In the wake of the recent sonic assault of Ras_G and following The Gaslamp Killer earlier this year, Dank Morass presents the next artist from Flying Lotus’ mighty Brainfeeder clique to reach Brisbane. From Los Angeles via Ann Arbor, Michigan, Samiyam is a lover of soul, beats, hip hop and donuts with sprinkles. He’ll be bringing his live, fuzzed, future funk to the chilled surrounds of the Valley’s x&y bar on Sunday September 12. (more…)
Lately, mix-wise, things have been a bit slow on the walrus front. However, im gonna increase my output in the next few weeks considering i have recently acquired some brand new amazing musics.
Until then, heres something to keep the fiends under wraps.
I recorded this mix towards the end of last year and i must admit, it is the favorite of all my mixes recorded to date. Have a listen if you have a spare 40mins.
I originally made it for my friend Vivandiere just before she embarked on a journey to Iceland.
Love,
Walrus
1. Grooveman Spot – Levitation
2. Bibio – Lovers Carvings (Leatherette Remix)
3. Misel Quinto – Pull it out Somewhen
4. Keaver and Brause – Awake
5. Lone – Karen Loves Kate
6. Soulphiction – Ghana Wadada
7. Reggie Dokes – Dancefloor Spectacle
8. Grooveman Spot – Rude Fantastic
9. Karizma – Tech this out Pt. 2
10. Harmonic 313 – Turn it On Feat Steve Spacek
11. KenLo Craqnuques – Halo (feat. La Pleureuse)
12. Reason and Romanza – Seven Uses Of Potential Difference (Blue Daisy’s Tribal Remix)
13. Dj Rels – Broken Soul/Dawn
14. Deadbeat – Port-Au-Prince
15. eDIT – Ashtray
16. Tadd Mullinix – Lulla
17. Cepia – Ithaca
18. Gecko Turner – Monosabio Blues (Phillips Owusu Remix)
Take’s new album on Alpha Pup, Only Mountain, is stunningly epic. It bulges with the same density of sound as Amon Tobin and Download, but it’s more organic than either. It’s a hard record to pull highlights from. “Quartz for Amber” propels with clanking background percussion and psychedelic swellings. “Neon Beams” channels a blunted Vangelis, and throughout there are sleeper cells of renegade funk lurking furtively in the recesses of shimmering synths, restrained rumbles and cardiac arrest snares.
Take has a healthy back catalogue, including a recent split 10″ with Matthewdavid on All City, and a remix of “Parisian Goldfish” on Flying Lotus’ L.A. EP 3 X 3. You can also marvel at the diversity on his 60-track Sweatsons Trajectorymixtape under the name Sweatson Klank.
In retrospect, giving my once-heard copy of his Earthtones & Concrete to Swob during a major CD collection clean out last time I moved house was most likely a major fail, but at least it’s still in the family.
A friend of mine and my good mate, ATLASt’s brother, Gav, runs a blog and record label called Jus Like Music. Up until several months ago, he lived in Brisbane, not too far from my folks house actually. It was a pleasure to see Gav at a Dank Morass party when he rocked up for Starkey last year (Pics). He is now living in London (i think) and making connects with cats like Mr. Beatnick and Giles Peterson.
Jus’ Like Music specialises in promoting underground neo-soul, nu-jazz, hip-hop, electronica and pretty much any under-appreciated quality music. His ethos is very noble as each and every week he is showing love to new, soulful artists and record labels from across the world through interviews, reviews and downloads. Gav’s Jus Like Music PODCAST is always a veritable gold mine of dope musics.
JLM’s latest brainchild, and the second free release of the record label (after this BUG Release), is something to check for real. Collaborating with another blog called Apple Juice Break, OSCILLATIONS is a collection of beats from predominantly unsigned and a few signed producers from acoss the globe. Bedroom beatmakers pushing the post-dilla sound run riot on Oscillations.
The compilation includes cats like Om Unit (2Tall’s alias), who recently released one phat 7″ on All City Records, a month or so back. Look out for his EP forthcoming on Plasticman’s Terrorrhythm Records. Check a tune from it HERE.
A Brixtonite lad, Slugabed, also features on Oscillations. Slugabed has held my attention since he was kind enough to send me a sick beat tape a couple of years back. Slugabed pushes heavy dance-floor mess which is a pastiche of recognizable references to electro, Hip-Hop, dubstep, garage and ambient, thrown in a blender and laid out in next level arrangement. Sound-system music for sure, for sure. Check his new EP on Planet Mu HERE.
Signed beat making cats are peppered through out Oscillations, however unsigned beatheads run the show. In fact, a friend of mine Elroy 4.0 (Ross) and brother of Lone Pariah of the mighty White Rhino crew gets his beat Nemo’s Shimmery New Coat on here. Elroy 4.0 is one to check. Each time i hear his latest beat, he is putting his mind to new styles and refining his distinct sound. He creates sci-fi dance-floor material of immense impact…. Give him some love on triple J unearthed.
OSCILLATIONS – 40 beats spanning two Volumes – All for FREE!!
Yes thats right, the first of Just Like Music Record’s releases is %100 free download for the peoples. Select your file quality and enjoy the music and artwork and press release PDF included in the download.
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Walrus
Part 1 Tracklisting:
01. Broken Haze – Block
02. Om Unit – Neptune
03. Chairman Kato – No Coincidence
04. Vital – Gaffer Tape
05. T.Hemingway – Dirty
06. le N?KO – Crushed Universes
07. Decepticon Bootleg Machine – Orbit162
08. Lunice – Perpetual Leisure
09. Invisible Inc – Paradise
10. Paper Tiger – Good Feelings feat. Sabira Jade
11. Ocuban – Favela feat. Kit
12. Cohoba – Caltri
13. Dza – Shifty
14. East Winston Lake – Indigo’s Wah Wah (prod. Akello Light)
15. Grillo – Fronting The Weekend
16. Bluntspeakers – 1000 Miles
17. Sampology – Mamaye
18. Dipak Chand – Nurse, Hello
19. BUG – Indica
20. Jesse Futerman – I Love You So
Tracklisting:
01. XLII – Roll Upon You Like XLII
02. Slugabed – Power Of The Mind
03. Alex B – Murked
04. Greymatter – Too Much
05. Elroy 4.0 – Nemo’s New Shimmery Coat
06. 00Genesis – Dew
07. Constrobuz – Listen Close
08. Mr Beatnick – Plastic Memory
09. ANGO – Hep, Hep
10. Suzi Analogue + Stalley – Gate 28 (Analogue Radiowave Edit)
11. Kidkanevil – Zo0o0o0p!!! feat. Oddisee
12. Flick Brown – It Be Called N.C. feat. Akello Light
13. Cazeaux O.S.L.O. – Negro-Orgen
14. Piff Herrera – Windpipe
15. Debilorithmicos – Devil’s Hand feat. Racecar & Sarah G
16. 8Bitch – In The Moog For Love
17. Ghost – CIA
18. Stevo – untitled971
19. Inko – Komet Kameratene
20. Beatcasso – Untitled 48590
21. S.maharba – M/L/M/H
I threw together this off-the-cuff mix after reading the recently published collaborative novel by William S Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. The book was written some time before both authors’ respective defining works Junky and On the Road, but has only seen the light of day now out of respect to the real life characters depicted in the manuscript. Bill and Jack take alternative chapters from the points of view of bartender and part time private detective Will Dennison (Burroughs) and merchant seaman Mike Ryko (Kerouac). It’s fascinating to see the nascent character types and motifs that would become prevalent in their later works. It’s like hearing an early but very polished demo.
Here’s a grip of mostly unrelated beats for the boiling of river mammals. This one goes out to my man Elijah. Tracklist after the jump, and in the ID3 info.
Dank Morass is excited to present the debut Brisbane show for the hottest DJ in the world of beats and bass – The Gaslamp Killer. A founder of LA’s acclaimed weekly Low End Theory club, the GLK’s lateral crate-digging through dusty psychedelia, classic hip hop, cutting edge beats and heavy dubstep is unparalleled. With the spirit of the West Coast psychedelic movement of the 60s and the current manifestation of the beat generation running strong in his blood, the GLK will lay waste to the main room of the Step Inn on Saturday March 6.
Moving between San Diego, San Francisco and Los Angeles, The Gaslamp Killer made a name worldwide with mind-boggling mixes such as I Spit On Your Grave and Hell And The Lake of Fire are Waiting For You. Closely affiliated with Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder collective, he released a debut EP, My Troubled Mind on that label in 2009. A whirlwind of rumbling bass and psych-rock edits, the EP is just one weapon in the GLK’s diverse arsenal of bass.
Low End Theory, which The GLK curates with fellow residents Daddy Kev, D-Styles and Nobody, has been hailed as the international headquarters for raw and soulful hip hop, psychedelic beats, glitch-hop, avant-rap, IDM and dubstep. The Gaslamp Killer is absolutely at the forefront of the thrilling collision of these disparate but complementary sounds.
In support, the Morass presents a rare Brisbane DJ set for Elgusto. One half of premier Australian beats duo Hermitude and producer for Herd-frontman Urthboy, Gusto has played leading bass nights Void and Headroom in his adopted hometown of Sydney. Favourites of Japan’s legendary DJ Krush, Hermitude have dropped three albums of world-class beats on the Elefant Traks label, most recently the sublimely composed Threads.
Nomadic Brisbanite Tigermoth will perform tracks off his haunting solo debut Underwater Beats and preview music from a new album. Equally influenced by US and Japanese hip-hop, Tigermoth weaves an abstract, instrumental soundscape backed by orchestrated beats in a mix evocative of Tokyo’s industrial landscape and Australia’s natural milieu.
Rounding out this top shelf line-up is local live dubstep duo Science Project, whohave been toiling away in the lab for months, concocting unhurried heaters that are brought to life with drum kit and MPC on stage, and Syntax, playing original bass heavy hip hop beats.
Additional atmospherics will be provided by the Dank Morass DJs Walrii, Swob and Danck. The Morass has been DJing and promoting beats in Brisbane since late 2007, and has previously hosted Flying Lotus, Starkey, The Bug, Joker, Coki & Loefah and Blu & Exile.
The Gaslamp Killer (Low End Theory/Brainfeeder, LA) with guests Elgusto (DJ Set, Hermitude, Syd), Tigermoth (live), Science Project (live), Syntax, Swob, Walrii & Danck
When: Saturday 6 March – doors from 9pm
Where: Step Inn, corner Brunswick St and St Pauls Terrace, Fortitude Valley
Cost: $20+bf presold from OzTix.com.au, Rockinghorse & all OzTix outlets, $25 on the door.
Once again, it’s the time of month for submersion, with the October installment of SCUBA TANK. As usual, presented by Dank Morass and White Rhino crews, it will entail only the finest in progressive and soothing sounds. The Tank’s new home at 320 in Spring Hill allows us to be liberal with sonics and free party vibes for all the people who appreciate it!
FREE as always this Wednesday October 7, SCUBA TANK will be boasting international steez from the one known as DJ Ripley. All the way from San Fransico, she digs deep to bring forth the unheard sounds and mixing skills to the Brisbane shores.
Dj Ripley has been tearing up dancefloors across North America and Europe for 12 years, in town squares, warehouses, ships, clubs, squats, community centers and activist spaces. Her genre-smashing sets build audiences into heaving monuments unified by dopeness. She has released mixes on the Death$ucker [http://www.deathsucker.org/] label, on Modyfier-modifying, on Spannered.org, Mashit.com, and on her own blog http://djripley.blogspot.com. She recently wrapped up 6 months living and working in Jamaica, where she was djing and researching copyright law and creative practice.
Along with this very special guest, the usual high quality selectors from Brisbane’s own bowels will never fail to sort the masses out with healing music.
White Rhino’s Arku and Dank Morass’ Danck and Walrii will lovingly choose a forward thinking, internationally cutting edge selection of global bass music, roots and soul progressions.
Live visuals and ambience provided by good friends and fine artists Cornish and Micro Matic. They will be manipulating pixels like oreo cookie dough, sporadically seen in Brisbane.
Dank Morass DJs Walrii and Danck support Definitive Jux boss El-P at the Zoo. Rounding out the bill is a rare Brisbane performance from Melbourne’s Ivens and instrumental beats from Tigermoth.
Once again, it’s the time of month for submersion, with the October installment of SCUBA TANK. As usual, presented by Dank Morass and White Rhino crews, it will entail only the finest in progressive and soothing sounds. The Tank’s new home at 320 in Spring Hill allows us to be liberal with sonics and free party vibes for all the people who appreciate it!
