No Luck Club

What U Rockin’ 4? (feat DJ Pluskratch)

The newest recorded addition to a smoking discography of one of Vancouver’s youngest, most progressive innovators in hip hop. The oft-made complimentary comparisons to DJ Shadow and Kid Koala surface again in this track, but after a summer of touring and opening for the likes of DJ Z-Trip, these Burnaby-based SFU students have staked claim to ruthless breaks and sample-heavy aesthetics that are definitively theirs. Who said Vancouver hip hop was dead?

L’International du Cinema Hip Hop de Montreal (compilation)

Kinga Groove Records

NLC brothers Trevor (laptop samples) and Matt Chan (turntables) co-host an underground hip hop show, Straight No Chaser on CJSF, SFU’s campus radio station. It’s on every Friday night, 8-10pm.

Mike Relm

Radio Fryer preview

Last seen in BC opening for Bendoin Soundclash last week, Mike Relm has dropped jaws with his decks-on-fire turntablism and joyride sampling. The arsonist intensity of Radio Fryer is everything you need to fall in love with Mike Relm and all of his influences: here, he cuts seamlessly from Human League to The White Stripes, De La Soul, Nirvana, Talking Heads, Beastie Boys, Beethoven, and innumerous others. In the thick of a scene crusted with blinding lights and oversaturated production aesthetics, Relm navigates through the sound storm and emerges with sharply perceptive distillations of memories and moments that have charted our path through the bus stops, dance floors, bedrooms and balconies of our past and present.

Radio Fryer

A free man labels for no one.

An accomplished videographer, a huge part of Mike Relm’s performance is the visual spectacle. Check out a live performance in Santa Cruz!

My! Gay! Husband!

We Chop you off a Proper Chunk

One of Vancouver’s most notorious DJs, My! Gay! Husband!’s brand of gatecrashing mash tracks are a resident evil on the floors of some of Vancouver’s hottest nightspots every week. His latest project, Mixtapes are for Losers, is a collaborative project with fellow remix master Paul Devro. If this leadoff track is any indication, mischief and/or mayhem abound.

Mixtapes are for Losers, Vol. I

Summer Lovers Unlimited Music

My! Gay! Husband! And Paul Devro team up this New Year’s Eve to shake up the party at Sugar & Sugar in Vancouver’s Gastown.

Low Budget

They Call it Murder (Jamrock Club Remix)

Ladies and gentlemen, this is the shakedown. If the shoulder-shifting two-step intro doesn’t compel you to grab the brim of your imaginary Kangol hat/Castro cap and pop-and-lock across the floor, the ragga-jungle vocal samples load you up with enough dancing ammunition to cut the rug right into the New Year. Low Budget is one of the few artists whose records can rightfully be called rekkids, and who can get away with giving them titles like “Pawtry Music,” and, most recently,“Club Shotta,” on which this cut stands out as a featured track.

Club Shotta

Uncut Records

As one half of a the legendary legendary Hollertronix DJ power duo, Low Budget met partner-in-crime Diplo in Philadelphia, and the two have enjoyed years of beat-making bliss ever since.

Diplo

Helicopter (Bloc Party remix)

One of the most accomplished DJs of the year, remixing the one of the most successful indie rock bands of 2005. If short-term nostalgia for the past year is hitting you already, Helicopter’s tale of two powerhouses works as the anecdotal soundtrack to your Auld Lang retrospectives.

Bloc Party Remixes

Big Dada Recordings

Stopping by at the Vancouver International Jazz Festival this past summer, Diplo is the second half to the Hollertronix pairing. Read up on an interview with Diplo here.