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If you’re looking for new UK funky, global bass tracks to add to your Christmas and NYE playlists you won’t go far wrong by downloading this free EP gift from us. It features us and Swedish producer Yeah! Woho!

The collaboration features an original track from each producer, which was then remixed by the other artist resulting in a 4-track bass-fuelled EP!

Our new EP is out at all good digital stores. It includes 3 original tracks from ourselves with remixes coming from Mike Hindle, Bardeenz and Tony Goods.

KJs – Crunchy Fingers EP by THaF Records

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Mike Hindle – Tropic Haze (KJs remix) by THaF Records

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Buraka Som Sistema, to the uninitiated, are a Portuguese collective of vocalists and producers. Bursting onto the world dance music scene after the release of their 2008 debut album Black Diamond they took the Angolan style of kuduro, popular in the Lisbon club-scene, and fused it with techno and electro to pioneer a whole new sound of bass music.

So it is with interest that we review their latest album, Komba. Developed over the past 11 months, the band started out in a woodland retreat in the south of Portugal working on ideas and demos before heading first to London and then Lisbon, to record vocals and bring the album together.

Continue reading the rest of our review on the Immersed Audio blog.

Here’s a free new track for you, we’ve been playing this out recently and getting a real buzz – proper summer vibes!

Manu Chao – Clandestino (KJs remix) by KJs

Update:
This remix seems to be getting some attention, here’s what people are saying on the blogs:

MTV Iggy

Generation Bass

Globalibre

UK Funky

Okay Africa

Immersed Audio

In the past couple of months we decided to replace our external DJ mixer with a MIDI controller. We’ve always liked to mix externally to our laptop, always a bit wary of latency getting in the way of mixing. There were a number of reasons to finally make the switch though: reduce our footprint in the DJ booth, make lugging our equipment around easier and give more options to the mixing. And since we’re sporting a fresh MacBook Pro now we decided the latency problem would no longer be an issue.

Unlike most DJ teams, the three of us DJ together at the same time as opposed to back-to-back. We each have our own roles: mixing, effects and triggering; but we are always looking for ways to improve on our setup.

After a lot of research and discussion we finally decided on a Faderfox FT3. In the end, it was a close call between that and the (as yet unreleased) Novation Twitch. The Twitch does look like an amazing piece of kit but eventually it was the lack of four true channels that put us off.

So yesterday, having placed our order last week, we eagerly took delivery of a brand new Faderfox FT3. And after an evening of playing with it here’s the first impressions:

It’s small, but not too small. I seem to be able to control each knob and slider easily enough. It’s light as well, which is great for lugging around but maybe too light for performing steadily. We’ll see.

The faders and knobs are pretty solid. I’m really impressed with build quality so far. The crossfader is much stiffer than our DJ mixer, but I tried it out a bit and think it will be ok. Maybe I won’t be able to do the really quick cuts that I’m used to, but I can probably map a button to cut the tune in and out anyway, like a mixer transformer button. And maybe after a few weeks of use, it’ll loosen up anyway.

Faderfox have managed to pack in a lot of controls into it’s tiny package. It has a LOT of modes: EQ, effect, global, deck etc, Each time a different mode is selected, the knobs and buttons do different things, plus there’s a Shift button which effectively doubles each control. It’s gonna take a while to put a template together that we like and then get used to.

My worry with this controller was that all the knob are endless encoders so their current position is unknown. That’s normally ok for individual DJs, because they can just look at the screen and see where they’re at. But for us, Phil might be doing something completely different on screen so I can’t quickly look to see a knob position.

Faderfox’s solution, however, is really neat. When you click on a knob, it ‘resets’ it back to zero. So you know you can always get the sound back to normal by clicking the knob. Only four of the nine knobs have this feature and the default Ableton Live template just uses it for three: EQ low, mid and high.

The unit is designed as an all-in-one controller for mixing, triggering and effects and the Live template that comes bundled is set up to achieve all that. But we’ll obviously set up the template to concentrate on the mixing aspect. There’s no need for me to be triggering clips, for instance. And that is gonna take a little while to get right.

There you go then. One evening’s thoughts on our new controller. Be sure to check back again for a more in-depth review in the next month or so.

Oh how we neglect this blog sometimes…

Here’s a free tropical basstune we released a couple of weeks ago on the KMB Bootleg series.

Moja (KMB Boot) by Kiss My Bass

Our brand new EP, featuring two original tracks and 2 remixes from Yeah! Woho! and Kick OH is out now! To celebrate the launch, label Kiss My Bass Recordings are giving away a third remix by Fotza absolutely free!

Listen to the tunes over on Sound Cloud, and get them at all good online retailers, including Beatport, Juno. iTunes and Amazon.

KJs – Back Up / Broken EP by Kiss My Bass

Download the free bonus track here:

KJs – Back Up (Fotza Remix) by Kiss My Bass

Electro house on a uk-funky/tropical vibe. Available as part of Rot10 Musik’s latest collection, Rot10 Invades Miami at all good download stores.

Waffle by KJs