Sach O: Kode9 documents the Apocalypse
Sach O is all about listening to dystopian shit in 2011.
I'll hold back for my full review but you need Kode9 and the Spaceape's upcoming Black Sun. Universally ignored by a Hip-Hop underground, their 2006 debut Memories of the Future may have been the decade's best slice of Afrofuturist sci-fi since Deltron 3030 and to this day, it sounds utterly unique - an alternate vision of Dubstep that stands apart from everything else under that name. The new album drops a full 5 years later and takes it to the proverbial next level: hyper-kinetic percussion, raw vocals and just the occasional hint of pop - if your definition of pop privileges Tricky and Portishead over Bieber.
In the meantime, the usually elusive Kode9 has been on a publicity tear, delivering a BBC essential mix (with an oddly prescient Nate Dogg tribute) and dropping a new (old) version of 2009's Time Patrol, stripped down to the essence for the DJs and heads clamoring for raw beats. Since he's usually busy writing PHD dissertations on Sonic Warfare, running Dubstep's headiest label and dropping concept albums with Dub Poets (no EARL), it's easy to forget that Steve Goodman is a straight up badman behind the board with beats for days. As he says in this recent self-titled interview: he's got unreleased Dubstep to drive the crowds mental, he's just not really into that shit anymore. As long as he keeps pushing things further, that's fine by me. Tracklist for the mix after the jump.
Download: MP3: Kode9 - BBC Essential Mix (right click into new tab.) MP3: Time Patrol Dub Tracklist: Hype Wiliams — Your Girl Smells Chung When She Wears Dior – Hippos in Tanks Warren G — Regulate – Violator Ossie — Moves – Hyperdub Fhloston Paradigm — Chasing Rainbows – Saturn Never Sleeps Giorgio Moroder — The Wheel – Pye Records Attica Blues — What Do You Want (King Britt Remix) – Sony Kudu — Transit – Bitasweet Nubian Mindz — Future Past – 2000 Black A Guy Called Gerald — Finley’s Rainbox (4 Hero Remix) – Juice Box Kode9 — Green Sun – Hyperdub Kode9 + The Space Ape — Love is The Drug (feat. Cha Cha) – Hyperdub Funkystepz — Trouble – Hyperdub Kode9 — Black Sun (Partial Eclipse Mix) – Hyperdub Zed Bias — Basic Needs – Swamp 81 DJ Rampage — Deep Inside (Rama Re-edit) 2562 — Cheater – When in Doubt Karizma — Outta Control – Defected Ossie — Set The Tone – Hyperdub Ill Blu — Meltdown – Numbers Zed Bias — Stubborn Phase – Swamp 81 Funkystepz — Fuller – Hyperdub Hard House Banton — Sirens (Sami Sanchex Remix) – Dub Organizer Funk Bias — Last Forever – Swamp 81 Champion — Loose Control – Hardrive DJ Naughty — Firepower – Kicks And Snares Funkystepz — Hurricane Riddim – Hyperdub DJ Naughty — Gearshift – Kicks And Snares Devine Collective — House Girls Bok Bok — Look – NIght Slugs Kode9 + The Space Ape — OTherman – Hyperdub Riko — Woo Freestyle – Slaughter House Rydims Terror Danjah — Minimal Dub – Hyperdub L-Wiz — 442 Oz – Kapsize Addison Groove — Nautilus Andreya Triana — A Town Called Obsolete (Mala Remix) – Ninja Tune Dok — West Coast – Hyperdub Grain — Untitled Dok — West Coast VIP – Hyperdub Mala — Education – DMZ Terror Danjah — In The Biz – Aftershock Girl Unit — Wut – Night Slugs Mala — Bury The Boy – DMZ Gucci Mane — O Dog – Mosca Instrumental Remix Kode9 feat. Cha Cha — Time Patrol (Dub version) – Hyperdub Spooky — Spartan – Terror Danjah Morgan Zarate — Hookid – Hyperdub DJ Rashad — Itz not Rite – Planet Mu DJ Spinn — Lol – Planet Mu