I am Retrotation, and I will be your host today. Just earlier I unleashed my latest release unto the dubstep world entitled, “I Dream of Dragons.” Sit and listen, and please feel free to close your eyes and enter into the realm of your imagination.
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More than a few tracks on Mimosa’s SoundCloud do this SoundKlout justice. He’s got a real knack for taking the strange and whipping it with some melody. I do hope he gets some more tracks up on there soon – like the rap artists featured on SoundKlout before him, I think SC is only a taste of Tigran’s talent.
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When I saw this posted up on the Pretty Lights site, I made a little girlish yelp. Ever since I saw the live version on YouTube, I was obsessed with this industrial, bass-heavy grinder.
Lately, I’ve been talking a lot about bass producers over complicating their drops. Take the advice in Pretty Lights ‘Truth’ that it’s not about how dirty the drop can get. Like all writing, whether it’s music or language, use only what’s necessary! and forget the rest!
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Wick-it takes my two favorite styles on SoundCloud, dubstep & mashups, and goes to town on pop classics all the way down to underground hip-hop. I do prefer his mashup skills over his dubstep ones, but it’s good to see someone expanding beyond their usual territory.
This is also another one that was hard to narrow down (like Funk Ferret). Although, Wick-it has so many damn tracks, over 70, that I was bound to bring in a few more. If you like the first eleven, I’m sure you’ll like The Rest.
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Released this a while back, but had to feature ’em for SoundKlout. There’s only a few DJ’s who can mixx up pop songs together in a fashion like this, but when I find ’em it gives me just a little more hope for the mainstream music scene.
DiscoTech has a consistent club fun viiibe, but each track hits me right in a different way. I haven’t heard much from them lately, but there’s bound to be some fresh shit coming from these Euro-rave liberators. can’t wait
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Of course I found out about Paper Diamond with my utter obsession with all things Pretty Lights. At first I wasn’t too impressed with his music, I think I expected the holy ghost to pop out or something, he did just get signed to the best label alive!, but after a few steps in I realized he wasn’t just some Pretty Lights clone. He brings something different to the label, a certain madness that music’s progressing into (well, some of it).
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Bassex has taken Adele’s “Someone Like You” and turned it into a hypnotic, tune-out track… well, up until the drop. Right when you’re getting lost in it, Bassex throws in a drop all too common among dubstep remixes, an over complicated bit that strays too far away from the original. Dubstep doesn’t need to rely on the dirtiest drops and Bassex’s Bootleg proves that. It’s such a beautiful remix with synths that build up Adele’s powervocals. The song should keep with the melodic and stay away from the chaotic.
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I’ve been a fan of Love and Light ever since I found 4centers’ remix of “Eleanor Rigby” – he’s 1 half of L&L. But when I first started going through their SoundCloud page, I wasn’t all that impressed. However, when I started to get in a little deeper, I found some real diamonds in the rough.
Like all glitch-step / dub-hop (whatever you wanna call it), it takes a certain ear to follow along, but I assure you it’s well worth overcoming the barrier to entry. This I assure you is the future of dance music.
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F.O.O.L should not be working in music. Their latest release, Call to Krieg, is a clear indication that they need to quit the music biz and get a life in scoring epic war films. This may not be your standard war music, yet, but I guarantee in future war rompers this’ll be the weapon of choice. But until this accompanies mind-boggling 3D renders, let’s talk less war and more beats.
Call to Krieg takes on an orchestral ensemble and electrofies it with a heap of bass and a bit of glitch. It’ll get your blood pumping one minute and put you on incredible highs the next… followed shorty by a car crashing buildup that feels almost like an actual nightmare.. I had.. recently (eerie). The EP may only boast three originals and two remixes, but this short ride just makes me crave for more! LP this shit!
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Zeds Dead put this up fo free to celebrate their Facebook page hitting 100,000 fans. “Coffee Break” is a chill bass line buzzer with vocals borrowed from Aretha Franklin’s “I Say A Little Prayer”. The vocals, from what I’m guessing, are altered… due to copyright I don’t really get why they fuck with the vocals like that, but it sure hits the spot anyway.
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