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FOF006 / Digital / Gun Selectah EP
This was a really great remix project to work on and gave me the opportunity to work on something a little bit more housey.
Grab it at JUNO
GRD018 / Digital / Sephirot EP
My remix of Sephirot’s tune ‘Vanished World’ is out now on his EP on Gradient Audio!
Grab it at JUNO
CRD001 / Digital / HxdB & Self Evident EP
An older tune, but still one that I very much consider one of my best. The inaugural release on Crude Records, the brainchild of the J’aime Le Dubstep homeboys out of Montreal.
Grab it at JUNO
GRDLP002 / Digital / HxdB Presents… Future of Bass Volume 1
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ere in 2011, it seems there is an almost limitless amount of electronic music to absorb, coming from seemingly limitless sources. As wonderful as this dilemma can be, it can also be overwhelming to both casual listeners and DJs alike. This ambitious compilation, curated by Vancouver’s bass wizard, HxdB, aims to create a snapshot of what is now commonly known as bass music and become a beacon for listeners to find their way through an ocean of music. Also with its breadth and scope, it perfectly represents this exciting time, by bringing together a group of superb artists from the creative ether to demonstrate their interpretations. The project represents all that is right with modern electronic music, lending it’s inspiration from the need to look past stymieing genre titles and focusing on the fresh and exciting, multi-faceted sounds found in bass music culture.
~ Much sonic territory is explored in this globe-spanning affair, with 24 artists, from points on the map as diverse as the UK, USA, Germany, Australia, Canada, Austria & Puerto Rico.
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hat can you expect from this release?
Fearless explorations of sub bass frequencies and futuristic soundscapes, from the blazing, 8-bit arpeggiators of Cairo’s ‘They Met in Flushing’, to the soothing, yet emotive vibes found on Kid Smpl’s ‘Comfort’. Funky-inspired tribal drum patterns sure to move a dance floor in FBOM & Outlaw Producer’s ‘Compound VIP’. Rude bass lines and 808 sub pressure found in Hodge’s ‘Boy + Girl’, old-school stabs, happily sitting on top of chopped breaks and righteous vocal treatments in Magnum’s ‘Schemes’. Cure’s reworking of HxdB’s ‘Mustard’, perfectly balances catchy melodies and infectious funky synths. Acre’s ‘Effected The Most’ shows us the raw emotion of garage-influenced vocals and minimal percussion.Sclist’s ‘V’ takes us on a journey to a rave surely set in the year 3000, with intense percussion and quirky atonal sounds. Submerse & Resketchfunk things up with their J-garage classic, ‘Wafu Wafu’. Juxta’s clever remix of Cedaa’s ‘Hypnotiq’ is a funky, footwork- inspired roller, whileSelf Evident’s ‘Look in Your Eyes’ takes things in a different direction with it’s triplet swung beats and almost wonky, but engaging synth-work.Wachs Lyrical’s ‘Felt Smasher’ proves just how effective the classic 808 kit can be when tweaked to sub-tickling perfection and DFRNT’s‘Tribal’ is a sublime auditory journey with it’s slow-burning aggression, massive tribal drums and all-consuming bass.
~ The commonality that unites this package is the shared goal of each artist to innovate and continue pushing the envelope of modern dance music, while captivating dance floors and imaginations alike.
◆tracklist◆
1. Acre - Effected the Most
2. Hodge - Boy + Girl
3. Magnum - Schemes
4. HxdB - Mustard (Cure Rerub)
5. FBOM & Outlaw Producer - Compound VIP
6. Simon/off - Take Your Time
7. Cairo - They Met in Flushing
8. DFRNT - Tribal
9. Wachs Lyrical - Felt Smasher
10. Submerse & Resketch - Wafu Wafu
11. Sclist - V
12. Shureshotz - Redlight District
13. Mirror State - Bad Connections
14. Blind Prophet - Constants (feat. Brea)
15. Artifact - Forgive Me
16. Cedaa - Hypnotiq (Juxta RMX)
17. Kid Smpl - Comfort
18. B1t Crunch3r vs Gravity - Malfunction (HxdB RMX)
19. Self Evident - Look in Your Eyes
SFS003 / 12″ & Digital / Distal & HxdB – Typewriter Tune/VIP
Exciting but late news (as readers of this site by now know!).
As most of you know, my first collaboration with Atlanta’s Distal, has been widely received in recent months, and even featured on the legendaryGilles Peterson’s “Worldwide” show on BBC Radio1!
Well, finally wait for it’s release is over!
Check out the XLR8R giveaway of Typewriter Tune also!!!
Reviews of the tune can be found @
Resident Advisor
DJ Mag
FUNDAMENTAL GARAGE
As alluded to in a previous post also, we got some love we got over at Kmag, declaring SFS003 as one of the “Essential Bass Music Releases of 2010″
Head on over to these fine retailers and grab your self the 12″ or a digital copy to satiate your craving. Ha!
JUNO // JUNO DOWNLOAD // BOOMKAT // REDEYE // CHEMICAL // iTUNES // BEATPORT
SUBDIGI030 / Digital / HxdB – Miranda EP
Another new release for 2011 has just dropped and is for the moment exclusive to Beatport.
Cop it @ BEATPORT
HAR119 / Digital / Black Ice North American Excursion
“Amazing new classic from Ill-esha featuring her gorgeous vocals over rolling bass, haunting piano and synth, and lush production. The flip side features HxdB’s future garage take complete with precision lfo bass work and the signature HxdB percussion.”
Cop it @ BEATPORT
GRD002 / Digital / Modulus EP
Buy it @ JUNO / DIGITAL TUNES
EVD001 / Digital / Melt Yo Face Off EP
FRMNT009 / 12″ & Digital / Diamonds in the Rough EP
With releases from XXXY, Hyetal, and Shortstuff to their credit, Formant Recordings drop a three-track EP featuring Phaeleh, HxdB and Psychonaught. Winding up bobbling Marimba and clipped 2-step drums with a droning Reese style bass, Phaeleh starts the session on ‘Cheki’, while HxdB offers a techier, R’n'B spiked snaker ‘Invisible Touch’ and Psychonaught sends for the rave with a melancholy Synkro-esque stepper. Heavy.
-Boomkat
One of the shining lights in contemporary electronic music, Bristol based producer Phaeleh delivers the first offering from this EP, with “Cheki” – a stand out track with a dreamy, future garage sensibility and soulful seductive quality, which is masterfully attained without following the much trodden blueprint. Canadian producer HxdB’s “Invisible Touch,” up next, weaves melodious, glowing Joy Orbison-esque synths around filtered guitar, ticking beats and a hazy glow. Psychonaught changes the tone on “I Just Want You”, deploying a more upbeat tempo with a powerful, repressed vocal crying out from beneath. An incredible collection of tracks.
-Juno
Available at these fine retailers…
Boomkat// Drop Records // Hardwax // Beatdown Records // Redeye Records // Chemical Records // HMV // Deejay.de // Juno
GAMMA014 / Digital / Global Wub Volume 2
KR0027 / Digital / FBOM – Let Me In (HxdB RMX)
Buy it @ JUNO
MINDSET006 / 12″ & Digital / HxdB – The Prism EP
Buy 12″ @ BOOMKAT / JUNO / CHEMICAL / REDEYE / BM Soho / HARDWAX / TRIPLE VISION
From Boomkat.com“Mindset Recordings show their calibre with an ace debut from Canadian producer Hexadecibel aka HxdB. The sixth release on the steadily matured label shows a shared love for the emotive steppers soul of D-Bridge, or the crisp clarity of Instra:mental at a dubstep tempo. ‘Prism’ shapes sharp 2-step rhythms to harness silicon-toned moody-blue synthlines, while ‘Macro Modular’ wriggles with a dubstep electronica vibe built from clipped post-dub-steppers patterns and ‘Showdown At The Cinema’ adds jazzy blue rhodes to restrained tearout bass, lush strings and glistening atmospherics reminiscent of the man D-Bridge. A recommendation to any fans of Hyetal, Indigo, SYNKRO or Narcossist!”
From Sonic Router Blog “Canadian producer Hexadecibel, hereby shortened to 4 letters to represent each syllable of his full moniker, who first appeared on Echodub’s freebie compilation ‘Anechoic Chamber’ is at the helm of Manchester’s Mindset label’s newest plate; and over the course of the three tracks on offer, he really does manage to paint a perplexingly unique and distinctively old school style. The A side ‘Prism’ feels like it owes a debt of gratitude to the Dutch school of production with crystal clean drum lines and a smattering of those fluent touches of synth colour a-la 2562, with HXDB letting the ethereal patches of jagged euphoria meld into the harsher bass stabs that dissolve after half a bar. Its swagger is simple, even a little minimal in terms of HXDB letting each sound breathe, but the charm of it really does lie in that snare that seems to bubble and pop as much as it snaps. ‘Macro Modular’ and its accompanying track on the flip, ‘Showdown At The Cinema,’ however display a penchant for a more twisted b-line (likened by Boomkat to the minimal patterns of dBridge) with the former letting the focus lie on the subtle panning on the tail end of the uplifting bass loop before the cut up drums of the halfway point signal something a little more danceable. Even when HXDB cuts loose he still keeps the restraint present and correct, mixing up the bass patterns and only cranking up the resonance a few times to get that liquid pursing “wow” sound. ‘Showdown At The Cinema’ is probably the stand out cut though, with the introduction of a heavily delayed vocal to what sounds like a reversed and processed guitar loop, monumental strings and a toy piano that squeals joyfully for throughout its limited appearance. ‘Showdown…’’s real moment in the sun though is when all of the above elements come to pass layered atop the grumpy, distortion frayed bassline, as HXDB stutters out the groove with a few of those amen style hi hat shuffles.”
From Uptown Records: “HXDB TURN IN A BLINDING TRIO OF TRACKS FOR MINDSET, THESE PEEPS BE ON FIYA RIGHT NOW YO!”
From Hardwax.com “Fine IDM & UK hardcore roots house compatible UK garage/dubstep cuts”
From Just the Bassics Blog “HxdB – A1: Prism B1: Marco Modular B2: Showdown at the cinema In Just the Bassics, we love our spiritual Dubstep. Well, generally any kind of spiritual/emotive music fits perfectly in our playlists, but make it Dubstep or DnB and it jumps immediately to the top of the queue. Recently, when browsing Redeye Records I came across this record and the preview made it look very promising, so, since I was needing to refresh my Dubstep library (and, on a personal note here, since it’s been so f*cking hard to find tracks that aren’t just an amalgamation of noisy, over-the-top filthy basslines with beats that are too worked out…maybe it’s because I’m not looking in the right places or I’m just too picky when it comes to dubstep), it went straight to the ’shopping cart’. Turns out that this record is even better that what I was expecting, something that hasn’t happened in a while, now that I think about it. Back to the EP. The 3 tracks were produced by HdxB (Hexadecibel), a 31 year old producer from Vancouver, Canada and released on Mindset Recordings. The sixth release on this label are these tracks that could be easily compared to the spiritual-stepping vibe you can get from producers such as dBridge or Instra:mental. Simple beats that work perfectly, supported by a deep, crystal clear synth and sub bass, along with many different ‘ear-candy’, spacey sound fx’s, such as a simple arpeggiator that emerges to the surface here and there. Or just a something that, as I like to describe it, sounds like violin strings being absorbed and twisted into some sort of vortex, creating a hypnotizing effect that seems to put you in a state of trance. Either that, or I need to stop smoking. Either way, this piece of quality dubstep is something you MUST get your hands in, as soon as possible. No excuses. Get your bum out of the chair and go and get this to the nearest record shop you can find. Or do it online, if you must, just get the record. It’s good to start the rave with; it’s great to play on that sleazy bar, with ambient lights and a relaxed atmosphere; it’s awesome to finish the night with when you get home knackered, with a numb brain and body after a very satisfying rave or just to chill and enjoy during any time of the day, really. In case you need some sort of preview, there’s nothing like good’ol Soundcloud…”
EDUB010 / Digital / HxdB EP
Echodub is proud to present HxdB on our tenth digital release. Sev takes the reins for an incredible display of sounds from techno-infused breakbeat to deep rooted dubstep. Not content with providing you three originals, he also steps up with a remix of Kwality’s Grace. This EP is a fine example of what HxdB is capable of and why Echodub is delighted to count him among our members!
Buy it @ JUNO
DUBKRAFT018MP3 / Digital / HxdB – The Remixes EP
One of Canada’s rising stars in the world of future garage and 2steppy beats, HxdB, delivers here a special collection of remixes he made for a few of the coolest up and coming producers in his AIM buddy list. Moody but sweet, techy but warm, futuristic but full of classic elements, the release is not a collection of antagonisms though, but rather a flowing and musical piece of anticipation for what dubstep/uk garage may evolve into
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