Looks like a great lineup for this years Outlook Festival, Europe’s largest bass music and soundsystem culture festival, with the likes of Andy C, Skream, Friction and Hatch, to name just a few.
Check out a video of last years festival for an idea of what to expect.
SCRATCH PERVERTS PRESENT BEATDOWN 2010
Friday 12th November
10pm-6am. £15/10 (Students/fabricfirst Members) before 3am, £6 after.
tickets: www.fabriclondon.com
Featuring:
Scratch Perverts, Andy C, Bassnectar, Benji B, Doctor P, Dread MC, Guido, Hardhouse Banton, Jagga (LIVE), Joe Ransom, Mutants, MC A.D, MC GQ, Popof, Riva Starr, Rusko, The bPm, Theophilus London (LIVE), Untold, Zinc
It’s been rather a long while, too long in my opinion, since the last Nightlife compilation of the best drum & bass, but I’m glad to see that Andy C’s Nightlife 5 will be out on Monday.
The tracklisting looks awesome:
CD 1
1. Spor – Kingdom
2. Delta Heavy – Space Time
3. Mind Vortex – Onslaught
4. Chase & Status – No Problem
5. Wilkinson – Moonwalker
6. Loadstar – Link To The Past
7. Bladerunner – Spartan Law
8. Hamilton – Echoes
9. Octane & DLR – Seven
10. Konflict – Messiah >> Splash Babylon
11. Sparfunk – Crash Test Dummy
12. Mindscape – Bounce
13. Shock One – Polygon (Dirtyphonics Remix)
14. Mind Vortex – Now It’s Time
15. Sigma – Stronger
16. Noisia – Deception VIP
17. Survival, Octane & DLR – Transition
18. Hive – Blackout >> Ed Rush & Optical – Schranders Dice
19. Wilkinson – Scream It
20. Rusko ft. Amber Coffman – Hold On (Subfocus Remix)
21. Siren – Snorkel >> Logistics – Colour Wheel
22. Spor – Halogen
23. Phace – Strange Science
24. Loadstar – BLVD
25. D Kay & Lee – Tuning VIP
26. Break – Breakfast
27. Culture Shock – Ohrwurm
28. DC Breaks – Take That
29. Spinline – Run
30. Gridlok & The Upbeats – The Jitters
31. Ram Trilogy – Gridlock (Break Remix)
32. Commix – I Have You
33. Culture Shock – I Remember
CD 2
1. Craggz & Parallel – Turn The Page
2. DJ Die – Ghet’to Bizness
3. Break – All Thats Left
4. DJ Fresh – Mission To Mars
5. Tyke & Recipe – The Music Makers
6. S.P.Y. – Go With The Flow
7. Fierce & Vicious Circle – Section VIP
8. Enei – One Chance
9. Culture Shock – Footloose
10. Hold Tight – Lounge (DC Breaks Remix)
11. Sub Focus – Triple X
12. Blackout – L.O.V.E. (Hamilton Remix)
13. Delta Heavy – Take The Stairs
14. Ed Rush & Optical – Chubrub
15. Sub Focus – Rock It VIP
16. Break – Hot Love
17. Culture Shock – Protection
18. Noisia & Phace – Floating Zero
19. DJ Fresh – Cylon
20. Total Science & S.P.Y. – Gangsta
21. Total Science – Squash (S.P.Y. Remix)
22. Callide – Supreme
23. Hamilton – Soundboy
24. Wilkinson – Samurai
25. Drumsound & Bassline Smith – Can You Feel It
26. Apollo Two – Return To Atlantis (Marky & S.P.Y. Remix)
27. Loadstar – Hit The Ground
28. Break – Get Hot
29. Underworld – Scribble
30. DC Breaks – Pickett Line VIP >> Sub Focus – Deep Space
And it’s good to see it’s not a compilation of the “usual suspects” of tracks. But then, this is a proper D&B compilation remixed by a proper producer!
Can’t wait!
And to wet your apetite for all things RAM Records, here’s a video trailer for forthcoming behind the scenes program on Andy and Ram.
Receiving a disc with Ram Records on it, you know you’re going to experience something awesome, and Loadstar (aka Xample and Lomax) didn’t fail to disappoint.
The release on 27th Septmber 2010 has two tracks, both very different but both excellent pieces of drum & bass. The first track, as it’s name suggests, “Link to the Past” has an old skool drum beat overlayed with a a dirty bassline. Whilst the track kicks off all fluffy, once the bassline (updating the Ram classic “Speed of Sound”) kicks in fluffiness is over making this an awesome track.
Rapidas, is equally dark in bassline terms, but with guitar riffs and a pumping drum beat. Not as good as the Link to the Past but good enough for any drum & bass collection.
Can’t wait for their debut album or indeed the Andy C Nightlife 5 collection that will probably also feature this track.
Noisia has announced that they will be launching their new album “Split the Atom” (which is out on the April 5th) at London’s Fabric on the 9th Apil. They’ll be taking over room 2 and will be supported by Phace, Rockwell, and Andy C.
As for the album, it’s MASSIVE! It opens with their recent release “Machine Gun”, moves on to an awesome drum n bass track (“My World”) which is reminscent of a Roni Size track and goes from strength to strenght from there. Full of deep beats, grungy tweaks and dark basslines this album did not disappoint. There’s a really tasty collaboration with Foreign Beggars too. Overall the album is a mix of techno/electro tracks and drum n bass, actually typically Noisia sounding 
And if a new album and launch party is not enough, they also premiered their Essential Mix for Radio One (click the link for the tracklisting); they’ve launched an online video game
Wow, they’ve been busy, cus that’s not all, they’ve relaunched their website and set up an online store.
But that’s enough of that – buy the album it is just awesome, probably one of the best albums I’ve had the pleasure of listening to this year!
Tracklisting:
1. Machine Gun
2. My World f. Giovanca
3. Shitbox
4. Split The Atom
5. Thursday
6. Leakage
7. Hand Gestures f. Joe Seven
8. Headknot
9. Red Heat
10. Shellshock f. Foreign Beggars
11. Whiskers
12. Alpha Centuri
13. Soul Purge f. Foreign Beggars
14. Diplodocus
15. Paper Doll
16. Dystopia
17. Sun Hammer f. Amon Tobin
18. Stigma
19. Square Feet
