Balkan Brass, Bass and Speed Freaks - Volume 01 - Remixes and mashups of remixes of Balkan and Gypsy tunes. Drum and bass, jungle house, dubstep, gypsy core and more.

Balkan Brass, Bass and Speed Freaks - Volume 01

Radio rebroadcast of most of a recording of my performance at one of Sydney, Australia's notorious Uber Lingua parties on Sept. 24, 2011. 

also performing on that night were: CINCO CINCO CINCO [555], the one and only DUBCHAMAN vs MC HERNAN, DJ JONAH [bhangra set], NAUTILUS SOUND [gong], LARS OLLO [middle east set], MORGANICS [indige sounds], TREVOR BROWN [gypsy dub sound system] & T-ROCK[deutschland]  and multi-screen video by .M. & DIO...


GlobalRuckus - Live in Sydney - Uber Lingua Party - 2011-09-24

Live recording of my first set at Deschutes Brewing's Jungle Cross Party in Bend, Oregon. This set was in the outside tent for a party that had about 2000 people. After this set the police came and threatened to shut the whole party down if they didn't shut down this outside stage because of all the bass. My apologies to Professor Stone who couldn't play his whole outside set because of this, but have to say that the Meyer sound system used that night was incredibly awesome sounding (and feeling).

Jungle Cross-Set 1-Deschutes Brewing - 2014-11-01

Second set at the amazing Deschutes Brewery Jungle Cross party, coming off the incredible band, Chicago Afrobeat Project and passing the torch to Professor Stone. As a DJ it's fun to take people on journeys into unfamiliar territory. The dance floor will let you know when you take them to far out of their comfort zone and you have to return to more familiar territory. This wasn't some small underground scene, it was a 2000 person party at one of the most successful breweries in Oregon, so I wasn't expecting the good people of Bend to be too open to edgy music from Angola, Portugal or Brazil, but quickly found that the further out I delved, they were more than willing to follow. Not sure if any DJs have dropped kuduro or Baile funk in their sets in Bend before, but was thrilled by the response. Good times. 

Jungle Cross-Set 2-Deschutes Brewing - 2014-11-01

Around the time of this show (2011-06-30) a fair amount of Toureg groups had been coming through Portland that I had the pleasure of opening for (including Tinariwen and Bombino). I used a lot of that material for this night while opening for the fabulous Western Saharan act Group Doueh. Many of the tracks are from nearby musically rich Mali with some from or influenced by neighboring Morocco and Algeria. 

Track list is:
Toumani Diabate with Ballake Sissoko - Cheiknah Demba
Toumast - Tallyatidagh
?(don't remember yet)?
Gnawa Impulse - Gnawa Airlines
Oumou Sangare - Donso
Rokia Traore - Kanan neni
Yoro Sidibe - Noumou Koulouba
Vieux Farka Toure, Ali Farka Toure - Tabara
Koudede - Ewilla
Super Rail Band - Mansa
Tinariwen - Chet Boghassa
Les Escrocs - Pirates
Neba Solo - Vaccination
Toumast - Maraou Oran
Keba Cissoko & Famoro Dioubate & Chikako Iwahori & Sylvain Leroux & Rufus Cappadocia & Peter Fand - DJiu De Galinha (Guinea Bissau)
Vieux Farka Toure - Sangare (DJ Center)
Issa Bagayogo - Namadjidja
Abdallah Oumbadougou (Featuring Daniel Jamet) - Ghaï Imidraï Imageren

GlobalRuckus - It Came From Africa - Vol 01 - Group Doueh Opener

My set from What The Festival?! 2014 on the Shinto-A-Go-Go stage. I was asked to put together a Spaghetti Western, Ennio Morricone, Dusk Til Dawn themed sunrise set. This mix of remixes, mashups and originals is what I came up with, with the last track playing just as the sun came up.  Recorded live - 2014-06-21

Set list:
Artist		Title
Antonio Banderas & Los Lobos -	El Mariachi (Kid KOBRA Trapiachi Remix)
A Tribe Called Red - The Road, ft Black Bear
Ennio Morricone - Il Bruno, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo (The Good The Bad The Ugly) [Hird Remix]
Ennio Morricone - A Fistful of Dollars [giz remix]
The Handsome Family - Far From Any Road
Depeche Mode/Jace Everett - Personal Jesus (Dirty South Remix) Mashed with Bad Things (True Blood Theme) [dj tipz]
Bruce Springsteen - State Trooper [Trentemøller Mix]
Antonio Banderas & Los Lobos -	Cancion del Mariachi  [DJ Press remix] 
Ween - Buenas Tardes Amigo
Ennio Morricone - Muchio Selvaggio (My Name is Nobody) [ 2Raumwohnung Remix]
Don Johnston & Leo Wood - I Need Swing 
Calexico - The Ride, Pt. II
Firewater - Paradise
Nettle - L'Avion [4bstr4ck3r remix]
Patricia Vonne - Traeme Paz
Chingon - Malagueña Salerosa
DeVotchKa - Along the Way
Tito & Tarantula - After Dark
Cantori Moderni Di Alessandroni - Navajo Joe [Original Main Title]
Ennio Morricone - Farwell to Cheyenne
The Handsome Family - Far From Any Road [AMB Bootleg]
Cantori Moderni Di Alessandroni - Theme From A Fistful of Dollars
Calexico - Minas de Cobre (For Better Metal)
Ennio Morricone - L'Estasi Dell'Oro (The Good the Bad The Ugly) [Bandini Remix]

What The Festival?! - 2014 - Shinto-A-Go-Go - Sunrise Set

For a number of years, I delighted in putting together East Asian bass music sets to play at the Threshold: Chinese New Year parties that were thrown in Portland, OR. I had really gotten hooked on some of the artists I discovered after playing some gigs in Shanghai and Beijing back around that time and was stoked to share what was coming out of that part of the world, in particular the tracks that blended traditional sounds with heavy bass beats. The Threshold parties are on a hiatus of indefinite length and I've been missing playing sets in this style. Especially since more and more amazing music is emerging from those scenes. When I was asked to return to play at Shinto-A-Go-Go (a bamboo tea house courtyard designed stage) at What The Festival?!, it seemed like a great setting to unleash a set of this style. This is the result. Enjoy.
BTW - If you like this mix, I currently have up two other Chinese New Year mixes from the Threshold parties in 2010 and 2012. It's been an interesting progression in the east Asian bass music world.  Mixes here https://soundcloud.com/globalruckus/threshold-2010 and here
https://soundcloud.com/globalruckus/globalruckus-live-at-refuge
I still hope to get my 2013 Threshold Chinese New Year mix up some day as well.

What The Festival?! - 2016 - Shinto-A-Go-Go - Sunrise Set

DJ set from the opening of the main stage at the Threshold 2010 - Chinese New Year (Year of the Tiger) party at 2410 in Portland. This is an all Asian focused set and includes live instrumentation from Daniel (trombone) and Domonic (sax) from March Fourth Marching Band. 

Threshold - 2010 - Chinese New Year - Year of the Tiger

My sunrise set of Chinese and Asian inspired bass music for Threshold - Chinese New Year Party - 2012 - Enter the Dragon. It's a mixture of dub, trip-hop, luvstep, dubstep, and other styles. The line-up included Ana Sia, David Starfire, Vokab Company, Pumpkin, Marv Ellis, Solovox, Bridgetown Revue and much more... Put on by SijaPDX and Diggable Monkey as a fundraiser for the Portland Artist Clinic. https://www.facebook.com/events/249510408446206/

I had played several gigs in Shanghai and Beijing just prior to this event and spent a lot of time trying to track down quality and amazing music for this sunrise set that would not wipe out the crowd with exhaustion nor bore them away. And I didn't want to play any track I'd played in previous years. Definitely exciting things are happening in China with music, a lot of it crossover work between European/American expats and locals, but local producers are making great music as well. It was hard to track things down I heard either because people didn't know what it was or because the artist wasn't ready to let it out there (I would have killed to have an amazing drum-n-bass track with Chinese vocals I heard someone from Heatwolves drop at the Friend or Foe record release party, but for now I still patiently wait). In any case, I generally prefer to not repeat artists in my sets, but in order to keep the flow going at the pace I wanted, that's definitely not the case here. I hope you enjoy.

Here's the track listing:
Intro 
MrMamadou the PiArt - The lost DUB of TAO
AM444 - 神经末梢 (Shen Jing Mo Shao)
SIG - 發條密碼 Clockwork Password  https://soundcloud.com/sigcn/track
SaDingDing - Yun Yun Nan Nan
modidextrous w Miss Melody - Wang Ming Yue
Hebe (田馥甄) - Love (we love bang remix by Heatwolves &amp; DJ Caution)
SaDingDing - Blue Horse
AM444 - Eye Wonder
Onra - Gotta Go
Adam Shaikh - CrossRoads (Timothy Wisdom remix)
AM444 - 失忆 (Shi Yi)
AM444 - 神仙药 (Shen Xian Yao)
Middle Kingdom - Hong Do Ci
KOMODO - Subluna  
Onra - Fight or Die
mobidextrous w Miss Melody - Apology (Vocode mix)
Uprooted Sunshine - Bu Bu Bu (Ni bu ai wo) w/Didjelerium &amp; Cha Cha
Exit

GlobalRuckus-Live At Refuge-Threshold-Chinese New Year Party-2012

My 2009 Saturday night post-Burn set at the HookahDome reprised and boiled down (I think the whole set was like 4 hours) for your listening pleasure. A blend of beats from around the Mediterranean and east. The HookahDome is a Burning Man theme camp known for it's day time inside hospitality with lots of rugs, cushions, hookahs, Turkish delight, and belly dancers and at night it has top global bass and ethno-tek DJs from around the world. It also has what is arguably one of the best sounding sound systems on the playa (even when compared to Funktion One systems). More about the HookahDome on facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/148346524104/ 
I hope you enjoy the mix.

Burning Man - HookahDome - Outside - 2009

Recording of my set performed at London's infamous Book Club for their Electro Swing Club night. The theme was "An Italian Affair" and the line-up included Sweet Life Society from Italy, DJ Bingly Bongly, Los Bastardos, Josh Et La Chat, and DJ Chris Tofu. An amazing introduction to London for me and an eye opening event to see how big electro-swing had become in Europe. I'd been playing in here and there in the US for the prior 8 years, but this club was packed to the gills with a line down the block. My set was a mixture of house style swing, west coast ragtime and non-mixed favorites of mine. Hope you enjoy.

Electro Swing Club - London - An Italian Affair - 2011-5-25

Recorded live on 2012-09-29 @ the legendary Someday Lounge, this was a reunion of of the four key DJs/producers (El Capitan, GlobalRuckus, Manoj, Solovox) around the Portland based Burning Man art car, the Mobile Groove Bomb. Packed to the gills, the night was absolute mayhem including a monitor dropping off another speaker right onto Solovox's keyboard which knocked out some of it's ivories. I had just got back from Burning Man and had lost several control knobs on my midi-controller and several buttons like the cue buttons were also broken, so my gear was barely functional. I'm not one to let such things stop me though. I think this set captures me at my chaotic schizophrenic best, with no underlying theme, just global bass from around the world, getting faster and faster and jumping from country to country, continent to continent. My set also featured members of March Fourth Marching Band and Bridgetown Review working their own Gangnam Style dance routine, metal version. Tracklisting coming soon.

GlobalRuckus - Mobile Groove Bomb Crew reunion - Someday Lounge - 2012-09-29

Portland, OR based trans-global groove maniac GlobalRuckus scours the four corners of the earth for hot emerging electronic and traditional sonic gems and distills them into pan global dance frenzy elixirs. Specializing in Balkan beats, Arabic hiphop, nu-cumbia, electro swing, Tropical, bhangra, moombahton, and danchall with the added spices of banda, samba, kuduro, and any other culturally rich sounds that engage him, you're guaranteed a wild ride on the dancefloor with sets that range from high energy to slow and sensual. The last year and a half has seen him perform at a vast array of genre-bending events including Electro Swing Club - London, bass nights in Johannesburg and Beijing, tropical nights in Shanghai and Sydney, Balkan beats nights in Brussels, Vienna and Holland and many more at various festivals and events around the US including of course Black Rock City (Sacred Spaces, Hookah Dome, Root Society, Dustfish).

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