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7ft soundsystem meets fletcher in dub [free ep]
it’s yours for free. this epic collaboration is out today, 23 april 2012, the debut release on bombaada records.
two of africa’s heavyweight dub champions take a once in a life-time adventure into the deep realms of dub. follow these two cape town audio-nauts on their escapade of spliffs and blips, as they journey from the deepest subsonic worlds to the land of psychedelic space echoes. fasten your sub and enjoy the ride.
music written & produced by fletcher & yves. mastered by matt @ timecode. wicked artwork handmade by luis tolosana.
now is the time to learn ableton
if you were thinking about learning ableton live, now is the time. i have partnered with SAE cape town to bring you a humdinger of an ableton course. it’s 8 weeks long, 2 nights a week starting from 29 may 2012. i will be taking students starting from scratch, through the basics of audio and midi all the way to the complexities of producing finished tracks and remixes. all of this in a great environment. i look forward to be working in SAE’s state of the art mac’ed out classrooms and studios. click here for more information about the course and application details.
danny popper’s giant pedal-powered baobab tree
danny popper is a hooligan. he also likes to make very large pieces of art. he made this one for siemens on the durban beachfront for cop17. to show their commitment to the environment or something like that. danny asked me nicely to come up with a track for him for his video documentary. here’s the result of my time in the studio with guitarist, macro msg, from spain. the tune is called “dubsidedowntree”. i rather like it if i say so myself.
you can find out more about danny popper’s work on his website http://danielpopper.com
fletcher in dub. recorded live @ a taste of sonar. cape town 2 march 2012.
here’s my live dub set at ‘a taste of sonar’ in cape town. it was a wicked nite for me, i got to meet massive attack and modeselektor. but most importantly for me, i remembered to hit record before i started playing. i was the warmup for the evening so the mix starts from complete ambience and builds in intensity towards some heavy bass riddims. enjoy the deep dubs.
there is absolutely no point listening to this mix on your laptop speakers cos most of my basslines are subsonic. do yourself a favour and plug into a good pair of speakers.
to download from soundcloud, just click the little down arrow on the player. couldn’t be easier.
filastine – colony collape (fletcher in dub remix)
filastine is an interesting guy. what you might call a nomadic sonic terrorist. he travels the planet playing over 100 gigs a year dropping a heavy mixture of bass and eclectic global sounds with politically provocative video material. when i saw him live at a festival in reunion isalnd, he destroyed a shopping trolley on stage, mic’ed up as giant percussion instrument. he does not hold back when it comes to his socio-political views. the resulting cocktail is a heady brew of beat science and counter-cultutre propoganda. right up my street.
i was stoked when filastine approached me to do this remix for him, a track off his new album. the video was made at the sites of large scale natural disasters across asia. you can read all about the story here. it’s real.
my idea for the remix was to create my dub version to the original music video. i.e. use the original structure, but build and sound design my own tapestry of noise around the images. i would love to do more of this kind of hybrid remix / composing to video work.
released 29 february 2012. you can listen to all the remixes on soundcloud here and watch the original music video on youtube here
sonar cape town 2 march 2012
wow this is a special one for me. sonar is coming to cape town for one night. i’m lucky enough to be included on a lineup with modeselektor. woah! if you know what i’m talking about, then nothing more needs to be said. if you don’t, then words are fairly useless. you’ll just have to come and listen for yourself. trust me.
i’m going to be starting the night off with a selection of handcrafted deep dubs. my live setup integrates ableton live, analogue delays, some bionic scratching on turntables and drum pads triggered by step sequencers. take a listen and download for yourself.
this night is a small taste of the original sonar festival in barcelona – the pinnacle of global electronic music festivals.
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fletcher in dub – omnidirectional love machine [free download]
omnidirectional love machine is the result of my fascination with subtle psychedelic soundscapes that keep evolving organically into new shapes and forms thru the use of low frequency oscillators. it’s deep space music, echoes of an other worldly language filtered thru technology and a haze of sweet smoke. sit back and listen to the soundtrack of an unmade science-fiction film, enjoy the throb and pulse and wobble of my dubby universe. this is a new direction for me, i hope you enjoy.
listen and download the 3 track EP from bandcamp for free.
album artwork handmade by ed frank loverock babb
mastered by matt @ timecode
origin festival 27-29 january 2012
this is definitely one of my favourite festivals of the year. wicked lineup, gorgeous venue. and the fact that they’re kind enough to hold it on my birthday weekend every year also slightly influences my opinion.
as with all the best festivals in cape town, you don’t have to subject yourself to 3 days of trance, the redbull custom made soundsystem will be on site, hosting the best in urban beats, dub and techno.
check out all the event info on facebook or even better, straight to the festival website. see you on the dancefloor. . .
rastamouse vs dreadlox dub
the internet is a beautiful thing, don’t you think. just found this video on youtube. mr sean baker, whoever he may be, has mashed up my tune, dreadlox dub, with the british tv series rastamouse.
this is the reason i don’t believe current copyright laws are that useful to creative people. technically this is illegal. but it’s brilliant and should be encouraged! art does not happen in isolation, but through constant re-interpretation of existing ideas. that’s why i will be releasing all future work under a creative commons license which encourages sharing, remixing and mashups as long as the sources are credited and it is for non-commercial purposes. if this kinda thing interests you check out more at www.creativecommonsza.org.and for a giant library of creative commons media check out www.archive.org
xxxl bass exclusive
here’s an exclusive mix i made for the xxxl bass show on muthafm.com, quake and microstripe’s last show on the legendary cape town radio station.
it’s full of hard hitting beatz, everything from glitch hop and ragga to drumstep and krunk funk. not for the faint-hearted looking for something nice & relaxing to listen to.
01 Son Of Kick feat RQM – From Here
02 The Streets – Going Through Hell (Diplo Remix)
03 Camo UFOS – Bashment Crue (Urban Assault drumstep remix)
04 Terry Lynn – Streetlife (WILDLIFE! Mix)
05 Bandish Project – Chase (Distrikt drumstep remix)
06 Two Fingers – Fools Rhythm
07 ill.Gates & Samples – Crystal Math
08 Schlachthofbronx – Wave & Wine (Toddla T remix)
09 Mix n Blend – Full Retard
10 Roots Manuva – Who Goes There
11 Jam Jarr – Krunk Jaw
12 ill.Gates & Ana Sia – Extraordinary Rendition (feat Chris Sia)
13 Koan Sound – Funk Blaster (Original Mix)
14 ill.Gates, Opiuo & Vent – TriLLogy
super heavyweight glitch and dub mixtape
01 Flying Lotus – Beginners Falafel
02 Cypress Hill – Stoned Is The Way Of The Walk
03 1000names – Pocket Calculator (Lynx & Hellrazor Remix)
04 Mimosa – Drippin
05 Modeselektor – Fake Emotion [Dabrye Remix]
06 Liquid Stranger – His Fully Automatic Wheelbarrow
07 Om Unit & Kromestar – Solar Cycle
08 Tipper – Outsideinsideout
09 The Orb – Reefer Spin In The Galaxy
10 DJ Krush + Sly & Robbie – The Lost Voices
11 Blend Mishkin – Mafia
quite a white ou
this is a great project i’m involved in. i spent my school years in the eastern cape, so xhosa has always been my second language, albeit with limited vocab and hilarious grammar. i wanted to brush up on my xhosa skills a few years ago, so i found some beginners classes run by ubuntu bridge. there i connected with the rather mad schoolmaster, teacher and all round fun guy, quite a white ou.
apart from his xhosa teaching skills, he’s obviously got some film and drama background somewhere because he wrote the song, scripted, directed, acted in and produced a music video with a small team and an even smaller budget. this is the result.
as you can see, my role is beatz, music production, and occasional cameo roles as a tennis umpire.
we’ve played a few gigs together from the mad hatter’s festival of the flamjangled tea party, all the way to a crowd of rastas and foreign girls at teba’s birthday bash in gugulethu. every time the response is the same: big smiles from the audience. and massive love from any xhosa speakers in the crowd.
this is what happens when you throw him into a random taxi on kloof street at rush hour.
you’ll be happy to know we’re in the process of writing more tunes. the process goes something like this: quite a white ou records himself rapping acapella on his phone, emails that thru to me, i stretch the vocals into time in ableton live and build a phat beat around his voice. then he comes to the studio and we re-record the vocals properly and i keep mixing and tweaking until everyone is happy. i do enjoy the possibilities of digital technology.
watch this space for more quite a white ou tunes.
rocking the daisies 2011… with dog and chicken
the tune is mix n blend meets fletcher – shall we swing feat sindi (liver remix).
taken from the mix n blend album “look mom no remixes”. you can buy that from the african dope shop.
deep dubstep mixtape
here’s a little mix i put together to showcase the deeper, more spacious, subsonic sound of dubstep. some classics and a few special tunes that you can find at www.boomkat.com
1. Roughquest – Situation
2. Breakage – Open Up
3. Liquid Stranger – Full Metal Jacket (175PF Reload)
4. Objekt – The Goose that Got Away
5. Scuba – Three Sided Shape
6. Seven – Sinister
7. Jade & Matt U – Echoes
8. Cymantic – Glue
9. Scuba – Tense
10. TRG – Put You Down
11. TRG – Decisions
12. Dubwoofa – 7am Ghost
13. Cell – Doors Of Perception
diani beach, kenya. new years 2011
miki-san from guns n lazers and i went up to kenya at the invitation of the barbour family to discuss plans for a new years party. with our friend, bushra razak, we decided that what kenya needed was a psychedelic seaside circus.
everybody loved the idea, so i came back to cape town, tasked with putting together a crew of musicians that could create the music for such an insane night. such an awesome deal to offer the lucky dj’s – an all expenses paid trip to kenya, luxury accommodation at the flamboyant hotel, snorkeling and scuba diving, safari, and endless sun in exchange for a night of music.
we decided that under the circumstances it would be the right thing to do to donate all performance fees to a local charity skiza.
here’s a fantastic video of the trip, put together by rowan pybus and sydelle willow smith of makhulu productions,
massive thanks to bushra razak and the barbour family for this incredible adventure into east africa. what a way to start the year.
faith 47 – the freedom charter
this is a very cool project i worked on in collaboration with graffiti artist faith47 and cape town film producer rowan pybus. both of them are ridiculously talented individuals.
the freedom charter is a 1955 ANC document outlining the rights that all south africans are entitled to. the graffiti pieces were located to strongly contrast the spirit of this document with the harsh current reality of south africa.
i produced the music with my brother kendal beadon on piano and electric things, sindy dondolo adding the smooth female vox and ragga mc, vumile sitokisi aka ginga cobra, brought with the ruffness.
click here to check out the pieces on faith47′s website
chronic clan – gimme da weed (fletcher’s dub hop remix)
here’s a remix i made of the chronic clan’s massive ragga anthem, gimme da weed. produced as an exclusive for the blunted stuntman’s breakin za compilation
bigups to zoro, cros and g for the wicked vocal stylings and the blunted stuntman for being on my case.
click the little down arrow on the soundcloud widget to download for free
krushed & sorted – puttin on the ritz (live at rezonance festival)
krushed & sorted revived itself from a long slumber with the sudden ability of home computers to work with video as easily as with audio. that wasn’t happening 10 years ago, i can promise you that. suddenly in about 2009, it was a fairly simple matter to download any video you can think of in the world from youtube, stretch into time with a phat dancefloor beat in ableton and render out an instant music video remix. try it at home, it’s easy and rather fun. from there it can get a little more complex if you want to play it live. . .
our current setup involves 3 macs sync’ed over wireless lan, one runnning ableton live and vdmx, a second running vdmx being controlled entirely by midi output from ableton, and a 3rd mac running ms pinky to scratch video on vinyl. right, back to english please.
here’s a clip of us playing live @ rezonance festival, new years 2009/10.
crunk up the dub mix
with this mix i wanted to show the globalization of the bass sound. i’m based in cape town, south africa, but similar music is coming from every corner of the planet. enjoy this hour long trip around the world of bass.
01 7FT Soundsytem – Piped Piper – Cape Town
02 Beats Antique feat Fanfarra Kalashnikov – Oriental Uno – Oakland
03 Poirier feat Face T – Wha La La Leng [Maga Bo Remix] – Montreal
04 Narchi – Bam Bam Remix – Cape Town
05 Dj C feat Mims / Jnr Reid / Cham – This Is A Stage Show – Boston
06 Mix n Blend – Full Ahead [Krushed & Sorted Remix] – Cape Town
07 Noah D feat Anthony B – Good Sound – Portland
08 Fletcher – Elektro Riddim – Cape Town
09 Breakage feat Roots Manuva – Run ‘Em out – London
10 Narchi – Squelch This – Cape Town
11 Dj C feat Quality Diamond – Let It Billie – Portland
12 Mr Sakitumi – Secret Asian Man (Live @ Earthdance) – Cape Town
13 Beats Antique feat Sweet Snacks – Extra Extra – Oakland
14 P.H.Fat – Big Five [Liver Remix] – Cape Town
15 T.O.B – 5 And A Half Steps – Cape Town
16 Jahdan Blackamoore – Let’s Go – Brooklyn
17 Narchi – Skeletons – Cape Town
18 Vent – Itchy Feet – London
19 Artista Desconhecido – Coco Desconhecido [Maga Bo remix] – Rio De Janeiro
20 Mix n Blend – Sik Wid It [Biscope Remix] – Cape Town
earthdance cape town 2009
earthdance cape town is always a special event on the calendar. not only does it have an incredible lineup of electronic acts over a couple of stages and live linkups to events happening simultaneously around the globe, but 50% of profits are donated to charity.
the organizers, good times events, had heard about the live audio visual mashups that i was doing with krushed & sorted and invited us specially to come and bend some heads at this festival. perfect crowd to drop some mind-altering audio visual material on. it was a landmark show for us, the first time we’d linked ableton live with VDMX to run a fully hands-on music and video performance.
check out this video about the festival.
you can also check out a video of the krushed & sorted show at earthdance
live audio-visual manipulation at your fingertips.
