I’m all up for free music, and so as soon as I was told about Bojcot Selectah’s U Know EP, I made a point of grabbing it right away.

I’d suggest you do the same. Immediately!

Between March 1st and May 25th 2010, DFRNT is going to be on the East coast of the USA, DJing from as far up as Burlington, Vermont to as far down as Orlando, Florida and a night in Puerto Rico. You can download the promotional mix from the site, and keep in tune with any additional dates on the site or on the DFRNT MySpace

Dates at time of posting:
March
6th – Boston – Machine Nightclub
7th – Baltimore – Shorty’s Bar
9th – Burlington – Club Metronome
12th – Philadelphia – The Arts Garage
19th – San Juan, Puerto Rico – The Vatican
24th – Athens (GA) – To Be Confirmed
27th – Washington DC – Little Miss Whiskey’s

April
1st – NYC – Love
9th – Philadelphia – Private Party (Invite Only)

May
11th – NYC – To Be Confirmed
15th – Orlando – Crooked Bayou

For promoters interested in booking any additional dates, please get in touch – alex[at]alex-c.com

Promotional Mix

Download here

Tracklist:
01 Dom Hz – Mist
02 Pinch feat. Yolanda – Get Up (Guido Mix)
03 Actraiser – Lone Wolf VIP
04 DFRNT – Short Bus
05 DLX – Matter Of Fact (Breakage’s Relatively Speaking Remix)
06 Cinnamon Chasers – Luv Deluxe (Scuba Remix)
07 DFRNT – All Change
08 Dom Hz – Elevator Skank
09 Throwing Snow – Un Vingt
10 Matoa – Hei You
11 ID – Leaves
12 Skream – Minimalistix
13 Headhunter & Djunya – El Presidente
14 DFRNT – Lounge (Indigo Remix)
15 Hektagon – The Old Days
16 Spherix – Lesser People
17 Headhunter – Experience
18 Jack Sparrow – The Chase
19 Data and Cell – Doors Of Perception

The Dutch producer’s Aerial album of last year managed to excite both techno and dubstep fans with its synergy of rolling rhythms and sublow frequencies, becoming a touchstone for DJs who were attempting to blur the boundaries between the two genres. While a fully realised micro-scene never seemed to materialise, Huismans has continued to mine this particular sound, although with more of a focus on his A Made Up Sound moniker, which was created to showcase a broken house and techno vibe.

His latest 2562 full-length is titled Unbalance, and although we’re still to hear any of the tracks on the record apart from the wonky halfstep of “Love In Outer Space” (which featured on this year’s Tectonic Plates Vol 2 compilation), we’re assured by Tectonic boss Pinch that his second album will eclipse the template set out on Aerial. “I’ve worked closely with 2562 over the last few years,” he states, “and I can honestly say that Unbalance is an incredible album – it’s one of the most exciting releases that Tectonic has seen to date – it vastly exceeds the already high standard he set himself with Aerial.” (RA)

Tracklist
01. Intro
02. Flashback
03. Lost
04. Like A Dream
05. Dinosaur
06. Unbalance
07. Superflight
08. Yes / No
09. Who Are You Fooling?
10. Narita
11. Love In Outer Space
12. Escape Velocity [digital only]

Tectonic will release Unbalance on November 2nd, 2009.

Showcasing some new mixes, forthcoming tracks and dark minimal goodness Cyrus has taken the plunge and committed to doing a podcast, so I suggest you all jump on this for some heavyweight goodness.

Subscribe (via iTunes) here

Not content with bringing us a podcast, Mr Jason Flynn has got himself hooked up with Twitter too. Find him at http://twitter.com/cyrusrtp

If you can imagine for a moment, that you’re deep in meditation. If you don’t meditate – try to imagine what it might be like. Everything is still, there’s almost silence, and a real sense of calmness.

Then slowly from out of the atmosphere – so slowly you barely notice it until it’s upon you – rises a layered chorus of filtered sound. A soft, intrigue-filled noise – with small snippets of places and feelings that drift in and out.

This is what Wixel’s “An Empty Canvas” EP sounds like. In his words “i cant say what i would compare it too, just tried to follow my own thing – even though i must admit i am heavily influenced by that burial (thread). ive been sampling youtube + beats off the grid all the time. feel free to grab it or whatever. check track 6 if you only check one track.”

Go and download this immediately!

The week before the show’s 3rd birthday special and Bunzer0 is still playing out some of the best dubstep around. Packed with exclusives, dubs and forthcomings – I reccomend you check this out.

If you didn’t catch it live that is!

You can view the tracklist and download the show here.

And you can catch the 3rd birthday show next week…

http://www.sub.fm

Stream :
128k – http://www.sub.fm/listen128k.m3u
64k – http://www.sub.fm/listen64k.m3u
24k – http://www.sub.fm/listen24k.m3u

For other listening options : http://www.sub.fm/listen.php

Chatroom – http://www.sub.fm/chat
IRC – irc://irc.ircstorm.net:6667/subfm

A rather healthy helping of tracks that presents electro-reggae, dub, hip hop, dubstep and drum & bass from Edinburgh & Glasgow based producers.

Get all of these tracks below for just £1

The tracks on offer:

Simba – Ndiwe
Soom T – Lying Bastards
Capitol 1212 – Everybody Move Like A Robot
Paranoise – Crystal Kingdom
Mungo’s Hi-Fi – A Few Screws (dub remix)
The Blessings – Where Is Anna
Morphy – Ruffneck (dirty dub mix)
DFRNT – Stay All Afternoon
Gravious – Polygon
Nasty P – Nettles

If I could recommend one thing for you to buy today it would be this – You can’t argue with getting all these tracks for just £1 – that’s less than the price of a pint!

Get all of these tracks here

You can hear the track on Absense’s MySpace here.

It’s perfect really. I have real difficulty putting my appreciation for Absense’s work in to words – suffice to say I’m desperate to hear more from him in the future!

With no real drops or breakdowns – but more of a stream of sample-led ebbs and flows his newest (and fifth) LP on Digital Sin is certainly along the lines of what you might expect if you had heard his previous work – but with this one there’s a real element of mystery, something sinister and what sounds to me like far more textural work than I had heard from him before.

You might consider this a progression, and it’s one I’m glad to see. It’s definately something to check out – and although there’s not always a hook, riff or recurring theme in some of the tracks to grab hold of, it’s always refreshing to hear producers breaking the mould, and just doing their own thing whether people like it or not.

The album will be out onDigital Sin on June 8th

That future has come around, and we’re presented with brand new deepness from Finland’s very own Desto. Hot on the heels of his Big Up magazine promo mix (mp3), he’s put out a 3-track vinyl on BoomBap, and what a cracker it is.

Bounce, Past and Nightwalker all ooze with the sexiness of Madd’s “Numbers” but add further depth and importance to the label.

Well produced, intelligent dubstep, with echoes of ambience, elements of bass, and some beautiful space within the mix. Not to mention the layers of percussion that all three tracks seem to effortlessly contain.

My own highlight is the “Nightwalker” track for it’s sheer depth and ambience – although for DJing, I’d tend towards the A-side Bounce which is more likely to hold the crowd.

You can buy Desto’s release here from Chemical.