[Strange Fruit]

After listening to the Switch and Sinden Fabric mix I fell in love with the track 'Strange Fruit' by Zomby. Zomby creates experimentally rave inspired minimal house with over laying arpeggios, melodies and a beautiful use of delay. The track 'Strange Fruit' conjures up images of evil scientist labs, zombies and all things dark. Of course the name 'Strange Fruit' maybe a reference to a darker times in American history but that might be me reading too much into it. Have a listen to the tune and make your own mind up.

[The United States of Drum 'n' Bass]

I heard recently that Barack Obama is in fact a massive raver - whether or not this is true or not remins to be seen, but I reckon he's in to better music than George W. In commemoration of Obama's potential awesomeness here is a mix of quality D'nB to watch out for in 2009 mixed flawlessly on 3 decks by my man in Georgia - DJ Culprit...

Tracklist

Artificial Intelligence - Days Of Rage

Xample & Lomax - Contra

Phace - Cold Champagne

Subterra - Steppaholic

Lynx Vs Hellrazor - Shady Pastimes

Calibre - New Cons

Break - Destiny Comes Ringing

Break - Is This What You Want?

Noisia - Stigma

Chase & Status - Smash TV

Noisia - Crank

Icicle - Infectious Funk

Ed Rush & Optical - Pacman (The Upbeats Remix)

Marcus Intalex - Instrumental (For Change)

Spectrasoul - Alibi

Spectrasoul - Peninsula

Shy FX - Plastic Soul - (D-Bridge Metal Soul Remix)

Peshay - Don't Think About Me

Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar (Brookes Brothers Remix)

Sonic - Jigsaw

J Majik & Wickaman - Space Invader '08

D.Kay - Forgive Myself (Illskillz Remix)

Kid Cudi Vs Crookers - Day & Nite (TC Remix)

Sigma - Masai

Gridlok - Downer

Break - Lead The Way

Digital & Spirit - Phantom Force (T Power '07 Remix)

Syncopix - Fade Away (Commix Remix)

Commix - Underwater Scene

[Ghost's and Dead Mice]

Well I don't know who's band wagon I'm jumping on here but Deadmau5 is an electro house producer from Canada that I was first introduced to by a monitor speaker salesman, but was happily reminded of last night when listening to the radio. His debut album 'Random Album Title' is an interesting progressive house mix, but the best tune isn't to be found on it. The single 'Ghost's and Stuff' ticks all the right boxes for me with it gritty compressed bass line, organ synth and building strings that could be mistaken as the lost track from Justice's last album. Maybe this is why I like it, its familiarity, is this a bad thing? That said it is a well produce track and I look forward to hearing what Mr Deadmau5 does next.