Spannered Radio Podcast

The grandmaster of wonky techno sees in the festive season by recording an exclusive mix for Spannered, chock-full of spazzed-out dance music and questionable humour. The set, recorded in a north London cheese factory in honour of the late, great Leonard Rossiter (we shit you not), is probably now the stupidest radio set on the entire site — an accolade we're sure Jerome will be pleased with.   Comes complete with special edition hand-scrawled tracklisting!     Check out Jerome's new radio show on uncut.fm, every Wednesday starting 25/02/09!

Ever since Spannered launched, we've been clammoring for Kid Kameleon to put together a mix for the site, and finally it's here. Well, it's half here, in fact: Aim Low is one part of a dual mix release from the Kid — a pair of selections representing 'the weird end of dubstep' while giving plenty of props to up-and-coming artists, he tells us. The other half, Aim High, is hosted by our good friends over at the Mashit site — and while you're there, take plenty of time to check out the spread of mixes and other great stuff on offer.   Big up Inkcore for the cool artwork!   Tracklisting: Boxcutter — Windfall (Planet Mu) Clouds — Shallow (Dub) Blackdown & Dusk — Northside Cheng Dub (Keysound) Flippo — Rain (Dub) Reform — Untitled (Dub) Secret Agent Gel — Banker (Dub) Sky City Rising — Glock Box (Broklyn Beats) Sarantis — Why Dem Fight ft. Bunnington Judah (Subsonik) Distance — Tuning (Planet Mu)

If you're not familiar with the sound of London's Combat Recordings, this recent live set from label artist Point B should serve as a fine introduction — a 24-minute blowout of dubby, grimey electronica and plucky 2-step flavours, featuring unreleased tunes alongside two tracks from his latest Combat EP.   Richard Bultitude's music has also found its way onto SCSI AV, Erratica, Colony Productions and Orson Records. This live mix was recorded for Boomnoise and Pokes' Sub FM show. Sub FM is an excellent web radio station, whose archive features an absurd amount of shows spanning grime, breaks, dub, dubstep and garage — go check it out...   You can catch Point B next playing on the 22 December, in London, when Combat Recordings teams up with local filth merchants Plex and Yardcore for a Christmas knees-up at the A10 Bar on Kingsland Road (complete with mistletoe and grime, and poledancing in the basement). More info here.   Tracklisting: Point B — Cornered Point B &mda

Back in the peak of the “disco sucks” movement, Ted Nugent-adoring redneck crowds would promote “disco demolition derbys”, where they would proceed to torch piles of disco records. They were expressing their hatred of a music that was: a) pansexual; b) of black, Latin and gay origins; c) produced by studio boffins; d) exuded cosmopolitan savoir faire. Disco was, then, also ‘dying’ in the mainstream, thanks to an onslaught of extremely cheesy tunes that clogged the airwaves. Unfortunately, to a lot of people this is the disco they know: Village People-style crap, bad karaoke fodder. Disco, of course, was so much more than that. It not only carried on breathing, thanks to a creative and thriving underground, but also became the blueprint for the next dancefloor revolution just round the corner — namely house music. To this day, it remains one of the key influences in the music many of us dance to. This podcast pays tribute to this magnificent movement by ‘demol

Bobby cut his teeth in the big bad hip hop scene of Cambridge, before moving on to provide the scratches for Earthling where Geoff Barrow left off. More recently he's been vomiting mixes onto the internet at an astonishing rate, covering as many musical bases as humanely possible.   Despite having an unhealthy obsession with rappers whose names begin in “S”, Bobby is probably best known for Melancholy Flowers, the big girl's blouse of the mix world, but has also made mixes for Solid Steel, the Cactus Island label, and (mainly) his own head.   In this, his latest mix, he revisits some classic dancehall and lays it on a crispy bed of hip hop, drum 'n' bass and dubstep. And some Schoolly D.   Tracklisting: White Mice — Roots Music/Version (Basic Replay) LTJ Bukem — Danny’s Song (Good Looking) Chaka Demus — Original Kuff (Metro) Skream — Auto-Dub (Tempa) Schoolly D — Here We Go Again (Jive) Pan Sonic — Kuumuudessa (Blas

Hold a chicken in the air, stick a deckchair up your nose and crank your amp to eleven — because we've another white-hot selection for you from the one and only El Kano of London's Adverse Camber collective. This man's DJ mixes are always bang on point, and this delightful spread of grimey electronica and twitchy dubstep is no exception. If you missed the mix he recorded specially for the site last year, head here and fill your lugholes — and should you be in need of more, drag your arse over to his page on the Adverse Camber site.   Being a bit of a Photoshop wizard, he's concocted some cool artwork for the mix too. Enjoy!   Tracklisting: Ben Frost — Bleeding the Sacred Heart (Inventing Zero Records) Shackleton feat. Jackson Del Ray - Next to Nothing (Crosstown Rebels) ø — Ikuinen (Sähkö Recordings) Snares — Black Sabbath (Kriss) Disrupt — Tubby Rom Module (Werk) M.I.A. feat. Timbaland — Come Around (XL) Kush A

Bristol and bass music have been happy bedfellows for a long, long time, but in recent years a new wave of producers, promoters and DJs have been properly shaking up the city's clubs, pubs, bars and warehouses, throwing traditional dub, reggae and dancehall flavours into the hotpot alongside dubstep, grime, ragga, breakcore and jungle — crews such as P.R.A.N.K., Dissident, Heatwave and Hench, and events such as Subloaded, Dubloaded, Toxic Dancehall and Ruffnek Diskotek, to name a few. Dub Boy, aka Tim Rayner, is one of the driving forces behind Ruffnek Diskotek — a regular fixture about town that sticks doggedly to its mantra of supplying 'riddim and bass to wind up yuh waist', roping in many of the scene's biggest names and all the best local acts to ensure the job gets done properly. Tim's quite a selector, having played alongside luminaries ranging from David Rodigan and Digital Mystikz to Klute and Congo Natty. He recently sent over this brand new 38-track reggae and dancehall mix to Spannere

Tracklisting: B12 — Ecliptic (B12) Lawrence — Compulsion (Dial) Ricardo Villalobos — Dummolator (Perlon) Pendle Coven — Brick Tutor (Modern Love) Phylyps — Trak II (Basic Channel) Thom Yorke — The Clock (XL) Pole — Dusseldorf (The Mike Huckaby Synth remix) (~Scape) T++ — Allied Roman Flugel presents Soylent Green — La Forza del Destino (Radio Slave remix) (Playhouse) Soultek — Analogueheart (Soundshift) Locodice — Orchidee (Minus) Sten — Undercover (Dial) Ron Trent — Feel The Ryhthm (Version) (Music Man)   ^ You can read Spannered's interview with Kone-R here. ^ Photo credit: (half of) Kone-R at Sonar, taken by Paul Love.

South London-based Kim Sampson, aka Skim, has been crafting some great DJ mixes over the last few years, so we figured it was high time we asked her to put one together for Spannered. Her genre-hopping DJing makes for a curious mixture of sounds, best demonstrated on her radio shows for Resonance FM (Burning Decks and Decibel Breach) and Ill FM.   Tracklisting: Machine Drum — Urban Biology (Merck) No Movement No Sound No Memories — Acetate (Lux Nigra) Distorto — Distorto_1 (Distorto) The 5% Nation of Casiotone — Ikuji (Kracktronik) ScanOne — Cutters Choice (Combat) 2562 — Circulate (Tectonic) Blam — Traitor (Ruff) 2nd II None — Rewind (Heavy Artillery) Starkey — Pins (Dead Homies) Soul Oddity — Rhythm Box (Schematic) Chaos — Afrogermanic (Underground Resistance) Distorto — Distorto_3 (Distorto) Claro Intelecto — Tone (Ai) Troubleshooter — Data Polling (Modern Love)

Scottish techno pioneer, Spannered associate and owner of one very fine hat, Neil Landstrumm last graced these pages when the site launched back in December 2006. Well, he's back with a splendid new live recording, put together in Edinburgh this month as a promo for his current Subs & Steel tour. The string of dates kicked off at the Today's Art festival last weekend, where he also performed for the first time with collaborator Milanese.   On more of a broken tip than his previous studio mixes, the sound is still unmistakably Landstrumm, with all manner of spannered electronic rhythms freaking out under a storm of bleeps, bass and thick Jupiter 8 stabs.   For current tour dates, check his MurdochSpace page.   No tracklisting. ^ Read Spannered's 2006 interview with Neil Landstrumm ^ Read Overload Media's interview with Neil Landstrumm from 2001 ^ Listen to Neil Landstrumm's Ravestep studio mix, recorded in 2006

For some years now, Bristol's under_score crew have been flying the flag for deep techno flavours in the city, putting on parties with guests such as Sleeparchive, Claro Intelecto and Errorsmith, and showing plenty of love too for the dubstep/techno crossover currently blossoming (Bristol pioneer Pinch performed at under_score alongside Manchester's Andy Stott earlier this year).   High quality guests aside, under_score's position on the local scene has been firmly cemented by way of core residents Microman (aka one half of Emptyset), Luke Malcher and Jim Petherwick — and Jim has kindly put together this exclusive mix for Spannered, which gives an excellent introduction to the under_score sound.   Tracklisting: Tony Allen — Ole (Moritz von Oswald remix) Claude Vonstroke — Who's Afraid of Detroit? (Deepchord Remix) Model 500 — Starlight Luciano — Fourges et Sabres Maurizio — Domina Substance & Vainqueur — Immersion (Sleeparchive

Few Japanese music producers are pushing the envelope as much as Takeaki Maruyama aka Goth Trad. An avid collector of vinyl and CDs since his early years, Takeaki has been making electronic music since the age of 19, releasing on prestigious labels in his own country and, more recently, on UK-based dubstep imprints. Indeed, the current incarnation of his sound has found great affinity with the fast-growing global dubstep audience — and his place within the scene's higher ranks is set to be cemented this coming weekend when he becomes the first artist to perform live (ie a non-vinyl set) at the legendary DMZ night in Brixton, London.   To accompany Laurent Fintoni's lengthy interview with Goth Trad, we're chuffed as chips to host this blistering live set, recorded on Resonance FM on 21 September 2006 for the station's Clear Spot show.

Yep, there's more free Cylob up for grabs! Taken from the Formant Potaton album, soon to drop on Chris Jeff's digital label Cylob Industries, Get A Taste is an R&B-parodying, splattered electro stomp, available for you here as a 192kbps download.   Remember, Chris' Rock The Trojan Fader track is still available from Spannered, and you can read about his new label project in our interview here.   ^ Formant Potaton is released on 20 August.

Techno heads checking the site will appreciate this lost goodie from one of the genre's undisputed dons, Jerome Hill. Recorded back in 2002 for the Overload Media site, the mix is, as it says on the tin, a selection of Jerome's favourite tunes from the time — in fact, there's nearly   Sadly the mix is only available 56kbps, but then it was recorded back in the day when super fat broadband pipes were something of a rarity. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth we say!   Tracklisting: Plastic Bertrand — Ça Plan Por Moi Green Velvet — Leave My Body TSR — Monkey Suit Party ep Ozone Breakdown (Anthony Rother remix) Autist 05 Ceephax Acid Crew — Radiotin ep Red Tide — Core 008 Radioactive Man — Itisanditisn't Michele Fasano — Mechurachrome 03 Steve Rachmad on Jericho Freak — Gaia Senses — Destroyer Ragga Twins — Shine Eye Tipper — Tug o War New Flesh vs Horsepower Pro

When it comes to digging up lost Brazilian classics, Paulo Sakae Tahira is something of an archaeologist. A full-time researcher of música brasileira from the second half of the 20th century, Paulão (that's 'Big Paul', to non-Portuguese speakers) isn't, thankfully, the kind of vinyl addict who keeps his prized finds hidden away under lock and key; his DJ performances have taken him all over Brazil, and as far afield as France, Spain and Switzerland. Hailing from the concrete jungle of São Paulo, Paulão moved to the nearby city of Campinas in the early nineties, where he developed both his skills as a DJ and his reputation as a discerning connoisseur of his country's music (with particular focus to the 60s and 70s). There he helped to establish Rádio Muda, a terrestrial radio project to which he still contributes. Together with friends, he was responsible for bringing big name acts to Campinas during the nineties with a series of seminal parties, Festas Black. In the years s

Jan Gleichmar, aka Disrupt, and partner in crime Rootah are leading the way in laptop dub reggae with their mighty fine web label Jahtari. Operated out of Jan's flat in Leipzig, Germany, the Jahtari site is a goldmine of free music from Jan and fellow subscribers to the label's theory. There's tons of cool writing too, about reggae history, the Commodore 64, old bits of music kit... and plenty more besides.   In anticipation of Spannered's forthcoming interview with Jan, we suggest you fill your ears with this hour-long Disrupt set, recorded live in Glasgow on 31 March of this year, when he played for the city's Mungo's Hi Fi crew. And remember, Spannered is hosting a great studio mix from the Mungo's guys too, chock full of goodies from their Scotch Bonnet imprint.   ^ Photo credit: Mungo's Hi Fi ^ Read Spannered's interview with Disrupt

Since 2002, Mungo's Hi Fi Soundsystem have been showing big love for all things reggae, dub, ska and dancehall by releasing some seriously high-grade music — not to mention regularly shaking Glasgow's foundations with their lofty speaker stacks.   Following three outings on London's Dubhead label, the lads decided to set up their own imprint in 2005 — the wonderfully titled Scotch Bonnet Records. There's been a slew of 7"s and 10"s so far, all as hot as the label name suggests, with their unstoppable Belly Ska Riddim blazing its way across the UK, America, Germany and Poland. And there's no let up in pressure; next month sees their huge Mary Jane Riddim unleashed on a series of singles that feature vocals from Top Cat, Carl Meeks, Kenny Knots, Mikey Murka, Soom T and El Fata. There's also a Mungo's Hi Fi album on the way, due out on Scotch Bonnet in the not-to-distant future. In fact, they tell us they're sitting on so much new material that they don't know what to do with it all! &

72 minutes of exclusives, oddities and ting. Grab it while it's hot!   Tracklisting: Ahmed Mneimneh — Aini Bet Ref (Rough Guide) Toddla T feat Serocee — Inna Di Dancehall (1965) Hanuman — Crafty Butcher Riddim (Unreleased) Mahala Rai Banda — Iest Sexy (crammed) Boikutt and Stormtrap feat. Lethal Skills — Qararat (Unreleased) Gwen Stefani — Hollaback Girl (Instrumental) Doormouse — Chamura Noise Loop (Distort) Mercan Dede — Walking on the Red Sea (Dreams of the Sufi Saints) (Golden Horn) Shackleton — I Want to Eat You (Mordant Music) Hanuman & Ed Mowat — Welcome to Jonestown (Unreleased) Municiple — Possessed (Unre | leased) Burial — Unite (Soul Jazz) Os Tchtutchcos — Chapa Quente (Essay) Mala — Left Leg Out (DMZ) Frederic Galliano feat Tony Amado, Pinta Tirru, Zoca Zoca and Gata Aggresiva — Mwana Tchoa (Frikyiwa) Sinden & The Count of Monte C

To celebrate the launch of Cylob's net label, Spannered is honoured to host a free download of the song Rock The Trojan Fader, taken from the first single out of Cylob Industries.   The track is a three-and-a-half minute contraction of the forthcoming album Trojan Fader Style, a continuous mix of around 35 tracks, partly based on Cylob's live performance at Bangface last December.   ^ Photo credit: Emma Jane Richards ^ Click here to read Spannered's interview with Cylob

Read Spannered's interview with Milanese.   ^ Photo credit: Matt Burden