Two hours IZC in the mix, including dubs by Double Helix, El Rakkas, FourtyFour, Nur Sound, Pressa, Robbing Hood and others.

Dates

Jan 29: En garde! (protest against WRK-Ball) @ Westbahnhof/Vienna (6pm)
Jan 29: Aftershow Party @ EKH/Vienna
Jan 29: Dubquake w/ Collynization Soundsystem feat. Ras McBean (mc), Kokoras (mc), Shalamanda Sound, Dubster, Fruitical Vibes @ Fluc_wanne/Vienna
Jan 29: Play FM (lounge re-opening) w/ Rainer Klang, Smacs & Patrick Kong, Simon Lebon, Laminat, Houztekk, Wax & Manix, Franz “Jazzin” Otto, Mike Burns, Ravissa, Konsorten, Resident, Groove Bagasch, Kadi @ Xpedit Basement/Vienna (Wiesingerstraße 6, 1010)
Jan 30: Elektroland w/ Binär (live), Constantin Zeileissen & 909, Florian Lindinger, Mike Inzinger @ Elektro Gönner/Vienna
Feb 3: Dubsquare w/ Boris, IZC @ Rhiz/Vienna

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After DubSpencerSound’s DJ Foster was covering Dubsquare last week (big thanks!), Dubsquare will back this week with heaps of dubs, including bit by Duncan Powell, Ike Release, Pressa, Simon/off and T2R.

Dates

Dec 21: Big Mama p/ The Field (live), cFX, feelipa, Simon/off @ Postgarage/Graz
Dec 22: Twisted w/ Shalamanda Sound, Fruitical Vibes Crew, Kulix, 00P, Neurologic, SubScientist @ Sub/Graz
Dec 26: Sibiria EP (presentation) w/ Electric Indigo, c++ (vis), jade (vis), luX (vis) @ Salon Projektionist/Vienna (Neubaugürtel 7, 1150)

Finally I managed to finish my ‘09 charts – twelve records in alphabetic order. Enjoy, and if you haven’t got these yet, get them from your favorite recordstore ;) – IZC

El Rakkas – Seas Of Disease/I&I (Lo Dubs)
El Rakkas’ overdue debut on vinyl with two older tracks, Seas Of Disease and I&I. Whereas Seas Of Disease was originally one of the early Dubstep-tracks to pick up dubtechno-elements, dub-influenced I&I inherits a very techno-oriented structure.

Emptyset – Emptyset (Caravan)
Reminiscenting classic Säkhö Techno but adding some of Bristol’s dubbed-out dirt, James Ginzburg & Paul Purgas have released a beautiful debut longplayer.

IZC – Arctic Dawn (Dubsquare)
I have to admit that I’m a bit proud of this EP, so I put it in the charts as well – although I don’t feel like writing much about it really… ;)

Kowton – Stasis (Keysound)
Reminding me a bit of early Hyperdub, Keysound has developed from a platform for Dusk & Blackdown’s own releases to a very forward thinking basis for numerous artists in 2009. To me, Kowton’s release was to most significant indicator for this developement. One can only be curious how the label develops in 2010, above all after signing LHF recently – the collective from North-London has been inwardly working on a incredible version of the hardcore continuum in the past years. So Keysound is definitely among those toto watch in 2010.

Peverelist – Jarvik Mindstate (Punch Drunk)
At the very end of 2009, Bristol’s Peverelist surprised me with this absolutely outstanding album. Basically, he is promoting a bass-driven soundscape in a way very close to that of Dubstep before the age of rave, with an emphasis on basslines instead of kicks, and tiny athmospheres instead of testosterone-challenging midrange. So far so good. But it wasn’t for Peverelist if he didn’t take things further – stripping down reminiscences of ‘96 Dream Team tunes with Dubstep’s cooled down slow-motion-magnification (“Yesterday I Saw The Future”); or setting a fragmented snare-play we can well remember from ‘03 Wizzbit-tunes in context with some kind of polyrhythmic stab-delirium (“Jarvik Mindstate”). The hit of the album has to be “Bluez” though, not least because I can’t avoid the suspicion that Peverelist might have taken Dubstep itself as an historic reference here. Absolutely striking work, on the vinyl edition each track does indeed deserve its own side on 45.

Ramadanman – Revenue (2nd Drop)
Ramadanman’s stripped down 2-step versions were still unmatched in 2009. With the awesome but in a way much richer remix by Untold on the flip, the minimalist nature of the original version became even more explicit.

Shackleton – 3 EPs (Perlon)
Monolake – Atlas (Monolake)
The way Shackleton places the single sounds in relation to each other follows patterns and ideas beyond genres such as Dubstep or Techno. Therefore, in a way his 3EPs seem to be much closer to acoustic minimalist music from Africa and Arabia. I’ve heard of people being a bit irritated by some of the sound-marks he uses. However, isn’t this actually the essence of travelling, being irritated by unexpected scents and flavors? I do very much think so.
Monolake’s Atlas invites us for a journey too, however this time the destination seems to be some kind of dystopian future. The scents we perceive are metallic and our soundvehicle has to elude radioactive space debris as well as red-giant-bassdrums.

Sigha – Raww (Hotflush)
Already into his third release for Hotflush this year, Raww is Sigha’s strongest EP for the label so far. Effortlessly moving between Dubstep and Techno, I can hardly recall another artist with a UK-’nuum’ background diving into Techno in such a stringent way as Sigha is doing it right now.

Sully – Duke St. Dub (Mata-syn)
Sully’s Duke St. Dub marking a return of the less cheesy side of 2-step-garage in 2009. With old-school legends such as El B, Zed Bias, Duncan Powell or MJ Cole returning to the 138bmp-realm and loads of fresh talent submerging too, things look bright for future garage in 2010.

Wax – Dub Shed Sessions I/Remixes (Subsolo)
Peverelist – Junktion/Shed Remix (Tectonic)
Berlin’s Shed has been responsible for a couple of impressive tracks in the field of Techno in 2009, including labels such as Equalized or the Wax-series. The two remixes here on Subsolo were taking things even further, introducing a spooky and yet unknown mixture of dub, techno and halfstep.
Peverelist’s Junktion was definitely not the easiest choice for doing a remix I guess, but Shed proved that he can very well move within broken beats as well. The result is a spatan, very atmospheric groove which combines 2-step’s swing with Techno’s sense of time.

This week IZC presents new tracks by Demos, Dom, Madd, Maulin, Pressa, Subindex and others.

Dates

Jan 8: Klub Sir3ne w/ Bulldogs (live), Kid Copy, Rak3te, Odd, Se.vero @ Fluc_wanne/Vienna
Jan 9: Lick The Click w/ 2562, Losoul, Isu, Crimson, Chrom @ Merlin/Budapest
Jan 13: Dubsquare Lcl. w/ c++, Boris, IZC @ Rhiz/Vienna

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