Mary Anne Hobbs-”Wild Angels”
No slang is sillier or more superannuated than labeling someone a “tastemaker.” You might as well reference “brand-building,” “paradigm shifting” or refer to your latest project as an “artistic exploration.” But Mary Anne Hobbs, the British BBC 1 radio personality might be the one of the only people imaginable for whom the sobriquet is actually appropriate. In 06, she dropped the seminal Warrior Dubz compilation which helped break Dubstep torchbearers Burial, Kode9 and Skream. More recently, she championed Low End Theory staples like Flying Lotus, Gaslamp Killer, and Nosaj Thing, before local media hopped on the bandwagon (read: me).
Slated for release next Tuesday on Planet Mu, her latest compilation, Wild Angels, is essential listening for both Dubstep die-hards and neophytes. Gathering a litany of mostly unfamiliar names (save for Nosaj Thing, Starkey, and Mark Pritchard), Hobbs impeccably curates a collection of imagistic and interstellar flights. Headphones on, tendrils of smoke splitting the air…weightless, lightless float music. Or as Derek Miller aptly opined, “it’s bound by its own gasolined, star-blind narrative–it illustrates just how fleecy and artful dubstep can be under current, fly-by-night parameters before it peaks.”
Buy: Mary Ann Hobbs-Wild Angels
Download:
MP3: Architeq-”Sleeping Bear Lament (Take Remix)”
MP3: Hyetal-”We Should Light a Fire”
Stumble It!
September 3rd, 2009 at 12:35 pm
tracklist - http://www.rockthedub.com/2009/08/mary-anne-hobbs-presents-wild-angels.html (it was the first link on my google search)
hudson mohawke!
is he not a familiar name in the US? he’s headlined massive street parties over here (australia)… if you haven’t checked his stuff out, i’d recommend it! go find the EP he did on Warp a lil while back… pretty sure you would dig it mr. weiss.
September 3rd, 2009 at 12:56 pm
I could be totally out of it, but I’ve never heard of him. My impression is that Dubstep and all Warp stuff in general tends to be much bigger overseas than in America.
September 3rd, 2009 at 1:23 pm
yeah that may be the case! perth, in western australia, is kind of more a “dance music” town than anywhere else in australia, though i think that’s to do with the high amount of UK ex-patriots that live here. whatever the case, for some reason it’s a big drum’b'bass town. and lately that’s become a pretty big dubstep town… but hudson mohawke is more of the “wonky” type of producer. although for him, maybe the term “experimental R’n'B” is more appropriate. anyways, i don’t know what kind of distro the Warp stuff gets over in the US, but his 5 track CD EP is worth copping, and he has an album coming out sometime in October I think…
September 4th, 2009 at 8:21 am
his remix of “ooops (oh my)” is amaaazing.
September 22nd, 2009 at 9:21 am
[…] UK or US? We’ll have to wait and see. She’s also here celebrating her newest release, Wild Angels, which is a nod to her destination of choice as well as to the number of Angelenos on the […]
September 24th, 2009 at 1:05 am
[…] intent was to transcribe and post the entirety of my Q&A with BBC Radio One DJ, Mary Anne Hobbs. Unfortunately, it’s 1:00 a.m, I’m exhausted and as much as I like you guys, I enjoy […]
September 24th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
I wanna say Hudson Mohawke has an album coming on Warp or Planet Mu. I first heard him from Elucid, he did a beat for Elucid. He is also featured on MAGr’s “No News Is Good News”, their track “Buttafly”. He’s ill.
December 29th, 2009 at 5:14 am
Nice I really rate Hobbs, there’s a great interview with Mary Anne Hobbs here http://bit.ly/4teXxF