Speaking of why New York is still a huge cultural mecca of greatness, here’s a track in which Eli Escobar gives the members of 33Hz an 8 minute injection of heavy piano driven house that inadvertently ends up overshadowing the entire original version in terms of versatility. Blending together trace elements of old NY disco, French house, and the kind of rationale that leads one to leave the house at midnight and go to a club when they have to work at 7am the following morning, it’

The 12″ is out now on Dither Down.

33Hz – Nightspot (Eli’s Darkside Dub) (Mediafire)

“I did this remix over the summer, and when I was close to finishing it I played it to my friend, the irreplaceable DJ Mehdi. We often played each other our productions for feedback. As it turns out he and Riton were visiting New York so they stopped by my apartment. I was working on the main version of the remix, the vocal version. I knew I would make a few alternate edits during the mixdown. The funny thing was, Mehdi’s favorite part was the ending! He and Riton suggested that I have that part come in earlier. My reaction was: that would work well for the dub version. And sure enough, when I finished mixing it down I made a dub with their suggestion. When I sent it to Mehdi shortly after, he responded (as a joke) that I should call it “Dub For Mehdi”. He included it in his “Tunisian Summer” mix. And then, as we all know, the unimaginable happened and we lost our dear friend. The least I can do now is name the edit after him. This one’s for you, Memed.”

How Deep Is Your Love?  (A-Trak Dub aka Dub For Mehdi) by DFA Records

This spaced out dubby version of “Well Well Well” from Grace Jones’ first studio album in 19 years showed up on Test Pressing the other day and is immensely worthy reblogging. Grace 4 Life.

Grace Jones – Well Well Well Dub by Grace Jones

We were lucky enough to get to put out an EP from Johannesburg’s Nthato Mokgata, AKA Spoek Mathambo, who’s been labelled everything from “sex-obsessed South African Spank Rock” to “subversive leader of some new front of political dance music”.

Spoek’s music is full of intensely well worded critiques of power and corruption, but also enjoyable as hallucination inducing odes to buying guns on the internet. On Discobelle Records released “Kult Leader” EP, “Red For Danger” strikes the balance between marching down the streets with a black bandanna and molotov cocktail and doing the two step on top of someone’s kitchen table at a house party where David Koresh spiked the punch.

DJ Wool, who’s a founding member of Indie Dance duo “The Glass”, weaves a jacking beat of crunchy distortion around Spoek’s words that quite possibly could have subliminal messages stuffed into its seams.

Spoek & Wool – Red Is For Danger

Spoek & Wool – Red Is For Danger (Dub)

If you like what we do, buy the EP on Beatport here!

Also, if you missed the Kult Leader video, you’ve gotta check it out.

33 Hz – Under The Sun (Trap.Avoid Dub) (direct link)

BONUS: Here’s the Sal P (of Liquid Liquid) & Neurotic Drum Band remix of the last Trap.Avoid single on Dither Down.

Trap.Avoid – Little Countries (Sal P & Neurotic Drum Band Remix) (RCRD LBL link)

Can’t wait for this to drop, serious vibes courtesy of Spooky and Mosca.

“Mosca gets his dubby hands on one of last year’s biggest grime tunes, Spooky’s ‘Spartan’. Some serious cross-genre niceness, with Mosca really dipping confidently into the dub tradition – A LOT of reverb, plenty of samples and a sufficiently deep bassline, reminding us that the two genres definitely do have a whole bunch in common.” (Via Mixpak)

Oliver – All Night (ge.tt)

Oliver – Walk With Me (ge.tt)

BONUS: U-Terns much talked about dub remix of the Mark Ronson & The Business Intl. track “Bang Bang Bang”, check it out if you missed it. It’s stunning…

Mark Ronson & The Business Intl. – Bang Bang Bang (U-Terns disco dub) (ge.tt)

Drums Of Death just released “Won’t Be Long” on Greco Roman, the track is four minutes and thirty seconds of “blistering acid house, love-lost vocals, tumbling pianos, loose snare fills and rave breakdowns”.

BONUS:

Drums Of Death – Everything All At Dub (the dub of his “Generation Hexed” album track ‘”Everything All At Once”) (drop.io)

Don’t forget to check out the just released vinyl version of his recent Night Slugs release “That Mystic”, one of our favorite EPs of 2010.

Kingdom – Hottest In America (bootleg, dub version) (drop.io)

araabMUZIK – Whistle (Mediafire)

Kingdom – Hottest In America (Mediafire)

Sean Kingston (ft. Nicki Minaj) – Letting Go (Kingdom Dub) (Mediafire)

PS. Check out a nice write up on Kingdom over here.