Blog: Bad Fotography

Seriously don't want to talk to much about iO just because his tunes do it for him. Some of the best sounds coming out of the UK are from this guy. Such FYAH! Recommend, recommend, recommend! [Warrior One ft. Ayah Marar - Fyah (iO Remix)] Free download, which is incredibly generous since this guys production skills are INSANE! [Labyrinth Ear - Amber (iO Remix)] This one needs a release, vinyl preferably. Those opening chords so set the mood with the echoing vocals into what sounds like it could be the French house version of future bass. You have to listen [...]

Just got this from the folks at Modular last week. Beni goes soft on us with this track feat Via Tania. Very unlike his style, yet still very refreshing to switch from dance floor destroyers to something simple and chilled and beautiful like this. Via's voice is stunning, makes me wanna cuddle a lover, makes me wanna dance in the rain and then go on to tumblr and upload blurred photographs of fields with slogans on them saying things like "i miss you and it hurts." [Beni ft. Via Tania - Zig Zags] [...]

Diving into unknown space is Skyence , with his new "Cosmonaut EP" he breaks walls between glitch, breaks and dubbed out 2-step. The first track echoed arps and broken drums just capture the essence of space, keeps you guessing. Best bit is at 1.11 where the metronome is introduced and just messed around with, to sound so sick. Good listen if your into that 4am kinda feel. [Skyence - The Cosmonaut] Sometimes I Forget is probably one of the best tracks I've heard in so long, those dubby [...]

MY FAVORITE PRODUCER, FEAR OF TIGERS IS BACK!!!! In time for Christmas as well. A very short and succinct email from him but that's enough for me to go completely delirious. Its a track he's made " with winter in mind " and it features lyrics recited from a poem in Malay Indonesian. The track is called Hidup (which means alive or live). It's so gorgeous I've been playing this again and again. Seriously listen to this: Here's some free mixes by him you MUST get into: [...]

Just a nice quick one today, guys. Proper deep vibes here via Revilo, nice sprinkling of rnb vocals pitched-out and manipulated, sampled NASA space radio conversations on a bed of 2-steppy beats. It's a brand new track, its a free download and its fucking good. Get into it. [Revilo - Far Reaching] Go holla at his facebook . <!-- <!-- [...]

As we ease ever closer to the wintery, commercially infused wonderland that Is Christmas. Spirits rise, drinks are downed and office parties abound. Inter office hook ups are resigned to the deepest recesses of conversation and excuses cunningly thought up as to why you just can't make it in the day after. Classic Christmas vibes. Well, I thought about trying to get a Christmas post done and then I thought, no that is retarded and it is still far too early. Plus what would I use? Some mutated version of a George Micheal jam, or a dubstep remix of [...]

LU10 Records hit us up with a ton of freebies and we've taken the time to listen to every single song and picked out the ones we felt were fresh and guess what, the tracks are all Hybrid Theory 's. Don't even think of mentioning Linkin Park - in this selection, Hybrid Theory showcase some deep funky bass with I Believe and goes all tropical on Myomi feat Amber Jolene's Sun In My Eyes . [Hybrid Theory - I Believe] [Myomi feat Amber Jolene - Sun [...]

What started as a mix tape trading relationship between, Cory Thomas Hanson and Jesse Hlebo quickly morphed into an intricate aural and visual project that gave birth to White Fold. Hanson is better known as W-H-I-T-E and Hlebo via Swill Children . The two collaborated throughout the summer of 2011 to produce the material on the Feral / Free ep in a free form manner, taking inspiration from Salem, the eerie chants of gregorian monks, Brian Eno and other stranger influences. The result? We currently only have one track at the moment, [...]

• White Fold - End of Now (Prod. by W-H-I-T-E & Jesse Hlebo)

That's Kid Ink reppin my fav label Crooks & Castles. Anyway, this got delivered straight up to my inbox yesterday. Kid Ink's new official video for Get Mine feat Nipsey Hussle came out 2 days ago, real good shit right here. Love the video concept. Challenges your perceptions a little. You can download this song and alot of his other stuff from his website for free. Nice use of Queen in this one: [Kid Ink - Hero (Prod by Kid Ink)] [...]

Sam Knowles aka " Karma Kid " has been stirring up some new creations and breaking out some massive tunes recently. The 17 year old has done everything from remixing Bon Iver (very well) to getting a forthcoming release on L2S Recordings . Well here is his tunage. Starting off with an amazing remix of Bon Iver, Electro fourtothefloor hip hop action, incredibly epic 3 rd drop. And squelch percussion means this is a sure fire 2012 summer song (if [...]

New video by Freeze-Tag for Tidal Wave . It debuts TODAY and you guys are one of the first few to see this. If you're wondering what that lovely piece of kit in the video is, it's the Roland SP-55, a sweet loops / sampler workstation and evidently, Freeze Tag's tool of choice. Wanna download Tidal Wave ? Head to our previous post . <!-- <!-- [...]

Somebody Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin 's latest release, Tape Club is a mammoth collection of 26 songs, each hand picked lovingly from the band's archive of songs they have been crafting in the 10 years that they have been together. The tracks span from the Broom- era release to their last release Let It Sway . Like an aural timeline of the band's progress, Tape Club starts off with their earlier lo-fi tape recordings and moves into the professional studio tracks of later releases towards the end. Here's a few [...]

This one is a new one, dropped into my inbox by Future Classic , that Australian label who brought you Flight Facilities . As part of their compilation series of Australian bands covering French hits, Future Classic introduce us to Mitzi , reviving the vintage cosmic disco sounds of French-Canadian band, Zig Zag. Listen to the original track from the 70s here: [Zig Zag - Voyage Voyage] You can download Mitzi's version in its entirety by going here . In the meantime here's a snippet: [Mitzi - Voyage [...]

A few months ago The Rapture released How Deep Is Your Love . On Tuesday this week, DFA got in touch with the release of the vinyl version of the remixes that includes A-Trak 's Dub For Mehdi version, a homage to his good friend Dj Mehdi who passed away a few months ago and a remix by Populette . We don't have the Dub For Mehdi version on soundcloud. We do have the A-Trak remix which you can get from the 5-track ep version [...]

My favorite band Los, who became That Mouth, have split up in September and I didn't even know about it until recently, when I saw this feed on my facebook for this new band called Death Rattle . I've had the great privelage of organizing a gig with them on the bill last year and am quite sad about the break up. BUT - Death Rattle, is in fact, 2 ex members of That Mouth who got together to do something completely different. Whilst That Mouth was loud, noisy guitars, epic riffs and abrasive, [...]

Hey I'm Viers , I will be trying to do regular features. Now, I've know of Crimson for a long while now, always kept my left eye open on him. He has been crossing the boundaries somewhere between where dubstep left off, old 90's 2-step and some deep dungeon sounds and massive reverbed percussion hits. Here is one of his more dubstep flavoured tracks. Very chill. [Crimson - Warm Little Glow] And one of my personal favourites of recent is his collab with Typist , they [...]

If you caught a whiff of the Strokes with this and felt like it's an American version of the Libertines , then you're not alone. I kinda like the shambolicness of it all and the story about this band is actually more than meets the eye (and quite impressive.) Chocolate Robots is Mike, Marco and Mutt Guresi. Yeah, they're brothers and they work at their parents pizza place. For some reason, they've decided to call their band Chocolate Robots. They're also bowling friends with Fab Moretti, (yeah that guy from the Storkes) [...]

UKG producer Jordon Saxton aka Viers , previously featured on this blog awhile back, has a new track out and it's fucking mint. Funky 2 step-y vibes with an uplifting feel, wonky basslines makin a comeback: [Viers - Can't U See] It seems like he's been on a roll recently, with a coupla fresh new tracks nearly once every few days. This free download is an exceptional one, garage vocals chopped and looped in an old school-style bass: [Viers - Obsolete] Holla at his [...]

Not really an acid kinda person, but this new Craig Williams track has sealed itself to be this Friday night's 2am dancefloor contender. Pounding 4/4 beats meets meaty basslines. I'm liking the crazy big room reverb and unstoppable build ups: [Craig Williams - Lemur] In an almost similar vein, check out this old remix he's done for Mark Knight 's Drug Music , currently up for limited free download: [Mark Knight - Drug Music (Craig Williams Remix)]-> Bad Fotography Recommends! Here's what [...]

Yeah, that's the new School of Seven Bells line up. My first thought was, what happened to Claudia? And then I remembered she left like, last year. :( Sad times. Vagrant has just hit us up with this brand new track, The Night from the upcoming album Ghostory and their signature dreamy harmonies that I feared might have been sacrificed after Claudia's departure is still intact. Alejandra made sure of it. The Night stays faithful to the band's shoegaze style - the fullness of sound achieved [...]