Spannered Radio Podcast (all Items)

Tracklisting soon come! ^ Listen to Bass Clef's In the Echo Chamber mix ^ Read Spannered's interview with Bass Clef

"Here's a 62-track/66-minute live decks & theremin mix I made of early digidub/bashment/dub/Firehouse Crew type stuff. Converted into ones & zeros by thee mighty Gutta (thanks mate!)" Bass Clef Tracklisting: King Tubby — Rude Boy Version Sly & Lenky — Lock The City Dave Lindsay — Life Over Death Worries & Beeper — Black Ice Jazzwad — Version Outlaw Candy — Rolling Thunder Classical People — Star Wars Riddim Demolition Man — Salvation Riddim Lenky 2010 — Riddim Salaam Remi — Metric Riddim Genus— Thief Version Artwork — Rolex Riddim Togetherness Crew — Timebomb The Bug — Boom Version Mafia & fluxy — Version Suku — Riot Version Cameron & Malvo — Hypie Typie Lenky — Bubble Up Rooche — Tundra Riddim Frenchie — Fire Version Shocking Vibes Crew — Version Razor Sound &mda

Berlin resident Aaron Spectre mashes up the place. Fact. Propelled along by a junglistic undercurrent, his sets have become something of legend, drawing on grime, hip hop, dubstep, ragga, punk, thrash metal and ear-pummelling breakcore. If this floats your boat, we recommend you check his excellent productions on Death$ucker and Omeko. This set was recorded at the Mega Bass Robo Orgy in London, June 2005. ^ Download flyer artwork for Mega Bass Robo Orgy

UK MC Doc Brown here trades in the whimsical universality of the Tears For Fears lyrics for a stark but affecting account of why exactly his world is going crazy and adds a lilting hip hop beat to the catchy piano hook of the original. A coherent social consciousness – he alludes to 'the tramp with his change cup' – underpins the fierce brutalism of his account of why we're going nowhere: 'It's a disgrace / this place is like a whorehouse / the crooked system's the pimp / that's got us working till we're worn out'. An unnamed collaborator comes in on the second verse to give an account of his education which is so much more detailed and evocative than the original's assertion that 'I was very nervous / no one knew me'. Doc Brown's idea that insanity is to do with being 'a rat trapped in the system / of capitalism' is compelling and his powerful delivery contrasts perfectly with Gary Jules' ethereal vocal. This version deserves to displace the original in the public consciousness – it would b