Free EP from Simtek on a bassline / 4-4 garage / dubstep ting. The Gash remix made me laugh out loud in the office for the sheer ridiculousness of the drop. Massive. Amazing Larry (there was a dude named Amazing larry in Lee Press-on & the Nails - I'm pretty confident this isn't the same guy, but if it turns out it is, that would be my favourite fact evar) vs Double Oh No remix starts off with a juke feel and descends into ghettotech madness with an offbeat bassline. Check it out, the price is right...

Waffle Dodger EP [OUT NOW FOR FREE!] by Simtek

Download: Simtek - Waffle Dodger EP

via Off Me Nut records

Here's a lil mix from me for the sunshine, or the rain, depending on the weather. An Untimely tangent through music space with a wonkily soulful vein running through it... hip hop beats, 2 step shuffle, epic house deepness & dubstep pressure! Some old tunes, some new tunes, some tunes of indeterminate age.

Download: Untimely Sound WonkySoul mix

Tracklisting after tha jump....

It's a bit miserable outside today. I quite like it.

There's something about old US garage which fits perfectly with rain for me ever since a community festival in Endcliffe Park in Sheffield which got totally washed out, and everyone gave up and went home except for a soundsystem and a few committed ravers (at the age of 14 or so I was the most committed raver of all at these free festivals since I didn't know about free parties and I couldn't get in to any clubs) dancing to chunky Armand Van Helden-esque beats...

So it was well timed that I picked up DJ Romanthony - Live in the Mix from a charity shop yesterday and I was bumping it in the car on the way to work this morning... I love Romanthony's production style, but I'm finding it hard to express exactly why... there's something kind of thin sounding about it - but that's not really a word normally used positively when describing dance music. It's the way it seems to just lightly brush over you from a distance, like an overheard snatch of a party in the next room, or next street, or maybe the next universe, which gives it a sense of urgency, but also a sort of relaxed generosity. You gotta dance, but no need to go crazy if you don't want to. Teeny dancing will do.

One tune in particular really got me, a repetetive, hypnotic, addictive groove that made me want to get out the car and get lost in the music & the mist... here's a cheekly lil 128 for ya:

Romanthony - Down 4 U.