Cool Shoes Fayetteville tonight!

flyer design by Shawn Lee
It's Friday the 13th, and the amazingly on-point monthly Little Rock party Cool Shoes has come to Fayetteville! I've been pumping Cool Shoes here on AiMT for years now, so I'm very happy to help bring it to my home town. Tonight we've got Cool Shoes residents Wolf-E-Wolf and Cam Holifield along with myself and local DJ/promoter extraordinaire Beat Bachs. The Cool Shoes crew will be bringing down tons of extra sound, lights, and visuals. Hope to see you there.

Enjoy Wolf-E-Wolf's remix of Ronald Jenkees as a teaser for tonight:

heRobust - "Facebook Lift"

New heat from Atlanta producer heRobust. His forthcoming double album, Late Night/Morning After, will drop on February 1 on Saturate.

AiMT 2011: Best Bass & Dubstep Songs

Africa Hitech
This list encompasses everything under the expansive bass and dubstep umbrellas (along with garage, grime and funky). Peep more of AiMT 2011.



#25
Ital Tek - "Pixel Haze" [Planet Mu]

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#24
Bok Bok - "Silo Pass" [Night Slugs]

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#23
Untold - "Cool Story Bro" [Hessle]

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#22
Kingdom - "Let You No" [Night Slugs]

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Skream - "Boat Party" [Ed Banger]

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#20
Joker - "My Trance Girl" [4AD]

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#19
Dillon Francis - "Beautician" [S/R]

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Derek Allen - "Spirits in the Material World" [Mad Decent]

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Deathface - "Bloodrave" [Trouble & Bass]

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#16
Mord Fustang - "A New World" [Noize]

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#15
Samo Sound Boy - "Shuffle Code (Ikonika Remix)" [Trouble & Bass]

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#14
Rusko - "Everyday" [Mad Decent]

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#13
Bingo Players - "When I Dip (Dillon Francis Airhorn Remix)" [S/R]

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#12
Krampfhaft - "I Needed You" [Rwina]

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#11
Yeah! Woho! - "I Wanna Love You (Dillon Francis Remix)" [Top Billin]

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#10
M.I.A. - "Internet Connection (Flux Pavilion Remix)" [XL]

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#9
Aquadrop - "Soul" [L2S]

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#8
501 - "Can't Touch Me" [Rwina]

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#7
Kuedo - "Vectoral" [Planet Mu]

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#6
Jam City - "Aqua Box" [Night Slugs]

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#5
Rustie - "Hover Traps" [Warp]

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#4
Africa Hitech - "Out in the Streets" [Warp]

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#3
Mumdance - "Smasher (Melé Remix)" [Mad Decent]

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#2
Kito & Reija Lee - "Run for Cover" [Mad Decent]

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#1
SBTRKT ft. Little Dragon - "Wildfire" [Young Turks]

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AiMT 2011: Best Bass & Dubstep Songs
01. SBTRKT ft. Little Dragon - "Wildfire" [Young Turks]
02. Kito & Reija Lee - "Run for Cover" [Mad Decent]
03. Mumdance - "Smasher (Melé Remix)" [Mad Decent]
04. Africa Hitech - "Out in the Streets" [Warp]
05. Rustie - "Hover Traps" [Warp]
06. Jam City - "Aqua Box" [Night Slugs]
07. Kuedo - "Vectoral" [Planet Mu]
08. 501 - "Can't Touch Me" [Rwina]
09. Aquadrop - "Soul" [L2S]
10. M.I.A. - "Internet Connection (Flux Pavilion Remix)" [XL]
11. Yeah! Woho! - "I Wanna Love You (Dillon Francis Remix)" [Top Billin]
12. Krampfhaft - "I Needed You" [Rwina]
13. Bingo Players - "When I Dip (Dillon Francis Airhorn Remix)" [S/R]
14. Rusko - "Everyday" [Mad Decent]
15. Samo Sound Boy - "Shuffle Code (Ikonika Remix)" [Trouble & Bass]
16. Mord Fustang - "A New World" [Noize]
17. Deathface - "Bloodrave" [Trouble & Bass]
18. Derek Allen - "Spirits in the Material World" [Mad Decent]
19. Dillon Francis - "Beautician" [S/R]
20. Joker - "My Trance Girl" [4AD]
21. Skream - "Boat Party" [Ed Banger]
22. Kingdom - "Let You No" [Night Slugs]
23. Untold - "Cool Story Bro" [Hessle]
24. Bok Bok - "Silo Pass" [Night Slugs]
25. Ital Tek - "Pixel Haze" [Planet Mu]

Major Lazer [ft. Vybz Kartel] - "Pon de Floor (Wolf-E-Wolf Remix)"

illustration by Arlo Rams
Arkansas' reigning dubstep head honcho Wolf-E-Wolf doesn't drop tracks all too often, but when he does, it's usually quite an event. And this rework of the '09 Major Lazer classic is his most impressive offering to date.

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Wolf has been owning the Central Arkansas party circuit lately. He's headlined just about every Cool Shoes and Sub Kulture in the past year—this is the case even when they've got big-name out-of-towners on the bill. This remix is a good indication that Wolf won't likely be slowing down anytime soon.

Kito & Reija Lee - "Run for Cover"

Kito | photo by Dreessen Jonas This is from a forthcoming Mad Decent comp, and it demonstrates why men should stop making dubstep and leave it to the ladies.

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Ossie - "Moves"

Hyperdub newness:

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BONUS: Michael Jackson - "Remember the Time (Ossie Remix)"

Crizzly in Little Rock tonight at Sub Kulture

Just a quick heads up that San Antonio dubstep champ Crizzly is headlining tonight's Sub Kulture at Downtown Music Hall in Little Rock. Here's his take on L.A. Style's '92 techno classic "James Brown Is Dead":

L.A. Style [ft. Big L] - "James Brown Is Dead (Crizzly Remix)"


I'll be opening alongside Wolf-E-Wolf. Stoked!

New Exit Comp: Mosaic, Vol. 1

Never saw myself doing a drum and bass post, but this new Exit Records comp is on the extreme outer fringes of the genre. (So it's barely a drum and bass post.) In the writeup for Mosaic, Vol. 1, Exit casually calls the comp "drum and bass" a few times over. This has me puzzled. To my highly American and drum-and-bass-shy ears, only five of Mosaic's 20 tracks sound even remotely like the genre. It's much more in the spirit of early '90s Warp ELM/IDM than any drum and bass I'm used to. Plus names like Scuba, Distance and Instra:mental pop up a lot more in the dubstep circuit (at least on my radar).

But I guess none of that is really important. Whatever you want to call it, it's a solid listen through and through. Exit has uploaded two-minute samples of each track from the comp. Stream here:

AiMT 2010: Best Dubstep & Future Bass Songs

pictured: Girl Unit
I've been finding and playing dubstep, funky and UK bass all throughout 2010, so this list was pretty much inevitable.


#25
Rustie - "Hyperthrust" [Warp]

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#24
Roska - "Squark" [Rinse]

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#23
Rye Rye [ft. M.I.A.] - "Sunshine (12th Planet Remix)" [Interscope]

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#22
Numan - "XX" [Planet µ]

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#21
Magnetic Man - "MAD" [Columbia]

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#20
Katy B - "Katy on a Mission" [Rinse]

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#19
Ginz - "Boss" [Soul Jazz]

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#18
Rudi Zygadlo - "Resealable Friendship (Starkey Remix)" [Planet µ]

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#17
Starkey - "Playing With Fire" [Civil]

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#16
Flux Pavilion [ft. Foreign Beggars] - "Lines in Wax" [Circus]

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#15
Girl Unit - "IRL (Bok Bok Remix)" [Night Slugs]

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#14
Guido - "Mad Sax" [Punch Drunk]

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#13
Taz - "Gold Tooth Grin" [Numbers]

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#12
Mount Kimbie - "Before I Move Off" [Hotflush]

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#11
Cory Enemy & Dillon Francis [ft. CC Sheffield] - "I Love You" [none]

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#10
Skinnz - "Euphorbia" [Boka]

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#9
Terror Danjah - "Bruizin' VIP" [Hyperdub]

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#8
La Roux - "In for the Kill (Danger's Ocean Remix)" [Cherrytree / Interscope / Polydor]

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#7
Gucci Mane - "Lemonade (Heroes & Villains Remix)" [Mad Decent / Overthrow]

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#6
Girl Unit - "Wut" [Night Slugs]

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#5
Sigma & DJ Fresh - "Lassitude (Dillon Francis Remix)" [none]

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#4
James Blake - "CMYK" [R&S]

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#3
La Roux - "In for the Kill (Skrillex Remix)" [Cherrytree / Interscope / Polydor]

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#2
DJ Fresh [ft. Ce'Cile] - "Gold Dust (Flux Pavilion Remix)" [Breakbeat Kaos / Data]

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#1
Rusko - "My Mouth" [Mad Decent / Downtown]

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Rusko vs. Kia Shine vs. Temper Trap - "Club Walmart Soldier (Baby Armie Blend)"

Here's the second exclusive from Always the Movement. More to come, but if want them all in advance, leave a timed comment here, and I'll hit you back with a ZIP.

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Vocal source: Kia Shine [ft. Yung Joc] - "Club Walmart"
Instrumental source: Temper Trap - "Soldier On (Rusko Remix)"

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