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MIMS Future Classics
Future Classic: Objekt “Cactus / Porcupine” (Hessle Audio)

Future Classic: Objekt “Cactus / Porcupine” (Hessle Audio)

Now this is one EP we’ve been waiting for impatiently! OBJEKT is one of the freshest new producers on the block really knocked us out in 2011 with his lean and minimal brand of techno meets dubstep. In fact, we picked ...
by Lexis (MIMS Founder)
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MIMS Future Classics
Future Classic: Gravious “Spatial Dimensions EP”

Future Classic: Gravious “Spatial Dimensions EP”

I first came across Gravious when he released the Junction City EP about a year ago. Mixing all the niceties of techno with the accessibility of dubstep is no small feat but this man seems to have managed to pull it off. In doi...
by Simon Hilder
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MIMS Future Classics
Future Classic: Beneath “Send”

Future Classic: Beneath “Send”

Didn’t know too much about this producer from Sheffield called Beneath. But I was on the Punch Drunk website, one of my favorite labels, and they had this mysterious blurb about this white label pressed only in 200 copies...
by Lexis (MIMS Founder)
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Guest Mixes
Classic Mixes: The Streets “Promo Mix”

Classic Mixes: The Streets “Promo Mix” (2002)

Ok, this one is a bit of a rare one. Not saying there are 2 copies in existence but let’s just say it’s not on The Streets‘ discogs page or anywhere else on the net. The Streets’ record label, Locked On ...
by Lexis (MIMS Founder)
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Guest Mixes
Pinch “FabricLive #61″

Pinch “FabricLive #61″

Looking back on the myriad of ways that the genre now known quite loosely as ‘bass music’ has mutated, one of the key figures in its evolution would have to be Bristol’s Rob Ellis, better known simply as Pinch. His fascin...
by Lexis (MIMS Founder)
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Artist Spotlight
Spotlight: Mala (Digital Mystikz)

Spotlight: Mala (Digital Mystikz)

Mala and Digital Mystikz deserve to be mentionned in the short list of pioneers of dubstep, no question about that. To me they are amongst those key people who put the dub in dubstep. The first wave of influencers, like El-B, H...
by Lexis (MIMS Founder)
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Guest Mixes
Classic Mixes: Matt Jam Lamont (Tuff Jam) “The Jam Experience 1993 TDK Sessions”

Classic Mixes: Matt Jam Lamont (Tuff Jam) “The Jam Experience 1993 TDK Sessions”

Now here is a real treat for all the house and garage heads out there. This is a really intriguing find actually because it is sort of the missing link between the US Garage sound and the birth of UK Garage in the mid-90′...
by Lexis (MIMS Founder)
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MIMS Forgotten Treasures
Forgotten Treasure: The Streets “Original Pirate Material”

Forgotten Treasure: The Streets “Original Pirate Material” (2002)

It’s early January and the notion of being in 2012 still hasn’t really registered. I just got my moment earlier tonight when I was cleaning and found a promo mixtape sent by Locked On, my favorite UK Garage label ba...
by Lexis (MIMS Founder)
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MIMS Forgotten Treasures
Forgotten Treasure: Zed Bias & MC Juiceman – My Sound (Al Brown Remix)

Forgotten Treasure: Zed Bias & MC Juiceman – My Sound (Al Brown Remix)

The sound of flute. Do we hear that in songs anymore? It’s definitely one of the signature instruments for Disco, Italo, and sometimes yes – old school Garage. I’m really loving this 1999 UK Garage classic by Zed Bias and...
by Michelle White
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MIMS Forgotten Treasures
Forgotten Treasure: Chris Mac “Gal A Call Me Phone”

Forgotten Treasure: Chris Mac “Gal A Call Me Phone” (2001)

Continuing on sharing “forgotten treasures” picks from one each Dj set from last weekend’s MIMS 24 Hour Vinyl Marathon. Make you check out the others here. So this one comes from Dr.Love‘s set. For those...
by Lexis (MIMS Founder)
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Guest Mixes
Africa Hitech – Recorded Set (Live in Toronto)

Africa Hitech – Recorded Set (Live in Toronto)

So happy the boys from Africa Hitech decided to share this with the people. They just got done with their North American SUREFIRE Sound tour that saw them kill the US and Canada along with guests like Sepalcure, Distal and the ...
by Lexis (MIMS Founder)
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Guest Mixes
Pearson Sound / Ramadanman “BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix”

Pearson Sound / Ramadanman “BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix”

Myself and Guilty had the pleasure of playing with David aka Pearson Sound / Ramadanman last spring in Montreal and it was great to witness a guy that’s as interesting behind the decks and he is behind the production boar...
by Lexis (MIMS Founder)
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