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Functions of the Now: http://truantsblog.com/tag/FOTN/
Artwork: Joe Jackson @ http://deadgoodshit.com 

Functions Of The Now is a mix series charting modern developments at the innovative edges of dance music. Originally conceived in 2013 to shine a light on the once-again fertile grime production scene and its influence, the remit of the series quickly widened to incorporate all manner of interesting manipulations of existing club modes. Whether it's Air Max 97's "oblique club trax", E.M.M.A.'s baroque grime or DJ NJ Drone's hyperkinetic take on Jersey Club it all has a home in Functions Of The Now. We hope to draw connections between these often disparate forms. 

Functions of the Now

In Hour 2 it's Boca 45, who has appeared many times on Solid Steel over it's 25 years and returns with another mix of 45 x 45's. Titled 'Boca's 45 Bag' it's a straight up party mix for your weekend pleasure, throwing everything into the pot including music from Roy Budd, Bullion, Big Daddy Kane, Bo Diddley and Roots Manuva. Plus music from Boca 45 including his forthcoming single 'We're right here' coming out on Digga Please.

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PART 3 + 4	- Boca 45		https://twitter.com/scottbocakai
				
ROY BUDD	_	GET CARTER	_	PYE
ONRA	_	THE ANTHEM	_	FAVOURITE
BULLION	_	SAY GOODBYE TO WHAT	_	ONE HANDED MUSIC
BOCA 45	_	STAND UP" GEOFF BARROW REMIX 	_	GRAND CENTRAL
DE LA SOUL	_	MACK DADDY ON THE LEFT	_	TOMMY BOY
PUBLIC ENEMY	_	PUBLIC ENEMY NO 1	_	DEF JAM
CHOCOLATE BAM BOO	_	TEST THE ROCKET LAUNCHA	_	MOBILE MONDAYS 
LOPEZ	_	BARRIO	_	KEEP UP
DEXTER	_	GIMME NO MORE TIME	_	MPM
OH NO/DOOM	_	3DOLLARS	_	5 DAY WEEKEND
MOCAMBO	_	THE NEXT MESSAGE	_	KAY DEE
ALAN MOORHOUSE	_	SOUL SKIMMER	_	KPM
THE CHUBUKOS	_	HOUSE OF RISING FUNK	_	MAINSTREAM
ANN ROBINSON	_	YOU DID IT	_	ALL BROTHERS 
BOOKER T AVERHEART	_	HEART N' SOUL	_	SOULTEX
ORANGE JUICE	_	RIP IT UP	_	POLYDOR
BEASTIE BOYS	_	GET IT TOGETHER	_	GRAND ROYAL 
RUN DMC	_	BEATS TO THE RHYME	_	PROFILE
JACKSON SISTERS	_	I BELIEVE IN MIRACLES	_	CONTEMPO
ESTHER WILLIAMS	_	LAST NIGHT CHANGED IT ALL	_	FRIENDS & CO 
MAGIC DISCO MACHINE	_	SCRATCHING	_	MOTOWN
G D & THE BIG J 	_	MOVING ON	_	GOOD RECORDS
MICHAEL JACKSON	_	GET ON THE FLOOR	_	EPIC					
BOCA 45	_	LAFAYETTE PARTY TIME	_	FREE SOUL 45
SHE ROCKERS	_	ON STAGE	_	JIVE
BIG DADDY KANE	_	SET IT OFF	_	COLD CHILLIN' 
DOUBLE DEE & STEINSKI 	_	LESSON 3 PART 2	_	DISCONET
SMOOVE	_	DE LA SOUL LESSON 1	_	DIGGA PLEASE
CLEON & JAZZY PIDJAY	_	THE LAST MORNING	_	UNKNOWN
THE CHILD OF LOV	_	HEAL	_	DOUBLE 6 
JUNIOR SENIOR	_	MOVE YOUR FEET	_	CRUNCHY FROG
BOCA 45 FT THE GOOD PEOPLE	_	WE'RE RIGHT HERE	_	DIGGA PLEASE
PHIL MOST CHILL & MR FANTASTIC	_	SUPER FUNK	_	A E PRODUCTIONS 
B0 DIDDLEY	_	BO DIDDLEY - ITIS	_	CHESS
THE TRASHMAN	_	SURFIN' BIRD	_	SUNDAZED
WILLIW HUTCH	_	THE DUCK	_	STARDUST
NATURAL BRIDGE BUNCH	_	PIG SHOTS PT 1	_	ATCO
MARVA WHITNEY	_	UNWIND YOURSELF	_	KING
MELTORME	_	COMIN' HOME BABY	_	LONDON
CHRISTINE PILZER	_	DRACULAR	_	SILVA SCREEN
CHARMAINE BUNETTE	_	AM I THE SAME GIRL	_	UNKNOWN
THE SNUGS	_	TRYING	_	FREESTYLE
ROOTS MANUVA	_	WITNESS DUB	_	BIG DADA
DORANDO	_	DIDN'T I	_	KENT
CHUCK JACKSON	_	GETTING READY FOR THE HEARTBREAKS	_	WAND

Solid Steel Radio Show 23/8/2013 Part 3 + 4 - Boca 45

01 @Kristen-Ilycia Vine Rip Intro
02 Krezy Ryan "Brassband"
03 Kelela "Enemy [Prod. Nguzunguzu]" (Fade to Mind)
04 Dat Oven "Icy Lake (Total Freedom Remix)" (Fade to Mind/Night Slugs)
05 Neana "Bow Kat (8 Bar)"
06 Kelela "Do It Again [Prod. NA]" (Fade to Mind)
07 Divoli S'vere "P**** So C**** (Instrumental)" (Qween Beat)
08 Nguzunguzu "Harp Bell" (Fade to Mind)
09 Jam City "Worst Illusion" (Night Slugs)
10 Moleskin "Turnt On"
11 Ciara "Backseat Love" (Epic)
12 DJ K Millz "Can You Handle It? (feat. Bree & K-Shiz)" (Brick Bandits)
13 Jam City "Garlands" (Night Slugs)
14 Helix "Track Titled 1 (Kingdom Edit feat. Divoli S'vere)" (Night Slugs)
15 DJ Eastwood "U Aint Ready (Dubbel Dutch Edit)"
16 NA "Xtreme Tremble" (Fade to Mind)
17 Kelela "Cut 4 Me [Prod. Kingdom]" (Fade to Mind)
18 Nguzunguzu "Skycell" (Fade to Mind)
19 Sean Garrett "Anytime" (The Practice)
20 Kingdom "Untitled" (Fade to Mind)

Kingdom - Innovators Mix

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ENDBOYS V3--- ENDGAME & PALMISTRY

2nd installment of my Halloween Mix series

RL Grime 2013 Halloween Tracklist

1. RL Stine Halloween Intro
2. Beasts of Babylon- Eprom
3. Drip- Swizzymack
4. Yea Hoe- Gangsta Boo & Sinjin Hawke
5. Time Trial- Jonwayne
6. Theme Song- Audio Push Ft. T.I.
7. Gunshotta (Om Unit Rollers VIP)- Machinedrum
8. Mobbin- Grandtheft & Headspin
9. Mr. Me Too- Clipse Ft. Pharrell 
10. Rappers Rapping Rap- Mr. Carmack
11. Like Whaaat (Salva Remix)- Problem
12. Fresh (Lunice Based Remix)- The Pack
13. Bubblegum- Jackal Ft. CRNKN
14. Obedear- Purity Ring
15. Weekend- gLAdiator 
16. Gas Pedal- Sage The Gemini
17. ID- ID (Ft. Vybz Kartel)
18. Slip- Baauer
19. Worst Behaviour- Drake
20. Pursuit- Gesaffelstein
21. Ryan Hemsworth Mom Phone Call Interlude
22. Gaddagive- Dark Sky
23. Middle Finger (S-Type Remix)- Dog Blood
24. Where You Been- 2 Chainz Ft. Cap 1
25. Shutterbug- DJ Funeral
26. Hood Pope- A$AP Ferg
27. Party Dip- DJ Yolo Bear
28. Type Of Way- Rich Homie Quan
29. Yeaah (Myrryrs Refix)- D-Shake
30. Turn On The Redlight (Noah Breakfast Edit)- Future Vs. Redlight
31. Flaunt It Remix- LOL Boys
32. Favelas (RL Grime Private Pussy Edit)- Aquadrop
33. Triadzz- Rustie
34. Money On The Floor- Big K.R.I.T. Ft. 2 Chainz, 8Ball & MJG
35. Output 1-2- Joker
36. Oxy Cotton- Lil Wyte

Cover Art by original Goosebumps illustrator Tim Jacobus

LA Weekly interview: http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2013/10/rl_grime_halloween_mix_rl_stine.php

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Halloween II

Kode9 and DVA host with a mix from DJ Earl and DJ Rashad in the studio

Hyperdub Rinse FM Show Archive 14-07-12

Functions of the Now: truantsblog.com/tag/functions/
Artwork: Joe Jackson @ deadgoodshit.com

"While the first few tapes in this series focused their orbit around the Boxed massive, we now turn to those honing in on a skeletal, highly percussive, Jersey-inflected take on grime. Miss Modular and Sudanim of Her Records have presented us with exactly that, for the most part leaving behind grime’s evil sound palette and instead focusing on its relentless structure and searing rhythmic energy. Hailing from South London, the two are joined by Fraxinus and CYPHR to form the core of Her Records, with a variety of releases available here. Seemingly inspired by Jam City’s incredible Club Constructions appearance, Miss Modular and Sudanim (along with Neana and Georgia Girls) have Jersey’s ferocious kick as the pumping pistons in their motor – the engine around which grime’s rapid-fire claps and techno’s mechanic soundscape revolve. While others, such as Neana, display an industrial, factory-in-motion style within a similar framework, Her have taken a more melodic, synth-heavy approach. The result feels, when heard in conjunction with Bok Bok’s RA mix and Neana for the Astral Plane, like a strikingly new sound. It’s crucial that most of the producers featured on this mix had their moments of revelation not at Fantazia or Metalheadz, FWD or Sidewinder, but at Night Slugs and Hyperdub raves, replacing Slimzee pirate tapes with Total Freedom mixes off soundcloud. Hence those, like MM and Sudanim, coming of age during the reign of labels like NS, Hyperdub, Hessle and Livity are schooled in a genreless mess of dance music history rather than a unified sound. Here, kuduro shares the floor with funky, with juke, kwaito, ballroom, bmore, ghetto house, RnB, whatever. As all these musics come together and speak to each other, new ideas, new concoctions, new sounds emerge - this mix is one of them." Tobias Shine

Read more:
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Functions of the Now IV: Sudanim & Miss Modular

Come down – this is i love you 11 compiled by Christian S from Cologne.

Los Prisioneros - Tren Al Sur (Alejandro Paz Edits de Corazón)
Anthony Braxton - Simple Like
Adolf Noise - 40 Kaninchen
Julee Cruise - Floating
Mark Leckey - Trailer For Pleasure Bent
Unknown - Calling Juan Antonio
Barnt - Tunsten (Mellopella)
Yeri-Yeri - Daguagne
Tocotronic - Ich Möchte Irgendwas Für Dich Sein
Workshop - I Wish I Had You
Gonzalo - Plattan Affair (feat. Mamacita)
Tandem - Ein Typ Wie Du
Spliff - Keep Your Feet On The Ground
Pellin Rodriguez - Amor Por Ti
Nico - These Days
The Sylvers - Only One Can Win
Raymond Scott - Good Air
Leo Dan - El Radio Esta Tocando Tu Canción
Nina Hagen - Der Spinner
Carly Simon - Why

Radio Cómeme - "I Love You" 11 radio show by Christian S

Made in promotion of Notal's appearance in the ClekClekBoom vs. Night Slugs RM2 on Friday 17th January.

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Artwork: Joe Jackson @ deadgoodshit.com
Read More: http://truantsblog.com/2015/functions-of-the-now-xiv-dj-nj-drone

DJ NJ Drone has been occupying precarious borderspace for some time, tip-toeing around genre in his production of frantic, hi-speed abstractions. Overdriven, overloaded, NJ Drone is like déjà vu, an anomaly simultaneously familiar and distant. Travelling through his ‘mind club’ at 150+ bpm gives the sense of breaking through space-time, of continuous momentum accompanied by bizarre vocal incantations that affect the mind like the hideous but kinda cute soundworld of Fitch and Trecartin. But at the end of the day, we break through the mind to find a body lurking beneath, we find embodied ritual beyond weltschmerz, beyond acidic regurgitations of technological positivism. While NJ Drone’s speed may lend itself as a metonym for accelerationism’s privileged desires for cyber-disembodiment, ultimately we are directed towards a firmer politics of the body as resistance in real space (that some of the more optimistic amongst us might hope to find on the dancefloor). In the words of Laboria Cuboniks: “no more futureless repetition on the treadmill of capital, no more submission to the drudgery of labour, productive and reproductive alike, no more reification of the given masked as critique.” Rediscover yr bod with DJ NJ Drone!

Functions Of The Now XIV: DJ NJ Drone

New little mixtape for late summer 2011
Special HOT BANANA edition.

Tracklist:
1) INTRO
2) BUTCHY FUEGO & COLE MGN - DROPHY
3) BUTCHY FUEGO & MONKSPHERE - HOUSED MADNESS
4) JHENE AIKO - HOE (BUTCHY FUEGO EDIT)
5) NGUZUNGUZU - WAKE SLEEP (TOTAL FREEDOM 
WINTER PARK HOMICIDE EDITION)
6) DIGIKI - SMGW (BUTCHY FUEGO REFIX)
7) BUTCHY FUEGO - GIANT SLICE
8) KINGDOM - TAKE ME
9) MUNCHI - GRACIAS
10) BUTCHY FUEGO -  CHEMIROCHA (TRIBAL VS TRIBAL)

YABAI MIX

Tracklist/Interview: http://truantsblog.com/2015/functions-of-the-now-xv-e-m-m-a
Soundcloud: @oiiemma

For the fifteenth edition of Functions Of The Now we're extremely pleased to present a long time Truants favourite: E.M.M.A. Although E.M.M.A’s release schedule has slowed since her debut album Blue Gardens landed, her Functions Of The Now mix hints at the wealth of dubplates waiting to be unleashed, including the exquisitely titled Magna Kanye. Elsewhere, E.M.M.A finds common ground with producers on the dreamier end of grime: rising star Iglew, Gobstopper Records label head Mr Mitch and Coyote Records affiliate Tom E. Vercetti (solo and together with his production trio Silk Road Assassins) all make an appearance.

Functions Of The Now XV: E.M.M.A.

Soundcloud: @Rushmore
Full interview/tracklist: http://truantsblog.com/2015/functions-of-the-now-xvi-rushmore

For Functions Of The Now XVI we tapped up House Of Trax/Trax Couture boss Rushmore, who ably supplied us with a potent mix of percussive heaters. Today sees the release of the latest edition of Trax Couture's World Series: a singular set of inventive rhythm tracks from Malaysian producer Moslem Priest. Rushmore's mix taps into the same energy, with upfront material from the extended World Series family as well as the man himself.

Functions Of The Now XVI: Rushmore

i-D goes techno: We take a close look at the scene that influenced Germany's youth culture like no other: the German techno scene. Today Berlin's Lo-Fi-Electro-Princess Magic Island wants you to lose your mind. 
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A Rainbow In Curved Air

Magic Island: Music To... Lose Your Mind To

Tracklist/Interview/Download: http://truantsblog.com/2015/functions-of-the-now-xvii-malin
Soundcloud: @malinss

For the seventeenth edition of Functions Of The Now we travel to Sweden to meet Evolver co-creator Malin. After a series of incredible mixes for Rodeo, Sister and Tobago Tracks we were desperate to get her on board for FOTN, and we're thrilled with what she came through with. Malin's mix taps into an aesthetic that's been sorely missing from the series so far, joining the dots between Quantum Natives’ noisy abstractions, the more deconstructed end of Non Records and the sound art of E. Jane and plus_c’s SCRAAATCH project - and of course, a hefty helping of dark ‘n’ doomy club tracks for good measure.

Functions Of The Now XVII: Malin

Tracklist + Download + Interview: http://truantsblog.com/2015/functions-of-the-now-xviii-dj-haram

Soundcloud: @djharam

For the final Functions Of The Now of the year we travel to Philadelphia to meet Jersey club experimentalist DJ Haram. Splitting her work between the DJ Haram and Abdul Kadir aliases, her music encompasses everything from noise to club bangers, via fiercely political collaborative work and Middle Eastern bootlegs. Excitingly her mix is one of the wildest we’ve had, with lots of new DJ Haram/Abdul Kadir productions, a collaboration with Fade To Mind rising star Rizzla and mind bending noise from exciting new face N-Prolenta.

Functions Of The Now XVIII: DJ Haram

Submitted by Night-People founder Shawn Reed

Night People Mixtape: The Far Side Of The Sun

Here is an exclusive listening mix I recorded live in NYC for the super cutting edge and amazing select fashion shop in London LN-CC. It is not a club mix, more of a selection of old and new music I love, a sound design, fitting LN-CC and its space ship look like store, this is why I called it "in orbit". Please sit back relax and enjoy it as much I do!  

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https://www.facebook.com/pages/Alex-From-Tokyo/440236945999739?fref=ts

Alex From Tokyo Presents - LN-CC In Orbit Mix 03 2013

Solid Steel (28th June) It's a massive welcome this week to Congo Natty, a well respected and legendary figure in British music who had his first release as Rebel MC in 1988, the same year Solid Steel started. Chart success followed alongside Double Trouble, but he's probably most respected as one of the pioneers of Jungle. His music has always been a firm fixture on Solid Steel, evident in the 1991 Kiss recording we had back in January. Will Ashon from Big Dada talks to him about his extensive career, his new album 'Jungle Revolution' and we get to hear a few classic records that have influenced him over the years. That is followed by a 'Congo Natty live 95' recording that features Ragga Twins, Navigator, MC Dett and DJ SL.

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PART 1 	-	Interview with Congo Natty	https://twitter.com/CongoNattyRebel	
				
Congo Natty	_	Revolution 	_	Big Dada
Congo Natty	_	Jungle Is I And I 	_	Big Dada
Bob Marley and the Wailers	_	Natty Dread	_	Island
Congo Natty	_	Jungle Souljah 	_	Big Dada
Double Trouble & Rebel MC	_	Just Keep Rockin'	_	Desire
Double Trouble & Rebel MC	_	Street Tuff _	_	Desire
Rebel MC	_	The Wickedest Sound	_	Desire
Rebel MC	_	Black Meaning Good (Slavery Mix)	_	Desire
The Revolutionaries	_	 Kinte Dub	_	Chanel One
Conquering Lion	_	Code Red (Original Mix)	_	X Project
Tribe Of Issachar 	_	Junglist	_	Congo Natty
Congo Natty	_	Rebel	_	Big Dada
Congo Natty	_	UK Allstars 	_	Big Dada
Congo Natty	_	Microchip (Say No)	_	Big Dada
T-L.A. Rock & Jazzy Jay	_	It's Yours	_	Def Jam
James Brown	_	Funky Drummer (Bonus Beats reprise)	_	Polydor
Public Enemy	_	Rebel without a pause	_	Def Jam
					
				
PART 2	-	Congo Natty live 95		
				
Congo Natty live 95	_	featuring Ragga Twins, Navigator, MC Dett, DJ SL

Solid Steel Radio Show 28/6/2013 Part 1 + 2 - Congo Natty

[broadcasted June 27 2013]

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Francois K 90 Min Boiler Room NYC Mix

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