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While we unfortunately don’t have a new filthy mix for ya to jam out to this weekend, we’ll have the duo known as Jack Beats step in and satisfy all your beat-beating needs with their recent Radio 1 Essential Mix.

Essential Mix (20-02-2010)- Jack Beats by Dooz Le Witz

Jack Beats is the amalgam of two champion turntable prodigies–Niall Dailly a.k.a. “DJ Plus One” of Scratch Perverts and Ben Geffin a.k.a. “Beni G” of the Mixologists. Considered as revolutionaries within the realm of electronic dance music, Jack Beats stands at the forefront of the new wave of British house music which features such elements as wobble-bass, dubstep, and breakbeat. They are also notorious for bringing a frenzied genre of club music called, “fidget house” to the masses. Check out a brief interview of Jack Beats from Spinner at SXSW this year:

Describe your sound in your own words.

BG: A style of house which is a melting pot of various types of bass music, old and new, from hip-hop, dubstep and drum’n'bass to techno and rave.

How did your band form?

ND: We’ve been friends for many years, and having both produced music separately for many years, decided to one day collaborate and try doing music together. It worked really well, so we just starting making tunes we really wanted to, without limitations.

What are your musical influences?

ND: Things like hip-hop, minimal and early stuff from Switch and Jesse Rose, as well as band producers like Rick Rubin.
BG: A lot of early dance stuff, from late acid house to early 90′s hardcore and then jungle, hip-hop (until recently!), plus Rage Against The Machine and Rob Playford.

How did you come up with your band name?

ND: We were finishing an early release and still didn’t have a name and wanted to come up with something that would keep our identities secret, so we wanted a name that reflected that. We came up with the hip-hop term “jacking for beats”, which we then shortened to just “jack beats” as people would think it’s just one person, which some people still do, and that’s dope.

What’s your biggest vice?

BG: We both have an obsession with very unhealthy studio snacks. Oh, and Guinness.

Who was your first celebrity crush?

ND: Kylie Minogue.
BG: Kelly Lebrock in ‘Weird Science’.

Beatles or Stones?

Both: the Stones.

What’s the craziest thing you’ve seen or experienced while on tour?

ND: That’s a tough one. Last year we played a gig in LA for 20,000 people that got shut down. We saw half the LAPD and fire marshalls invade the arena and shut it down, with kids literally almost rioting.

Interview courtesy of Spinner.

Since we all get bored easily in this day and age, collaborations between genres and artists (i.e. Deadmau5 & Tommy Lee) offer unique and refreshing takes on the way we view music.

As the backbone of rhythm and music since its inception, live percussion has recently been making huge waves among the electronic world especially with DJ performances. Take A-Trak and Travis Barker down below for instance. Now it’s only a matter of time until we see live electronic percussion beats in conjunction with some big electro-names.

It’s Monday (unf & obvi)–we’re tired and completely brain-dead. We’re gonna go out on a limb here and assume that you’re all still feeling the aftermath of this weekend’s carnage as well. To make matters worse, a precious hour of sleep was lost due to Daylight Saving Time. As much as we love dirty electro, we think that some light, uplifting trance would be far more suiting and also soothing for this Monday after St. Patty’s…And lucky you, we just so happen to have created a fresh new trance mix appropriately titled, “Monday Morning.”

Φ – Monday Morning [right click...save as]

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Enjoy and hope it gets you through the next couple (or more) days!!

Congratulations! You made it through the week and are now staring right into the eye of perhaps the greatest holiday of the year…St. Patty’s Day. It’s so close that we can already smell the refreshing aroma of Jameson and green beer flowing like the Niagara through the soon-to-be intoxicated air. Oh how we (general public) love having justification for day drinking starting at the crack of dawn. Kiss our ass, Santa…the Leprechauns know what’s up. Now, just gotta devise a new strategy for faking productivity for the remainder of today…hang in there. Help is only a couple clicks away.

While there’s no pot of gold waiting for you at the end of the day, there is a brand-new 82-minute ILL mix that is sure to help alleviate your stressful journey to happy hour…and also through this inevitably shenanigan-filled, shamrock sloshfest of a weekend. So without further adieu, here’s the new mix from yours truly at Roktronik

Φ – “F” & ILL [Right Click...Save As]

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♣ have a redic weekend and watch after your lucky charms♣

As we’ve been finalizing our new Filthy Friday mix, we haven’t had a chance to scour the world wide web for any new and worthy tracks.

Instead, we came across this sweet ass video for “Jackin’ My Fresh,” by Black Noise featuring Lex One.

Black Noise is hip-hop group from Cape Town in South Africa, and while we haven’t heard too much from them (only other track is a remix of “Put Your Hands On Me” by the Crookers) the electro-wobble beats on this track definitely hint that they’ve got what it takes to be a major player. Lookin’ forward to hearing more stuff from them.

Stay tuned for a disgusting Friday tomorrow!