Dub Save The Queen

Sly & Reggie, aka The Middle Class Soundsystem, cordially invite you, both loyal and disloyal subjects to partake in their latest musical project. 'Dub Save The Queen' is the title of a unique album planned for release later this year, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee year.

The UK is about to celebrate 60 years of Queen Elizabeth on the throne. Are you celebrating or as mad as hell or just a bit dazed and confused? Put your thoughts into musical form and send the track to Sly & Reggie!

Their aim is to bring together the best musical and lyrical talent to write on the subject of Queen and country and showcase that talent on a new compilation album. So, be bold, be creative, be brilliant, but above all be involved.

Sly and Reggie have got the ball rolling already. Please rise for The National Anthem... in Dub:



Head over to dubsavethequeen.com for more information about the project, and to get involved yourself!

ps... while we're here, we can also highly recommend Sly & Reggie vs The World's latest album 'Middle Class Dub Vol 2' - check it here

Camp Bestival 2012: Hot Chip, Chic, Jimmy Cliff, Adam Ant, Kool & The Gang and more!

Camp Bestival, Bestival’s family-friendly sister festival, has announced its line-up for 2012!

Headlining Friday night are Hot Chip. The London five-piece’s new album is due out this year, so this not only represents a chance to see one of Britain’s most reliable live acts, but an opportunity to hear music from album number five.

Saturday night is billed as Camp Bestival’s Saturday Night Fever, with Kool & The Gang, Chic featuring Nile Rodgers [above], and the Earth Wind and Fire experience featuring Al McKay leading the charge. Also scattered across the festival’s three days are live performances from Jimmy Cliff, Little Dragon, P Money, Youngman, Adam Ant, Rizzle Kicks, Henry Rollins’ Breakfast with Henry (a spoken word performance), Random Impulse and more.

On the DJ side of things, decks will at various points be manned by Ben UFO, David Rodigan, Mosca, Greg Wilson, Zed Bias, Stopmakingme, Jaguar Skills and more.

Wrap your ears 'round these disco-themed Camp Besti podcast, and check out the vid below featuring the one and only Nile Rodgers talking about his sure-to-be spectacular return to Camp Bestival and jamming the ultimate festival anthem, 'Good Times'.



Camp Bestival takes place from July 26 to 29 at Lulworth Castle, Dorset. For more information and to snap up tickets, visit the Camp Bestival website.

Besti-mix 81: Daniel Avery (Stopmakingme)

Our latest Besti-mix is the handiwork of one of our favourite young DJs and producers of the past few years, Daniel Avery aka Stopmakingme. Inspired by the open-minded musically adventurous sets of his heroes Andrew Weatherall, Erol Alkan and Optimo, Daniel mixes up house, techno, cosmic drones, post punk and mutant no-wave in both his DJ sets and productions. No wonder Fabric snapped him up as resident.

A regular at Bugged Out and Durr, Daniel's releases - on labels including Tigersushi and Gomma - have cut swathes through dancefloors in 2011. And with big things planned including remixes of The Horrors and releases on New York's super-hip Throne of Blood label, his 2012 schedule should see Stopmakingme's star shine brighter still.

His exclusive Besti-mix sports a few of these as yet unreleased new cuts, as well as brilliant underground house and techno from the likes of Chloe, Tevo Howard and Steve Bug. As a wise man once said, don't stop 'til you get enough...

Download: Bestimix 81 Daniel Avery (Stopmakingme)

Scarlett and the Pixels - Sea Of LCD (Daniel Avery Remix) [Starlett]
Headman - Be Loved (Daniel Avery's 'Divided Love' Remix) [Relish]
Byetone - Topas [Raster Noton]
Raudive - End Of The End [History Clock]
Daniel Avery - Movement [Throne Of Blood]
New York Transit Authority - Off The Traxx (Catch That Train) [Lobster Boy]
Octo Octa - Coldwaves [100% Silk]
Steve Bug - This Is Acid [Poker Flat Recordings]
Daniel Avery - Airstrike (Remain Remix) [Relish]
I:Cube - Transpiration [Versatile]
Sei A - Flux (Martyn's Electromagnetic Mix) [Turbo Recordings]
Jokers Of The Scene - Black Mountie (Daniel Avery Remix) [Fool's Gold]
Naum Gabo - Iris [I'm A Cliche]
Worthy & Eats Everything - Tric Trac [dirtybird]
Chloe - Watch Out [Bpitch Control]
Tevo Howard - Intersection [Rush Hour]

Bestimix 81: Daniel Avery (Stopmakingme) by Bestimix on Mixcloud

Radio da Bank: Do Believe The Hype!

Rob da Bank counts down the 5 hype records you need in your life right now in Rob's High Fives (#1 Willis Earl Beal pictured), plus a weird and wonderful introduction to Industrial Jazz Jungle, oh yes you read that right.

And epic music from the likes of Lianne La Havas, Django Django, Milagres, King Creosote and Jon Hopkins and more...

Click here to catch up with the show via the BBC iPlayer

We Have Band — Where Are Your People - Eats Everything Mix
Justice — On ‘N’ On - Ed Banger/ Because Music
BIGkids — Drum In Your Chest - White
Objekt — Porcupine - Hessle
AraabMuzik — Underground Stream - Duke

Rob’s High Five – Number 5
Nicolas Jaar — With Just One Glance (Feat Scout LaRue)

Jinja Safari — Mermaids - Young Mine Records
Stay + — Dandelion - Ramp
Django Django — Firewater - Because Music
Philco Fiction — Help! - Brilliance

Rob’s High Five – Number 4
Zeds Dead — Adrenaline - Dim Mak records

Young Magic — Sanctuary - Carpark
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins — Missionary - Double Six
M83 — Reunion - Naïve
Vincenzo & Tyson Ballard — They Are Looking At You - Poker Flat Records
Grimes — Genesis - 4AD

Rob’s High Five – Number 3
Milagres — Here To Stay - Kill Rock Stars

Lianne La Havas — Forget - Warner
The Weeknd — Dd

Rob Da Banks Guide To Barely Believable New Genres Of Music: Industrial Jazz Jungle
Beef Claw — Owl Smasher
Madeon — Icarus - White

Rob’s High Five – Number 2
Spector — Chevy Thunder - Fiction

Bird — Hey Hey Moonshine - Jack To Phono
The Egg — Catch - Neurodisc

Rob’s High Five – Number 1
Willis Earl Beal — Evenings Kiss - XL Records

Emeli Sandé — Heaven (Alpines Mix) - Virgin Records

Besti-vid of the week: Beardyman 'Big Man'

Beardyman has gone and done yet another big thing, this time with help of director Chris Cairns.

As part of his upcoming Oh! EP featuring Foreign Beggars (out 29th January), Beardyman performs Big Man (a track from his debut album I Done A Album) and the video itself allows fans through Facebook to transplant their own faces onto the little miscreant in the video so they themselves can been seen tearing up the streets of London.

Click here to get involved yourself to see how it works.

And click here to buy the single, album and/or video on iTunes.

The Mojo Filter Vintage Edits

Heads up ya'll, our amigo Mojo Filter recently released a compilation of his Vintage Edits via the rather excellent AOR Disco blog and its well worth a sniff and a few of your hard earned pennies.

Fulfilling an insatiable appetite for the new-wave of slo-mo house and disco vibes, AOR and Mojo Filter are leading the way in unearthing forgotten gems of old and giving them a little nip, tuck and re-edit. As Mr Mojo Filter explains: "Making something sound familiar and yet strange has a certain appeal. And even more alluring is making something that was made 20 years ago sound like it was produced well ahead of its time."

Check it out on Soundcloud & then go get your copy via the AOR Disco blog


AOR - Mojo Filter Vintage Edits by Mojo Filter

Besti-mix 80: The Guru (aka Pathaan)

And now for something a little bit different! We're bursting at the sides with unbridled glee to bring you this week's exclusive Besti-mix, ably steered by the hand of long-time Besti fave Pathaan to celebrate the launch of his digital music mag Globetronica.

Recorded under his guise, The Guru, the legendary chill out DJ has this to say about his Besti-mix: "I have had this massive urge to DJ under a different guise called ‘The Guru’ for a number of years. So when the invitation very kindly came from the lovely people of Bestival to create a Besti-mix, I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to introduce ‘The Guru’ to you; the Bestival massive! And I have fantasised about dropping this kind of set on the main stage to get the revellers into a ‘party fuelled hedonistic state of mind’ at both Bestival and Camp Bestival before an act, after dark ever since the inaugural years. All I’ll say is, when you hear this mix you’ll get ‘The Guru’! Hope you enjoy!"

Tuck in, we're sure you will...

Download: Bestimix 80 The Guru (aka Pathaan)

01. M.C. Yogi - Chakra Beatbox
02. Indian Ropeman - Bullet Proof 
03. Burt Latino & Friends - Bombay Cha Cha 
04. The Bhutan Philharmonic - Foggy Day (In England)
05. Bombay Dub Orchestra - Hot Thing/Jane Do Naa
06. Brown Boy Breaks - Beat Root
07. Me&You - White Choo Hill
08. Usha Uthup - I Feel Love
09. Bollywood Freaks - Don't Stop Till You get To Bollywood
10. Psychemagik - Bombay Battle
11. Stereo MCs - Gringo [Pathaan's Spaghetti Eastern remix]  
12. The Punk-A-Wallahs Mix - Dum Maro Dum 
13. Orchestre National de BarbËs - Sympathy For The Devil
14. Transglobal Underground - Templehead [Pathaan's Worldpeace remix]
15. The Heliocentrics - Outro

Bestimix 80: The Guru (aka Pathaan) by Bestimix on Mixcloud