Welsh production crew Darkhouse Family aka Don Leisure and Metabeats drop their debut “Family Trees” EP via Fat City. Heavy synth-work, syrupy melodies, processed sample snippets is what you can expect. You all must know about that banger “Stay Blazed” as featured on the Producer #2 album and on “Mein Atari” they asked Mr. Dibiase to flip the shit out of it in his very own style. Also loving the Bonus Digital Cut “Mediation” which has that Darkhouse flava of dubwise-blunted Hip Hop. Check out the snippets and buy if you like what you hear!

Darkhouse Family – Mein Atari (Mr. Dibiase Lo-Fi Flip) [snippet]

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Darkhouse Family - Meditation (Digital Exclusive) [snippet]

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Fat City is back once again with the second full lenght album in the Producer series, entitled “Producer 2″. This album includes exclusive beats from big names such as: Dabrye, Harmonic 313, Martyn and Daedelus as well as rising Cali producers such as Devonwho, Mr Dibiase, Low limit and Mono/poly. From the UK we have my man Illum Sphere, Mike Slott & Tandy Love who bring the ruckus. All in all a good collection of electronic beats with some heavy hitters on it. The tracklist can be found after the jump and the CD can be bought at Rush Hour.

Darkhouse Family – Stay Blazed

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Monopoly – Oilfields (Devonwho Remix)

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This is the third 7” in a series of 4 featuring tracks taken from the forthcoming “Producer 2″ album set for release in the Autumn. The compilation brings together all the most exciting elements around today from Hip Hop, electronica and beyond in the post – Dilla generation.

This 7” features Devonwho, a member of the klipmode label collective. Devon is a regular guest at Gaslamp Killer’s Low End Theory session in L.A, plays at various jams across the west coast and has recently releaed his first album entitled “Thumbtracks”. He cites major influences as Jneiro Jarel alongside Dam-Funk and listening to his music, particularly “Nimbus”, that is very evident. On the flip is ”ZX81” from D Bridge, the man behind Exit Records, the producer of numerous drum & bass classics for labels like BC, Soul:r and Renegade Hardware and coproducer of the semial Spacek album, Hi-Tek Vintage on K7. Check it out at Fat City. The 7″ drops at the end of this month and the album will drop around the same time or early December.

Devonwho – Nimbus

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Get ready for the third installment already of the “Producer No.2″ 7inch series. This release is the will consists of four singles that are set to feature Ras_G, Daedelus, Low Limit, Tandy Love and Anagram Jam, Illum Sphere, Carlos Nino and Mr. Dibiase..

San Fran based Low Limit, one half of Lazer Sword, describe their sound as “your favourite top 40 rap shit chopped up into a tronado filled with razor blades and molasses or Frank Zappa rocking the home made Lil John tank top at the rooftop party”. This pretty much sums up “Inspirational Jumpsuit”.

Straight out of Southern California, we bring you Brainfeeder’s Charles Dickerson aka Mono/Poly with electronics beats that will shake the ground you walk on. Be on the lookout for his upcoming release on Faces Records. “Oil Fields” might be an oldy, but damn it’s still on and crackin’!

Buy this release and support all these wonderfull artists…HERE.

Low Limit – Inspirational Jumpsuit

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Mono/Poly – Oil Fields

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written by nilez \\ tags: anagram jam, brainfeeder, carlos nino, daedelus, faces records, frisco, illum sphere, inspirational jumpsuit, los angeles, low limit, mono poly, mono/poly, mr dibiase, oil fields, producer no. 2, ras g, tandy love

Mr Dibiase is an old head from the L.A beat scene who’s been doing his thing for over 10 years. His productions run from 8-bit classics to seductive soul to raw grungy bangers. “May The Force” falls into the latter of these styles and is an extra heavy, deeply compressed rocker which switches between a chop up of the Star Wars (Death Star) OST and a lofi rendition of the same piece. You can get the Producer #2 release now on Fat City..

Mr.Dibiase didn’t make the deadline for the Flying Lotus EP 3×3 release. So we got the Flying Lotus – Camel (Dibiase Remix) as an exclusive. The EP will be out August 19 on Warp Records. Big shoutout to  Mr. Dibiase, Joe Kay and Ras G…AIRHORN!!

Flying Lotus – Camel (Mr.Dibiase Remix)

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Mr Dibiase – May The Force

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