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El Kano of London's Adverse Camber collective was one of the first artists to record a mix for Spannered when the site launched back in 2006. Flex (his fourth mix to be hosted on Spannered — check also 2007's Medication Time and this wonderful contribution to Spannered's Oddcast series) finds him on unstoppable form, spooning out all manner of mutoid ragga beats and weird bruck-stepping bassbin shit over the course of an hour and three quarters. Download artwork here. Tracklisting: Filastine - Blung David Last feat Zulu - Ghettoblaster Major Lazer feat Turbulence - Anything Goes Pole - Sylenstein (Deadbeat Remix) Tego Calderón - Ni Fu Ni Fa Monkeysteak - Tigris Riddim Filastine vs Maga Bo feat Mario z - Se Liga Flying Lotus - Melt! Fulgeance - Lonely Nights Harmonic 313 - Flaash Si begg - I Thunk Therefore Timeblind - What the ...? Ghosts On Tape - Equator Jam King Cannibal feat Face-A-Face - Virgo Wasteland - Shadow Line Missy Elliot feat Vybez Cartel - Badman Grievous Angel feat Rubi Dan - Move Down Low Stereotyp & Al Haca - Up There Ku Bo feat Joyce Muniz - Um Korpo Aoki Takamasa - RN2-09 Pt1 & Pt2 Octa Push - Ai Nadia Slaughter Mob - Di Hit Maker Opal - I Said It (Taal Mala Remix) Badawi - El Topo Joe - Claptrap Ramadanman - Revenue (Untold Remix) Ramadanman - Tempest Timeblind - Drastic Adhesive Force Remix Ku Bo feat Sara - Lem Lem Untold - Just For You Roel Funcken - Martyrz DJ C - Du Ting Africa Hitech - Blen (Remix) M.I.A. - Bird Flu Maga Bo feat Teba - Abaphantsi Loops Haunt - Rubber Sun Grenade Semephor - Antidote Dead Fader - J.B.E. Zorg Fanfare Ciocarlia - Batuta La Rind Milanese - So Malleable (Clark Remix) DJ C Work It Out (Crazy) Sixtoo - Jackals & Vipers In Envy of Man Part 9 Tweet feat Missy Elliot - Oops! Oh My! (Hudson Mohawke Remix) Disrupt feat Mikey Murka - Sensi Addict ^ Check out El Kano's other mixes on Spannered here, here and here!
The third member of London's Adverse Camber crew to contribute to Spannered's Radio section (alongside El Kano and Randomoidz), Scheme Boy delivers a steamroller of a mix that oscillates between mangled 'n' mentalist breaks and squashy pumping techno (with a cupful of fidgety funk thrown in for good measure). Scheme Boy's music has recently appeared on rambunctious record labels such as Bang-A-Rang and Ninja Columbo. When he's not scheming on his own he plays in acid 'n' break(core) duo Boep (with Randomoidz) and post-rock outfit Agent Elf. He also owns a striking collection of clothes pegs. Sleeve art for the mix here. Tracklisting: Vibesquad - Members Only Tom Burbank - Gnats Rustie - Pendulum Tipper - Off Kilter Twerk - Untitled Vibesquad - Jowels Speedy J & Chris Liebing - Modish Ride Trentemoller - Physical Fraction Wagonchrist - Cris Chana Tipper - Veil Lifted LFO - Tied Up Spor - Electro Funeral Noisia - Yellow Brick Oizo & Errorsmith - Erreurjean Justice - Phantom Part 1 Mothboy - Selfish Plan Cursor Miner - Foxfux Errors - Pump Vent - Warez 3.5.1 (Afghan Headspin Remix) Tim Exile - Inseminov Mathias Schaffhauser - Coincidance (Trentemoller Remix) Mouse On Mars - Spaceship Noisia - Groundhog Chris Clark - Truncation Horn Noisia - Raar Squarepusher - Snake Pass Slaughter Mob - Dub Weapon Vent - Crystallite Vip Trentemoller - Polar Shift Surgeon - Bad Hands (Autechre Remix) Tipper - Open The Jowels VIP Reso - 2 Faced Rasta Noisia - Seven Stitches Cardopusher - Green Disorder TRG – Horny (Reso Remix) Donna Summer - Rock Rock Rock (Aaron Spectre Remix) Spor - Mordez Moi Duran Duran Duran - Face Blast Noisia, Milanese & Peter Gabriel (Chopped & Glued By Scheme Boy) - Gutter Hammer
Adverse Camber’s El Kano returns to Spannered with a malevolent mix up of metal, hardcore, grunge, distortion, throaty bellowing, deranged jabbering, hissing, clunking, and messy digital contortions — with a heap of megalomaniacal ranting from Superman's archfoe thrown in for good measure. Brace yourself for an aural fisting! Tracklisting: Tracks and extracts — speech by General Zod Khlyst — IV Knut — Karn Boys (Oren Ambarchi / Robin Fox / Antony Pateras Remix) Ministry — TV II Converge — Heartless Dillinger Escape Plan — When Acting As A Wave Eustachian — Teleporting Salesman Pig Destroyer — Lesser Animal Meshuggah — Exquisite Machinery of Torture Khanate — Torching Korovie Ennio Morricone — L’Uccello Con Le Piume Di Cristallo (Titoli) Shellac — The Crow Boris — Six, Three Times Drumcorps — Terrible Things Leviathan — What Fresh Hell Abelcain — Bitter Moon Blossom Nile — Khetti Satha Shemsu Gyorgy Ligeti — Requiem for Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Two Mixed Choirs and Orchestra Khanate — Skin Coat Old Man Gloom — Poisoner Queens Of The Stone Age — You Think I Ain't Worth A Dollar... Phantomsmasher — Scrolling Sideways Uniform — No Measurements Are Necessary Fantomas Melvins Big Band — White Men Are The Vermin Of The Earth Leviathan — Mouth Orifice Bizarre Melt Banana — Chain Keeper Wolf Eyes — Noise, Not Music Agoraphobic Nosebleed — Plotkin Phantomsmasher Remix Drumcorps — Time
Chris Wood from the goodie-packed Word the Cat blog recently dropped us a line about the splendid new mix he's concocted. It brought to mind Hanuman's and El Kano's playlists (two of our fave DJs here at Spannered) — a slew of moods from the grime and dubstep worlds, liberally sprinkled with flavas stretching from bassline house, bumpy ragga and old skool to 8-bit dub, Nepali lok pop, frosty minimalism and chiptune breakcore; he's even managed to slide in a few words of hillwalking wisdom from the late, great Alfred Wainwright. Chris has kindly let us host the mix here in Spannered's radio archive. He asked it we'd link listeners up to the 8bitcollective site — 'the first completely open chiptune-related media repository and file sharing community'. The electronicMESS track is available there for use under a Creative Commons License, along with a stack of other great 8-bit jams. Go check it. Tracklisting: BBC Field Recording - The Skuas Caspa vs Art of Noise - Moments in Love (White) Squeezer f/ Nature - Yote Ni Yale Yale (WTC Screw) Matt Shadetek - Warm Heart Turns Cold (mp3) Joker - J. V. Anderson (Earwax) Doc Scott & Rufige Kru - VIP Drumz (Metalheadz) 6Blocc - Babylon (Tribe Steppaz) Terror Danjah & Durrty Goodz - Reloadz (Aftershock?) Zomby - Spliff Dub (Mr Figz remix) Dub Melitia - Screwface Slugs (Heatseeker) Dexplicit vs Cassie - Juicy Fruit / Long Way to Go (WTC Refix) Elephant Man - Dirt Bed (Remix) (Lokal Stage Show Riddim) Bishnu Majhi - Driver Dai Bishnu Majhi - Driver Dai (WTC Refix) Alfred Wainwright - Helm Crag guided walk Gatekeeper - Let Go (Punch Drunk) Peverelist - Roll With the Punches (Punch Drunk) Shackleton - In the Next World (Clandestine Cultivations) Appleblim - Vansam (Skull Disco) Sleeparchive - Hospital 01 (Sleeparchive) Quarta330 - Sunset Dub (Hyperdub) Dubmood - Pressure Drop (Jahtari) ElectronicMESS - Beautiful Girls (mp3)
Hold a chicken in the air, stick a deckchair up your nose and crank your amp to eleven — because we've another white-hot selection for you from the one and only El Kano of London's Adverse Camber collective. This man's DJ mixes are always bang on point, and this delightful spread of grimey electronica and twitchy dubstep is no exception. If you missed the mix he recorded specially for the site last year, head here and fill your lugholes — and should you be in need of more, drag your arse over to his page on the Adverse Camber site. Being a bit of a Photoshop wizard, he's concocted some cool artwork for the mix too. Enjoy! Tracklisting: Ben Frost — Bleeding the Sacred Heart (Inventing Zero Records) Shackleton feat. Jackson Del Ray - Next to Nothing (Crosstown Rebels) ø — Ikuinen (Sähkö Recordings) Snares — Black Sabbath (Kriss) Disrupt — Tubby Rom Module (Werk) M.I.A. feat. Timbaland — Come Around (XL) Kush Arora feat. Zulu Spread the Word (Kush Arora Productions) Deadbeat — Deep In Country (~scape) T++ — Space Pong (Erosion) Modeselektor — B.M.I. (Bpitch Control]) Various Production — Bun (Various Production) The Bug feat. Flowdan — Skeng (Kode9 mix) (Hyperdub]) Bass Clef — Zamyatin Tapes 2 (Blank Tapes) 2562 — Channel One (Tectonic) Atki2 — Fishbone and Blood (Unreleased) Skream — Losing Control (Tempa) 2562 — Circulate (Tectonic) Martyn — Shadowcasting (Revolve:r) Mala — Lean Forward (DMZ) Pinch — Cave Dreams (Planet Mu) Parson — Throw Some D's (Planet Mu) Coki — Spongebob (DMZ) Cloaks — Jun(k) (Unreleased) Surgeon — Disinvectant (Dislocated Finger mix) (Dynamic Tension)
El Kano is the graphic design lynchpin of the Adverse Camber collective, a motley bunch of South London dwellers who, despite putting on events with scary names such as 'The Night of Awesome Power', will always take the time to make you a nice cup of tea (though you may have to nip down the shop to get biscuits). He used to be called Kano, but couldn't be bothered beefing with the numerous other Kanos laying claim to the name, so now he's El Kano, which is cooler anyway. His DJ mixes are consistently badass, and he's put this one together especially for Spannered. Tracklisting: Spac Hand Luke – Dynocock (Rephlex) Ghislain Poirier & Mr Lee G – Dem Nah Like Me (Remix) (Shockout) Andy Page – Bisted & Twitter (Noodles Institute of Technology) Milanese – Caramel Cognac (Planet Mu) Mr Oizo – Inside The Kidney Machine (Family Affair) Fünkstörung – Punk Motherfucker (Studio !K7) Neil Landstrumm – Master Assasin (Seed Records) Pope Thermador – Selassie on the Wye (Unreleased) Menta feat. Ms Dynamite – Ramp (Bigger Beats) Drop the Lime – Hold On (Rag & Bone) Bass Clef – Life's Great... In E8 (Blank Tapes) DJ C feat. Lady Saw – Jump Up & Bounce (Unreleased) Timeblind – Fleshwound (Soot) El-B feat. Juiceman – Buck & Bury (Tempa) Boxcutter – Hyloz (Planet Mu) Stormfield – Haiku (Monkeysteak Remix) (Forthcoming on Combat) The Bug feat. Flowdan – Jah War (Planet Mu) Muslimgauze – Fall of Granada (Staalplaat) DJ Food – Monocle (Silver Dub) (Ninja Tune) Digital Mystikz – Ancient Memories (Skream Remix) (DMZ) Mathhead – Stagger Dub (Unreleased) Burial – Gutted (Hyperdub) Aphex Twin – Tha (Distance) Kode 9 & The Spaceape – Correction (Hyperdub) For more info, contact kano@adverse-camber.net ^ Download artwork for El Kano's Spannered Mix