Track List:
1. Stephen Marley – Traffic Jam – Sub Swara Remix
2. Fugazi – Waiting Room – Sub Swara Remix
3. Sub Swara’s 808-Wall Riddim vs. Busta Rhymes – Woo-hah! Got You All in Check
4. Mos Def – Quiet Dog (Sub Swara Remix)
5. Balkan Beat Box – Balcumbia (Sub Swara Remix) vs. Alozade – Surf the Volume
6. Sub Swara’s Shambhala Riddim vs. Drake – Over
7. Sub Swara’s Killa Soundboy Rmx Riddim vs. Missy Elliot – Lose Control

As we’re back in town from a few crazy weeks of shows, from Hawaii to NYC to Colorado to Northern California– I figured now was as good a time as ever to share some of the wicked music that’s come our way, especially since we missed the May podcast.  Too much travel!

and thus I offer this quick jaunt through some summery vibes,starting with Pariah’s “Detroit Falls,” which has been rocking our world so much that it was time to represent; it moves into a cut from our West coast bredren Heyoka’s new record, Cosmic Boogie.  Up next is the Balkan/Cumbia/Israeli/Brooklynite jam “Balkumbia” from Balkan Beat Box, followed by our World Cup-approved (!) remix.  Grab it for free here at the website!

grab it from itunes HERE, or any web browser HERE

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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).

if you’re not already subscribed to the podcast, you can nab it from itunes, or just open it in your browser.

for the audiophilic out there, you can also grab it in pristine .aiff format:

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!

Last week, Haj, Dhruva and I found ourselves in that very odd position of opening a magazine, looking at a picture of yourselves, and reading your own words back to yourself. It was all very Nabokov-esque, a bit narcissistic– but hey! Wait a minute! We’ve got work to do!

That work would be Dhruva & I dj’ing the launch party of Fader issue #66. We had a blast, lots of friends and family came out to boogie down, and we ran a host of material from the new album. check out some pix, courtesy of the fantastic Hannah Thiem.

There’s some great music highlighted in the issue; besides our current crush-du-jour Nicki Minaj, Balearic dubstep don Joy Orbison is featured as well. His tune “Hyph Mngo” was a mainstay of our sets in 2009 (making us pretty much the same as every other DJ, ever, since time began)… his new one, “So Derobe,” is mashed into our remix of Mochipet’s “Complex Players” in the podcast that accompanies the magazine issue.

“Complex Players” is one of our favorite remixes from last year… dozens and dozens of tracks of live brazilian percussion layered against zappy arpeggio’s and a funky, broken riddim. Much to our delight, it really set the room off at the release party… further proof that NYC can and will get down to fresh sounds. If you like it, you can find it here.

and of course, the free PDF of the entire issue lives here. Our little nugget on the state of Sub Swara lives on page 31 in the pdf; page 58 in the hardcopy. Thanks again to Julianne Escobedo Shepherd for making it happen.

Finally, we’re gearing up for manymanymanymanyMANY upcoming shows. Our voltronic, 3-way force converges on Austin for SxSW on 3/20 at the Barcelona, as part of the Surefire Agency’s showcase. We’re alongside Lazersword (who appeared at last year’s Sub City Sessions in NYC), our BK bredren Kotchy, Plastician, France’s Debruit, and man-of-the-hour, Eskmo. After that, we’ve got many many MANY shows across North America: we start with New Orleans, and will find ourselves in Colorado, Philadelphia, NYC, and Canada (Eastern & Western) before a very busy FESTIVAL SEASON starts– stay locked!!

Photo by Alex Welsh (Fader Issue 66)