HeavyFeet have been busy strapping on extra weight to their already hefty arsenal ready to cause more damage to dancefloors up and down the country than an obese elephant from doncaster in a pair of jimmy choos!

Like Mary Shelley they’ve pulled together some grotesquely catching tunes to form a monster of a mix stitched together fresh for Spring. If you’ve been following their promo mixes you’ll understand that they are hyped ready to galvanise even the stiffest critics.

Not satisfied with having their names on the lips of every content insurance employee in the land they have also decided to raise their own herd AKA label entitled Stamp! Beats.

Over the next twelve months HeavyFeet will release twelve singles, each comprising of an original vocal track, a club mix and guest remix. The original of each monthly release will be given away for FREE. Stamp! Beats launches on 05.04.10 (UK way round as in 5th April innit)

Super Size never felt so right.

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Roisin Murphy – Momma’s Place (HeavyFeet Remix)

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HeavyFeet – Spring 2010 Promo Mix

01. Hot City – Sweat [Ramp]
02. Pearson Sound – Indellible [Aus Music]
03. Pearson Sound – Wad [Hessle Audio]
04. DJ Gregory – Triby [Faya Combo]
05. Doc Daneeka – Drums Of The Deep [Fabric]
06. R1 Ryders – Right Foot Forward [Rq Ryders]
07. Deadboy – U Cheated [Well Rounded]
08. Jovonn – Trama (K2 Beats) [Defected]
09. Edu K – Broken Tap [Anabatic]
10. Radioclit – Secousse (ROund Table Knights Remix) [Mental Groove]
11. Roisin Murphy – Momma’s Place (HeavyFeet Remix) [CDR]
12. Aniki – Suck My Disco (Nom De Strip Remix) [CDR]
13. The Young Punx – Juice & Gin (Riva Starr Remix) [Mofo Hifi]
14. Nouveau Yorican – Boriqua (Harvard Bass Remix) [Sound Pellegrino]
15. Robbie Williams – You Know Me (The Count & Sinden Dub) [Virgin]
16. L-Vis 1990 – United Groove (Cosmin TRG Remix) [Mad Decent]
17. Nick Thayer – The Zombies (HeavyFeet Remix) [Passenger]
18. Suncycle feat. Mavado – No More (Redlight & Toddla T Remix) [Suncycle]
19. Serocee – Badeng (MJ Cole Remix) [CDR]
20. Fast Eddie – Yo Yo Get Funky (Nick Thayer Remix) [Giant Pussy]
21. Skitzofrenix feat. Golly – Droppin’ That [Sneakerz Muzik]
22. HeavyFeet vs. Virus Syndicate – I Spy… (HeavyFeet Club Dub) [Stamp! Beats]
23. Apster & Firebeatz – Skandelous [Made In NL]
24. DJ Sneak – You Can’t Hide From Your Bud (Gramphonedzie Nu Skool Remix) [Magnetic]
25. The Young Punx – Ready For The Fight (Black Noise Remix) [Mofo Hifi]
26. Deekline & Wizard – Gimme A Piece Of That Booty (HeavyFeet Remix) [CDR]
27. Wiley – Never Be Your Woman (Andy George & Jaymo Dub) [Virgin]
28. Blatta & Inesha feat. RQM – Bite Your Lip (Congorock Remix) [I Dischi Della Valigetta]
29. AC Slater – Play The Record Again [CDR]
30. Drumsound & Bassline Smith – Clap Your Hands (House Mix) [Technique]
31. Drop The Lime – Set Me Free (NROTB Carnival Mix) [Trouble & Bass]
32. Rob Threezy – Your Love [T&A]
33. Cosmin TRG – Tribal Flex [Tempa]
34. Marcus Visionary – St. Vincent [Liondub International]
35. HeavyFeet vs. Virus Syndicate – I Spy… (AC Slater Remix) [Stamp! Beats]
36. Breakage feat. Newham Generals & Rodigan – Hard [Digital Soundboy]
37. Jack Sparrow – The Chase [Tectonic]
38. D1 – Jus Business [Dub Police]
39. Skream – Burning Up [Digital Soundboy]
40. SL2 – DJs Take Control 2009 [New State]
41. Slipmatt – Hear Me (Junki Munki Remix) [Can You Feel It]
42. Danny Byrd feat. Liquid – Sweet Harmony (Jungle Mix) [Hospital]
43. Motive – Screwtop [Bingo Beats]
44. Heist – Moonshine [Co Lab]
45. Baobinga & ID – Jah [CDR]
46. Drumsound & Bassline Smith – Speed Freak [Technique]
47. Original Sin – Ark [Playaz]
48. Xample feat. Jakes – No Respect [RAM]
49. Bassment Jaxx – Twerk (Sub Focus Remix) [XL]
50. Adam F & Horx feat. Redman – Shut The Lights Off (Adam F & Sigma Remix) [Breakbeat Kaos].

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So this internet thing might achieve the impossibility of simultaneously being amongst hundreds of so-called friends while still being entirely alone. Thus the joy of personal connection combined with intimately shared musical taste is an experience so delightful it is only matched by the afterthought that this is partly a frustrating illusion created by the world wide web, and that in fact this connection is being made thousands of miles away from me, this time, in Boston.

Max Pearl, aka DJ Kat Fyte is our newest progenitor of the “nu whirled music” vision, coming in correct alongside other Mass. reps like Dancehall Diva Rizzla and the mother/father of the “nu whirled” Wayne Marshall, of Beat Research and Wayne & Wax.Today marks the introduction of DJ Kat Fyte the DJ and genre-destroyer, but also DJ Kat Fyte the promoter and curator.

Kat Fyte is involved in hosting touchstone DJ’s of the transnational bass movement at this year’s Boston Electronic Music Festival “Together”, taking place between February 8th and February 14th. Kat Fyte’s invites include Trash Menagerie short-list favorites DJ/Rupture, Kingdom, Kat Fyte himself, and the homie Taliesin of Dutty Artz, all corralling to put truth to power in the superhuman command of heavy bass music from the depths of the globe’s party basement.

To kick-off Together and originally mixed for Boston-based blog On A Friday, DJ Kat Fyte offers a very persuasive argument for the intersection of Dancehall rudeness and underground club music. I look forward to hearing more from this kid, as I’ll be even more thoroughly delighted to share a physical stage with him, rather than this lonely alternative.

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DJ Kat Fyte – The Cat In A Bag (Mix for On A Friday)

Tracklist (45:55):

01. Balkan Beat Box – “Bulgarian Chicks (INSPKTR Bootleg)”
02. Sticky feat. Natalie Storm – “Look Pon Me feat. Natalie Storm”
03. Princess – “Frontline – Original Mix”
04. Heckmann – “mushroom man ji fi remix”
05. Killaqueenz – “Double Up feat. Lady Chann (The Only & Breakdown Remix)”
06. Malente&Dex feat. New Kidz – “Lions (Douster Remix)”
07. Shystie – “Pull It (ill Blu Funky Mix)”
08. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix)”
09. Headhunter – “Prototype (Modeselektor’s Broken Handbrake Remix)”
10. Pangaea – “Memories”
11. Octa Push – “Ai Nadia”
12. K Dot – “Get Milli Get Mad (DJ Q remix)”
13. Cruel Intentions (Joker Remix) Simian Mobile Disco
14. ??? – ??? (White label)
15. Kat Fyte – “Birthday Sex (PAINFUL EDIT)”
16. Sp:Mc – “Trust Nobody”
17. Zomby – “Liquid Dancehall”
18. TEMPA T – “Next Hype (Starkey Vocal Mix)”
19. Jahdan Blakkamoore – “The General Remix feat. General Steele”

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As the perilous future of the album format hangs in the balance, there are a few who have (for a while) been working to deconstruct that format. Many of us in the blog world are responsible for such deconstruction, creating musical palettes everyday, ultimately allowing readers to assemble the barrage themselves. But those few that are changing the album with, yes, albums, are drawing on the mixtape format instead, DJ’s (essentially) interested in complicating matters of cohesion, artistry, and dynamism. One of these experiments was named as one of the best albums of 2002 by WIRE Magazine, DJ/Rupture’s Minesweeper Suite, thrust into the critical world as both an album and a mix. Beginning with the prescient “Gold Teeth Thief Mix,” Rupture is interested in discomfort; sonic, political, and even racial. Fusing breakcore, ambient, and classical may look dubious on the tracklist, another important experience in the relationship with the mix, but look for intersection and fluidity you may find. But if not, that’s okay too, as mixes like these act as a series of questions to the listener. “Do you recognize this Missy Elliot track? Oh yeah? How about something from Larbi Lamtougi?” Or, “Why are these songs here? Why do you like this one, if not the other? What IS a pleasurable sound?”

Posing the same questions in a collaborative effort with Dutty Artz co-owner Matt Shadetek, Rupture and Matt are asking each other questions before they ask you. Entitled Solar Life Raft, and out now on The Agriculture, Rupture follows his Pitchfork Bested “Uproot” with a challenge to work with a close friend as well as a musical confidante. Matt Shadetek, whose own pre-eminence comes from being one half of the production duo Team Shadetek, America’s earliest contributers to Western Europe’s Grime scene, Shadetek provides a somewhat more grounded aesthetic. Having worked with MC’s and Dancehall deejays, Matt is a studio wiz whose pragmatism affords a sense of stick when Rupture is busy creating splinters. The result is equal parts hard-hitting and disorienting to its listener, offering a mid-air flight through body-rocking bass as well as a more existential ambiance, drawing from non-western artists as well as Rupture/Shadetek reworkings of local Brooklynites like Gang Gang Dance and Telepathe.

And now for your free listening merriment is a stunning and bright original tune from Matt Shadetek called “Strength In Numbers” and he and Rupture’s reinvention of Gang Gang Dance’s “Bebey.” If merely aural entertainment isn’t enough, you will also find a visual stunner in the form of a gorgeous (and haunting) promotional video featuring a medley of tunes off the album. The album in it’s full, living, breathing entirety is available now iTunes, Beatport, Boomkat, and Amazon. You’ve been had.

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Matt Shadetek – Strength In Numbers

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Gang Gang Dance – Bebey (DJ/rupture & Matt Shadetek Remix)

Video directed by: Sara Taigher

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Describing the global dance music landscape may be one of the skills I hate to love most. I often hear, “Oh you’re a DJ, cool, what kind of music do you play?” I say, “Well, I play a lot of different music, I suppose I’m a bit of a ‘multi-genre’ DJ. I’m mostly focused on global dance music, particularly street-wise bass music. Actually, anything heavy in bass from around the world.” At the risk of pursuing a PhD in order to describe the sounds I like, some do, I try to stay content being vague, circuitous, and muddy. After all, it’s the ambiguity that’s often what is most interesting about dance music today; it’s the perpetual question and the myriad non-answers.

To add to the malaise is one purveyor of confusion, producer/DJ Chief Boima out of the San Francisco Bay Area, and more popularly known as a principle contributor to the blog Ghetto Bassquake, which focuses on non-western sounds like Kuduro and Coupé-Décalé—one of many African dance rhythms as varied as the continent itself. The result is a tag-team effort that covers a significant chunk of fresh and shuffle-worthy sounds from around the world. Boima’s partner in crime Vamanos, situated in London-town, makes up the other half of the contribution force, where Bassquake extends beyond the blog format and into the dance hall with the monthly night “Secousse.” The night is hosted by Vamanos and nascent production duo Radioclit, whose project The Very Best with Malawian singer Esau Mwamwaya has been making warm splashes around the critical and listener-empowered world.

Boima, the producer in the family, has been busy synthesizing these delectably confusing array of sounds, drawing particularly from Coupé-Décalé, and demanding awareness of a sound that Boima proves is a pliable and convincing rhythmic form. Deep in bass and heavily percussive, the Coupé-Décalé sound is quite fast and repetitive, reminiscent of house’s appropriation of African tribal rhythms, creating Tribal House, and now remerging under the zeitgeist of the UK Funky sounds, a title worthy of debate. Working on a project with Bersa Discos man Oro11, under the alias “Banana Clipz”, as well as under his own name, Boima has an intriguing series of releases coming up. And here for your uber-precious exclusivity are a few examples of Boima’s latest work, even a special treat including guests Lil’ Wayne & Drake. You can catch Boima spinning at Little Baobab in the Mission District of San Francisco, as well as making surprise guest appearances around the globe.

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Banana Clipz – War Dem Want

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Chief Boima – Born Again

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Lil’ Wayne feat. Drake – Money To Blow (Chief Boima Remix)

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Artwork by John P. Dessereau

Out today on Palms Out Sounds is Trash Menagerie favorite Dubbel Dutch’s first official EP “Trollsta.” Featuring remixes from Egyptrixx, Round Table Knights, and MHM 1, you can expect to hear some bubbly bass innovation worthy of some special attention. It’s always a great pleasure (and relief) to be writing about important U.S.-based producers, Dubbel Dutch being one of the most exciting ones. His calculated attention to detail affords his tunes space from the formula of wobble-bass bangers, and makes them a dynamic piece to any dynamic set. Be on the look out for Dubbel Dutch in NYC in November, as he supports two of my other favorite U.S. producers, Kingdom and Math Head.

Below you will find the Round Table Knights remix, straight off the EP, as well as two treats sent over to me personally, by the man himself! The Kid Conga remix is wonderfully understated. Buy the EP on Beatport and JunoDownload, TODAY.

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Dubbel Dutch – Trollsta (Round Table Knights Remix)

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Daniel Haaksman – Kid Conga feat. MC Militinho (Dubbel Dutch Remix)

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Youngsta – Bongo (Dubbel Dutch Remix)

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It’s tempting to shine brightly on new talent, to wash them thoroughly in hyperbole, and then forget and look for who’s next. Fortunately this hasn’t been the case for Warsaw’s The Phantom, who appeared here a few months ago with his UK Funky/Tropical tune entitled “Cambodia.” Receiving praise from the Nightslugs family in East London, as well as Trouble & Bass’s Supra 1, The Phantom has built upon his first original production with a skanking and deeply heavy remix of Baile Funk ambassador and Berlin-based DJ Daniel Haaksman’s tune “Kid Conga.” With official remixes from Trash Menagerie favorites Rob 3, Schlachtofbronx, and Zombie Disco Squad, this tune has made a meaningful splash, referencing the sounds of Kuduro, Baile Funk, and UK Funky. Check The Phantom’s interpretation, for free, below.

And if you ain’t know about Daniel Haaksman, you can educated, it’s true. Thanks to bass ambassador and expat extraordinaire Maga Bo, you can do your research via video, as he has compiled a series of interviews with various influential bass ambassadors, including Diplo, DJ/rupture, and Ghislain Poirier. Daniel Haaksman version below!
KID CONGA REMIX by The Phantom

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