We at Subdivision love all things Secret Agent Gel. We love his eclectic genre-bending productions; we love his Sub FM show The Kids Are Bored; we love his Bass Tourist label; we love his brilliant file sharing site Dubfiler; we love that he is a sage and official “professor” of Ableton Live; and, most of all, we love the man himself. For all these reasons and more, we want to share with you another reason to love Secret Agent Gel – his Cooking Up Bass EP.

For Bass Tourist’s 10th release, Secret Agent Gel pairs up with Brooklyn’s Liz Toft for Cooking Up Bass a dark, UK funky house banger. The b-side, the instrumental Frankenstein, runs with the spooky, bashy house theme. The perfect sound coming from Brooklyn’s Victor Frankenstein.

As this will 10th release on Bass Tourist, Cooking Up Bass will be released on October 10th, 2010 – Secret Agent Gel’s birthday! And to top it all off, the birthday boy will be hosting a very special The Kids Are Bored radio show/release party in lovely Brooklyn, New York. Be sure to check his site for more event details whilst listening to this 128kbps preview of the Cooking Up Bass EP.

Chopping Tom? Bless your bravery, Blockhead. And damn fine work.
Yesterday's Here (Blockhead Remix) - Tom Waits

Underworld is what got me into dance music. dubnobasswithmyheadman remains one of my all time favorite records. I have only seen them twice – April 1999 and August 2009 – but you would have never known a decade had passed once Karl Hyde and Rick Smith got on stage.
The new record, Barking, was produced collaboratively. Although Karl Hyde and Rick Smith wrote each of the songs, they then sent them out to other artists for additional production and enhancement, including the likes of Appleblim & Al Tourettes, Dubfire, Mark Knight & D. Ramirez, and even trance overlord Paul van Dyk.

I was very excited to see that XLR8R is streaming Barking, before its release on September 13, 2010. I had to share with you all:
Stream Underworld’s Barking

Also, be sure to check out the 3 Disc “Barking Box” from Om records. Looks well worth the fifty…

Brooklyn’s LalaVek‘s new project, Tayisha Busay, is a nonstop XXX-rated dance party. Imagine: Flygirls, synths, and lyrics about tampons. Literally.

They have been nominated to be the “Band of the Month” for Deli Magazine. So take twenty seconds and vote for them HERE.

We love Chrissy Murderbot. So when Chrissy put together the latest in the Strange Sounds series, I jumped on it like a piranha to a floating lamb chop. Sink yinz teef in2 this madness!!

or download the mix and take it with you…..

Strange Sounds Vol. 4 - Chrissy Murderbot
Track List:

Waxmaster – Hit the Flo (Chrissy Murderbot Remix) (forthcoming Ghettophiles)
Jam Pony Express – The Window to the Wall (Express Records)
DJ D-Man – Basement Party (Underground Construction)
Boolumaster – Ice Cream Juke (unreleased)
Byron Stingily – Get Up (Narcotic Dub) (Nervous)
Wax Master Maurice – Stop Screamin’ (Dance Mania)
Splack Pack – Scrub Da Ground (Pandisc)
Luke – Scarred (Luther Campbell Music)
Quad City DJs – C’Mon Ride It (The Train) (Big Beat)
Arpebu – Munsta From Kavain Space (Ghettophiles)
Model 500 – I Wanna Be There (Dave Angel Remix) (R&S Records)
DJ Chip – Juke Slide (unreleased)
Jody Breeze – The Way I Move (Ghettophiles)
The Art of Noise – Heart of Love (China)
Chrissy Murderbot; No More Tears (unreleased)
DJ Earl – Lookin’ 4 Me (Ghettophiles)
DJ D-Man – One, Two, Three, Four (Flip Da Script)
Erik Travis – Return of Voices (Databass)
DJ Deeon – The Freaks (Remix) (Databass)
Rotterdam Termination Source – Poing (Rotterdam Records)
Jammin’ Gerald – Pump On The Floor (Dance Mania)
Donieus – Snap (Underground Construction)
DJ Gant-Man – Strings of Juke (unreleased)
Monkey Steak & MC Zulu – Hyped Up (Steak House Records)
DJ Godfather & Coon Daddy – One Time on the Mic (Databass)
Paul Johnson – Feel My Mutha Fuckin’ Bass In Yo Face (Ricochet Re-Edit) (RZ Records)
Plaid – Mfaus (Warp)
Detroit Grand Pubahs – Sandwiches (Throw)
DJ Spinn – I Really Feel (forthcoming Sleazetone)
Xta-C – So Heavy (unreleased)
DJ Milton – Southside Beatdown (Dance Mania)
Mr. C the Slide Man aka DJ Casper & The WGCI Bad Boys – Juke Slide 2(unreleased)
DJ Manny – I’m Passin’ (Ghettophiles)
BetaSP – Bacteria (Chrissy Murderbot Remix) (Trenchant Dubs)
Chrissy Murderbot f. Tha Basix – Red Bone (Sleazetone)
DJ Roc – Shot Down (forthcoming Planet Mu)
Chrissy Murderbot – Heavy Butt (unreleased)
DJ Rashad – Itz Not Rite (forthcoming Planet Mu)
Aux88 – Rated AUX (Aaron Carl Remix) (Puzzlebox)
Chrissy Murderbot f. Miles Bonny – Thighs (Shinra Remix) (WIDE Records)
DJ Deeon – Freak U Rite (Databass)
DJ Marquis – Head Together (Nu Flava)
DJ Nasty – Drop That (Matrix Musik)
Daft Punk – Face 2 Face (Marvy Da Pimp Ghetto House Edit) (unreleased)
Doneius – Shake Yo Booty & Dance Crazy (Underground Construction)
DJ Deeon – Boody Mover (Dance Mania)
Trey Songz – Neighbors Know My Name (Chrissy Murderbot Ghetto Refix) (unreleased)
Jammin Gerald – Pump That Shit! (Dance Mania)
Robert Hood – The Core (Tresor)
Machel Montano – Madder Dan Dat (Poirier Remix) (unreleased)
Lemonade – Remain in Jah (Chrissy Murderbot Remix) (forthcoming True Panther Sounds)

One of the most exciting artists Big Dada has signed recently is the Liverpool bred Bang On. A born MC, Elliott Egerton’s delivery effortlessly moves between funny and furious, as he spins yarns and nails metaphors that make rap sound like a good idea again. Combined with raw, bass-hefty production that could make a bleeding edge dubstepper weep, he’s set to be a force to be reckoned with in the coming year.

Toddla T recently invited Bang On to record a freestyle for the Chart Attack section of his Radio One show. The beat was put together by bassline’s brightest, DJ Q, who remixed ‘All Time Low’ by The Wanted, perhaps shattering the notion that you can’t polish a turd. The end result is all banging bass and blazing raps, and is definitely a track to own.

We’ve got the full 320 mp3 (not a radio rip)

Bang On’s debut single, Hands High, will be released this Autumn. The video has been shot by Goetz Werner (Dizzee Rascal’s ‘Graftin’ and ‘Off To Work.’)

“So hot, i aint even got any of his tunes yet” Toddla T

More info on Bang On soon…
Chart Attack - Bang On + DJ Q on Toddla T's INMWT

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Keith Swet from Hot Mess has recently entered a BRILLIANT remix in the Fedde Le Grand contest. We at Subdivision wanted to show our support by encouraging readers and all other ‘Branch Divisionists’ to cast their vote for half o Hot Mess.

You can cast your vote here

Rockin High (Keith Swet Remix) – Fedde Le Grand

Euphoric, heartfelt and utterly beautiful, Spokes present “We Can Make It Out,” the first single from their forthcoming debut album, “Everyone I Ever Met”. Effortlessly blending together elements of shoegaze, folk and post-rock, its bittersweet joyfulness will purge your system of cynicism for a week. Its unique collective-choral vocals typify the energy of the forthcoming album as a whole.

Ninja labelmate Yppah turns in a driving remix with a little more emphasis on the rhythm before “Where Do I Sleep,” an exclusive non-album track, takes the tempo down and shows just how intricately and beautifully the Spokes collective can make music.

“We Can Make It Out” comes with a superb video by director Dan Lowe who himself has already achieved notoriety with a promo for Field Music which was nominated by RADAR for best budget video last year alongside luminaries such as Spike Jonze.

This five piece based in Manchester are set to be one of the cult finds of the forthcoming year.

Press:
“Spokes are yet another band freeing Manchester from Courteenersitis and deal in pastoral indie with a post-rock veneer that builds to glorious climaxes.” (NME)
“Great rewards surely await the angelic Spokes” (Clash Magazine)
“It’s incredibly easy to fall in love with an album when it takes in elements of slow-core, shoegaze, folk and pop music so effortlessly” (Boomkat)

‘We can Make It Out’ – single out 15th November on Counter Records

Pittsburgh’s RSK has been on the rise in Dubstep’s “Brostep” scene for a while now. Picked up by Chicago’s Furthersound, and releasing a slew of tracks on Savory Audio and Brotown, among others, RSK has shown his love for the bro bass.

However, it is was his new ‘drumstep’ remix of Dolla‘s ‘Who the Fuck is That?’ that really caught my attention. With all of these subgenres, I just assumed that ‘drumstep’ was a modern name for 70 or 140 drum & bass. I was wrong. Enjoy this RSK remix as much as I have. And at 320kbps, be sure to drop it live. It will go off.

The Locust are one of the greatest noise bands of all time. If you just read that preceding sentence and have never listened to The Locust – stop reading and click here. Seriously. You will not fully appreciate this post if you don’t know the Locust’s sound.

Sticky Disco are one of my favorite rising talents. Hailing from Jerusalem, Israel, this production duo have been releasing some of the strangest and brutal tracks ever to shatter a bar glass. Their stunning Fuck Acid was the highlight on the brilliant This Is Suicide Dubs vol. 1. The fearlessness and madness behind Sticky Disco’s sound reminded me of another of my favorite production teams – The Squire of Gothos. Fittingly enough, Sticky Disco has a forthcoming release on the Squire’s OFF ME NUT.

I nearly shit myself when I saw in my inbox an email from Sticky with the subject line: ” afternoon when I received an email from Sticky with a subject reading: Brand New Set of Teeth (Sticky Disco Remix) – The Locust. Below is the union to two halves of a single schizophrenic brain – Sticky Disco and The Locust!!!