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Portuguese brothers Leo (Dizzycutter) and Bruno (Mushug) have been working on their respective musical projects for over a decade, but it was only last year when they were asked play a show in their home city of Lisbon for local crew Conspira that they joined forces to form live/production outfit Octo Push. Since then the duo have found themselves increasingly in demand, remixing the likes of Jahcoozi, Buraka Som Sistema and DJ C, gigging from Glade Festival to Fabric, and even catching the ear of Thom Yorke with their highly kinetic blend of garage, techno, IDM, Afrobeat and bashment.   Octa Push made their vinyl debut this summer, launching Monkey Steak's Steak House imprint by way of a split EP with fellow Lisbon resident Mr Gasparov. This month sees the release of a white-hot three-tracker for Lisbon/Barcelona-based Iberian Records featuring the vocal talents of Cape Verde's Toni Clean and Panamanian-born MC Zulu, as well as the inclusion of their track Quebu Sabe on Soul Jazz Record's Steppa's

This mix includes dense aural fogs and deep soundscapes of clarity from the likes of Mika Vainio, Deathprod, CoH, field recordist Chris Watson, and the majestic Delia Derbyshire. Coldfall is inspired by the now-fragmented ancient woodland of London and its perseverance throughout the centuries. It also owes much to erratic weather patterns deluging London with downpours during the time of its conception.   Originally broadcast on Ill FM, August 2009.   Tracklisting: Mark Pritchard - ? Burial - Untitled Arovane - Blacksoil Mercof - Ulysses (Deathprod mix) Monolake - Layer 02 Aphex Twin - Gwely Mernans Monolake - Wasteland Mika Vainio - Unien Holvit Nine Inch Nails - 2 Ghosts I Sunn O))) and Boris - N.L.T. Radian - Vertigo Whirling Hall of Knives - 2-Bar Heater and Smoke Thomas Fehlmann - Scheben Chris Watson - Cima Verde Deathprod - Cloudchamber Chris Watson - Soffi di Vento Coil - The Gimp (Sometimes) Oren Ambarchi - Gene

'Burning Man 2008 saw over 49,000 participants revelling in the Black Rock Desert, working together to create the magic metropolis that is Black Rock City. The week was bookended by vicious dust storms, between which Mother Nature graced our encampment with gorgeously placid weather, allowing participants to enjoy the artwork, community and broad expanses of the playa. The Man, standing atop an obelisk bedecked with the flags of all nations, spoke of our American Dream, which is truly a global dream. Saturday's dust storms broke their stranglehold on the city in time to allow the community to gather to watch the Man burn late that night. On Sunday evening, Shrine and Tuktuk's "Basura Sagrada" temple burned before a silently reverent audience, taking with it our community's missives to the great beyond. All told, it was a very successful Burning Man event, however, trying to explain what Burning Man is to someone who has never been is a bit like trying to explain what a particular colour looks like t

The third member of London's Adverse Camber crew to contribute to Spannered's Radio section (alongside El Kano and Randomoidz), Scheme Boy delivers a steamroller of a mix that oscillates between mangled 'n' mentalist breaks and squashy pumping techno (with a cupful of fidgety funk thrown in for good measure).   Scheme Boy's music has recently appeared on rambunctious record labels such as Bang-A-Rang and Ninja Columbo. When he's not scheming on his own he plays in acid 'n' break(core) duo Boep (with Randomoidz) and post-rock outfit Agent Elf. He also owns a striking collection of clothes pegs.   Sleeve art for the mix here.   Tracklisting: Vibesquad - Members Only Tom Burbank - Gnats Rustie - Pendulum Tipper - Off Kilter Twerk - Untitled Vibesquad - Jowels Speedy J & Chris Liebing - Modish Ride Trentemoller - Physical Fraction Wagonchrist - Cris Chana Tipper - Veil Lifted LFO - Tied Up Spor - Electro Funeral Noisia - Yellow Brick

Last year we asked DJ Wrongspeed of Resonance FM's tumultuous Red Zero Radio shows to put together a rowdy mix to blow away the winter cobwebs. He describes the resulting 21 minutes, Bad Day for Owling Championships, as 'a messed up hard drive all going wrong'; he also adds that some of the track names are better than the actual music... but we'll let you be the judge of that.   Paul Holmes shot the excellent abandoned surgery photo that accompanys the mix. You can check out more of his pictures here.   Tracklisting: Henri Chopin - Respirent Pain Jerk - 'and it takes only minutes for a flock to gather on the carcass' Sully - Destroyah Torqux - Relentless (16bit remix) NoizeCreator - Pushit! (Dirty version '97) Xanopitcon - Ortext Xanopitcon - 4 hit points (Atomhead Secret Level remix) Zod 08? Robert & Chiquito - Voyage Surprise Outside Agency - Our fear Statas - Despairia Bazooka - Hardcore-Core-Mother-Fucker Synthe.Labo - We Don't Need

A warm welcome back to Tim Rayner, aka Dub Boy, who returns to Radio Spannered with a worthy sequel to last year's much-downloaded Rooted & Grounded mix.   Tim's been keeping up the pressure in Bristol with his Ruffnek Diskotek nights and related projects (such as the hotly anticipated second Monster Bass night, which takes place on the 4th of April with Scotland's number one reggae soundsystem, Mungo's Hi Fi).   Cool sleeve art to accompany the mix here.   Tracklisting: Shinehead – Billie Jean (African Love) Bounty Killer, Nitty Kuchie & Angel Doolas – Go Away (Kingston 11) Biga – Nah Buss Mi Gun Fa Nuhum (Furybass) Colonel Maxwell – Heart Attack (Furybass) Carl Meeks – Help Me Jah (Furybass) Mikey Melody – Stand Up & Chant (Furybass) Laroz & Ranking Levy – Rootsman Party (........) Zion Train ft Dubdadda – Boxes & Amps (Wadadda remix) (Universal Egg) Minoo – December (Universal E

This is a welcoming mix, as satisfying as a warm mug of deep bass and crystalline sounds after a long day lolloping over the fields and through the trees of North London. It opens and ends with classic Brian Eno tracks, extending over a broad sweep of ambience that takes in its path the breathy holds of Stars of the Lid and Coil's dense chemically inspired transcription. Room is made for the inclusion of classic synth sounds from Vangelis, as well as the very modern artistry of Burial and attenuated swoops of COH. So get out and enjoy some fresh air, then get cosy and listen to this one.   Coppice enjoys trees, air, and wild places, when not spending time in front of screens or speakers.   Tracklisting: Brian Eno - A Clearing Stars of the Lid - Apreludes (In C Sharp Major) 1 COH - I Ascend Bright With Oxygen Mask Tangerine Dream - Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares Vangelis - 100 Metres Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Midnight Black Earth Brian Eno - Ar

With a background in punk, dub, hip hop and electro, and over 500 live shows (under various guises) behind him, David Giese, aka Joxaren, has fine credentials as an ambassador for Scandinavia's burgeoning skweee movement. Skweee, a style of stripped-down digital funk that draws influence from soul, R&B, electro and chiptune music, has been garnering kudos from blogs and forums through to the mainstream UK press over the past 12 months, helped in no small way by the first ever UK skweee showcase that took place at Ballers Social Club (LuckyMe's twice-monthly night in Glasgow) in January 2008. Joxaren will be returning to Ballers Social Club later this month for one of his acclaimed live shows ('completely hardware based, improvised and energetic'), and to promote the gig he's put together this great DJ mix that juxtaposes pop and hip hop old and new with a slew of bumping skweee jams.   Keep a look out for Joxaren's limited 7" soon to drop on Frans Carlqvist's Flogsta Danshall imprint, and the

This set of new material, originally broadcast at the end of 2008 on Scanone's Ill FM show, The Lost Tapes, is evidence of some seriously productive studio time since Point B made his debut contribution to Spannered just over a year ago. Not content with honing his dark dubstep/electro sound, Rich Bultitude has also been fleshing out two other projects from opposing ends of the rhythmic spectrum: Planes and Xammatu.   And if you haven't already grabbed it, there's a free EP of Point B tracks awaiting you over at his site...   Tracklisting: Creepy Steeple Someone Else's Past Saw Dust Istocity Meter Day Tension Three Colour Vision No Smokes Figit Gymede Side Effects Minerals To Follow You

When a mix bags the accolade of Kid Kameleon's mixtape of the year, you know it's going to be shit-hot, basically. The Collaborator Mixtape is a unique and wonderfully fluid piece of work from Daniel Perlin, aka DJ N-RON, an artist, producer and sound designer based in New York. Originally released in January 2008, the selection is mostly original beats and tracks from Daniel, featuring a raft of 'collaborations', made with artists both wittingly (Matt Shadetek, DJ /rupture) and unwittingly (M.I.A., Lady Sovereign). DJ N-RON is currently on tour in Europe — check his MurdochSpace for a list of dates. If he's playing in a city near you, we recommend you go check the man out! Tracklisting: Suso’s Refix Cities into Worlds (featuring Vito Acconci) Cantakerous remix Wrong From Right (Featuring M.Sayyid) Rival Riddim Aboio 2.0 Pull It Up (with Mike O) Rich and Shameless (with DJ $mall ¢hange) Analys D’amour du Maga Bo (Capitalized remix) Possible Da

Clocking in at just over 45 minutes, this vinyl selection from Uberdog swims through various aquatic electronic styles before coming to a rather murky end in a dubwise trench. You can also check out his Blah Blah Mix from 2005 here, and his more recently recorded Oddcast for Spannered here. Tracklisting:  TV Pow - Friendship Patrol (Sutekh's Guitar Heroes mix) (Bottrop Boy) Ditone - A2 (Heatray) Slaughter Mob - No Big Deal (Hot Flush) Flying Lotus - Melt! (Warp) Neil Landstrumm & Si Begg - Lung Dub (Planet Mu) SP:MC - Future (feat. Joker D) (Tempa) Alpha 606 - Samborg (Interdimensional Transmissions) Shackleton - Hamas Rule (Skull Disco) Alpha 606 - Anarchy In Cuba (Interdimensional Transmissions) Paul Blackford - Get Down (Breakin' Records) Inspector Spectre - Move It (Bonus Round) Clark - Hot May Slides (Warp) Peverelist- Infinity Is Now (Tectonic) Pacou - Ambiguous (Tresor) Peverelist - Junktion (Tectonic) Burial - Night Bus (Hype

In homage to the music he suckled on as a youth, badass beat junkie Bobby Corridor has put together this colossal hip hop megamix, shoeshorning an obscene 600+ tracks into 90 minutes.   In what he describes as 'a blip in the matrix', Mr Corridor has been nominated for best hip hop DJ in this year's DJ Awards. If you'd like to help Bobby on his way to sipping a mojito around the pool as Cox and Tong lord it about in their g-strings, head over there and give your support! Alternatively, you can make yourself a mojito and check out Bobby's wicked Reggae Source mixtape that he recorded for Spannered in 2007.   Everybody in the house say hell yeah!   Tracklisting (roughly speaking...): Boogie Down Productions – The Bridge Is Over Boogie Down Productions – P Is Free Ten Thieves – It Don’t Matter Quasimoto – Bad Character East Flatbush Project – Tried By Twelve Beatnuts – Sandwiches Levi 167 – Something Fresh to Swing T

'Mutating bass beats are infecting the planet!!!', writes DJ Flack of his sick new mix for Radio Spannered.   Antony Flackett, aka DJ Flack, is a DJ, producer and multimedia artist living in the Boston area. Together with Wayne 'Wayne and Wax' Marshall, Antony co-hosts the genre-mashing Beat Research parties in Cambridge, Massachusetts — a weekly colision of wobbly world flavours taking in dubstep, 2-step, bhangra, grime, jungle, bashment, hip hop and ragga. As a recording artist he has released music on Mashit, Bliss and Beat Research's own label project; he also performs alongside Mashit head honcho DJ C as DuoTone.   Here he blazes across continents with a 43-minute mix of his current bassline fixes. Take it away DJ Flack!   Tracklisting: Let Go Mi Shirt — Cotti (Brixton) Konichiwa Bitches — Robyn (Sweden) On My Way Home — Unkle Ho (Sydney) Sugarlips — Mad EP (Worcester, UK) Fear — DJ Q (Huddersfield, UK) Trust Nobody — SP

"...a throwback to the days of the old boom bap, when tracks just made you want to bang your head and break your neck", says Laurent Fintoni, aka Kper, of his current hip hop fixes: beatheads such as Flying Lotus and edIT in LA, Dabrye and Waajeed in Detroit, and Rustie and Hudson Mohawke in Scotland. Laurent has been interviewing some of the aforementioned artists for articles coming out in the August issue of Serie B magazine. This mix, featuring snippets of the interviews (taken from www.samurai.fm), showcases many of the crucial players in this globally evolving hip hop sound. More info on the mix can be found over at Laurent's blog.   Tracklisting: Dilla beats intro 2tall — Killa (unreleased) Dabrye — Truflle no Shuffle (Ghostly) Flying Lotus — wwwdot (July Heat) Heralds of Change — Sittin On the Side (All City) Piano Overlord — Track 3 (Money Studies) edIT — Laundry (Planet Mu) Dabrye ft Jay Dee and Phat Kat — Ga

DubConscious is the alter ego for Bristol-based DJ Merkazoid, a young selector currently pushing the laptop reggae sound in the southwest of England. A convert from hip hop to bone-rattling Bristol bass and future dub, Mr Merkazoid tells us he's been busily knocking out six-hour reggae, ska and dub sets about the city. Stuffed to the hilt with tracks from Spannered faves such as Disrupt and Mungo's Hi Fi, this selection is pretty damn smokin', we reckon. Irie!   Tracklisting: Daddy Freddy — Herb FI Bun Baroque Dub — Billie Jean version Mungos Hi Fi — Old Time Dance Mikey Murka & Disrupt — Secondhand Man Matisyahu — Jerusalem Ky Mani Marley — Warriors Jim Screachy — Super Cool Willie Williams — Run Dem a Run Nephtali — Watch the Ride Carl Meeks — Ganja Baby Thievery Corporation — Richest Man in Babylon Jahtari Riddim Force — Echantier DJ Spooky — Mr Brown remix Thiev

Hot on the heels of his mix for Spannered from October last year, Tim Rayner, aka Dub Boy, graces the site's radio section once more, this time dropping a wide range of original and contemporary roots, dub & dancehall, from both Jamaica and Europe — with plenty of Bristolian goodness sprinkled throughout.   Tracklisting: Beenie Man — Pardon (Taxi) Lady Saw — Married Man (Taxi) Mr Vegas — Lean Wid It(Taxi) Sugar Minott — Tune In (Taxi) Sugar Minott & Bounty Killer — Tune In (Taxi) Taurus & Jimmy Riley — Pull Up Selector (Taxi) Shabba Ranks — Respect (Shang) Barrington Levy — Murderer (Jah Life) Carlton Livingston — 100 lbs of Collie Weed (Jah Life) RSD — Murderah (Unreleased) Mungo's Hi Fi ft. Mikey Murka — Back on the Scene (Scotch Bonnet) Mungo's Hi Fi ft. Soom T — Did you Know? (Scotch Bonnet) Mungo's Hi Fi ft. Rock — Inna Dancehall (Scotch Bonne

Japanese musician Quarta330, promoter of Tokyo's Lo-Bit Playground party, twisted plenty of heads on the dubstep scene last year with his immense 8-bit refix of Kode9's towering 9 Samurai track. He recently performed at Tokyo's Back To Chill night alongside other Japanese artists such as Goth Trad and T2R, armed with nothing more than two Game Boys, an interface and some effects pedals. Hosted both here and on Laurent Fintoni's blog, the set has a few jumpy levels and even a little technical down-time midway through; but don't let that put you off — along with the essential styles currently blasting out of the Jahtari camp, this really is some of the heaviest, most off-the-hook 8-bit music out there at the moment. No tracklisting.   ^ More recordings from Back To Chill's end of year party can be found here.

Since launching in 2004, Combat Recordings hasn't so much carved a niche in London’s bass music scene as hacked a gaping hole in it with a heffing great katana. Oscillating between brooding breakbeats, brutalist electro and rough-edged 2-step/dubstep flavours, label releases have been dropping thick and fast from respected bass technicians such as Ardisson, Blackmass Plastics, Point B, Scanone and, most recently, the mighty Scorn.   Featuring highlights from the Combat back catalogue alongside unreleased goodies (such as Threnody's dubplate-only remix of Unnatural Causes by Paradox — a track you'll never hear again in any other form), this mix was recorded late last year by label boss Stormfield. A shortened version of the mix recently featured on Rob Booth's excellent Electronic Explorations podcast series; the show has served up a ton of great guest mixes from the likes of Surgeon, Milanese and Neil Landstrumm — if you've not caught the series so far

Jamaican producers may be pressing less and less vinyl but the island still churned out around two thousand 7" singles last year and these are our favourite rowdy ones. In the words of a Heatwave regular who got a sneak preview of the mix: "Who am I? The dancehall king" A look back at 2007 enables you to go from the filthy, nasty but undeniably inspirational sex talk of Beenie Man, Chamelion and 'Sweet' C to the sparse vocal angriness of that old Elephant bloke and then surrender to the leg-lifting power of the Matterhorn man. And you're just getting started. "Everybody start tek way yourself. Follow the riddim and tek way yourself" What jumps out when you listen to these tracks all together is the control each artist commands. You feel at their mercy, and they're merciless. Whether it's the riddims coming in that you know you know - but you don't know you know until you hear the drop, and then you're shaking your shit so hard you're not sure what you know any more - or the fierce

Chris Wood from the goodie-packed Word the Cat blog recently dropped us a line about the splendid new mix he's concocted. It brought to mind Hanuman's and El Kano's playlists (two of our fave DJs here at Spannered) — a slew of moods from the grime and dubstep worlds, liberally sprinkled with flavas stretching from bassline house, bumpy ragga and old skool to 8-bit dub, Nepali lok pop, frosty minimalism and chiptune breakcore; he's even managed to slide in a few words of hillwalking wisdom from the late, great Alfred Wainwright.   Chris has kindly let us host the mix here in Spannered's radio archive. He asked it we'd link listeners up to the 8bitcollective site — 'the first completely open chiptune-related media repository and file sharing community'. The electronicMESS track is available there for use under a Creative Commons License, along with a stack of other great 8-bit jams. Go check it.   Tracklisting:  BBC Field Recording - The Skuas Caspa vs Art of Noise - Moments