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

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!

For our Xth podcast, I’m moving 144bpm in the out-lane on a layered globalist meander, pushing against the outer edges of what dubstep may or may not be. What was the question?

Regardless, an amalgamation of answers: A plaintive Piazzolla swell set against a swampy Illum Sphere beat …hints of Moderat and a classic Sub Swara break… …pressure builds and we hit full cruising altitude as Chasing Shadows unleashes Amirah. The captain says you are now free to move about the cabin.

Tracklisting/Collage elements:

RIcochet- Duo De Amor Astor Piazzolla Remixed
Illum Sphere- Psycho Long Live The Plan
Moderat- No. 22 Moderat (Deluxe Version)
Sub Swara- Constructing The Absence Coup D’ Yah
Chasing Shadows- Amirah Ill/Amirah
Ill.Gates and Meesha- Irma Vep (Trill Bass Remix) Irma Vep
Loops Haunt- Impact Omnihammer
Spystep- Portomental (Ribotto Remix) MalLabel Music
Douster- Ladinian Triassic Ep
Filastine- Desordenador (live & feat. Amélie Bouard) Extra Dirty Bomb
DJ Madd- Better With You (Akira Kiteshi Mix)
Skint and Demoralised- Red Lipstick (Sub Swara Remix)
Virtual Boy- Girl Born Star How Long Does It Take To Get To Space? Ep
David Starfire- Cobra (Sub Swara Remix)
Bird Of Prey- Atrium
DJ Madd- Someone (Breakage Unspecified Rmx)
RDubz- This Way Fears and Feelings Ep
Sub Swara- Koli Stance (David Starfire Rmx)
Antiserum and DJ G- Bulgarian Funk Around The World Vol. 3
Sub Swara- Koli Stance (Dov Remix)
Sub Swara- Backwater Coup d’Yah
Bersa Discos- Bombon Asesino

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And check the evolution– we had Hired Gun flipping vox in one of the first vids, percussion recorded in India in the 2nd, and then the 2 get put together in the 3rd. Always a blast melding new sounds into newer songs.

We’ve got a bunch of road gigs coming up in the next few weeks, including Texas for SxSW, Eastern Canada, Western Canada, and we’re developing some NYC dates as well– love the hometown See you soon!

• Artist: Sub Swara
• Tour: Sub Swara w/EOTO Tour 2009
• Date: Friday, October 9th 2009
• Time: 11:00pm
• City: Sub Swara in Madison
• Venue: Sub Swara w/EOTO @ High Noon Saloon
• Country: US
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Man o MAN was i psyched to be back in Madison! Back when I lived in St. Louis, we’d play Madison a few times a year, and they were always off-the-rails good times; i remember getting woken up out of a too-partied-out slumber to dance the cha-cha at a Democratic Socialist rent party and then falling promtly back asleep.

After an amazing radio soundtrack leaving MPLS and “japanese” lunch at a food court at a mall in the exurbs, Dhruva and I rolled into Madison with just enough time to pass through Guitar Center– because, while i may have remembered the new pads, cables, stands, and cases, i forgot DRUMSTICKS. #drummerfail. The High Noon Saloon had that great Midwestern Venue vibe in which you feel like, yeah, the show could be amazing, or the night could end with someone we don’t know bailing us out of jail. Either way’s cool with Sub Swara, you know…

(btw check our man @PhilMoney in the middle)

Nasty Nate warmed up the crowd with some heavy-hitting electro, and as we took the stage, it was pretty clear that the heads in the room were ready to dance. No pretense, very little of folks staring each other up and down… the dance space to be occupied was intense and we were ready for the challenge. We brought our DJ table up to the edge of the stage, as close as possible to the audience– in full on hi-five/chestbump range, truth be told.

I love gigs like this, where the divide between performer and audience is physically gone but we’re all vibing off each other. We had some ghosts in the machine for this one– ableton deciding to do weird things, glitches— but the audience was with us, sang along to our remix of “Waiting Room,” offered some karate chops and pogo-ing during “Glitterstep,” and got their hands in the air for Mochipet’s relick of our tune “Hi Fidelity”… don’t believe me?

Even though we couldn’t buy any ROOMBEER that night, we got the sleep of the just knowing that this is how it goes down!

• Artist: Sub Swara
• Tour: Sub Swara w/EOTO Tour 2009
• Date: Thursday, October 8th 2009
• Time: 11:00pm
• City: Sub Swara in Minneapolis
• Venue: Sub Swara w/EOTO @ The Cabooze
• Country: US
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Yes yes y’all, the picture speaks a thousand words (though sadly none on our surprisingly-peppy rental Prius). Dhruva and I (Dave) recently did 3 shows across the Midwest with EOTO, featuring Jason and Travis from the String Cheese Incident on everything from Ableton Live to bongos to live drumset to synths to live edits via lemur. I gotta tell ya, i’ve played drums for almost 30 years and NOTHING i’ve seen comes close to Jason freaking out a room playing drumset, djembe, and Lemur.

So yes, completely next-level steez from our EOTO bredren. Dhruva and I arrived in Minneapolis slightly worse for the wear, courtesy of a tabla case with NO WHEELS and an almost-missed flight, but we were raring to go follwing the warm reception at the Cabooze and the really positive energy coming from Jason, Travis, and Chris, their homme du merch.

Our set was a rollicking affair, starting with some Sub Swara originals getting the live digi-dub treatment, going through some cumbia, ragga, soca and glitchy hiphop on up to dubstep, kuduro and points beyond with fresh heat from Joker, FSTZ, Octa Push and other bredren causing serious damage. We’ve recently added some live electronic percussion elements alongside the tabla, and were in a cavalier mood to just lay it all out– it must’ve worked because 10 minutes in, i looked up and the Minneapolis massive were HAVING it. MPLS crew, especially @mikethe2600king– we came in with our hearts on our sleeves and you guys threw down with us and then some. respect!

EOTO tore the roof off the club; they slinked through genres with real attitude, whipping the kinds into a frenzy, making it look like the cover of the first Youth of Today record. Amazing how the confluence of acoustic and electric is still so invigorating, and how dubstep is STILL the freshest thing. After a few hours rest and the NY times podcast (yes… nerd crew in effect), we packed it all up into our lil’ hybrid and pointed ourselves southwest towards Wisconsin…