Gonna keep this post short and sweet. gWorm does sick mashers of hip-hop against dubstep. It’s good.

Skream Vs. Trae & Young Joc – Lightning in the Hood (gWorm Mash-Up)

Dirty Hobo for Dirty House by Hobo

I know the quality is poor, but you should buy his newest album.

Available on Beatport.

Hobo – Closer To The Bullet

Hobo – Failsafe

Hobo – Orange Dyno

Enjoy.

Hyphidelity (Furan + Oh My!) presents their new party series, SLUMPERParty, in light of Furan’s birthday! Not sure how much local readership we really get on this blog, but I’m gonna post this here anyway! Come bust a move on the dancefloor to some poppin’ electro beats! We’ll be choppin’ up some house, fidget, electro & dubstep to get the party hyph’d.

SLUMPERParty DJs:
J. Lindz | 9PM-11PM
Hyphidelity | 11PM-2AM

Date: Saturday, January 30th

Time: 9PM – 2AM

Location:
The Cellar
Downtown San Jose
399 1st St. (1st & San Salvador)

Lighting: TheLightBar
Photography: Jackie Ngo

21+
5$ Cover

Come support Hyphidelity and San Jose dance music!

So I discovered Matthew Garton about 2 weeks ago now, and boy, this kid really has his shit together. Garton dropped his new Soul For Rent EP on Los Angeles-based Potty Mouth Music, offering the label even more variety in their already versatile sound. Coming straight out of Johannesburg, South Africa, Garton is widely known within the underground house community as one half of DJ/production duo Rotation Station (with partner Roger Aquino). His music falls most certainly into the genres of house, although he pulls from a wide range of stylings, delivering a sound unlike anything I’ve ever heard. Squelchy pitch-bent basslines with a general tech house influence, all mixed in with filter disco and indie-electro. It’s almost as if he knew exactly what I was looking for!

“This EP represents all the styles of house that I love,” Garton says of his PMM debut. “It almost feels like I’ve drawn on influences from the past and then reworked them into more current interpretations.”

It’s hard to say which is my favorite track, but I think One Love might come out on top. The track starts off with a nice tech house vibe, equipped with a buzzy pitch-bent synth hook and some fidgety bass stabbed throughout. It breaks down into some excellent indie vocals about dancing and comes back in with the heat! I almost feel like I’m fighting off little techno monsters in a fidget jungle after it drops. It’s wonderful!

They’re all here at 192 for your listening pleasure. Unfortunately I can’t hand these over in full quality, so you’ll have to support Garton over at Beatport.

Matthew Garton – One Love
Matthew Garton – Candy Whacked
Matthew Garton – Pretty Surprise
Matthew Garton – Soul For Rent
Matthew Garton – Soul For Rent (Geoff K Remix)

Some very impressive controllerism work from Rafik (notice the X1 + Maschine combo)! Read up on the full post over at DJ Tech Tools, here. Big ups to Bay Area local Ean Golden for putting together such a useful and informative blog. We will most definitely be trying to get an interview with sir Golden himself, somewhere down the line.

So my favorite blog hosted this design contest during the month of December. They were looking for album art for their mp3’s and a logo, and I was fortunate enough to win the album art section! Illustrator extraordinaire, Brett Stenson, won the logo portion of the contest, so go check his isht out too. He’s got some great work up on his flickr!

Here’s the design that ended up winning:

Here’s another submission that didn’t win:

They also gave me a post and an interview that you can see here! Thanks Squeegie!

Art by Jared Nickerson.

So I’m back on track with the posting game, and I’m comin’ atcha with another installment of KIHT! Both of these tracks are long time favorites. So by no means are these the latest and greatest, but I’m pretty much down to play these any time. They’re not straight hip hop, but they both bang it hard.

Chew Fu refixed Eurythmics Sweet Dreams with some dope verses from J-Cast and Substantial, melding the awesome power of the 80s with hip hop and infusing it all with some electro-housey flavor. Throw this one on during a set and the crowd will be most pleased! Go Palms Out crew!

Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams (Chew Fu Refix ft. J-Cast & Substantial)

I’ve been following Teen Wolf for a minute now. He tends to produce “simpler” tracks, but that doesn’t mean it’s not good stuff. Strong loops, solid vocal stabs, and that distinct electro sound paralleling the likes of the Smash Disco crew down in L.A. Teen Wolf is from Las Vegas but I know he’s played plenty of shows down in LoCal. Anyways, his remix of J-Kwon’s tipsy will get them top 40 hunnies bobbin’ they heads!

J-Kwon – Tipsy (Teen Wolf’s Underage Drinking Remix)