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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Exclusive to PandaDnB, one of the biggest d&b channels on Youtube, here are the videos for the Klute, Stray & Kastle remixes on Part 2 of the Natural History Remixes. As usual, all videos created by ithinkitsnice.

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.

Part 2 of the Natural History Remixes will be in all good vinyl & digital shops around August 23rd.
If you want to be notified as soon as it’s available then stick your email address in here:

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

The artwork features hand-painted imagery from ithinkitsnice and vinyl will only be available in very limited numbers, as usual.

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.

We love all the reworkings. Hope you do too.

By the Time My Light Reaches You I’ll Be Gone (Klute remix) – Vinyl & digital
By the Time My Light Reaches You I’ll Be Gone (Klute remix) by Blu Mar Ten

If I Could Tell You (Stray remix) – Vinyl & digital
If I Could Tell You (Stray remix) by Blu Mar Ten

Nobody Here (Kastle remix) – digital only
Nobody Here (Kastle remix) by Blu Mar Ten

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.

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

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

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

14th Sep 2008

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

29th Nov 2008

29th Dec 2008

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

Download the mix here

Blu Mar Ten – Kongkast Mix: Oct 2009 by Blu Mar Ten

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

Blu Mar Ten – Natural History: CD / 12″ Vinyl / 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

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

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.

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

BMT001A: Blu Mar Ten – Close – vinyl & mp3

BMT001AA: Blu Mar Ten – Above Words – vinyl & mp3

BMT001D: Blu Mar Ten – If I Could Tell You – mp3 only

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Please note: vinyl is a limited run of 500 copies with gorgeous artwork from ithinkitsnice , so if you decide you want it in 6 months don’t be surprised if you get ripped off on ebay.

Buy on vinyl from all good shops including:
Redeye
Chemical
Juno
Breakbeat Science

Buy mp3s from all good shops including:
iTunes
Digital Tunes
Juno
Beatport

DJ support from Marky, Ed Rush, Utah Jazz, Logistics, D Bridge, Instra:mental, Data, Ink, London Elektricity, Nerm & D-Kode, Annie Nightingale, Crissy Criss, Mosus, Furney, SPY, A Sides, Tom Middleton, ASC, Kubiks & Lomax, Marcus Intalex, John B, Alleycat, Big Bud and many others

Watch this space for news on the next single, coming very soon

Redeye Records have a handful of promos of our new single ‘Close’ / ‘Above Words’ in stock ahead of the full release on April 6th.

Vinyl for this single is going to be limited to 500 copies, so unless you want to be ripped off on ebay in six months time, we suggest you pick up a cheap copy right now. Click HERE to get yours.

Full release will be April 6th with these two tracks and the digital exclusive ‘If I Could Tell You’ in all the usual vinyl and digital shops

Listen to the show on the BBC’s iPlayer HERE

Tracklist
The Qemists – On the Run (Ninja Tune)
Camo & Krooked – Tonight (CDR)
Phesta – ‘Skank’ (Terchnique)
Qbik – My House (Planet Funk)
Qbik & Seeka – Let the Music (CDR)
BCee – Consumed (Logistics Remix) (Spearhead)
Dirtyphonics & Tali – The Secret (Audio Porn)
Kl & Expect – The 98 Thing (Hustle Audio)

Essential Electro:
We Don’t Sleep – Can’t Hide Her (Subsonic Remix) (Nu-Electro)
Subsonic ft. We Don’t Sleep – Gangsta Party (Nu-Electro)
Mixhell – Boom Da (Crooker Remix) (Judas)
Shadow Dancer – Lower Left (Golden Traxe)
Lady Sovereign – So Human (Soggy face Remix) (Midget)
Chasing Shadows – Amirah (Hench)
501- Hidden Words (Offroad)
Flying Lotus – Tealeaf Dancers (Subterra Dub Bootleg) (Dubplate)
Alterego – Buckingham Palace (Modeselektor’s Sw1a1aa Remix) (Klang Elektronik)

Amen Classics:
J Magic – Lizard VIP (CDR)
Wots My Code – Dubplate (Total Science Remix) (C.I.A)
Renegade – Terrorist (Dread)

Temper Trap – Science Of Fear (Mistabishi Remix) (White)
Johnny L – Evar (High Contrast Remix)(White)
Nuphlo – Disciple (Nasha Records)
Lenzman – Emeralds Feat Jo-S (Shogun LTD)
Subterra & Dekko – Impulse (CDR)
Alix Perez – I’m Free (Shogun Audio)
Lomax – Mercia (Ram)
Soul Intent – Rebel Music (CDR)
Spectrasoul – Guardian (Metalheadz)
Squash – Crawlers (CDR)
NC-17 & Nusense – Just Heroes (Viper)
Noah D & Mixmaster Doc – Side2side (Dubplate)
Randomer – Standoff (Dubplate)
Blu Mar Ten – If I Could Tell You (Blu Mar Ten)
Undersound ft. Chloe Laing – Whisper Goodbye (CDR)
Paul T – Bass Technic (CDR)
Mikal – Desert Blues (CDR)
BMK ft. Laura Brown – Probably (CDR)
Calibre – Two.Drop (CIA Deep Kut)
Drifta ft. Jaz – Whisper (CDR)
Catch 22 – Chasing Shadows (Catch 22)
D-Code & Chan1 – Glitterstep (Sub Swara Remix) (Shiva Soundsystem)
La Roux – In For the Kill (Skream Remix) (Polydor)

Watch the video with DJSS here
Download the Subterra mix from Soundcloud.

TRACKLIST:
01. Spectrasoul – Alibi (Break rmx) – Critical
02. dBridge & Calibre – Ponderosa – Exit
03. Spinline – Cold Feet – SOM
04. Nu:Tone – Troopers – Hospital
05. Lomax – Mercia – Ram
06. Alix Perez & Survival – Untitled – Critical
07. Subterra & Dekko – Torrent – Frequency
09. Jubei & Trees – Trident – ?
10. Mindscape & Identity – Ice Breaker – Subtitles
11. Culture shock & Furlonge – Untitled – ?
12. Xample & Lomax – Contra – Ram
13. C4C – Crash Test – C4C
14. Culture Shock – Gears – Ram
15. C4C – Worlds Apart – C4C
16. Subterra & Dekko – The End – Frequency
17. Break – Isis – Symmetry
18. Jubei & Tryrone – Tremor – I.T
19. Enei & NPhonix – Quicksilver – Citrus
20. Subterra & Dekko – Eclipse – Ruse
21. SpectraSoul – Mimic – Subtitles
22. Break – Come & Get it – Soul:R
23. Subterra & Dekko – Quagmire – Frequency
24. Jubei & Icicle – Keep up – Xtingtion Agenda
25. Subterra ft Lean – Untitled – Dub
26. Lomax – Grid Harsh – Dub
27. Spinline – Geek – Dub
28. Lomax – Too Real – Soul:R
29. SpectraSoul & Ben E – Suppression – Subtitles
30. Subterra & Dekko – Untitled – Dub
31. SpectraSoul – Organiser – Critical
32. Subterra – Dubthang – Dub
33. Alix Perez Ft Kemo – Im Free – Shogun
>> Commix & Icicle – Ultra Clean
35. Subterra – Celestial – Frequency
36. Adam Form – Down Inside (Subterra & Dekko Remix) – Rubik
37. Blu Mar Ten – If i could tell you – Blu Mar Ten
38. DC Breaks – Pickett Line – Frequency
39. Trisector – Morning Rain – Med School
40. Break – Traits Remix – Symmetry

As we’ve mentioned previously, the vinyl will be ‘Close’ b/w ‘Above Words’, with ‘If I Could Tell You’ as a digital exclusive. You can hear clips of all three tracks below.
Just so you know, we’re working closely with our distributor to try and ensure that the vinyl and MP3s hit the stores on exactly the same day.

BMT001A: Blu Mar Ten – Close

BMT001AA: Blu Mar Ten – Above Words

BMT001D: Blu Mar Ten – If I Could Tell You (digital exclusive)

Soundcheck before the club opened. Track playing is ‘If I Could Tell You’

..and Ros playing the same tune at the end of his set

Blu Mar Ten…Tracks playing are ‘Vanishing Point’ by Ulterior Motive going into ‘Jungle Music’ by Logistics

…and here are some photos…Thanks to everyone for makign us so welcome. We had a great night

Drive By presents HOSPITAL RADIO

23RD FEBRUARY 2009
with CHRIS GOSS & TOMAHAWK
and special guest MISTABISHI

1st Hour
Influx UK – We’re On The Move (New Identity)
Logistics – Toytown (Hospital)
Mistabishi – The Light’s Really Bad (Hospital)
The Temper Trap – Science Of Fear : Mistabishi remix (Infectious)
Mistabishi – Greed (Hospital)
Mistabishi – Printer Jam (Hospital)
Mistabishi – From Memory (Hospital)
Mistabishi – Millwall (Hospital)
Mistabishi – No Matter What (Hospital)
Marcus Intalex – Vintage (dub)
Rudenko – Everybody : Danny Byrd dub (Data)

2nd Hour
Agent Alvin – Drift Away (dub)
Danny Howells – Matrix remix (Data)
Data – Vice (Metalheadz)
Nu:Tone – Battle Theme (Hospital)
Chris S.U. – The Peak (Renegade Hardware)
Culture Shock – Gears (dub)
Friction+K-Tee – Fired Up (dub)
Danny Byrd – Red Mist VIP (Hospital)
High Contrast – Seven Notes In Black (Hospital)
Spectrasoul – Alibi : Break remix (Critical)
Trisector – It’s Cold (dub)
Blu Mar Ten – If I Could Tell You (dub)
Bop – Random Thoughts (Med School)

Listen to the show here
Buy the Mistabishi album here

First thing to say is that our new material will be self-released, under the label name “Blu Mar Ten“, (that’s right, we didn’t come up with anything flashier), and will be distributed by the wonderful ST Holdings.

The single will be ‘Close’ and ‘Above Words’, which will be available both on vinyl and for digital download, and also ‘If I Could Tell You’ which will be a digital-only exclusive.

The tracks have seen some great support from right across the d&b spectrum, including Marky, London Elektricity, Ed Rush, D Bridge, Instra:mental, Ink, Marcus Intalex, John B, Logistics, Lomax, Teebee, Utah Jazz, Alley Cat and many more.

All being well, the single will be out around the end of March and will feature brilliant artwork from a new face on the scene. We’ll be revealing an artwork preview, and the man behind it’s magic very soon, so watch this space…