Listened to a lot of punk and ska lately. A roller with a 2-step skankin keyboard sound riding on some well known clashes.

London Bass Calling (Dub)

Starting out as a half stepper this track moves on into a rave feeling while coming with broken beats galore. Featuring the antifascist Inglourious Basterds speech – what could possibly go wrong?

100 Nazi Scalps [DL]

Dedicated to Marcus Intalex (14 July 1971 – 28 May 2017) this 160 bpm halfstep dub track builds towards a sample from an Interview with Intalex, where he explains it is easier to start writing a track with a beat rather than a sound.

Further, 'Humble Beats and Sound' includes a delayed "humble" sample from the Upsetters prod. by Lee Scratch Perry: "Calling the meek and the humble - welcome to Blackboard Jungle! So don't you fumble, just be humble!" I hope it's agreeable that this sample appears not necessarily as appropriation but as dedication.

Intalex was influental to me not just through his tracks, but especially through his series of radio shows

Humble Beats and Sound

Building on a drum sample from Lyn Collins' 'Think' (produced by no other than James Brown), a warm base introduces this summer spirited  dubwise Drum'n Bass track. It comes with an unexpected sample from the notorious Milli Vanilli, decently chopped and contextualized through a dubby atmosphere.

Yes You Know [DL]

Oh yes, Camina Drummer in The Expanse, one of the best TV science fiction momements of the last years... Building on a much loved conga/cowbell sample, which I first heard in Shy FX' jungelistic track "Bambaata", sampled from the intro of Sugar Hill Gangs "Rappers Delight".

Beltalowda [DL]

You dont even there [DL]

"If in your office, you as an intellectual worker were was supplied with a computer display backed up by a computer that was alife for you all day" – Sample taken from Douglas Engelbarts 1968 presentation of the principles of interactive computing which later led to systems such as the Palo Alto, MacOs and Windows.
Can't say where the beat is from, was within an old collection and is named 'kick_the_conga.wav'. So what happens in that track is that the main synth and the 'Get up' Sample move around a quarter note every few bars, so that they slowly traverse through the rhythmic structure of the track.

All Day [DL]

Exploring the musical introverse this tracks resorts to heavy 808 kickdrums, to further quote and delay the iconic Amen-Break. These layers get support by base-line which waltzes in ready to provide some decent low end frequencies. Above all floats a sample provided by a more than famous synth-wave band of the 1980s.

Blasphemous [DL]

Building an the Think! drum loop, additional cowbell and congas create a rolling track that features melancholic melodic elements involving lot's of delay on a marimba and a piano. Needs a decent bass sound system to fully enjoy. The title refers to Donna Haraway's book.

Staying With The Trouble [DL]

Energetic, simple and straight forward footwork jungle beats building on a 'yeah' and a 'work' sample. Beats are built from a 909 joined by chopped amen breaks.

Footsie [DL]

A broken beat roller featuring fictive character Roy Kent saying "We're just on the outside lookin' in" over some oldschool base and beats. Inbetween we meet a few sharp stabs, filtered down towards the drop. Overall, a full round bass rumbles over a 'Think'-beat variation, featuring a rather well known tonewood sample taken from one of Photek's tracks.

On The Outside Lookin' In [DL]

Dedicated to Kjetil Sagstad aka K aka Polar who made tracks on another level. I remember especially the album  '37°C And Falling'.

Polar Nights [DL]

Around a hypnotic shekere shaker sample this track explores the depths of acoustic space through multiple echos and delays. Sometimes the snare is dry, sometimes it gets delay and delayed, adding to the lagging behind hypnotics. Inbetween, a robotic vocoder voice interveens, countered by subbass that is only audible on a decent sound system or headphones.

We Got Your Data

Dedicated to all baristas. Smutty rave synths combined with a beat, sampled from Deepblue's 2001 release on 31 records 'Immersion'. Deepblue who went on to create the jungle anthem Helicopter Tune sampled this from a 1990 hip hop track by Tuff Crew, who again sampled it from – wait for it - Lyn Collins' 'Think'. At some point the track also has a deconstructed Amen break, and a very special sample referring to the track's title.

Coffee with cow milk

A clap-your-hands beat against a sweeping synth create a dreamy yet dance oriented breakbeat track. No idea, where the beat loop is from. Let me know. File under Sneaker Social Club and breakbeat.

Sweeper [DL]

🔥 new track of the footwork drum'n bass variety at 160bpm with a lot of acid beeps, pleeps and echoes and of course bass

on Acid [DL]

A dry cowbell drives the hypnotic funk of this 140 bpm track, combined with sludgy synth stabs and an alarming beep sound that slowly rises in pitch. This broken beat is interrupted by a pad that creates space for Bell Hooks talking about controversies in a heated cultural and political environment: „I think that part of the danger for free speech in this society is the deep longing people have both in our personal and public lives to avoid conflict to avoid hurting someones feelings.“
Her Full interview is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2bmnwehlpA

Bells and a Hook [DL]

Inspiration for this 160 bpm junglist Drum’n Bass track came once again from working with two versions of the Think sample. At the track’s center are two different bleep sounds and a lot of delay against a rumbling base line. 

Another entry point was a notorious grime sample from Wonder’s  ‚What‘ grime classic: the Eskimo Bagoo. That’s supposedly based on the Plugsound VST plugin preset called Bagoo. Further we hear an f-major tuned guitar skank, some delayed bleeps and of course a synth drop. 

That’s an overly technical description for a rollin’ skankin' DnB track with a smutty stab drop, enjoy.

Thanks to Marc and Booga for their helpful comments.

Excavations in a field of ruins

Excavations in a field of ruins [DL]

Delayed [DL]

A warm, melancholic bell-melodic track that borrows from twostep and features a superwarm, round, full bass.

Relation [download]

A 140bpm electrobeat track with eclectic sounds dipping into the genres of electro, breakbeat and bass. Inbetween a Chicago House organ appears to give way for an iconic sample nodding to Lee "Scratch" Perry's Blackboard Jungle Dub.

junglejunglejungle [download]

A classic, minimal electro track as if it was 1991. Oh wait, I added some base.

databody

A halfstep track that eventually drops some amen. It stomps at the beginning with a chopped vocal sample by … to break loose late in the track, with heavy rave stabs.

deep skankin

160 bpm slow (Drum'n) Bass movement. Monthly track challenge: Each month a new track. #Leipzig #Bass #160
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