1/ Baobinga Riddim Selection Mix

As a starter listen to this filthy mix! It'll make you jump out of your chest for sure!

This was recorded for Mad Decent in December. It's still hot like two thousands of biatches!

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2/ Drop the Lime - I Love NY (Baobinga's Fuck Up Like Woah Remix)

And as special presents, for you lucky InYourBass readers,  Baobinga was nice enough to give us an exclusive song from his side!

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3/ Interview by Red Ant

Now time to discover more about this badman producer and dj:

Can you fill me in a bit on your background?
OK, I grew up playing classical piano from when I was 6 yrs old, played drums most of my teenage years... Was heavily into metal and indie until I heared techno and jungle and realised there was a world of mad sounds and riddims out there... Fast forward a few years and I started putting out heavy breakbeat records with a strong garage feel, check out The Bashment Track and The Feeling...
After a while, the heavy breaks scene lost any sense of garage swing and fun and turned into cheesy trance and pendulum-lite so I moved towards a more techno-oriented sound, but still with the cut up beats of breakbeat... and then recently I've been experimenting more with ragga beats and just all round interesting riddims.
Good examples of that would be my remix of The Ragga Twins 'Ready 4 This' on Passenger and my collaboration with Tayo and Spyda 'Style & Trend' on Soul Jazz. Been listening to a lot of B-More too, and that has been incorporated into my sound too - check out Jump Up Get Hype with Virus Syndicate, or Hood Thang on Pure Filth.
DJ wise I've always mixed it up though, so I wouldn't say that my sets fit into any one particular genre.
 
Talking about playing different genres...what do you think about the fact that nowadays most of the parties are only one genre related?
Well it was like that for a long time and I always hated it, cos I always thought the point of dance music was to expose people to interesting and unusual sounds they may not have heard before... but then you'd have people complaining that you played a Slam record next to a breakbeat tune, or you mixed speed garage into dubstep and so on. And its those kind of mixes that interest me the most, rather than 2 full hrs of only one sound. However, I think its relaxing a bit now - there seems to be a lot more openness to mashing it up. - but the danger with that is that everyone just plays the biggest record in each scene, which is also kinda boring!
 
Purists are everywhere…
Yep, and also it’s everyone’s natural instinct to go for the safe choice - but music is always the most exciting when it’s NOT safe!
 
People like Tayo, Unbalanced Jack, yourself and others try to break boundaries between styles…What do you think about the crossover between styles?
There's a lot of people out there mixing it up now, just not people who are known for coming from the breaks scene... people like Jackmaster from Numbers in Glasgow, or obviously Diplo.
 
And some sounds from south parts of the world are coming to refresh the party…
Yeah, Baile funk, Kwaito... Although I've not heard a huge amount of Kwaito that I am really into to be honest. And with Kuduru I really need to look beyond Buraka som Sistema - they're great, but there's more to it than that, and I don't really know much apart from them.
I found a blog dedicated to kuduru that looked like it was pretty close to the source (but can't find it now), and there's blogs like Mudd Up which work on making these links.
 
You're better known for your breaks tunes but you and your partner ID also produce dubstep and other styles...what do u think about the dubstep scene evolution?
Ha! The main thing I think about it is - why the f*ck did I not jump on it when I first started hearing it in 2004??? Me and Ed (I.D.) used to listen to J Da Flex's show on 1 Xtra religiously and absolutely loved it - interesting beats, plenty of sub bass, no cheese - it was perfect! But for some reason we thought we couldn't jump on the bandwagon, it would be morally wrong or something - IDIOTS!!!
But yeah, dubstep is great, I love the way the 2 step sound is coming back, love the techno influenced sound, and love the occasional big banger. Its a bit of a shame that now there is 'the dubstep bass sound' but that always happens.
I also like the fact that its a scene that values skill in DJs - mixing quickly and using vinyl.
 
Dubstep world evolution compared to breaks evolution has grown up a way faster and bigger......how can you explain that?
Dubstep stayed focussed on innovative music rather than bootlegs and always taking the obvious choice. Hence, it has retained some degree of mystique and excitement.
 
Do you think quality of production in dubstep is more interesting and creative?
When it started out definitely... I used to play the tunes that I was loving to friends who were into breaks and they'd ask how you were supposed to dance to it! In a way though, a lot of the early dubstep productions weren't technically amazing, but they had a vibe that was so interesting, and they were focussed on bass, and the space in the tracks.
At the time, a lot of breaks stuff was maybe louder and crisper, but that's not always that important.
 
Have you heard interesting beats coming out from this side recently? (in breaks)
Reso's stuff crosses over into the heavier side of breaks... But not heard a huge amount that's inspired me from 'the scene' per se. But there's loads of tunes that have interesting drums that aren't seen as breaks - like that Jan Driver tune on Made To Play, Rat Alert. And I like what MAN Recordings does in getting people like Seiji or Stereotyp to link with Brazilian vocalists – always interesting results.
And I should really mention Ed I.D and his solo stuff like To The Line on Passenger, and his Cool and Deadly release- both sick!)
 
Breakspoll 2009 is coming...any favorites?
Mostly looking forward to seeing Reso & I.D. back to back
 
What’s your plans/future releases for the next few months?
At the moment I am waiting for vocals back from Virus Syndicate, Spyda and a manchester singjay Killa Benz - so need to get these all finished up and signed... Have another speed garage thing kinda finished which I'm nor sure what to do with yet, and I also want to get a solo Skinnz release sorted – DJ Pinch’s Earwax have taken a couple of tunes that me and Ed have done together. And as always, vague plans to start a label!
 
You will be in Brussels at LowUp on March (7th March)
According to the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy…On Earth, Belgium refers to a small country. Throughout the rest of the galaxy, Belgium is the most unspeakably rude word there is. What is Belgium for you?
Belgium = great chocolate and great beer! Really looking forward to coming over, I've been to Bruges on holiday but never to Brussels, so can't wait to check it out!
 
 
Thanks Sam…see ya @ LowUp this WE!!!

More about Baobinga > http://www.myspace.com/baobinga

4/ Low Up this WE

U know what to do aight?!?!?

Baobinga ft DJ Nasty - State of Ghetto Jacking

http://www.inyourbass.com/parties/168