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can't really wish for a better endorsement than that have posted up a mix up on soundcloud that previews the whole album

Remixes + Rarities, the latest album from Auckland’s Pitch Black, is a package of rare tracks and lovingly crafted remixes of other artists’ music, chosen by Paddy Free and Mike Hodgson to represent their 15 years as one of NZ’s favourite electronica acts. Known globally for their stomping live sets, Remixes + Rarities showcases Pitch Black’s mellower side. Beginning with a dancefloor friendly, but respectful,reworking of the Richard Nunns and Hirini Melbourne original, ‘Te Po’ and ending with an equally haunting version of Tiki’s ‘Past Present Future’, the album represents the past, present and future of the Pitch Black partnership. Included in the remixes are tracks by fellow NZ dub trailblazers International Observer and Salmonella Dub, who appear alongside independent music producer Tom Cosm and reggae legends Katchafire. Also fed through the PB warping machine are tracks from further afield: ‘Mirror Beach’ by Mirror System (the ambient project of System 7); and ‘A New Day’, a remix of a Sri Lankan track that Pitch Black did for the Laya Project, a collaboration of regional folk musicians affected by the 2004 tsunami. Included on the album are three Pitch Black rarities, one of which is a recording of 1996’s ‘I’m a Wanderer’, the first track the pair worked on together, which showcases the industrial beginnings of what would become the Pitch Black sound: a dynamic balancing act between heavily sculpted basslines and choppy melody. Also included is ‘Kaikoura Dub’, the track used on Whalerider after Mike – having been asked by Niki Caro for some music – gave her a 23 minute mix of a jam recorded in Kaikoura. “She ended up choosing a sliver for the film. We subsequently used the bones of this track for the tune ‘Elements Turn’ on Ape to Angel” The last rarity is ‘Protect the Grain’ a windborne ambient track that was previously released on the limited edition EP Flex around the time of widespread anti GE demonstrations in NZ and worldwide. Pitch Black have always been more than a dance act, but on Remixes + Rarities they demonstrate the full reach of the musical territory they love to explore. Out today on Dubmission Records, it can be picked up from good record shops, all download stores but ideally from BandCamp where the album bundle comes with 2 extra tracks, full artwork and an animation the boys composed the soundtrack to back in 97.

The Next Mission: Part One 1. Fireman - E.R.S. 2. Space Warrior - Dubsalon 3. One Drop - Akasha 4. Meditations In The Bells - Capisconne 5. Tokyo Romance - Green Beats 6. From the Other Side - Akasha 7. Don't Stop - Dubsalon 8. Kunga Karunga - E.R.S 9. Tres de Nou - Green Beats 10. Sea Nothing - Capisconne Bonus BandCamp tracks 11. Solar Salutation - Akasha 12. The Laws of Planet Fix - E.R.S. 13. Bombay - Capisconne feat. Ratko Vojtek 14. The Elements - Green Beats 15. Lifted - Dubsalon Today sees the release of a new Dubmission compilation, featuring five artists from all round the world: E.R.S. from India via Austria, Dubsalon from Argentina, Akasha from England, Green Beats from Spain and Capisconne from Croatia. It is available from all mainstream download sites, but only BandCamp has the five bonus tracks. Hopefully this is, as the title suggests, the first in a new series of compilations we are putting together, each to feature 10 tracks in total from five different artists. The series has been inspired by the quality of demos we are being sent these days, thanks mainly to the medium of soundcloud. we are open to all sounds, ideally with fat basslines!, so any musicians reading this, please get in touch.

the final part of our dj mix series that we started to celebrate 15 years of releasing music, comes from the bc dubcats, aka naasko and craig please download for free from soundcloud 01. Lampedusa - International Observer 02. Make Animals Happy - Warp Technique 03. Speech (Submariner remix)- Pitch Black 04. Up in Smoke- Third Ear Audio 05. Shopcleaner - Stress Assassin 06. Me We - Stress Assassin 07. Mud Shark Lick - International Observer 08. Lost in Translation (International Observer meets Horace remix) - Pitch Black 09. Warp Dub 5 (Fagin's Reject remix) - Warp Technique 10. Jamaican Robot - Third Ear Audio 11. Aix Vibration - Curly Top 12. Down by the River - Green Monitor

we are working on a compilation of up and coming artists, which should come out in feb or march, and then there should be a collection of pitch black's remixes of other people (katchafire, mirror system, international observer etc) plus some of their film soundtracks, out in april or may. the final installment of warp technique's remixes could drop sometime between these and then ............. who knows! after releasing 15 titles this year, we are a bit exhausted :-)

As the final part of our 15th anniversary celebrations, we are happy to release today a free compilation featuring many of our artists. The tracklisting is: 1. Blueprint - Stress Assassin 2. Ocean Unknown Part 2 - Bluey 3. Keep On - Bill&Ben 4. Sonic Colonic (Tom Cosm remix) - Pitch Black 5. Green Skins - Green Monitor 6. Chillum Yoga - Lung Transplant 7. Grantchester Meadows Remembered (Wabi Mix) - Doof 8. Come A Shore feat. Sean - Stress Assassin It can be downloaded from http://dubmission.bandcamp.com/album/dub-for-life or http://tinyurl.com/dub4life Please feel free to share with friends - we hope the basslines keep you warm this winter

our october mix comes courtesy of brighton's red five, who blended together 8 stress assassin tunes to create a luxuriously downtempo mix which can be downloaded for free from soundcloud

you could save yourself some money and buy .flac files of it direct from doof via his bandcamp page

As promised, a rather wonderfully crazy mix from Doof is up now for free download from SoundCloud

It has been a busy few months at Dubmission HQ: July saw the re-release of Stress Assassin's "Carriertrack", a long overdue collection of Doof dubs, "Love Dub So", and a quirky EP from Ireland's Green Monitor. Today we have a new compilation out: "On a Mission from Dub", our second budget priced label sampler, takes one track from each release this year and is available for the bargain price of £1.50 for all 15 tracks when you buy from BandCamp. Tracklisting 1. Pitch Black - Harmonia (Deep Seed remix) 2. International Observer - Popcorn Slavery (Bombay Dub Orchestra's Opium Den remix) 3. Warp Technique - Whale Salt Dog (Bird of Prey remix) 4. Stress Assassin - Time 5. Bill&Ben - Country Man Dub 6. Third Ear Audio - Kalahari Dub 7. The Knights of the Occasional Table - Jahmarama 8. International Observer - House of the Rising Dub (Pitch Black remix) 9. Warp Technique - Make Animals Happy (Sensient remix) 10. Bluey - Eight Metre Swell 11. Pitch Black - Harmonia (Subset remix) 12. Doof - Question Mark Dub 13. International Observer - Leaf Mold 14. Stress Assassin - Death for a Living 15. Green Monitor - Down by the River Also, please feel free to download any of the DJ mixes up at SoundCloud. Coming soon up there will be a very special Doof mix of Dubmission goodies.

New mix up on our SoundCloud page for free download, this time by DJ Chlorophil 01. Pitch Black - Freefall (Alucidnation's Lucid Dream Remix) 02. Pitch Black - Sonic Colonic (Tom Cosm Remix) 03. Third Ear Audio - Freak of Nature 04. Pitch Black - Lost in Translation (International Observer meets Horace Remix) 05. Pitch Black - Fragile Ladders (Groove Yantra remix) 06. Pitch Black - Freefall 07. Pitch Black - South of The Line (Bluetech's Electroid Excursion) 08. Pitch Black - Lost in Translation (Youth remix) 09. Warp Technique - Wonderland Dub 10. Paddy Free - Whai Atu 11. Pitch Black - Harmonia (Chlorophil's Mojave Remix) 12. Bombay Dub Orchestra - Moonsoon Malabar (International Observer remix) 13. Pitch Black - 1000 MileDrift (International Observer remix)

actually turns out i was late - totally forgot the release date and thought it was next week! so extending the draw until monday 28th for late lurkers :-)

digital only, but to (hopefully) make up for that you can get it from bandcamp in flac format for the same price as mp3's (£4.99 for all 16 tracks)

we intended to, but once we got them up in the studio, it was apparent that the original mastering by pete crooks had stood the test of time so any further polishing was unnecessary.

back in the mists of time, we released three, in our humble opinion, rather good compilations: "mashing up creation", "dubbed on planet skunk" and "more bass than space". this was before downloads really took off, and so none of the compilations were ever uploaded (legally, that is). in time, the physical copies ran out and so, for nearly 10 years now, most of the tracks on the compilations have unfortunately been unavailable to music lovers. on june 21st, we will be releasing "skunked on planet dub", a collection of tracks from those compilations. their original creators span genres and countries, but are all united by their love of large basslines, skanking rhythms and dubbed out beats. to celebrate we will be running a competition of sorts. we have two rather unusual prizes: jigsaws of the original artwork for "mashing up creation" and "dubbed on planet skunk" (created by the amazing fractal billy). how to win? well, please email us and tell us the names of 5 of the people whose faces/likenesses are on the wall of the alien's studio that is on the cover of "dubbed on planet skunk". names will be drawn on monday june 21st. in the meantime, you can check out tracks by doof, woob, tribal drift, 100th monkey and more at last.fm.