Skream – Freeizm History – free downloads

Last Christmas, instead of giving you his heart, Skream delivered the goody bag that was “The Freeizm Album” (you can also still grab Vol 1 and Vols 2 & 3). This year he donned his Santa hat again to offer up a lesson in the history of dubstep.

Digging into his hard drive he’s zipped up 11 unreleased tracks from between 2004 and 2006 that offer an insight into the origins of the genre and include some of his finest moments.

Download Skream – Freeizm History

And here’s a couple of my favourites to give you a taster

Skream – Sound Trak

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Skream – Potent Cloud

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Greg Wilson’s 2009 Essential Mix

It’s boxing day and as everyone gets into the turkey sandwiches, we recommend grabbing this 2009 Essential Mix by Greg Wilson to help aid digestion.

Surprisingly this was the first time Mr Tong had Greg on the show and it turned out to be well worth the wait. Wilson never fails and this massive selection of straight up funk and soul classics alongside Madchester anthems and straight up disco weapons hits the mark perfectly.

Get your turkey groove on to this number.

The Originals ‘Down To Love Town’ (Dimitri From Paris Edit) – Motown / CDR
Soul Searchers ‘Blow Your Whistle’ – Sussex
Goody Goody ‘It Looks Like Love’ – Atlantic
Shirley Lites ‘Heat You Up’ (Melt Down Mix) – West End
Metro Area ‘Dance Reaction’ – Environ
Talking Heads ‘Psycho Killer’ (GW Edit) – Disco Deviance / DJ Only
Sugardaddy ‘Love Honey’ (GW Version) – Tirk
Chic ‘I Want Your Love’ (Todd Terje Edit) – Supreme / DJ Only
Q ‘The Voice Of Q’ – Philly World
Nitro Deluxe ‘This Brutal House’ – Cutting
Atlantic Conveyor ‘We Are’ – Untracked
Firefly ‘Love (Is Gonna Be On Your Side)’ – Emergency
Kasso ‘Walkman’ – F1 Team
Rose Royce ‘Do Your Dance’ – Whitfield
Gunchback Boogie Band ‘Funn’ – Prelude
Rufus Feat Chaka Khan ‘Ain’t Nobody’ (Frankie Knuckles Mix) – Warner Brothers
Happy Mondays ‘WFL (Vince Clarke Mix) – Factory
Young Dog Alien ‘Gotta Keep Workin’ It’ (GW Mash-Up) – Reactivate
Stevie Wonder ‘Superstition’ (Todd Terje Edit) – Motown / CDR
Loose Ends ‘Hangin’ On A String’ (Frankie Knuckles Mix) – Ten
Aretha Franklin ‘Rock Steady’ (Danny Krivit Edit) – Rock / DJ Only
Gwen Guthrie ‘Seventh Heaven’ (Larry Levan Mix) – Garage
The Commodores ‘Machine Gun’ (Situation Edit) – Motown / CDR
B.T (Breanda Taylor) ‘You Can’t Have Your Cake And Eat It Too’ (GW Edit) – Tirk
West Phillips ‘(I’m Just A) Sucker For A Pretty Face’ – Quality
Edit The Edit ‘Two Sides Of Sympanthy’ (PTA Mash-Up / GW Edit) – Edit The Edit / DJ Only
Stone Roses ‘Fools Gold’ – Silvertone
Banbarra ‘Shack Up’ – United Artists
War ‘Me And Baby Brother’ – Island
Gino Soccio ‘Try It Out’ – Warner Brothers
Geraldine Hunt ‘ Can’t Fake The Feeling’ – Prism
Brown ‘ I Specialize In Love’ – Profile
Visual ‘The Music Got Me’ – Prelude
Incredible Bongo Band ‘Apache’ – MGM
Tweet ‘Boogie 2nite’ (Fat Camp Mix) – Elektra / DJ Only
Dc La Rue ‘Cathedrals’ (GW Edit) – Disco Deviance / DJ Only
Teenage DJ ‘I Was A Teenage DJ Pt 1’ (GW Edit) – Reactivate
Sir Joe Quarterman ‘(I Got) So Much Trouble In My Mind’ (Barna Soundmachine Edit) – GSF / DJ Only
League Unlimited Orchestra ‘Things That Dreams Are Made Of’ – Virgin
TW Funkmasters ‘Love Money’ – Champagne
Last Rhythm ‘Last Rhythm’ – American
The Clash ‘Casbah Breakdown’ (Joey Negro Edit) – CBS / CDR
808 State ‘Pacific State’ (GW Edit) – ZTT / CDR

And if that’s not good enough for ya we have him on edit duties of this classic tune.

JD Twitch – Psylent Night

Well, it’s time to get truly festive and who better to get us in a slightly left of centre Christmas mood than JD Twitch. The Glasgow producer and DJ gets his jingle bells on the go and chucks in a nice wee droney pad for good measure on this rework of the carol.

Available on a ltd edition clear 7″ over at Juno, free with any order.

JD Twitch – Psylent Night

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Over the next couple of weeks we’ll be slowing down on the posts slightly but will be casting our eyes over some of the year’s best mixes before getting ready to go full pelt once more in 2012.

James Brown – Funky Christmas

As Saturday is soul, funk and disco day here at the Labs, and it’s Christmas, we’ve left it to the boss to bring the two together.

While you’re frantically searching for last minute gifts, here’s James Brown with “Soulful Christmas” to ease away the stress from his ace Christmas album “Funky Christmas”.

Soft House Company – What You Need

Its a 1990 piano driven monster that sounds like it been taken out of a New York house party. While it may have been played in such surroundings, “What You Need” by Soft House Company actually came from Italy.

Still making many DJ sets to this day, we thank Bicep for the hosting. If you pop over there, you might even be able to grab this.

Soft House Company – What You Need

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Cloud Boat – Silent Night – free download

This year’s festive season saw lots of artists take on Christmas classics and when we heard the R&S post dubstep duo Cloud Boat were getting in on the act, we knew things were going in the right direction.

They play it more straight up than some of the reworks around and thanks to Clash Magazine you can grab if for free.

David Anthony – Free Your Mind (Gerd Edit) – free download

As the Xmas express continues unabated, the free tunes just keep coming and coming. This time I’m going for a nice slice of deep house from Gerd.

The Clone and Royal Oak stalwart gets busy on the 1992 David Anthony track “Free Your Mind”. It’s been beefed up on the beats and ready for the turntables.

While you are at it, check out this tasty house mix tat GERD laid out in Leeds last month.

Imaginary Friend – Dark Matter

Greek producer Imaginary Friend is a new name on me, his debut album “Dark Matter” however has swiftly placed him into the list of “ones to watch for 2012″.

Over the 11 tracks contained within, the producer showcases his talent to take in elements of house, techno, dubstep and dark electronica and spin them into his unique output.

From the downtempo dub flavours of “No Need To Change” to the spacey chopped beats of “Exploration of Science”, it’s a cracking piece of work and works well as a long-player that deserves your attention from start to finish.

Out now on Dubporn Records.

Paul White – We Three Kings – free download

This time of year often sees many labels and artists getting all festive and giving away some quality beats for free. While we’ve been lapping up the freebies we’ve resisted the Christmas tunes so far.

Things changed however when Paul White dropped the tune “We Three Kings” into our inbox.

Its a Christmas title with White’s usual blend of hip hop beats and samples with just a tip of the hat to the original.

Credit to Ben Roberts for the excellent photo.

PNAU – Unite Us (Wookie Remix) – free download

It’s been a fair few years since influential UK garage producer Wookie released anything new so this remix is a nice wee surprise. Fingers crossed it leads to some new material from the man however as this remix of Aussie act PNAU is a bit of a belter.

For the price of a click you get this chunky slab of house goodness with shuffly garage hi-hats, an earworm of a synth hook and a tonne weight of sub bass.

The full single package also comes with a tasty remix courtesy of Raffertie so keep an eye out for its releases on the 5th of February 2012.