With an ever increasing repertoire of remixes and re-edits under his belt, Graham “Greymatter” Luckhurst dropped his debut album “Mind Over Matter” back in February.  Released through his own Unique Uncut imprint, the album is a immense collection of sounds fusing broken beat, soulful electronica and Latin with the tougher rhythms of dubstep, UK funky and bass music. Featuring collabs with one of our favourite (and since retired) beatsmiths Domu and Brazilian Baille Funk diva Deize Tigrona, the album hit hard and was well received within the UK beat fraternity.

Accompanying the release at the time was a set of equally accomplished remixes which came with some pretty impressive names attached, including Cosmin TRG, Illum Sphere, Karizma and Souled. Some five months later, the second batch of remixes from the project have finally emerged and are available from today to stream and download via Greymatter’s Bandcamp.

For Mind Over Matter Remixes Part 2, Graham scores another serious team of producers to reimagine his material, and this time the results are outstanding. Whereas its predescessor straddled both the house and dubstep camps, this second set of remixes firmly embraces the ever burgeoning bass scene. Broken beat don Danny Native AKA Altered Natives (fresh from turning his hands to Ikonika’s “Idiot” on Hyperdub, and releasing his own “Believe in Me”, a great broken house anthem) drops in to completely bruk out the already heavyweight track that was “Eu Fumo” and create a killer bass roller in his own image. With it’s carnival feel and syncopated drums, this remix is sure to devastate many a dancefloor. Next up, dubstep artist Mr Lager takes the break heavy “We Are One”, smoothes it out and remodels  it into just under six minutes of deep and atmospheric electronic lushness, before Milyoo steps up and delivers a completely unclassifiable take on “When I Was Lost”. Vocal snippets shimmer in and out of the mix, while the bassline sits somewhere between the beat driven sounds of LA, and the disparate soundscapes often found etched into London’s dubstep riddims. After supplying his own takes of “When I Was Lost” and “Too Much” for the first volume of remixes, Brighton’s Klic returns to revisit the originally skanking “Raw Root” and turns it into a deeper Detroit inspired house jam. Finally, rounding off the digital version of the remix package, hotly tipped Throwing Snow (Recently signed to the new Ho_Tep label fronted by Eglo’s Alex Nut) takes the title cut from the album and slowly transforms it into a glitchy dubstep hybrid.

You can listen to the release in full via Greymatter’s Bandcamp below, and grab a  free download of the Throwing Snow remix of “Mind Over Matter” over at XLR8R.

To promote this release further, Graham has decided to offer up digital copies of February’s debut “Mind Over Matter” album via his Bandcamp site for ONE WEEK ONLY, so if you haven’t copped it yet, now would be a good time to accquaint yourself with the album. You can also download the first batch of Mind Over Matter Remixes from the same site as well, all it costs is the price of an email address.

Greymatter – Mind Over Matter Remixes Part 2 – Unique Uncut (UUDIGI019)

1. Eu Fumo feat. Deize Tigrona (Altered Natives Remix)
2. When I Was Lost (Milyoo Remix)
3. We Are One feat. Domu (Mr Lager Remix)
4. Raw Root (Klic Remix)
5. Mind Over Matter (Throwing Snow Remix) – Digital EP only

Been a crazy month so far what with Ibiza and boat parties, and this weekend it doesn’t seem to want to let up. Here are some of the Soul-Identity recommended sessions to tempt you out in this disasterous London weather this weekend.

First up… CDR Special @ 93 East – Free Fridays!

CDR Special @ 93 East - Free Fridays!

The CDR/Burntprogress crew branch out from their well received monthly club night at Plastic People to bring you a one off special in one of Brick Lane’s most renowned spaces, 93 Feet East. Joining CDR founder Mr Tony Nwachukwu on the decks on the night will be the Spacebass crew featuring Floatingpoints from Eglo Records, responsible for the massive Soul-Identity favourite “Love Me Like This”, alongside Liamski, Ben V (Shook Magazine), Davin (Werk Discs) and Chris CTOP. Further DJ support comes from those Soundspecies guys, whose immense self  titled debut was released on the Burntprogress label earlier this year. Not heard it yet? Then go grab the Ahu-voiced treasure “Can We Call It Love” for free from the Burntprogress Soundcloud, then go and give the LP a listen and order it from IfMusic.  Entry is free and tied into the bargain you get three mighty live acts, namely She Is Danger, Phantom and The Mighty Jeddo. Sounds alright don’t it. I’ll be down from 9pm. Come down, say hello and I’ll buy you a pint.

Friday also sees the return or Todd Terje to these shores. If you’re up for something a bit more disco orientated, everyone’s favourite re-edit king is playing at East Village. Entry is £6 before 11pm, £8 after.

Saturday, Greg Wilson plays the Special Needs 5th Birthday Party at The Lockside Lounge (Free b4 8pm, £5 after), Chicago’s favourite disco son DJ Rahaan is making a rare UK appearance for Love Fever set in a secret Shoreditch loft space (this is sold out, but holla at andy@birdsongmusic.com and beg cos its gonna be one ridiculous party) and finally our man from Here & Now Recordings, JC, presides over what seemingly is  to be the final Afrobeat Vibration at The Empowering Church in Dalston. It now appears that I’ll be mainly behaving myself in a grown up capacity around  strangers that night, although in all fairness all three of the above suggest something nice to these old ears, so if you’re at a loose end and around the area you really should try and support.

Here’s to another great weekend in London Town.

Shafiq Husayn (SA-RA Creative Partners) feat Fatima "Lil Girl"

Props to Bling47‘s own wunderkind Kenny Fresh, who has singlehandedly been unearthing gems over on his Fresh Selects blog for some time now. Definitely one for your Google Reader. If you keep an eye on  our Twitter feed though, you’ll sometimes find us sharing the goodness he has to offer on a weekly basis. However when this baby dropped into our inbox late this afternoon, we just had to post about it right here.

For anyone who’s been asleep for the past month or so LA-based SA-RA Creative Partners finally released an album on Ubiquity Records some five years after first debuting material on the label. But this isn’t that story (expect an album review soon, as soon as I can pin down some listening time). This is about one third of that trio, namely  a Mr Shafiq Husayn, former producer for Ice T, who now  spends his time alongside band mates Taz Arnold and Om’Mas Keith, melding the futuristic hip hop beats and cosmic soul grooves you hear on the new LP, “Nuclear Evolution: The Age Of Love”.

Since that album has now hit the shelves, it seems the man is getting busy readying his first solo project “Shafiq En A-Free-Ka”, due to be released in October on Plug Research. Kenny set two tracks from the LP free  into the open this morning and both are absolute killers. The one we’ve posted below is a low slung, smoothed out, future soul cut entitled ‘Lil Girl’ and features the unmistakeable vocal talents of Eglo’s first lady Fatima.

To cop a listen to the second track, Nirvana, featuring singers Nia Andrews, Noni Limar and Rozzi Daime, head on over to Kenny’s blog post where its available to stream. Put this on your radar now, as the album should be one to look out for this Autumn.

Download Shafiq Husayn (Sa-Ra Creative Partners) feat Fatima – Lil Girl