We got some new dubstep-related stuff you should hear.

Crookers feat. Kelis - No Security

Tell me how long before you drop the bomb
before you turn it up
TURN IT UP
TURN IT UP
TURN IT UP

Just in case you didn’t know. Crookers from Milano team up with Kelis. There are not too many producers from Italy doing stuff like this that I know of. But Crookers seems to be doing it BIG.

Doctor P - Sweet Shop

Doctor P comes from UK and this is one of the dopest new dubstep tunes out there right now. That’s all I know…

HavocNdeeD - Dub Fi Dub

We’ve posted tracks by HavocNdeeD earlier (here and here), and here’s one more solid dubstep track by them. Their new Brown Note EP is out now.

Cumbiastep. Cherman, Argentinian dj living in Barcelona, takes things to the next level. Dubstep and cumbia meet over a lot of familiar and unfamiliar tracks. Just awesome. I especially recommend the “Marcha Tropical” for a good take on cumbiastep and “Let’s push things forward” in general.

Cumbia Mashup by cherman

Superpuesto by cherman

There’s no excuses my friend
Let’s Push Things Forward
- The Streets

Discovering Cherman was a courtesy of Generation Bass, superb blog (= definitely on my top 5).

Greetings from Madrid. Here city officials have decided to set up surveillance cameras in the barrio near by called Lavapiés. Everyone is not happy about this, and there’s a campaign going on against video surveillance: Un Barrio Feliz. In the streets of Lavapiés, you can see stencils painted to mark the spot where there are cameras. In Helsinki somebody did similar anti-surveillance stencils a few years back.

Rebel Sonix from London approaches the theme with a music video above. Some time ago we posted another anti-Big Brother anthem here.

Our favorite blog tells us that Finland has the second biggest number of surveillance cameras in Europe.

An-ten-nae - Destroy The System (Original Mix)
An-ten-nae - Destroy The System (Lawgiverz Remix)
An-ten-nae - Destroy The System (Dov Remix)

Can we destroy the system? Yes we can. This is the message brought to you by Bay Area dubstep producer An-ten-nae. Gotta love dubstep that is down with the revolution.

In the field of political theory, the possibility and necessity of a revolution has been kept on the agenda by people like Slavoj Zizek, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. Hardt and Negri have just released their third book of the Empire trilogy: the new book named Commonwealth came out in the beginning of October. One of our favorite Finnish blogs has been writing good stuff about Empire and Multitude lately. And Slavoj Zizek is coming to Helsinki next month.

Giggs ft. Mike Skinner - Slow Songs (Marco Del Horno remix)

mad poverty, niggaz cant get jobs / so they buy brown by light drive round / try and hustle on the streets to get the right pound / and little youths gettin knived down / cuz a nigga got pissed and brought a knife round

Here’s a tune to listen to “when the shadows in the sun grow long”. So emo. But the lyrics are about some real shit, about how poverty and violence go together. Unemployment on the rise, living costs getting higher, people turning to crime to make ends meet. Makes you say UUMMMM!

I’m not working a nine to five job right now (and if I can help it in any way never will) but this is my modest token of solidarity to all of you who are. It’s the up and coming act Boltan from New York with the track Nine to Five, remixed by DZ from San Francisco and included on the fresh new August mix of AC Slater. This shit hit me hard.

Boltan - Nine to Five (DZ Remix)

Bob Marley - Exodus (HavocNdeeD Remix)

“Exodus is not nostalgic, but to consider the National State as refuge is nostalgic. Exodus is not a step back, but is rather leaving the land of the Pharaoh; the land of the Pharaoh was until one or two generations ago the National State, today it is the Global State, and the National States are like empty shells, like empty boxes and, for that, upon them is made an emotive investment but, naturally, that is very dangerous because it runs the risk of transforming sooner or later into xenophobia or, in every manner, into a rabid and subaltern attitude at the same time: rabies and subalternity together.”

From an interview with Paolo Virno (Finnish translation here)

Here’s another hot tune from HavocNdeeD. Some time ago we posted their dubstep track with Public Enemy samples and they sent us links to some more goodies. Big up!

Last spring Helsinki saw one of the biggest student uprising in decades. Over a thousand people took several times to the streets to protest against an university reform that threatened to decrease the power of students, teachers and general staff over the universities and increase the influence of “external experts”, that is corporate representatives. Soon the resistance spread to several other major Finnish cities. And what happened? Not much. The law passed with very meager changes to the better and all was quiet among us students.

One of our favorite Finnish bloggers analyzes the events in retrospect and comes to some conclusions much to my liking. The movement failed largely because it deradicalized itself and was subsumed by liberal rhetoric, where the movement suspends to strive after the immediate, subversive needs of it’s own members. Instead it tries to prove itself worthy to decision makers, who are conceived to be sincere but unknowing of the facts. Power is forgotten about and instead liberals talk to liberals as educated and civilized, supposed, equals. And nothing happens.

What’s left of the momentum from last spring for my part is a feeling of being able to resist together and produce subversive moments and spaces in the otherwise stratified corridors and lecture rooms of the universities. If this new feeling of strength is shared by others what we would need to do now, is to drop our fear of our own power and act on the totality of the miserable situation of students and other precarious workers. In the words of some comrades from the university, “last spring was my best spring at the university so far”. Well, then we need to make the next one even better.

Bassnectar - Art Of Revolution (Product 01 Remix)
Bassnectar - Art Of Revolution (Diplo Remix)
Bassnectar - Art Of Revolution (Ghislain Poirer Remix)

HavocNdeeD - Bass In Yo Face

BASS IN YOUR FACE, LONDON! This is HavocNdeeD and no, they’re not from UK, they’re from Las Vegas & Phoenix. Go to their myspace and download their songs. They got some killer tunes.

Slam It! dubstep night goes down tonight once again. This time with guests from UK: Mala (of Digital Mystikz) with MC Sgt. Pokes.

My favorite tune by Mala is still “Alicia” from a couple years back, a nice chilled out track which samples “Feelin U, Feelin Me” by the oh so lovely Alicia Keys.

Mala - Alicia