mashit up

Now, I'm aware that most people reading this are friends at this point, meaning that you probably regard most of the music I like as unlistenable crap. It's been my observation that there are no friends of mine who like the same music as me in it's range. I've got friends who like the same hip-hop as me, or a bit of ragga or whatever, but who will then regard the grime and drum and bass I like as pure shit.

But this is my blog, so I thought I'd post about the thing I've been listening for the last few days.

aaron spectre "bastardmix" - I like ragga, I like old style jungle and I like wildly over aggressive breakcore stuff like kid606. The problem is that I tend to find listening to an hour of any of that sort of thing outside of a club a little difficult, especially the breakcore. So I was pleasantly surprised to find this. Aaron Spectre is one of new American jungle producers, like Soundmurderer and DJ C, who I only heard of because of a link to a sample of the remix he did of hardcore band Converge someone posted over at RPG.net.

But I was intrigued by the remix, so I checked out his site and, via a link to an article on pitchfork about "clubbing at home" (which is worth checking out for the other mixes as well), found this live mix.

The trick here is that it combines totally amen break madness with much slower ragga tracks and therefore avoids the slowness that some ragga mixes get into and the unlistenable madness of most of the jungle breakcore stuff that Spectre's contemporaries get into. It's only 50 minutes long, but it's a pretty fun ride I think. And it doesn't sound like a live mix at all.

It's entirely possible that none of this post made much sense to some of you. Download the file and give it a listen and follow the links I've put in here if you want a bit of translation.