We invited Mentha and Matt from Subaltern Records to chat about the label and their music, which is in some parts completely non-electronic. The guestmix was mixed and selected by Mentha and features a lot of unreleased and forthcoming tracks that are exclusive tracks to the label, and even a very exclusive guest appearance by the singer Zia-Flow. In Mentha`s guestmix you will also listen to hot and exclusive tunes by D-Operation Drop, Ziplokk, Shu, Causa, Ago, Clearlight, Otz and many more.

TRACKLIST MENTHA
01 Clearlight - Magic Service - Forthcoming Subaltern Records
02 Causa - Nights - Dub
03 D-Operation Drop - Fibers - Dub
04 Taiko & Le Lion - De Maya - Subaltern Records
05 Ago - Opium Riddim - Subaltern Records
06 Piezo - Blaster - Subaltern Records
07 Mentha - Trapdoor - Dub
08 Causa & Shu - Dubhelmet - Infernal Sounds
09 Murk & Shiva - Granite - Dub
10 Oxossi - Bayou Riddim - Dub
11 Ago - Backlash - Subaltern Records
12 Taiko - Stick Fight (Mentha Remix) - Subaltern Records
13 Ziplokk - Lump - Dub
14 Cuttle - Nevermind (Mentha Remix) - Dubs Alive
15 Otz - Forest Beat - Dub
16 Gaze Ill - Gekko - Dub
17 3WA - Royal Rumble - Cue Line Records
18 RDG & Gaze Ill - Keepin’ It Real - Cue Line Records
19 Clearlight - Illness Point - Forthcoming Subaltern Records
20 Ago - Trust Inc. - Subaltern Records
21 Taiko - Flummox - Subaltern Records
22 Clearlight - Carousel - Forthcoming Subaltern Records
23 Mark Pritchard - Heavy As Stone - Deep Medi
24 Clearlight - Fractal Cloud (ft. Enuui) - Forthcoming Subaltern Records
25 Mentha - Absence - Dubs Alive

Impulse #43 – Subaltern Records

Cosimo Metta aka MET, begins his career as a drum&amp;bass dj and a scratch lover.

In 2000 begins to organize and promote music events in north Italy, mostly in Bologne, as an ALTERED BEATS CREW member, indipendent project up to the beginning "http://www.myspace.com/alteredbeatscrew"&gt;http://www.myspace.com/alteredbeatscrew"<a href="http://www.myspace.com/alteredbeatscrew">http://www.myspace.com/alteredbeatscrew</a>

Special guests of this events are weighty producers from drum&amp;bass world, we remember: DYLAN &amp; ROBIN CHAOS, TECHNICAL ITCH, N-PHECT, RAIDEN, B-KEY &amp; VICIOUS CIRCLE. 
After several years he decides move to Berlin, becoming part of a project already afoot called JOPREC "http://www.joprec.org"&gt;http://www.joprec.org

This is an indipendent label situated in German capital, and even an agency of shows, management &amp; artists booking. His career as producer begins in Germany. 
He was deeply influenced by D'n'B in his first inedited works. 
After, will be DUBSTEP (very late kind of music influenced by Garage, Raggae and 2step) that opens him more doors.

His first ufficial digital release comes out on november 2008, in EP with the name SUB DUB EP, for the italian's “SUBCULTURE”. this is the beginnig of a several collaboration with other producers: KILLERALIEN, EVILBASS &amp; CHOKE. 
His second Ep comes out on june 2009 with the name of BAUSTELLE Ep, for “JOPREC”, followed by a third on august of the same year, this time for the londoner “GAMMA AUDIO”, with the name of “KILLA ALONE Ep”. 
This is a featuring with the russian producer CHOKE 
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/chokedub">http://www.myspace.com/chokedub</a>

(<a href="http://www.myspace.com/chokedub">http://www.myspace.com/chokedub</a>)

There are new releases work in progress for MET, forthcoming out on JSD (JOPSTEPDIVISION), a Dubstep division of the Joprec main label.



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Impulse is the bass music event in Berlin! We run our regular party series for more than 6 years in the cities hottest clubs and broadcast our monthly radio show on BLN.FM – Berlin's only independent radio station.

Painful Pleasures experiments with the sonic balance between light and dark, pleasure and pain. His soulful and creative mixes behind the decks along with his stoic demeanor make him inspiring to watch and dance to.

Have a listen to Tiggitty and I guarantee your trip through the echo of spiraling sonic bass waves melding vinyl  and since the Valley Fire in  Cobb,Mt. digital formats, will only enhance your musical appreciation for the mystic mannerisms in mastering old school records never blended in such a seemingly Tiggtastic synergy, One forgets these records range in date to early mid 70's with Jean Michele Jarrer creating these sounds with beat machines and computers he created, synths soundng like visable lasers of the mind crashing with waves to make {Oxygen}.....Greeting fellow travellers of your set resting, drinking, and Chuffin' Tuff having a good Middle Earth party for thier Mighty Little Hobbit Bilbo Baggins...Get dark in the subway tunnels of carnival New York, home of the Spriited Realm Seeker DJ Spooky....Jarring out on some Smokey Dubbed out Plates you must fulfill an urge....ok by me..enjoy, because you have alphabetting genius Blackalicous to draw the curtain into a tube owning his prose through fantastic tales of heroism,  shaded in beautiful tones of spacial realism. Nobbing on the foward motion of breakbeats you begin to understand Tiggnacious beginnings of future records many of which were born of San Francisco and surrounding cities...Hardkiss Bros..Wicked Crew....Hawke...then deeper yet to enjoy Rabbit in the Moon....Bringing Drum and Bass into the fold, my favorite, we revert into oblivion minding the the sacred past with respect to old school cats of Rap funky legends Eric B. and Rakim{Paid in Full} and other suprises to encounter....Keep the BASS UP....And get Tiggitty in your Brain......Sorry for the breaks in the mix I need to polish those out and will someday.....all mixes recorded live, no practice of set, just a lot of collecting listening, and recently in the last 9 months understanding a bit about the Denon DJ Prime 4....Having fun...Dreaming in Sounds.... Wishing Out Sonic Waves Blended in a Surreal Imagination..... Tiggination Salute!

Impulse #43 – Subaltern Records

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