Beglitched | West Coast Glitch-Hop

Lightning in Your Ear

Lightning in a Bottle is a festival that takes place annually In Irvine, California in May or early June to kick off the festival season. The festival features big name West Coast “dubstep” performers and DJs such as Heyoka, The Glitch Mob, Rena Jones, Beats Antique, Random Rab, Vibesquad, and the list goes on and on and on and on!!

Lightning in Your Ear is a compilation of music by performers from Lightning in a Bottle. All proceeds go to benefit Critical Beats for the Climate, an organization dedicated to passing on the wisdom of the tribal elders of the Amazonian Basin.

Download the compilation here and pay what you wish to help support this amazing organization!
Artwork by Ryan Johnson. Check out his site to see more amazing work by Ryan!

Excision- Shambhala 2010 Mix

Excision has been taking the electronic dance music scene by storm since 2004 when he first discovered EDM at a young age. Shortly after, he founded Rottun Recordings based in Canada, which is responsible for spreading the filthy beats of Subvert, Innasekt, UltraBlack and over a dozen other dubstep artists. Along with his now legendary series of annual Shambhala mixes, Excision has several singles and EPs out with artists such as DatsiK, DZ, Liquid Stranger, Endophyte, and Subvert. Excision is one of the most sought after djs in the dubstep festival circuit, with shows around the world continuing through the end of the year.
The release of the Shambhala mix has been highly anticipated, as you can see from a brief glance at his Facebook page. Since the festival ended a month ago, his page gets at least 20 comments a day asking when he is going to put the mix online for download. To the relief of many, the universe has been set right again today with the release of this live mix. Download by copying and pasting this link in a new tab- download window should come up. http://excision.drugged.me/Excision_-_Shambhala_2010_Dubstep_Mix.mp3 Warn your neighbors, because it’s going to get loud and nasty!
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Signal Path- Imaginary Lines

Ryan Burnett and Damon Metzner of Signal Path released another free album yesterday on Bandcamp! The pair from Montana have spent close to a decade refining their live jam band style of music mixed with complex layers of beats and electronic sounds, making it distinctly Signal Path. Imaginary Lines is a masterpiece unlike any other. I have spent two days trying to find the right way to describe it and have come up with a million words that don’t make any sense together. I guess that means this album has rendered me speechless?!?! You go listen for yourself! You won’t believe your ears!

Download the album for FREE here!
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Subvert- Shambhala Mix 2010: J’aime Le Dubstep no70

Dubstep is a broad genre encompassing a vast variety of music. Canadian dubstep has a much different feel than dubstep from the UK, and these are different from the different sounds falling into the category that are being made in Colorado and California. The one thing that links all of these together is the throbbing, pulsating, chest rattling bass that pumps out of the speakers at every dubstep party.

Subvert is a Canadian “dubstep” producer who uses heavy accents of glitch-hop and has some drum and bass tendencies.

This is exactly the kind of dubstep I can get into! Subvert is signed to Rottun Records and Muti music and his last EP Party Alarm was a huge success, as was to be expected after Speaker Humping and Dirt Nap. You will not be disappointed with this set from a few weeks ago at Shambhala, at the 13th annual electronic music and arts festival in British Columbia.

Thanks to Wicked Bad for hosting this mix! Download it here! If you have problems with that link because of heavy blog traffic, try here (download by right clicking on the word “here” and save target as…)

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Sugarpill-Flow Goggles EP

Evan Sugarpill is a rising star in the bass music scene. He released an amazing mixtape last year on Chrome Kids called Suck on this Whompsticle featuring artists such as Mochipet, Rustie, Eprom, The Glitch Mob, Daddy Kev, and Lazer Sword. This year, Sugarpill released a remix on Mochipet’s Master P on Atari Transformed Vol. 2. He has been a mentor to many up and coming djs and producers by cofounding Abletontweets, “Unofficial Ableton Tips and Updates for DJs and producers alike.”

Sugarpill uses his knowledge of Ableton Live not only to propel his own musical career, but to help aspiring producers develop their skills as well. He is the kind of person everyone loves to see succeed, and succeed he did with Flow Goggles! This release is full of mind bending basslines and crazy glitched out bleeps and blaps, but is cohesive enough to get me moving in my seat to the point of being unsafe while driving. I’m definitely going to have to bring the neighbors some earplugs, turn on the subwoofer, and check this out LOUD! The quality of production and mastering is impressive for a debut release! I can see Sugarpill going big places with his talent. Expect to see him on the festival circuit next summer.
We will see Sugarpill’s debut EP out on Daly City Records September 14, and it is available early exclusively through Addictech.
Buy the Flow Goggles EP here.

Follow him on Twitter and Facebook, his Sugarblog, and be sure to tune in to his show on Glitch.fm Tuesday nights from 9-11pm EST.

The Glitch Mob- Drink The Sea Part II:The Mixtape

The Glitch Mob is a trio of producers based out of LA and their debut album, Drink The Sea was released in May. Before Drink The Sea, The Glitch Mob had several singles, live sets from radio shows and gigs, a dozen remixes, and one very popular mixtape. Before Drink The Sea, they had toured the world and gained the attention of the electronic music community by bringing glitch into the mainstream. A ticket to a Glitch Mob show was hard to come by on the night of many shows. These venues were packed and the Mobsters always delivered the goods! The crowds adored them!

The anticipation built for two years until they finally released Drink The Sea, and to the dismay of many, it wasn’t full of the room warping bass lines and glitch-hop vocals that people were used to hearing. The album is AMAZING- it just wasn’t exactly what some people were expecting. How could people have expectations from a group that hadn’t even released one album? There are plenty of people who love the album, myself included, but you always heard the statement, “Yea, the new Glitch Mob album is BOMB,” followed by, “but I can’t imagine playing anything from it for a dance floor.” This mixtape proves us all wrong!

With Drink The Sea Part II: The Mixtape, Ooah, Boreta, and edIT have done it again! The mixtape takes songs from the album and creates a classic dj style mix with them and I can confidently say that I would drop any one of the remixes at any kind of show. I listened to the mixtape on repeat today, and when I say repeat, I mean MAJOR repeat… like 18 times. It is full of the sounds of The Glitch Mob- glitch-hop vocals, heavy bass, hauntingly beautiful synth lines, and futuristic beats. They made sure to include vocals from Nas, Lil Wayne, Dr. Dre, and Jay-Z, which will please many, and there is no lack of vocal loops mentioning “haters” and “everyone who doubted me is asking for forgiveness”. I doubt The Glitch Mob will have many haters over this mix! They have once again proved that they deserve their huge success.
Grab the mixtape here!
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Ana Sia live on Glitch.fm 8.15.10

Savage Future hosts a radio spot on Glitch.fm focusing on forward bass music. Sunday, they brought Ana Sia into the studio for a live set on air and followed with an interview.
Ana Sia has been steadily playing gigs around California for the last 4 years and since 2008, has been traveling to festivals and parties around the country. She is taking her special blend of glitchy, brain melting bass music (which she lovingly calls “global slut psy-hop”) overseas for the first time! Ana Sia has become a global phenomenon! Anyone who has been slayed by her beats KNOWS, and if you don’t know, you will know… Ana Sia is the princess of the glitch… Princess Slay-ah!

Savage Future has been so kind to host the set on their site, available for download! Grab it here!

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Blunt Instrument remixes Radiohead – Street Spirit (Fade Out)

Blunt Instrument is a live electronic duo based in Brisbane, Australia. They are definitely on their way to SuperStar status! I know this to be fact because they ROCK! They have gained wide recognition on both Soundcloud and Glitch Hop Forum because of the remixes they’ve been steadily releasing since January of this year, including The Rolling Stones “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”. In April, they released a 4-song EP called Total Hip Replacement that brought them even further into the spotlight.

Their music focuses on the bass laden, crunchy, alien sounding breakbeats we all love so much.

Check out their Bandcamp page for tons of free downloads including their new remix of Radiohead’s “Street Spirit (Fade Out)“.

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Signal Path-Slow Your Thoughts

Signal Path is a two man live Electronica act from Missoula, Montana. Ryan Burnett works the production aspect and plays guitar and Damon Metzner is on drums. Both musicians perform on stage with computers running Ableton Live alongside with their live instruments. Their music mixes elements from many genres including jazz, dubstep, rock, and even classical. These guys are talented musicians who know how to work a rhythm and how to take the listener on a journey through worlds that fairy tales are made of.

Signal Path has released six full length albums to date, the last of which was Clash, available as a free download through their website. The amazing success of Clash and its supporting tour encouraged Ryan and Damon to work on another album when they settled down in Colorado. Imaginary Lines will be released for free through their website on September 1. The duo has released a single from the album called Slow Your Thoughts. Download it here.

bil bless- the life mechanism 2

Bil Bless is a legend.

He has produced music for several labels including his own label, Bless Records, under the names Son Of The Electric Ghost (SOTEG), Skeetaz, The Disciple Grin, and Bil Bless. A Google search doesn’t turn up very much info other than his huge discography. He has even deleted his Myspace profile, but who can blame him for not wanting a Myspace profile?! One could make the assumption that he is a private guy who has chosen to let his music represent him.

Producers and DJs from all over the world live and breathe for Bil Bless music. I was convinced that a new portal to heaven must have opened up based on the elation of the masses when Bil released the life mechanism 2 a few weeks ago. Not only was the heavenly portal opened, but they were letting people in for FREE via Bandcamp!

All of the elation, the excitement, the frantic pushing and shoving on the subway so we could get home to download the album and plug it into our earholes was ABSOLUTELY rational considering what a mind-blowing album this is! I can’t and don’t want to imagine a world without life mechanism 2 in it. It is a masterpiece complete with soothing melodies, crunchy basslines, deep glitched out vocals, and beats that could prompt grandmothers around the world to leap from their wheelchairs to start dancing.

Don’t be left in the dark with no way to cope…

Go to that heavenly portal!! Download life mechanism 2 here:

the life mechanism 2

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