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MC Zulu Continues Global Bass Crusade With Israel’s Top Reggae Producer

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012


http://mczulu.bandcamp.com/album/love-machine-the-single

Controversial Reggae vocalist MC ZULU made his mark combining futuristic dance music with social commentary, often displaying a biting wit. His latest single “Love Machine” is a mischievous glimpse into the suggestive nature of Electro Reggae, a sound he has championed throughout the world.

Although his voice has been celebrated globally, MC Zulu’s greatest gift is his ability with words. He effortlessly conveys a seductive message without crossing the threshold into the obscene. The conversational tone of “Love Machine” playfully details the misadventures related to virtual romance.

Love Machine was produced by one of Tel Aviv’s most recognized DJ luminaries SaBBo Ronen, from the Israeli Hip-Hop collective “Soulico”. SaBBo has also worked with Stephen Marley, Damian Marley, Turbulence, Rye Rye, Ghostface Killah and others. He is also a frequent contributor to the Mad Decent and Generation Bass blogs.

credits

released 14 February 2012
Produced By: SaBBo Ronen
www.SoundCloud.com/SaBBo

MC ZULU / Electro Track Therapy / iTunes’ New And Noteworthy

Tuesday, October 11th, 2011


Get The Album HERE
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/electro-track-therapy/id467130610

MC Zulu pushes the post-Dancehall envelope even further. The album “Electro Track Therapy” marries his innovative, Reggae influenced delivery with a crosscut of the entire dance music spectrum.

Production credits read like a who’s-who of the wildly influential “Global Bass Community”. It is well known amongst industry circles that this cadre of artists and producers has established and set trends, which are being relentlessly followed by mainstream music, to this day.

Electro Track Therapy explores the idea that music can spread healing, but it’s also a wild ride that never lets up. It is essentially a party hosted by one of the most in-demand vocalists on the Bass Music scene. Reggae fans who experience MC Zulu’s music immediately recognize that he is part of the evolution of the artform.

Released by: Perception2020 Recordings 
Release/catalogue number: PR20D-003
Release date: Oct 11, 2011

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Beatport
http://www.beatport.com/release/electro-track-therapy/685716
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Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005P121YM?ie=UTF8&child=B005P12ANY
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Juno Download
http://www.junodownload.com/products/electro-track-therapy/1833238-02/
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7 Digital
http://us.7digital.com/artists/mc-zulu/electro-track-therapy/
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E-Music
http://www.emusic.com/listen/#/album/MC-Zulu-Electro-Track-Therapy-MP3-Download/12832540.html

MC ZULU & Megasoid – Student Riot / Free Newsletter Download

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

This is ME trying to organize things before the next 3 completed projects come out.
Organization… and Me…OK, Quit laughing.

ANYWAY, everyone on my e-mail list will receive this track as a part of my experiment.
MC ZULU & Megasoid – Student Riot

I myself was very proud of the lyrics. It is about the leader of a student uprising double crossing his followers for a payoff… Did that really happen?.. FK if I know…! But why the hell does every Reggae song have to be strictly about guns/girls & ganja?
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The track is by Montreal group Megasoid. The term Lazer Bass was actually coined because of their music. Ultimately Megasoid did not keep working together. Hadji Baraka is a part of the group Wolf Parade. Rob Squire aka “Sixtoo” now produces and does art under the name Prisongarde. Still as Megasoid they had a rather significant impact modern day electronic music.

Since they never formally released this track, I have had it remixed by BIONIK and Radiohiro..
You know how I feel about remixes: (ahem)

“Play the music that the dance people prefer, still Dem fickle and dem change like the weather, But TIMELESS are the vibes and the words with the sound.”

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Symbiz – Who Cares??….It’s Dubstep!

Friday, September 23rd, 2011

I’ll tell you why you should care…
1) This track BANGS overall by itself. The dynamics hit you on many different frequencies.
2) There is an instrumental breakdown in the middle that really lets you know they are Taking No Prisoners!
3) 3D?!? This video can be viewed in 3D! at the following URL www.symbiz-sound.de/3-d

I bet you wish you had saved those Cyan/Red glasses now.

Generation Bass Presents: Sabbo “Deepaton”

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

Sabbo is an extremely talented producer from the Soulico crew out of Tel-Aviv. Last summer we journeyed to the Wailing Wall together in Jerusalem. I don’t know what he prayed for, but he has certainly been killing sound ever since. Here is another Sabbo release on the (hot like fiyaah) Generation Bass label. This one is a Moombahton release, like much of the new music coming out.

Music fans: This is an official view of the cutting edge.

Dark Side Of The “Moomb” / HEAT from Serbia’s Neki Stranac

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

Neki Stranac from Belgrade is hitting on all cylinders with this wicked Moombahcore Mixtape.

Neki Stranac – The Dark Side of the Moomb by NEKI STRANAC

I have not written extensively about Moombahton and its related genres, simply because it is in a constant state of mutation. The minute you try to pin down something about it, the core of producers responsible for its creation have moved on. Moombahton is something that is truly organic, collaborative and unfolding as we speak. Somewhere at the center of it all are names like Munchi, Dave Nada, Sabbo, SaBo, Caballo, Sarah Young and Neki Stranac.

Dub Gabriel And The Spaceape / “Is This Revolution” / Official-Un-Official Video

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

Last week I was perusing Dub Gabriel’s site: www.DestroyAllConcepts.com, and I saw his new release with SpaceApe, and Mighty Dub Killerz. You can find my post on it here.

Now comes a video mashup for the title track. Wickeddd

Dub Gabriel / The SpaceApe / Mighty Dub Killerz

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

New Brannnd Fyaaa from Dub Gabriel!

This is a 2-shot Riddim with UK Dub poet The SpaceApe on one track, and The Mighty Dub Killerz’ JC Stokes (aka Papa Roads) on the other.

Space Ape is a frequent collaborator of of DJ heavyweight Kode 9 and JC I know personally as a major presence during my time in Chicago, on the punk and Rasta scene. Dub Gabriel played bass for years with probably every important band you ever want to name. The qualifications for a Futuristic Dub hit are securely in place.


Dub Gabriel feat. The Spaceape & Mighty Dub Killerz
by Destroy All Concepts

This release to me, represents much of the sheer optimism mixed with cautious cynicism that came about as a result of the Rastafarian faith. Rasta did inspire a certain universal thinking among its participants. People who would not even embrace the faith formally, have found themselves immersed in the culture and heavily influenced by the music.

SpaceApe’s poetry reminds me of the Linton Kwesi Johnson albums I grew up listening to, while I have personally witnessd JC Stokes’ Rasta-inspired versatility over Roots, Soul, Rock and Global Bass… in Chicago of all places. Regardless of where the seeds of the faith have been planted (and regardless of how things turned out for Selassie himself) it is always ‘a joy to hear the utterance of Rasta’.

New Release: Kush Arora’s “Spanish Street Riddim”

Thursday, August 25th, 2011

This was originally called the Spanish WALL Street Riddim… For some reason Wall was dropped, and it’s damn near impossible for me to say Spanishshchrtreet..aw what the hell.

I love the Riddim. I really wanted to do something different over it, and it sounds to me like a tense love song.. So my track, Full Time Love / Modern day Romeo and Juliet, etc. etc. I know someone spelled it wrong, and the ad-libs are a little low.. but it bangs.lol

KUSH ARORA – SPANISH STREET RIDDIM by TOP BILLIN

Jah Dan, Lady Chann, Undah P and even Mega Banton are on this monster of a Riddim. It is released on Top Billin Records out of Helsinki, Finland. Top Billin is really becoming my new favorite sound. Everything they do has a standard of excellence that is almost unparrallelled. I hope they keep that up. Considering all that, it’s no surprise they signed a Kush Arora track. Lately he is KILLING it from all corners.

Caballo & MC ZULU / “Baila Moomdoh”

Saturday, August 20th, 2011

MC ZULU & Caballo -Baila Moomdoh by caballo

From the remix acappella files comes MC/Producer/DJ Caballo with a freeform mashup of the Baila Mundo vocals, and one of his completely unhinged, Hi-energy Moombathon tracks. Absolute mayhem for the dance floor!!