via Globalibre, here's a lil selection from DJ Badre of some of the best Balkan sounds of the year, (including one of mine, it's a surefire way to get my attention)

This is Balkan 2010 by Dj Badre

Slavic Soul ParTY-Opa Cupa (Stavroz Ram Ram Remix)
Slap In The Bass -Padrino (Original Mix)1
Andykisaragi-doghaus 0.3
Budzillus-Taksi Taksi AKA AKA Remix
Raumakustik & Alec Troniq-Zawanska
Steve Clash-Suedosteuropa
Homework-Fissa Tune
Prince Club -La Charma Pt. 2(Prince Club Sub-Marine Mix)
Guča-Flavoured Boobshaker-Kit Klitt
Highbloo-My Orkestar
Shazalakazoo-Bobangola

A couple of nice minimal-global-bass-house tunes here from Globalibre's DJ O.live.R:

DJ O.live.R - COCO LORES EP by O.live.R Productions

(via Globalibre, obviously)

I've been seriously neglecting my blogging duties lately... but guys! I've been restoring a 100 year old dutch barge! gimme a break! sheesh. some people

anyway

Quick reminder that your Saturday night could be totally awesome if, and only if, you head down to Ripsnorter's Autumn Antics in Bristol.

Roll up Rippers for a jamboree of jive-tastic hip-jigglin' on The Terrace, bass-boomin' wonky glitch-bombs in The Cave & a supercharged barrel-blowin' beat-fest in The Tunnel.

Swingin'on The Terrace;
ANDY KISARAGI
DJ POD
DJ HIPPY

Going hard in The Tunnel;
ED REAL
DJ ELDY
GLOWBONES
DJ POD
JIM HEDGES

Gettin' a wonk-on in The Cave;
NICK THE KID
ED REAL
EATS EVERYTHING
ANDY BAYLEY

Download your free e-ticket from ripsnorter.co.uk and make a donation on the door.

Prizes for the best dressed swingers in town!

The shenanigans continue over the road at The Old Fox til you actually want to go home, not a moment sooner.

To whet your appetite, first off you could do worse than check out my Electro Swing DJ Mix for Ripsnorter... then after that, there's a few tunes that have caught my attention lately after the jump...:

Yeeeeah! Can't wait for this! Generation Bass' Main Event 2010 is happening in Tilburg, NL on 17th & 18th September and I'll be there playing alongside global bass luminaries like Daniel Haaksman, Celt Islam, Bandish Projekt, Globalibre and of course the main man himself DJ UMB! It's such an honour to be on the same bill as all these guys... (even if they did spell my name wrong!!) what a line up!

Me and Globalibre's O.live.R were having a bit of a trans-European love in this afternoon, he was checking out some of my remixes and I was checking out his latest mix:

DJ O.live.R - "All U Want To Know About Bass"-Tape by o.live.r

which is an awesome selection of UK Funky / UK Garage / Houseyness, mostly quite minimal and spacious, with occasional snatches of brass & vocals... like all of his mixes the entire tracklist is now on my want list... definitely improved my afternoon, check it out!!

Tom, tromboner (snigger) from those kings & queens of the acoustic mashup the Glitzy BagHags was round at the weekend and at one point the question "what is UK Funky?" came up... Now I am a proper genre geek, I can usually tell you exactly what defines a particular genre and exactly why a tune is or isn't an example of it - despite, or because of the fact that they're totally arbitrary. But so far I've found UK Funky hard to pin down - the best I could come up with was "like that Head Shoulders Knees & Toes tune but not necessarily shit."

Well in timely fashion DJ O.live.R of Globalibre has dropped this UK Funky mix showcasing the good stuff... minimal, percussive, tribal, sometimes dark even... O.live.R's Swing House mix from a while back really opened my ears to some new music so I was excited to hear this mix and it didn't dissapoint.