Sub Swara Podcast 009

…And we’re back! With Podcasts 009, that is, brought to you this time by yours truly (Dhruva).  The track list is below and this one is all about some fresh, new forward hip hop, dancehall and dubstep leanings (not too surprising given that that’s the way we tend to lean) from some of our favorite producers around the globe.

You can get the podcast via Feedburner, iTunes or if you’re of the audiophile sort, you can download the podcast in full res audio below.

Sub Swara Video Blog # 3 – India Studio Sessions

This installment’s coming from the subcontinent where I (Dhruva) got into the studio to craft some of our sound pallet for album #2 – check out the video below. I worked with a couple of great percussionists who do sessions with AR Rahman (of Slumdog Millionaire fame) and recorded them on some sick instruments that aren’t often heard, like bass dholak (wow, ridiculous sub on that one), and folk drums like nagara and ghat singhari (clay pot with a leather skin on top for that super modulating wuump wuump kinda vibe).

So the way it works is we basically go into the studio with a grip of track sketches and then get the session players to record on them with some specific direction for the phrasing and dynamics. Then we move on to slicing, dicing and shaping the elements and build them into the fabric of our tracks. The process is always a blast and we’ll keep you posted on the progress from the labs.

Sub Swara Back on the Road in 2010

So we’ve been on a bit of a self imposed hiatus (although Dave rocked out a few shows while on his recent trip to India) to work on our new album but we’ll be hitting the road again come January. As for a few specifics, we’ll be in Boston, Montreal, NYC and a few other spots in Jaunary and February, SXSW and WMC in March, a big ol’ Canadian tour in April and then the summer festival season will be upon us (including Wakarusa in June).

Many more details coming soon but just wanted to throw a bone out there for all of those who have been asking.  And yes, we will be presenting a show in NYC next year (Sub City Sessions Part 2, now an annual endeavor as opposed to the originally envisioned quarterly event – sorry, we got too busy to put on multiple events a year, but we’ll be doing it big every time we do it, so keep a look out for news on that!)

Check out the ’shows’ space soon – all the updates will be there with the quickness…

Our Mochipet Remix is now out on Pre-release

So good things often come through in pairs, and in this case, our remix for Mochipet, ‘Complex Cumbia Dub‘, has just dropped right on the heels of our release of Mochi’s remix of Hi Fidelity on Coup d’Yah Remixes Volume 3. The track is out as a pre-release exclusive on Addictech and is part of a slew of remixes by great producers like Kraddy, Restiform Bodies, iLL.Gates and more. You can listen to the remix at the bottom of this post.

All the samba drums are live and rocked out by our man Sharmaji straight out of the Crown Heights studio. We saw a few sick batucada videos on youtube and decided that we had to weave that element into one of our productions so there you have it! The release will go worldwide on all digital retail outlets in February.

Listen to the remix:

Coup d’Yah Remixes Volume 3 is Here & Now!

Yes Yes! The third and final installment of remixes of our debut album, Coup d’Yah is now available exclusively here on our site (go to the music page to listen and pick it up). For this one we sent their material to some of our favorite artists from east and west coast USA to bridge the gaps between the bumpin’ dancefloor affair of Volume 1 and the intense dubstep pressure of Volume 2. This volume features David Starfire taking the Sub Swara 140 BPM anthem, Koli Stance, to a pounding tribal dubstep space with one of the most massive builds and drops you’ll ever hear, Daly City Records’ Mochipet twisting the original dark ragga vibe of Hi Fidelity into an agogo- and conga-laced soca banger, Sub Swara’s own Sharmaji dropping a throwback 94-style junglist vibe with a completely new perspective on Yeah (Ina Dravidian Bombstep), and Process Rebel kicking a sick future dancehall take on Banga.

Plus you can grab a free download of David Starfire’s remix here on the site for a limited time, so watcha’ waitin for?

Sub Swara Podcast 007 is Now Up

It’s that time of the month again – Sub Swara podcast time! For this installment Sharmaji takes the reigns and guides us through 35 minutes of morphing tempos and energy ranging from the deep to the ‘hands-up!’ and traversing all sorts of continental lines.  Of course, the mix is peppered with plenty of Sub Swara originals and remixes and also features one of the new remixes from Coup d’Yah Remixes Volume 3 (coming out real soon!), care of the one and only purple dino-bot, Daly City Records‘ Mochipet.

Check the tracklist below and get it here via itunes – Sub Swara Podcast 007: Sharmaji in the Mix

or, if you don’t use itunes, grab it straight from the RSS.
You can also download the podcast in ultra hi-res Apple Lossless Format below.

Tracklist

Our New Website is Live!

So at long last, we’ve launched an updated website! This one’s built on a blog platform so we can keep you up on the regular with what’s going on in our world, throw free music and swag your way (like the the free remix of Bassnectar’s Select Frequency that’s available on the page right now), and basically create a nice little one stop shop for all things Sub Swara for you. Also our brand new music and merch store is up and running (sorry for the crazy delay on this) and you can listen to a grip of tunes through the media player to the left and on the music pages. And now you can finally get the fly-as-hell Sub Swara t-shirts online.

Let us know what you think by dropping a comment and if you have any ideas on improvements, what’s working and what’s not, etc. we’d love to hear them!

Sub Swara at Fader Fort 10/24

Related show

• Artist: Sub Swara
• Date: Saturday, October 24th 2009
• Time: 1:00pm
• City: Sub Swara in New York, NY
• Venue: Fader Space – CMJ Music Marathon
• Country: US
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We’re playing at the Fader space this Saturday October 24. RSVP here