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This makes us happy.

Big up Ed ID for making this happen. It's all about giving credit where credit is due. :)

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As many of you have been enquiring as to our whereabouts for the last few months, here is a very short summary of what we've been putting our time and energy into:

Over the next 12 months we will be releasing twelve singles, each comprising of an original vocal track, a club mix (from us) and one guest remix. The original of each monthly release will be given away for free through a variety of online resources (this blog included), encouraging you to download, feedback on and share our new original material.

In the next couple of weeks we will be releasing a short, fun, video explaining a bit more about the label and how the releases will work. Everyone involved in the label is very excited to bring you this new music, and we hope that you guys will be as into what we've been working on so hard as us!

Save the date; 05.04.10, and watch this space for updates. :)

M&J

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Here's a remix we did for Roisin Murphy recently that didn't end up coming out for one reason or another.

Big up Toddla T for the Radio 1 support on this.

Listen online via Soundcloud:
http://soundcloud.com/bassmusic/roisin-murphy-mommas-place-heavyfeet-remix

Download via Mediafire:
http://www.mediafire.com/?koyyhydn233

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HeavyFeet Promo Mix - Spring 2010 (as featured by Mixcloud)

50 tracks over 80 minutes, a record for us we think! House-club-breaks-dubstep-jungle-dnb, it's all here...

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So i was sat here last night browsing t'internet aimlessly when I realised it was nearly the end of the month and probably about time for a chart of musical greatness for November. After a quick check on this here blog it also became quite apparent that it may too be time to sort ourselves out and actually post some stuff up regularly for all to read. I have since drawn up a little list of things that I think may be worth waffling on about to everyone and will try to get these up online over the coming week. Although please don't hold it against me if I fail in this task, as I do recall writing something similar on our MySpace regarding a new video blog filmed by ourselves, which has since failed to materialise...

Anyhow, enough of that and on with our chart action.

November Chart

01 Baobinga & ID - Tongue Riddim [Build]
Build is finally up and running with a rather strong release to kick things off (Roska remix on the B). Anything Binga sticks his name on at the mo gets a play from us – big tings. Eagerly awaiting future releases…

02 Sidney Samson - Riverside (Breakage Remix) [Data]
Riverside first hit the shops almost a year back and it’s still getting heavy spins all over the shop. Yeah it’s cheese, but the new mixes give it that extra bit of life and enable it to be worked in with a couple of other styles. TC mix is worth checking too.

03 Zinc feat. Nolay - Killa Sound (HeavyFeet Remix) [Bingo Bass]
It’s taken us months to complete, largely due to not wanting to draw from the original too much, but it’s finally done! And working well in the clubs so far! Kind of on a big room tech sorta tip, something a bit different for us.

04 Sub Focus - Could This Be Real [RAM]
I picked up the album on release and (somehow) didn’t really hear anything of note, then was introduced to this on the Annie Mac show, only to promptly forget about it. Then I was reintroduced to it via an A Skillz radio mix and it has since been in heavy rotation!

05 Redlight - Be With You [Lobster Boy]
Part of the new EP from the boy Clipz. The whole release is laden with vocalists and the bass is heavy as you like. Be With You is my pick of the four, followed by Feel So Good a close second. Another label just getting off the ground and again future releases are eagerly anticipated.

06 Fast Eddie - Yo Yo Get Funky (Nick Thayer Remix) [Giant Pussy]
This has got elements of funky, that Dutch big room stuff, breaks, and some tribal grooves all thrown together. It doesn’t really seem to do a huge amount apart from bounce along in a very satisfying way. One to get peeps moving with when dancefloors go a bit still…

07 Robbie Williams - You Know Me (The Count & Sinden Dub) [Virgin]
I clearly shouldn’t be charting a Robbie Williams track should I? But believe it or not, it works! Even the vocal version ain’t too shabby, but to avoid any embarrassment we’ll stick to the dub. A nice little funky number to play early on is how we’ll be using this one.

08 B. Rich - Bump (AC Slater Remix) [Party Like Us]
Apparently every time AC remixes one of Barrett’s tracks it’s where he does his experimenting, which would lead me to believe it’s the first time he’s had a crack at a track this style. Lies! Massive big room beats and bass with white noise, vocal stabs and plenty of swooshiness, very large indeed.

09 Solo - Minimood (Round Table Knights Remix) [Sound Pellegrino]
More set opening material here for us. I find a lot of the tribally, new wave of house music coming from producers and labels such as those above to be very samey, but every now and again I find one that stands out and is deserved of a spinning almost every outing by us. This is one of those tracks!

10 Acid Girls - Lightworks (Harvard Bass Remix) [iHeartComix]
Not a huge amount to be said for this apart from there’s a really simple intro, a savage bassline, a bit of an epic breakdown, and more savage bass. It’s all about the savage bass, it’s destroyed every club we’ve played it in!

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Just copied this over from Bass Music.

Yo yo, another bumpty mix arriving here from the HF camp. Now for this mix the plan was to dig out some old vinyl and record a wee mix at the same time as gaining some inspiration for further mixes in this here series. However, the first record I pulled out was No Assembly Firm's 'All Jacked Up', a big favourite of mine, so the vinyl set idea got canned and NAF became the feature of mix number three.
No Assembly Firm comprise of Justin Long and Dan X and hail from Chicago. Now I can't tell you a huge amount about Dan X, but I do know that I saw Justin Long play a couple of years back in Nottingham and, as well as being pretty small, he's one seriously kick ass DJ. Mr. Long also runs .Dotbleep records outta Chi-Town, although unfortunately there appears to have been a shift in sound away from the bumpty biznezz featured in this mix over the last year or so.
As well as the NAF tracks on .Dotbleep included in the mix, be sure to check out the Mark Militano track and the early Sawtooth Sucka EP as they're all well massive.

Download from Zshare
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Tracklist:
01 No Assembly Firm - WBMX - Robsoul
02 No Assembly Firm - Planetary Invasion - Robsoul
03 James Curd - Lee Is Wild (No Assembly Firm Remix) - Greenskeepers
04 Sweet Clones - Vince's Big Con (No Assembly Firm Remix) - Robsoul
05 No Assembly Firm - All Jacked Up - Dotbleep
06 Trademarq - Work For Me (No Assembly Firm Remix) - Bananza
07 No Assembly Firm - Rock The Disko - Hudd Trax
08 Outsider - Sex Is Extra (No Assembly Firm Remix) - Junior Boy's Own
09 Del Coasta & Pedro Goya - #37 (No Assembly Firm remix) - Classic
10 Iz & Diz - Mouth (No Assembly Firm Remix) - Greenskeepers
11 DJ Bang - The BEAT (No Assembly Firm Remix) - Perspex
12 No Assembly Firm - Rebels With A Cause - Dotbleep

The first two mixes can be found here if you've not checked them yet:
HeavyFeet Loves Derrick Carter mix
HeavyFeet Loves Jason Hodges mix

James

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About time we had some half decent content up here eh?! After checking our MySpace for the first time in forever before I noticed that I hadn't put a chart together since July, which is pretty crap. So here are two new charts from us, one for last month and one for this month. The tracks aren't in any order, just as they came to me...

SEPTEMBER

01 Zinc - 128 Trek
So I now have 3 versions of this in me CD wallet! This one is however undoubtedly the most playable at the mo, a smart little rework that brings the track bang up to date. Also a sure fire winner for the dancefloor.

02 Udachi & Jubilee - Smoke Rings (Luna-C Remix)
Really wasn't expecting this on the package when the release dropped in the inbox! Big old skool breakbeat vibes are always gonna take my fancy tho so this gets as many airings as possible.

03 JDS - The Purple Funky Monkey (Koma & Bones Remix)
More old skool breaks vibes here found during a random scout through the breaks releases. Not fond of the vocal sample but that's nowt a quick little edit didn't fix!

04 Sigma - Front 2 Back
I'm a sucker for the big obvious heavy b-line jump up stuff. It ain't particularly clever, but it makes me want to dance around like a tit, which makes it most excellent.

05 Untold - Just For You
Loving Untold's shit at the mo, and this one's seriously heavy. Big bass and some dark rolling beats, made even better when the second drop comes around!

06 Patric La Funk - Xylo (Bingo Players Remix)
Bingo Players are officially monsters, everything they do is massive! This ones got that typical drop heard in most of the dutch house stuff, but then a wonderful square bass comes in that makes everyone want to jack.

07 Mowgli - London To Paris
Killer track from Mowgli, quite possibly my favourite of his to date. Sounds like you're mixing in a funky techno thing circa 2003 Marco Bailey, but then it goes all disco-like and has a catchy as hell drop, massive biggles.

08 Killa Queenz vs. HeavyFeet - Bitches (Remix)
We dropped a Killa Queenz acapella on some random beat lying around that we didnt know what to do with and this was the result. A quirky little take on some of the funky shit kicking around right now, we're well happy with the result!

09 Subscape - Wrong Number
Subscape is the acceptable face of the LFO'd basslines in dubstep for me right now. Obviously the low end is well large but the bass isn't too in yer face and allows the track to do other stuff too, which is nice.

10 Logistics - Warehouse My pick off Logistic's new album. Big jungle vibes throughout and some hardware crunch on the drums brings it bang up to date. Always gets dropped when I get the chance to delve into a proper bit of dn'b at the end...

OCTOBER

01 Two Fresh - Bhanga (B. Rich Remix)
Not even had chance to play this one out yet, but really into the vibe. Reckon it could be useful at various points in a set and I'm gonna play it lots. Really really digging Barrett's production stylee at the minute.

02 Skream - Burning Up
Have seen several tweets from Skream recently banging on about jungle vibes and whatnot. It would appear this is the first of such releases and it bangs - old school in just about every way apart from it's release date...

03 Malente - I Like It (Riva Starr Remix)
Bit of a Pete Tong track this one imo, but hell it just keeps on grooving and the sample never fully drops, which I really like! Where a crowd appreciates a good bit of house music, this is a guaranteed winner.

04 Kid Sister - Right Hand Hi
Heard this a while back and it's finally about to drop. Was well surprised to hear Mr. Angello (I think?) is the man behind the backing track too... Love Kid Sister anyhow, the epic riffage only adds to my liking of it!

05 Drumsound & Bassline Smith - R U Ready?
Heavy, heavy jump up biznezz here! I've shied away from dropping it at a couple of non-drum n' bass friendly nights for fear of the heaviness scaring peoples. It's a definite spin when the crowd like it mashup tho!

06 Drop The Lime - Set Me Free (Reso Remix)
Heavy bass, clicky percs and some nice chordage = a big win from Reso. Didn't expect this sort of sound from him, but then I don't keep tabs on all his stuff and seeing as this sound is so big right now I suppose it was kinda to be expected.

07 Baobinga & ID - Unknown
The man Bao popped round the other day and dropped off this but I've no idea what it is asI didn't write the title or label info down. He did make a point of emphasising the effect the quirky riff has on people, I was sold and I'm sure others will be too, big fun!

08 Act Yo Age feat. Drop The Lime - Hornheadz (Acid Kids Remix)
Bit of a non-descript track this, in a good way though. A quirky little house track that, like the B. Rich remix, can be used at various points throughout the night. Solid piece of production that allows itself to not do a huge amount and still be well good.

09 Aquasky feat. Slipz & Dapz - You Know We Do It Big
Big bassline come breaks from the boys, 'bout time there was new Aqausky material! The faster it's played the better it works! Would love to hear more tracks like this but apart from High Rankin's output there really ain't a huge amount...

10 B. Rich - Make Me Dance (HeavyFeet Remix)
Not massively new to us seeing as we finished it a couple of months back, but it's been doing the business solidly on the dancefloor and it's due out in the near future, so a chart placing seemed appropriate!

Peazy,
J

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Imogen Heap - Ellipse (out now on Megaphonic)

I was particularly hyped for this release, and fortunately I wasn't disappointed. After watching Heap's week by week video blogs as the album was being worked on, I felt oddly attached to the album before it had been released. Whilst this was undoubtedly a subliminal marketing strategy, the idea certainly worked and had me hooked from the fade in of the album's opening, 'Last Train Home.' Highlights for me include, 'Wait It Out', 'Swoon' and 'Tidal' (non of which are scheduled for single release). I felt there were a few dodgy lines (lyrically) here and there on some of the more experimental (for Heap) tracks, but this aside, a really great listen. 8/10

David Guetta - One Love (out now on Virgin)

Oh dear, where to start... with the internet awash with rumours that Guetta produced little of the material on this album, I personally had little hope that this release would have any feel of what an artist album should be. My concerns were met with what appears to be a bunch of (standardly boring) electro-house tinged club instrumentals, each with their own tacked on high quality (in sound) pop vocal. The album sounds very much like the instrumentals have been knocked up and mixed, been sent off for remote (vocal) recording and then had the neccessary stereo vocal stems added and levelled on top of the instrumental mixes (I shudder at the thought). There appears to be little in the way of any album structure to this record, and whilst it will make a shedload of revenue in Europe, largely off the back of Guetta's name as a DJ, I'm not expecting 'One Love' to be an album anyone listens to past the end of the year. 3/10

Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3 (out now on Rocnation)

After hearing reports across reputable BBC radio shows that The Blueprint 3 was not up to the usual standard we've come to expect fom Jay-Z, I was pleasantly surprised upon first listen to the album all the way through. The album itself is exactly what was needed from the Rocnation camp as far as I'm concerned, and having tracks with Jeezy, Alicia Keys and Pharell (whilst arguably not that original in selection) just add further present day credibility to this release. Listeners looking for an album more like the first Blueprint (and moaning that this is not that) and earlier albums need to wake up and smell the coffee, this is 2009 and Jay-Z has delivered an album that is very much worthy of current time respect. A few notoriously sketchy lines here and there isn't going to keep me from listening, and with tracks like 'Real As It Gets' and 'Empire State of Mind' I'm not planning on pressing stop anytime soon. Big. 7/10

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Here's our Autumn Promo Mix: 48 tracks in 80 minutes

If you want to let us know what you think, hit us up via the usual channels, Twitter or our FaceBook fan page thing...

M

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