When Turrbotax first started, New York most definitely needed a party that focused on the percussive, housier side of bass music. And with their one-year-anniversary party coming up this Friday, it continues to grow increasingly relevant. Like always, they hit us off with the freebies this month – you can get in free if you show up before 11PM. And as is standard, free Asahi will be handed out. Todd Edwards, Jersey’s garage OG, will be headlining the night, backed by New York’s next garage star, Falty DL.

To celebrate, we’ve got this nice funky mixtape flipped by Mayster, one of the Turrbotax residents. What to expect from it? City destroying stabs, global drums, sneaky syncopation, and jump tempos. Tracklisting after the jump. (Image by Heiko Klug.)

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Warm low ends, skittery percussion, moody but not morbid atmosphere and well-paced, this new mix is a future garage oriented jump off featuring production by all New York area artists. There’s a bunch of others out here, and we’re sure to just be scratching the surface with this mix. A gang of unreleased joints are mixed with some free downloads, a couple classics tracks and some straight fire. (Cover art, before text, by Then One.)

00:01 – Blind Prophet — “From Within” [Unreleased]
03:20 – Svpreme Fiend — “Downfall” [Unreleased]
05:21 – Policy — “Our Secret” [Unreleased]
08:06 – Incyde — “Stares” [Unreleased]
10:01 – Goldielocks — “Addict (Falty DL Remix)” [FreeDL]
12:25 – Peter Gunn — “Troop Surge” [Unreleased]
14:00 – DJ Abstract — “Noxema” [FreeDL]
17:33 – Crystal Fighters — “In The Summer (Sepalcure Dub)” [Zirkulo]
19:35 – Utah Saints — “Power To The Beats (Todd Edwards Sweet Soul Dubified)” [FreeDL]
21:03 – Matt Shadetek — “Beenie Eyes” [Dutty Artz]
23:07 – Mikey Dubs — “Tempting Semara” [Unreleased]
25:49 – D’ Angelo — “Devil’s Pie (KRTS 2-Step Remix)” [FreeDL]

If you want New York beats and bass, DJ Still Life‘s got you. His Worldwide Smash radio show casts it’s gaze onto the instrumental hip hop steelo and whatever’s good in bass through EVR‘s storefront studio window in the East Village. While the sounds from Still’s decks spill out into the street, guests like Hank Shocklee, Alex Incyde, and CassetteNYC squeeze into the copper-tinted-mirror covered booth and bless the listeners with piles of unreleased gems. The Cali transplant has been doing his thing on the former pirate radio station for nearly a year now. Although the station’s archives are a bit frustrating, he recently dropped a crispy little tropical mixtape that reps the Worldwide side of the show’s title. It leans a bit heavily on the Latin tip for a tropical mix, but no one’s complaining because it’s all fire and we’re fellin’ that stuff anyway. He put this together for the homies over at Taste NYC. Tracklist after the jump. (Photo by Troy Paiva.)

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Our newest mixtape, Fullstep Stomp, which was recently posted over at Trash Menagerie, is full of deep and quick-paced bass joints. Mostly unreleased Dubstep, UK Funky, and Tropical Tech House keep the coal in the engine for some sweaty goodness. Go rifle trough the Trash for download and tracklist. (Architectural rendering by Zaha Hadid).

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Drownbeat Retreat – basically a blend of instrumental hip hop and classical music – is not for those with too short an attention span. With an eye towards symphonic instrumentation, the mix has a number of long melodies and some detailed rhythm work. Also, don’t sleep on church organs, they’re ridiculous, mang. (Original cover photo by Mark Coran.)

Lionel Cohen — “Bleeding Cowboys” [BUY IT]
Dinosauruxia — “Safe (Radio edit)” [BUY IT]
Iron Orchestra — “Black Snow”
Th.e n.d — “Brahmans Son”
Andels — “Above The Hills”
Emancipator — “Breeze (version)”
Jacaszek — “Lament”
Olafur Arnalds — “Til enda”
:10: — “Breathe” [BUY IT]
Russ Liquid — “Sumner House (VIP Mix)”
Mika Denn — “She’s Lost, He’s Come” [BUY IT]
Lloop – “Lei-tzu”
Tremor — “Viajante (Mopse Remix)”
Turbulence — “Tired (prod. by Jah Grasshopper)” [BUY IT]

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The latest Culture System mixtape seems like it would make a good soundtrack for “Lord of the Flies.” Full of driving and deep dubstep oriented tracks, it starts off with a final pleasant sunset as Warnings already creep up in the background. Immediately, it jumps into a Chase in the Woods and from there carries a quick-on-the-feet tempo amongst the darkness. Although there’s moments of rest where there’s a chance to reflect on the evil that men do, the pace constantly excels throughout the mix until the island is finally burning with the Cosmetics remix. You can listen to it over on Bass Music Blog and get the tracklist there. Out to ID for posting it! (Original cover painting by Cern YMI.)

Heinali‘s diverse mix of self produced music, loosely tethered together by dubstep, is so deep it resides underground the lowest layers of the ocean. The variety of rhythms, eclectic percussive choices, and scope of instrumentation are evident in the ever changing stalagmite soundwave that floats by so swiftly. The warm basslines powering this trip ripple in the underwater river. An infusion of organic elements in the sound palette glows in the background with an otherworldliness. The second half of this mix is our favorite, but standout cuts are “Blame You”, “Spivanochka” and “Ghost of a Chance“. You can download most of this mix for free at his bandcamp page. He also composes contemporary classical music, and makes a blend of electronic and classical music called classitronic. (Photo by Ian Sewell).

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A collection of mostly unreleased and new bass music from New York. From dubstep and dub to boom bap and garage. This mix is not comprehensive, it’s more of a snapshot. There’s quite a few more artists we’re really feelin’ out here.

Nate Mars — “Horizon feat. Juakali” (unreleased)
Soroka — “Uncrushable” (unreleased)
Jahdan Blakkamoore — “The General (Ticklah RMX)” [buy it]
Goonda — “Fearless (KRTS RMX)” [buy it]
Radiohead — “I Might Be Wrong (Slouch RMX)”
Mike Slott — “Gardening” [buy it]
Nebulla + Chromatik — “Slowburn” [buy it]
Sepalcure — “Feeling That I Know So Well” (unreleased)
TK Wonder — “Nightwalker” [buy it]
Yellowtail — “Mongoose” [buy it]
Zack Hagan — “rm1x 8-99″ (unreleased)
Mikey Dubs — “Kerala”
Dave Sharma — “How To Move” (unreleased)
Incyde — “I Know” (unreleased)

Original cover photo by Yeshvir Daamineni.

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Jestofunk — “Stellar Funk” [BUY IT]
Etelvina Maldonado — “Manuelita (Uproot Andy & Geko Jones RMX)”
Baobinga & I.D. — “Man Down”
Solo — “Afreaka” [BUY IT]
Marcus Visionary — “St. Vincent” [BUY IT]
Das Nevez — “Biohazard (Nehuen RMX)”
Dubheadz — “Flowrider” [BUY IT]
Funk Ethics — “Blues Is Now” [BUY IT]
Headhunter — “Prototype (Modeselektor‘s Broken Handbrake RMX)” [BUY IT]
Gang Gang Dance — “Bebey (DJ /rupture & Matt Shadetek RMX)”
Figura — “Ze Bula (Chief Boima RMX)”
Stephen Marley — “Traffic Jam (Dhurva Refix)”
Pedro Diaz — “This Is The Sound (Space Mix)” [BUY IT]
Bruce Dickinson — “Baya” [BUY IT]
Mollo — “Kumpu (J.Ti RMX)” [BUY IT]

Got a few mixes here y’all might want to check. Follow the links for tracklistings.

First up is Crooked Clef‘s Mittelschmerz. We’re not sure why he named this mix after pain related to the menstrual cycle, but dude reaps a mood of havoc on this one. Rooted in dubstep, the mix evokes a mysteriously idle clear cutting operation in the rainforest, where tractors sit vacant but the sound of their action still stains the air. Rather than straying into bassline bangers or the mid range wobblery that so often draws comparisons to rock, Clef chooses to explore the sonic relations of atmospheric industrial. Most of the tracks strike a mood and ride it, but the mix rarely lingers on a song longer than two minutes, which keeps it interesting.

Next up is a shuffle-filled dance mix by Saputotime. Dude played much of this mix at the last Turrbotax party, where he’s a resident. It’s impossible not to move to this sound. Although some of the breakdowns were a bit long and there were strained stretches of loopyness, his selection was a refreshing perspective on what makes a New York dance floor raise the roof. Download here.

Finally, we just want to make sure no one slept on Douster‘s XLR8R mix. Since it’s untitled, we’ll call it Tropical Storm Douster. We’re a bit late posting it, but this is a gem. It’s a hype blend of hip hop with European club and tropical dance styles that will leave you covered in sweat like you got caught in the downpour. (Sorry, we can’t stream the mixes hosted at XLR8R.) Photo by Marcus Mumbach.