No Pain In Pop

Brute

Leaden bass knuckleheads, take note: this is how you get heavy. Joker stands apart - he’s a low-end brute with rare flair, adding subtle licks of rainbow paint to his dub storm, doling punches that leave you smiling wry at the psychedelic bruises on your arm. While we’ve slunk from dubstep in recent times for things more lithe and surprising, Bristol’s Purple master offers a sound that’s impossible to resist, coming on like a modern day musical echo of Gabriele d’Annunzio or Alex DeLarge: young, skilled yob daubing art with victims’ blood.



MP3: Primary 1 & Riton - Radiates (Joker RMX)
(via The Fader; via NME)

Tags: joker, primary 1, riton

Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

MP3: Joker vs Tempa T - Gullybrook Hype

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NPIP + FACT = WKND

…And it’s heavy. But no standing there with licked finger to the air trying to catch our drift. Go see the magi collective over at FACT magazine for a download link, tracklist after ‘the jump’.

Enormous thanks to the gentleman Jah Pat for a mix that hulks and struts and swells and rattles and bounces and baulks the best. Thanks too to FACT for asking after us.

Enjoy your weekends’.



MP3: Jah Pat - FACT Mix 36: No Pain In Pop

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Tags: 2000f & j kamata, burial, el-b, fact, fantastic mr fox & rich reason, flowdan, guido, ikonika, jah pat, joker, juiceman, killa p, kode9, loefah, mala, mount kimbie, pangaea, rustie, scuba, sunni-geini, the bug, these new puritans, zomby

Swinging Jaw: Joker

“Recently there’s a certain key that I’m stuck in that I’ll make tunes with. It’s that sound that just sounds purple.”

Joker feature; Dazed&Confused Vol. 2; 72. Just below a No Pain In Pop portrait.

Bristol’s Purple Prince returns to his Kapsize stable after a brief stint away with ‘Digidesign’. KAP003 (ft. ‘Do It’ and ‘Psychedelic Runway’), out April 6.



MP3: Joker - KAP003 (Demo)

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Tags: joker, kapsize

Hyperdubbing

Bassland barometer Kode9 was on Benji B’s 1Xtra show in the early hours of this morning, as around an hour was dedicated to showcasing his pioneering Hyperdub label, the ranks of which guarantee fine listening. Kode plays out tracks from Ikonika, Darkstar, Cooly G and LV, as well as a new vinyl cut of his own, ‘Black Sun’ out in March. Oh, there’s a couple of world exclusive first plays of new Burial tracks, too.

Listen here; full tracklist after ‘the jump’.

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Tags: 2000f & j kamata, benji b, burial, cooly g, darkstar, ikonika, jaylib, joker, kode9, lv, samiyam

Irate Radio

Heads down, hoods up - low-bit transmitters throb through Union walls to tear down Next City; razed by vollies of gilded treble and low-slung dubshots. Jah Pat’s first No Pain In Pop mix plays like a year’s best of, featuring the choicest of deep, doomsday slabs from Quest and Silkie, as well as the hi-tech clatter of Martyn’s ‘Suburbia’ and Zomby’s apt pair ‘Euphoria’ and ‘Strange Fruits’. Full track list after the jump.



MP3: Jah Pat - NPIP01

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Tags: ikonika, jah pat, joker, martyn, mix, quest, silkie, vex'd