It’s Monday and we’re back at it with a gang of absolutely free tunes. While you we’re out raging, we scanned soundcloud for the best free tunes around. All these rumblers were given out by the artists, so don’t trip, click.
First up is a soulful club shaker by the dynamic French producer Habstrakt along with Badjokes. The track ‘Miaow’ gets us bouncing from the get go and drops with a deep swelling bassline. It doesn’t stop there, it gets more and more interesting as the song goes along with hi-synth pokes and midrange additions. Download the whole free EP including amazing deep remixes by War & Mateba and Hubwar & Nekochan. Don’t sleep on this one.
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Next freebie comes to us from master-producer Culprate. In normal Culprate fashion he takes a different approach to what we perceive to be ‘dubstep’. Tentacle VIP is filled with clean samples, excellent editing techniques and most importantly, bass. This is the perfect pre-summer jam and its 100% Free.
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Last up is a meditation piece by BWS homie, Compa. In this track he lets the sub ride along with legendary vocals from Bjork, razor sharp percussion and cinematic strings to complement. Subwoofer is a must on this one.
Massive out to all the heads that have been supporting us recently! This grassroots movement has slowly, but very surely, been growing within the past couple months and the traffic through the website has increased significantly. It really means a lot to us here at BWS. We’ve always had a lot of faith in this music/culture because it is one filled with longevity and passion, and all of you readers have affirmed that faith. As stated at the beginning of the new year, we have plans for 2012 to be a really big year for us and we couldn’t be happier the share the experiences with all of you. RESPECT!
Now, with all the sentimental sh*t out of the way, let’s get right into today’s music. Not only has 2012 been a great year for us, it has been a great year for the entirety of the dubstep scene. No, we are not talking about the Grammy’s given to, thou who shall’nt be named. We are talking about the foundation scene. The deep scene has witnessed such a prolific amount of innovation and evolution to dubstep. From tribal to techno, jungle to classical, the influences are FLOODING the productions. Today we have a pretty random collection of tunes to showcase, all of them top-notch.
The first batch of tunes come the man known as Biome. He should be no secret to any of you, and if he is, GET AMONGST IT! Pushing out high quality releases since 2008 from labels such as Subsonik, Biscuit Factory, Sub Pressure, Osiris, and most recently Black Box, he’s a man who has nothing but WEIGHT up his sleeves. His most recent release on Black Box, titled ‘Space’, is truly an unreal production. Seems only suiting that it earned a release as a single-sided vinyl in the XXX series from the box. Today he announced a release on the imprint M.U.V (Macabre Unit Vinyl). A tune called ‘Persepolis’. An absolutely massive production! Take a listen to Persepolis and few other bits that he has just thrown up on his Soundcloud page.
This next track is recent one from the almighty Mala. Set to release on his album due out sometime this year. Rumor has it that the entire album is influenced off his recent travels in Cuba. You can definitely feel the vibes in this track. Titled ‘Cuba Electronica’, this tune is seriously MAD. Listen to the man Joe Nice when he brings in the second drop, it’s straight up badness coming through your speakers. This will no doubt, as always with Mala, be one of the most anticipated releases of the year so keep your eyes and ears open.
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The last track we are going to leave you off with today comes from the extremely talented hands of TMSV. This guy has seriously been handling business for the past couple years and 2012 is definitely going to be a HUGE year for the man. Releases tunes pretty much exclusively on Box Clever/Black Box records, DJ Thinking must be amped on life. TMSV’s production abilities are hard to pigeonhole so I’m not even going to try. He can really build music in an amazing fashion, and I will leave it at that. This tune, a remix of Dark Angel’s ‘Lay Down My Burdens’, is going to send you all off with a righteous vibe. It’s forthcoming on Foundation Sound, date still to come. Let the music speak to you.
Also, in case you missed this free download he gave out a few months ago, GRAB IT UP WHILE IT’S STILL THERE! A really sick tune he did with Myrkur called ‘Icarus’. Of course, show the man some love!
A new day, a new dub! Gonna keep it short and sweet as we have to go drink some beer. Today we’re featuring a grip of new artists along with a label to surely keep your eyes on. Macabre Unit Digital was created in October 2011 and is headed up by deep producer Demon, a member of the UK’s Macabre Unit crew, a self described “multi talented music outfit, from drum & bass, grime, to hip hop/rnb… thru to dubstep”. Under the banner M.U.D, this label keeps delivering bassweight hits. Lets get straight to it!
Flick on the sub and listen to some of their releases:
To best follow M.U.D link up with Demon on Facebook or follow his fanpage.
Affiliated artist Anex is also rumbling pant legs with bassweight via radio waves and live shows with his sub-heavy jams.
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Biggups to FatKidOnFire for exposing Anex to us with a large free EP released via their soundcloud.
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The “Requiem EP”‘s largest track, in our opinion, is Congi’s remix which features goosebump-enducing second drop. Make sure to download the entire EP because it’s rare to get such a good batch of tunes for FREE!
Being the dub-detective type, we checked out Congi’s soundcloud and again were blessed with some deep, minimal dubstep!
Make sure to add these guys to add to your ‘who to watch’ List, because they’re surely on a roll. Macabre Unit Digital has big plans for 2012 with a slew of new releases sure to shake the underground. Don’t forget to grab all the free releases in this post guilt free, but be sure to support M.U.D and purchase their tunes here.
Ziiiiiingggg! What’s going on people. We hope you had a great weekend. Today is the start to a new series here at BWS, called ‘In The Shadows’. The intent of this series is to highlight up-and-coming artists who represent the deep, dark, and minimal sounds that we love so much. So, hopefully you guys/gals will receive the material with respect and enjoyment.
To start things off this week we have an artist who has adopted the monicker Promise One. Coming out of North London, this 24 year old brings a really sick interpretation to the genre. Originally captured by “dusty” hip-hop, as he puts it, he was introduced to dubstep in 2005 while at school in Leeds. Instantly intrigued by the spacious and organic productions of Burial and Kode9, he quickly began to delve into the bass scene’s entirety. As he had already been producing hip-hop under the name ‘Defiant Kinetics’ for a few years before his love for dubstep began, he had experience with programs such as Reason and Cubase. So, we would imagine, the transition to dubstep production was just a bit easier than those who have never touched a DAW before. His early influences are apparent in his rolling basslines and reverb-drenched, distant sounding synths. His debut release was on Reboot Records (Boot09) back in mid 2011, containing the tracks ‘Dissonance’ and ‘Glyph’. Both of the tunes are superb productions and we highly recommend purchasing them! Take a listen below.
With that release already under his belt, as well as a release on Sub Pressure Recordings, Promise One is back again with another set of masterpieces. This one, released early this month, came out on Gamma Audio. Both of the tunes on this release show the evolution of his sounds as well as his maturing production capabilities. The A side, titled ‘Kilos’, emits growling basslines and very garage-like use of percussion. The vocal processing on this tune perfectly mesh with the instrumental production laid down. The B side is a track titled ‘Lowkey’ and is on a different vibe than the flip. More of a half-step stomper, this tune slows things down a bit. The synths in this tune truly capture your ears, and quite quickly if we may add. Again utilizing his garage approach to the percussion styling Lowkey brings a classic vibe to the modern era of music production.
Promise One is a man that you should definitely keep your eyes on as he will most certainly be climbing the ranks within the deep scene. He really embodies the foundation-oriented approach that we here at Bassweight Society love. Please check out the links below to purchase his latest release on Gamma Audio. Either from Juno or from Beatport. Make sure to visit his Facebook page and show the man the support he deserves. Below you will also find the Soundcloud links to ‘Lowkey’ and ‘Kilos’.
Alright people, that’s the word for today. Much respect to the readers that have been/continue to visit our website, it really means a lot to us. 2012 is the “year of the weight”, as the badman Cyrus put it in one of his Twitter posts last month. So, together let’s bring the deep, dark, and minimal sounds to the United States. We’re all about spreading soundsystem music to the heads. See you next time. Respect!
First at bat today is big dog Synkro coming at us with a recent release on Exit Records. Many of you should know him by now, his tunes can be heard on labels such as Apollo, Exit, Autonomic, Med School, Warm Communications, Pushing Red, Blackout Music and Box Clever. His skills as a producer are undeniable and his sense of producing atmospheric bass music is respected by music listeners across a multitude of genres. Synkro recently put out a tune on Exit Records, as the 34th release for the label. The tune we want to highlight here is called Progression. I heard it at a show that Dbrige played at in LA a couple weeks back. I like the way Synkro utilizes echoes to make the tune sound really deep and atmospheric. This is a well suited tune for kicking back to on a week night. Have a listen!
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Following the vibe of that last tune, here’s another chilled out one. Skream released a clip last week of a tune he says will be released soon. It’s only a short clip, but it was enough to get us excited to hear the full version. Like the previous tune, this one has a spacey feel, almost like you’re about to float out of your skin. Definitely a tune worthy of smoking a spliff to. Kick back and enjoy.
This last tune comes from a producer named Kasket who we’ve never covered before. He’s a British producer set to have a release out on Apollo records in the near future. The tune we chose to highlight is called Life Goes On. We wanted to keep the vibe steady, so as with the tunes above, this is a real chilled back one. A long intro of fluctuating sounds is met with a nice drum pattern and steady vocal whisper. Definitely a great tune for kicking back to and letting it take your mind somewhere nice.
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Be sure to check his soundcloud, there’s some free gems on there!
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