Dexpistols closes the mixtape with our tune and weaves the remix up and down through the tempos, injecting some interesting change-ups to our original version.

You can grab the mixtape free here:

Here’s Sub Swara’s remix of Balkan Beat Box’s ‘Balkumbia’. Download it for free below.

(And if you haven’t checked out the original, be sure to peep it out here).

And with spring and summer upon us, that means we’re on the road a whole lot so check the shows section for the latest.

We’re in Boulder at the Fox Theater with our pals, EOTO, this coming weekend and then we have a 3-city run through Western Canada the following weekend with shows along side great artists like Poirier, RSD (Rob Smith from Smith and Mighty), and more.

See ya in the sunshine!

…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.

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.

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…

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:

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