Spatial’s new mix for Fact Mag features the music of his label Infrasonics as well as amazing unreleased material; some of the best dubstep/house hybrid material I’ve heard yet! High energy, sophisticated and fun, this mix is a brilliant showcase of one of London’s best labels. Tagged with “Bass /Uk Funky /Uk Garage /Dubstep /2 Step” on MixCloud, it’s pretty much got it all.

This mix is full of future Infrasonics material from both label regulars and new recruits Gon, Jamie Grind and xxxy (whose ‘Sing With Us’ was recently signed to Fabric’s Elevator Music compilation). ‘Another Girl’, an unreleased Hot City jam is one of his best so far.

Download the mix now as it’s only available for 3 weeks. If you miss the download, you can listen to the mix via MixCloud.

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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Roska, not to be confused with Rusko, bring us a nice blend of house, UK funky and even some grime in his latest podcast.

According to his MySpace calender, it looks like he’ll be doing a stateside tour in April, making stops in L.A., Atlanta, Philly, San Fran, New York and a few other dates around the US as well as stops in Canada. Traveling may be in order.

Make sure you download his XLR8R podcast, which contains quite a bit of his own production work.

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.

Florida is known to produce some really fresh talent every so often. Backstreet Boys, not so much. 2 Live Crew? Appreciation for their music may be a regional thing. Tampa is known mostly for it’s Bush Gardens theme park, but for us lovers of drum and bass music, Gridlok is it’s brightest auditory export.

Recently he’s been acquired by the GRAM Agency (Grass Roots Artists Management) and has recorded a mix for said agency. Download Gridlok’s mix and make sure you subscribe to the podcast, or at least check out the other mixes they have for their artists, which include Lenzman, Xample and Lomax, S.P.Y, ZeroT and others.