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Jazzstep anyone?



Artist: Overcast Radio
Title: Midnight Sun / Vendetta
Format: 12" Vinyl
Cat #: STNSN002
Release Date: April/May 09
Distribution: Z-Audio

A. Midnight Sun
B. Vendetta

* AUDIO AVAILABLE HERE *

With their second release, Surface Tension has chosen an artist closer to home, and one with a unique take on a distinctly American jazz sound. Brooklyn's Overcast Radio (Chris Jones), an accomplished musician and sound designer of film and television, brings us two killer slices of jazzy, dubbed-out bass music, tinged with horns and guitars and a deep film noir vibe.

"Midnight Sun" is a meditative exercise in melody and space. From the first note of the trumpet, you know this is something different. Add in guitar lick echoes and the 'verbed out washes of sound floating in and out of the mix, and you have a simple but gorgeous combination. When the pulsing bass hits, the listener is transported to a world of rainy late night streets and Sam Spade detective scenarios. If ever a dubstep tune should have been a movie soundtrack, this is the one.

Once again setting it off right with saxophone licks and the classic sounds of a Rhodes piano, "Vendetta" hits squarely on the dancefloor when the bass thumps its way to the fore. Again, Jones melds the swing and depth of jazz, with basement level bass, for a tasty look into the wide open spaces that the still young dubstep genre invites those with vision to fill.

Overcast Radio's tunes have received radio play and support from Mary Anne Hobbs (Radio 1), Joe Nice, Incyde (Hotflush), Dave Q and numerous others worldwide.

Available soon worldwide. Hold Tight for further info. Watch this space!

More audio/info available at:

http://www.myspace.com/surfacetensionrecordings

http://www.myspace.com/overcastradio

http://blog.surfacetensionrecs.com
 
This is the type of dub/nu-jazzstep/whatever shit ive been looking for!

Any other recommendations?
 
Jazzy dubstep more like.

I like the examples up on the site.

Indianapolis seems like my kind of musical hotbed.

I'll have to swing through sometime.
 
Noodle said:
Jazzy dubstep more like.
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Yea, we're a Dubstep label ;)

Hypnotik1, check you Jazzsteppa: http://www.myspace.com/jazzsteppa they are pretty good. Also look for a label called "Soul Motive" Unfortunately one of the founders passed away the other day.

Jazzsteppa are a Live Jazz/Dub/NuJazz/Dance PA... very fun to watch honestly.

Then check out Silkie, Quest, Geiom, Chef... etc...

Also check out the top friends listed in the myspace in the original post, the first like... 10 or so of them are artists we have signed to the label, a good deal of them produce a more subdued, yet danceable sound.
 
DnB fans...5 records that sum up dnb for you

some of these threads are well old so i thought i'd start some new ones..

so..5 records that sum up dnb for you?
 
Future Prophecies - Warlords Rising = psychedelic epic super intense eargasm
Sub Focus - Special Place = that sub bass is unreal on good audio
Future Prophecies - Dimensional Entity ( Evol Intent rmx ) = deep dnb with soul
Drumsound & Bassline Smith - Harder = very powerfull dancefloor tune
Black Sun Empire vs. Concord Dawn - Sun VIP = dnb from space

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMJ4JdOlRsQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6FGbCl4pKE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoI_9C7jRes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5zFmJ2OV5k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLRpX4giGeA
 
Logistics - Cosmonaut: such a great Hospital-style roller. This is the kind of stuff that you expect to hear up in a Bristol club.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=054YxhImFks


Concord Dawn vs D-Bridge - Labyrinth: kind of a sleeper, I think. It was a bit difficult to locate, and is not the most complex tune ever made. It's just got a great vibe to it, I think.
http://www.abunchofcuts.com/my-store/detail.php?page=LR&r=1320
Only place I could find it was for purchase at that link. I'd say it's worth a couple bucks, for certain.


Seba- Forever: not much has to be said about this one. Just a beautiful drumfunk tune.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsiaOFo8dyA


Atom & Cell- Pressure (Noisia Remix): encapsulates the heavier side of DnB like few others.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb7jfW3BjWU


Adam F - 8-Ball: one of the only DnB tunes I could describe as debonair.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty1AMAx3Q2o Vid sound quality is shit, but it's good enough. Try to find this one for download somewhere.

I don't know if this is my best synopsis, but I can tell you for sure, if one were to sum up DnB, he'd need more than 5 tunes to do so ;P
 
@DOB, that future + evol collab is such a good tune.

anyway my 5 in no order would be

High Contrast - Twilights Last Gleaming
Phace - Cold Champagne
Calyx + Teebee - All That Remains
Noisia - Fade to Grey (boyyy this tune is heavy)
Spor - As Dust falls
 
Donny_they are coming
Concord dawn_dont tell me
More like you_unknown error rmx
Bad company_Mo fire
Limewax_raptor
 
Pendulum - Slam
Pendulum - Hold Your Colour
Pendulum - Propane Nightmares
Pendulum - Blood Sugar
Prodigy - Smack my Bitch (Subfocus rmx)
 
S2K said:
Logistics - Cosmonaut: such a great Hospital-style roller. This is the kind of stuff that you expect to hear up in a Bristol club.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=054YxhImFks
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What clubs have you been to in Bristol?

anyway these are a few of my fave all time tunes, got far too many that i could shite on about but heres a few random ones that popped into my head


Goldie - Timeless
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxbLIgQft_I

Instramental - Watching you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JQGEVNebjs

Amit - Pirates
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF0DMi53U5s

Klute - Hell Hath No Fury
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHMVme2sJKM

PFM - Dannys Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq5fmZ--TjA


=D
 
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werd, good stuff. im bummed because some copyright arse had youtube delete not only the vid i just posted but also that entire user's channel which was filled with great liquid tunes :(

i was actually preparing to buy a bunch of tunes online that i've listened to frequently on youtube but since this copyright bullshit keeps happening i'm going to join the other angry consumers and give a big 'fuck you!' to the defunct record industry by only buying from independent labels.

i have absolute disdain for RIAA affiliates who bring good artists into the fold then bury them the moment a new flavour of the month enters their field of vision. instead of providing easier access and better prices so that we the consumers can purchase what we want when we want, they even force youtube to remove the content we love so that there's no option left but to NOT buy from them because we DON'T WANT TO BUY THE SHIT THAT'S PLAYED ON THE FUCKING RADIO!

isn't this similar to how edison killed his own highly-successful company?
 
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