Thursday, February 11, 2010
15-17h CET/2-4pm GMT
w/ IZC & guest on Sub FM

In this week’s show IZC presented loads of new material, including unreleased tracks by Clueless, Echoes Escape, Fureshu, IZC, KingThing, Odd and Robbing Hood. In hour two Temp Records’ Evirgen took over with a mix of Dubstep and Techno.

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Two hours IZC in the mix, including dubs by Double Helix, El Rakkas, FourtyFour, Nur Sound, Pressa, Robbing Hood and others.

Dates

Jan 29: En garde! (protest against WRK-Ball) @ Westbahnhof/Vienna (6pm)
Jan 29: Aftershow Party @ EKH/Vienna
Jan 29: Dubquake w/ Collynization Soundsystem feat. Ras McBean (mc), Kokoras (mc), Shalamanda Sound, Dubster, Fruitical Vibes @ Fluc_wanne/Vienna
Jan 29: Play FM (lounge re-opening) w/ Rainer Klang, Smacs & Patrick Kong, Simon Lebon, Laminat, Houztekk, Wax & Manix, Franz “Jazzin” Otto, Mike Burns, Ravissa, Konsorten, Resident, Groove Bagasch, Kadi @ Xpedit Basement/Vienna (Wiesingerstraße 6, 1010)
Jan 30: Elektroland w/ Binär (live), Constantin Zeileissen & 909, Florian Lindinger, Mike Inzinger @ Elektro Gönner/Vienna
Feb 3: Dubsquare w/ Boris, IZC @ Rhiz/Vienna

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After DubSpencerSound’s DJ Foster was covering Dubsquare last week (big thanks!), Dubsquare will back this week with heaps of dubs, including bit by Duncan Powell, Ike Release, Pressa, Simon/off and T2R.

Dates

Dec 21: Big Mama p/ The Field (live), cFX, feelipa, Simon/off @ Postgarage/Graz
Dec 22: Twisted w/ Shalamanda Sound, Fruitical Vibes Crew, Kulix, 00P, Neurologic, SubScientist @ Sub/Graz
Dec 26: Sibiria EP (presentation) w/ Electric Indigo, c++ (vis), jade (vis), luX (vis) @ Salon Projektionist/Vienna (Neubaugürtel 7, 1150)

Finally I managed to finish my ‘09 charts – twelve records in alphabetic order. Enjoy, and if you haven’t got these yet, get them from your favorite recordstore ;) – IZC

El Rakkas – Seas Of Disease/I&I (Lo Dubs)
El Rakkas’ overdue debut on vinyl with two older tracks, Seas Of Disease and I&I. Whereas Seas Of Disease was originally one of the early Dubstep-tracks to pick up dubtechno-elements, dub-influenced I&I inherits a very techno-oriented structure.

Emptyset – Emptyset (Caravan)
Reminiscenting classic Säkhö Techno but adding some of Bristol’s dubbed-out dirt, James Ginzburg & Paul Purgas have released a beautiful debut longplayer.

IZC – Arctic Dawn (Dubsquare)
I have to admit that I’m a bit proud of this EP, so I put it in the charts as well – although I don’t feel like writing much about it really… ;)

Kowton – Stasis (Keysound)
Reminding me a bit of early Hyperdub, Keysound has developed from a platform for Dusk & Blackdown’s own releases to a very forward thinking basis for numerous artists in 2009. To me, Kowton’s release was to most significant indicator for this developement. One can only be curious how the label develops in 2010, above all after signing LHF recently – the collective from North-London has been inwardly working on a incredible version of the hardcore continuum in the past years. So Keysound is definitely among those toto watch in 2010.

Peverelist – Jarvik Mindstate (Punch Drunk)
At the very end of 2009, Bristol’s Peverelist surprised me with this absolutely outstanding album. Basically, he is promoting a bass-driven soundscape in a way very close to that of Dubstep before the age of rave, with an emphasis on basslines instead of kicks, and tiny athmospheres instead of testosterone-challenging midrange. So far so good. But it wasn’t for Peverelist if he didn’t take things further – stripping down reminiscences of ‘96 Dream Team tunes with Dubstep’s cooled down slow-motion-magnification (”Yesterday I Saw The Future”); or setting a fragmented snare-play we can well remember from ‘03 Wizzbit-tunes in context with some kind of polyrhythmic stab-delirium (”Jarvik Mindstate”). The hit of the album has to be “Bluez” though, not least because I can’t avoid the suspicion that Peverelist might have taken Dubstep itself as an historic reference here. Absolutely striking work, on the vinyl edition each track does indeed deserve its own side on 45.

Ramadanman – Revenue (2nd Drop)
Ramadanman’s stripped down 2-step versions were still unmatched in 2009. With the awesome but in a way much richer remix by Untold on the flip, the minimalist nature of the original version became even more explicit.

Shackleton – 3 EPs (Perlon)
Monolake – Atlas (Monolake)
The way Shackleton places the single sounds in relation to each other follows patterns and ideas beyond genres such as Dubstep or Techno. Therefore, in a way his 3EPs seem to be much closer to acoustic minimalist music from Africa and Arabia. I’ve heard of people being a bit irritated by some of the sound-marks he uses. However, isn’t this actually the essence of travelling, being irritated by unexpected scents and flavors? I do very much think so.
Monolake’s Atlas invites us for a journey too, however this time the destination seems to be some kind of dystopian future. The scents we perceive are metallic and our soundvehicle has to elude radioactive space debris as well as red-giant-bassdrums.

Sigha – Raww (Hotflush)
Already into his third release for Hotflush this year, Raww is Sigha’s strongest EP for the label so far. Effortlessly moving between Dubstep and Techno, I can hardly recall another artist with a UK-’nuum’ background diving into Techno in such a stringent way as Sigha is doing it right now.

Sully – Duke St. Dub (Mata-syn)
Sully’s Duke St. Dub marking a return of the less cheesy side of 2-step-garage in 2009. With old-school legends such as El B, Zed Bias, Duncan Powell or MJ Cole returning to the 138bmp-realm and loads of fresh talent submerging too, things look bright for future garage in 2010.

Wax – Dub Shed Sessions I/Remixes (Subsolo)
Peverelist – Junktion/Shed Remix (Tectonic)
Berlin’s Shed has been responsible for a couple of impressive tracks in the field of Techno in 2009, including labels such as Equalized or the Wax-series. The two remixes here on Subsolo were taking things even further, introducing a spooky and yet unknown mixture of dub, techno and halfstep.
Peverelist’s Junktion was definitely not the easiest choice for doing a remix I guess, but Shed proved that he can very well move within broken beats as well. The result is a spatan, very atmospheric groove which combines 2-step’s swing with Techno’s sense of time.

Thursday, January 31, 2010
2-4pm GMT/15-17h CET
w/ IZC presenting new tracks by Demos, Dom, Madd, Maulin, Pressa, Subindex and others
on the one & only Sub FM

Dates

Jan 8: Klub Sir3ne w/ Bulldogs (live), Kid Copy, Rak3te, Odd, Se.vero @ Fluc_wanne/Vienna
Jan 9: Lick The Click w/ 2562, Losoul, Isu, Crimson, Chrom @ Merlin/Budapest
Jan 13: Dubsquare Lcl. w/ c++, Boris, IZC @ Rhiz/Vienna

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This week with a New Years Eve Special live & direct from Graz, featuring El Rakkas, Feelipa, Simon/off & IZC in a two hour back2back-session somewhere between Dubstep, Funky, Techno, 2-Step and other para-nuum sounds. Vinyl only ;)

Dates

Dec 31: Inna Jungle @ 1bm
Dec 31: NYEsenberger w/ Any Maniac, Zvonko, El Rakkas, Cheever, Feelipa, B.L.O., Zeck, Fjord & Jacques Prell, Shine, S_poiler, Kayoz & G. Kaiser, Feyerabend, Mr. Monkeyshines, Lalinea, Bitz & Puschmann @ Kulturzentrum Niesenbergergasse/Graz

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Review of 2009 with IZC, no archive due to a few technical glitches ;p

Dates

Dec 26: Bounce (7th anniversary) @ Fluc_wanne/Vienna

Swivelsquare alert… Whistla & IZC in a 4 hrs special ;)

Please note that the show on Dec 17th is cancelled.
Next show a Christmas Special on Dec 24th!!

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Whistla (Sub FM/L2S/Ox Rider, London)

» I’m Whistla I run Sub.FM (under the alias Atari-420), I run L2S Recordings, the Future Garage Forum and Future Garage Facebook Page. I’ve been DJing properly since 97, and have been producing for the same length of time. I got into music from raving to hardcore back in the early 90’s and as I got older decided to start producing and DJing for myself, rather than just being a listener/raver. I first got into radio by playing on pirate station Addiction FM, which I then started to assist in the management of until it folded.

I then moved to Eruption FM and moved away from hardcore and into the early breaks and growing garage scenes. I guess my “progress” through music has been pretty “nuum-ish” except that I never did the dnb thing, I went from hardcore to garage & breaks, d&b was always a little too fast for my taste. In 2000 I went on a long travelling spree and went all over Asia and lived in Australia for a while. Once I got back, I got straight back into doing the music thing, this was the very early Forward days, I was playing in various places that had fluid music policies, where i would play dark garage, some breaks, and some classics.

It was at this time I started Sub.FM, I had always wanted to do an internet pirate ever since the early broadcasts that Interface did. Once I started the station, the ball really started to roll, and dubstep became the name for what I was playing, and the growth of the station spurred me on in my own productions and I guess that takes us up to where I am now. You can hear me playing every two months at my residency @ Superdubpressure in Brighton, I also regularly play all over London and the UK, you can catch me @ the next Woofer Attack, and also on my European tour to Vienna and Kiev this December. «

(Whistla in an interview for Blackdown, November 2009)

» With the garage revival now in full swing, a ruck of former dubstep purists are latching onto the upful vibes and direct drive of garage, 2-step and swung 4/4 to replace to torpid pressure of halfstep subbass and ultra sparse riddims. Whistla’s ‘420 Lockdown’ EP easily slots into this new wave with four charmingly ruff ‘n ready steppers, from the tougher Steve Gurley syncopations of the title track, to the cartoonish ‘What You Want’ or old skool roller ‘Steelface’ with itchy drums and a darker 4/4 garage rush. The track of the EP has to be ‘Sway’, swivelling on some well slippery hi-hat shuffles with an oddly wonky metallic riff and playful polyrhythms sounding somewhere between Artwork and Warlock. «

(Boomkat on Whistla’s Lockdown 420 EP)

Slack Hippy (Dogs Bollocks/FM4, Vienna)

London born but long-time Vienna-resident Slack Hippy started DJing around 1990. Performing regularly in clubs such as the legendary Space Jungle in the early 90s, he was among the first DJs to embrace the dark 2-Step sounds of Steve Gurley, Ghost Crew, Horsepower and the likes from around 2000. Hosting his monthly radioshow Dogs Bollocks together with Metalheadz’ D.Kay on Austrian National Radio FM4, he has become one of the most significan representatives of bass-driven dancemusic between 80 and 180 bpm – not only in Austria, but the whole of Central Europe.

Jay-S (Garage Sessions/Play FM, Vienna)

Strolling around on the old Dubplate.net forum ever since – in a way the predecessor of todays omnipresent Dubstepforum – Jay-S has always followed the developments of the UK hardcore continuum very closely. Therefore it’s no surprise that his sets tend to build up like a history lesson, promoting Jungle’s shuffle without neglecting 2-step’s cheeky sides, outweighing Grime’s rawness against Dubstep’s deepness. The same concept can be witnessed every month on his radioshow Garage Sessions on Play FM, where he and his co-hosts – currently DJ Koe – have been presenting the latest UKG mutations since 2004.