The new compilation from Hospital Records, ‘Hospitality – Drum & Bass 2012′, is out today and features our track ‘Problem Child’.

‘Hospitality – Drum & Bass 2012′ comes as a 31-track mix CD or 31 unmixed tracks plus the mix as a digital download.

Buy direct from the Hospital Shop or iTunes.

A massive massive thanks to everyone who bought our new album this week.

We’re happy to report it went straight into the top ten in the iTunes UK dance chart, and into the top twenty in the US chart, which is pretty amazing for a small independent act like us.
The limited edition vinyl / CD / MP3 packs available from our shop are selling out fast and will probably disappear in the next week or so.

So thanks again to everyone who’s still buying music in this day & age.
We have no label behind us, no mysterious benefactors and no secret stash of cash – everything you see from BMT is made and paid for by us and us alone. The money you spend on our music goes straight back into the studio to make more music. So thanks very much. You’re making the next album possible.

Our new album, ‘Love is the Devil’, is out now on vinyl, CD & mp3 in all good stores. Get it now and help us pay the studio rent and feed the cats.

If you buy the vinyl from www.blumarten.com/shop you’ll get the CD, all the mp3s and stickers included free of charge.
Even if you don’t play vinyl you can still stick it on your wall like I do.

If you feel like getting less for your money you can also buy from these places:

MP3
iTunes
Beatport
Digital Tunes
Juno

Vinyl & CD
Redeye
Chemical
Juno

Tracklists for each format are:

Vinyl (4 tracks)
a) Into the Light (feat. Airwalker)
b) Hollow Men
c) Damage
d) Made in London

CD (13 tracks)
Into The Light (feat. Airwalker)
All Thoughts Are Prayers
Blind Soul (feat. Stray)
Five Summers
High Hopes (feat. INtrepid)
Made In London
The Fourth (feat. Jenni Potts)
Another Year (feat. Mike Lesirge)
Problem Child
Love Is The Devil
Sweet Little Supernova (feat. Rochelle Parker)
Whisper (feat. Kirsty Hawkshaw)
Blue Skies

MP3 (18 tracks)
Into The Light (feat. Airwalker)
All Thoughts Are Prayers
Blind Soul (feat. Stray)
Damage
Five Summers
High Hopes (feat. INtrepid)
The Beginning
Made In London
The Fourth (feat. Jenni Potts)
Another Year (feat. Mike Lesirge)
Problem Child
Love Is The Devil
Sweet Little Supernova (feat. Rochelle Parker)
Hollow Men
Whisper (feat. Kirsty Hawkshaw)
Blue Skies
Still The One (feat. InsideInfo)
All Or Nothing

If you’d like to book a Love is the Devil party in your town, please email Rob Homer at Faze2 Agency.

Just one more week to go until the full release of our new album ‘Love is the Devil’ and to ease the wait we’ve got two vinyl test-press copies of it to give away together with some artwork stickers.
We’ll happily post them anywhere in the world and we’ll pick one winner from Facebook and one winner from Twitter.

To win on Facebook just leave any old comment under the photo here.

To win on Twitter just hit the ‘Retweet’ button on this tweet.

In both cases we’ll pick the two winners at random this weekend.

If you couldn’t give a monkey’s about a test-press you can also pre-order the full album from www.blumarten.com/shop. If you buy the vinyl you’ll get the CD, all the mp3s, artwork prints and stickers along with it completely free, not to mention the fact that you’re supporting us by purchasing direct from the artist. What a bargain.

Release date for the full album is this Monday, 31st October.

Our new album ‘Love is the Devil’ is now available for preorder from our store.

As a thank-you for buying directly from our store all vinyl orders will include a CD copy of the album, all 18 tracks as 320k mp3s and prints & stickers of the album artwork.

This offer is only available when you get the album from blumarten.com/shop and is only available for the limited number of vinyl copies we have in stock.

Click here to preorder yours now. Orders will ship on 28th October.

Full release is 31st October.

Album preview:
Blu Mar Ten – Love is the Devil (album preview) by Blu Mar Ten

We’re now taking DJ bookings for the ‘Love is the Devil’ album tour.
If you’d like to arrange a party in your town, or would like your local promoter to organise a booking, please email Rob Homer at Faze2 Agency.

Release date: 31st Oct 2011
Formats: Vinyl / CD / Digital

Subscribe here for release details.

Tracklist:
Into The Light (feat. Airwalker)
All Thoughts Are Prayers
Blind Soul (feat. Stray)
Damage
Five Summers
High Hopes (feat. INtrepid)
The Beginning
Made In London
The Fourth (feat. Jenni Potts)
Another Year (feat. Mike Lesirge)
Problem Child
Love Is The Devil
Sweet Little Supernova (feat. Rochelle Parker)
Hollow Men
Whisper (feat. Kirsty Hawkshaw)
Blue Skies
Still The One (feat. InsideInfo)
All Or Nothing

More info soon.

Album release date is late October / November.

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Available to buy now from:

iTunes UK
iTunes International
Amazon (2xCD)
HMV (2xCD)
ASDA (2xCD)

You can see the full tracklists and get more info on the UKF Bass Culture site

The 2 CD & Download compilation features 41 of the most upfront and explosive tracks in bass music from scene stalwarts and emerging talent alike. With a tracklist that runs like a who’s who of the most exciting producers in the scene at the moment… From the synth heavy power of ‘Evelate’ by Gemini to Skizm’s earth-shattering remix of ‘Heavy Artillery’ and the technoid DnB of Blu Mar Ten & Insideinfo’s ‘Still The One’ there is a dizzying barrage of pure dancefloor destruction on offer. Whatever your poison, there is enough here to quench the thirst of even the most hungry bass fiends.

Before it drops we’re releasing the next single from it, ‘Problem Child‘ / ‘Sweet Little Supernova‘ so watch out for that.

You can still grab the first single ‘Five Summers‘ / ‘Still the One‘ from our shop, or any of the usual places.

You can subscribe to our newsletter if you want reminders of what’s happening and when it happens…

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You can buy the album from:

iTunes – £4.49
Drum & Bass Arena – £4.49

Here are clips of the first single from our forthcoming album. This will be out (hopefully) on July 4th.

‘Still The One‘ is a collaboration with InsideInfo and ‘Five Summers‘ is just us.

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Blu Mar Ten – Five Summers (BMT005) by Blu Mar Ten

Blu Mar Ten & InsideInfo – Still The One (BMT005) by Blu Mar Ten

Frantically working on the new album. Need to get everything finished by the end of July in order to be able to release it this year, so we’re pretty much living in the studio at the moment.
We look terrible and have lost all social skills but it’s shaping up ok.

This is something in progress with old pal Kirsty Hawkshaw on vocals. Hopefully it will make it on to the album.

The augmented re-release of our 2009 album is out now in all good digital stores.

Click below to read more, hear clips and download free tracks.

Natural History: Revision features 27 tracks at recession-conscious prices.
The album contains all the original tracks from Natural History, plus remixes from Seba, Klute, Bop, Stray, Badmammal & Kastle, 3 new remixes from us and the 3 winners from our recent remix competition.

Buy Natural History: Revision from:

iTunes: £4.49 (includes hand-painted booklet by ithinkitsnice)
Drum & Bass Arena: £6.99
Trackitdown: £7.49
Juno: £8.99
Beatport: £11.10
Digital Tunes: £11.83

Natural History: Revision by Blu Mar Ten

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Bonus Free Downloads

You can also download the 13 excellent runners-up from our remix competition right here.
We’ll be doing a spotlight feature on the 16 best remix entries very soon so you can find out more about these new artists and hear more of their music. In the meantime please share these tracks on your Facebook / Twitter and give this new talent some well-deserved attention.

Just select the track you want to hear and click the symbol or ‘Download’ if you want to download it.

Natural History: Revision – Remix Competition Runners-Up (Free downloads) by Blu Mar Ten

The album includes all the Natural History remixes released earlier this year, three new remixes from us and the three winners from our recent remix competition. If you buy the album from iTunes you also get a hand-painted pdf booklet created by our designer ithinkitsnice.

We’ll also be making the 13 competition runner-up tracks available for free download when the album is released.

Release date for Natural History: Revision is November 29th 2010, and it will be available in all other download stores as well as iTunes, but if we manage to cause some damage on the iTunes chart then we’ll dish out a free tune for Christmas as a thank you!

Click here to pre-order Natural History: Revision on iTunes for only £4.49.

On November 29th we’ll be releasing a digital-only, augmented version of our 2009 LP ‘Natural History’, adding a brand new set of remixes including fresh talent from the winners of our recent remix competition.

The album is titled Natural History: Revision and will feature reworkings from Seba, Klute, Stray, Bop, Badmammal, Kastle, newcomers Nomad, Hot Mess, 5-Foot Nothing & Anarchy Rise, as well as three previously unheard remixes from us.

Blu Mar Ten Remix Competition Winners by Blu Mar Ten

Natural History: Revision will have 27 tracks on it and will be available at a recession-conscious price of £4.99*.
The iTunes version features a booklet of hand-painted artwork from ithinkitsnice.

The full tracklist is:

1] Starting Over [2009 remix]
2] Above Words
3] God’s Lonely Man
4] By the Time My Light Reaches You I’ll Be Gone
5] Grey Area
6] Believe Me
7] Close [VIP]
8] Clipjoint
9] If I Could Tell You
10] Nobody Here
11] Last Dance
12] Overwhelm
13] Bedroom Eyes
14] Made of Air
15] Eight Rounds Rapid
16] Overwhelm [Seba remix]
17] Believe Me [Bop remix]
18] Above Words [Badmammal remix]
19] If I Could Tell You [Stray remix]
20] By the Time My Light Reaches You I’ll Be Gone [Klute remix]
21] Nobody Here [Kastle remix]
22] Above Words [Blu Mar Ten Tech remix]
23] Above Words [Blu Mar Ten Bounce remix]
24] Believe Me [Nomad remix]
25] Believe Me [5-Foot Nothing & Anarchy Rise remix]
26] Believe Me [Hot Mess remix]
27] Believe Me [Blu Mar Ten Handbag & Heels remix]

If you’d like to be notified when Natural History: Revision is released you can join our newsletter by entering your email below:

* Price may vary from store to store

Remix ‘Believe Me’ and YOU could feature on the Natural History album reissue…

Later this year we will be releasing a digital-only, augmented version of our Natural History album, which will include all the recent remixes from Klute, Seba, Bop, Stray, Badmammal & Kastle, some previously unheard remixes from us and, with any luck, a special guest remix of Believe Me from one of YOU.

All you need to do is download the parts for the track, create your remix in any style you like and submit it to us for listening.

Please read the whole of this post before asking us questions. Many of them will be answered below.

Download the parts for ‘Believe Me’ here

Once you’re happy with your remix, just send it to us using the dropbox below. We will pick our favourite remix and the winning track will appear on the reissued album.
The deadline to enter your remix is midnight, 10th October 2010.
For those of you that don’t have any suitable kit at home try this free online software.

Submit your finished remix here
Send us your remix.

Natural History Remix Competition: Entry guidelines, information, terms & conditions

1. Your remix can be any style of music you choose and can be as similar or different to the original as you wish. We will pick the best and most interesting remix, so use your imagination.

2. If you publicise a full-length version of your remix before a winner is picked we are much less likely to choose your track, even if it’s really good.

3. Winning means that your remix will appear on the album with full credit to you. Winning the competition does not entail any form of financial reward for entrants.

4. Entering the remix competition implies full acceptance of these terms and conditions, which are legally binding. Blu Mar Ten reserves the right to disqualify any entrant if we have reasonable grounds to believe the entrant has breached any of these terms and conditions.

5. Please do not submit unfinished tracks or ‘works in progress’. These will be automatically disqualified.

6. We will not be able to enter into ‘feedback’ conversations about your entries, so please do not request this.

7. You may enter more than one remix.

8. You may use as many or as few of the samples as you see fit and you may add as much of your own content as you wish.

9. The winning track will be professionally mastered at Finyl Tweek.

10. The winning track must be provided in either WAV or AIFF format prior to mastering

11. The augmented album will be a digital-only release

12. The competition closes at midnight on Sunday October 10th 2010.

13. All entries must be received by midnight on the stipulated closing date. Those not received by the deadline will be invalid to enter. All entries must be submitted via the Blu Mar Ten Soundcloud dropbox. Entries submitted via other means will not be accepted. No responsibility can be accepted for entries not received by Soundcloud due to technical or other delivery difficulties.

14. The winner will be selected after the closing date at the discretion of Blu Mar Ten, whose decision is final. The winner will be notified within 7 days.

15. All parts made available to download, and all parts downloaded remain the property of Blu Mar Ten. All remixes completed, whether submitted in this competition or not, remain the property of Blu Mar Ten. No exploitation, or distribution of remixes shall be permitted without the sole written consent of Blu Mar Ten.

16. Winner will be the the remix submitted from all relevant entrants as the one most liked by Blu Mar Ten.

17. No purchase necessary and no proof of purchase required.

18. Blu Mar Ten’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. There is no cash alternative and the prize is non-transferable.

19. Blu Mar Ten reserves the right to verify the eligibility of applications.

20. The winner’s name may be published on blumarten.com, Blu Mar Ten’s social networks and Soundcloud.com after the closing date of the competition. Blu Mar Ten has the right to contact the winners for permission to involve them in any post prize-giving publicity and the winner agrees to such activities and shall make themselves reasonably available for such purposes.

21. Your entry must not infringe on the rights of any third party, including, but not limited to copyrights, trademarks, or rights of privacy or publicity, or other intellectual property rights.

22. Blu Mar Ten reserves the right to cancel or amend the terms of this competition at anytime without prior notice. Any changes will be posted within the rules on blumarten.com / other platforms

23. The competition and the terms and conditions of this agreement will be governed by the law of England & Wales.

24. Prize is subject to final selection. In the event of unforeseen circumstances, Blu Mar Ten retains the right to offer an alternative prize.

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To celebrate the release of the Natural History Remixes we’re running a little Facebook competition and giving away a bunch of stuff.

1) A vinyl copy of Natural History Remixes: Part 1 (Seba & Bop)
2) A vinyl copy of Natural History Remixes: Part 2 (Klute & Stray)
3) The ORIGINAL, ONE-OFF, ACETATE DUBPLATE of ‘Believe Me’ / ‘Made of Air’, cut by the legendary Shane @ Finyl Tweek Mastering
4) iTunes vouchers to pick up all 6 remixes including versions from Badmammal & Kastle
5) A bunch of BMT stickers
6) BMT artwork postcards

TO ENTER:
To enter the giveaway, all you have to do is submit a photo of yourself, (or a friend), pictured with one of our releases or T-shirts. It can be any release you like from 1996 up to 2010.

We’ll put all the entries in the competition photo album on Facebook and anyone can vote on them by clicking ‘Like’. The photo with the most ‘Likes’ when the giveaway ends will win all the stuff above.

NB: You have to click ‘Like’ on the Blu Mar Ten Facebook page before you’re able to submit or vote on photos.

Remember, other people are going to be voting on this, so if you want the goodies you don’t need us to tell you that the more amusing / risqué / lunatic / sexy your photo is, the better chance you have of winning…

The closing date for entries is midnight on THURSDAY 26th AUGUST.
The winner will be announced the following day (27th).

Here are some of the entries so far. Head on over to the gallery to vote for your favourites…

Generated by Facebook Photo Fetcher

Seba’s forthcoming remix of our track ‘Overwhelm’ is featured on the new Ministry of Sound CD Drum & Bass CD mixed by Friction

If you pre-order the album and enter the code ‘FRICTION’ at checkout you’ll receive £1 off your order.

Follow Friction, Shogun Audio and Ministry of Sound on Twitter.

EXAMPLE: So guys first off, hows 2009 been for blu mar ten?

Chris: Busy and focused. One of our best years yet

EXAMPLE: Your new album “Natural History” has been causing a bit of a stir. What was the idea behind your album? what sort of statement did you want to make?

Leo: Broadly, we decided a while back to limit ourselves to a strict 170bpm template, veering away from the genre hopping we used to do. This limitation is a freedom so I think we’ve done better music and made progress faster. The album is the first batch of results from this new path.

Chris: Even though we’ve been making d&b since 1995, and despite this being our fourth album, we’d never made a proper d&b album from the bottom-up, so we thought it was about time. We didn’t want to make something that sounded like much other d&b that’s around, we just wanted to make something we were proud of. We don’t really care if it does or doesn’t fit with what else is going on in the d&b community, we’re much more interested in appealing to a broader audience than that.

EXAMPLE: Did you expect the response that it’s had?

Chris: We didn’t really know what to expect, but the response has been fantastic. It shot up the charts in all the online stores and it’s just been listed as one of the best dance albums of 2009 on iTunes..So yes, we’re pretty happy with that. I think the fact that we’ve been around a long time and written more music than just d&b has really helped us reach different sets of people, especially in places like the US where d&b isn’t very popular at all.

EXAMPLE: Where do you stand on the vinyl or cd or serato debate?

Chris: Really don’t care. It’s completely irrelevant to us. Personally I only play vinyl, and still cut dubplates because that’s what I love, but then Leo plays CDs because that’s what he likes. But it really doesn’t matter. People who worry about it really need something better to get worked up over.

EXAMPLE: You asked for some interesting questions and nothing gets peoples attention more than a bit of controversy, How do you feel about the “Bishigate controversy” a few weeks ago?

Chris: Again, not really that bothered. The only problem I can see is a mismatch of expectation. i.e. If 500 people come to a club expecting to see one thing and you do something completely different then i think that’s a bit unfair. If people *knew* that you might be doing something different and had the choice about whether they want to pay to see it or not then I really don’t think there’s an issue. The reality is, (whether you like it or not), that outside of a few internet forums the vast majority of people who go out to clubs have no idea about this whole episode, and even if you told them they wouldn’t care. To most people, getting two records that sound more or less the same to run in time with each other is a complete non-event.
Personally I wouldn’t do it, but then I enjoy the whole chaotic process of mixing and performing, as opposed to objecting to it on some weird moral grounds.
Quite a few people started complaining about producers DJing and how they shouldn’t if they’re not very good, but this is one of the realities of our time. Piracy on the scale we have now is often justified on the grounds that producers should now make their money from performance as opposed to sales, and so we have people out on the road who, years ago, would have stayed in the studio making music which is what they’re best at. People often forget that there’s no actual link between sitting at a computer and making music, and getting up in front of a thousand people and smashing up a party – they’re completely different skills and just because you’re good at one there’s no reason at all that you should good at the other. So if you force people into a performance situation (which can be very nerve-wracking at times) things like this are going to crop up from time to time. It’s inevitable.
Solution? Support the producers by buying their music, then they won’t have to take gigs they don’t really want to do in order to make ends meet and the ‘good DJs’ can get on with doing what they do best.

EXAMPLE: How did Blu Mar Ten come about?

Chris: Leo & I met through a mate in 1995 and started putting tunes together. It worked really well and we had a release about 8 months after our first studio session. We sent some stuff to Bukem who liked what we were doing, and after we did a remix for Erykah Badu’s first single we got signed to Good Looking. I’d known Michael since around 1993 and when he moved to London he started sharing our studio and gradually became absorbed into Blu Mar Ten.

EXAMPLE: You branched out into other genres what made you want to spread your wings beyond drum and bass?

Leo: We always listened super widely and we still do. But listening widely and writing widely all the time aren’t necessarily the best paths. Hence the 170bpm comment earlier.

Chris: If you really like music and you enjoy making it you’re constantly looking for interesting new sounds and ways of working. Drum & bass isn’t so interesting that it can satisfy you completely so you need to branch out from time to time. I never really trust people who only listen to d&b…It just displays a bit of a lack of imagination. We pretty much never listen to d&b ourselves..there’s too much other interesting (and better) music out there.

EXAMPLE: Which labels and artists are doing it for you at this moment? also who can you see being the bright stars of 2010?

Chris: There are loads of bright stars out there right now. Newer names I’m enjoying at the moment are:

Stray
Randomer
San.dra
Circa
Mr Sizef & Unquote
Vaccine
Ulterior Motive
Kharm
Jean Doe

and a whole load more…

Here’s a couple of mixes where you can hear some of their stuff:
www.blumarten.com/home/drum-bass-mix-sep-2009
www.blumarten.com/home/exclusive-bmt-mix-kongkast

Leo: Well, I can do the non DnB stuff. Recently liking:

CFCF “Call Girl”
Bibio “Bones & Skulls”
Wild Beasts “Hooting & Howling”
Jon Hopkins “A Drifting Down”
El Perro Del Mar “Change Of Heart”
Washed Out “Feel It All Around”
Darkstar “Aidys Girl’s a Computer”

EXAMPLE: What was the first ever piece of music you bought and also the last?

Leo: Blondie “Heart Of Glass” / Clipz “Download (Original Sin Remix)”

Michael: David Essex “A Winter’s Tale” and Kelly Clarkson’s album “All I Ever Wanted”

Chris: ‘Iko Iko’ The Belle Stars / ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ OST

EXAMPLE: Now that your album is out and you’ve been touring whats next?

Chris: We have a remix we’ve done for Bop coming out on Hospital early next year together with other reworkings of his stuff from Lynx and Subwave.
There’ll be the final single from our album coming out sometime as well – we’re just sorting out some remixes at the moment but it should be great if it all comes together.
And we’ve already started work on the next album which will be out….at some point in the distant future.

EXAMPLE: When can the mancunian fans next catch blu mar ten?

Chris: When a Mancunian promoter books us!