Scratch Perverts
Album: Beatdown
Release Date: 8/11/2009

review:
Taking its name from their annual Fabric party, the mix has been designed to showcase what you’d hear in a recent club set by the trio, and totally eschews the hip-hop sound that they’re best known for. Instead, Beatdown features recent cuts from the dubstep (Joker, Skream, Digital Mystikz), electro-house (Jack Beats, Laidback Luke) and drum & bass (Sigma, Lomax, Logistics) scenes, but the trio are quick to refute any suggestion that they’re jumping on any bandwagons. As Perverts member Tony Vegas explains, "We’re not just scene hoppers! When you play as much of a mixed bag as we do, you can get the finger pointed. It’s not true - hopefully after hearing the mix, people will come and hear us play out and realise that. We’re not doing it for any other reason apart from the fact that this is what we do and what we’re listening to; this is what we’re fans of."

Fellow Pervert Plus One also cites a change in people’s listening habits as another reason why they felt able to release a mix so far from their usual style. "There was a time when people wouldn’t step out of their musical zone," he explains, "but now it’s like - fuck it, the more diverse the better! We’re not against where we’ve been musically in the past at all - but what’s the point in just playing old school hip-hop records, when there’s so much fresh new music out there on your doorstep?"

Track listing

1. Caspa feat. Dynamite MC - ’Rat-A-Tat-Tat’
2. High Rankin - ’Money For Guns’
3. Benga - ’Stop Watching’
4. Skitz Ft. Buggsy - ’Born Inna System (DJ Prime Cuts Mix)’
5. Digital Mystikz - ’Eyez’
6. The Qemists - ’Dem Na Like Me (Subscape Dub)’
7. Skream - ’Aggy Face’
8. Joker - ’Do It’
9. Foreign Beggars VS Rouge A Levres - ’Hit That Gash (DJ Prime Cuts Itchy Naan Re-Rub)’
10. Chase & Status - ’Saxon’
11. Kutz - ’Grit Your Teeth’
12. The Others - ’Credit Crunch VIP’
13. DJ Prime Cuts feat. Dynamite MC - ’Warning’
14. Rusko - ’Jahova VIP’
15. Flying Lotus - ’Roberta Flack (Martyn’s Heartbeat Mix)’
16. Zomby - ’Rumours & Revalations’
17. Buraka Som Sistema feat. DJ Znobia, M.I.A., Saborosa & Puto Prata - ’Sound Of Kuduro (DJ Mehdi’s Sound Of Terror Remix)’
18. Feadz feat. MC Wesley - ’Subiu, Desceu’
19. Zombie Disco Squad - ’The Dance’
20. Kissy Sell Out - ’This Kiss (Jack Beats Mix)’
21. Laidback Luke, A-Trak - ’Shake It Down’
22. AC Slater - ’Jack Got Jacked (Jack Beats Remix)’
23. Mujava - ’Township Funk (Boy 8 Bit Remix)’
24. Boy 8 Bit - ’Baltic Pine’
25. Jesse Rose - ’Touch My Horn’
26. Zinc - ’128 Trek’
27. Hervé feat. Marina Gasolina - ’Who Da Champ?’
28. Diplo & Laidback Luke - ’Hey’
29. Jack Beats - ’U.F.O. (The K-Hole Bass Riddim)’
30. Dirtyphonics - ’Vandals’
31. Logistics - ’Jungle Music’
32. Lomax - ’Faith Massive’
33. Jakes - ’Warface (D*Minds Remix)
34. Spor - ’Aztec’
35. DJ Fresh - ’Off World’
36. Dirty Harry - ’Fools’
37. Sigma - ’Paint It Black’

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