New Radio - Whiteout

Residents only, with new tunes from Monokrak, Al Tourettes and Abbleblim, Peter Van Hoesen, Raffertie and more.

Team Little Rock dredge the depths of the underground and sift the silt of contemporary white labels to bring the usual assault of bass, beats and insanity – this week, it’s minimal hot property PVH, the almighty Raffertie, and that rather nice new Peverelist tune.

Tracklist

1. Floating Mind – Symmetric Dance – Jemset Remix – Monokrak
2. Peter Van Hoesen – Irrational X (Exercise One Remix) – Forthcoming on Exone
3. Al Tourettes and Abbleblim – Lipsmacker – forthcoming on Aus
4. Cocknbullkid – Raffertie remix – Raffertie Soundcloud
5. Peverelist – Better Ways of Living – Punch Drunk
6. Kryptic Minds – Torn – unreleased
7. Skream – Minimool – unreleased
8. The Setup – Lizard (Ronin Remix) – Nerve Breaks
9. Asakusa Jinta – Tokyo Sabaku De Jidanda – unknown
   
10. Floating Mind – Dexter’s Techno – Monokrak
    
11. Murcof – Memoria – Leaf
    
12. Killing Joke – Millenium – Zoo
    
13. Loki & Scattabrains – The Turns Grey ft Mog – self-released

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Ronin - The Battledrums EP

Cult-as-all-hell scottish D'n'B label Nerve recordings, headed by the mighty Paul Reset, also run a free download wing entitled Nerve Breaks. It is rather awesome.
Most recent release, Ronin's The BattleDrums EP, is four wicked tracks of grand scale, genre-splicing turntablism that I've been running on repeat ever since I downloaded. Opener Quarantine, weaves back and forth between laid-back hip-hop and double-time drum and bass, managing to maintain smoked-out atmospherics, even when the percussion gets hectic. If You Fear Dying similarly balances between widescreen melodies and frenetic beats, sampling Zach DeLa Rocha to great effect.
For all it's breaksy elements and double-timed percussion, Ronin's keen to state that it's as much a hip-hop record as his previous turntablist foray Best Laid Plans; "99% of it is still MPC work, filters & turntablism, its just used to different effect in parts." His ability to sample, dissasemble and rework is what gives the EP it's unique flavour - Ronin doesn't just play nine different varients on the amen break; he picks music from his roots (RATM / Deftones / Thom Yorke), and recontextualises them with modern sensibilities. Admittedly, if you didn't "get" My Own Summer the first time round, Ronin's retake will probably leave you cold, but for those who grew up screaming along to Chino Marino, it's bloody awesome.

Get it in yer boombox, and turn the monitors up full.
Download here.