Blgchll Goes To '11: Get It?

Starting out Saturday is DJ Alf Alpha who seems like he does some decent if not-exactly-groundbreaking Downtempo stuff. Call it "meh"...

Then comes another DJ, BBC Radio 1's Mary Anne Hobbs who is really quite stellar and will probably drop some of the sickest Dubstep ya ever heard. Go listen to her show for sure. But since she doesn't actually make tunes, there's nothing to post...

And both Trampled By Turtles and The Felice Brothers are both Country acts of different stripes, and I have no use for that, so Saturday's posts start with...

SBTRKT



Who he is: NOBODY KNOWS! IT'S A MYSTERY! HE'S GOT A WACKY MASK! MASKS ARE MYSTERIOUS AND SHIT!

What he sounds like: With SBTRKT you get either the really good 2-Step biznezz or the really good House biznezz... Here's some of the latter...

SBTRKT - Hide Or Seek (ysi)

What I think: I think the masked man is all right on the plan. Is that even a saying? "All right on the plan"? The fuck? Anyhoo, the fun part about getting back down to the bottom of each day where the DJs are is the often GRIPPING live video. To wit...



You think really fucked up people get creeped out by that mask? I would think so. I guess we'll find out. I hope they do. It's probably pretty funny...

What have you done with my vowels?!?!?!

The year, even the decade, may have changed, but some things never change here at Tonegents... for instance, if some act I've never heard of is suddenly the featured artist on Gilles Peterson's show, Im'ma go find me out sum-MO 'bout dat guy!



The dude up there in the kooky mask has been making waves under the name SBTRKT lately, as a feature spot on Worldwide will attest. The kooky mask is because he's another MYSTERY PRODUCERRRRRRR (Cue theremin/Vincent Price laugh). Hey, it worked for that Burial dude, right? Now... folks always like to think that it's someone famous behind the mask (even though in Burial's case it was just a bloke who more or less didn't want the bother of being recognized), which I think would only truly be awesome if the man behind the mask was someone so unexpected that you'd never, um... expect it and stuff. Like if it was, say, Ray J... think about that. Imagine if you found out this sick little 2-Step number... was by Ray J...

SBTRKT - Rekorda (ysi)

(As far as I can tell this one was given out gratis. So enjoy with a clean conscience... and clean underwear)

RAY J? WTF?!?!?... that would be somethin', huh? But... highly unlikely.

Oh, and you may want to go check out SBTRKT's page on my new favorite site, Soundcloud... the mixes are highly recommended...

Blog-achella-geddon 2012!: Blame Guetta!

First today is our old buddy SBTRKT, who is awesome, but I've already done a couple posts on him, so read those. Also, popped a video up on the Facebook page, so watch that, too...

And Sub Focus is just a combination of every Dance music cliche that's hot these days. Uninspiring, although I'm sure it would be entertaining on the proper chemicals...

As, I'm sure, will be...

Martin Solveig



Who he is: Michael Cera's dad, apparently...

What he sounds like: Blame it all on Guetta, but one-by-one many of his contemporaries are testing the waters of chart Pop... and, of course, doing it much better than Guetta. Martin had his huge hit in "Hello", Bob Sinclar is going to be on the charts this summer with a couple of things I heard off his new album... it's like that shit they said was gonna happen in the '90s about Electronica taking over the world finally happened but in slightly lamer form than we would have hoped. Oh well. Anyhoo, here's one with the dude from Phoenix on vocals...

Martin Solveig - The Night Out (ysi)

What I think: I think it will be a great set, so long as it's not so much like this...



These guys should probably just stop doing TV shows...