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The Vinylizer

if you happen to follow the frog on facebook, you may have noticed that every thursday evening, or better said, every possible thursday, is dedicated to an amazing radio session compiled and orchestrated brilliantly by The Vinylizer, aka Marcus Maack, a bass-music dj from hamburg, whose repertoire praises dubstep, footwork, jungle but also “Music for the Masses”, well, danceable Disco-House-HipHop-Reggae-Shit, as he describes it himself.

broadcast on thursdays from 9pm to 10pm on ByteFM – a first-class online radio born in hamburg and supported (= financed) by subscribers only –, BTTB (the shorter form for “Back To The Basics”) is a milestone in ByteFM’s weekly program and has been on air since 1992 on various radio stations. mostly focused on dubstep, hip hop, trip hop, downtempo and anything doing with drum and bass, the program exudes a warm air and overwhelming slow-motion tunes. occasionally, BTTB squeezes out also a few very enjoyable dark beats that serves with distinction the frog’s shadowy soul.

Marcus released peu à peu the mixes he arranged in the past, so, today we are happy to share with you an exquisite, smooth night-lounge mash-up dated 2003, featuring a few VIPs from the bristol riviera. the perfect companion to a comfy, elegant summer sunset.

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Scout Niblett

last week, byte.fm‘s album of the week introduced me to some warm powerful female voice that made a meteoric entrance into the very tight i-like-female-voices club of the pond.
welcome to Scout Niblett and her sumptuous new album, It’s up to Emma.

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minimal raw guitar and drums arrangements collude with bad-tempered texts, such as Gun which opens the album with a clear message: She took your love away from me, now I am thankful every day. (…) But I think I’m gonna buy me a gun, a nice little silver one.

Scout Niblett spews out her rage with a furious guitar akin to jubilation and we’re very impatient to assess her temper during her upcoming european tour:
31.05.2013 – Mannheim (DE), Maifeld Derby Festival
01.06.2013 – Hamburg (DE), Kampnagel (w/ Ólöf Arnalds)
03.06.2013 – Berlin (DE), Volksbühne (w/ Ólöf Arnalds)
04.06.2013 – Duisburg (DE), Steinbruch
05.06.2013 – Schorndorf (DE), Manufaktur
06.06.2013 – Brussels (BE), Botanique
08.06.2013 – Paris (FR), Point Éphémère (Radio Campus Anniversary)
09.06.2013 – Köln (DE) Museum Ludwig
11.06.2013 – München (DE), Strom
12.06.2013 – Wien (AT), Chelsea
13.06.2013 – Graz (AT), Postgarage
14.06.2013 – Innsbruck (AT), Bäckerei
15.06.2013 – Luzern (CH), B-Sides Festival
17.06.2013 – Lille (FR), La Péniche
18.06.2013 – London (UK), Corsica Studios
19.06.2013 – Cardiff (UK), Buffalo Bar
20.06.2013 – Leeds (UK), Brudenell Social Club
21.06.2013 – Glasgow (UK), Broadcast
22.06.2013 – Brighton (UK), Sticky Mike’s
24.06.2013 – Jena (DE), Cafe Wagner
25.06.2013 – Copenhagen (Denmark), Loppen
26.06.2013 – Stockholm (SE), Lilla Hotellbaren
27.06.2013 – Oslo (NO), Gut Feelings Festival
28.06.2013 – Bergen (Norway), Landmark

despite this bitterness, Scout Niblett doesn’t seem to be that kind of girl who feels sorry for herself, as the Gun video gives us to understand.


would snow white have such mordant irony?!

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