Burnt Hope (Preview)

Thinner Ice (Preview)

My guest mix for Rumble on Studio Brussel - damn I look good in black and white!

Tracklistö

01. Gobs de BXL - 50 Hz
02. gyrofield - Fallen In Deep
03. Bou & Upgrade - Creeper (feat. Chimpo)
04. Gobs de BXL - Thinner Ice
05. QZB - Clairvoyant
06. Fixate - Close Call
07. Redlight - What You Talking About feat. Ms Dynamite (Gobs 'I Don't Know What You're Saying' Bootleg)
08. Major Look - Hush Ya Gums (Acapella)
09. Anima (Khronos x Lumini) - ID
10. DJ Hazard & D Minds - Mr Happy (Gobs de BXL Bootleg)
11. Gobs de BXL - 350
12. Gobs de BXL - What We To Do
13. Bredren - Inferno (feat T-Man)
14. Dub Phizix & Strategy- Deh
15. Winslow - Ravey Jones' Locker
16. Gobs de BXL - Thin Ice
17. Incredible Bongo Band - Apache (Original Mix)

Rumble Guest Mix 2021

Because every one likes Jump Up <3 Enjoy the free DL

Finally an antifascist jump up track to drown out the sounds of your racist uncle, or make your complicity in Fortress Europe that little bit more bearable. Enjoy!

Antiphuh Yoompup

I've been getting really into virtue signaling recently, you know, wearing keffiyahs even though I'm inside and my neck is sweating, that sort of thing. I've also become obsessed with Malarazza by Domenico Modugno (though it's originally a Sicilian folk song, he just covered it).

The song tells the story of a servant who goes up to Jesus who's crucified in a town square somewhere (I imagine it really is Jesus, and not some statue that the servant is imagining can talk to him) and tells him: "Bro, my master treats me like a dog, beating me up in the street and shit. Strike this fucker down Jesus, pretty please, do it for me <3". To which Jesus replies: "Say what, do your arms not work? Ain't no one gonna help you, if you want justice you're gonna have to take matters into your own hands! If I had done that I wouldn't be up here on this cross like an idiot." The chorus is Jesus singing: "You're complaining, but why are you complaining? Pick up a stick and bare your teeth!" The message really resonates with my anti-institutional attitude: we can't rely on institutions to do good anymore (if they were ever trustworthy to begin with), we need to build up our own power and take matters into our own hands.

Anyway, so I thought, "What better way to virtue signal than to make a lazy UK hardcore edit of this militant banger?" And so I promptly did. Enjoy 💚

Malarazza (Gobs de BXL Edit)

Almost a decade ago I made a mix to introduce a friend to Drum & Bass and I thought it was a good time to revisit the idea. I tried to showcase as much variety of DnB as I could, also including genres that are DnB adjacent (bloody love that word) such as Halftime, Footwork and Breakcore. My idea was to test how far I could push the listener's love of fast, syncopated breakbeats. If you made it past the Ivy Lab -> Machinedrum -> Current Value -> Fox Stevenson section, give yourself a pat on the back!

Tracklist:

Afterglow feat. Becky Hill - Wilkinson\
Cosmonaut - Logistics
All I Wanna Do - Sonic
The Big Blue - Brookes Brothers
One More Time (Cyantific Bootleg) - Daft Punk
Disconnect feat. Becky Hill (Shy FX Remix) - Chase & Status
Bigfoot - Nu:Logic
Thinner Ice - Gobs de BXL
Begin By Letting Go (Whiney Remix) - Etherwood
Dead Almost - Bop x Subwave
No Fear feat. Riya - Enei
Love So True - Break
Franky Mountain - Icycle & Nymfo
Mr. Resident - Syncopix
Flashlight feat. Inja - Whiney
Moon Palace - Teebee & Noisia
Old Headz - J Majik & Wickaman
Never Been feat. Fox - Dub Phizix
Away With Me feat. Tamara Blessa (Calibre Remix) - Spectrasoul
Don't Look Back - Dexcell
Rain God - Dawn Wall
Deus - Ivy Lab
Back Seat Ho - Machinedrum
Deep Mind - Current Value
Bruises - Fox Stevenson
You Left Me Hanging - The Caracal Project & Imanu
Your Loss (Halogenix Remix) - Workforce
Petit Homme (Gobs de BXL Bootleg) - Kolinga
Two Words (Tim Reaper Remix) - Workforce
KiBa - Yoofee
Dreadlock - Future Prophecies
Liff Up - Breakage
Asylum - Reactiv
Come On My Selector - Squarepusher
Ultraviolent Jungalist - Venetian Snares

So You Think You Like Drum & Bass?

Simon Reynold's first coined the term "hardcore continuum" to conceptualise music that came out of the UK's rave scene (https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/the-wire-300_simon-reynolds-on-the-hardcore-continuum_introduction). I am a child of that continuum, and I love making mixes that span it as much as possible, from the slow tribal sounds of djrum to stop-start 2-step garage riddims to jittery footwork beats and (quite literally in this mix) back again.

This is my first conscious attempt to encapsulate the variety of the rave music that I love, hence part 1. I want to make more in the future and hell, if any promoter is reading this, I would love to play sets like this.

If you want a track ID just comment on the mix and I'll reply :-)

Discrete Explorations of the Hardcore Continuum - Part 1

Who is "Gobs", and why are they from "de BXL"? To ask this question is to fundamentally misunderstand what Gobs, inter alia, de BXL, is. Gobs is an emotion unsaid, an idea not thought and a force of nature. It's getting up at 5 in the morning only to nap at 10. It's getting the munchies but being too lazy to obtain food. It's that guilty pleasure you get from writing about yourself in the third person.

Mainly though Gobs de BXL is a Drum & Bass producer from Brussels, and a sick one at that (just ask my friends).

Gobs de BXL

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