K-Mag is on fire lately with all of the podcasts, free tunes and interviews they feature in their website. DNB producer and DJ Sabre is giving away a copy of his minimal drum and bass tune “One Hundred Teeth” and there will be a sound pack provided later this month in which producers can have their go with the stems.

Visit K-Mag’s site to hear the tune, download it, and bookmark the link to check back at the end of the month for the pieces for the remix competition.

Chill-ish DNB producer ASC has reworked Blu Mar Ten’s classic “She Moves Through”, which appeared in LTJ Bukem’s “Logical Progression Sessions Vol 3″ compilation mix back in 1998.

You can download the tune by subscribing to Blu Mar Ten’s mailing list.

Also worth checking out while all up in the ASC-ness is his March Studio Mix.

Hailing from San Francisco, CA, NTRLD (pronounced interlude) have been making waves in the dubstep scene with their unique take on the sound. We caught up with the boys for a few questions and they were kind enough to share with us their take on LMFAO’s “I’m in Miami Bitch”, appropriately enough as they’ll be in Miami for this year’s WMC, bitch. Download the tune, read the interview and make sure you plan to attend Stank Love: The Official Big Up Magazine WMC Event, where they’ll be playing.

Also make sure you check out their Redline Dubstep 5.0 mix. The track listing is at the end of the interview.

How long have you been producing and djing, and what made you get into each?

Well…both of us have been classically trained in music theory and performance growing up, so we’ve been writing and performing since before we can remember. Both our careers shifted to producing electronic music at pretty much the same time, when we linked up to play in an alternative/experimental world music group called Zeneva back in 2007. The EDM influence in our music really started to become more and more obvious as time went on, and eventually we left the band to have more time in the studio producing tracks at 140bpm. By 2009 we started to turn a lot of heads in the dubstep community worldwide, linked up with a few different crews in the bay area (Redline/Compression/Rukkuz), and started djing out a whole lot more. Djing started for both of us as a way to perform for our fans and to allow people to experience the bass fueled insanity we’d created on a system it was meant to be played on. I think we’ve both come to realize just how much fun it is to dj to a crowd that really feels it and connects with us… it’s like instant gratification for a producer when a tune you just finished up that night gets a rewind and everyone’s going mental over it.

What are you feelings regarding accusations that DNB artists are “crossing over” into other genres, particularly dubstep and other club music, just for the money or fame? Why are some people afraid of producers making more than one kind of music?

Drum and bass and dubstep are two genres that really speak to us, and we take heavy influences from both, but since we started, we’ve intentionally avoided becoming pigeon-holed into the title of of “dubstep producers”. Music, like all art forms, is constantly evolving, and the most influential artists are always the ones blending and crafting new types of sounds. I don’t think it’s really ever about money or fame, at least it isn’t for us. It’s about hearing some completely sick bassline over a half-time beat and being like, “Holy shit! This doesn’t sound like everything else! They’re not using the same break over and over again? Why didn’t I think of that?” Or maybe we just get bored really easily, I think that has more to do with it. It’s a huge mystery to us why a producer or dj would be afraid to stray from his/her preferred bpm range… where’s the fun in that? better yet, where’s the challenge?

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I.D. & Baobinga are giving away a rather phenomenal collection of music, ranging from house to dubstep and even drum and bass. These aren’t half finished ideas, mixed down hastily. These are proper tunes that I would have definitely purchased and will be playing in my sets. Don’t sleep on this free release, get it before your friends are playing it out.

Download the release and please spread the love. While the release is available as a free download, they are accepting any form of monetary payment, in which the proceeds will go to Dove House Hospice in Hull, UK.

Stunna is a drum and bass producer, DJ and live performer from Chicago who’s jazz influenced style of drum and bass is spreading rapidly. He’s also well known for his Green Room internet radio show via BassDrive, the internet’s go-to spot for drum and bass, 24/7.

Besides sharing some insight into his views on the state of drum and bass, his influences and where you can catch him during the 2010 Winter Music Conference, he’s sharing his tune “Strange Behavior”, which you can download here.

Special thanks to Methodus for hooking the interview up.

1. How long have you been producing and djing, and what made you get into it?

I’ve been producing music since I was a teenager, but more specifically, Drum+Bass since around 1998 or so.  First started learning to DJ about 2000 as a means to play original productions I was working on as well as all the influential tracks that got me into the scene.  Really got into the music thru my love of jazz and funk which I in turn ’sample spotted’ in some DnB tunes, and the rest is history, as they say.

2. People claim that drum and bass is dead, and yet, arguably, the sound is more diverse than ever. Where do you, as a producer, DJ and music lover see the genre going in the coming years?

Sure, every year I hear people talking about DnB ‘dying’ and so forth.  Nine times out of ten, those are the people who get into the music for the wrong reasons and aren’t willing to open themselves to the possibilities this genre has to offer.  Yes, you’re exactly right – the sound is indeed more diverse than ever, and as a result, I think it’s turning some heads from other electronic genres that might be into more ‘minimal’ sounds or even the ‘half-time’ sounds that some people often mistake for Dubstep, haha.  Either way though, I really enjoy playing sets that incorporate a wider spectrum of sounds as it keeps me interested and on my toes as a DJ.  With all the great music being made by some exciting new producers, seems only logical that DnB is here to stay.  The digital domain has changed the face of the game, so I see that as a very important aspect that’s being integrated into the distribution end of the market.  The true soldiers are still out there fighting the good fight so I think only better things can come in the future.

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