Touching Bass

Head to Noisey to read the interview with Bloody Knees and stay tuned for Touching Bass on every Friday of every week:

TRACKLIST
Roomrunner - Weird
My Black Ass - Shellac
Single Mothers - Christian Girls
Title Fight - Coxton Yard
Lovvers - AXTXTXIXTXUXDXE
Kerouac - Little Mountains We Move
Jackals - Profit
Misfits - All Hell Breaks Loose 
The Adolescents - Amoeba
Wavves & Best Coast - Nodding Off
Weezer - Surf Wax America
Saves The Day - Holly Hox Forget Me Nots
Forest - John
Cap'n Jazz - AOK
Rawshank - Word Of Good Cheer
Talking Heads - Sugar On My Tongue
A Tribe Called Quest -Scenario
Pearson Sound - Crimson (Beat Ritual Mix)
King Kong - Ninja Mi Ninja
La Bionda - I Wanna Be Your Lover
Outkast - Elevators (Me & You)
Sublime - Rivers Of Babylon

Touching Bass: Bloody Knees

Touching Bass: Swim Deep

TRACKLIST

Haraket - Taint (Djrum Remix) 
Edmondson - Odell
Graze - On Board 
Pedestrian - Midsummers Common 
Synkro - Seems Like
Caski - Elephant Tribe (Troy Gunner Remix)
Synkro & Troy Gunner - Is This
Desolate - Ambrosia
Consequence - Modu1
Kiyoko - Dulcimer

Touching Bass: Synkro

@StookiSound are one of the UK's biggest exports in the global industry of trap. They're both London residents meaning their interpretation of the genre is equally as Dalston as it is Dirty South. But y'know, trap isn't a new thing, it's been existing in a more rudimentary form since 36 Mafia started popping collars so it's fair game to anyone. Stooki have developed the genre into a one night stand between Southern US hip-hop and ADHD electronica and in the process created one of the biggest hits from this side of the Atlantic, "Ball So Hard" - a collaboration with fellow UK trapite, Hucci. That lead to a US tour that saw them joining their own mosh pits and LOLing at our British weather from afar. We caught up yesterday to talk Pokemon, being jetlagged and the problem with current trap. Oh, and there's an awesome half hour mix alongside as always.

Read the full feature over on Noisey: http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/blog/youneedtohearthis-touching-bass-stooki-sound

Kaytranada - Holy Hole Inna Donut
Djemba Djemba - Chronic Heart Failure
Muramasa - Hustleblood
Mr Carmack - Ego
PSY - Gentleman (Kaelin Ellis Remix)
Nas - You Owe Me (Ft. Ginuwine) (Sango Edit)
UZ - Untitled (Bonus Track)
Stooki Sound - Im Really Hot
JWLS - JWLS is Bored pt VI (Lobster Beat)
Stooki Sound - Dracula
Jackal - Shakedown
Stooki Sound - Geddit (SWZY Edit) 
Stooki Sound - God Willn (Prod. By Benny St Claire)
Wizard - King Raah 
Nas - The Don (TOM WRECKS REMIX)
High Klassified x Da-P - Fuzija

Touching Bass: Stooki Sound

What would London be without a couple days of jerk chicken, questionable roadside toilet antics and enough Caribbean-derived music to trump any Jamaican’s iPod? Apart from boring as fuck, it’d be Notting Hill-less. So as our fave bank holiday fiesta peeks its bosom around the corner we’re here to ready your ears for the weekend via Digital Soundboy lady, B Traits. The BBC Radio 1 host unleashed “Fever” back in spring 2012 and has been babysitting Annie Mac’s slot since May this year. Whether you’re going to join her and the rest of the Digital Soundboy posse this Monday or not, wine your waist then read about first crushes, stage rituals and carnival memories. Or do it all at the same time.

Read the rest of the feature over on Noisey here: http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/read/youneedtohearthis-touching-bass-b-traits

Touching Bass: B Traits

@Knxwledge is a collage creator. A sample master whose beats sound like someone artfully flicking through a mixture of Sky Movie channel soundbites, YouTube videos and jazz breakdowns. The New Jersey native now lives out in Hollywood right in the epicentre of the West coast beat scene that classes the likes Brainfeeder as contemporaries. Amoeba Records is down the road. Chuck Strangers from Pro Era is practically his neighbour. The Alchemist pops in and out of the area to nab vinyls. It's an environment that Knx has feasted upon to the point where he's 15TB deep in hip-hop tinged instrumentals and a 12" catalogue that reaches into the thousands. But before scooping a half hour of exclusives and archive beats in this week's mix, we found out what Knx likes to put on his feet, his OCD tendencies and underrated rap groups.

Knx chose to keep the tracklist a secret.

Read the full feature and grab a download of the full mix on Noisey: noisey.vice.com/en_uk/read/youneedtohearthis-touching-bass-knxwledge

Touching Bass: Knxwledge

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Touching Bass: Breakage

Touching Bass: Ital Tek

A signature sound: it's the bullseye that every artist strives to grasp within their career and something that Montreal's @Kaytranada has managed to achieve already, aged 20. Swirling together neo soul, hip-hop and elements of trap into the same audio mixing bowl has produced some pretty delicious results for the Haiti-born beatsmith, especially on his refixes of Janet Jackson and Jill Scott. For this Touching Bass, Kaytra slipped together some of his fave tracks before we nattered on about bad barbers, Boondocks and condiments. 

Head to Noisey to read the interview with Kaytranada and stay tuned for Touching Bass on every Friday of every week: http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/read/youneedtohearthis-touching-bass-kaytranada

TRACKLIST
Kaelin Ellis - Projection//mix 3
Cyber - Down Low (Kaytranada's Thang)
Diana Ross - Muscles
The Celestics - Charles Barkley
Professa - ???
vlooper - ???
Tek. Lun - Vury Nahs Teets
Ryan Hemsworth - (Unreleased)
Jill Scott & Bun B - So Gone (Lakim's ShoYoFootwork Re-Edit)
Guilty Simpson - Coroner's Music (instrumental)
Pusha T - Numbers On The Boards
Mobb Deep - Cradle To The Grave
Kaytranada - Earn Sunshine (Unreleased)
Junior M.A.F.I.A. - Get Money
Med, Blu & Madlib - This Is Your Life (Gee-Mix) {Instrumental}
Elaquent - Believing
Esta - Hruby

Touching Bass: Kaytranada

Touching Bass: The Bug

http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/read/youneedtohearthis-touching-bass-ta-ku

TRACKLIST

JMSN - Love & Pain (Ta-ku Remix)
Atu - Way I Feel
Obey City - Putcha Weight 
Sweater Beats - Do It Well
RLP - 1nce Again Bootleg
Cosmic Midnight - Never Knew  
UTRB - Pressure (Ta-ku Remix)
Kendrick Lamar - M.A.A.d City (Eprom Remix)
Strange Talk - Pickin Up All The Pieces (Ta-ku Remix)
Ta-ku - Untitled 
Bahwee - Back It Up
Falcons - Oops Oh My 
FS Green - Goolie Goolie 
The Bangerz - Beam
Sango - SFTVB

Touching Bass: Ta-Ku

Read our interview with Daniel here: http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/read/youneedtohearthis-touching-bass-hebronix

TRACKLIST

David Berman ft. The Avalanches - A Cowboy Overflow Of The Heart
Blues Control - Iron Pigs
The Howling Hex - Primetime Clown
SQURL - Pink Dust
A Grave With No Name - Khonnor
Mirroring - Silent from Above
Kassem Mosse - Nacht An Allen Tagen
The Walker Brothers - The Electrician
Sun City Girls - Space Prophet Dogon
Smog - Ex-Con
Micky Newbury - Write A Song A Song/Angeline
Codeine - Cave-In

Touching Bass - Hebronix

TRACKLIST

PART A: DISTAL
Mr. Lee - Pump That Body (Underground Club Mix)
Mohegan Sun - Plainfield Basement Party
Todd Terry - Just Wanna Dance (Club Version)
Alex Cortex - Dense
Wheez-ie - Five Finger Salute
Natlek - Ki
Boxcutter - Bloscid
Distal - Fadebook Federali 
Moldy - All I Want
Moldy - Hymn Of The Plants

PART B: MITE
Legowelt  - Visions In My Mind
Trevino - Discovery
Thefft - Chromatic
Thefft - No Want That
Broodlings & Mite - 303 Trick
Enoe - Kaori
Helix - Damnson
Sinclair & Mite - Broken Heart
Simon/off - Over (Rhythm 11)
Mite - Pop (Mak Remix)
Distal - Mondoshawan Tomb

Touching Bass: Embassy Recordings

Manchester's @waltonmcr has only been DJing for two years, but his mutated potpourri of UK funky, techno and grime had seminal label Hyperdub  licking their lips right from the off. The 22-year-old hit the ground running with his eponymous EP, Walton, which spat flickerings of grime-y house into listeners' ears back in 2011. That was confidently followed up by All Night last year which coupled even more Wiley-esque elements with bright synth movements. Just in time for Hyperdub's first LP of 2013 – Walton's 13-tracker, Beyond – I caught up with him to talk about early grime, imagining Mila Kunis as a DJ and awkward silences...pause.

Read the Noisey feature here: http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/read/youneedtohearthis-touching-bass-walton

TRACKLIST
D-Malice vs Kowton - Gabreyllisous (Pearson Sound Blend)
Alex Coulton - Pointe Noire
Pev & Hodge - Bells (System Mix)
Elgato - Dunkel Jam
DJ Mystery - Speechless (ft. Natalie K)
Paleman - Halfout VIP
Kowton - And What (Kahn's Gyal Dem Edit)
Pangaea - Viaduct
Active Minds - Hobsons Choice (A Tune For Da Man Dem)
Kowton - TFB
Walton - Baby
Paleman - Handy Clue
Marco Shuttle - Vox Attitude (Pangaea Remix)
Paul Woolford - Mindwash
Pangaea - Mission Creep
Helix - Whoosh Ice Dispenser
Geeneus & Wiley - Wickedest Ting (Dub)
Sir Spyro - Silo Grass
Marxmen - Mashup
Walton - Can't You See

Touching Bass: Walton

Most DJs have a heavily overdosed passport full of trips to the coolest places that most can only Wikipedia. @Mumdance is no different. His voyages abroad and ear for an ethnic groove have lead to his music grabbing elements from far-flung regions of the planet before being spun into a sound that UK ears can relate to. That means his discography is a constant economy trip between continents, from the ragga-Indian mixed slush puppy of “Tarahtid” through to “Smasher” and its Japanese geisha-tinged peaks and troughs. After a two-year hiatus, he sprung “Twists & Turns” onto the interwebs; a mixtape that has exhaled a new lease of life into his career. Before launching into an exclusive mix of mostly unheard, unsigned odds and ends, we nattered about Latino girls, shoegaze and obscure world genres.
 
Head to Noisey to read the interview with Mumdance and stay tuned for Touching Bass on every Friday of every week: http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/blog/youneedtohearthis-touching-bass-mumdance

TRACKLIST
Logos - Stasis Jam
Head High - Burning (Keep Calm Mix)
Batu - Stairwells
Mumdance & Logos - Turrican 2
Neena - Play Off Formats
SLK - Shottaz Riddim
Mumdance - Springtime
Strict Face - Shibuya Gunner
Moleskin - Sending (Breathless Mix)
Llesca - 7AD
Oddz - Victory
The Malboro Man - Hankee Pankee
DJ Nephets - Juke & Money
DJ Deeon - OK
Aj Mcghee - Why You Lookin At Me?
Actress - Purrple Splazsh
Luna C - Piano Progression 
Vibes - Hey DJ
Orca - 4am
House of Black Lanterns - Truth & Loss
Doc Scott - Swarm

Touching Bass: Mumdance

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