Playing at The Cove on Thursday (6.16) for the Bloodbath & Beyond party. Party name of the year? No cover, because they’ve got you covered.
Then I’m in Washington DC on Friday (6.17) for MEGA, which is going to be, well, MEGA!
Hot dog, 10 of my favorite songs from May!
MAY TOP 10
1. Jacques Greene – Another Girl
2. Joker – The Vision
3. Lupe Fiasco – The Show Goes on
4. Swifta Beater – Horror Movie
5. D Minds – Ugly
6. Emalkay – Space Hopper
7. LOL Boys – LDR
8. Kromestar – Jabber Jawz
9. Doctor P – Watch Out
10. The Living Graham Bond – Werk (Tomb Crew Remix)
Once again, I’m going to have my cake and eat it too. But wait, does this expression make any sense? Is there ever a situation in which a person would have cake and not eat it?
“Excuse me, yes, waiter. I’d like a cake…Noooo, not to eat, I’m going to take it home and hang it on my wall!”
And so, here are my 30 favorite dubstep (& related) tracks I heard in 2010. Note some overlap with my overall 2010 list, but who are you? The list police? Get off my back!
2010 TOP DUBSTEP
Addison Groove – Footcrab
Benga & Walsh – Biscuit Factory
BioViolence – Nothing
Bird Petersen – Zutopong
Coki – Chief Dub
Crissy Criss & Youngman – Kick Snare (Drumstep VIP)
D Double E – Street Fighter Riddem
Dirty Deeds – Captain Planet VIP
Dizzee Rascal, Chase & Status – Heavy
Doctor P – Sweet Shop
Felix Da Housecat – Kickdrum
Flux Pavilion – Got 2 Know
James Blake – CMYK/Untold – Stop What You’re Doing (James Blake Remix)
Joker & Jakes – 3K Lane/3K Lane 1999
Katy B – Katy On A Mission
Lauren Flax ft. Carrie Wilds – Stronger (Bare Noize Remix)
Little Jinder – Youth Blood (12th Planet & Flinch Remix)
Magnetic Man – Flying Into Tokyo/Mad/Perfect Stranger
Marco Del Horno – Ho! Riddem (Swerve ft. P-Money Remix)
Mexican Institute Of Sound – Cumbia (Deathface Remix)
Mimosa – Silver Lining
Mount Kimbie – Carbonated
P-Money & Sukh Knight – Slang Like This
Rx & Sonkin – Stop Being A Bitch
Rusko – Hold On/Sub Focus Remix
Skream – Raw Dogz
Spooky – Spartan
Starkey – Capsule/Playing With Fire/Rain City
TC – Where’s My Money (Caspa Remix – Munchi’s Kinda Agressive Right Now Moombahcore Remix)
Zomby – Digital Fauna
*10 means 25. Often in life, we are confronted with tough choices. Coke or Pepsi? Rubben Studdard or Clay Aiken? To be or not to be? Deal or no deal? In each of these pickles, we also have another choice, namely whether or not we are indeed going to make a choice. Making decisions takes guts, intestinal fortitude, and moxy. Avoiding decisions requires cowardice, spinelessness, and anti-moxy.
I am here to tell you my intestines are filled with anti-moxy. I am not going to rank my 10 favorite tracks of the year, nay I couldn’t even narrow it down to 10. I am going to list my 25 top tunes…I’m sorry, dear reader…I feel ashamed…oh, the horror!…alphabetically…please forgive me! I’m drinking a cup of 50% Coke 50% Pepsi. I am voting for a genetically engineered synthesis of Ruben & Clay. I am both being and not being simultaneously. I am making a deal not to make a deal.
2010 Top 25
Addison Groove – Footcrab
Benga & Walsh – Biscuit Factory
Boris Dlugosch – Bangkok (Roska Remix)
Coki – Chief Dub
Congorock – Babylon (Dub)
D Double E – Street Fighter Riddem
Doctor P – Sweet Shop
Drop The Lime – Sex Sax
Duck Sauce – Barbra Streisand
Gramophonedzie – Why Don’t You
Herve – Hot! Drum Attack
James Blake – CMYK/Untold – Stop What You’re Doing (James Blake Remix)
Joker & Jakes – 3K Lane/3K Lane 1999
Kanye West – Dark Fantasy/Power
Katy B – Katy On A Mission
Lauren Flax ft. Carrie Wilds – Stronger (Bare Noize Remix)
Little Jinder – Youth Blood (12th Planet & Flinch Remix)
Magnetic Man – Flying Into Tokyo/Mad/Perfect Stranger
Mexican Institute Of Sound – Cumbia (Deathface Remix)
Mount Kimbie – Carbonated
P-Money & Sukh Knight – Slang Like This
Rusko – Hold On
Sub Focus – Could This Be Real
TC – Where’s My Money (Caspa Remix – Munchi’s Kinda Agressive Right Now Moombahcore Remix)
Zombies For Money – Kolkata (Sticky Version)
Greetings from my European tour (but mainly vacation). I got my fashion on in Milano, partied in Bergamo, walked the streets of Roma, ate cheese in Paris, snowboarded (for the first time) in Switzerland, avoided massive street fireworks in Berlin, and finally have returned to Paris to bring you a series of top 10 lists. The first is simply my favorite 10 tunes from December. Oh right, and, by the way . . . Happy New Year!!!
DECEMBER TOP 10
1. Starkey – Playing With Fire
2. Jamie XX & Gil Scott-Heron – NY Is Killing Me
3. Cassius – Till We Got You And Me
4. Coki – Chief Dub
5. Kano – Get Wild (Redlight Remix)
6. Lunice – Fancy Forty
7. Jacques Greene – (Baby I Don’t Know) What You Want
8. Mosca – Tilt Shift (Burgaboy Remix)
9. Blame, Fuda Guy, & Camilla Marie – Star (Doctor P Remix)
10. Booka Shade – Regenerate
I’ve also been writing a monthly column over at Beezo Blog where my monthly top 10 picks are exclusively Dubstep. Check my picks for December here: Shiftee’s Top 10 Dubstep Tunes – Dec. 2010.
DJ Shiftee + DJ Cable: Live Tag Team // Sloppy Mayhem by Shiftee
The Setting: 4:30am-5:10am, Rhythm Factory, London, Oct. 22, 2010
The Party: Needlework Presents…
The Players: DJ Shiftee, DJ Cable
The Result: Sloppy Mayhem
More about the mysterious DJ Cable at http://djcable.blogspot.com
I dropped a set for the Noise 212 ustream last week. It featured lots of dubsteppy/drumsteppy/drumandbasssteppy goodness, my own tunes, bodacious mic stylings, some scratches, and many awkward dance moves. Oh the memories! Relive the past below (tracklist after the vid).
TRACKLIST