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Drumstep. Yeah, its a thing.

Guess it’s about time for a new “-step” to emerge. If you haven’t heard the rumblings, Drumstep is to Drum N Bass what Dubstep is to Breaks - heavy and half-time. Drumstep is enough of a production style that it has registered on the Beatport charts as a theme, and it’s listed on Wikipedia as a subgenre of Drum n’ bass, but it’s hard to know whether it is unique enough to take hold and grow into a defined style. While Dubstep’s 65-70bpm plod felt at least sort of original (if not obnoxiously so to some), Drumstep hovers higher in the 85-95bpm range, which puts it a lot closer to Hip-Hop in head nod-ability.

I decided to explore it a bit to make up my own mind, and the result is this here podcast. Even though at the moment a lot of Drumstep tracks sound to me like good ol’ DnB songs that got stuck in a breakdown, we do love our labels here in EDM-land so we might as well just stop quibbling over names and enjoy bangin’ tracks right?

Right.

Friday Five - 5.13.2011 - Drumstep Edition by Hægen

Tracklist:

1. Tinie Tempah - Wonderman ft. Ellie Goulding (Bare Noize remix)
2. Beastie Boys - Watcha Want (StickBubbly remix)
3. Stephen Jacobs - Blind Dreams
4. Discosynthetique - Feelings of Disbelief (Farace’s Believe in Drumstep remix)
5. Plan B - Love Goes Down (Doctor P remix)

Posted by: Matt

Hey! It’s finally Friday again here at the Beatery (where it’s always Friday at least once a week!) and we have another tasty sampler of five fresh tracks for your ear holes. We got your Electro House. We got your Tropical Bass. We got your Dubstep! We got you covered, is what I am saying.

Friday Five - 4.15.2011 by Hægen
(click the arrow in the player to download!)

Tracklist:
1. Meat Katie & D Ramirez ft. Odissi - Stop the Revolution
2. Illikon - Circus Jack
3. Vaski - Jelly (Nostalgia remix)
4. Heavyfeet ft MC Mad Rush - Vs Up (Rack n Ruin remix)
5. FS - Touch O’ Klass

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You guys! It’s podcast time.

Last Saturday I got to throw down with the Future Universal crew at one of San Francisco’s most notorious parties, the Burner-founded, mash-up extravaganza known as Bootie! It’s easy to sneer at the party as a bridge-and-tunnel cheap-thrill extravaganza but you can’t deny the vibe they create. Somehow they manage to do three Saturdays a MONTH and every weekend (including last) there was STILL a line around the corner at 1:45am! Say what you will about the attendees, but any DJ or promoter would kill for a crowd as psyched as that. Plus, while haters hate, a bunch of sweaty dancers are having way more fun anyway.

So! They also have a rotating side room and it was here that FUSF was allowed to steer the night towards clubland. This week’s podcast is my set from that night. It was performed with Traktor Pro, a midi controller, and the club’s mixer, so the levels are a bit rough here and there but in general it was probably the most fun I have ever had rocking a party. Just fyi: the volume cuts during This Is How We Do It were so the crowd could sing along, and sing they did! To recreate the effect, the lyrics are:

“This is how we do it!”

DJ Haegan - Live at Bootie SF, 11.13.2010

Tracklist after the jump:
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Posted by: Matt

NEW FEATURE ANNOUNCEMENT! Once a month I will be dropping a bite-sized mix of five of the freshest tracks to invade my ear holes in the last month, keeping you on the sawtooth’s edge of club bangers.

Easily digestible, five tracks will get you going through the next few weeks in the clubs, and whet your appetite for more from this month’s hottest producers. Expect to hear these out, is what I’m saying.

Chew on these tracks whenever you have a free twenty minutes and when you next see people you can be all like “”Hey have you heard that new Calvertron track that JUST came out? that shit is the bomb” and everyone around you will be super impressed.

Friday Five - 10/22/10

1. Spencer & Hill, Bastian Van Shield - Cantina (Spencer & Hill remix)
2. Kid Kenobi, Mc Shurechock - Safe Sound (Calvertron remix)
3. Boys Noize - Yeah
4. Nalin & Kane - Beachball (Chris Lake remix)
5. The Loops of Fury - Rack ‘Em (Zodiac Cartel remix)

Get ‘em all on Beatport.com and look for them at a club near you!

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Hey everyone, welcome to yet another Podcast Friday here on The Beatery! This week happens to be my chance to share with y’all and I am going to take this opportunity to exercise some lingering musical ghosts that have been haunting my psyche for a while now.

For as much music as it must seem like a DJ goes through on a daily/weekly/monthly basis, there are often as many tracks that fall by the wayside as there are those that make in into the crate. When it came time for me to plan a new mix, I decided that there were a number of tracks that I really liked but for whatever reason never got the love they deserved. So, before retiring them, I figured I’d finally give them a chance to shine.

Just about every track in this mix has been in my library for a long time but never really played much (or at all), just sat on for a long time for no real good reason. They all are going into “storage” once this is published as I start to look beyond 2010 and to the future of new music, but I am very happy to be sending them off in style!

Haegen - La Old Sh*t

Peep the tracklist after the break!
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