DJ Mixes

Boo [Re Wonk]

Able8 A.K.A RaptorHandz

Able8 Originals

HI TRAX is Melbourne’s newest underground collective, comprised of producer RaptorHandz (A.K.A Able8), Joe Snow (Defenders Of Style, UK) and Hilltop Hoods APRA grant recipient Sinks. 

Megalodon Music is a sustained onslaught of technical flows woven over the violent bass lines of RaptorHandz. The 3-piece crew makes music with determination to put heavy pressure on dance floors through the use of relentless sub movement, and complex double-time rhymes. Hi Trax is set to light the scene on fire. 

"It's been a long time since we've heard such an onslaught of sounds like this and we're hyped!" - Wordplaymagazine.com 

@RaptorHandz 
@JoeSnowds 
@sinks_music

Hi Trax - Megalodon Music (EP) [prod. RaptorHandz]

@able8 @djkodiakkid

Thanks to everyone for the continued support.

Much Love

all:Lo

all:Lo compilation vol: 5

Able8 & Kodiak Kid - Killaz

Guest Able8 (RaptorHandz/Uncomfortable Beats) & Angus Green (Delight Label)
+ tunes illiterate & Loop Faction (feat. Mr Key), Ivy Lab, Headland, Nikes, Granul (+ Gantz Remix), Imaginary Number, downstairs J, aircode, Mailer, Maltin Worf, Roy Mills, Andrea, Cressida, Tim Reaper, Sam Binga & Addison Groove(Doctor Jeep Remix), Walters & Harka, Ambien Baby, DLR, Hound, Sam Binga & Chimpo, Jubei & DBridge, Nu:Tone, Weighty Jungle, FD, LSB ft. DRS (Lenzman Remix), Fatima Al Qadiri, Loraine James
+ compilations Atlas / 1, Hybrid Hooks, Stand Together, Spectrum Vol.2

Tracklist:
https://www.pbsfm.org.au/program/the-blend/2021-07-12/22-00-00

The Blend 12.7.21 w guests Able8 & Angus Green (Uncomfortable Beats)

Lifted from the New Beginnings compilation of Melbourne artists via @uncomfortablebeats
Link: https://fanlink.to/NewBeginningsVA

New Beginnings

Stream / DL

Slinky (New Beginnings Compilation)

Nintendoe is a hard hitting Dubstep inspired track from Melbourne based producer ABLE8. Packed with massive low-end, glitched-out computer game FX and heavily sampled vocal chops, this is one for the dance floor. 

Available now for free download 
http://uncomfortablebeats.bandcamp.com/album/nintendoe

Written & Mastered by Able8 @ Living Music Studios

Vocal Sample taken from Mike Jones: Still Tippin

Twitter us at @able8 @uncomfybeats
www.uncomfortablebeats.com

Download

Nintendoe

Taken from Pure Dopeness Vol.11 (Sinoptics)
http://sinoptic.bandcamp.com/album/pure-dopeness-vol-11

Sinoptics

Jordanite (Out Now // Sinoptic Int Pure Dopeness Vol 11)

MJM193: Goosebumps 3 - The Final Chapter by the MJM Artists.
https://bit.ly/Goosebumps_MJM

Goosebumps is our third and final horrorcore / Halloween themed compilation by several of MJM's label mates, with a 25 track deep playlist.

The project is live on digital platforms and again on cassette tape (See Bandcamp) with over an hour's worth of music, and all artwork by TheRageArt

Goosebumps #3 - The Final Chapter

TAPE/STREAM/DOWNLOAD

Able8 - Boo [Re Wonk] - Goosebumps - The Final Chapter

Little beat collab I did with U-Wish.

Grab the full release here:
https://sinoptic.bandcamp.com/album/pure-dopeness-vol-13

Free Download

Able8 & U-Wish - Play [Pure Dopeness Vol.13]

Also appears on Free The Beats Vol 5 Sci Fi Edition

"Able’s We Have No Time ventures out into dubstep-kissed soul as booming sub-bass drops roll beneath liquid-sounding synth stabs and noodling jazz-centred keys"
Link: http://www.bmamag.com/articles/cd-reviews/20120227-Various-Artists/

We Have No Time (Free Download)

Millennium Jazz Music would like to welcome you to our new production series entitled Variations. We have put together a brand new international collective simply called, TekHedz. As the name may suggest, this collective is built up of some of our favourite tech composers who are masters and experimentalists in the area of synthesis and sound design. 

Expect fully composed electronic instrumentals in various forms, styles and tempos as these TekHedz each perform and express their own take on electronic music. 

Cassette - 50 low noise ferric tape cassettes in a transparent case. Fully coloured label on both the A and B sides, and fully coloured inlay card
credits
released 17 November 2014 

http://millenniumjazz.bandcamp.com

Countdown (Millenium Jazz / Variations Vol.1)

https://sinoptic.bandcamp.com/album/pure-dopeness-vol-14

Never Got (Pure Dopeness Vol.14)

A Bangin' Hip-Hop beat with Aesop Rock Accapella over the top (Catacomb Kids) Written with a little help from my friend Izabel Caligiore. This beat is Reserved for MC MANIX's Solo Album. Hope you like!

K-Kids (Able + Iz) w/ Aesop Rock Acca

Able8 (Australia) 
Benny Diction (UK) 
Manix (Australia) 
Melody Myla (UK) 
DJ Lickweed (Australia)

Music Production by Able8 
Vocals by Benny Diction, Manix & Melody Myla 
Cuts by DJ Lickweed 
Artwork & Mix / Master by Able8

Too Far Gone (Ft. Benny Diction, Manix, Melody Myla & DJ Lickweed)

My contribution to Free The Beats Vol.13 Futurism Edition.

Download the FLAC and whole release from Bandcamp:
https://freethebeats.bandcamp.com/album/free-the-beats-vol-13

Visitor (Free The Beats Vol. 13)

Winter Fell

Lost It 
Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Able8.
Also Released on Uncomfortable Beats #1 Compilation Release (2011)

In the run up to the July release of their ‘Life Moves’ album and mini-tour this Summer, Australian producer Able8 and London-based lyricist Benny Diction bring you the ‘Spring’ EP. 

‘Spring’ consists mainly of songs written and composed between 2011 and 2012. It begins with ‘Lost It’ and ‘Popularity Contest’, the first songs the pair ever recorded after they met in Melbourne. These are followed by the title track, a moody head-nodder awash with haunting vocal samples, chaotic chords and crashing cymbals. The listener then gets a taste of the summer with the upbeat banger ‘Holiday Snaps’, which Benny wrote during his time in Australia. 

In keeping with the theme of travel, ‘Land & Sea’ is a frantic posse cut, enlisting a wealth of UK emcee talent and featuring fellow Punning Clan members Tony Skank, Louis Cypher & DJ Rasp. As well as showcasing Able8’s versatile production nous, the EP ends with the Polaak and Luca Brazi (Granville Sessions) remixes of the single ‘Over Here’. 

Spring marks the transitionary period between Winter and Summer – as Benny puts it, ‘the world spins into a time of opposites / Like mirrors reflecting optimism with a sinister edge’. This EP also represents a time of development for the duo, as they prepare for the arrival of the ‘Life Moves’ album

Download On Bandcamp

Benny Diction & Able8 - Lost It (Ft. Manix) <Free Download via Bandcamp>

Some spaced out bass I made for Uncomfortable Beats.
Grab the full compilation for FREE here:
https://uncomfortablebeats.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-cake

Something Plutonic [Cosmic Cake]

Track two of the forthcoming release "Program.02" coming out soon on Uncomfortable Beats featuring Elf Tranzporter & Syreneyiscreamy. Cuts by Kavinda.

Big thanks to Howls & Echoes for premiering this one.
http://howlandechoes.com/2016/05/premiere-able8-leader-ft-elf-tranzporter-syreneyiscreamy/

Leader (feat. Elf Tranzporter & Syreneyiscreamy)

"Second To None Music have chosen the right name for their label. These guys should not be underestimated, and their output is among the best UK bass, garage and funky that we have heard recently. This statement compilation is simply putting them on a lot of people's radars, and getting the to know that absolutely nobody at their HQ is messing around when it comes to relaxing fresh bangers for the UK's dance floors. The music is wild and diverse, ranging from pure bassline to UK funky, and there are certainly plenty of noticeable artists and known faces here, including neb-dancehall specialist Deadbeat, Mikey B, B Squared, and Hypho. If you're into the British way of doing house, then this twist up will surely satisfy." - www.JunoDownload.com

The Takeover

Legend Ft. Joe Snow & MC Pean (STNM039)

Millennium Passenger -  Taken from the latest Millennium Jazz Music compilation "The Solar Panel" available on Cassette Tape

"'The Solar Panel are a panel of artists who took inspiration from the summer season and released their warmth in sound waves. "

The Solar Panel LP

Millennium Passenger (The Solar Panel LP)

My output for the latest (free) compilation on MJM "The Down Payment" which is dedicated to the music bloggers out there supporting us small labels.

Grab the full release here:
https://millenniumjazz.bandcamp.com/album/the-big-payback-vol-1-down-payment

The Big Payback vol.1: Down Payment

Bandcamp

Jellyfish (Free Download)

Second revealed track from the upcoming 'New Code Of Morality' release.&#13;
@<a href="http://soundcloud.com/hypemansage" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">HypeManSage</a>&#13;
@ncmhiphop&#13;
@<a href="http://soundcloud.com/able8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Able8</a>

I'm Mad - Ft. Points & Hypeman Sage (New Code Of Morality)

Taken from the Millennium Jazz Music x Monkey Marginal Arts release 'Goosebumps: Children Of The Night'

Able8 version of
Living Inside Your Love by Earl Klugh (1976)


Living Inside Your Love [Free Download]

My contribution to the Carvings Vol.2 compilation dropping on cassette soon via @limbotapes

Carvings Vol.2

Ogre

Coming Soon

Video Clip: https://youtu.be/IK8FXSduLRk

Collaboration with NYC rappers @redddaz & @pacdiggity
Forthcoming @uncomfortablebeats
Program.03 EP dropping July 1st!

Program.03

Video

Bodies (feat. Paco The G Train Bandit & Redddaz)

Featuring @grandmastersinks
out now via @uncomfortablebeats

Lava Drop (feat. Sinks)

Featuring the mighty Elf Tranzporter & Rayjah45
Taken from Program.03 out now via @uncomfortablebeats
https://fanlink.to/Program03

Push Up (feat. Elf Tranzporter & Rayjah45)

Megalodon Music (EP)

HI TRAX is Melbourne’s newest underground collective, comprised of producer RaptorHandz (A.K.A Able8), Joe Snow (Defenders Of Style, UK) and Hilltop Hoods APRA grant recipient Sinks. 

Megalodon Music is a sustained onslaught of technical flows woven over the violent bass lines of RaptorHandz. The record also boasts a feature from top ranking UK Grime and D’n’B MC Devilman. With determination to put heavy pressure on dance floors through the use of relentless bass, and complex double-time flows, Hi Trax is set to light the scene on fire.

HI TRAX pays homage to Hip-Hop, Grime and Dubstep and blends these influences to create a unique style of up-tempo, bass-heavy electronica. Their first video single; ‘Locked’, taken from the groups debut EP ‘Megalodon Music’ was filmed and directed by prominent videographer; Carl Allison which saw the deployment of his signature cinematic prowess. The opening track puts the crews raw talent on full display seamlessly, merging genres.

Credits:
Music produced by RaptorHandz (Able8)
All lyrics by Joe Snow & Sinks, except Devilman on Track.03
Artwork by Baked Lab
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by RaptorHandz

Megalodon Music

Royal Flush

Vortex

VIDEO

Bang Em Out (feat. Devilman) [Prod. RaptorHandz]

Basic

Locked

Long time Ops Able8 presents his latest mix filled to the brim with broken beats and heavy synths, borrowing music from both the past and present and even showcasing some of his own productions across the journey. Zig Zaggery jumps across multiple levels of beats and bass while maintaining a strong motif of staggered drum lines and deep bass.

CYGN - 1989 
 DJ Kuya - Vanilla Papers 
Great Dane - Dirty Daddy 
Able8 - Bodies (feat. Paco The G Train Bandit & Redddaz) 
Able8 - Millennium Passenger 
Able8 - Holding Your Heart 
Darkhouse Family - Red Leather 
Able8 - Crooked Crop (feat. Spider Jaroo) 
Subtly - Hybrids (Crypticz Remix) 
Zomblaze - Pussyclap 
Dusty Ohms - In The Lab ft. SupaSaiyan
Able8 - Killem (feat. Rayjah45) 
Danny Scrilla - All Thumbs Pacific Patterns - Party In My Head
RaptorHandz - Dust Mites 
Dayle & HØST - Sigh
Ivy Lab - Cake 
Sam Binga - Badman Skin (feat. Redders)
Danny Groove - Grouper Chow VIP 
Tsuruda - got way 2 baked at a haunted house [with TONE]
Doctor Jeep - TX 
Mad Zach - Trunk Junk
Johnathan Thomas & RaptorHandz - Rio 
Hooves - Lights Out 
Frenquency & RaptorHandz - Notorious

Zig Zaggery by Able8

‘Oak Dreams’ is the third collaborative release from London-based lyricist Benny Diction and Melbourne producer Able8, following their ‘Spring' EP and ‘Life Moves’ album. The seeds of the project were sown one August, when Benny chose to swap the English summer for the Australian winter and essentially move in with Able for a month. 

Between shows, tram rides and copious bowls of laksa, the pair set about putting together their third release. The process was different from previous projects as working in the same physical space facilitated a more direct dialogue between them, allowing Benny to have more input on production. 

Although they initially had more fresh recordings, they eventually eschewed quantity for quality to narrow it down to these 6 tunes. 

The EP begins with ‘Connected’, Benny’s opening bar serving as a concise comment on his climatical exchange at the time: ‘It’s scarves in August, so we warm it up’. This then segues into ‘Round Again’, where he delivers a double-time flow over a Wurlitzer-driven trap instrumental, concluding with the closing line: ‘In this short life, I spread love, knowing in due time, it comes round again’. 

This is followed by ‘FFWD’, where Benny is joined by Perth-based emcee Mathas to analyse the advancements that have been made in society, along with the advantages and disadvantages that they entail. Benny’s focus is technology, whilst Mathas’ is medicine. The EP then takes a break from the vocal tunes with the haunting instrumental track ‘All Year Round’, again revisiting the ideas of seasons and cycles introduced earlier on. 

The following tune, ‘Oak Dreams’, on which the EP is based, finds Benny drawing parallels between the growth of trees from seeds and the creative process, bringing thoughts and ideas to fruition and manifesting them in reality, inspired after Able sent Benny the euphoric, uplifting instrumental of the same name. The project then concludes with closing track ‘On Balance’, where Benny exchanges bars with longtime collaborator MNSR Frites about the proverbial plate spinning they perform as part and parcel of London living. 

Oak Dreams also features cuts from veteran turntablists Rasp and Sugai, as well as contributions from musician friends who bring live flute, saxophone and guitar to the mix. Benny even plays keys on a couple of tunes! 

Mixed and mastered in its entirety by Able8, Oak Dreams is available now digitally with the option to pledge for it to be pressed on limited 10” vinyl via a Qrates pre-order. 
Vinyl Pre-Order : qrates.com/projects/17060-oak-dreams

Oak Dreams

Oak Dreams EP

Benny Diction & Able8 - All Year Round

Taken from Oak Dreams, available via Millennium Jazz Music (UK)
Cuts by DJ Sugai. 
Flute by Claire Jude Press.

10" Vinyl

Benny Diction & Able8 - FFWD ft. Mathas

Download & Instrumental:
https://uncomfortablebeats.bandcamp.com/album/check-this

Youtube: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xkgf1bzlNs

MC's In Order: Fraksha, Diem, Scotty Hinds, Wiley
Recorded, Mixed, Produced and Mastered by @raptorhandz aka @able8 in Melbourne.

Smash Brothers & Wiley - Check This [Prod. RaptorHandz]

@able8 drops his first FreeTuna titled 'Gameboy', filled to the brim with 8-bit, wonky goodness. Gameboy is a fresh rework of an unreleased 2015 session found on Able's hard drive, created by sampling and re-sampling Gameboy hardware, before layering with punchy drums and synths.

Sample: Spank Rock - Bump

Able8 - Gameboy [FreeTuna012]

Australian Producer / DJ RaptorHandz throws down a relentless Sublimix, packed with 30 heavy tunes over 45 minutes. This journey in sound offers up a dark palate of beats and relentless uptempo rhythms that chop between jungle, footwork and the unknown. 

If you're feeling the sounds, make sure to check out @RaptorHandz, his 'beats' alias @able8 and label @uncomfortablebeats 

TRACKLIST:
 01. Johnathan Thomas & RaptorHandz - Rio [Internetghetto] 
02. RaptorHandz - Frankenzonk - [Internetghetto] 
03. Venuq - Sour Dough (FreeTuna010) [Forthcoming Uncomfortable Beats] 
04. Safire - Crystal G [Plasma Audio] 
05. Danky - Depth (RaptorHandz Remix) [Samsara Beats] 
06. OAKK - Feel So High [Unchained]
07. HNGVR X RaptorHandz - Boyz & Girlz [Muti Music] 
08. Doctor Jeep - Laff Trak (Fixate Remix) [Aufect Recordings] 
09. Walters - Leng Specialist [Samsara Beats] 
10. bastiengoat - Imma Dog [Moveltraxx] 
11. RaptorHandz & Dusty Ohms - ??? [Unreleased] 
12. Itoa - This Tune [Beat Machine Records] 
13. DJ Madd & Jon1st - Roots Fashion [Worst Behaviour] 
14. Musical Mob - Pulse X (Anna Morgan Bootleg) [FORBIDDEN TRAX] 
15. Mister Shifter - Riddim Operator [Artikal Music] 
16. Skelli Skel - Ruling Sound (TMSV Remix) [ZamZam] 
17. Fracture - Overload [Exit Recordings] 
18. Touchy Subject - Seek & Find [RUA Sound] 
19. RaptorHandz - No Exit [Samsara Beats] 
20. Greazus - You Make Me Crazy [Different Music] 
21. TMSV - Nobody Asks [Cosmic Bridge] 
22. BK - Inflicted [Samsara Beats] 
23. Eyes Touch - Dalhas Umaï [Lowrise Sounds] 
24. DJ Cable & Dusty Ohms - Mmm... [Do Androids Dance] 
25. Sinistarr - I Pop, I Jit [Exit Records] 
26. Sam Binga - Run The Dance (feat. Slick Don) [Critical Music] 
27. Itoa - French Cola [Bad Taste Records] 
28. 6T - How Long Will It Last [Asan Music] 
29. Face Invada - Ma Petite Amie [Sequel One] 
30. RaptorHandz & Frenquency - Notorious [Internetghetto]

Sublimix #44 - RaptorHandz

RaptorHandz - Threat Zone

Follow: http://soundcloud.com/onsetaudio


******

Follow Onset Audio
Website: http://onsetaudio.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OnsetAudio
Twitter: twitter.com/onsetdnb
Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/onsetaudio

Additional release info: 
LABEL: Onset Audio
ARTIST: Johnathan Thomas, HammerZz, Root For The Villain, RaptorHandz
TITLE: Afterlife EP
GENRES: Drum & Bass
CAT: OA211
RELEASE DATE: 2020-06-19
TRACKS: 4

Check out other tracks on this release:
1.) Johnathan Thomas - Afterlife ()
2.) Johnathan Thomas, HammerZz - A Murder ()
3.) Johnathan Thomas - Afterlife (RaptorHandz Remix)
4.) Johnathan Thomas, HammerZz - A Murder (Root For The Villain Remix)

QM-RZS-20-00331
QM-RZS-20-00332
QM-RZS-20-00333
QM-RZS-20-00334

Johnathan Thomas - Afterlife (RaptorHandz Remix)

Johnathan Thomas & RaptorHandz - Leaving Hope

Johnathan Thomas & RaptorHandz - Strange Horizon

01. BitLoud - Shady Blooms [Forest Biz]

02. Koen -1140 [Soulection]

03. Klimeks - Dreamscape '95 [wavemob]

04. Dpat & Atu - Nothing Here [Soulection]

05. Hi Trax - Locked [Uncomfortable Beats]

06. Surreal - Indian Flute [Duploc]

07. Non Drifter - Tax [Souletiquette]

08. JD. Reid - WOOLARN

09. CMPND - E.W.A [High Focus]

10. Tsuruda - babababababab [Self Released]

11. Juss B - Can't Sleep [Duploc]

12. Cesco - Bomba [1985]

13. GREAZUS x Vandull - Energy [Unreleased]

14. Sh?m - Resurgence [Flow Fi]

15. Able8 - Gameboy [Uncomfortable Beats]

16. Gylzey - Repose [Daruma]

17. Dusty Ohms & SupaSaiyan - Quit Beatin' The Devil Round The Stump [Smho Wal]

18. OAKK - Twisted

19. HNGVR - CHECK-1-2 [OBL/QUE]

20. Able8 - Killem (feat. Rayjah45)[Uncomfortable Beats]

21. Able8 - Encoded (Unreleased)

22. Doctor Jeep - Adianta [Self Released]

23. Able8 & Rider Shafique - Tru Dat [Unreleased]

THESEUS_FM Vol.3: Able8

P r o d u c e r   |   D J  
A . K . A @raptorhandz

Founder of @uncomfortablebeats 
Proud member of @theoperatives
Part of the @millenniumjazz fam
1/3 of Hi Trax (Joe Snow & Sinks)

Worked on music with artists like Wiley, Devilman, Joe Snow, Hi Trax,  Rider Shafique, Dusty Ohms, Paco The G Train Bandit, Benny Diction, Cappo +++

Opened for DJ Krush, Goth Trad, Nadia Rose, Black Josh, Om Unit, Machinedrum, Mark Pritchard, Ivy Lab, Samiyam, Alix Perez, Eprom +++

Other: Studio Production Engineer  / Youth Mentor

Contact: info@uncomfortablebeats.com

Able8

Pinned to spotlight

Popular tracks