Slater & Lime... Creepin.

Trouble & Bass... probably my favourite label about. 2010 is proving quite a year for the NYC based label fronted by heavy bass connoisseur, Drop The Lime. The recent launch of their Heavy Bass Champions of the World series of releases has already contributed towards 11 releases so far this year, and there's another six to come before the end of July... busy busy busy!

Fresh from a studio collaboration from Drop The Lime and adopted son of the family AC Slater comes Creepin... a fiery, fire breathing monster of a tune, layered perfectly with vocals from Drop The Lime and a Gothic piano solo.



It was released yesterday via Trouble & Bass and is available from Beatport, iTunes, Juno Download, Amazon and Boomkat... get on it!

AC Slater - UK Tour

Ok, so I've badgered on about AC Slater enough on this damn blog in the last year, but here's another snippet of news that applies for everyone in the UK.
I am so happy that in the past few months that AC has given up the woeful sounds of everything wobble-fied, reinventing his sound and creating something unique with his latest release Take You featuring Ninjasonik, which came out on Trouble & Bass last week. A massive fusion of Chicago House, UK Funky, old skool vibes, and heavy-bass action with a huge spectrum of diverse remixes, most notably from Drop The Lime, Urchins, Nadastrom and Tete-A-Tete.
You can watch the video for Take You and grab two of the remixes below, which were recently given away free... and you can buy the rest of the release from Juno here... top notch!

AC Slater - Take You ft. Ninjasonik (Urchins Remix)

AC Slater - Take You ft. Ninjasonik (Tete-A-Tete Remix)

Yet to come later in the year is his Calm Down EP, with a great club mix featuring scratching from Craze, and his awesome remixes of Crookers' Cooler Couleur, Drop The Lime's Set Me Free, and his collaboration with Mumdance, Badness and 77Klash, titled the Transatlantic Riddim.
However, what's been really impressive of late is how he's been taking on the UK Bass sound, that's steadily getting more support over in the US, thanks to Starkey and B.Rich's new project Kastle.
Taking influences from all the scenes and creating his own take, with a lot of heart. 2010 promises to be a great year for AC Slater and Trouble and Bass in particular.

So, the key behind all this ranting about AC, is due to the fact that this week he is embarking on a tour of the UK, and is stopping off very nicely in London on May 1st for the Londinium warehouse party at Union Car Parks, which is a guaranteed road block.
The last three times AC has played in London, I've either been out of the country or unable to get out of working, aiding to the misery of my current life vacant of his beats so far.
He's just dropped an immense new mix for Mishka in aid for the tour, which starts on Thursday in Cardiff and finishes up in Nottingham a couple of weeks later.
Take a good swipe of the mix, with some top new exclusives, one especially from Trouble & Bass's newest signing Zombies For Money, which I really recommend.

Mishka Keep Watch XVII - AC Slater

AC Slater - Take You ft. Ninjasonik (Drop The Lime Remix)
Zombies For Money - Kolkata (Sticky Version)
Momma's Boy - Party Rock
Crookers - Cooler Couleur (AC Slater Remix)
Marcus Price & Carli - Var E Näääken
Flinch - Midnight Hustle (080 Acapella)
Hostage - Skin Out
Headhunter - Prototype (Modeselektor / Drop The Lime Acapella)
Cosmin TRG - Strobe Lick
Wata Down Sound - Gemma (77Klash Acapella)
Benga - Stop Watching (Ninjasonik Acapella)
Massive Attack Paradise Circus (Breakage Remix)
Donae'o - Riot Music (Skream Remix)
92 Eternal - The Feeling (Luna-C Remix)

AC Slater mix for BBC Radio 1

Ok, so it actually baffles me that this is AC Slater's first ever mix for Radio 1... Kissy what the hell were you doing in 2008... mate loss of points there, sort it out, even Granny Nightingale beat you to this one... anddddd to add to the wound AC doesn't even produce breaks, what the hell!

Anyway rant over... who cares this mix is phat as fuck! Big new tunes coming from Udachi, Drop The Lime and the Slater himself on Trouble & Bass and Slater's own Party Like Us label... boom tunes! Feel da riddim. Biggest news of course though is a collab from AC and Mumdance in the mix... big! Also that 12th Planet remix of Youth Blood is deadly, dropped that last week, big bass! Also if anyone notices two very small AIM notification sounds in this mix then please let me know... maybe it's just me being silly but I swear I heard them... AC, tut tut.

I want that P-Funk Skank now... out 2nd Feb on Party Like Us... "Let's get back to basicsssss!"

Boom! AC has the same Serato vinyls as me :D

AC Slater mix for BBC Radio 1

1. Udachi - "P-Funk Skank" [Party Like Us Records]
2. AC Slater - "Take You" feat Ninjasonik [Trouble & Bass]
3. Tonka - "Jack Track" (Black Noise VIP) [Southern Fried]
4. Kill the Noise - "Jokes on You" [Slow Roast]
5. Acid Girls - "Numbers Song" (Jokers of the Scene Remix) [iheartcomix]
6. Drop the Lime - "Thwomp Stomp" [Trouble & Bass]
7. Ladybox - "Hit My Ride" (AC Slater Remix) [Party Like Us Records]
8. Heavyfeet - "I Spy" (AC Slater Remix) [Stamp! Music]
9. AC Slater - "Calm Down Part 2" [Trouble & Bass]
10. P-Money - "Left the Room"
11. Zinc - "Killa Sound" feat No Lay (Skream Remix) [Bingo]
12. AC Slater & Mumdance feat Badness & 77Klash - "Transatlantic Riddim" [Trouble & Bass]
13. Drop the Lime - "Set Me Free" (AC Slater Remix) [Trouble & Bass]
14. MJ Cole - "Sincere" (Mumdance & High Rankin Remix)
15. Starkey - "OK Luv" feat Badness [Planet Mu]
16. Jinder - "Youth Blood" (12th Planet Remix) [Trouble & Bass]