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If you’re not familiar with Big Boi’s utterly superb, but randomly titled ‘Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty’, then you may not have heard this yet. I’d like to say it’s one of the better tracks off the LP, but they’re all corkers… there are many potential singles, so maybe we’ll be seeing some more videos in the months to come. Let’s hope so.

Nice warm hazy psychedelic sounds from Solar Bears, this being the title track from their debut LP which will be released 20 September on the Planet Mu label.

Absolutely loving this video, one of the better tracks from the LP.

After their awesome ‘Guns Don’t Kill People, Lazers Do’ LP, I have been eagerly waiting for some new material from Major Lazer to appear. Apart from the ‘Busy Signal’ track, the EP contains remixes of the album tracks, but don’t let that put you off, they’re all totally ace, even the oddly-chosen Thom Yorke remix.

Check out the tracks and preview the audio iTunes.

Free download from Mad Decent too!
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Wicked new material from Roots Manuva and producer Wrongtom. ‘Jah Warriors’ is the one-off lead single from the forthcoming Big Dada album where Wrongtom remixes selected tracks from each of Manuva’s main studio albums, plus ‘Dub Come Save Me’ and ‘Alternately Deep’. Together with vocal spar Ricky Ranking, Roots is in top form, but he’d be less so without Wrongtom’s ace riddims, from the drowsy Caribbean steppers vibe of the title cut, to the dutty wine of ‘Bashment Bogle’ and his tidy digidub mix of ‘Buff Nuff’.

With artwork from the legendary Tony McDermott (who was responsible for the illustrations on Greensleeves classics by the likes of Scientist, Mad Professor and the famous “Carnival of Reggae” 12” sleeve) it’s a thing of beauty.

Original article at (and available to download from) Boomkat.

Skream posted a link to the second of his Freeizm EPs on his Twitter page… five tracks of mellow dubstep available to download with compliments from the man himself.

Be sure to look out for his eagerly awaited LP ‘Outside The Box’ which is due out on the Tempa label at the end of July, as it promises to be one of the biggest releases of the year.

Here’s a podcast from Mad Decent Radio, featuring a radioactive mix from Major Lazer (Diplo and Switch) recorded in Chernobyl. Exclusive Major Lazer tracks are included in the 30 minutes of madness.

Tracklist:
Keep It Going Louder – Major Lazer
Pon The Floor (Razz & Biggy mix) – Major Lazer
Deh Style Deh – Busy Signal Major Lazer dubplate
Hold Yuh – Gyptian (Major Lazer mix)
Hold On – Rusko (Tom Steven mix)
Ride – Ciara (Diplo edit)
One – S.H.Mafia
Freak – Estelle (Kaio mix)
Rudeboy – Giani Mariano Mix/Dj Tameil mix
On To The Next One – Jay Z (Lbl mix)
Teach Me How To Dougie – Cali Swag District
Good Enough – Major Lazer
Say It Aint So – Weezer/Cash Flow Mix (Lobster edit)
How Lo – Ludacris (Caspa Mix) (Diplo Bookashade edit)
Show Out – Roscoe Dash (Heroes & Viliians mix)
Dancehall Queen – Robyn (Stenchman & Diplo mix)
Swagga – Excision (Downlink mix)

Download the mix from Mad Decent Worldwide Radio site, or alternatively, subscribe to the podcast.

Fatboy Slim vs Hervé – ‘Machines Can Do The Work’
I’m loving this track and the video… a welcome return for the sound of the 303.

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.

Had to post this as I dowloaded it today… ace skanking 8-bit digi-dub on the Jahtari label!

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