kode 9/hyperdub s/d and c/d

thought i might as well make this thread as the (stupidly titled) hyperdub anniversary album 5: Five Years Of Low End Contagion is about to be released. the cd of new stuff looks okay i suppose, though that sort of thing is usually always a bad idea imo - cant really compare with a cd of certified sort-of-classics, plus half the tracks seem a bit so-so, and just a bit 'different' but not really that great. still, im sure itll get loads of great writeups just for being a bit left of centre when it comes to garage/dubstep/grime etc. inevitably the 2nd cd looks the best - it seems to have ignored all the tracks i dont really like from hyperdub.

do you have a tracklist? i can't find one.

CD1:
01. King Midas Sound - Meltdown
02. Kode9 & The Spaceape - Time Patrol (ft. Cha Cha)
03. Darkstar - Aidy's Girl's A Computer
04. Samiyam - Roller Skates
05. Flying Lotus - Disco Balls
06. Black Chow - Purple Smoke
07. Burial - Fostercare
08. Cooly G - Weekend Fly
09. Zomby - Tarantula
10. Martyn - Mega Drive Generation
11. LV - Turn Away (ft. Dandelion)
12. Mala - Level Nine
13. LD - Shake It
14. Quarta 330 - Bleeps From Outer Space
15. Ikonika - Sahara Michael
16. Joker & Ginz - Stash

CD2:
01. Kode9 - 9 Samurai
02. Burial - South London Boroughs
03. Kode9 & LD - Bad
04. The Bug - Money Honey Remix (ft. Warrior Queen)
05. LV - Globetrotting (ft. Erol Bellot)
06. Burial - Distant Lights
07. Kode9 & the Spaceape - Ghost Town
08. Kode9 & the Spaceape - Fukkaz
09. Samiyam - Return
10. Darkstar - Need You
11. Zomby - Spliff Dub (Rustie Remix)
12. Ikonika - Please
13. Zomby - Kaliko
14. 2000F & J Kamata - You Don't Know What Love Is
15. Joker - Digidesign
16. Kode9 - 9 Samurai (Quarta 330 Remix)

no skeng though.

"sahara michael" is really excellent

as is ikonika's imminent smuck/we could be ikons single on hyperdub

"no skeng though"

It's on London Zoo and the Kode9 remix is meh so I'm not missing it.

Anyway the label is pretty obv classic. The worst complaint I can think is that some of it feels kind of minor, but other than Deep Medi this is pretty clearly the best and most diverse post-dubstep (or whatever we want to call this stuff) label.

I really like the skeng kode9 remix!

Is this the first time Ghost Town has actually been released?

Yup and the first non-mp3 release for "Fukkaz" too.

surprised at how much of that I know and love!

2nd half of disc2 is like my running playlist

Well I definately think that 'Black Sun' is the underrated track of the year so far. And the Skeng remix is great.

Okay meh was too strong, but I don't feel like it really improves on the original. Anyway let's not get too distracted here. The selections on disc 2 are pretty choice.

Off the top of my head..these are the ones that stand out the most to be one way or the other.

Search: Cooly G - Narst / Love Dub, Joker/2000F & J Kamalta - Digidesign/You Don't Know What Love is, Burial - South London Boroughs, LD - Traumatic Times / Woodblock

Destroy: The Quarta split 12 from last year, the Bug, King Midas Sound, sorta dud on the Zomby EP.

Really dig the label...pretty classic.

The Zomby EP falls flat for me. Interesting, but it doesn't move me and his material in that vein is really grating to me. I guess it should be telling that his hardcore album is my favorite thing from him.

The Kode9 stuff is hit and miss as well, but search out 9 Samurai, Kingstown, and Backwards.

Like what I've heard from the anniversary release as well..!

http://www.spannered.org/music/1113/

ha i found this old kode 9 interview - pretty funny. weird to hear him not say anything too compilimentary about idm cos i always thought a lot of what kode does is on that sort of 'progressive' tip, not idm really know, but def some of the same thought processes, and well sounds too, at times.

good interview.

more for k9's answers than the questions.

questions dont really matter so much imo as long as they get good answers.

his ukg mix for xlr8r is pretty fucking great.

Haven't been able to find the new compilation in stores yet. It's been out a week or so. Anyone else having luck? Or did you all just download this a month ago?

I haven't seen it either. Or the new Shackleton on Perlon for that matter.

out next week

saw both this weekend in shop... I think. Deliberated on both Shackleton and Hyperdub comp and ended leaving both.

some of the new tracks on the hyperdub comp are astonishingly great - darkstar, zomby, ikonika and joker & ginz in partic. fav bit might be when "stash" suddenly lurches into those staccato rave synths ubiquitised by "the way i are" - so unexpected and so perfect

indeed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jIOLyh6CnU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipA07R9ZinQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMCOEJsnhDY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie5y3M5mgmA

and while we're on the subject of hyperdub, subeena's new single (itunes this week) is pretty special too - she's such an incredibly versatile producer. if the likes of ikonika and joker are constantly refining a distinct and unique sound every time out, subeena's doing grimy beats one minute, techno which sounds like old future sound of london the next (the rather incredible "boksd") and now this gorgeous dubstep-soul. "if only glaciers could bleed..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5Tbmb1UEyg

planet mu has really turned into a great label

^^^ OTM although I still haven't heard the Danjah album. Hoping rumored 0=0 record finally happens as well.

i can make a better danjah album than that one (seriously lol), cool as it is to see him get the album treatment. but yeah, their 12s are generally all just really good at the mo.

why is it whenever people cover kode 9, they feel it necessary to approximate his hifalutin style (eg - dubstep allstars 3 sleevenotes)? i swear this review is almost as long as the book must be -
http://thequietus.com/articles/03493-hyperdub-2010-a-state-of-the-bass-nation-address

And what's wrong with my DSA3 sleevenotes fella?

i'm not sure that quietus piece is melissa approximating kode9's style as how melissa always writes

Ha ha. And that'd only be a fair point about us if we hadn't already covered K9 and Hyperdub in a million different styles, none of them particularly high falutin'.

XP: that was directed at the original poster btw.

ha. theres nothing wrong with the das3 sleevenotes, they just made me think of something kode 9 would write. nice bit of steve goodman-channelling. perhaps i shouldnt have lumped those in with the quietus piece, which is a diff story. ill read it in full one day.

that kodowo type of writing is amusing at times though. not sure what kode9s book is like but its a hard thing to pull it off.

What I didnt understand is why Melissa felt the need to indirect Simon Reynolds in the first few paragraphs: surely there's enough to be said about Kode's book?

What does the verb 'indirect' mean in this context? To copy, to paraphrase, to rip off, to channel the spirit of . . .

She's not doing any of those things anyway.

xpost - everyone takes jabs at grimey simey these days dont they. a wire/fact writer whose name i cant remember right now seems to love to make little comments about him in his work. tbh, reynolds isnt really otm that much these days but hes always worth reading. was surprised kode 9 (to keep this thread from turning into another reynolds derail) took a shot at him on twitter. bit immature and pointless tbh.

indirect is a expression from grime conflicts.

"a send" = a named insult directed at someone.

"indirect" = bars clearly written about someone in particular but not named.

Titchy: "surprised kode 9 (to keep this thread from turning into another reynolds derail) took a shot at him on twitter. bit immature and pointless tbh."

As I remember, that followed a series of immature and pointless posts by Reynolds about Hyperdub and IDM, and the names of joker and cooly g not being nuum enough for him.

Immature, pointless, snide cheap shots are no longer the monopoly of music journalists, bloggers like Reynolds and Prancehall, or nerds on forums. Now everyone's got a gun.

Joe Muggs is kind of tedious in his need to 'send' and 'indirect' at Reynolds in everything he writes though.

Apologies. I'm useless at slang used after 1988.

"Joe Muggs is kind of tedious in his need to 'send' and 'indirect' at Reynolds in everything he writes though."

everyone wants to be the (self-promoting) big man about (nuum) campus. i forgot about that thing about the names. cooly g sounded sufficiently old-school i thought. i suppose one stupid post/blog merits another appropriately dumb riposte (even if i did think kode 9 for whatever reason, even if just a professional one, knew better).

i thought the initial 'indirect' ms bradshaw fired was more at k-punk following on from the murking soca aerobics, post'nuum talk, fallout, episode 8.

still not really feeling later kode9 selections/productions, like his old stuff better than his new stuff, prefer hotflush to hyperdub and think zomby, ikonika and cooly g are overrated. burial seems to be getting better though. fostercare is another of my tunes of the year.

be keen on reading the book, hoping to see some sth hemisphere polynesian war chants as sonic fear type theory in there. possibly commenting on how our innate sense of rhythm has been colonised and commodified as part of some 'brown pacific' connection comparative to the 'black atlantic' ?

we (speaking from personal experience) in the south tend to be looked on as bit backwards and uppity by the northern tribes elite though. maybe from a cursory glance at a superficial level our anomalous nature renders us indecipherable. we just dont fit the mould being made up there anymore but then again did we ever. noble savages...nah more like savage nobles ?

perhaps its time i conducted more hellishly scientific experiments and turned the smoking black revisionist mirror back on me instead of reflecting it onto others :)

As I remember, that followed a series of immature and pointless posts by Reynolds about Hyperdub and IDM, and the names of joker and cooly g not being nuum enough for him.

LOL at anyone getting butthurt over someone saying Hyperdub is like IDM (true about 50% of the time, and not even an insult) and the claim that "crazy cousinz" sounds more obviously like an 'ardkore moniker than "cooly g" which sounds more like an 'ardkore moniker than other stuff (i.e. his point is that "cooly g" and "joker" are nuum enough).

These are the same kinds of points dude has been making for like 12 years and people only get worked up now because they're terrified that dude might have an opinion that contradicts there's w/r/t a concept he came up with (even though it's obv his position has been consistent all along). I'm sure people were probably having the same reactions back in 1998 when he made similar observations vis a vis Optical vs Dem 2.

It's kinda amusing that an article praising the hyperdub theoretical approach would take oblique shots at k-punk given k-punk actually wrote early hyperdub/ccru articles and their whole mode/style/objective is basically 100% consistent. Praising "Hyperdub" as a theoretical proposition but dissing K-Punk on the grounds of "the primacy of music over theory" rather miscasts any genuinely meaningful debate w/r/t the relationship between music and theory - a debate w/r/t which, to be sure, I'd probably take the non-k-punk side!

Haven't read the new book obv. I always liked the actual music writing on the original Hyperdub website but all the CCRU-ish stuff I read really fell flat for me, all that stuff about techstep and vietnam and post-human hyper-capitalism (both K-Punk 101 and Kode9 101) actually narrowing rather than expanding the meaning of the music under examination by reducing it to a couple of reflexive, unexamined talking-points - jungle as future-paranoia etc. etc. Not really "the primacy of music over theory" at all.

Maybe Bradshaw simply means "I think Bristolian post-dubstep slash actual Hyperdub records are at least as exciting as jungle and k-punk doesn't", which really means "the primacy of disagreements re the worth of individual records over theoretical explanations for how music works".

In which case perhaps she should frame it as "the primacy of allegiance over theory".

"might contradict theirs", also.

My New Year's Resolution is to not follow any more moronic music critic snipe fests. Or to read anything by or about or (in)directed @ Simon Reynolds. Which amounts to the same thing.

basically most nuum commentators/participants (well the ones that care about the nuum or know about it, ie kode 9 and co) are upset SR doesnt like funky or wonky and need his validation but arent getting it so are a bit peeved. not sure why they care what he thinks quite so much. must be some oedipal thing.

anyway, back to hyperdub and the 'virus'.

http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/143/l_dbf738f20d074b6c8ea72807088393f4.jpg

NEWS: Kode9 DJ KiCKS Tracklisting Announced

Thanks to the invention of twitter it seems nothing is sacred, and therefore half the world (the interested 50% anyway) will be aware of the fact that Kode9 is helming a DJ KiCKS mix for the !K7 label later on this summer.

What couldn't be properly conveyed in 140 characters though, is the complete tracklist:

Kode9 - DJ KiCKS

1. Lone - Once In A While
2. Aardvarck - Revo
3. Kode9 - Blood Orange
4. Kode9 - You Don't Wash (DJ-Kicks exclsuive)
5. Cooly G - Phat Si
6. Ill Blu - Bellion
7. Ikonika - Heston
8. Scratcha DVA - Jelly Roll
9. Mr Mageeka - Different Lekstrix
10. Grievous Angel - Move Down Low
11. Sticky feat. Natalie Storm - Look Pon Me
12. Sticky - Jumeirah Riddim Sequel
13. Mujava - Pleaze Mugwanti
14. DVA - Natty
15. Aardvaarck - Re Spoken (Nubian Mindz Released Mix)
16. Morgan Zarate feat. Sarah Ann Webb - M.A.B.
17. Rozzi Daime - Dirty Illusions
18. Zomby - Spiralz
19. Kode9 - It
20. J*DaVeY - Mr. Mister
21. Digital Mystikz - 2 Much Chat
22. Terror Danjah - Stiff
23. Digital Mystikz - Mountain Dread March
24. Zomby - Godzilla
25. Digital Mystikz - Mountain Dread March (Reprise)
26. Addison Groove - Footcrab
27. Kode9 vs. LD - Bad
28. Maddslinky - Cargo
29. Ramadanman - Work Them
30. Terror Danjah - Bruzin (VIP)
31. The Bug - Run (feat. Flo Dan)

Note: Kode's 'You Don't Wash Dub' is exclusive to the compilation.
Out: 21st June 2010.

im not sure about the recent hypedub bits. kyle hall sounds like, idk, lush chilled out techno.

Another prime choice for the actually awful album covers thread.

That track list looks very promising. "Different Lekstrix" is a TUNE as all know.

oh yeah that reminds me, How fuckin good is the latest scuba album ???....VERY !!!

...and how shit does it make ikonika's album look. Goes without saying.

do a lot of people think ikonikas album is not that good? i thought it was just me. most people seem to be wetting themselves over it i thought.

not that i wanna hear scuba either. i fear that album will be blindingly boring.

kode 9 mix looks good however.

you don't wash (dub): http://www.kode9-djkicks.com/exclusive/

http://www.factmag.com/2010/06/07/fact-mix-156-kode9/

Tracklist:
1. Soundman & Don Lloyde with Elizabeth Troy – Greater Love
2. Lemon D – Manhatten Melody
3. Dope Style – You Must Think First
4. Nut Nut – Special Dedication
5. Undercover Agent – Oh Gosh
6. DJ SS – MA2 remix
7. 12-10 Series Mk 1 – All that Jazz
8. L Double featuring Bassman – Da Base too Dark
9. Urban Jungle – Back in the Daze
10. Sacred – Kall the Kops
11. Fusion Forum – Vintage Keys
12. Maldini – Def Roll
13. Bad Influence feat. DJ Rush Puppie – Time & Time

^ not very dubstep at all. is mostly the kind of dnb that i don't like, the kind with wailing female vocals.

5. Undercover Agent – Oh Gosh

good times

Nice mix. I like almost every one of those tracks.

that jungle mix is just 10/10.

interesting interview with kode on blackdowns blog, even if id have liked to have heard more from kode rather than a theory battle.

dunno if i'd call it a battle titchy...more like a ritual cockslapping

BTW you might be surprised by the scuba album. Its wayyyyyy better and more diverse than his last one. Though i'd like to hear him work with some decent vocalists.

so whats with the breakbeat revival going on ?...and don't no one invoke the ouroboros 'ardkore nuum nonsense either :)

lol@cockslapping

true, it is more like a dissensus lovefest

@beatboydamager

How you doing pollywog/dubmugga ?

You never did recover from getting banned from dubstepforum and then Kode9 humiliating you on dissensus for calling you a forum trolling tosser did you lol?

Haven't you changed that scratched 'breakstep' record yet?

heh...if you want an autograph just ask

dont nneedd atogrpH. mi putor stil has yo tuunz. lulz.

terror danjah album sounds alllllright. kinda bored of him now though. and the songs with vocalists are just shit. but a few good instros.

guys I have a slightly irrational love of King Midas Sound

i have a rational love of KMS

I wish I could see them live again and pay more attention this time. I had been talking with a friendly brit who would not stop ranting about what sort of act works well live, etc. and was spending more time distracting me than I would have liked.

hyperdub-related: liking what i've heard so far from this mixtape for dummy magazine, which was compiled by king-midas-sound's kiki hitomi.

she also has a great site devoted to her artwork.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIMQjLuG0OY

choon

http://boomkat.com/vinyl/1056633-audint-kode9-toby-heys-martial-hauntology?utm_campaign=1056633-audint-kode9-toby-heys-martial-hauntology&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=Embed+Widget

never saw this until looking at simon reynolds blog, looks like its been out since july!

Martial Hauntology' is the groundbreaking first release on AUDiNT Records - the sonic research cell staffed by Toby Heys and Steve Goodman (Kode 9) engaged in 3rd Ear Research. The pair have both independently worked in this field - Goodman via Hyperdub, the autonomous CCRU unit and his 'Sonic Warfare' book; Heys thru his audio-visual praxis and as research fellow at Manchester Uni. They were both recruited by AUDiNT in 2008 to investigate the properties of newly emergent super-directional speakers when coupled with infrasonic devices. Four years in the making, 'Martial Hauntology' collates that research for the first time, as well as outlining the history of AUDINT itself, offering a tortuous, hyperstitional account of frequency-based phenomenon in military and civilian spheres over the preceding 70 years. It explores the involvement of Alan Turing and The Ghost Army's pioneering use of 3 deck mixes in World War 2, thru the chopper-mounted loud-speaker terror of the US army's Wandering Soul campaign in Vietnam, to the deployment of High Frequencies as "teen repellants”, the military applications of muzak and the current use of hyper-directional LRAD speakers in Iraq.

new album cover looks like the london underground sign -

http://factmag-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Nothing_Packshot_2.jpg

or like something 'futuristic' from the 90s

4000 pixels square!

(i've seen one that was 7500 pixels square, i could see 5% of it on my monitor)

also makes me think of a sign for some corporate office

maybe like a security company

eg -

http://www.creativeglass.co.uk/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_colourbox/public/galleryimage/Glass%20Reception%20Signage%20-%20Odyssey%20Systems.JPG?itok=ITgBrgDO

amazing album though, i think it is his best.

This is good news, I generally really like his productions.

Ugh, Anglo dudes that put accented letters in their name (as if it's pronounced exactly the same, but now has sexy graphic ornamentation) are the fucking worst. I urge people to pronounce his name "Keud 9" until he learns.

i see it more as a zero, echoing the album name. some fonts have a slash through the zero to differentiate it from a capital o.

pretty sure it's a zero/null

but being scottish, he really has pronounced it "keud" when I've seen him speak

Ugh, Anglo dudes that put accented letters in their name (as if it's pronounced exactly the same, but now has sexy graphic ornamentation) are the fucking worst. I urge people to pronounce his name "Keud 9" until he learns.

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real talk, someone who says this is actually the fucking worst.

Sørry brø

ultimately it's ok that you're a douchebag

now tell us how to pronounce techno dude Rødhåd's name

Isn't it deliberately supposed to sound like "red-head", because he has red hair?

motörhead and mötley crüe noted umlaut abusers

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