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The Bug : Main mutation of producer Kevin Martin who over the years has been, and is also currently, known as...
King Midas Sound, Techno Animal/Ice/God (with Justin Broadrick of Godflesh/Jesu), Razor X Productions (with The Rootsman & various M.C’s), Pressure, Ladybug, the man behind Pathological Records, compiler of various compilations for Virgin Records (Macro Dub Infection, Jazz Satellites), production work/collaborations with noise-jazz outfit 16-17, Pete “Sonic Boom” Kemper’s E.A.R projects, John Zorn, Kevin Shields, El-P, and Anti Pop Consortium, to name just a few. Has provided bass booming remixes for Grace Jones, Thom Yorke, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Primal Scream, Einsturzende Neubauten, Stina Nordenstam, Dalek, Two Fingers, Beastie Boys, etc… really far to many to list here. A discography spanning labels as diverse as Ninja Tune, Virgin, Rephlex, Position Chrome/Mille Plateaux, Word Sound, Hyperdub, City Slang, Tigerbeat 6, Grand Royal… all of which shouts loud that Kevin Martin is a credible sonic survivalist and not some come lately producer. 
The Bug first came to be in 1997, when Kevin collaborated with DJ Vadim on ‘Tapping The Conversation’. Released on N.Y’s Word Sound label is was conceived as an alternate soundtrack to Coppola’s ‘The Conversation’. No thought was given at the time that a collaboration with DJ Vadim would be a precursor to working with Ninja Tune 10 years later. 
From 2001-2004 The Bug teamed up with UK dub veteran The Rootsman for a series of singles under the name Razor X Productions. The early productions of which would frame the template for the first proper Bug full length, 2003’s ‘Pressure’. The Razor X material was some of Kevin’s first foray’s into what would become a signature head-sheering apocalyptic dancehall production style. This was continued on ‘Pressure’ but also with an ear to balancing out the sound with headier dubs. Classic dancehall M.C Daddy Freddy was brought in, New Flesh’s Toastie Taylor, along with The Rootsman, Roger Robinson, Paul St. Hilaire (aka. Tikiman), Wayne Lonesome, and more… 
Towards the end of this period some crucial connections would come about that would shape The Bug’s work in the later half of this decade, one of which, was being interviewed for XLR8R Magazine by Steve Goodman, aka. Kode 9. Finding they had a lot of similar music taste and interests Steve recommended a new crop of producers in London that he was hanging out with that were revolving around the Fwd Club at Plastic People. Discovering that these people shared the same hunger for bass, space, and unaligned sonic trajectories, The Bug felt right at home alongside Loefah, Digital Mystikz, Skream, etc… Over time this group of people would shape what would be commonly known as Dub-Step. Through his work with Wayne Lonesome, Kevin was turned on to the work of Warrior Queen. Instantly blown away by her delivery he made contact and the ensuing releases ‘Aktion Pak’ (Rephlex) and ‘Money Honey’ (under the moniker ‘Pressure’ which was released on Kode 9’s Hyperdub label) further shaped the musical direction of The Bug. The final piece of the new incarnation of The Bug came about when Kevin was booked for a Mary Anne Hobbs session of BBC Radio 1’s Breezeblock. Two of the main vocalists requested were Roll Deep’s Flowdan, and Ricky Ranking (best known for his work as vocal foil/inspiration to Roots Manuva). 
"It's angry and ferocious, but always triumphant: When it threatens to bust out your windows and rip holes in your speakers, it crackles with the kind of force that makes you want to punch the air as hard as your subwoofers do" (Pitchfork : London Zoo 8.6)
All these connections became the starting point for ‘London Zoo’, his critically acclaimed debut release for Ninja Tune which dropped in 2008. Utilizing the aforementioned vocalists, along with UK reggae legend Tippa Irie, it was a record grown out of the heart of London sound-system culture and multi-cultural meltdown. A record that although was referenced to the early dub-step scene, also busted outside of any of those narrow definitions and stood on its own as a celebration of the capitals urban cultural clash, uniquely detonating dancehall, grime, hip-hop, and noise onslaughts. A record campaign that culminated in a personal invite from Trent Reznor to blow up stages in some of the most unlikely reaches of America on the Nine Inch Nails "Lights In The Sky" tour. 
"After 'London Zoo' I wanted to come with something intense and fresh, and the ACID RAGGA label is it." Kevin Martin, The Bug 
Having spent the years since London Zoo dropped alternating between Bug live shows, and concentrating on this apocalyptic lovers rock project King Midas Sound, The Bug is remerging, and he's back with a Roland TB-303 in hand, and an 808 under his arm, detonating a new genre and sub-label : Acid Ragga. 
But this isn't your parents second coming of the summer of love acid. This time there will be no smiley faces, no ecstasy, and no future. The world is truly fucked and Kevin Martin can always be relied on to soundtrack armageddon time. Rather, this dystopian acid takes influence from pioneers like Stakker's 'Humanoid' , Plastikman, Phuture's 'Cocaine/Your Only Friend', Aphex Twin etc and twists it into Kevin's own perverted take on classic dancehall. Harkening back to when Sleng Teng refined Jamaican music as we know it, the Acid Ragga imprint will forever scar the face of raggamuffin reggae. 
The first Bug track, scheduled for release in June, is "Can't Take This No More" which finds the legendary Daddy Freddy slowed down to a menacing crawl, on a countdown to self destruction. Whilst the flip ft. Inga Copeland (Hype Williams) on "Rise Up", sounding like Donna Summer on smack, crooning inna deeper shade of blue. 
The debut Acid Ragga release will be swiftly followed by single 2 by The Bug, "Ganja Baby" ft. Daddy Freddy, which is a body breaking, robo-raggamuffin, weed anthem (think 'Witness the Fitness' remixed by Richie Hawtin in cold crush mode). 
Watch for a continuing series of Acid Ragga singles throughout the year. Leading up to the next Bug album proper 'Angels & Devils'. Names that The Bug is working with on the project, in addition to Inga Copeland and Daddy Freddy include Death Grips, Gonjasufi, Grouper, JK Flesh (Godflesh/Jesu), The Spaceape, Flowdan + Warrior Queen. 

THE BUG

'Drop The Other', taken from Emika's self-titled debut album, out now (11 Oct in NA) on Ninja Tune.

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Emika

Emika - 'Drop The Other'

93 Million Miles

Out In The Streets

Fanny Pack & The Snatchers - Tender Lovin'

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Bleaker - Hype (Funk)

Lapalux remix of Fink's 'Perfect Darkness', taken from the 'Perfect Darkness / Berlin Sunrise' EP out now on Ninja Tune.

'Perfect Darkness / Berlin Sunrise' is available now as a digital download.

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Perfect Darkness / Berlin Sunrise

Fink - 'Perfect Darkness (Lapalux Remix)' (Ninja Tune)

<a href="http://www.ninjatune.net/funkiporcini">DOWNLOAD THIS TRACK FOR FREE AT NINJATUNE.NET </a>James Braddell AKA Funki Porcini returns with his 5th album for Ninja Tune, his first since 2002's 'Fast Asleep'. Mixing together surreal jazz, found noise, synthetic strangeness and dream logic, 'On' is as beautiful and odd as anything he has made. Released on 3rd May (1st June in USA), you can get track 2 'This Ain't The Way To Live' absolutely free from <a href="http://www.ninjatune.net/funkiporcini" target=_top onmouseout="window.status='';return true" onmouseover="window.status='Funki Porcini Twitter';return true">here.</a> Pre-order the CD via Ninjashop and the first 20 orders receive an exclusive signed copy: <a href="http://www.11spot.com/shared/cartactions/add.htm?catalogItemId=136150" class=extern target=_blank onmouseout="window.status='';return true" onmouseover="window.status='Funki Porcini Twitter';return true">Ninjashop (USA)</a> / <a href="http://www.ninjatune.net/ninjashop/index.php?cat=0&type=LP&code=ZENCD144#ZENCD144" target=_top onmouseout="window.status='';return true" onmouseover="window.status='Funki Porcini Twitter';return true">Ninjashop (RoW)</a> Braddell could be said to be something of a trip hop pioneer, operating out of the Uterous Goldmine Studio, his 'Hed Phone Sex' album in 1995 brought dark surrealism to sampler music, and pre-dated DJ Shadow's first album 'Endtroducing'. All of this helped bring in a golden era of sampler based music, although on 'On', more live instrumentation is used than any other of the Funki Porcini albums previously. The greatest provocateur and humorist of the early Ninja period, Funki re-animates with his sound intact yet sounding utterly contemporary. Funki Porcini has promised to not let it go so long before his next release . . . :: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Funki-Porcini/112530708760926?ref=ts">Funki Porcini Facebook Page</a> :: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/funkiporcini">Funki Porcini Twitter</a>

This aint the way to live

Funki Porcini - This Ain't The Way To Live

'Prey' feat. J.G. Thirlwell taken from DJ Food's latest EP 'Magpies, Maps &amp; Moons', out 7 Nov on Ninja Tune.

Available on 12" vinyl including poster by 2000AD artist Henry Flint and download.

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Magpies, Maps and Moons

DJ Food - 'Prey' feat. J.G. Thirlwell

Este es un track de una compilación que los londinenses "ZERO 7" hacen sobre la música que mas lo ha influenciado. En una serie de discos que se titula "Another Late Night"
Roots manuva es un rapero-dub de londres con unos buenos tracks en su haber.
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me agrada


Roots Manuva - Witness

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No one above the age of 21 was involved in the making of this album. This album was recorded in one 10 hour session. Thanks to our friends, family, loved ones and anyone who fucks with us.

released 03 April 2012 
Musicians: 

Matthew A. Tavares - Piano, Electric Piano, Prophet 08 
Chester Hansen - Acoustic Bass, Electric Bass 
Alexander Sowinski - Drums, Sampler 
Leland Whitty - Saxophone (leland_whitty@hotmail.com) 
Luan Phung - Electric Guitar (twitter.com/!/bearsmanmics) 

Recording Personnel: 

Audio Engineers - Matt MacNeil & Jack Clow 
Mixed By - Matthew A. Tavares & Matt MacNeil 
Mastered By - Matt MacNeil & Matthew A. Tavares 

Artwork: 

Cover Photography By - Connor Olthuis 
Album Artwork By - Connor Olthuis & Sam Zaret 

Recorded & Mastered at Revolution Recording. 
Mixed at Halfpad69 Studios. 

Tracks 2, 3, 6, 7 & 8 Written & Arranged by BBNG 
All other tracks written and composed by their respective artists and arranged by BBNG. 

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CMYK

Preview edit of 'Can't Take This No More' feat. Daddy Freddy, taken from The Bug's 7" single 'Can't Take This No More', released on Acid Ragga / Ninja Tune in June 2012.

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The Bug - 'Can't Take This No More' feat. Daddy Freddy

Off the "Popular Culture" Mixtape. Download FOR FREE: http://bit.ly/M4IoIB

Wonkavator Ft. Emilio Rojas (Prod By The Awesome Sound)

The Heavy - 'How You Like Me Now' (single)
    
    The Heavy return with next single from their forthcoming album, 'The House That Dirt Built' (release 5th October on Counter Records), a widescreen funk epic, moving from JBs shuffle to crashing break, Animals guitar and horn fanfares, a huge build which is set to bring the house down wherever it’s played. 
      
    As if the original wasn’t enough, The Heavy have compiled a superb package of remixes. Fellow West Countryman Joker gives the original a huge dollop of Purple and comes up with something sounding like Timberlake smoking skunk in St Pauls. Ghost takes the tempo down and emphasises the mournful backing vocals for a suitably majestic finale. As if this wasn’t enough, The Heavy have also thrown in a bonus track, 'Tell It Like It Is', a country-fried hoe-down which emphasises just how good Swaby’s voice is. 
      
    Produced by Jim Abbiss (best known for his work with the Arctic Monkeys, Adele and Kasabian), 'The House That Dirt Built' is a breakthrough record from one of the most exciting bands in the UK just now. With a growing rep in the States, festival dates lined up for the summer and a huge tour to support the album this autumn, the Heavy have just built their house on your front lawn. Get used to the view. 
    

The Heavy - How You Like Me Now?  (Joker Remix)

The Bug - Catch a Fire

Preview of The Bug's "Rise Up" feat. Inga Copeland of Hype Williams, taken from the 'Can't Take This No More / Rise Up' 7", out now on Ninja Tune.

Buy at the Ninjashop: http://ninjatune.net/release/the-bug/cant-take-this-no-more

Listen to a preview of "Can't Take This No More" feat. Daddy Freddy: http://snd.sc/IjGZ4S

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The Bug - 'Rise Up' feat. Inga Copeland

The Bug's Acid Ragga assault continues with news of the second single lined up to drop on his 7" imprint. Daddy Freddy back on the A-Side flex with a body breaking, robo-raggamuffin anthem to that timeless dancehall/reggae subject matter… Weed!

Watch for more Acid Ragga news leading up to the next Bug album proper Angels & Devils. Featuring Inga Copeland, Freddy Death Grips, Gonjasufi, Grouper, JK Flesh, Spaceape, Flowdan, Warrior Queen and more. And also be sure to get your hands on ACIDRA001 in all it's gloriously packaged metallic inks, coloured vinyl and musical pressure hitting stores soon. 

Ganja Baby

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The Bug - 'Ganja Baby' feat. Daddy Freddy

P.O.S - Get Down feat. Mike Mictlan

In anticipation of the release of his debut full-length album Breakthrough, the Gaslamp Killer offers a taste of the ominous urgency that infiltrates his sound with “Flange Face / Seven Years of Bad Luck for Fun.”

“Flange Face (with Miguel Atwood-Ferguson)” rattles into being from a scratchy dissonance and soon descends into a distorted, doom-filled drama. Twisted with tension and hemmed in by a smack of solemn strings, the track operates on a frequency of pure horror. “Flange Face (Low End Theory Edit)” takes it to the club, a bass-heavy gut puncher stripped down to the beats.

With loose drums and a rash of razor-covered synths, “Seven Years of Bad Luck for Fun (with Dimlite)” unsettles into a bath of cold shudders. Inky shadows lurk just beneath the surface, dark reflections of the monsters that are strung between the beats.

Suggestively sinister, the Gaslamp Killer’s latest release is a glimpse of the artist’s contorted sonic landscape, a frightening world of chattering evil and chills that bite into the spine.

The Gaslamp Killer - Flange Face (with Miguel Atwood-Ferguson)

Taken from The Bug 'Infected' EP, out 15 November on Ninja Tune.

Infected EP

The Bug - 'Tune In' feat. Roots Manuva

FREE DOWNLOAD OF THE BUG 'SKENG' (AUTECHRE REMIX PREVIEW EDIT) <a href="http://www.ninjatune.net/thebug">HERE</a>. Coming 15th November on double 12" vinyl and as an MP3/WAV download, Kevin Martin aka The Bug's 'Infected' EP blurs the lines between his various guises, lulling you into a false sense of security before striking out hard. 'Infected' features vocals by King Midas Sound collaborator Hitomi and Roots Manuva (on a monstrous re-working of 'Poison Dart'), as well as remixes from Autechre and Scratcha DVA.

'Infected' EP is available to pre-order now from the Ninjashop: 

<A HREF="http://www.ninjatune.net/ninjashop/index.php?cat=0&type=EP&by=6&code=ZEN12273#ZEN12273">Ninjashop Europe (2x12"/Digital)</A> 

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The Bug - 'Skeng' (Autechre Remix - PREVIEW EDIT)

"Like" Jneiro Jarel's FB page to download mix and tracklist in the "FREE DOWNLOAD" section. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jneiro-Jarel-aka-Dr-Who-Dat/70780838507?ref=hl

By Josiah Hughes (via Dazed Digital)
Having recently released their excellent Key to the Kuffs LP, Jneiro Jarel and DOOM's collaboration as JJ DOOM probably won't be hitting the studio again any time soon. Thankfully, however, Jarel has just compiled some aural treats on a new mixtape. 

The release, which was compiled for Dazed Digital, collects a number of outtakes, remixes and re-edits related to the project. Jarel explained his inspiration for the mix in an interview with Dazed via the following statement: 

I've been hugely inspired by the music from the UK since the '80s. I was into New Wave, I used to listen to Duran Duran, Tears For Fears, etc. People know me as 'vintage-futuristic', I like to always remember and pick the things I love from the past and bring it to the future. So that's what I was doing, bringing Tears For Fears to now and mixing it with a newer song like 'Winter Blues', and also having a Gary Newman's song come on before 'Rhymin Slang' because believe it or not, that's the kind of sound that inspired that type of production. 



JJ DOOM MIXTAPE (DAZED DIGITAL MIX)

Taken from <a href="http://ninjatune.net/artist/the-bug">The Bug's </a> Acid Ragga 7" <a href="http://ninjatune.net/release/the-bug/hardcore-lover-ft-warrior-queen-goodbye-ft-miss-red">'Hardcore Lover'</a> which is released February 4th 

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The Bug - 'Hardcore Lover' feat. Warrior Queen

MASH UP DOWN TEMPO JUNGLE HIPHOP TING !!!!

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JAM BAXTER & DABBLA - EGGS [STIVS & KELVIN 373 RMX]  out 5th of may on born on road records

Glitch Noon by ECHO&TITO

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Atmosphere - It Ain't The Prettiest ft. Brother Ali, Carnage The Executioner, Haphduzn

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Taken from <a href="http://ninjatune.net/artist/the-bug">The Bug's</a> Acid Ragga 7" <a href="http://ninjatune.net/release/the-bug/hardcore-lover-ft-warrior-queen-goodbye-ft-miss-red">'Hardcore Lover'</a> which is released February 4th

The Bug - 'Goodbye' feat. Miss Red

New single 'Cold Win' is released 26th August. Order from iTunes here: http://smarturl.it/coldwinitunes

'Cold Win' is taken from Ghostpoet's sophomore album 'Some Say I So I Say Light'. Available to buy here: http://smarturl.it/somesayiitunes

October Headline Tour:
October 16th: Academy 3 – Manchester
October 18th: Bodega – Nottingham
October 19th: Button Factory – Dublin
October 20th: Wedgewood Rooms – Portsmouth
October 21st: - Glee – Birmingham 
October 22nd: CCA – Glasgow
October 23rd: Warehouse 34 – Newcastle 
October 24th: Hackney Empire – London

Summer Live Dates:
July 26th: Farmfestival (UK)
July 27th: Edinburgh Jazz festival (UK)
August 2nd: Castlepalooza festival (Ireland)
August 3rd: Nuits Secretes festival (France)
August 9th: Wilderness festival (UK)
August 16th: Beacons festival (UK)
August 23rd: Leeds festival – Radio 1 Dance Tent (UK)
August 25th: Reading festival – Radio 1 Dance Tent (UK) + Summercamp festival (UK)
September 7th: Bestival (IoW – UK)

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Ghostpoet - Cold Win

Exclusive track taken from Brodinski's "The Purple Ride" mixtape.

"The Purple Ride" mixtape will be out monday July 8th on www.bromancerecords.com 



King L - Val Venis (Brodinski Remix) [FREE DOWNLOAD]

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