R E L E A S E I N F O R I P I N F O
Artist : VA Ripdate : Jun-2010
Album : DJ-Kicks Mixed By Kode9 Source : CDDA
Label : !K7 Type : Compilation
Catnr : K7262CD Quality : VBR
Year : 2010 Tracks : 01
Genre : Bass Size : 84,5 MB
T R A C K L I S T D U R A T I O N
VA - DJ-Kicks Mixed By Kode9
01 Lone - Once In A While 1:56
02 Aardvarck - Revo 1:40
03 Kode9 - Blood Orange 2:23
04 Kode9 - You Don't Wash (Dub) 3:05
05 Cooly G - Phat Si 1:40
06 Ill Blu - Bellion 2:10
07 Ikonika - Heston 1:40
08 Scratcha DVA - Jelly Roll 2:17
09 Mr Mageeka - Different Lekstrix 2:16
10 Grievous Angel - Move Down Low 2:09
11 Sticky - Look Pon Me (Ft. Natalie Storm) 1:26
12 Sticky - Jumeirah Riddim Sequel 1:19
13 Mujava - Pleaze Mugwanti 2:30
14 DVA - Natty 1:54
15 Aardvarck - Re Spoken (Nubian Mindz Released Mix) 2:53
16 Morgan Zarate Ft. Sarah Ann Webb - M.A.B. 1:35
17 Rozzi Daime - Dirty Illusions 2:38
18 Zomby - Spiralz 1:13
19 Kode9 - It 0:43
20 J*Davey - Mr. Mister 2:14
21 Digital Mystikz - 2 Much Chat 2:20
22 Terror Danjah - Stiff 2:40
23 Digital Mystikz - Mountain Dread 1:46
24 Zomby - Godzilla 1:12
25 Digital Mystikz - Mountain Dread (Reprise) 1:34
26 Addison Groove - Footcrab 2:13
27 Kode9 vs. LD - Bad 2:27
28 Maddslinky - Cargo 3:21
29 Ramadanman - Work Them 2:23
30 Terror Danjah - Bruzin (VIP) 1:06
31 The Bug Ft. Flo Dan - Run 2:15
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63:14 min
Kode9's grasp on the throat of bass music in 2010 is almost unparalleled. His
trend setting record label, Hyperdub, is in its sixth year of viral contagion;
he's become a published author on the theory of sound abuse and sonic
frequencies being used as weaponry in his book Sonic Warfare and his production
work has mutated from an almost simplistic marriage of beats and sine waves into
a fusion of dancefloor Ebonics and discordant synths. Becoming a figurehead of
UK dance music hasn't been a quick process, and Kode9's single-mindedness has
contributed in some way to his notoriety, but it's simply his tireless work as a
record label boss and A&R that has marked him out as one of the most powerful
ears within the scene. Probably best known to the wider global audience as the
label that gave birth to two genre defining albums from Burial, Hyperdub has
become one of the most reliably testing labels out there. Just as likely to
release a glut of two and a half minute beat sketches from American beat maker
Samiyam or Zomby as sprawling house opuses from Brixton bass bin temptress Cooly
G, the label is at the forefront of innovation and it's something that he has
infused into his volume of the DJ-KiCKS series. "Very simply, [the mix is] just
a snapshot of my DJ sets at the first half of 2010," he says calmly. "It's
definitely not an exploration of my musical heritage, but it's not all new
stuff. It probably signifies something about my relationship to dubstep that the
mix only has a few dubstep tunes in it, and is instead a mix of UK funky, broken
beat, dubstep, grime and some R&B. Unfortunately, I fear some listeners, because
of my background, will think that all the tracks are just mutations of dubstep."
On this mix Kode9 surfs through those artists and productions that sideswipe you
in an unexpected moment of surrealist realization. Whether it's being brought by
a track bringing the sunshine carnival vibe to a Shoreditch basement or by the
sheer level of production and temperament that a producer pours into each of
their tracks. Veering from the taught and poignant snare snap of Morgan Zarate's
'M.A.B.' he flips from the troubled soul of Rozzi Daime's falsetto on 'Dirty
Illusions' to the bruised rhythm of JDaVeY and on into the advanced rhythm
science of Terror Danjah and Headhunter's breakout 808 anthem under his Addison
Groove alias, 'Footcrab,' distilling some of the more powerful strains of modern
UK dance music culminating in the big moody tombstone of The Bug & Flo Dan's
'Run'. "I love the sour R&B tracks of Rozzie Dame and Jay Davey in the middle.
If only more pop music sounded like that. . ." he notes tangentially. "The first
and second halves [of the mix] are pretty typical of my sets over the last year.
The little 'dream sequence' in the middle, I only get to do when the vibe feels
right and people look capable of moving to more downbeat stuff instead of just
standing around and nodding their heads. I started DJing around nineteen years
ago and I don't know. . . I just think that every few years I get a musical
epiphany from an intense experience in a club or in something I hear that fills
me with energy, information and inspiration to produce and DJ. After each one I
spend the next few years trying to decipher what happened in that singular
moment." And sonically that's what Kode9's DJ-KiCKS does: attempt to decipher
the tangled state of UK dance music in 2010.
Born on the 19th of August, 2001.