Calyx & TeeBee Summer Mix for Mixmag

Great summer mix from Calyx and TeeBee, switching it back and forth between the light and the dark. Plenty of big tracks in there, but Scavenger still smashes your jaw off.

1 Calyx & TeeBee - Stepping Stones - Ram Records
2 Submotion Orchestra - It's Not Me It's You Alix Perez RMX - Whitelabel
3 Emalkay - TheWorld TeeBee RMX - Dub Police
4 Dubphizics Feat.FOX - Never Been - Critical Music
5 Jubei. Feat Flowdan - Say Nothing - Metalheadz
6 Spectrasoul - Away With Me - Calibre RMX - Shogun Audio
7 Chris Su - Higher - Subtitles UK
8 Little Dragon - Little Man Calyx & TeeBee RMX - PeaceFrog
9 Hybris - Occult - Subtitles UK
10 Culture Shock - I Remember - Ram Records
11 Ulterior Motive & Hybris - Bring Out - Subtitles UK
12 Matt Lange & Andrew Beyer feat. Kerry Leva - In & Out Of Phase - Calyx & TeeBee RMX - Anjunabeats
13 State of Mind - Roulette - Gridlok RMX - SOM Music
14 Noisia - Try Hard - Vision
15 Major Lazer - Get Free Andy C RMX
16 The Upbeats - Undertaker - Vision
17 Calyx & TeeBee - Scavenger - Ram Records

Emeli Sande - Heaven (Nu:Tone Remix)

Aight, so this one is older than Tony Colman's dad, but it's nice and summery out so let's have a bit of hands in the air remix loveliness from Nu:Tone.

Logistics - Neon

More secretive download only wonderment from Logistics. Why did he save all the best stuff for digital release?!

InsideInfo - Didgeridoo

Straight up horrible slab of tech from InsideInfo's new Grow EP. One of the best tech producers out there, InsideInfo seems to have been running under the radar for years. Check the rest of the Grow EP here:

Grab some mixes here and here (with Blu Mar Ten!)

Calyx & TeeBee - Scavenger/Stepping Stones

Bloody hell! New Calyx and TeeBee business dropping June 11th on Ram.

Top notch production, but does anyone else get Dire Straits vibes off that Scavenger intro?

Just me then...

Logistics - Falling

Disclaimer: I'm completely incapable of saying anything negative about any of Logistics' music, so you can pretty much disregard this post as pointless.

Massive tune from Matt Gresham. Apparently this one was a bonus for people buying the digital release of Fear Not, rather than the CD, so I hadn't actually heard it until yesterday. Now I'm gonna have to buy the bloody download version too. Ah well, one for the car, one for the phone. No worries.

As for the rest of Fear Not? Well, it's certainly broader than both Reality Checkpoint and Crash Bang Wallop, but for me that has always been Logistics' appeal; Big stupid dancefloor liquid slotted right next to dark 'n' moody rollers. It definitely fits in a lot more with Hospital's late '00s catalogue than their current output, although Logistics does seem to be keeping one eye on the Annie Mac crowd (and who can blame him?).

Anyway, 2999 (Where Ever You Go) does the wobbly dubstep thing just right by tempering it with enough D&B to keep things interesting and ensuring that people can actually dance to the thing. Is anyone else reminded of The Humans Are Dead by the robo-voiceover?

We Are One sets off on a housey-liquid rave offensive that actually works really well (much like Raygun on CBW) and really just proves that Logistics can turn his hand to anything. Having said that, the much stronger Nu:Logic remix puts things right back into D&B territory with some insane amen business and is also much more fun.

Tucked away towards the end, Destination Unknown is an interesting diversion that takes the album down a Bonobo-esque path and, although the track never really goes anywhere, it does add a nice bit of variation between Over And Out and Watching The World Go By.

There's plenty of more traditional Logistics business on Fear Not, with tracks like Timelapse, Running Late, Over And Out and Letting Go, but without a doubt the strongest track has to be Sendai Song. It's beautiful, atmospheric and rolling with echoes of Repetition and City Life. This really is Logistics at his best.

All in all, Fear Not is a great album, and whilst some people might knock it because it covers a range of musical styles rather than just being strictly D&B, these people should shut up because it's Logistics.

Hamilton vs. Wilkinson: SOUND CLAAAASH!

Both are signed to Ram, both look grumpy in all their promotional material and both have names consisting of three syllables and ending in "on". In addition to this, both Wilkinson and Hamilton have been putting out some really big tracks over the past year. But out of the two, which is best?!  

Round One!
First up, Wilkinson (the one with hair) mixing things up for Fabric:


Nice... Next up, Hamilton's Fabric promo:

 
Hurm, pretty close call, but I guess it's gotta go to Hamilton because his mix is longer and apparently that's what counts(?)

Round Two!
It's signature tunes time! Wilkinson first really started turning heads with Moonwalker, certainly one of the biggest tunes doing the rounds towards the tail end of 2010.



For me, Hamilton's stand out track has to be Echoes. It kinda sounds like High Contrast's Tread Softly , but after it had spent plenty of time at Burger King cultivating mass.



Tough choice this one, but I think it's has to be Moonwalker. Still remember the first time I heard this go off on a proper system. Incredible.

Round Three!
So we enter the final round; Current Releases!

Last single to drop from Wilkinson was the tremendous dancefloor roller Tonight. Bouncy enough to throw yourself about to but not so stupid as to become unlistenable. Awesome stuff. Don't forget to check Pistol Whip on the otherside for a bit of stampy GnB.



Hamilton's most recent release, Deep In My Heart, manages to keep things both deep and uplifting, but for my money the single's best track has to be Rich Kids on the B side. Give it a spin, it's fucking mental! Everything happens at once and yet still slots into the right place. What a shambles! I love the way that drop threatens some sort of Hard Style nightmare before pulling you right back out again. It's like bungee jumping over a piranah filled volcano.



To be honest, Round Three is too close to call, so let's just bail on the whole thing and declare them both winners.

I wonder if they ever get confused when they're both on the same bill and forget who is who...

Jubei - Say Nothin [Feat. Flowdan]

Fresh bit of moody nonsense from Jubei. I really quite like the idea of Flowdan wearing mittens.

Did I just see Rockwell?

Sub Focus, Howtek & Brookes Brothers - Verano

Can't decide what to make of Sub Focus' new track Out The Blue. It's not very good, but I really like listening to it. I'm so confused. No doubt it'll get plenty of Radio 1 airplay and Sub Focus will be able to add another eight thousand lights to the rig for his live shows.

Anyway, who the hell cares? Nick Douwma could start putting out J-Pop and I'd still give the man a kidney. After all, this is the dude who carved Airplane out of a single 17,000 KG lump of granite with his bare hands.

Let's just forget all about it with some old(ish) school collab business, bringing in Howtek and the Brookes Brothers for a bit of snarly jump up.

Much better.

That Last Jungle intro still gives me goosebumps.