Sippin on Crystal.

Crystal Fighters have been established for a while now, a year ago they released a strangly amazing track called 'i love london' which is built up of beep bleeps and even the odd cowbell. it will be getting a re-release soon on Kitsune. Brand new music is always assessed to see if it lives up to today's standards, and when a track is found that does, it gets remixed to fuck.

Listen to thier latest track Xtatic truth here.

View their myspace here.

This emotive folk/tech track has gained attention from both Arcade and ya boi L-Vis 1990. Both of which get major kudos from us.

Arcade Remix:

Check them out on the Myspace page for full tracks.

It may only be once in a while that you find soemthing you like but can't explain why.

We hope you buzz off it too.

LAZER AMAZE YER'

As we all know Diplo and Switch have just released the first Major Lazer album on Mad Decent, and guess what lar? its mad decent!! with huge tracks like:

Pon de Floor


and Hold the Line

which includes this major video directed by Ferry Gouw.

Guns don't kill people lazers do is available for download and general purchase. Get involved.
Purchase the hard copy and recieve your free t-shirt. NICE!

Skanky Skanky.

POW!.

Manna said it was going to be sick, and it hasn't let us down. Skanky Skanky is the album of the summer (goes without saying). Click the link below to stream the album (for free!) through spotify.

GET THE 'T' ON!!

http://open.spotify.com/user/zootaloot/playlist/5vWbyX0KxeNsWW2WNVA73g

Keep those ears peeled...

One Time One Time...3 massive new tunes coming your way..

The ever more impressive L-Vis1990 has just blessed us with another fine track called 'United Groove' out on Mad Decent, Video by Alex Bok Bok, a real grower and that signature Gutter Bass makes this track HUGE.



Hundred&None favourites Jack Beats, are (hopefully) days away from releasing there Debut E.P called U.F.O with their eagerly anticipated 1st track on the album called, wait for it wait for it......U.F.O! such a huge track which is gonna take some beating I tell thee! Hear Count and Sinden drop it at Forma T in Brussels, Sinden's face is priceless whilst Herve just smiles, almost like he's got even bigger dancefloor killers up his sleeve, check it.

FORMA.T GOES TO FUSE #5 w/ THE COUNT & SINDEN, SOUND OF STEREO, TODDLA T, MARTELLO, ONE MAN, SURFING LEONS, THE OTHERS, ... from An Overdose Of Awesomeness on Vimeo.

Speaking of dancefloor killers, and of Herve, the Count and Sinden album is to drop in September time ( straight from the horses mouth, I was speaking to Herve after his set at the arches at chew the fat back in march) with a track ive heard live a few times now called 'Full Moon' which is set to feature on the e.p ENJOY!

Hey T Willy From Steel City

1965 Records

Jamaican music is not in good shape. The sound of modern dancehall, which burst onto the worldwide scene via Sean Paul’s success in 2003, has not succeeded in crossing over any further. Generally, it’s too hectic, too aggressive; it’s also increasingly too indistinguishable from contemporary US hip hop and R&B, and often lacks that idiosyncratic, bass-heavy swing that defined its musical ancestors in reggae.
These deficiencies are only highlighted by the fact that one of the genre’s most interesting and entertaining albums in some while has been made by a 23-year-old white lad from Sheffield.
Toddla T, aka Tom Bell, has been bringing dancehall’s relentless, powerhouse rhythms to British clubs for several years as a DJ. In the meantime, he has been concocting his own variant on them in his bedroom, using basic computerised studio technology.
After a run of vibrant singles, this full-length debut marries Jamaican beats and ragga-style vocal delivery, to various traditions that surrounded Bell through his teens in the Steel City — the bleepy techno of Sheffield’s own Warp Records, and the Yorkshire-specific UK garage offshoot, bassline house.
Thanks to the latter influence, Skanky Skanky serves up a fully satisfying low-end experience, if nothing else. From start to finish, it is a thunderous and irresistibly danceable blend. The ''bleep’’ factor, furthermore, means that weird sounds mind-bendingly leap out from the mix at every turn.
Bell, the spawn of two college lecturers, succeeds, too, in rising above dancehall’s unmitigated machismo and “slackness”; his cast of MC’s mercifully bring a sense of humour to their vocalising.
He takes the mic himself as 'T Willy' on Road Trip and No Kip, which hilariously poke fun at, respectively, the supposed glamour of DJ culture, and its sleepless lifestyle. On Rice and Peas, Mr Versatile takes himself off on a fruitless quest for Caribbean cuisine — “All right, forget it,” he ultimately concludes, “just give me a Cornish pasty, with some tea.”
With the likes of Roots Manuva and Benjamin Zephaniah bringing their wit and intelligence to the party elsewhere on the album, the unabashed hedonism of Shake It feels not only acceptable, but glorious.

T Willy also blew us out the water with his sleek and well crafted Essential mix for Pete Tong on Radio1 Essential Mix – Toddla T (download through rapidshare) in May with a collection of his inspiration as well as one hour of his own wonky club set.
Like a ragga version of the Streets, Skanky Skanky is, then, a record that makes you feel good about British multiculturalism. Come the summer hot weather (God willing), it may well shape up as the ghetto bass album of 2009.

images coutesy of groovement.co.uk

http://www.myspace.com/toddlat