New Music Tuesdays: Grab the Essential Free Download of DJ Marky's "Best of Drum & Bass" 2013 Mix

Not sure why we didn't come across this year-end mix sooner, but if you like proper drum & bass, you'll definitely want to grab this absolutely sick free download of DJ Marky's "Best of Drum & Bass" 2013 mix on SoundCloud! Boom Selecta!!

Special Thanks: DJ Marky for putting this together and all the true drum & bass heads worldwide!

DJ Marky @ RESPECT Drum and Bass : The Upside Down Scratch Technique

Well... here it is mi amigos. I'm finally releasing one of my personal gems... DJ Marky @ RESPECT Drum and Bass ripping it up with the "upside down scratching technique". Like a DJ ninja, DJ Marky is by far the illest out there and is worth a watch. 

Enjoy. 

Special Thanks to: Magnetic Tone Arms and Turntable needles.

LTJ Bukem - Atlantis the DJ Marky & S.P.Y. Rework

 

 Well people... You asked for it.

It seems like just yesterday that I got the chance to see LTJ Bukem and DJ Marky on the same stage,

but those days are over here in Southern California.

It has been a really long time since any of the Electronic Massives of Southern California have brought any real names to the table worth spending a weekend hanging out with 

a bunch of teenie ravers on ecstacy for the first time and are sweating all over you and smell like the drugs and fast food they ate with their ex and are now in actuality just a younger crazier version of you as a teen and you kind of respect it because they really like the music you like too... 

Don't Mind the Ravers - Damn they know how to have a good time. Quandry?

Luckily Los Angeles still has the longest running Drum and Bass night known as RESPECT.

Each week Rob Machete and the Junglist Platoon bring us bad ass DJs from around the world, with little to no teenie ravers and maybe the occasional fight, RESPECT kills it, with names like:

A-Sides, Marcus Intalex, DJ Dara, Aphrodite, S.P.Y., Calibre, AK1200, the list continues on and on!

And we love them for it.

Just recently RESPECT brought producer and DJ, S.P.Y., to bring some 

of his insane tracks, mixing abilities and some choice reworks of some classics like

LTJ Bukem's, "Atlantis".

When S.P.Y. dropped this track during his set only a month ago, I knew I was hearing something 

sweet, but I had no idea it was this good. Working along side his creative 

partner and confidant DJ Marky, S.P.Y. brings us back to the original days of 

Drum and Bass, re worked into a modern classic itself that is no doubt going to get you mooving no matter what you are doing. This track not only proves how amazing it is that Drum and Bass producers are always collaborating on some ill shit, but it also helps LTJ Bukem show the people....

That he just may be making a comeback.

 Special Thanks to: Discovering my love for Drum and Bass music in the summer of 2009, watching a child have an "a ha" moment, pinecones are seeds for pine trees, buying a ton of new music online for March's Drum and Bass mix, pieces of earth from 11,000 feet in the air, Jameson Irish Whiskcy, Miami Heat Harlem Shake video, Kobe Bryant going off the deep end and scoring insane points this season, The San Francisco 49ers making some really nice moves in the offseason, the New York Yankees payroll is as grand as the average age of players, Skullphone, Drum and Bass being accessible at all avenues because of the internet.

UPPERHANDS - The DNB Mix 2.0

Welcome to the first Installment of the UPPERHANDS Mix Series.

I have recently picked up mixing old and new Drum and Bass, Hip Hop and House music. 

Each month I will be posting a new mix which can be listened to and downloaded from

Upperhands' Soundcloud page . 

Be sure to download the mix because the Soundcloud page 

will refresh itself each month to make room for new mixes. 

Peace and Chicken Grease.

Tracklist:
Fly Abrod - Physicalz
Moth To the Light (feat. J.Robinson & Jett) -DBR UK
King Champion (Original Mix) -Thing
Crooklyn (Original Mix) - Alix Perez
Get Loose - Mr Joseph
Thank You - Flowrian
From Me to You - Mr Joseph
Closure (Original Mix) - BrokenDrum
What I See - Stress Level & TC1
Missing (Original Mix) - The Upbeats
Find A Away (Original Mix) - Redeyes
Song of a Bird - Paul SG
All That Heaven Allows (Digital Exclusive) - Command Strange
Bomb Jack - Heist
Don't Stop the Rock - Mr Joseph
Distant Lover - DJ Marky & XRS
Moments of Lust (Featuring Vikter Duplaix) - DJ Marky, Vikter Duplaix & XRS
Moments of Lust feat. Vikter Duplaix (Makoto Remix)- DJ Marky & XRS
Butterfly (Craggz & Parallel Forces Remix) -DJ Marky & XRS
Cosmic Expression (Original Mix) - Soultec
Outer Forces - Kubiks & Lomax
Oh Yeah - Jonny L
San Francisco Cable Car - MsDos
Strings Track - Bachelors of Science

DJ Marky Podcast is Back in Action After 1 Year Hiatus!

I began to wonder where he was all this time.

No sign of a DJ Marky / S.P.Y. album anytime soon...

No show at Coachella 2011...

No sign of a solo album...

Just when I thought we lost him...

He's back for 2013!

DJ Marky is the greatest Brazilian Drum and Bass producer and DJ,

who gained massive attention with a little tune he produced with producer mate XRS, 

"LK" Featuring Stamina MC.

For those of you who don't know the track, click below to be blown away.

Since 2002 when this song was released, DJ Marky has gone on to become one of the 

biggest and baddest Drum and Bass DJs on earth.

He is always on the cutting edge of what is hot, happening and fresh in this 

ever-changing world of DNB.

Please do visit his website by clicking below,

 then kick back with a mixed drink with an umbrella in it,

and experience the DJ Marky Podcast.

http://www.djmarky.com.br

In closing I would like to point your attention to one of the most ridiculous DJ videos I've ever seen.

While recently bored and searching youtube for some DJ Marky music,

I cam across a video of one of his DJ sets alongside his other Brazilian DJ and producer mate,

DJ Patife.

Purveyor of the "Smabass" sound (a hybrid of Brazilian Samba and Drum and Bass)

the "Sonar De Sao Paulo: DJ Marky vs. DJ Patife" set is one of a kind.

Bouncing back and forth between tracks like the turntablist group, "The X-Ecutioners"

Marky and Patife show us DJs what is possible and inconceivable with a turntable.

Do not mind the sound quality, nor the video quality when the strobe light come on and blurs everything...

Just wait for it.... wait for it... 

at about the 50 minute mark...

DJ Marky turns his turntable upside down and begins scratching to the beat without 

making a single mistake! Unlike anything I've ever seen before in the DJ world!

Check it!!!!

Special Thanks to: DJ Marky and only DJ Marky.

New Music Tuesdays: LTJ Bukem Classic Drum & Bass Track "Return to Atlantis" Gets Remixed by DJ Marky & S.P.Y

Hold up! Wow, one of the biggest tracks in drum & bass history, "Return to Atlantis," the 1993 classic by LTJ Bukem has just been given a fresh re-rub from none other than DJ Marky and S.P.Y! Keeping plenty of the original intact but beefing up the drums for 2013...this one is a sure-fire dancefloor filler!



Out now via the recently re-launched Good Looking Records!

Now Mr. Bukem, would you kindly please come back to Los Angeles?

Special Thanks: Drum & Bass legends, LTJ Bukem, DJ Marky, S.P.Y, the debut of Little Giants, The Prodigy's 'The Fat of the Land" album turning 15, My SF Giants for overpaying CF Angel Pagan for the sake of team chemistry and breakfast for dinner.

New Music Monday: Random Movement Podcast #39

 

Random Movement Live @ RESPECT, Los Angeles 2011

Random Movement

Liquid Drum and Bass Producer and DJ

Hails from Ohio.

 Encompasses all that is fresh in Drum and Bass music with monthly 

Podcasts that exhibit conscious Drum and Bass on the forefront of production 

and mixing quality. 

Featuring new tracks from Dj Marky and S.P.Y., A-Sides, Pennygiles and 

one of Upperhand's favorite producers, MSDOS. 

One hour and 15 minutes of bone, brain and muscle liquifying beats for your mental.

Rock.

 Random Movement Podcast #39

Special Thanks to: Good friends who are battling disease - Stay Strong L's! Greasymag.com, Unfortunate events in Kansas City, RIP Jordan Belcher, RIP MCA, RIP Austin Peralta, , RIP the Notorious B.I.G., R.I.P. Tupac Shakur, R.I.P. Big L, the gift of music, the gift of sound, Cameras, thanks to a tribe called quest, the Beastie Boys, to de la soul and to The Roots, thanks to KRS ONE, Gangstarr, all the Hip Hop backpackers, every spray can ever made, the invention of the turntable, Michael Jordan, every time that paint drips, MF Doom, skateboards, Dr. Dre's "The Chronic", tape decks with record buttons, Sony walkmans Miles Davis' trumpet, Bob Marley's heart, The Fugees, breaking curfews, drinking your first 40, seeing The Matrix for the first time in the movie theater, the first time you saw graffiti, the first time you did graffiti, the first time you saw someone play a guitar live, the first time you realized you are going to die, realizing you are a mere dot in the big picture of the world, realizing you mean something to this world.

What the Future Holds: Watch the Stunning Official Music Video From S.P.Y feat. Ian Shaw

So the debut album from one of our favorite drum and bass producers S.P.Y., was mostly disappointing but there are a few tracks that are instant classics though. The title track, 'What the Future Holds,' is one of them and this official music video is just as beautiful as the song itself.



Special Thanks: S.P.Y for giving us this jam, beach days in October, SF Giants Sunday rebound, Buster Posey, Blue Dream, vintage Tecate and fresh issues of Frank 151 from Upperhands