Its that time again! Back to School!
According to our friend Reid, we “need a fresh dose of blazing beats to help ease us into dayz of thunder.” What the heck does that mean? If it involves anything resembling Nicole Kidman as a sexy, wild-haired doctor, I can be coerced into taking my shot with a smile. The result of the recommended treatment?

31 tracks in one hour!
The best bassline fidget booty and smash around!
Oh yes, it’s that good!

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Website: www.myspace.com/reidspeed

Hey gang, check out the new Artist Spotlight on Los Angeles-based photographer, Dave Bullock. A lot of us know him through his contributions to the Drum & Bass scene via Junglescene.com, but I figured it was about time to introduce him to the Media Contender readers as an artist who has really embraced the advancements technology has to offer the field of photography. For this spotlight, his brain was picked for an interesting interview and he graced us with 6 favorite shots. Click below to learn more!

Website: www.mediacontender.com/artists-spotlight/dave-bullock-aka-eecue

A blast from the past with updated sounds, Fresh Squeezed was held at the infamous Shrine Auditorium with 3 areas hosted by Media Contender’s own, Danny Johnson. The vibe was definitely electric, and yes indeed, this was a true-to-form rave complete with freaks (of every nature!), sneaks (trying to jump the gates and all!) and bass-booming speaks (oh yeah!). Me, at a rave, can you believe it? Here’s the shots to prove it!

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Website: www.staticka.com/photo

Coming up this Saturday at the Shine Expo Hall is Fresh Squeezed. We told you about it a few weeks ago but here is your reminder. Go get your tickets now! Its at the Shrine and well, one of our favorite Drum & Bass acts is going to be in town. Media Contender is also rocking the Electro room with our boy Dirty Nick and the TRUST OC crew. The Drum & Bass room is killer and hosted by United, and the first Dubstep soundsystems at a rave in Los Angeles, maybe even the states too, is hosted by Megahertz.

So Jeff and I used to do this club in Hollywood called Muse, its a really cool Drum & Bass night that showcased a more progressive, musical sound. I would say it was geared towards seasoned electronic music fans. We did a really cool night with Maldini from Bad Company UK about a year ago, what made this so special was that Maldini played ALL of the old BC stuff and the place went ape shit.

Peep this.

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Cop this live mix!!

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DO NOT SLEEP ON THIS PARTY! Its going to be electric.

…here are a few of the artists I am pumped up about.
Klever, Star Eyes, Villains, Dan Oh, Gina Turner, MRK 1, Distance, and Bad Company UK feat Vegas and Maldini.

GET YOUR PRESALES NOW!!! Groovetickets

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Website: Fresh Squeezed Festival

Tittsworth just released his debut artist album 12 Steps on Stretch Armstrong’s label (the guy that broke Wu Tang Clan) Plant Music, this has been a long time coming. I know I have been anticipating it and telling people about it for at least a year. It’s an album filled with Bmore-influenced bangers with appearances from The Federation, Pitbull, DJ Assault and Nina Sky among others. Here is a joint off the album with Pase Rock and Kid Sister who collab on “WTF”, a rap/club/blog special.

Nice work Titts.

Click Here to Download “Tittsworth feat Pase Rock & Kid Sister ‘WTF’”

Here are a couple more club bangers from Titts. This is the MOP remix that instantly kills it in the club.

Click Here to Download “MOP ‘Ante Up’ (Tittsworth Remix)”

This one is the track for Tittsworth that really grabbed alot of peoples attention, the Milli Vanilli flip.

Click Here to Download “Milli Vanilli ‘Girl You Know Its True’ (Tittsworth Remix)”

I asked Titts if he had any interesting things happen while making the album, he told me this story about the reaction he got when he asked our boy Assault to remix a track for him.

Tittsworth:

Funny story about the dj assault track… so the song (off my debut album “12 steps”) is called “broke ass nigga” and it all started when kenny b and diamond k came thru my spot for the first time. before they showed up, i was kinda nervous about having some bmore legends come thru. i remember being like “yo, i don’t really have a very fancy mic or setup but we’ll make do?” their reply “don’t even worry about it, we’ll bring one.” man, what professionals i thought to myself. so finally they come thru and it’s about time to get busy and kenny hands me a plastic safeway bag with one of those plastic boom box mics with the cord all tangled. i mean here are cats that were on all time classics, with miss tony and all. it was at that time i was reminded what club music was and was NOT all about. i loved it.

So we hook it up, record a couple concepts, one of which becomes “broke ass nigga,” pretty self explanitory track about making fun of cats with no dough. later on stretch armstrong reaches out about doing an album. he and dom love the record and i get the idea of getting dj assault to do a remix since the comedy is a pretty close fit. man, the first time craig (assault) reached out, he was really heated!!! really on some “i can’t believe you want me to remix this.. what do you know about being black or being broke! im deeply offended and would never remix this.” a diplomatic email back and he quickly realized that i didn’t write this song, and that it was mainly my boy martin (jinxx) and kenny b, with some help from their boy frankie and our girl geina. all of them were black. me being half asian, i explained i was responsible for the beat and the recording. after that it was kool and the gang. craig’s version was so slammin, we had to put in on my debut album, “12 steps” and he’s co-headlining my album release party in dc. there are a few folks out there that really don’t get it and slammed me pretty hard for putting that song out. on the other hand, there are sites out there that REALLY don’t get it and have referred to the track as “broke ass nigger.” on an unrelated note, i was also surprised the track (correctly titled) was for sale on a very popular country and western music site.

If anything it’s all a reminder of how touchy race still is. i just hope cats dont get the wrong idea about me. i’m not loosing sleep though and i knew the risks when i decided to release it. people that know me, well, know better…

Thanks Jesse!

Website: Tittsworth Myspace, Tittsworth.com