Mad EP is Matthew Peters, Iowa native (formerly based in New York, Chicago & Montreal) and recent UK transplant, with a vast and impressive background in electronic and classical music. On his most recent release, ‘Bass.hed’ (Ad Noiseam), Mad EP not only takes his place amongst the top alternative hiphop producers today, but also proves himself to be an F-Clef Chef of the highest order.
“Bass.Hed is the phattest, face ripping hip-hop record Germany has ever seen. … It comes off as righteous and breathtaking as the first time you experienced Aphex Twin, Machine Drum, Prefuse 73, Evol Intent, edIT, DJ Wally, and Star Wars.”
Popmatters
Probably one of the albums on Ad Noiseam which took the longest to complete. Begun years ago, Mad EP’s fourth full length album sees this highly praised musician focus on low frequencies and everything which comes with them. Syncopated beats, guest vocals by Shadow Huntaz, MC Equivalant and others and the multi-instrumentation which has made Mad EP famous are all brought back on this artists’s heaviest and most direct album to date.
Somewhat considered as the eternal well known secret, the artist people would recommend to their friends and DJ, Mad EP has grown from the all out experimentator of “Eating Movies” to a more focused and laid back incarnation on “Bass.hed”. Where “Eating Movies” and “Not Afraid Of Spiders” were wild rides through electronica, hip hop, jazz and breakcore, this new album has only one leitmotiv: bass, bass, and more bass.
Mad EP will be ripping it up at several European festivals this autumn, and will be putting out new releases on Arcoplane, Mutate Records, and more…
Grievous Angel is one of the incessant bloggers who repeatedly contributes mixes to the Blogariddims series featured on Radio Magnetic. Grievous Angel, Aka Paul Meme, is no ordinary blogger however.
As with most obsesive online music fans he’s got his wings in just about every musical pie you can think of. From producing reggae, dubstep, ragaga and techno as Grevious Angel to co-running techno & electronica label Dust Science, who amongst others have released tracks from The Black Dog, Dan Curtin, Derailleur and Anthony “Shake” Shakir. Not satisfied with these three professional past times Paul has also been involved with setting up Woofah magazine, the first serious UK reggae fanzine for almost 10 years. If you’r into everything ragge, ragga,m dnacehall, grime and dunbstep then you better look out a hard copy quick as Paul will give you the run down in his role as Dubstep Editor.
“I love the dubstep scene - I think it’s up there with the best scenes to have come out of dance music. It’s got real love vibes. DMZ is the best club in the world right now. But reggae is my first love.”
If you’re a reguilar listenr to the Blogariddims series then no doubt you’ll be used to reading screeds of indepth chat about which tunes were picked and why. Don’t have a full in depth breakdown but Paul being Grevious did give us a wee insight into this one…
“My mix focused on the more techy end of things rather than the garage gear I’ve been championing. So there’s a few tracks off the album together with a load of mainly unreleased stuff that’s in the same vein. It came out pretty darn well! Here’s the tracklisting… BTW this is the mix where I stuck the new Pangaea in within minutes of hearing it, it was so good - both sides…
The mix from Duplicity into the culture killer discomix into kowton’s metronome is just luvverly :). Big up all the producers for sending me their gear and to Rob for giving me a shot! Should be another good’un on the boomnoise and pokes show, and a REALLY special devotional dubz one for On The Wire…”
Tracklist
- Milanese Vs Virus Syndicate - Deadman Walking - Planet Mu
- Loefah - Mud - DMZ
- MRK1 - Infected - Forthcoming ‘Earwax’
- Untold - Yukon - Hemlock Recordings
- Practitioner - Safe In Numbers - Unreleased
- Kowton - Moving Along - Unreleased
- Wagawaga - J Dub - Forthcoming ‘Immigrant Recordings’
- Starkey - Drip - Creative Space
Mad EP - Exclusive Mix - ‘Electronic Explorations’
- The Mash Is Mine - Mad EP Vs. Dead Prez/Brandy/Onyx/Eazy - E
- Clones (Hellbass Mix) - Mad EP Vs. Puppetmastaz - Dubplate
- Decoy - Mad EP ft. Breaff (Shadowhuntaz) - Dubplate
- Night Drunken Pavement Remix - Mad EP Vs. Ra - Ad Noiseam
- Iowa City Mash - Mad EP - Ad Noiseam
- Noose (Apocalypse Mix) - Mad EP Vs. Shadowhuntaz - Dubplate
- Tempt Not A Maddened Man - Mad EP - Ad Noiseam
- Watch Yo Step (Damn EP Mix) - Mad/EQ - Hymen
- Nucks - Mad EP - Ad Noiseam
- Be Polite (Instrumental) - Mad EP - Dubplate
- 51 Areas - Mad EP ft. Dream (Shadowhuntaz), O’Slick & Akila Da Hun - Ad Noiseam
- Live Till I Rot - Mad EP/EQ - Ad Noiseam
- Full Spektrum - Red Sky - Forthcoming ‘Urban Grafitti’s
Grievous Angel - Exclusive Mix - ‘Electronic Explorations’
- Grievous Angel - Velvet Dub (Bitten by thee Black Dog) - “Belief is the Enemy”CD
- Scuba - Bleach - unreleased
- Grievous Angel - Lickle Friction - “Belief is the Enemy” CD
- The Black Dog - Floods (Bass Soldier Rework) - Soma 12?
- Scuba - Duplicity - unreleased
- Grievous Angel - Culture Killer (Discomix) - “Belief is the Enemy” CD
- Kowton - Metronome - unreleased
- Grievous Angel - I Love Dem - unreleased
- Pangaea - You And I - Forthcoming ‘Hessle Audio’
- Ramadanman Vs Jill Scott - Golden Carla - dubplate
- Grievous Angel - Soundman Tribute - “Belief is the Enemy” CD
- Grievous Angel - Immigrant - “Belief is the Enemy” CD
- Slaughter Mob - Dub Weapon -
- Pangaea - Router - Forthcoming ‘Hessle Audio’
- Grievous Angel - What We Had - Devotional Dubz Dubplate
