We haven’t really had any discussion within this community so far so to try and lure some of you lurkers out a little what is everyone’s favourite release of the year just gone?

For me it is a toss up between

Shu - D-BLK012 - https://d-blk.bandcamp.com/album/d-blk012

and Zha - Ramta Jogi - https://on.soundcloud.com/bLxhC

Shu probably wins out just because of being released in digital and not a shitty inferior dead format.

So what are everyone else’s?

  • @theskyisfallingOPMEnglish
    1•11 months ago

    Yes! Shades release this year was decent and I love most things Alix Perez puts out but Drone is one of my absolute favourites, anything he puts out is day one buy for me!

    Don’t think I heard Trust though, I’ll have to go check that out, thanks :D

    • @[email protected]English
      2•11 months ago

      Juuust a wee Eprom single, but I first caught it on Shades’ DEF set on ye olde youtubes. About as chaotic as it gets, real evil villain shit. Been loving some of these new heads pushing the sound into new genre blending places. Nice change of pace from the oversaturated riddim scene.

      Dance with the Devil is such a sick album! Mixed a house party for NYE and at least 2 tracks off that tucked in. Tried to only mix 2023 releases, which was a fun challenge.

      • @theskyisfallingOPMEnglish
        2•11 months ago

        Ahhh yes, I do recognise this track but never knew the name chefs kiss

        You got any mixes online I can check out?

        My current thing I have been really enjoying is mixing in old 00s hip hop / r&b vocals into my dubstep mixes, just need to find a better source of acapellas but can’t hate on some what’s your fantasy or forget about dre over some sick bass lines xD

        • @[email protected]English
          2•11 months ago

          Lol, glad I was able to get you reintroduced!

          Yee, finally got a fresh one up on the sound cloud: https://on.soundcloud.com/bukospooko Like I said, was mixing at a shindig for NYE, Hell themed party… This isn’t that mix, but it’s inspired by it hahaha. All tracks released 2023.

          Oh hell yeah, mashing up a tune with sum’m familiar can have very nice results. Have you experimented much with stems? Pretty sure Virtual DJ, Serato, etc have a setting to turn hi-mid-low into like vox-instrument-drum. Been meaning to mess with that more. If it’s even halfway decent at separating vox there’s tons of potential for mashups on the fly!

          Edit: Oh! You got any mixes to share as well? 🤙

          • @theskyisfallingOPMEnglish
            2•11 months ago

            Nice one, cheers for the link. I’m gonna give it a listen at work tomorrow!

            Yeh I’ve been trying to branch out a little bit more rather than just solely mixing dubstep and trying to add in other things I enjoy and listen to. I haven’t played around with stems etc as of right now but I have just got a new controller so I am trying to practice a new workflow and right now my mixing sounds a bit dodgy in places where I’m concentrating more on where the button I want is rather than the music xD

            I currently use Traktor and I want to build up a sample deck full of clean acapellas of stuff I enjoy so it can just sit in deck 4 and I can call upon then whenever I want whilst mixing as normal with the other 3. That’s the plan anyway!

            https://www.mixcloud.com/mynameiszeo/

            This is my mixcloud although it doesn’t have any super recent mixes as I haven’t uploaded since they introduced having to pay to have more than 10 mixes on there.