“A Milestone”.

You can by the EP on Vinyl at the Beta Webstore (we ship worldwide) if you click here.

And digitally at Beatport, where tracks from the EP are currently dominating the Top 10 D&B chart click here.

Read more about the release and listen to clips here.

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Hot on the heels of Camo & Krooked’s ‘Edge of Mind’ EP comes a debut single from Poland’s Xilent, another bright new talent unearthed by Mr. John B.

‘Killing Spree’ opens with swirling atmospherics that conjure the mood whilst a snarly melodic bassline whirrs into action, underpinned by charging percussion and some extremely slick edits.

Xilent “Killing Spree”

‘Dislocation’ takes a more straight forward approach with an arpeggiated synth hook reeling us into a drop of epic proportions before Xilent unleashes even more edit abuse, twisting and contorting his sublime soundscape into a new beast for the second drop.

Xilent “Disclocation”

Xilent (Eryk Kowalczyk) is a young drum’n'bass producer. Originally from Warsaw (Poland), Eryk produced his first bits at the age of nine, when he was introduced to the Propellerhead Rebirth RB-338 synthesizer set. From then on, he tended to diversify his sound from techno, through breakbeat, finally to find his place in the drum’n'bass genre, influenced by artists like DJ Rap, Future Cut, Calyx, Concord Dawn. Throughout that time he also found himself playing the drums in a few hardcore punk bands like Fast Forward.

His official drum’n'bass career began in 2007 when he was noticed by a recording label called Shadowforces, and not much time has passed since he published his first track on a vinyl under the label alongside many other artists’ quality tracks. During the next two years Xilent moved to Edinburgh (Scotland) and has become a member of international labels such as Beta Recordings managed by John B himself, Ammunition Recordings, Mindtech Recordings and more. This time with influences from fat cats like Spor, Apex or Miss Redflower he managed to create his own style with heavy beats and addictive melodies. Many of his digital releases have seen the light of day hitting the top drum’n'bass charts on Juno or TrackItDown, one of which was rated “one of the biggest tracks of 2009 without a shadown” and even a “drum’n'bass anthem” – (‘Terminal’, Ammunition Rec., rated by TrackItDown). In December 2009 Xilent played for the first time live in Poland (Lodz) and he claims there will be more, the first of which is in Berlin in January 2010.

Click here to download Hi Res Photos & Logos of Xilent.

Label: Beta Recordings
Cat: BETA022
Released: 22nd February 2010
Format(s): 12” vinyl / digital
Press/PR: Reprise Music Group | nick@reprisemusicgroup.com
Distribution: SRD | +44(0)208 802 3000
Info/Audio: www.betarecordings.com

www.myspace.com/xilent1

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A. CAMO & KROOKED – TIME IS TICKING AWAY (feat. SHAZ SPARKS)

B. CAMO & KROOKED – MINDSET

C. CAMO & KROOKED – SKYLINE

D. JOHN B – NUMBERS (CAMO & KROOKED REMIX)

With a back catalogue that already boasts releases for Viper Recordings, Technique, Uprising, Renegade Hardware and Urban Takeover, Austria’s latest DnB exports Camo & Krooked continue their stratospheric rise to the highest echelons of DnB fame with this essential four-tracker for John B’s esteemed Beta Recordings.

Kicking off proceedings with the minimal tones of ‘Time is Ticking Away’ featuring the vocal talents of Shaz Sparks, the boys pick up the pace with the Calvin Harris-esque power chords of ’Mindset’ and seal the deal with the driving and uplifting ‘Skyline’. Rounding things off in fine style, John B’s ‘Numbers’ is put through the Camo & Krooked mill and turned out in an electro style to great effect.

DJ support: Pendulum, Grooverider, DJ Fresh, Adam F, John B, London Elektricity, Matrix & Futurebound, Shimon, Concord Dawn, DJ SS and more.

You can download Hi Res Photos of Camo & Krooked, their Logo, and Biography by clicking here

Label: Beta Recordings
Cat: BETA021
Released: 22nd February 2010
Format(s): 12” vinyl / digital
Press/PR: Reprise Music Group | nick@reprisemusicgroup.com
Distribution: SRD | +44(0)208 802 3000
Info/Audio: www.beta-recordings.com

www.myspace.com/camokrooked

Thanks to the amazing skills of our new web designer genius Mike @ bozboz.co.uk and Trickartt at www.trickartt.com and a lot of blood, sweat and tears in the Beta Recordings office AND several million hours climbing around in the loft going through all our back catalogue and checking stock levels – we’re finally there!

The new webstore has a much better system for dealing with digital downloads, we sell bundles now too which is great for albums, and we’re planning on putting up some previously unavailable stuff too – like John’s first album, ‘Visions’ and a previously very limited USA only release of ‘Brainstorm’ – plus lots more classics, remastered & remixed – but more on that later.

We’ve also massively improved the shipping system – every item has its weight recorded, so when you check out all you have to do is tell us which country you live in, the webstore works out the total weight of everything you ordered and then calculates the correct shipping, so no more searching for the right shipping option in a huge list, and no more accidental overcharging or any of that rubbish! Lovely!

We’ve got loads of back catalogue up now, (if it’s displayed on the site then we have it in stock!) – and some really cool new stuff coming in time for Christmas too (did someone say JOHN B SNOWGLOBES!? haha!)

So go check out www.beta-store.com right now and bag yourself some electropunkrobotikDrum&Bass – mp3s are only 89p!

1. Utopia // Diamond Shine // Breed12inches
2. Falling of Ideas // m25, Nummix & First Function // Unsigned
3. Hard Fi // I Shall Overcome (Paul B Remix)
4. John B // Robot Lover // Beta
5. John B // Numbers (Camo & Krooked Remix) // Beta
6. John B feat. Shaz Sparks // Red Sky // Beta
7. Camo & Krooked // Turn Up The Music
8. Michael Jackson // Beat It (John B Re-Edit)
9. Subfocus // Rock It // Ram
10. Freeland // Under Control (TC Remix)
11. Alix Perez feat Fats // Down the Line (Break Remix)
12. Doc Scott // Unofficial Ghost // Metalheadz
>> Marty McFly feat. Emmet Brown // Delorian?
13. Johnny L // Evah
14. Fallin (Shockone Remix) // Agent X feat. Mutaya
15. Juggernaut (Nero Remix) // Enter Shikari
16. Ian Carey Project // Get Shakey (Matrix & Futurebound Remix)
17. Camo & Krooked // One
18. Klement // Girls
19. Johnny L // Come Here
20. Bloc Party // Trojan Horse (John B Remix)

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD WITH iTUNES

And if you hate iTunes but still love John B you can download the mp3 here:
www.john-b.com/podcast/JohnB_StudioMixJuly2009.mp3

Tracklist to follow…

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And if you hate iTunes but still love John B you can download the mp3 here: www.john-b.com/podcast/JohnB_Live_Zweibruken_ElectroTechnoItalo80sSet.mp3

As you can see it was an amazing show, ROASTING in there, so much so they got me 2 huge fans which worked a treat – except they blew my CDs about Had no time to hang around afterwards either, there’s only one flight a day out of Nizhny Novgorod on a decent airline (i.e not a scarey Russian one!) at about 5 am – so I had to literally jet right out of there as soon as my set was done – straight to the airport, with all my makeup on and rave-dirt etc! Got a few funnny looks at Passport control but managed to totally sort myself out and get changed in the wierd little airport bathroom before the flight took off. I think I was only on the ground for about 4 hours from the point of landing in Russia to taking off again – that’s a proper rave-commute

Anyway – here’s some of the photos below, and as always you can see the whole gallery on my flickr gallery, facebook AND myspace (yes I spend a lot of time uploading stuff!)

John B’s magnificent remix of Bloc Party’s track “Trojan Horse” is now available on their new album “Intimacy Remixed”.

You can listen to a clip of it on the John B myspace page if you click here.

Buy the CD here.

Download on itunes here.

www.blocparty.com

So I finally got round to getting all the photos together from our time in Miami for the WMC back in March… Lots of parties, beach bizniz, and schmoooozing in short shorts… The whole gallery is up on my flickr page if you CLICK HERE - or on my myspace and facebook pages – but I’ll try to whack the highlights up here…

With Casey and Hayley at one of the Beatport pool parties:

With Bailey at the same show:

With Hayley and Annie Mac @ The P Diddy/Felix Da Housecat Party @ Cameo: (Chromeo were right next to us too, but not in the pic!)


People dangling off the roof @ Cameo:

Felix & P Diddy onstage @ Cameo:

With Wildchild at the Electrosluts party (self-censored, was v drunk with lipstick all over my face!)

World of D&B

Our shoes papped by a strange Dutch Website…

At the DJ Mag opening party at the Shelbourne Pool:

The Beach:

With Adam F @ the DSP Party at White Room:

At the Ciroc Vodka P Diddy/Felix Da Housecat/Junior Sanchez Pool Party @ Victor Hotel VIP STYLEEE:

At the IDMAs (WE WAZ ROBBED!):

Josh Gabriel’s Villa for super trance invite-only lovely pre-party chatting to Gareth Emery et al:

The Obligatory Jerry’s Diner Experience:

The Obligatory GrillFish Experience, plus my crap US Nokia:

The Obligatory Pervy Old man on the beach in a man-thong Experience:

The Obligatory ‘Stay on the beach even though there’s a tropical Monsoon’ Experience:

Honestly, she only takes 5 minutes to get ready to go out – I NEVER have to wait…

Casey & Imgmar doing kareoke at the Studio/Shelbourne (they give you keytars!):

With Sleazemore @ the Hotel Victor Party:

My mate Casey Killjoy with a man with a big fringe and upside-down cross necklace. I think he’s a bit goth:

Squidged in a little plane from Pensacola to Miami on tour before the WMC:

The average ‘on tour in America’ airport tour breakfast. Repeat x7 days = Fail:

Scaring Hayley with my firce posing:

The guys at nitebeat.de and subculture.de sent over some galleries of photos from my gig over in Freiburg, Germany a couple of weeks back, at 18 months club, with MC Fava – man with the deepest voice in Germany! Had a really fun gig, nice and busy, and well up for it crowd.

Had the world’s greatest Club Sandwich in the hotel first actually – worthy of a picture:

And then Rrrrrrrrrinsed it out! (Note my shirt totally soaked and stuck to my back later on. Was HOT in there! Got a late checkout the next day and had some proper rest, seriously good to be able to catch up some sleep like that sometimes! The hotel people were lovely and made me a FABULOUS espresso the next day, flight was on time, and came home to my fabulous girlfriend and PIZZA. Yay!

As usual you can see the whole gallery of photos (there’s about 300!) up on my flickr, facebook & myspace pages – and on their original places at nitebeat.de and subculture.de (thanks to the photographers for sending the photos over!).