The always prevalent Code, the head honcho at Subtle Audio, has released his month in Drum and Bass mix, with the best Drum and Bass tracks from April. The mix is quality with some new tracks by Fracture, the return of DJ Krust and Nic TVG to name a few. Check it!!

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This is a new series that we’re starting here at Skirmish, aYou Tube playlist of some tunes we love. Just click the video link name and it’ll bring you to the Playlist on You Tube

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Absolute wicked E.P. from Bobby Tank that came out a few months back.

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Barcelona producer Alizzz is a purveyor of the funky grooves and for his latest release on MoFo HiFi, it’s there in bucket loads. Future Funk is what it’s called on his soundcoud and it’s as good a description as any with glitchy beats and 80′s synths all making an appearance  The E.P. itself goes between styles and while the Future Funk sounds sums up closer Arista, second track B4 is a true slice of garage inspired bass music. Definitely a producer to keep an eye out for!!

Tags:  Alizzz, Collapse E.P., Mo Fo Hi Fi

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Red Bull‘s latest guest mix is  a great way to get you in the mood and comes from the always wicked London DJ Tee Circus. As usual he keeps it bass heavy and throws in tracks from the likes of Dusky, Gorgon City, Shadow Child, Waze & Odyssey, Last Japan, Citizen, Local Talk Records, Squarehead and more!

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 Touchin’ Bass is a label that has been known for putting out all sorts from Booty Bass to Electro. Label boss Andrea Parker has always chosen wisely and the latest cut sees the label exploring the further depths of electronica with Quinoline Yellow dropping his Palisade Mount E.P.! Luke Williams, as he’s known to the taxman, already has an impressive back catalog under his Quinoline Yellow and Tatamax and Tap Throw moniker’s out on label’s such as SKAM and his own imprint Uchelfa. His latest offering for Toucin Bass though sees him put on his I.D.M. hat yet again.

There is some seriously nice synthesis throughout the whole E.P. that give it a serious lunar feel especially on tracks like Dinas Hide and Argon of August. The Recital of Dolwen Fields is where he really comes into his own laying down some serious beats that wouldn’t sound out of place on something like Selected Ambient Works. In fact if I told you it was an unreleased Richard D James tune, you’d probably believe me. Not that he’s aping Aphex in anyway, he’s definitely got his own thing going on but being compared to someone like Aphex can’t be all that bad right?

A great E.P. that I can see myself listening to death. Sweet!!

FORMAT: 12” VINYL / DIGITAL DOWNLOAD 
RELEASED: 20 MAY 2013

Tags:  Ambient, Andrea Parker, Breaks, I.D.M., Palisade Mount, Quinoline Yellow, SKAM, Tap Throw, Tatamax, Techno, Touchin Bass, Uchelfa

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Put this Friday aside if you’re in Ireland! 

Mungo’s HiFi  will headline the official Cork launch of the Outlook Festival, Europe’s biggest and best soundsystem culture and bass music event, in the Pavilion, Cork next May 10^th.

The Outlook Festival will take place at the end of September in Pula, Croatia in the beautiful surrounds of Fort Punto Christo. Festival stages vary greatly from the norm and gigs take place in the fort courtyard, (where the Mungo’s HiFi Soundsystem is in residence all weekend), Fort Punto Christo’s moat, the nearby beach, on boat parties in the bay as well as in the nearby Roman Amphitheatre, the finest preserved in Europe.

“We’ve wanted to have these lads over to play for years and years, they always lay down a good buzz. So when the Outlook Festival approached us about doing a collaboration, we decided it was the perfect opportunity to bring them”, said Rob DC.

The Cork festival launched, curated by Riseup and DubCulture promotions will feature residents Rob Dc and Jonezy and guest Bilbo, who will also be performing at the festival in Croatia. Headliners on the night are Scottish soundsystem champions, Mungo’s HiFi.

Mungo’s Hi Fi is an infamous sound system crew based in Glasgow, Scotland which follows the original Jamaican sound system tradition. Bringing up-to-date reggae, dub and dancehall sounds to Glasgow across the city in venues such as the Glasgow School of Art. The sound system quickly became part of a wider reggae network with a hectic schedule of live performance, both djing and as a sound system at clubs and events across the UK and Europe.Mungo’s host the duly named “Mungo’s Arena” at Outlook & Dimensions – and it’s always one of the most talked about aspects of the festivals. They also run one of the best dub labels around today – Scotch Bonnet Records.

Two tickets to the Outlook Festival, valued at over 370euro are up for grabs on the night of the gig in the Pavilion. Buying your tickets online from Resident Advisor or the Pavilion’s website enters you into a draw for the two passes and the winner will be announced on the night.

10e – 10^th May – 10pm – simples

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1HBqaQhzuE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaEYggF38hk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBRdKDzs6ME

for tickets:

http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?466641
www.pavilioncork.com

Facebook event
https://www.facebook.com/events/415621451865049/?fref=ts

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Initially conceived as an outlet for a collective of like-minded artists from the rural outskirts of Manchester, Akkord have already achieved more than the sum of their parts. Having self-released two long sold out records and with their ‘Surge’ track gracing the first ever 12” from the label arm of the incredibly well respected Electronic Explorations; they’ve achieved something of a cult following completely on the merits of their output.

Navigate is 4 tracks of delightful low end bass music that really shows their strength as producers. It manages to get inside your Sub-conscious (See what I did there!) and take you out the other side. All sorts of influences can be heard on here, indirectly or not. It brings to mind producers such as Scanone and Oscar Mulero, especially on the tracks Compound and Destruction. It’s as suitably dark and interesting.

Houndstooth is definitely one of my new favorite labels and a welcome addition to the scene. No doubt, there is more to come from Rob Booth‘s imprint but in the meantime – take this in. Wicked stuff!!

FORMAT: 12” Vinyl and Digital 
VINYL OUT: 27th May 2013 
DIGITAL OUT: 03rd June 2013

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Festival season has arrived! The evenings are longer, the weather is nicer and the dancing urge is back in full force. Talk about living for the weekend!

Yorkshire’s hills for roaming, matched with artistic displays, banging tunes and dancing until the early hours makes for a weekend well spent. It all hits off on the 19th – 21st of July, so get booking those recovery days off! Here’s what Neil Landstrumm had to say after he played in 2012:

“A perfectly sized intimate festival in Yorkshire hills built round good people, crew and more importantly quality electronic music”

If you like partying in a nice setting with plenty of sound heads by your side then this is the one for you. Their ethos has always been to provide a “small but perfectly-formed festival, by and for artists, musicians and appreciators.”  Now on their fourth installment of summery goodness you can expect a lot of great things this year, such as Electronic Explorations, Macronite, Mob Soundsystem and loads more, bringing some of the most exciting music electronic artists have to offer to the stage. They currently have acts such as these lads representing:  Pinch, Objekt, Akkord,  Radioactive Man, Defekt and a lot more yet to come. They’re continuously announcing more additions, so keep updated on their facebook page here and buy your tickets here : 

http://www.summersaturnalia.com/tickets/

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L.A. Producer Sage Caswell is fairly new to the scene and as by way of introduction has delivered a free 2 track E.P. with First/ Walk It Off. Both tracks are glorious summer tunes that groove along at such a good pace (and I love a good groove! Always puts a smile on my face!). They absolutely demand to be danced to and I’m sure once DJ’s start picking them up, you’ll be doing just that in clubs all over the place. Keep an eye out for him with a release on the way for Amadeus Records. (via XLR8R)

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