Intelligent breakcore is not dead, I’m proud to announce. Though a dying breed it may be, dead it is not. Bigup to Phil aka A Beautiful Lotus for turning me onto this Japanese Tumblr netlabel called Sayonara Records, I’ve found a heaping helping of incredible music on that label. A good chunk of it, amazing   Read More …

Some of that new shit, eh. Fresh new label poppin’ off with some fresh new talent. This one from the Twin Cities MN area future bass up and comer known as Xanja on Vekta Records with a 4 track EP of some spaced out, stripped down, dubbed out, sci-fi, warehouse music entitled “Cannabass”. Clever and   Read More …

00:11 king tubbys rockers – roots radics 02:17 martin campbell – conquering vs (reggae retro, rrr 7003, 2008) 05:49 dub1 – arroz (sozialistischer plattenbau, spb 12016, 2009) 08:04 clouds – timekeeper (ramp, ramp 013, 2008) 10:50 timeblind – time dilated by matter (version, version 001, 2009) 14:54 filastine – judas goat (soot, soot 007, 2004)   Read More …

I’ve listened to this release more times in the last 24 hours than I have any other new release I can think of from the last five years. Maybe more. This is fucking spectacular in every way, period. I said pretty much the same thing of his last effort, “Plague Diagram”, as well. Recreating and re-imagining   Read More …

Here’s something delicious. This guy should, not so arguably, be quite a bit bigger and more notable than he is. Multifaceted and innovative, he crafts a wide range of music residing beneath the umbrella of “jungle”, sometimes directly and other times not so directly. I’ve had the pleasure of  interacting with and learning from him   Read More …

We’ve got one archived entry courtesy of Sociopath Recordings on this incarnation of the Grindthieves website, but we have featured many Sociopath releases on previous version of this site. We’ve never been too good about backing up old versions and entries and such. We’ve learned and have been more proactive in recent times, but I   Read More …

Fuckin Bulgaria, WHAT? FFF, Ghost, and for those of us paying more attention to the really real European general area of electronic music – there’s a choice helping of them, as well? Gichev, Brokloi, Skul, and more! I bet this shit was bananas fun. Anyhow, here’s the FFF set from the weekend. Original tracker jungle/breakcore/happyhardcore   Read More …

Oh, yeah. Here’s some jams for that azz. This is the first time I’ve heard of Pavillon36 Records, but it looks like there’s a bunch of other great material available from them and they have their shit together. So, I’ll definitely be checking in on other releases that you may or may not see pop   Read More …

Here comes the Unjustified camp to wreck shop on your soundsystems and iPods, once more. You may remember them from such Grindthieves posts as… Ah, hell, check it out, they’ve gotten a fair amount of coverage here in the past, and for good reason. For number 32 in the label catalog they have assembled a   Read More …

Yo, we’ve fucked with Quiz in the past. And actually, it was the one and only Tahkid that also represents on the aformentioned mention that tipped me off to these free albums from k.Clifton AKA Quiz10 AKA Quiz. I’m really fucking with this one, “Not A Mixtape“, shit is stupid good. But, really. You need   Read More …