3Ball is slowly but surely gathering pace, with more and more releases from people other than the few usual suspects who defined the genre. The Rebel Records here delivers 5 wicked tunes from Mr Kanti W with eye-watering saturated trumpet and synth throughout, opening with the wonky tempo ramp-ups-and-downs of Jalisco, and ranging from the happy-go-lucky, uncomplicated San Luis Potosi to the colder, darker Nuevo Leon (with some cheeky LFO on the synth to remind you not to take that darkness to seriously). Unexpectedly, Coldplay's Clocks gets a remix - alarm bells ring - remember that insipid Rythms Del Mundo version? - but as the piano gets chopped into 3ball triplets and morphs into hardstyle synth, the very existence of Coldplay is validated. Well worth a spin - and it's free!

DOWNLOAD - MR KANTI W - M3XBALL

Check out the Coldplay mix:

Coldplay - Clocks (Mr Kanti W Remix) by Kantiw

(via Tropical Bass)

Huge new EP from Think2wice. Obviously, it's Jon Kwest, the whole EP bangs - but let's focus in on the Gulls remix here: Gulls isn't a well known name in Moombah circles, because he's someone truly pushing boundaries and not really part of any specific genre, and so this remix could easily be overlooked (see Walmer: "Not only do Jon Kwest’s original tunes sound dope as fuck where you gizz your pants but you got fucking Jay Fucking Fay, Guapo Fucking Feo, Tactic and then some motherfucker named Gulls who we never heard of before"). Gulls reins in his minimal transnational futurist sound, squeezing it into a moombah box which it's constantly pulsing at the edges of and threatening to ooze out. OK, we're only 18 days in, but this is my Moombah of the Year so far.

Jon Kwest - Stabbin Cabin (Gulls Remix) (112kbs) by Think 2wice

As promised those 2 tunes from the other day have been taken down again... But here's a brand new one from me on a cutesy dancehall ting. Streaming only for now, EP coming soon!

bubble forest by andykisaragi

I don't understand how everyone gets time to do massive end-of-year posts... surely everyone's busy doing fun stuff at the end of the year? Anyway in the spirit of getting back on the blog wagon, here's my top tunes of last year:

SHAZALAKAZOO - BANG!

The title tune off their Moombahton Bang Bang EP on Generation Bass couldn't be more appropriately titled... it bangs HARD & I'm sure I'll still be playing this out this time next year.

Shaza La Kazoo - Bang! Bang! by ShazaLaKazoo

The Town - Velvet Tears

Hard, sinister UK Funky track which never seems to resolve, just builds and builds the tension, I've played this at almost every gig since I got hold of it.

The Town™ - Velvet Tears Part 1 (Preview) by The Town™ [Kazey & Karve]

D'Banj - Oliver Twist

9ja pop house tune, love the combination of the atmospheric production and the comedy lyrics.

more after the jump...

Zifhang out of Santiago, Chile - who produced a couple of the beats on Copius' Blind Mans Maze LP - sent me his EP to check out and it's chock full of wicked jazzed up, blazed-out hip hop beats:

Pentium III 846Mhz EP (Coverless)(Single Downloads Available) by Zifhang

Grab the whole EP: Zifhang - Pentium III 846Mhz EP

Some awesome kuduro right here! Free for today only, Akwaaba's 2009 compilation Sem Transporte:

And via Masala, check out Titica, probably the only Transexual artist in African music...

Grab her album here: Titica - Chão

Catch me tonight in Falmouth playing alongside 3 Daft Monkeys, Biere De Luxe & the Skank n Stomp crew! BLAM

Norman. & Nate provide some blissed out winter smoking session beats on a slightly wonky - but not too wonky - instrumental hip hop vybe...

Back Woods Beat Tape by Norman.

Catch me playing live in Falmouth on 16th December at Skank n Stomp - alongside 3 Daft Monkeys, Bierre de Luxe and Romanchale. It's gonna be big!

Half way between the Space Hulk music and, weirdly, Bright Eyes (specifically the line 'Or is it a dream'), this could reasonably be titled KILLER MUTANT RABBITS IN SPACE. In fact, dude, that's a way better title. You can have that for free.

Yusef by Nilbogg