Following a tangy green taster 10″ for Team Acre, 1000 Names graduate to upper skool with a full album for Black Acre. ‘Illuminated Man’ sheds more light on their mixture of IDM, post-Dilla hiphop and electro-jazz. We’re reminded of everything from the astral electro synths of Space Dimension Controller to Fulgeance’s Afro-inflections, but the duo stick with their own pace and sense of groove construction to warrant the attention coming their way. With this and the stream of goodies from Blue Daisy, Black Acre is shaping up as one of Dubstep’s most exciting labels of 2010.

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1000names – Long Early Morning

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“Machines Hate Me” marks Dibiase’s official debut, but the Watts-bred beatmaker has been warring with samplers since the days of Judge Dredd. With his sensibilities honed at Project Blowed and countless hours hunched over an old-school 8-bit Nintendo, he’s been an unmistakable fixture on the local beat scene since his emergence at after-hour battles at Kutmah’s Sketchbook night, boom box perched on his shoulder like a left coast version of Radio Raheem.

But Public Enemy wasn’t the soundtrack blaring. Instead, Dibiase devised his own dynamite comprised of J Dilla-descended moonlit soul, G-funk’s south L.A. swing, and the dusty cartridge and epileptic flashes of 8-bit Nintendo music. From RC Pro-Am to Castlevania, there is no beat that Dibiase has been unable to funkdafy. And on his forthcoming Alpha Pup release, he flips both Mike Tyson’s Punch Out!! and “The Price Is Right” theme songs, adding a gritty, forceful groove and toying with the pace like a rope-a-dope.

With the Low End Theory’s emergence, Dibiase has seen his profile rise of late, both from his frequent and ferocious live sets and his outside production work with U-N-I and Intuition. The former’s Dibiase-produced “Beautiful Day” became something of an underground hit in 2008, earning MTV airplay and hundreds of thousands of MySpace plays. And both won mix show play on Power 106.

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Dibiase – Lumberjack // Machines Hate Me 2010

But “Machines Hate Me” represents the most complete and fully realized iteration of Dibiase’s work. Lead single “Lumberjack” leans toward his psychedelic soul side, creating an orchestral maze more reminiscent of J Dilla than a flannel-clad forest dweller (presumably, it derived its name from his facility at chopping samples.) Yet it reflects only one facet of the producer, with the full-length fleshing him out further as a California cognate to Hyperdub’s Ikonika — one of the best at creating soundtracks that balance between the futuristic and the days when saving the princess was your primary concern.

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‘Fukk’ is produced with his friend Kutmah mixed up with own jams and other collabs… Its his first tracks on wax!! Fusing p-funk, electro, disco, electronix, rap etc..

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Zacky Force Funk & Kutmah – Shitty Shotgun Pellets

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Limited to 200 copies, cassette edition includes:
*Side A: Oscar McClure’s original Compost + Four cassette-only tracks: Fruit Flies, Sowbugs, Springtails, Worms
*Side B: Compost Remixes featuring: Asura, Baths, Delofi, J Qua, Jonwayne, Kingfisherg, Matthewdavid, Sumsun, Teebs, 0.
*Three exclusive cover art designs, which one will you get?
*Secret download code.

Oscar McClure’s ‘Compost’ is organic experimental hip hop grown with bodily sounds, everyday objects, field recordings and an SP-303. Through his use of extended techniques and chance procedures, McClure associates various musical and non-musical materials to form a sonic ecosystem. Both noisy and meditative, this collection of atmospheric textures and phasing beats cultivates the boundaries shared between contemporary improvised music and hip hop.

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Oscar McClure – Matthewdavids Compost Ragamix

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**Translucent Yellow Vinyl** A choice meeting of minds from Team Acre, pitting the wits of Blue Daisy and Tokimonsta in a heavyweight dose of hiphop futurism. ‘USD’ is nothing short of a full blown anthem for the fluorescent hiphop brigade, bursting at the seams with glossy hi-end synths and crushed electro bass concealed within densely compressed sound sphere for that fugged-up effect.

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‘Free Dem’ is a differently wired beast, focussing on a tense mid-range section with a woozy surface patina of fluid metallic pads and reeling arpeggios for the club. For the Rustie, Illum Sphere and Dorian Concept fiends – this is a must.

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