Subject: Juan Basshead

• Aural Filth

  June 4, 2009

• On the List - Dieselboy, Holy Ghost!, Switch and Black Sunday

  They say distance makes the heart grown fonder, but we sort of dropped the ball with On the List; its being almost three weeks since our last compilation. Don't fret children, we're back! And we promise we will never leave you -- er, again.We aren't sure how many of you actually want to go out this week, because we ourselves are still recovering from the Baselmania of last week. No more Grolsch, please! We're sticking to our fav from now on -- vodka and tonic with a twist of lime. Free drinks fo

  December 12, 2008

• Full Ultra Music Festival Lineup Revealed

  So in addition to yesterday's news of the unexplainable choice of booking the Black Eyed Peas for next month's Ultra Music Festival, the final phase of the lineup has been announced. Notable additions include Rinton, Rye Rye, Surkin, Para One and Shiny Toy Guns to Day 1, and MSTRKRFT, BT Laptop Symphony and Stanton Warriors to Day 2. The Bloody Beetroots and L.A. Riots are scheduled to perform both days, while The Whip's Day 2 appearance has been switched to Day 1, and Late of the Pier has switc

  February 13, 2009

• J Majik and a Whole Lot More Drum 'n' Bass at Black Sheep Bar Tonight

  Are you sick of the old tried-and-true musical formula for your Friday night carousing? If you usually go out clubbing in South Beach and you still have any semblance of distinction and personal taste left after sustained Top 40 self-abuse, you've gotta be eager for a change of pace. Or maybe you went to the Vagabond last night and got a taste of dubstep and woke up this morning with that deep sub-bass still coursing through your veins and aching for something harder, better, faster, stronger. T

  June 5, 2009

• WMC Preview: The Week in Dubstep

  For those of you unfamiliar with dubstep, its sound first originated in London in the early 2000's and is a close relative of both UK garage and drum 'n' bass. Rooted in the sparse yet effects-laden production stylings of dub reggae, one of dubstep's best qualities is its versatility in encompassing elements of pretty much any electronic music genre you can think of: trance, electro, hip-hop, jungle, etc. What characterizes it as its own sound, however, are the fast 165-185 bpm breakbeats accomp

  March 23, 2009

• WMC 2009: Ultra Video Recap

  Here are some fan made videos I found on YouTube from Ultra Music Festival. We've got David Guetta, Tiesto, Bloody Beetroots, Juan Basshead, Deadmau5, The Drum and Bass Tent, and Swedish House Mafia. These were chosen based mostly on the decency of sound quality -- I sacrificed my own ear drums so you don't have to. Let's just say most shitty cell phone concert videos have equally shitty sound, however, these don't. Here they are. Enjoy!

  March 31, 2009

• Friday Night: Dieselboy at Black Sheep Bar

  Basshead Productions is celebrating its 8th year anniversary at Black Sheep Bar this Friday with a night of bass-heavy sounds, including an exclusive performance by American drum & bass legend Dieselboy. This best-selling Brooklyn-based producer was the first American to be voted into the UK-based Drum & Bass Arena Top 10 DJs poll, and has even had his music featured in television and video games. This set is not to be missed! Juan Basshead and a few surprise guests will spin in support

  April 15, 2009

• Tron as Fuck = Free as Fuck, Next Tuesday, May 26, at the Original Fat Cats

  Tron as FuckI was looking more closely at this Tron as Fuck event that is going down at the original Fat Cats next week. It's the third in a series that apparently goes down the last Tuesday of every month and it looks like a pleasant cluster fuck of colliding styles and sensibilities. First off, it is one of the only things going on now, outside of Juan Basshead's shit, that is actually bringing Dubstep and Grime to the sunshine state, see DJ Phanatik and Zehl Freebase. B, it's essentially an

  May 22, 2009

• Tron as Fuck = Free as Fuck

  May 21, 2009

• Jeru the Damaja to Play the White Room this Friday, June 12

  The Sun Rises in the East is a classic hip-hop album from the early 1990s. It is chock full of great -- really, really great -- beats courtesy of DJ Premier and is almost flawless, other than the annoying and degrading track "Da Bichez." Jeru takes aim at commercial rap artists and record labels with a flow that is at times purposely off-cadence and was beautifully original for the era. He followed it up with another great turn-in, Wrath of the Math.  Now, 15 years later, Jeru the Damaja is

  June 8, 2009

• Andy C Drops Beats at Black Sheep June 25

  Next week Juan Loumiet is bringing Andy C to Black Sheep (formerly Laundry Bar).  Besides being one of the first kids on the block with that drum 'n' bass stuff and besides the fact that he is dope on the tables, not always sticking to two decks, he is also known for talking promoters into letting him stretch out his sets a little longer than is the norm.  It will be a real treat to see this guy in a more intimate venue.  Be forewarned that this event starts really early and will

  June 17, 2009

• MP3 of the Day: DJ PJ of the Remote Controllers Jumps in the Dubstep Arena

  Dj PJ hard at workIn a crass display of blatant commercialism, Patrick Walsh a.k.a. DJ PJ has posted his version of a Dubstep mix for free download.  This genre is an outgrowth of the English rave and garage scene that takes some elements of UK garage blends it with Grime rhythms and some two step snare hits with a heavy dose of low end added in for good measure.  The stuff can be very brooding and cave-like and right now for whatever reason Miami is taking part in this thing.  Ge

  June 24, 2009

• Kode9

  July 2, 2009

• Shake's Monthly Dubstep Party, Get Low, Features Brit DJ N-Type on August 6

  via myspace.com/djntypeDJ N-Type​Black Sheep as we know it may be extinct, but its erstwhile proprietor, Juan Basshead, is still dedicated to the low frequencies. As such, he's got a hand in a number of wall-rattling events around town, and on Thursday, August 6, he and the Shake crew reunite for Get Low, a monthly dubstep night at the Vagabond. While Shake's usual kitchen-sink hip-hop goodness goes on in the bar room, the club's main room gets turned over to everything dark, dirty, and deep.A

  July 29, 2009

• N-Type

  August 6, 2009

• Get Low, Low, Low

  August 6, 2009

• Skream Coming to White Room September 16

  via MySpaceSkream​Dubstep DJ/producer Skream is no stranger to Miami. He played at Laundry Bar late last year and made several appearances at this year's WMC. But something clicked in the Magic City earlier this year that has it enamored with the dubstep genre. It's not entirely surprising since Miami bass and dubstep seem like not-so-distant cousins.Top that off with the success of the recent Trouble & Bass event Bella Rose and the Get Low monthly party at The Vagabond, and it's safe to s

  August 18, 2009

• Skream

  September 10, 2009

• White Room to Renovate This Weekend in Preparation for Next Week's Dubstep Extravaganza

  Skream​Fresh from their blowout weekend with Peter, Bjorn and John middle man Bjorn Yttling on the turntables, White Room has decided to perform a quick makeover before next Wednesday's dubstep spectacular with Skream and Benga. As anyone who knows dubstep knows, Skream and Benga are pretty much the genre's founders, and certainly two of those most responsible for the music's impending ubiquity. The boys from Croydon, South London, both have relatively huge crossover hits to their credit -- Sk

  September 11, 2009

• More News of Dubstep's Impending Takeover: Mala This Thursday at the Vagabond

  ​This performance by the U.K. dubstep giant Mala at the Vagabond comes just a day after his colleague Skream's gig around the corner at White Room. Miami aficionados of the genre may not have to go out again for a long time. And lest you totally miss the boat on dubstep's impending takeover of the downtown scene, here's a little primer on Mala. Dubstep as a genre arose around the turn of the millennium, when the ashes of drum'n'bass were largely settling into the poppier sounds of garage and t

  September 14, 2009

• Bay Area breakbeat god Bassnectar hits White Room

  October 15, 2009

• MP3 of the Day: "Devil's Eyes" by Drop the Lime, Playing White Room This Saturday

  ​Brooklyn's Drop the Lime has been nothing if not prescient. Those last few years, while everyone was running around to overly processed, overly happy so-called "blog house," the DJ/producer born Luca Venezia carefully stuck to his own thing. In the face of all that neon glare, Venezia and his Trouble & Bass crew built up a small army of fans into a more aggressive vibe. The Drop the Lime style is impossible to classify neatly into a single genre, but above all it comprises a global, fierc

  October 20, 2009

• Weekend Leftovers: Samantha Ronson at Louis One-Year, Klever at White Room

  Weekends are so busy there is bound to be stuff we've forgotten to highlight. But here are two high-profile events you might just want to check out:​First up, Samanthan Ronson, who's better known as Lindsay Lohan's on-again/off-again girlfriend than for her DJ skills, will be helping Louis at the Gansevoort South celebrate its one-year anniversary tonight. Ronson's appearance at the club isn't exactly unexpected, since she and co-owner Roman Jones are half-siblings. Will Lohan be making an app

  November 13, 2009

• More Dubstep Madness at Shake on Thursday with Joker and MC Nomad

  Straight out of Bristol, Joker is a 20-year-old wunderkind whose hybrid club experiments may be the next big step in the ongoing evolution of dubstep. Just don't tell him that -- like many stridently independent studio jockeys, he hates genre tags. (Joker prefers to describe his tunes, cryptically, as "purple.") And he's got a point. His sound is weirder and wilder -- dabbling in G-funk, '80s synth-soul, and classic Nintendo noise -- than what's usually dictated by the puritanical formalism of

  November 17, 2009