Big up to our boy Kashii who released his House Culture EP on Monday on Southern Fried Records, the tune got played be Annie Mac on her Radio 1 show last week too, so were expecting this one to be everywhere soon. Sounds amazing, but you need to listen to this on proper speakers, no tin tin laptop speakers!

Forthcoming on SOS is the Mak & Pasteman’s Get With The Program EP.

The long awaited debut EP on SOS from the duo features the tracks “Move Somethin’”, “Chakra”, “Get With the Program” and “Heat”.  Hard to be pidgeonholed Mak & Pasteman are attracting attention from across the scene, so we’re expecting this release to get the producers the credit they deserve.. Four Big Tracks from two producers really moving this forward at the end of 2011. Listen to the preview here:

:This is what Pasteman had to say

When did you first start producing/djing?
I started DJ’ing when i was 11. My dad was a DJ/radio host for years and that was when i got my first set of 1210′s.

I dabbled with garage and grime production in college but it was when i came to uni in Leeds and experienced subdub and metropolis that got me motivated to really write music. 


How long have you been involved in music for?
I was into the soul scene as a youngster from my dad being into soul & mod culture and those were the records i grew up hearing. I got involved in DJ’ing through a neighbour who ran a soundsystem and got more into techno and house playing my first rave at 14. From there on i heard a lot of jungle and garage and moved through that kind of transient development until i sort of came full circle into this techno / house infused bass music that i write.

What is your favourite food?
Ramen & Udon. Anything Japanese to be fair. 

Biggest influences on your style
I guess it’s a mixture of the soulful vocalists that i grew up with that influence my sample selection, the house and techno for the percussive elements and dubstep for the bass. I guess I find that whatever the music i listen to there is something that inspires me or i can hear something that could work in a different context. 

Upcoming releases
Mak & Pasteman – Do The Same EP on Shifting Peaks 12″ 
Pasteman & Descry – Can’t Get Away on Wicked Bass 10″
Pasteman & Tanka – Detroit ’88 EP

Quite a few more were waiting to announce too!

What are your top 5 tunes your playing out at the moment?
1. Mak & Pasteman – Leave With U
2. Pasteman & Tanka – Detroit ’88
3. Karizma – Badboy (Pasteman Remix)
4. Mz Bratt – Tear It All Down (Pasteman & Tanka’s ’88 Remix)
5. My Nu Leng – Damp

Favourite festival?
I played a little set at glasto this year with my good friend Moleskin! Was a great versatile festival! 

Any other projects you wanna tell us about?
Me & Mak are working on an EP with Nottingham based Karizma as well as other EP’s for labels to come in 2012, we also have some very special VIP’s lined up. I have been working on a lot of material with Tanka too which will be dropping in 2012.To book them for January email jack@ilovesumo.com

Release date 12th December 2011, from all the usual outlets!

For the second edition of the Sumo Takeover at Concrete Tuesdays we sent in Kry Wolf  and Kingsin to throw a party.  Afyer the success of the first night with last month at Concrete we were expecting big things and were not disappointed. Kingsin kicked it off to a packed out crowd getting them moving with some classic hip hop before getting the vibe pumping with tunes like coconuts of Quendor and….Having been busy in the studio and working on the label, it was good to see Kry Wolf let off some steam and as expected got a huge reception from their local crowd.

 Here’s some of the action:

More Photos at www.loveconcretemusic.co.uk

When did you first start producing/djing?

 As colo we started just over a year ago.

How long have you been involved in music for?

We’ve pretty much been involved in music all our lives. Started out playing at school which led to some really shit rock bands then Ben discovered a sampler met nick at college and started making really fast aggressive electronic music. Since then have done a few other projects and now with colo feel we’ve found what we’re meant to be doing. We’re both really happy with it, we haven’t given any real constraints of genre to the project so we have the freedom to do whatever we want.

What is your favourite food?

Yum Yums

Biggest influences on your style?

Well it’s hard to say really. So far we’ve not made any ‘club’ music under colo but there are influences of house, techno and the deeper side of dubstep running through a lot of our songs. I think our set would just reflect the mood of the crowd at the time. If on early would play a lot of beat orientated music moving to soul/disco, 80′s tunes and some house. Peak time would go down the route of 808′s, garage and techno. Techno has never gone away but recently has really been pushed to the forefront of the underground. A lot of the old dubstep producers are playing techno now and the cross over of the two sounds is really exciting. Expect in the future a techno ep dropping out of nowhere from us. Or not. Might happen.

Rob Taylor

Upcoming releases?

We’ve got a remix coming out of Jack Dixon and Robin Card on Take records followed by our first ep also in Take. Both are coming out on 12″ which we’re excited about. We’re also working on a track for a compilation album and our second ep for fuyu records. Feels good not knowing where we’re going with that one yet, just making tunes and seeing what works. We also shot our first music video which will be out with our Take records ep.

What are your top 5 tunes your playing out at the moment?

Nick:

 1) Arthur Russell – Wild Combination

2) Andy Stott – Tell Me Anything 
3) Dauwd – Ikopol
4) Boards of Canada – Iced Cooly 
5) Keith Jarrett – Koln Concert

Ben:

1) Shlohomo- Antigravity (Low Limit remix)

2) Aubrey -Marathon 
3) Helixir- Convultions 
4) Big bird- Flav 
5) Silent Servant- El Salvaje 
and number six if I could get my hands on it Dub Phizix feat. Skeptikal- Marka. Been waiting since May for that, getting rinsed hard right now but only the DnB elite have it. Those that heard it know what I mean.

Favourite festival?

Glade or secret garden. Really want to go outlook next year.

Just started a project with Datchy. Going to feature our first track in the colo mix we’re doing for http://www.synthglasgow.com/which will be online towards the end of october.

As colo we’re moving into recording and producing bands. Something we’ve planned from the beginning and we have got our first project for that starting in November recording the band All We Are’s next single.

Dash EXP’s remix of Tommy Kid’s – Pump up the Bass is available for download via our soundcloud, give it a listen here:

So over the weekend our boys Kingsin did a guest mix for the guys at Immersed Audio. The mix is on the free download and is definitely worth checking out.

1.TOYCO – See – Mimm Recordings

2. Girl Unit – Wut – Claude von strokes – Nightslugs

3. Roska – Jackpot – Rinse

For the full post and mix from Immersed Audio just visit http://www.immersedaudio.com/2011/10/immersed-audio-mix-series-011-kingsin.html

Whole Sick

Kashii

The first Sumo takeover at Concrete Tuesdays saw Whole Sick and Kashii bring a bag of tricks and showed Portsmouth how to party.  See the pictures at www.loveconcretemusic.co.uk

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For free downloads visit their fanpages:

WHOLESICK http://www.facebook.com/wholesick

KASHII http://www.facebook.com/KashiiUK

Coming straight out of Paris, here’s Tommy Kid’s East Street EP preview. His debut EP for SOS has remixes from Kingsin, Pasteman, Arcade, Mistertweeks, Squarehead, CDBL. Released later this month from all the usual outlets.