TOYOTA在北美車廠的另一支線品牌Scion，賣車之外對於音樂也總是不遺餘力，這次在Scion Audio Visual系列的28裡找來了倫敦Dubstep領導品牌Dub Police，由廠牌領導人Caspa率領旗下The Other、Emalkay、Trolley Snatcha、LD、D1、Unitz和Subscape等眾多Producer/DJ前來錄製這張合輯，雖然無緣在美國看到Dub Police crew的全體演出，但能率先聽到這合輯也算欣慰。

1. Caspa - Ready Eddy
Label bossman Caspa sets off the disc with a proper half-time grinder. A huge wobbling bassline over pared-down drums, sprinkled with robotic vocal fragments.

2. Emalkay - Critical Hit
A seemingly harmless filtered synth at the top quickly gives way to a frantically swung out hat and giant splash of a snare. Massive 3 oscillator bass sound rides the groove all the way through.

3. The Other - Quantum Leap
Serious bass odyssey here ya'll. Once the theme is established at the top, it's play time. The Others run the gamut here, playing with call and response ideas, basstones, and breakdowns.

4. Subscape - Dominant Species
This track puts the emphasis on the double time feel implied frequently in Dubstep. An incredibly aggressive bassline reminiscent of the late 90's drum and bass sound drives relentlessly throughout.

5. Trolley Snatcha - Slow Down
An ominous minor key string loop opens this heavy piece and sets the tone for this lumbering giant. A slow motion dirge whose bass is as heavy as its mood.

6. Matty G - Turf W*rz
80's drum machines get the full dub treatment on this tune as synths and snares echo across the stereo field over subdued basslines. Dark and spacious, this beat shows the more laid back side of the beat movement.

7. Unitz - Light Ina Distance
The most directly Jamaican-influenced track on this sampler, Unitz incorporates many familiar dub conventions including the keyboard skank, pure sine-wave bassline, and everything drenched in reverb. Great use of the 80's keyboard/horn tone nods respectively to many reggae classics.

8. Orien - Strawberry Kiss
Lush atmospheric pads and a subtle double-time skanking keyboard paired with racing stick and hats give this track a paradoxically relaxed and excited feeling. Very textural and visual track with plenty of room to breathe.

9. LD -Oh Yeah
A round, dubby bassline and double-time tambourine and hats are featured prominently in this tune and recall early 90's jungle. Flutes and synths are delayed out with vocal fragments creating a vibe full of energy, but not abrasive.

10. D1 - BRB
Situated a bit more on the modern electro side of things, this up-tempo club rocker repeats and tweaks an ascending synth line over a four-on-the-floor kick to great effect. Still, the persistence of the hi-hat and clap patterns ground this track in the Dubstep world as well.

11. J Kenzo - Constant
A minute-long intro featuring a double-time bell, super low snare, and occasional synth snarl build tension into a minimal beat driven by a sub-bass that wobbles away on 16th notes. Plenty of space in the mix, definitely a bass-bin punisher.

12. Distinction - Bionic Bug
Clever use of synths emulate the sound of insect wings swarming in the distance while more immediate sounds pan across the stereo field to get you instinctively swatting the air for digital mosquitoes. These effects, underpinned by a giant splash of a snare and sub-rumble of a bassline make this tune a winning experiment in the vast reach of the modern synth.

13. L-Wiz - Back Stabba
Decidedly filmic synth pads create a very dramatic tone on this track complete with air raid sirens and a brassy synth melody looping from 2 minutes in. Heavily swung out 16th note hi-hats keep the energy high throughout.

14. Dubwoofa - 7am Ghost
Rounding out this Dub Police collection, Dubwoofa creates a hauntingly minimal vibe with lush synth pads and a drum pattern that is both sparse and incredibly tense. A deft marriage of the texturally ambient and rhythmically aggressive.

Newcastle pop quintet Maximo Park contribute this morning’s FACT mix.

Singer Paul Smith’s stupid hats aside, the band have taste beyond that of their peers – their session for FACT features underground techno deity Thomas Brinkmann, tracks from Madlib and J Dilla’s Champion Sound collaboration, Moderat and more.

Tracklist follows the download link. We also caught up with the band to find out what they’ve been up to, what they’re currently into, and what they’ve got planned for the year ahead. [via Fact Magazine]

Download: FACT mix 119 – Maximo Park

Tracklist:
Harmonia and Eno ‘76 – Lundeburg Heath
Thomas Brinkmann – 2suns
Jaylib – The Red (with elements of Raw Shit – Instrumental)
Moderat – Beats Way Sick feat. Busdriver
Cougar – Atatl
Nomo – My Dear
The Gossip – Heavy Cross (Siriusmo remix)
Matias Aguayo – Bo Jack feat. Ladybumbox – vocal version)
Ame – Rej (Hundred Birds beat-less remix
Shit Robot – Simple Things
Underworld – Holding The Moth
La Roux – In For The Kill (Skream remix – Lukas’ Philip Glassed revisit)

If U Want Me來自南倫敦Future Garage/2 Step producer Deadboy的最新單曲，雖然還未發行但如果你也是注意這一塊音樂動態的愛好者想必也不會陌生，動作頻頻的Deadboy又交出他新的Mixtape給了Get Me網站，Go & Check It。

Download: Deadboy - Get Me Mix

1. Bad Autopsy – Beam Beamer
2. Groove Chronicles – First Time
3. Sunship – Try Me Out
4. Bump & Flex – Long Time Coming (Big Up version)
5. Jinder – Youth Blood (Bok Bok remix)
6. Elektric Red – Drank in my Cup
7. Funkystepz – Touch On Me
8. Deadboy – Easy
9. Matt Jam Lamont – Feel My Love
10. Bakongo – Baga
11. Adonis – No Way Back
12. Buraka Som Sistema – Restless (Julio Bashmore remix)
13. Ultrasound – The Hard Way
14. Zinc feat. Ms Dynamite – Wile Out
15. Mosca – Square One
16. Ke$ha – Tik Tok (Untold remix dub)
17. Groove Chronicles – Blakjack
18. Dexplicit - Karma

在新增一個Julio Bashmore日前接受Fact magazine專訪時所提供的Minimix。

來自英國布里斯托dubstep producer Julio Bashmore今天的一段Mix Set出現在Mary Anne Hobbs的Radio Show中，雖然自己因為公事而漏聽到這段，不過在剛剛Vice的網站上也報導了這個傢伙並稱Julio Bashmore為new Joy Orbison並附上了另一段Mix set供下載，相關的Interview請進Vice詳閱，Vice Mixtape曲目如下（全都是上上之選）。

Julio Bashmore – Vice Mixtape

Tracklist:

1. Deadboy - “Heartbreaker (Julio Bashmore Remix)”
2. Cooly G - “Love Dub”
3. Deadboy - “U Cheated”
4. Julio Bashmore - “Around”
5. Son of Aphrodite - “Vibrations”
6. DJ Sneak - “Fix My Sink”
7. Blackjoy - “Untitled (Solid Groove Remix)”
8. Mosca - “Gold Bricks, I See You”
9. L-Vis 1990 - “United Groove (Baobinga and I.D Remix)”
10. LV & Untold - “Beacon (Mount Kimbie Remix)”
11. Breach - “Fatherless”
12. Julio Bashmore - “Um Bongo’s Revenge”

Kingdom來自紐約的Producer/DJ，先前曾替一些知名單位做過混音如DJ Mujava、Kid Sister、Telepathe以及最近的L-Vis 1990，接下來Kingdom本身的作品Mindreader/You也即將在2月份發行，數位版本發行落在A-Trak自家廠牌Fool's Gold身上，其中背面單曲You已在Annie Mac上星期的Radio Show中率先曝光，Big!，這裡就提交出由Shyvonne獻出Vocal的Mindreader。

The xx即將要發行的新單曲Island Remixes，除了先前由Nosaj Thing自行公佈的版本外，收錄在碟末曲由紐約dubstep/2step Producer Drew Lustman aka FaltyDL所進行操刀的混音版本也於剛剛釋出，至於其他也會收錄在內的混音（尤其是Untold的版本）應該也不會等太久了。