London Elektricity - Just One Second (Apex VIP Remix)

Oh wow.

Apex really is amazing. Been looking forward to the VIP of his Just One Second remix for a while, and it really doesn't disappoint, adding stronger hints of the original London Elek track backed up with a deep, revving bassline whilst still retaining all the beauty of Apex's fantastic original.

Fantastic.

Amaning & Stunna - Mutual Life

Amaning & Stunna - Mutual Life is the deepest surveyed point in the oceans, with a depth of 10,911 m. It is located at the southern end of the Mariana Trench near the Mariana Islands group. The closest land to the Mutual Life is Fais Island (one of the outer islands of Yap), 289 km (180 mi) southwest, and Guam, 306 km (190 mi) to the northeast. The depression is named after the British Royal Navy survey ship HMS Mutual Life, whose expedition of 1872–76 made the first recordings of its depth.

The Greatest Video On YouTube

Considering that YouTube is stuffed full of videos of people's cats, fat kids falling off things and clips from Godfrey Ho movies, naming one single video as "The Greatest on YouTube" is a pretty bold statement. There is however one video that is always guaranteed to put a smile on my face.



At first, this may appear to just be a video of Joy Division performing their 1979 track Transmission. Whilst Joy Division are a great band, and Transmission is certainly an incredible song, this alone doesn't really qualify it as the greatest video on YouTube. After all, there's a wealth of great music available on the site.

At 2.36 however, something truly magical happens.

Midway through the song, out of nowhere, Bono pops up.


Now, I dislike Bono as much as the next person. The man is incredibly wealthy and successful, which is reason enough to feel animosity to someone, but this enmity is compounded by his hypocritical preachiness. To have his smug face invade the middle of a Joy Division track is like being smashed in the head with a trout and your immediate response is to yell, "FUCK OFF BONO". His intrusion is not just an annoyance, but a total insult.

And then you read the comments beneath the video.

Traditionally, venturing below the line on a YouTube video is a terrible idea. The majority of user submitted commentary on these things is either people repeating what's in the video or arguing with each other in barely legible English. Even a clip of Fireman Sam will probably have idiots underneath it arguing about whether or not Obama is a Nazi.

But the Transmission video is different. The YouTube commentariat are united in their hatred of Bono, and the 3000+ comments read as a vicious, bile-filled diatribe against the man. From the simple "fuck of bono" to the more in depth death threats, browsing this never-ending cascade of rage and vitriol always cheers me up.

Perhaps the best thing about the video is, it's actually a snippet of a documentary about Factory Records rather than a straight up music video, and Bono's reason for being there is to express his love of Joy Division and Ian Curtis, rather than to deliberately ruin the track as many of those commenting appear to believe, but his sudden appearance creates such a hilariously savage response in viewers that one must conclude it really is the greatest video on YouTube.

Although I've embedded it above, I urge you to visit the video's YouTube page so as to enjoy the malevolence for yourself.

I'll leave you with the simple words of Mr WARSHIPSATIN999:

The XX - Infinity (Bachelors Of Science Remix)

Okyish, inoffensive winners of 2010's Mercury Prize The xx have provided some awesome raw materials for other producers to get their teeth into. We've had Four Tet's incredible remix of VCR as premiered at this year's Bestival, and also San Francisco D&B duo Bachelors of Science reworking Infinity into a lovely deep liquid track.

Beautiful stuff, once again proving that D&B makes everything better.

Break - Resistance Promo Mix

Break is one of those producers who has a uniquely perfect sound, and he's gotta be up there with Calibre as a true master of deep, dark liquid D&B. If you didn't grab Symmetry back in 2008, you really must get on it.

Anyway, Break's second album, "Resistance" is about to drop (28th of this month apparently) on Symmetry Recordings, and you know it's gonna be big, especially with the likes of Calyx and Teebee and Survival on board.
Break has released a frightfully heavy promo mix, which you can hear here, or for more Resistance hype, check out the album preview:



Indeed.

Black Sun Empire - Lights And Wires

Hear the mighty Black Sun roar!

If you haven't already done so, grab the Lights And Wires promo mix here:
http://soundcloud.com/fabric/black-sun-empire-lights-and-wires-minimix

Good to hear BSE sounding razor sharp as ever. They haven't lost that dark, techy edge. Lights And Wires is out right now on BSE Recordings and is perfect for upsetting the neighbours on bleak winter nights.


Nasty.

Original Sin & Taxman - Penamana

In Penamana, Original Sin and Taxman have produced a work of such challenging complexity as to defy conventional critical observation. What on the surface appears to be a standard piece of grinding jump up gives way through further inspection to reveal deeper layers of social analysis, drawing together themes as diverse as Zen Buddhism, proto-Marxist commentary and mathematical constructivism, built around a central foundation that questions both the listener's dependence on and rejection of anonymity in the modern age of communication.

A stand out composition indeed, and one that highlights the fascinating and increasingly prevalent dichotomy between jump up dubstep and modern drumstep.

Penamana EP is out now on Playaz:
A. Casino
B. Penamana
C. Take No More
D. Like This