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I. Breathe.. Air…

jtucker — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:17:25 +0000

Finally, someone has been a chap and put up a proper copy of Magnetic Man’s summer banger. For those not in the “know”:

Magnetic Man is a live electronic music project consisting of dubstep producers and DJs Skream, Benga and Artwork. They perform using three Apple Macbook Pro computers, one playing drum samples and loops, one playing basslines and the third playing lead sounds and samples. Artwork controls the master laptop, using Ableton Live, to which the other two are synchronised via midi. Their sets usually consist of a mix of original tracks produced together, and live remixes of Benga and Skream’s tracks, accompanied by synchronised projected visuals by Novak Collective.

Windows down, highway cruising and this turned up 40 on the ol’ Camry sound system.

Magnetic Man – I Need Air

M.I.A. + Jay-Z nuff said

M.I.A. – XXXO (ft. Jay-Z)

And as a bonus here is Passion Pit’s remix of Katy Perry & Snoop Dogg’s California Gurls.

Katy Perry – California Gurls (ft. Snoop Dogg) [Passion Pit Remix]

Lazy, Lazy.

jtucker — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:17:23 +0000

Been on the move and busy these past few weeks. I hopefully get to take a rest next week.

Trip to Vegas, then down to the shore and now to Burlington, VT this weekend.

Not much in the way of creativity in picking this set. Basically just what’s been playing in the ol’ cam’s cd player and on the iPhone.

Which BTW, I’m totally getting an iPhone 4. Shit is HOT SON! HOT!

Sweeeeeet Dance Rhythms..

jtucker — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:41:58 +0000

Mostly all dance this time around. Probably isn’t helping that I’ve been listening to Annie Mac and Pete Tong for the past few hours.

Enjoy and have a great weekend.

Meow Meow

jtucker — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:51:02 +0000

When I Look At You..

jtucker — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:20:18 +0000

Massive, MASSIVE tune from Emalkay.

I like how you do it, just put it in reverse cowgirl..

jtucker — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:38:56 +0000

So, if ever you needed a theme song for Valentine’s Day, T-Pain and Young Jeezy have you covered like a jimmy cap (get it? cuz of the sex you maybe having on V-Day). Anyway, with the upcoming Snow-pocolypse we are going to have in the DC area, I cut the list a little bit short for this go around. I hope to be doing these more frequent but for right now, real life is getting in the way.

There are a few tracks on here that should get you grooving a bit too, hopefully they can keep you warm with all the dancing you’d be doing. Unless you don’t dance and then, well that’s just lame.

My current obsession is with Local Natives, the album is rock solid and should be purchased [convenient Amazon link provided here]. Don’t get thrown off by all the weird moaning at the beginning of the track, the rest is great.

The B.o.B. and Yelawolf tracks are off their mixtapes which are freely downloadable on the internets and linked below. Also from a free mixtape is the SUPERB track from Mr. Dibiase. The mixtape is called “Loopy Jazzist” and is full of fantastic jazz inspired beats

Finally, intermingled in the Dubstep tracks is Vishis. This is the brother for Royce da 5’9′ and has a bad-ass flow to him. Seriously can’t wait for a mixtape or full album to drop, I hope for big things from this guy.

Tags: new+music, mp3

If we only stayed together, I might not have fallen apart.

jtucker — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:18:08 +0000

Another week and another set of tunes. It quite a grab bag of genre’s here also. Do not forget to listen to the Cragga refix at the end of the post, probably one of the best dubstep re(mix|fix) I’ve ever heard.

Phenom – Bubble Gum [dubstep]

jtucker — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:06:30 +0000

This track just happened to pop up when I was watching some videos for Dub Nation out of Baltimore (MARTYN will be there!!).. this is straight heat, love this track.

Top 10 Electronic Albums of 2009

jtucker — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:21:54 +0000

Surprisingly enough (sarcasm implied) there are some non Dubstep tracks on this list. Actually was a good year for dubstep and brostep, since the mainstream (mostly Hip-Hop guys) artists have discovered the bass heavy beats (e.g. Snoop Dogg, Rihanna, Murs).

My only problem is that there really wasn’t a whole lot of “albums” per se on this list as the EP’s that were put out by most people this year were solid. I tried to avoid it, much like I tried to avoid Mixtapes on the Hip-Hop/Rap list, but it was hard and there were some EP’s that I really wanted (nee, needed) to include.

#10.1 Adore – Adore [Survival]

#10.2 16 bit – Chainsaw Calligraphy – The Remixes [Chainsaw Calligraphy]

#9 Example – Watch The Sun Come Up (Remixes) [Watch The Sun Come Up (Joker & Ginz Remix)]

#8 Discovery – LP [I Want You Back]

#7 LMFAO – Party Rock [Shots (ft. Lil John)]

#6 Mary Ann Hobbs Presents: Wild Angels [Nosaj Thing - Ioio]

#5 Basement Jaxx – Scars [Saga (ft. Santagold)]

#4 Bibio – The Apple and the Tooth/Vignetting The Compost/Ambivalence Avenue [Jealous of Roses]

#3 Freeland – Cope [Do You?]

#2 Calvin Harris – Ready For The Weekend [I’m Not Alone (Herves see you at the dub parade mix)]

#1 Hudson Mohawke – Butter [ZOo00OOm]

Honorable Mentions

Anything that Joker touched.. seriously, I knew that guy was going to be hot this year. Loved every remix he did.

The Gaslamp Killer had some great sets done this year but his album kind of sucked.

Amanda Blank, David Guetta, The Bloody Beetroots, Diplo, FLYamSAM..

Tis the season.. dubstep style

jtucker — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:44:14 +0000

Music make the world go round, where it goes you just don’t know.

jtucker — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:54:06 +0000

The not-so-regular listening party thing is back and on a Tuesday.. Pretty sweet right?

So things have been hella busy lately and hopefully won’t stop anytime soon. Enjoy these tracks, there are some old ones and new ones and only one dubstep track.

As a bonus, here is this post in iPhone streamable form: Steam Deez