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On October 11 Knowncold.com opened and Known Cold Records started looking for new artists. What started as a net-label project quickly became a label ready to distribute CD's and merchandise. At Known Cold records or KCR for short; started a web magazine to serve the Dubstep Collective with 13 ongoing series of topics ranging from studio production to venue and nightclub reviews.

Included in KCR’s growing list of articles and features is the monthly podcast giveaway 'Known Cold Sessions' and 'Beat Soldiers' a collection of samples for beat mechanics presented every month the 'freebies' page. Known Cold aims to giveaway tons of music, one free single with each release and as well a special mix with each EP or single. All of the proceeds of t-shirts will go directly to helping KCR artists tour the world and spread the message. Known Cold is here!



One of the first artist that KCR found was Aeon also known as Robert G. Aeon blew has terrific production skills. His tech house style is fresh and without the over played wobble. (Not to say we don't like wobble, because we most certainly do!) Aeon's basslines are of the deep sub variety, big throbbing and in some cases downright rude Speaker rumbling crushers:) What struck us most about his debut was how coherent it was. All of his tracks work well together making a truly unique musical expression. Musically the under lying melodies on the Blury Mind EP are pure genius with emotional synth workouts with a house influenced groove*.


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In short Aeon is incredible! His beats are compelling, his basslines are sophisticated and his style is extraordinary. This collection of surreal skeletal melodies with dark atmospheres, experimental palettes of enthusiastic synth work, minimal drums and huge pumping sub basses complete this forward thinking producers vision of visceral dubstep.

The EP is already getting support from world renowned producers like DJ Liondub and with a track featured in the Knowledge Magazine mix Kommon Knowledge by komonazuk

“The music is incredible, I'd love to get (those) tracks.” DJ Liondub, LionDub International imprint NYC

Knowncold.com would like to extend a warm welcome to join them as they get started. You should consider knowncold.com as your source to find new artists and free tunes!



There is a free track from Aeon, 'Hissing Away' available for members. Don't worry about sigining up for our newsletter , KCR only send you news and free music.  No pressure sales at KCR! You can get that track here. When you purchase the entire 'Blury Mind' EP you will recieve a link to a special mix from Aeon. Here's the banging tracklist.

Tracklist

1. Kryptic Minds - Three Views Of A Secret

2. Scuba - Speak

3. Breakage - Late Night

4. Skream - I

5. RSD - Good Energy

6. Æon - Defience

7. Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo

8. A Made Up Sound - Closer

9. Æon - Center

10. Kryptic Minds - Wondering Why

11. Pinch & Moving Ninja - False Flag (Kryptic Minds Mix)

12. 2562 - Narita

13. Æon - In Perpetuum

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New York roots dub artists Jahdan Blakkamoore,Ticklah and Victor Rice set to release “The General” in seven days has given us advanced access to his new single with “Elimination” on the flipside of the 7” Single.





This brand new label, Liondub45 is intent on releasing a catalog of collectible 7”s focusing on deep, vintage dub and scorching Roots Reggae showcasing the talents of a venerable who’s who of modern Dub producers and original foundation vocalists.



Liondub45 is the new sublabel of LionDub International imprint, which represents the electronic, reggae influenced worlds of Jungle, Drum’n’Bass, and Dubstep sounds.





NYC based producer, keyboard virtuoso, and vintage Reggae producer Victor Axelrod, aka Ticklah. Victor has been a continual and integral part of the NYC music scene for over a decade - as a performer, Ticklah is a founding member of Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Antibalas, the Easy Star All-Stars, and worked with Mark Ronson on both the Amy Winehouse and Daniel Merriweather albums. As a producer, Ticklah was behind the boards for the Dub Side Of The Moon album (co-production, mixing), remixed Shaun Escoffery’s classic “Days Like This” (alongside DJ Spinna), produced 2001’s legendary Roots Combination album, and released his own critically acclaimed solo Ticklah Vs. Axelrod LP on NYC Reggae label Easy Star. The list goes on and on…Victor is a man in very high demand from some very big players for his untouchable musical aesthetics, his intricate attention to detail, and a true understanding of our musical past.



Ticklah’s remix of the red hot Jahdan Blakkamoore, whose debut album Buzzrock Warrior on !k7 subsidiary Gold Dust is currently tearing up the charts. Axelrod flips the “The General” into a deep and heavy dub workout complete with an otherworldly skank and analog squelching bass. To the B-Side, “Elimination Game”, a monster slice of dub with a driving Steppers beat, swirling sound effects, deep percussion delays and bubbling organs.





We are giving you a sneak peak of the single with a rough and ready, Known Cold Exclusive 320 MP3(Click here>>) remix of  “The General Remix” from Marcus Visionary.





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InfraBuse is a one man musical project with roots in Antwerp, Belgium. Neo, the man behind the music, comes from a rock-oriented background, but realized around 2005 that you can have a lot of fun with music software, not to mention total freedom. What initially started as a casual experimenting with sound, synths and samples and slowly grew into something a bit more devoted. The first EP arrived in 2006, called "Simple Shapes and Patterns". It was released on twin labels Metropublic and Retropublic. Also some remixes were done, including the B-tracks of the singles of Canadian industrial metal band Rise of the Fallen and that of Latvian new-wave band StandART. There was also a co-production done with Dutch Rapper Omi for his debut album.



Not Looking for Treble [...click 'Buy' for free 320 download!] by infraBuse Up & Down - infraBuse [...click 'Buy' for free 320 download!] by infraBuse



This leads us to the present day. Neo, who took a 3-year break from producing, decided to pick the skill back up around June 2009, which resulted into a second release, coming out in the beginning of 2010, called " A State of Mind EP" : a sonic onslaught of ferocious bass, head cracking drums and complex rhythms. Taking influences from experimental hip-hop, broken beat, and dubstep, InfraBuse has taken a next step in its own evolution, towards crafting its own form of futuristic glitch hop. Taking a nod from the resurgence in the instrumental hip-hop "beats" movement, as well as the growing dubstep "Bass" Oriented culture, InfraBuse has this time injected a much bigger sense of dance floor sensibility into the sound, in an effort to craft it's own niche as new school dance floor sound. Neo is planning on putting a full album out around the summer of 2010, featuring some tracks from the new EP, as well as guest performances and some remixes. Stay in touch at infrabuse.wordpress.com







A State of Mind [...click 'Buy' for free 320 download!] by infraBuse Just mean [...click 'Buy' for free 320 download!] by infraBuse

InfraBuse comes with a collection of gritty beats and furture atmospheres on his new EP, “A State of Mind” “Not looking for treble” is a visceral glitch hop tune with industrial grimy basslines and bell synths, It sounds almost like the best from Ming&FS meets NIN. “Up&Down” let’s you know this isn’t just another experimental hip-hop excursion, this banging street music for the heavies! The title track is a delicate balance of warm drums and atmospherics and underlying sub driven melodies. “Just Mean” is the epic beat on this EP with more crunchy synth riffs and some one funky sounds... Massive EP, and you can get it for free from his site, just click buy, yes it really free, you’ll see, just click it!!



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Intoccabile is perhaps the most influential Canadian dubstep & grime producer around.



He is the owner of the legendary underground imprint Fyutchaflex recordings and events ( www.fyutchaflex.ca ), which was established in 2001 in order to promote by way of releases and events the then budding dark Garage and Grime sounds. His radical, aggressively normative vision of what Grime could be, or rather, should be, his unrivalled expertise as an engineer, his grotesquely sublime sense of the musical have all contributed to put him in a most comfortable position in the past few years.











Astoundingly, all of his releases, without exception, have become underground classics, and his much talked about Grime album

« Grime related » has become a best-seller mere days after its release in digital form.



We are very pleased to have Intoccabile Join us at Known Cold. After talking to him you will know that he is dedicated to all things grime and Dubstep. His productions are smooth and visceral and all at the same time dutty bass driven crushers, no small feat! His mixes are flawless and beyond coherent. We look forward to working with the one called Intoccabile on his upcoming EP.







Intoccabile is a man shrouded in mystery. Intoccabile literally means untouchable : you can hear and feel him but you cannot see him, an ominous presence…



Intoccabile was introduced to music – Reggae, soca, hip-hop, classical music - by his father and uncle: “When I was younger I listened to Public enemy and Gladiator with quite a few reggae and dancehall artists such as Yellowman, ninjaman, Daddy Lizard and Tiger.” “These days I listen to a lot of Dubtech and classical music. If you listen to my pieces, you'll find that these influences really show. Dubstep wise, I would have to say that Toasty, Ekaj, Scarecrow and the whole destructive recordings crew have influenced my sound.” “Being exposed to so much music triggered something in me. I started making music at a very early age. I started playing the organ, then the keyboard and the flute. Then I was introduced to electronic music production by some friends and that was it!”







A strong advocate of finding your own voice as a producer, Intoccabile wants to push the boundaries of people’s ideas of Dubstep. “Within Dubstep, we are the victims of what is happening across the board in the music industry: low sales are driving producers towards performance. This has very specific effects on the aesthetics of dubstep. Those producers, who are now also performers, will produce pieces that are more geared towards the dancefloor. And since producers who produce more esoteric, for lack of a better term, forms of dubstep get booked less, they will have the tendancy to stick with what works on the dancefloor. There's also the fact that when you are constantly playing out and touring, well, this doesn't leave you a whole lot of time to experiment and this is exactly what this music needs : patient people who spend days, weeks, months experimenting with material and structures in order to push this music forward.”







“My best rave was in 98 in an abandoned warehouse. The rave didn't even have a name ! No flyers, just word of mouth. It was basically kids with a big rig who decided to throw a huge party. Loads of people skanking with their hoods up to dark and heavy bass music. Unforgettable. I was playing dark jungle back then.”



The mystery man has some advise for DJ’s and producers. “Work hard, day and night, towards your goals. Being a good DJ and producer is important, but you shouldn't neglect promoting yourself and your work. Don't be afraid to invest time, money and effort in what you believe.” “School and work are important, but don't let them get in the way. If you want to go pro, it will be hard, there will be tears, but in the end it will be worth it.” “Grime is the culmination of everything I have accomplished, music wise, in my life. I believe everything I have accomplished so far was but a preparation for what I am doing now.” “I know that in twenty, thirty years, I will be looking back at what I am doing right now with pride. A life of Grime... I probably should rephrase and say Grime is my life.









You can see him play at…



Organized Grime, November the 28th 2009, in Montreal, Canada. This event is sponsored by Boxfresh, Destructive recordings and Pitch Black. He will be playing with Reality, Living Stone and dj Guestlist.



Date to be confirmed - Impulsive brain dead dubstep party with Intoccabile, living Stone and friends.



Planet KL’s Dub Infusions in Utrecht, Holland, December the 18th Intoccabile and Kryptic minds.





For booking & contact ...



Intoccabile@knowncold.com

Intoccabile@fyutchaflex.ca

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track list for the mix :



1. Intoccabile - Shaman's stare ( re-edit ) - Fyutchaflex recordings

2. JRR Foolkiller - Gone for a walk - Dub plate ( tease )

3. Sigha and Spherix - Separation - Immerse

4. Zzzra - Ploum ( Version fauve ) - Deepindub

5. Burial - Southern comfort - Hyperdub

6. Zzzra - Grotesque - Deepindub

7. Mark Ashken - Size 3 ( Skream remix ) - Leftroom

8. F - Icon - 7even recordings

9. Shut up and dance - Epileptic ( Martyn remix ) - Z audio

10. Toastyboy - Splash - Destructive recordings

11. Peverelist and Appleblim - Circling - Scape

12. Intoccabile - Musica Sola - Dub plate



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The head honchos of dubstep label DubKraft Rec. and techno label Micropunto, Alien Pimp and respectively Ikkaku, met a few weeks before this release, and that resulted in instant studio fun for the two. Careless for styles and manners, only for bass, deepness and quality, they built up the EP in no time, things flowing naturally into a distinctive sound that still reminds of many of their individual influences. A release that you can't easily mistake for another!



Available now exclusively at Known Cold Records

Alien Pimp is a project of Silviu Costinescu, some hybrid entity mutated from the creative genes of an electronic music producer, a media whore, a visual artist, a crazy preacher, a DJ, Don Quijote AND Sancho Panza.

At 7 he was living in the slums of Bucharest, playing football during the day and reading Jules Verne during the night.

At 14 he was still living in the slums, but having his own show of alternative music on one of the first private radio stations in Bucharest, Radio Nova 22.







At 20 years he started wining recognition as an electronic music producer, being awarded First Prize @ Assos Music New Talent Festival. Still living in the slums, he was making music on friends' computers as he couldn't yet afford his own.

At 27 he was already one of the main figures in Romanian electronic music scene, had a few TV shows, as a news reporter he shook hands with all presidents of Romania after Ceausescu's death, had his face shown on CNN on for some music related business and was long after 100 sets a DJ.







Ah, he also published in Romanian Playboy and did a crazy Tarantinesque photo shoot for FHM as a model, moved to his own house out of the slums, working on a computer he assembled himself.

Now, close to 33, he has tens of releases out, he played around Europe, he runs a few record labels and a couple of websites, he quit promoting parties after being involved in over 50 events, produces track after track, he is about to put out his first album and he tries making a living out of his ideas and creations in Madrid, Spain.