Part 2 of the Natural History Remixes is in all good stores right now on vinyl and mp3, featuring reworkings from Klute, Stray and Kastle.

Vinyl is very very limited and Part 1 sold out in around ten days, so if you want a copy grab one quick.

The artwork features hand-painted imagery from ithinkitsnice.

Natural History Remixes: Part 2 by Blu Mar Ten

The tracklist for part 2 is:

By the Time My Light Reaches You I’ll Be Gone (Klute remix) – Vinyl & digital
If I Could Tell You (Stray remix) – Vinyl & digital
Nobody Here (Kastle remix) – digital only

Klute’s turned in a bongo-frenzy version of ‘By The Time My Light Reaches You I’ll Be Gone’ while Stray has transformed ‘If I Could Tell You’ into one of the best grooves we’ve heard in ages. Meanwhile, dubstep wonder kid Kastle has done what he does best and dragged ‘Nobody Here’ into some lo-slung gangster boogie territory.

Buy it on vinyl in all good stores including:
Redeye
Juno
Chemical

Buy mp3s in all good stores including:
Beatport
iTunes
Digital Tunes
Drum & Bass Arena
Juno

We’re giving away a copy of both parts 1 & 2 together with the original dubplate of ‘Believe Me’ & ‘Made of Air’ and a bunch of other stuff in our Facebook Photo Competition, so if you want to be in with a chance of getting freebies you can enter your photo now, or vote for your favourite. The competition closes this Thursday, August 26th 2010.

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Release date for these is 23rd August 2010.

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Hot on the heels of Part 1 comes the second set of Natural History remixes featuring Klute, Stray and Kastle.
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This summer we’re following up our ‘Natural History’ album with a set of remixes that brings together the finest in new and established talent from across the globe.

The six remixes will be released in two chapters, around a month apart

Part 1
Overwhelm (Seba remix)
Believe Me (Bop remix)
Above Words (Badmammal remix)

Part 2
By The Time My Light Reaches You I’ll be Gone (Klute remix)
If I Could Tell You (Stray remix)
Nobody Here (Kastle remix)

You can hear Seba’s remix of ‘Overwhelm’ and Bop’s remix of ‘Believe Me’ in our recent Fabric Live Mix. They are also featured in Doc Scott’s latest mix and John B’s latest podcast.
Audio of the other remixes coming soon, so watch this space.

If you want news about the release of these remixes then stick your email address into the ‘Subscribe to this Blog’ box on this page, and you’ll get instant updates as they arrive.

Someone emailed us a few days ago and asked…

i’m interested in this ’sketch’ idea…how do you put together the sketches in terms of instrumentation? do you have a stock of samples/patches to draw on which you then refine? how far you take it during the sketching phase. how do you exact quality control to make sure nothing gets missed and none of the weaker ideas get picked? i’d love to hear one of the original sketches so i could get an idea of how much you work it up before you shelve it.

…So I thought I’d pick a recent track and show a few snapshots of the stages it goes through before ending up as releasable.

NB – All audio in this post is 64k mp3, aside from the Soundcloud player at the end

If I Could Tell You – Released April 2009

We started working on this in November 2006 and, as you can hear, the sketch consists of a load of musical elements with placeholder drums and bass.

2nd Nov 2006

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The next step was to try and figure out more interesting drums and bass, so we started playing with much more chopped up arrangements. You’ll hear that the ideas for the bass were more or less carried through into the final version.

7th Aug 2008

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Over the next couple of months we started to look at the instrumentation again and see what could be added, what could be thrown out, and what needed to be rearranged.

18th Aug 2008

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14th Sep 2008

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We then spent the next month arranging the track into a full piece while still rejigging the instrumentation and writing new bass progressions.

20 Nov 2008

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29th Nov 2008

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29th Dec 2008

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We thought we’d got to a point where the track was more or less ready to go, but there was something nagging us about the drums. They were holding the tune back so at the very last minute we threw them all out and replaced them with the drums that give the whole tune a lot more space and that worked in sympathy with the instrumentation much more effectively, and that’s what you hear in the final version that was released a couple of years after it first began.

4th April 2009

Blu Mar Ten – If I Could Tell You by Blu Mar Ten

Our exclusive mix for Asia’s premier d&b podcast Kongkast is now live.
Like our last mix, this one features a whole bunch of artists you may not have heard of, and tunes that may never see the light of day.

Grab the mix here, or from the links at the bottom of this post.

Tracklist:
1. Sabre: Riverside
2. Paul B: Whisper
3. Stray: Silver From The Sky
4. Stray: Erase
5. Jean Doe: State of Transition
6. Sunchase: Keyring
7. Blu Mar Ten: By The Time My Light Reaches You I’ll Be Gone
8. Republic of Noice: Nu Ways
9. MTC & Quadra: Cold Trap
10. Intraphase: Intent Move
11. Commix: Japanese Electronics (Instra:mental remix)
12. Blu Mar Ten: Anytime Soon
13. Blu Mar Ten: If I Could Tell You
14. Boymerang: The River (VIP)
15. MRSA: Different
16. Mr Projectile: Sinking

Subscribe to KONGKAST in iTunes
Directly download enhanced m4a File (with track markers and pictures): here
Directly download MP3 File: here

Big thanks to the Kongkretebass boys for inviting us to record a show for them!

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More news on our new album ‘Natural History’, which will be released around early November, as listed on the ST Holdings site

Blu Mar Ten – Natural History: CD / 2×12″ / Digital

Returning to their ancestral roots, Natural History is the long-awaited first full drum & bass album from Blu Mar Ten, leaving you in no doubt of their position at the cutting edge of the genre.

From the storming remix of vocal opener Starting Over, through the deeply abstract Grey Area to the VIP rework of massive club hit Close and the epic Last Dance, Natural History showcases the trio’s ability to enrich and develop their DNA, resulting in an album full of surprising twists and turns that all carry the Blu Mar Ten stamp of quality.

CD Tracklisting:
01. Starting Over (2009 Remix)
02. Above Words
03. God’s Lonely Man
04. By The Time My Light Reaches You I’ll Be Gone
05. Grey Area
06. Believe Me
07. Close (VIP)
08. Clipjoint
09. If I Could Tell You
10. Nobody Here
11. Last Dance
12. Overwhelm
13. Bedroom Eyes

Digital Version will feature the following Bonus Tracks:
(14). Made Of Air
(15). Eight Rounds Rapid

2×12″ Vinyl Tracklist:
A) Close (VIP)
B) Clipjoint
C) If I Could Tell You
D) Last Dance

The eighth instalment of this epic series has arrived.
This episode features two BMT tracks, ‘By The Time My Light Reaches You I’ll Be Gone’, which will be on our new album, and the other is a little BMT vs ASC thing.

You can download the podcast from the Club Autonomic Site or subscribe directly on iTunes.
If those links don’t work it’s because the podcast is massively oversubscribed.
Luckily the Russians are on the case as usual, and have rehosted it here

As usual there is no track list with the podcast, but you can join in on Dogs on Acid where they’re trying to put one together.

Our wonderful designer, ithinkitsnice, has just taken some nice close up shots of the artwork he did for our last single.

Visit his site for more graphical niceness, including previews of his artwork for the forthcoming Bop album on Hospital subsidiary Medschool. Also watch out for his work on all our forthcoming releases

Another spanking show from Nerm & D-Code who were standing in for Mary-Anne Hobbs on Radio 1 last night. The boys played one of our brand new tracks which is likely to feature on the second single from the album, out in a few months.

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