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2010 been a fairly good year for dubstep… it’s now entered the mainstream finally and we’ve seen a stream of decent LPs from the scene’s DJ’s and producers, most notably Breakage’s superb ‘Foundation’.

Whilst the scene still has one foot rooted in the darker side of club music and electronica, Rusko’s “O.M.G.!” offers a breath of fresh air, lightening up the sound whilst keeping the speaker busting bass wobbles and off-kilter rhythm patterns that are synonymous with dubstep. On this album he offers a variety of other styles too, from old-school rave-y breakbeat to digi-dub, showing his flexibility and talent as as a producer and showing willing to push the boundaries. I was hoping this would be a cracker, and it is – I love it and it’s my favourite album of the summer by a long way.

What also caught my eye was the fact that it is a available from the Mad Decent site with two different T-shirts, one for the CD release and one for the double vinyl release for $25 and $33 respectively, which sounds like a good deal.

Apart from that Nokia ringtone that plagued the late 90s, there’s probably few things as irritating as the sound of a vuvuzela. It’s a word that has now entered everybody’s consciousness this summer as we enjoy the World Cup and hate it or love it, it probably won’t be going away any time soon.
To celebrate this summer’s icon (and the World Cup), Hey Indy have released a limited edition T-shirt. Available in white, red, blue and green. Snap one up here for £14.99.

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A sometimes thought-provoking blog by Spanish Illustrator Alex Noriega about things we wish somebody had told us, instead of trying to work it out for ourselves. Oddly beautiful and profound, with a particularly nice use of half-tones. Check out the rest of his blog and his illustrations, here.