We've printed the second issue of ABAGAzine, featuring news, reviews, club nights and more.

Look out for it around Edinburgh or Glasgow or download it here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?h1go5mmzmnr

Take it easy

Tactus – “Riding Horses EP”

01. Steam Cloud

With the ever increasing Dubstep scene in Edinburgh and throughout Scotland it is encouraging to see small indie label, Abaga, establishing itself in Scotland’s capital city. Steam Cloud by Tactus is the first track on ‘The Riding Horses E.P’, a marauding beast with echoes of dubby goodness oozing through. It begins gently, allowing you to get caught up in the sound before it ambushes you with a brooding, dirty baseline. Interwoven with short, sharp electric shocks it conjures up images of a deep and dark subterranean world where you feel compelled to let yourself go.

As a fan of all things dub related, it is pleasing to hear this come through, rather than be a hindrance, it allows the track to flourish. Dubstep as a genre has endless possibilities and it is vital that these boundaries are pushed that little bit further. Steam Cloud uses the foundations already set and evolves its own style, a positive aspect when trying to establish a reputation as a producer and a label. Since writing this, Steam Cloud has received airplay on Vic Galloway’s Radio 1 show, a promising start and hopefully a sign of more good things to come.


02. How Was Your Weekend

Track two from ‘The Riding Horses E.P’ is a club banger keeping the dub vibe well and truly alive. How Was Your Weekend vibrates to the sound of a heavy vocal, with a punchy baseline underpinning this dark number, a track to lose your weekends to – if you forgive the pun. Tactus has managed to step it up, embracing you in a warm, musical cocoon. This needs to be played at full volume, at 3 in the morning, waking your entire neighbourhood. Failing that and not wanting to be evicted from your home. This should be experienced in a club with a good sound system. It is only when you hear this played as it should, will you appreciate what a good track this is.

03. In The Shade
 
A Rolling wall of sound greets you with this third track off The Riding Horses E.P. Bass is again the key word here, echoes of sound introducing themselves and disappearing again. The ever present dub vibe filters through, backed up with little snippets of high hats. In The Shade ticks all the right boxes, never becoming too predictable. Upon listening to this several times I can even make out what appears to be guitar riffs, giving this a much fuller sound.

Reviewed by Andrew Kiwanuka, April 2009

Free release:

Artist: Tactus and Spiral Soundsystem
Title: Remedy
Label: ABAGA Records/Little Rascal Records
Catalog Number: ABAGA004
Country: UK/Australia
Released: 6 Apr 2009
Genre: Dubstep/dub

Available at:
http://www.digital-tunes.net/releases/remedy

Thissong is a collaboration of ABAGA Record's Tactus with SpiralSoundsystem from Australian label Little Rascal Records, check them out at: www.lrrecords.com.au. Vocals by Junior Fadzai Mandaza: www.myspace.com/aldeetronix. Vinyl release may follow...

Alright

"Steam Cloud" was played last night on Vic Galloway's BBC Introducing show. His show is on every Thursday morning on Radio 1 from 00:00 to 02:00, here's a link:

www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/vicgalloway
"Steam Cloud" on RADIO 1: www.divshare.com/download/6736798-c2c

Thanks Vic!

New tune too:

So Rough refix clip: www.divshare.com/download/6727804-9eb

Cheers,
ABAGA Records

New dubstep magazine "ABAGAZINE" out now with info on ABAGA Records and artists.

Check in shops/pubs/cafes, etc. around Edinburgh and Glasgow, or download it here:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/7s36bt

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The first issue of ABAGAZINE will be out soon! A short publication featuring news from ABAGA Records and the current Scottish club scene, including listings and reviews, ABAGAZINE will be your personal portal to all things dub.

Oh.. and it's free!

Keep those peepers peeled in coming weeks!

The trailblazing DJ Tactus is now available for bookings. Spinning a huge selection of heart stopping, foot-stomping rhythms no evening of bass-heavy debauchery would be complete without Edinburgh's sub-hungry hero behind the decks.

For an example of Tactus' work, download the free mix posted in the previous blog. For further information and contact details see www.myspace.com/tactusblaze.

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Below is a link to a 26 minute mix of subby goodness, free for download. There are a few CDs of this kicking about, so if you have one, here is the track listing:

 

Sex Cauldron - Tom Jones

How Was Your Weekend - Tactus feat. Fadzai Jr. Mandaza

Rectal Spillage - Tactus

Max the Parrot - Camphor Haze

Into the Fire - Tom Jones

Dirty Grimey - Camphor Haze feat. Mel G

Strawberry Kebab - Camphor Haze (Tactus Remix)

Steam Cloud - Tactus

Life in the Fridge - Tactus

Mango - Tactus

Ceramic Pulse - Camphor Haze

Tracked Down - Tactus

Mixed by Tactus

 

Download Link: http://www.divshare.com/download/5905207-499

Enjoy!

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