We live up to our tagline this week as we drop some heavy bass, blips and beats. We start off with some psychedelic techno heavily influenced by dubstep production styles with a couple selections by Phutureprimitive. We add a little world sound to the psydub mix as we drop some Temple Step...
June 23rd, 2012
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We’re lighting up the grill tonight. The days are long, the air is warm (when it’s not raining) and the summer time vibe is in effect! For your BBQing soundtrack we start off with some feel-good hiphop courtesy of Steinski & Double Dee doing a Sugarhill megamix. Ozomatli...
June 16th, 2012
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We delve deep into the lush, bass heavy, echo-laden soundscapes of Deadbeat for the first half of this week’s show. Inspired from his stellar show in town last week, we start off right with some lush ambience from Cell to set the mood. Deadbeat’s harmonium flavours enter the scene...
June 9th, 2012
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The show starts out this week with something we don’t usually do here on the HSS. Riddims! Fantan Mojah, Michael Rose, 3gga & Emiliano all have their take on the Prisonbreak Riddim. We take it back a bit with some vintage roots reggae from The Prophets, featuring Vivian Jackson or...
June 2nd, 2012
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A real journey through the genres this week. DJ Frane starts our trip with one from his Journey to The Planet of Birds, then Cut Chemist finds the groove and stays in the pocket with The Garden. Blockhead brings the Creepin’ and it gets thick and heavy in Amon Tobin’s Nepalese...
May 26th, 2012
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This weeks show starts off with the steady beats and dubby bass of Tonikom. Amorphous Androgynous speeds it up with Auto Pimp and we get back into the groove with Laura Palmer and their excellent track Distances. Byetone glitches it up and Pinch takes us into some Underwater Dancehall. Version...
May 19th, 2012
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IDM flows this week on the HSS. Vector Lovers, and Sleepy Town Manufacture start the show with their glitchy, chopped beats and layered melodies. Tycho opens the space a bit with their driving bass, ambient grooves and we hear some new stuff from Yppah. Cheju takes us into some glitchy idm...
May 5th, 2012
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Beats and bass in effect this week. We start off right with the epic Uppsala from Lissi Dancefloor Disaster and then segue our way into the electronic folk domain with the likes of 2econd Class Citizen and The Amorphous Angrodynous. IDM gets its say with the lush and precise beats of edIT...
April 28th, 2012
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A strong start with a little brand new Santigold as we set course for solid beats all hour long. We bring it classic IDM style with Alphawezen and r.roo. Jonsi drops the beats but ups the emotion with voice and strings – a little post-rock action to end the first half hour. The...
April 19th, 2012
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A real ride through genres this week on the show. We start all space and psychedelic with a little live Ozric Tentacles before dropping some bass heavy tunes starting with Pretty Lights’ heavy and incredibly wicked dubstep track “I Know The Truth”. More chest rattling...
April 12th, 2012
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DJ Shadow is one of the most influential DJs out there as well as the owner of the world’s largest private record collection. This week we do an all Shadow show as we dig through his opus and remind us all of why he’s such a killer talent. This isn’t the usual collection of...
April 5th, 2012
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We dig into our underground hiphop crates to pull out some nice selections of rich beats, vinyl techniques and rhymes this week. We kick it off with Birdy Nam Nam, the 2002 DMC World Champion turntablist quartet and their deep Abbesses composition. Doomtree drops some rhymes and picks up the...
