DJ-SKT

DJ S.K.T inboxed me a HUUGE folder of UK Funky tunes, jump over HERE to listen and download as you like.

Have a listen to his remix of the classic 'Missing'

4Trak-Remix Stems

Hi all.

4Trak hit my inbox with a very dark and moody post-dubstep song entitled 'Scuba Diving In The Thames'

The track is short and goes straight in with a very atmospheric subbed out sound.

4TRAK - Scuba Diving In The Thames [320] by 4Trak ☜

I thought it would be a good idea to put my own little twist on this, so I did a little re-work.

4trak-Scuba Diving in The Thames(M.U.S.K-About) by Musk Man Benji

The stems are HERE if you'd like to remix this song, make sure you send your versions over to muskmanbenji AT hotmail DOT com

Thank you, goodnight, much love

Benji

Terror Danjah-Hardrumentals free download.

'Grime' instrumentalist and out and out badman 'Terror Danjah' just gave us another zip file of his latest tunes.

Entitled 'Hardrumentals' its a collection of 'Grime' beats reflecting his signature sound.

Download it here.

It's SRC's Birthday, to celebrate he gives us some free music!

SRC

Hey there I'd like make you aware of a Birmingham Grime producer called SRC.

I follow him on Twitter and earlier today he announced it was his Birthday, to celebrate he uploaded three free instrumentals for us to download!

I was introduced to the 8-bit, game boy infused Grime producer through the Butterz 'Grime' blog, biggup Elijah and Skilliam for introducing so many new artists!

The first of the free songs is 'Scumbag' which has chopped a up repeating keyboard/piano line which lends itself more towards a hip hop beat rather than 'Grime', I'd love to hear a vocal over this!

The second is 'Homepage' which sounds more like SRC's signature 8-bit square synth sounding 'Grime' music.

The third is 'Powerman' which is a more upbeat and bigger sounding beat with a nice distorted synth line, still with echoes of his 8-bit sounds piercing through.

Make sure you buy SRC's-Ryouko E.P which is out now on the 'No Hats No Hoods' label.

His next release is something I've been waiting a long second for.....

'Goomba' which will released by the Butterz label 'Quality Street' along side Terror Danjah, Royal T and Mr.Mitch.

Benj

Tattoo O'clock...

Im getting the itch for another tattoo and I've been giving some serious thoughts into have an Escher style Tesselation wrapped around my leg...

I really love Escher as he was the first artist that struck my attention when I was young.

I'm thinking of recreating this...

A few random pieces of music for you to get stuck into.

Hey all I've just about recovered from my Bigger Than Barry set on Friday, which was thoroughly enjoyable as it was extended to 2 hours!...

Here are a couple of highlights from this week....

Twitter is a pretty amazing place for someone like myself who loves to discover new artists, music and general goings on.

A lot of the music I will feature will come from there and here are a couple of artists I have discovered through following certain people...

'Grizzly Artist' from Brixton SW9 is someone I've discovered by following a few Grime DJ's and he's one hard working Grime and Hip Hop MC, I've loosely followed him for 6 months and he's racked up 600+ followers.

He's currently giving away his AWOL Vol 2-Never Gonna Rest Mixtape for free!

Make sure you download this.

He's been doing this for 5 years and has worked with the likes of Typah and Big Narstie

Follow him on Facebook and Twitter for more info, free downloads and banter!

Moving on...

Not usually my type of music, I must admit...

Wonky Ninja is someone I've discovered through a few DJ mates in Sheffield, Every now and again I pop over to his Soudcloud to see what he's been up to and I recently discovered 'Carnival' which is a free to download.

The sample used is kinda following in the vein of 'Gramophonedzie' and that bloody 'Americano' song, but...doesn't commit 100% to the cause of pop music!

The drop kinda reminds me of Roska's Remix of 'Bangduck' which is currently my favourite song to play out, so put these two together with a nice funky beat and we're onto a winner.

This is fun music and we all like having fun don't we? Anyways head over to his Myspace to find out about his latest movements.

Benji

Introducing.....'Future Garage'

I'd like to make you aware of 'Future Garage' as I believe we're on the verge of a resurgence of 'Garage' and it's many different sub-forms.

I like to think that this resurgence is happening due to people my age who grew up listening to Garage and 2-Step are now realising that they miss those sounds that got buried too quickly by Speed Garage, Bassline and early Dubstep and wan't to recreate it with their own contemporary feel.

For me as a drummer I absolutely love the skip and shuffle beats that Garage songs are built upon, 'Future Garage's' fundamental similarity to the 'Old Skool' sound is exactly this.
The beats are well structured bouncy and drive the songs along, here's an example of this new sound...

As you can hear the similarity lies in the beat and vocal arrangement style, but the major difference is the more chilled out(in my opinion) synth's and less immediate bass sounds.

Now I love the 'old skool' sound but would there be much point in simply re-creating those sounds?

I believe that this will be the next big shift in underground music when people tire of Dubstep's day by day throwaway progression....

You ought to check out the following artists pioneering these sounds..

Deadboy- http://www.myspace.com/deadboysoundboy

Whistla-http://www.myspace.com/whistla

Martyn-http://www.myspace.com/martyndnb

And sign up to the Future Garage forum where you'll find out about all angles of this new music...

http://futuregarageforum.com/

Here are a couple of mixes to listen to, to help introduce you to the these 'Future' sounds, The one from myself fuses the similarity between old and new I hope you enjoy!

Benji

May 10 'Back to the New Skool' mix by Musk Man Benji

And here is the link to Whistla's-'Future Garage an introduction' mix... which I thoroughly recommend.