Turn It Up: Local Tune of the Week 2017

Zoviet France were a big part of my life in the late 80s in New Zealand, releasing remarkable music with remarkable packaging. I was lucky enough to see them in 2012 on a boat in London, my favourite part was to see a sound being created but it taking ages to appear in the mix and travel for minutes through the track. My remixes are a homage to this idea. The tracks are a response to this project - https://soundcloud.com/zoviet-france/sets/hidden-by-the-wall-open-remix

Zoviet France - Hidden - By - The - Wall (Misled Convoys Whats On The Other Side Remix

I created this set for an event in 2014, but due to technical issues I wasn't able to play it out. Fast forward to Fall 2015 - a dear friend's 40th birthday cocktail party became the perfect place to test it out. It was debuted on the BoxFrequency.fm radio show "Sun is Shining Dub & Chill" in late December 2015. Elements of trip hop, jazzy beats, and other rhythms.

1. Skalpel - Sculpture
2. Darkside - Coalicion Bilateral
3. Longman - Dub For My Wife
4. Saru - Something Stronger (Greg Long Mix)
5. Dadamnphreaknoizphunk - Socks and Strings and SP12
6. Harmonic 33 - Extraordinary People
7. Tree60 - 6Rhodes
8. Govinda - Mind Mysterium
9. Dubdiver - Rondo Ratchaburi
10. FNDMNTL - Rising Starking
11. Monophobic - Sureshot
12. Electroslide - I'm a Cadillac
13. D-Echo Project - Wind Trails
14. Don Carlos - The Sun is Shining
15. Giyo - Faux Monsoon
16. Grouch - Exile
17. Digitalis - 1992
18. The Lushlife Project - Soul Reservation Morning
19. Invisible Allies - And the Weeping Stopped
20. Cates & DPL - Through the Weekend

Electric Hullabaloo

Cookie Cutter Feat Mercston (Crises Remix)

This month Carhartt WIP Radio is bringing you a show by Adrian Sherwood and his legendary label On-U Sound. During a career of more than 30 years, Sherwood produced and remixed artists such as Lee "Scratch" Perry, Primal Scream, Depeche Mode or Einstürzende Neubauten amongst others. His label On-U Sound, formed in 1980, is worldwide known for cutting edge releases that are rooted somewhere between dub, experimental, Reggae, Post-punk and electronica. Furthermore many On-U Sound releases greatly influenced the sounds of today like ambient and techno. Recently many On-U Sound records of artists and collectives like African Head Charge, Singers & Players or Bim Sherman got re-released and Sherwood himself produced, dubbed and released contemporary bands like the Japanese trio Nisennenmondai. For Carhartt WIP Radio Adrian Sherwood tuned in a mix that grooves between the past, present and future of On-U Sound.

Tracklist:
Ghetto Priest - Slave State (feat. Junior Delgado) [from forthcoming album "Slave State"]
Mark Stewart - Awidk [unreleased]
Nisennenmondai - 3 [from the newly released album "#N/A"]
Ital Horns with Dub Syndicate - Metropolis [from unreleased album "Blow The Man Down"]
Cha Cha - Dub No Frontiers (Excerpt) [unreleased]
Roots Manuva - Hit It (Alternative Version) [from current album "Bleeds"]
Dub Syndicate - Wadada (feat. Prince Far I) [from the 1991 album "Stoned Immaculate"]
Congo Natty - UK Allstars In Dub (Adrian Sherwood Remix) [from current album "Jungle Revolution In Dub"]
Coldcut/Adrian Sherwood feat. Junior Reid, Elan & Lee Perry [forthcoming project] - Divide And Rule
L.S.K. - Way Of The World [unreleased]
Denise Sherwood - Ghost Heart [unreleased]
Junior Delgado - None Shall Escape [unreleased classic version on "Masters of Deception" rhythm]
Missing Brazilians - Quicksand Beach Party [1981 original from the album "Warzone" reissue and also available on the Trevor Jackson compiled "Science Fiction Dancehall Classics"
Adrian Sherwood - Starship Bahia [from the album "Survival and Resistance"]

http://www.carhartt-wip.com/music/music/2016/05/artist-feature-adrian-sherwood

Carhartt WIP Radio May 2016: Adrian Sherwood - On-U Sound Radio Show

Live 1984 at the Taita Hotel, Lower Hutt, NZL.

The Gordons - Machine Song (live)

I live streamed the entire process of remixing this on www.twitch.tv/tomcosm , with the help of the chat room! You can watch the entire recorded series, including interviews with Mike (0.5 of Pitch Black) and mastering engineer Angus, over at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm8USgg9UE8&list=PLT4aDUdstpuyzUXABQ6SknBpPeBdGzwlX.

Always a pleasure to collab with Pitch Black! Thanks to everyone who tuned in and offered advice also, it was an amazing experience.

Visit http://pitchblack.bandcamp.com/album/without-the-trees to grab a copy of the Remix + the original, and another remix by Gene K

Get This @ Bandcamp

Pitch Black - Without The Trees (Tom Cosm Twitch Itch Remix)

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/3c7yaPqs0BJ9bbk5ALGYhu

Thanks to Naderi and Fanu/FatGyver for the mix tips.

Osho

Normally when a band releases the 4th single from their latest album, the tendency is to glaze over in despair. Thankfully, despite the pretentious title, 'It's The Future Knocking' from Pitch Black is a release that sparks the opposite effect. 

Not only is the original a tasty slice of dubwise electronica, but as usual for them, they have pulled in a bevvy of remixers to add breadth and depth to their release. In this case, it's a veritable dubgasm as not one, but three, dub producers step up to rinse the bottom end. 

First up is Anglo export slash Kiwi resident International Observer, who brings his light playful touch to the original, while building on top of a deep groove. 

Following him is UK dub royalty in the form of Alpha Steppa. The son and nephew of scene stalwarts Alpha and Omega, his UK steppers style mix wobbles you firmly onto the dancefloor. 

Finally remix dons Deep Fried Dub add fire to the beats and finish up the EP in an old school drum and bass style.

Pitch Black - It’s The Future Knocking (preview)

Prod. ActiveWear
Feat. MeloDownz

'Simple Pleasure' EP

Released 2/2/17

IDFWU (Ft. MeloDownz)

Written by Louis Baker
Vocals recorded at - Red Bull Studios London (UK) 
Produced by Mu

Gave It All Away

Gave It All Away (electronic mix)

Produced by Villette // Additional Vocals by Mukuka // Mixed and Mastered by Munashe Tuwe

Strong Woman REMIX ft REMI

Raiza Biza - Strong Woman Ft REMI (Remix)

'The Inside Track' is side two of a 7" single recorded in February and July 1984 in Auckland, New Zealand, by Stridulators, who were Chris Burt (drums, synthesiser, vocals)and Steve Roach (guitar, keyboards, vocals). Side one was 'Queue'.

Of note: the main tracks for both sides of the single were recorded on stereo cassette tape before overdubs were added on a four-track reel-to-reel recorder.

The single was released that year on the duo's own House of Squirm label (HOS 245).

The Inside Track

Ode to 2016 Leicester City FC winning the Premier League.
A permitted but unreleased remix of Sherwood & Pinch's 'gimme some more' from the Late Night Endless album.

The Sherwood & Pinch Barmy Army - Fearless Foxes - UFOA rmx

Whitney 1 Day Dub 1.02 - 5

BASE FM is a collective of DJs who began broadcasting in May 2004 straight outta Ponsonby / Grey Lynn, aiming to bring underground music to the community. No commercial bullshit hustle, no fake machismo muscle.

The show schedule reads like a who's who of Auckland's hip hop, reggae, funk and soul scene, and the station's run by a crew that cares.

Pitch Black are Michael Hodgson and Paddy Free. Having pumped their way through New Zealand’s electronic music scene since their inaugural performance at the annual Gathering New Year's eve festival in 1996, they have spent the subsequent years rousing dance floor punters, generating rave reviews, winning awards and gaining thousands of fans across the world. 

Hard to box into a single audio 'genre', Pitch Black is a combination of musical journeys. Their sound is distinctive; ranging from organic ambient beginnings and layered soundscapes to skanking keyboards, cutting acid riffs and thumping rhythmic grooves, with dub being the glue that holds their sound together. One critic has described them as like "Orbital meets King Tubby, or Rhythm and Sound in Technicolor". 

It is their live show that really makes Pitch Black stand out from the rest of the crowd, both sonically and visually. Their tracks take on an added dynamism and their performances reveal the dialectic behind the band - Paddy wants to do it for the crowd, Michael wants to do it to the crowd. Visually they are in another dimension thanks to Michael's cutting edge visuals.

They have toured the world relentlessly, playing everywhere from Amsterdam to Zagreb and the streets of Las Vegas to the Australian outback, supporting acts such as Coldcut, Skream, Easy Dub All Stars and System 7 along the way.

NZ Bookings: h (at) strikeagency.co.nz
RoW Bookings: info (at) dubmissionrecords.com

Pitch Black - It’s The Future Knocking (preview)

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