jets _ Crush On You’ (Acapella) _ DJ Essentials
Whitefield Brothers _ Joyful Exaltation’ (J-Rocc Edit) _ Now Again
Silver Bullet _ Bring Forth The Guillotine’ (D.J. Beats) _ Tam Tam

Download button is in the player…

Plenty more amazing mixes on the Solid Steel website and the  Ninja Tune Soundcloud