The Harlem-based Irishman brings his kaleidoscopic beatsmithery to this week's RA podcast.

frist! and thanks, I look forward to listening to this

Thanks!!

Dubstep again???
kidding, I love dubstep.
Well, it is dubstep, right? On discogs they say hip hop, but what I hear is dbsp

thanks again RA

Looking forward to another RA set. Only... why are they all getting this short? I'd like to see 60+ minutes again!

what? no interview? I'll never know what's the idea behind the mix...

I gotta admit I cannot name a single track, but I am absolutely digging this shit. Much love RA for the consistent quality but can't we get back to the 60 min mixes?

I'm also slightly confused as to why there is no interview with this one? Maybe in the coming days.

Not surprising, this is a live session

I've heard Andrew Lustman (FaltyDL) speak of him. Let's see if his praise rings true.

Interview will be up soon. It's short because his live set was short. We can't conjure anymore minutes unfortunately.

but i guess stumble(d) beat dubstep beat hehe in small doses is nice!
my roomies are like " why dont u beatmatch dat shit already"?
..I `ll dl dr. gregory house tomorrow....he`ll sort shit out for them!

next time we might get some vocal tracks too hopefully and probably since its summer closing in and all..hehehe

no just dbstep., something interesting.

nice one, will check soon

excellent. enjoying this sound a lot at the mo...so fresh.

I like this techy style of dubstep alot of the stuff released lately is grime and to be honest its shite. Tracklist would be good, checked library on Beatport but not a great deal though.

Phat! Mike Slott live is awesome :-) Lookin fwd to hear this.

disappointing.

^same here man, unfortunately. i loved his last ep (the one with that smoky picture of him on the cover), but this ep makes me tired and kind of bored. i think his music works in a set, but not a whole set of his stuff.

kinda cool stuff...

COULD REALLY USE A PLAYLIST OF TRACKS FOR THIS MIX... ANYBODY....?

Take my words back. It's full shit. 'cause its dbstep

Mike Slott doesn't make dubstep you quilt.

Not a big dubstep fan.. but will give this a whirl out of curiouslty.
on the download..

ok, but then, scuba or untold don't either. If it doesn't fit your dubstep "definition", it would certainly fit a good Scuba mix (more than starkey for example)

i love it. really wasnt expecting to at all. i see the word dubstep and i switch off a fair bit of the time. the last podcast was complete dump but this is class. apart from the way too abrupt transitions at times, but ah well

er, Scuba was on the dubstep thing from early as a producer and label-boss, and he'd probably still tell you he makes it - even if the Berlin and the drum'n'bass influences are becoming more pronounced and the boundaries of what defines dubstep is becoming more and more unravelled. Ditto Untold.

Mike Slott makes hip-hop - just like the rest of the LuckyMe guys. That's where their background is, that's where they're coming from, and i'd wager they'd tell you they don't owe a thing to dubstep.

do some homework and listen to Mike Slott's Heralds of Change records with Hudson Mohawke. they're straight hip-hop.

wtf lol... since when did everything not 4/4 get reduced to d*****p?

Anyway the mix is a beauty. love mike's music.

edit: Tomlea speaks truth.

I love a few of Mike Slott's tracks- my lightbridge, and the roberta flack remix he did for flylo are both dope. I definitely wouldn't call this dubstep tho, abstract hip hop is a bit more accurate, but even that doesn't do justice- it's this future-tip post-IDM post-Dilla type sound.

At least it's not dumbstep.

This is a nice live set. It is reminiscent of some sort of Dilla meets Rephlex sound, as h34dup suggested. I will have to take this one on my next walk through Manhattan. Mike is right, you can be inspired without even realizing it in this city.

I like the ambient stuff / breakdowns better than the rest.

this has nothing to do with dupsteb, sort it out

also, quilt is the best insult ever

very nice - love the loose off kilter grooves of this mix

How is this not Dubstep???

great listen. good selection of tunes and thanks RA!

Unclassifiable, beautiful stuff. I enjoyed this.

Why does it matter so much that this is considered dubstep? Do some of you need a label in order to know whether you will be running from a podcast or worshiping it to high heaven?

Isn't it a missed opportunity to not listen to music just as it is, labels or not?

Sweet. Some interesting choices for RA mixes lately. I've liked quite a few of Slott's tracks, so I'm looking forward to this. Also, his music doesn't have much to do with dubstep. It's more in the vein of artists like Flying Lotus, Ras G, Dimlite, Hudson Mohawke etc, none of whom are classified as dubstep artists. Anyway, my point is, who cares what this is, as long as it's good.

Yesyes we can stop now, we know very well its not dubstep, so...

mike slott is boss.

Some lovely tunes but the majority of it is not my cup of T in fact I had to turn it off. But it is different and people seem to like it so he must be doing something right.

No matter what is it. Its bad pod imho. There is just a wave (3-4 podcasts) of dbstep in these :RA, next will be awesome music i think...

This was pretty good. I'm surprised at how coherent the mix as a whole was, taking into account the (intentionally) incoherent and skittery beats. I recognize probably just three of these tracks, so I'd love to see a playlist.

interesting to see RA have a hip hop podcast, albeit an unusual abstraction of hip hop, after having virtually ignored the genre in the past. good podcast

Mea culpa
But it proves dubstep and hip hop are not so far away from each other maybe hip hop is the major root of dubstep? Your comment brings the question: how a style is defined? from the actual music? the roots? the label? from the whole mix or each track? from the sounds and structure or the spirit? Great and passionating debate. Don't try to close it with one sentence.

RA: "so we naturally decided to bring him on board to play live (...) alongside Scuba, Untold and Jamie Vex'd at T Bar a couple of months back." -> so my comparison is not entirely pointless.

I'll say what moment made me think it's sometimes closer from dbp than hiphop, you'll understand what my point is:
-3 min
-7 min 30
-20 min 30
-32 min

For the rest you are all right: after re-listening, it's closer to Prefuse and stuff

ANYWAY I like this podcast.

One more thing: for years I searched for the perfect bridge between 4x4 music and what i call (in the absence of a better word) experimental music (warp and stuff). Then dubstep appeared to my ears and i thank it was the perfect link, the missing piece between these distant worlds. Since this set fits in this definition, well I called it hastily dubstep, and personally I don't really care what it is, since it brings me a similar sensation.

I`m waiting for something else than dubsteps...:/ but some parts of this mix are quite interesting(32-35 min)

This is not dubstep. It's more like FlyLo / Prefuse / HudMo territory aka hip-hop

killaaa!!!

Dubstep and hip-hop are of completely different genetic strains. Dubstep from UKG via Jamaican atmospherics, hip-hop from specifically american funk rhythms and jazz breaks. It is quite interesting the way dubstep has rigorously bleached the junglist jazz influences from its soundsystem soul.

There is a case to be made for saying everything originated in the African heartland of course but how tedious need this debate be?

get thee to a dmz.