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Hardcore is Back Sequel Album by 5ifty$ix K Promises Breakcore Footwork on the Ruthless and Evil Tip of Electronic Music

Posted by StrangeFlow on November 3, 2014
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COVER - New Footwork-Breakcore tracks on Hardcore is Back (vol 2) 5ifty$ix K, this one is a bit too evil. I like it.
Hardcore is Back Sequel Album by 5ifty$ix K Promises Breakcore Footwork on the Ruthless and Evil Tip of Electronic Music. Title’s a bit wordy.

So, you can go here to get a copy of this one. Or, listen to the trax below..

A 12-track EP with elements of footwork/juke, jungle/dnb, and it dips pretty heavily in the breakcore department. No, not that scatterfuck nonsense that breakcore unfortunately dove into for about 7 years, but the fun and weird and meticulous kind of breakcore – back when it was trying hard to actually be forward-thinking. The ‘golden era,’ that very few people know about. Doesn’t matter, really; the point is, this is a decent album, and you should definitely check it out. Unless you hate bass music. In which case, I’m curious as to why you’re clicking around on a site called ‘Bassadelic.’ That doesn’t really make a lot of sense, I reckon..

breakcore-footwork!-middle-ages. 5ifty$ix K, dynastyshit.com

Here’s a write-up I did for the album on the label website, Dynasty Shit:

Well, the sequel is finally here. I’m really happy with how this one turned out. An unhealthy mixture of blood, sweat, and evil; all doused with meticulously chopped up beats and basslines. ‘Ruthless,’ is probably my favorite track on this one, so check that one out if you like.

I sincerely hope this one hurts everybody’s ears in the most pleasurable way imaginable. I feel like I’ve really figured out how to make some of the weird sounds that are floating around in my lunatic head. Though, naming tracks is still kind of a wonky procedure, to me. Ah well.

Hope everyone digs the music, and I hope it gets a few fine folks out there to say, “Huh, this toxic mixture of footwork and breakcore isn’t as bad as I thought…” Or, at very least, maybe the album will just make you feel sort of evil for about half an hour.

Planning to do a lot more in the ‘Hardcore is Back,’ series, unless all of music suddenly flips a switch and converts itself into breakcore footwork, in which case, I’ll have to start making country-trance out of sheer panic. I hope that doesn’t happen. Country-trance sounds really awful.

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29 Jungle Footwork Beats, world’s first sample pack of it’s kind :)

Posted by StrangeFlow on October 10, 2014
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5ifty$ix K's Hardcore Jungle Footwork Beats (VOL ONE) sample pack

FOOTWORK & JUNGLE IN ONE HARDCORE COMBINATION! NOW FREE!! YAYYYY!!!

To get the full package for free, you can go to https://www.******************* (and you can also preview the tracks over @ DynastyShit.com, and in the preview widget below…)

…the free giveaway is over. A hundred fine folks got some fine footwork jungle, and I hope they get some good use out of the samples. If you still want em, they’re available for just a few bucks. Many, many samples. Check em oooot! :)

Here’s a little write-up for it, from a previous post:

What’s up everyone!

Got a brand new sample pack to drop on ya guys, and this one’s really exciting to me because it’s a style I’ve been working with in my own music for the last year or two – footwork jungle.

This package contains 29 samples in 24-bit ,WAV audio, all 160 BPM ! click here to get them all!

Combining the percussion and vibe of the chicago juke and footwork music scenes with the intensity and breakbeat sensibilities of jungle and drum’n’bass, there is nothing else out there quite like this sample pack. It stands alone.

Active in electronic music for over a decade, William Dunn (5ifty$ix K) has recently been putting out footwork jungle on his own record label, Dynasty Shit. Helping to pave the way for a new wave of electronic music, Will and Dynasty Shit have released music from artists such as Crypticz, DJ Manny, Ventah, Mark Kloud, KidLogic, the Big Bass Outlaws, Fractalstein, io include, and more.

Here, now, is another FIRST: a package of beats for electronic producers hoping to excel in the realm of hardcore electronic music. Namely, the massive jungle footwork scene; the most killinest, noise-bombinest, bass-straddling and exciting rave genre to emerge since the birth of techno!

released 09 October 2014

Go to this link to get them all! :)


Once again, the free giveaway is over. A hundred fine folks got some fine footwork jungle, and I hope they get some good use out of the samples. If you still want em, they’re available for just a few bucks. Many, many samples. Check em oooot! :)

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Chicago juke legend DJ Manny puts out ‘Stand That’ EP on Dynasty Shit, plus, there’s a dope jungle footwork remix on there by 5ifty$ix K !

Posted by StrangeFlow on October 6, 2014
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DJ MANNY - 'STAND THAT' EP (dynasty shit, 2014)

Chicago juke legend DJ Manny puts out ‘Stand That’ EP on Dynasty Shit, plus, there’s a dope jungle footwork remix on there by 5ifty$ix K !

About a month or so ago, Manny hit me up and had some tracks to show me. I liked them, and we agreed to put an EP out on Dynasty Shit. I especially really liked one of them, ‘Shake That,’ and decided I wanted to put a remix of it on the album. So, here is ‘Stand That,’ EP by DJ Manny, who has been a legend for years in the footwork and Chicago juke music world.

DJ Manny

It’s pretty fucking exciting to me to have someone who has helped hold down the Teklife name for so long (and hold it down WELL) put something out on Dynasty Shit (the footwork / jungle record label ran by the same douche who runs this site….ME!)

This 5-track has some real gems on it, too. If you’re into the 160 (which I’m assuming you might be if you’re reading this post) you’re going to want to check out this new one.

Cheers!

5ifty$ix K Screws Some New Brand Footwork-Breakcore Stuff that You Just Might Like ((Yes, that’s right, the “StrangeFlow Went Too Far, Again” Folder was Opened Up, ONCE MORE, and The World Gently Cries

Posted by StrangeFlow on August 9, 2014
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5ifty$ix K - Weird Screw Vesion of some footwork-breakcore stuff that you just might love

Yes, the folder is being opened once again, for a moment, so the world can marvel/laugh/hate 5ifty$ix K for doing a weird screwed mix of some 180 bpm footwork beakcore material… Cuz, well, why not. You give me ONE reason this shouldn’t be, and I’ll ignore whatever rational argument you come up with. Why? Cuz I’m a douche like that :D :D :D

Though, it’s not 180 anymore.

Also, as stated earlier, it’s weird, and who the fuck knows what’ll happen to it. Perhaps a whole album or comp of other chopped / screwed material…

Or perhaps the recycle bin. Nobody knows. But, it’s definitely got a real, uh, strange flow to it….. hoo hoo……

When asked for a comment, the idiot genius known as StrangeFlow and/or 5iftyix K only had this to say:

Hey man.. Music’s meant to be heard, or something, I think.

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As the Indonesian girls say on Facebook, YUUUUUHHUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!

:)

5ifty$ix K Releases First EP Ever – Some Footwork Jungle Material For FREE

Posted by StrangeFlow on June 4, 2013
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5ifty$ix K (aka StrangeFlow, aka The Guy Who Made This Site) is releasing a new ep today, ‘Brain Drain.’ Resurrecting the sounds of old jungle breakbeats, and fusing them with the start-stop retro drum machine sounds of Chicago juke and footwork, this 5 track (4 plus a secret bonus track) is a lot of fun, and extremely forward thinking. 5ifty, along with other footwork jungle producers like him, such as KidLogic, Kid Lib, Wellbelove, Calculon, Dr J!nx, and others; is helping to map out the territory for this new style of electronic music.

“That’s one of the most exciting things about footwork jungle right now,” says 5ifty$ix, “there’s so much uncharted land that’s being uncovered now, everyone’s going into it with their own take on it. Every new album or even new track has the potential to dig up a whole new musical space that can be worked on in the future. I’m hoping my style on this album helps with that process, and I hope people enjoy it, it’s also a lot bass-heavier than my last album.”

The last album he did was under the moniker of StrangeFlow. Why the direction change?

“Well, I remember thinking that, for years, jungle was a lot of fun, but a lot of it got kind of stale after awhile, and I lost some interest. Even some of the breakcore stuff seemed to get old after awhile, like some of the artists didn’t care as much… I still loved the basic sound of drum n bass and jungle, but a lot of what was comin’ out wasn’t killin’ me. Around a year or so ago I started listening to footwork and juke a little bit, and then discovered there were some folks putting it with jungle, like Om Unit, and that inspired me like nothing else has in a long time! I’d been thinking for some time that something needed to come around, some new style or slant on jungle / dnb to give it some new life again, and this, in my opinion, is DEFINITELY it.”

“So, I decided I wanted to try working with this really fun new template, a lot of it’s basically unwritten and waiting for precedent. I like how the footwork rhythm cuts the jungle up a bit, but if you tweak it right, you can get both sounds to work together in a completely new strain of music altogether,” the musician went on, adding, “…So, since I wanted to be a part of this, I figured it was time for a name change, as well – I’d been using StrangeFlow since… 2006 or 2007, and it started out as an MC name, actually.. I used that name for glitch hop, funk, hip hop, and I had a lot of fun with it, and there’s a good chance I’ll go back and make some more StrangeFlow trax, but for the time being, I wanted to just say ‘fuck it,’ and try to move into a wholly new set of directions. I’m probably gonna keep using that speaker-headed dude though, cuz that shit’s fun! Ha.”

You can get the entire album for “pay what you want” (free plus) @ Dynasty Shit.com

Track listing is as follows:

1. Brain Drain 04:53
2. Tornado Rave 03:52
3. Stuck Inside the Stereo 03:27
4. Cuz I’m Countin Money 03:40
5. (bonus track) Bam! Bustin! 01:59