Here is a recording of me playing on Rude FM some twenty years ago, under the youthful moniker of DJ Kudos. Shout out to Deltek418 for the recording. 

https://www.rudefm.com

DJ Kudos - Rude FM 88.2 (20.07.02)

Here is another recording of me playing on Rude FM some twenty years ago. Again, under the youthful moniker of DJ Kudos. Shout out to Deltek418 for the recording once again!

https://www.rudefm.com

Rude FM

DJ Kudos - Rude FM 88.2 (2002)

My guest mix for @IlaBrugal's show on @Balamii

Basic Rhythm - Balamii 220622

Rupture x Bassbin

Basic Rhythm & MC Moose - Rupture x Bassbin

Basic Rhythm - Rude FM 12.03.23

Ahead of my set at Soul In Motion at Dalston Roofpark on the 30th of July, I recorded a guest mix for their Kool FM show, which you can now listen back to here.

Tickets for the SIM Sunday Session are available here: https://ra.co/events/1732157

Shout out to @SoulInMotionLDN & @NeedForMirrors for having me.

Kool FM

Soul In Motion w/ Basic Rhythm - Kool FM 180723

Track taken from my latest EP, The Bounce, out now on @the-trilogy-tapes. https://www.beatport.com/release/the-bounce/4371512

The Bounce

Basic Rhythm - Unworthy (TTT)

Basic Rhythm - Fists In The Pocket (TTT)

Basic Rhythm - Tubby (TTT)

Basic Rhythm - The Bounce (TTT)

01 Grace Jones - Operattack
02 Basic Rhythm & NyNy - Dubplate
03 M-Zine - I Know
04 Basic Rhythm - Dubplate
05 Cloud Lord - Dubplate
06 Basic Rhythm & J Kenzo - Dubplate
07 The Sauce - Night Night
08 Basic Rhythm - Woozy
09 Minor Forms & Zero-T - Crime Thing
10 Basic Rhythm - Mind Killer
11 Future Cut - Whiplash (Dubplate Remix)
12 Dillinja - Grimey (Dubplate Remix)
13 Cloud Lord - Dubplate
14 Basic Rhythm - Dubplate
15 Cloud Lord - Dubplate
16 Basic Rhythm- Shape Without Form
17 Breakage - Style
18 Basic Rhythm - The Bounce
19 Myth - Womble
20 Covert Garden - Dubplate
21 M-Zine - Boi
22 D-Minds & Jakes - Horrid
23 Need For Mirrors - Pegasus (Dubplate Remix)
24 Zero-T & Minor Forms - When I Step
25 Basic Rhythm - No End
26 Sully - XT
27 Basic Rhythm & J Kenzo - Dubplate
28 Trakker - Dubplate
29 Kid Drama & Garvo - Nicked
30 Basic Rhythm - Fists In The Pocket
31 J Kenzo - Dubplate
32 Basic Rhythm - King Ubu
33 Basic Rhythm & Trakker - Dubplate
34 Grace Jones - Operattack

Photo Basic Rhythm at Valve, E1, December 2023

Basic Rhythm - Studio Mix 090124

Following the initial response to the split single we have decided to release the remixes on vinyl along with the original tracks.

Sully’s XT opens track one with sparse percussive reverberation before dropping straight into the funk with a bubbling break and a bass-line reminiscent of American b-movies of the ‘70s. XT bustles along with a militant urgency, but never losing the funk flavour.

On track two, Basic Rhythm flips Sully’s XT into a straight ahead 2 step pattern, retaining the energy of the bass line whilst ramping up the militant urgency, all without losing the funk flavour. Combining modern drum production with a 90s jump up vibe.

Basic Rhythm’s Woozy is a suitable companion piece, opening track three with an ominous Hammond organ chord line and a scattering of half heard vocal snippets, before dropping into a militant break with a one note bass-line evocative of 97 era V Records. Dark and moody, but with the dance floor firmly in step.

Sully’s flip of Basic Rhythm’s Woozy on track four strips away the layers. Opening with a spartan percussion and a scattering of vocal snippets, reducing the one note bass-line to an even more laconic drawl, while littering the track with bursts and stabs of strings and effects. This one is for the dark corners of the dance.

https://basicrhythm.bandcamp.com/album/xt-woozy-remixes

UHMN01R

Sully - XT (Basic Rhythm Remix)

Ahead of the next @ClubPressure at Corsica on the 11th of January, I recorded a guest mix for the Soul In Motion takeover on Kool FM, which you can now listen back to here.

Tickets for Pressure are available here: https://ra.co/events/2030243

Shout out to @SoulInMotionLDN & @NeedForMirrors for having me.

SIM w/ Basic Rhythm & Lyrical Strally - KOOL FM 291224

Basic Rhythm & MC Blacka - Club Pressure at Corsica 11th January 2025 
https://www.instagram.com/club.pressure

Pressure

Basic Rhythm & MC Blacka - Pressure 110125

Basic Rhythm & Evil B - Pressure 300825

I started this mix series a number of years ago, but then moved abroad and was unable to continue. During that time I started the Basic Rhythm project as a means of more explicitly exploring my own musical background in pirate radio and in the process re-contextualizing and updating it. Having since moved back to London I decided to relaunch the series, this time using the Basic Rhythm alias as it felt more apt to tie it to this project. Fact Mag were hosting the series for a brief time, but I decided I would prefer to do it on my own and have total control over the artwork and presentation. Each mix will naturally be entirely subjective, consisting of what I was playing and listening to at the time, as well as the big tunes on radio and in the raves.

The series starts at my early days of buying records at Music Power in Ilford, Total Music in Bethnal Green, Boogie Times in Romford, and even the odd trip to Paul for Music in Whitechapel; listening to Pulse FM, Unity 88.4, Weekend Rush and of course Kool FM; going raving at Telepathy, One Nation, Slammin’ Vinyl, Stratford Rex, Bagley's, The End and so on; playing on my first pirate station, eventually ending up on the infamous Rude FM. It kicks off in 1990, moving through early House and Techno, Hardcore, Jungle and eventually Drum & Bass.

The name is taken from a series of 12″s on 3rd Party Records, and feels suited to the mixes as not only did most of us start mixing in our bedrooms back then, but that is also where a lot of us made the music.

Shout out to Barry’s Da Mix, Vonnett, Leon, James, Pick N' Mix, Jamie K, MR2, Fugee and all the Rude FM Kru, Leon at Music House, Loxy, Jim Kutta, Mike and everyone at Planet Mu, Mickey Pearce, Lamont, Parris, Mick Harris, all the silent listeners and all the bedroom ravers. A special thank you to William Kingett / Worried Works for the artwork.

Basic Rhythm - Straight from the Bedroom 91 - 93

Here is the Renegade Hardware mix I recorded for the @FACTMag "Focus" series back in 2015.

This week’s installment comes from Basic Rhythm, who focuses on oft-overlooked D&B imprint Renegade Hardware. Hart cut his teeth spinning on London pirate radio in the 90s, and Renegade Hardware was a big part of that.

“It was a label that made up at least half of every set I played on Rude FM from the late 90s to the early 2000s,” he says. “I feel it’s a label that is often overlooked in favour of ‘hardcore jungle classics’.”

Tracklist:

Future Forces Inc – ‘Intensify’
Paradox – ‘A Certain Sound’
Genotype – ‘Square Waves’
Absolute Zero & Subphonics – ‘The Code’
Dom & Roland – ‘Transmissions’
Usual Suspects – ‘Killa Bees’
Usual Suspects – ‘Hole Punch’
Loxy & Ink – ‘Airlock’
Digital & Spirit – ‘Crash’
John B – ‘Adrenaline’
DJ Reality – ‘Detroit Blues’
DJ Loxy & Usual Suspects – ‘Stalker’
Digital – ‘Lockdown’
DJ Ink – ‘Ice Age’
Loxy & Ink – ‘Pipe Tune’
Konflict – ‘Messiah’
DJ Loxy – ‘Caution’
Future Cut – ‘Whiplash’ (Lemon D Remix)
Loxy & Ink – ‘Sabretooth’
Konflict – ‘The Beckoning’ (Usual Suspects Remix)
Usual Suspects – ‘Shrapnel’ (Stakka & Skynet Remix)
Loxy & Dylan – ‘Nightmare’
Loxy & Dylan – ‘Death March’
DJ Ink – ‘Need You’
Digital – ‘Rocksteady’ (4 Horsemen Remix)
DJ Ink – ‘Mirage’
Universal Project – ‘Tempest’
Paul B & Dissident – ‘Technecium’
D Kay – ‘Zombie Nation’
Loxy & Dylan – ‘The Force’
Spirit – ‘Stone Cold’

Renegade Hardware Mix

FACT Focus 3: Renegade Hardware - Basic Rhythm

Something for the Silent Listeners 91 - 93

Basic Rhythm - Something for the Silent Listeners 91 - 93

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