Jay 'Dubstep' Robinson

I was in touch with Jay Robinson over the weekend about doing the next DB mix, I've become a big fan of his work over the past year including his big remix of Mustard Pimp's "Oh la la Satan" and more recently "A Little Tune" and his remix of "Funkjet" with Supabeatz.

In the mean time he's sent over a super exclusive Dubstep remix that he was planning on keeping for himself, lucky us! :D

Dr.Dre & Snoop Dogg - The Next Episode (Jay Robinson Clubstep Mix) (Mediafire)


Find all of Jay's tracks/remixes on his Beatport page.

Whats your Nom De Strip?

Nom De Strip, formerly half of Stupid Fresh now concentrating on his solo project has just finished his first solo mix featuring 7 unheard Nom De Strip tracks including a collab with Bart B More "Bollymore", collab with Hot Mouth "50,000" due out on Simma this month and offical remixes for Dizzee Rascal and Hatrias' classic "Space Invader".

If that wasn't enough he's chucking in 3 tracks for you bloggers!

Nom De Strip & Little Bastard - Just Keep Crazy (Mediafire)

N.E.R.D - Time For Some Action (Nom De Strip Remix) (Mediafire)

Don Downing - Dreamworld (Nom De Strip 'Tribute To AB DC' Dub) (Mediafire)


Nom De Strip - Winter 2009 Mix (Mediafire)

Tracklist:
01. Unknown - Simon Sez
02. Momma's Boy - Betowe
03. Nom De Strip, Bart B More & Little Bastard - Bollymore
04. Nom De Strip & Hot Mouth - 50,000
05. De Bos - On The Run (Ralvero Remix)
06. Mightyfools - Clean It
07. Noob & Brodinski - Peanuts Club (Buttonmasher Remix)
08. Larry Tee Feat. Roxy Cottontail - Let's Make Nasty (Afrojack Remix)
09. Dizzee Rascal - Dirtee Cash (Nom De Strip & Tom Piper Remix)
10. Boris Dlugosch - Bangkok
11. Hatiras - Spaced Invader (Nom De Strip Remix)
12. Nom De Strip & Little Bastard - Just Keep Crazy
13. Unknown - Laidback Luke / Afrojack Mash
14. Nom De Strip - Skweekee
15. Moby - One Time We Lived (HiJack Remix)
16. LA Riots - Drop One (Nom De Strip Remix)
17. Laidback Luke & Lee Mortimer - Blau (LA Riots Remix)
18. Cassius - Youth Speed Trouble Cigarettes (Reset! Trouble Remix)
19. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll (Cutlass Supreme Remix)

CASSIUS (Reset! 'Trouble' Remix)

This has to be 1 of my favourite remixes in a long time. Reset!' 'Trouble' remix featured on this months Mixmag CD 'Club 75' by Cassius, Justice, Busy P and Dj Mehdi and is due for release in the next couple of days on Cassius Records.

Cassius - Youth, Speed, Trouble, Cigarettes (Reset! 'Trouble' Remix) (Mediafire)


Supported by maaaaany big catz as A-trak (november top 10), Alex Metric on BBC1 and, obviously, Cassius themselves - who claim it 'could have been done by the Jb's if they were still twenty something and into house music....it rocks and never stops!'

More stuff in the pipeline for Reset! with their remix for The Count & Sinden's nu single 'Elephant 1234' out in december on Domino, followed by an EP on Cheaper Thrills. 'If We Try (The Love Anthem)' will also be out soon on Bass=Win and their rework of the Natural Born Chillers' dnb classic 'Rock the Funky Beat' will be included in a new remix package.

Solo - Rawmania (Beataucue Remix)

I'm loving Sound Pellegrino's releases lately and their latest keeps up the goodness, Solo's EP was released on Tuesday. The labels sent over Beataucue's remix as a taster, head to Beatport for the full EP.

Solo - Minimood / Rawmania EP // Sound Pellegrino

Tracklist:
01. Minimood
02. Minimood (Round Table Knights Remix)
03. Rawmania
04. Rawmania (Beataucue Remix) (zShare)

TJR + NT89 + Steve Gerard

First up 2 not so new but still bangin' tracks from TJR, I myself can't wait for his Jack Union EP to drop... hopefully soon?

Johnny Fiasco - Love is a Message (TJR Remix) (Mediafire)

Hustle & Flow - Don't Mess With Us (TJR Remix) (Mediafire)


New track from NT89, if you like your tracks noisey then look no further!

NT89 - Foxes (Mediafire)


Finally the latest offering from Steve Gerard, one for the electro fans.

Steve Gerard - Organ Donor (Mediafire)

Disturbed Beats 011 - Mixed by Tom EQ

With a small break from the mix series we jump straight back into things with 011 from Tom EQ, it's got bounce, funk, and bass a plenty! God we've missed the mix series, have you?

Disturbed Beats 011 - Mixed by Tom EQ (Mediafire) *NEW LINK*

Tracklist:
001. Camel - Mascara
002. Volta & Salvatore Freda - Tiramisu (DJ Madskillz Remix)
003. Empire Of The Sun - Without You (Pow! Pow! Dub Mix)
004. Round Table Knights - Belly Dance (Mowgli Remix)
005. Magik Johnson - The Boy Blew
006. TLGB - Drinkies
007. Mightyfools - Clean It
008. The Potato Heads - Hayeh Funk
009. Chris James - Dombura
010. Tom EQ - Carnival
011. Claude Von Stroke - Vocal Chords (Tom EQ Remix)
012. Foamo - Wardance (Hijack Remix)
013. Jo Kira - Get Down
014. Jak Z - Always Knew
015. Roby Howler - Darling
016. Armand Van Helden - Hear My Name (Solid Groove Hear My Rub)
017. Unkown - Slush Puppy
018. Boys Noize & Erol Alkan - Death Suite
019. Mumdance & Brodinski - Eurostarr (Nic Sarno Remake)
020. Mightyfools - Cops (Jeff Doubleu Remix)
021. Chase & Status - Eastern Jam (Kyle Watson Re-rub)
022. Excision & Datsik - Swagga

Trevor Loveys - Body Jack + Interview

Trevor Loveys' first ever mix compilation dropped the other week on Music Response full of his own tracks and remixes alongside some exclusive and new material.

Do he right thing and head to HMV and buy the double cd now!

Interview: Trevor Loveys

Q: How come you haven’t put out a mix album before ‘Body Jack’? And was it important to include the majority of your own tracks/remixes on any eventual release?

A: I had wanted to do a compilation of my own stuff for a while, even a remix one. I have actually put a mix comp out on a label called Pagan in the late 90s. It was called ‘Soul Rebels’ and contained all my stuff on House of 909 under various names.

But yes, I wanted to put some of my main remixes over the years on the new ‘Body Jack’ mix and have it as a showcase for the sound I’ve helped build since early 2000.

Q: Tell us a bit about the new track ‘Skoolin Tings’...

A: Skoolin was a track I did loosely based around a Schooly D and Code Money record from back in my youth. I always loved that beat. And I also used the snare off the ‘Big Beat’ 1970s tune, I guess again I’m trying to mix up those old ideas with new bass sounds and melodies.

Q: Which are a couple of your personal favourite tracks or remixes on the ‘Body Jack’ mix and why?

A: I always remember how much I enjoyed making the mix of Roisin Murphy’s ‘You Know Me Better’. I went a bit 90s on it, but it was the amalgamation of our early Switch edits on vocals, making up breaks and using 90s style synth sounds. Also ‘Get Ya Dub On Part 2’, as it really is, for me, the beginnings of our sound.

Q: Yes, that distinctive sound you are known for pioneering has gone from strength to strength in clubland in recent years. How do you feel about where it's at now?

A: Yeah, it’s cool if the whole thing has got more people into House music and other forms of dance music. It’s been a good thing. There is definitely some good stuff out there now, but also a lot of stuff that has sort of the right elements, but not the originality, which is a shame. But overall I hope it’s still moving forward.

Q: So what else would you say is healthy and unhealthy about the state of dance music today?

A: Healthy is anything original that stands out, bringing back chords and melodies. Unhealthy I guess is tracks that have basslines all sounding like there all made by one dude who just sits all day turning the LFO rate knob around without actually writing a bassline.

Q: New technology has totally changed the way people are making and buying music now too. How has the digital revolution effected you personally and professionally?

A: Digital music, hmm, I guess it opened up the flood gates for a lot of new people to get involved, which in turn meant some great new music being made with all the possibilities and accessibility to software. On the downside, a lot of poor quality music flooded the market and this affected sales, but personally it’s handy to not have a massive mixing desk, having to finish a track before starting a new one, waiting half an hour to load up all your samples and effects unit setting. Ahh… they were the days.

Q: Where have you been playing and hanging out lately that you feel really gets your music?

A: I did Australia early this year and had such a good time there, and a great response from everyone. Mostly the response is great to the music, even when I go a little deeper or old skool. As for hanging out, I haven’t been for a while, but I do love YOYO at Notting Hill Arts Club. And my local boozer.

Q: When you do venture out beyond the cozy pub, who do you rate on dance floors at the moment, production and DJ wise?

A: That Herve bloke is pretty good, and I love the new Seiji stuff. Also Green Money and Dam Funk.

Q: Now ‘Body Jack’ has been released, what are you up to next and for the rest of the year?

A: Sleeping! No, I’m getting on with my artist album and also new Speaker Junk stuff with Herve, as well as any remixes and DJ gigs, and I’ll hopefully sneak the odd pint in here and there too. Lovely jubbly.

Now for the really exciting part! The man Loveys is heading up to Middlesbrough on Friday 13th November to join the crew for the next installment of the DB parties!

Disturbed Beats pres. Trevor Loveys
@ Inside Out (2nd Floor of Love2Love), Middlesbrough
Friday 13th November

Lineup:
Trevor Loveys
Nelly
Dan Bishop
Rosco

Doors: 10pm-3am
Tickets only £5 from DontStayIn or Skiddle
Facebook event

Stupid Fresh - Autumn Bullets

Stupid Fresh as some of you may or may not know is now a one piece outfit as Chris (Nom De Strip) has left for pastures new. This mix features Fresh's (aka Tod 'Turbo' Hodge) first track since the split ‘Stupid Fresh – Do The Dog’ – Do The Dog being an anagram of Tod Hodge – Seems pretty fitting. It’s forthcoming on Rico Tubb’s and Atomoc Hooligan’s Bass = Win label.

Stupid Fresh - Autumn Bullets Mix (Mediafire)

Tracklist:
01. Foamo - Wardance (HiJack Remix)
02. Mowgli - London To Paris
03. Stupid Fresh - Do The Dog
04. Ou Est Le Swimming Pool - Dance The Way I Feel (Armand Van Helden Remix)
05. DJ Dan & Hatiras - Drop Hits (Santiago & Bushido Remix)
06. Rico Tubbs - Get Nasty (Stupid Fresh Remix)
07. Wolfgang Gartner - Latin Fever
08. Micky Slim - Wow (Stupid Fresh Remix)
09. Santiago & Bushido - Head Trick (Rework)
10. Laidback Luke & Lee Mortimer - Blau
11. The Funk Out - Prickly Beat (Stupid Fresh Remix)
12. The Prodigy - Music Reach (Stupid Refresh)
13. Boys Noize - Jeffer