Hipster Humpday 5: The Music Alliance Pact

     So about a week or two ago I did something that really stretched my musical tastes I stumbled onto the February Music Alliance Pact article on The Guardian's website. Now don't get me wrong I've been listening to music from all over the world for longer than I should admit but ever only a couple artists, a couple genres, nothing like this. I guess I lived in ignorance of the fact that all the changes in musical taste and style were happening all over the world. The Music Alliance Pact really opened my eyes a little bit more to the vast array of gems hidden all over the world, and made finding them a whole lot easier.

     So MAP is made up of 34 blogs around the world basically doing their best to connect us all in the universal language, music. I'm actually a little embarrassed I didn't know about this earlier, and I cannot endorse this more, to be a part of something that literally connects the world is amazing, and even though our blog here is minuscule I still manage to get most of my views from beyond North America, its an awesome feeling. Before we go too far here I'd like to hit you with the link to the zip file containing 36 tracks from aspiring artists all over the globe. Getting back into it here, I'm not entirely sure how long this has been going on but it looks like a monthly affair and I think I would like to do a little more research and maybe do a little update post every month even if its just to keep myself in the loop. Now I really don't want to take traffic away from the actual members of this group so I won't link any of the artists here but the original article is here, so if you would like to preview any of the tracks, or hear a little about the artist please visit it, I would also recommend clicking on the artist link next to each track, from what I've seen they're usually links to more of the artists work. So I'll put a couple videos up below for a preview, please take a minute or too to expand your horizons and really there's something here for everyone, every genre is explored and every track excels in its own arena, so give it a go, tell them I sent you.






     As you can hear these two tracks are in english from Norway and Canada respectively, not only could I not find videos for some of the other tracks I wanted to link blogger's Youtube search decided to crap out so I had to embed the files, which is why they are off to the left hand side, my fault completely. So please take the time to download the zip and feel free to visit us on Facebook here.

Toxic Tuesday 28: JesusDied4Dubstep

1 Cor. 15: 1-5
"Now I will remind you subscribers of the filth I preach to you, which you receive, in which you stand by, and by which you are being saved. Hold fast to the bass I preach to you, unless you eargasm in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received; that Jesus died for Dubstep in accordance with the scriptures."

     Quick poll how many people would go to church if it preached the dirtiest of dubstep?? Yeah me too, "and that was the scripture according to Skrillex, let us break the ceremonial glow sticks and dance till we can't talk". Maybe I'm just looking for a new religion, that being said lets take a look at the best dubstep compilation I've seen in years.

     JD4D, no real interesting story about how I found it today, something about some DJ/producer's FB page then three steps later I had 3GB left on my idevice and over about half a gig of dubstep kicking around. No complaints though, I'm a total audiophile like that, I'll download music till my laptop pukes its RAM all over me. Hopefully none of you took my word last week that I would be reviewing the newest Skrillex album, cause I'm not, the version I have is running at a horribly low quality, and in all truthfulness I think all the originality has been used up, Sonny needs to step his game up or move over for the next wave of electronic heavy hitters, JD4D.

JD4D Compilations:

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     So like I said, 512Mb of crunchy underground dubsteppa spread over five periodical compilation files, the last of which is being released the morning of next Monday, Jan. 30th mark your calenders. The albums are a means of promotion for over 20 lesser known Youtube producers... (Here's the list eh) 1up, Varien, Jippah, Kronic, Kidnap & Ransom, Ctwo, Cop Dickie, Cipher, System, Dark Elixir, Cubism, Skeng, OneMoreHit, London Nebel, Fytch, xKore, Skit, ToNKs, Zenji, F3tch, Astrobear, Crossman & Phizicist, FuhNetIk, Audiorabbit, Milkshakes, Veltix, Zantec, Showka, Atrium, Emptysight, Obscenity, Karetus, Niraya, Phrenik, Poseidon, BC BADMAN, Bratkilla, Sirkit, Chizzle, Kannamix, Point. Blank, Dubnium, Apashe, Good booM, Ecraseur, OscillatorZ, Fivel, Dub Scout & Eliminate, 50 Carrot, AMPR, Ronin X, VoidDS, Gunfingaz, Mr. Vandal, J. Nitrous.... the list goes on and thanks to the beauty of the internet I actually had to type all of those out, so if I spelled your stripper name wrong please forgive me. So there you have it a full paragraph of dubstep producers, only five of which I know well enough to cite songs, that being said not a single one of them should be removed from these mixes, every one of them has blown my mind, and all deserve the attention this will bring them, so if you're feeling benevolent check out JD4D's FB page here, the last release FB event w/ downloads here, and not one but two, and three different Youtube accounts the last of which is for Drum and Bass, also if you're into high quality tracks check out some free 320's here, oh and while I'm linking my brains out check out our FB page here. Also please do some digging and support the artists, my linking finger gave out on my before I could start.