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Digital Society on Wax Poetics
The title track to J57′s Digital Society album is available as a free download at the Wax Poetics Digital site, the seminal urban music journal of our times. Click on the free track section to grab yours and be sure to check out all the other quality treasures.
Video: Big Toe’s Hi Fi live @ Pangea Garden Party
This video features the Big Toe’s Hi Fi live at the Pangea Garden Party in 2008.
Video: Big Toe’s Hi Fi Parade
This video features the Big Toe’s crew taking part in a rural Canadian parade. Watch out for shots of their Country Hi Fi.
The Reviews Are In for Digital Society
Digital Society has been making huge waves in the underground hip hop community lighting up blogs with previews of the bonus tracks and grabbing big reviews from the August 13 2010 digital release. Check some of the highlights and feedback from DJ Booth, Okay Player, Beatnik, 2dopeboyz, Hip Hop DX and XXL Magazine.
Video: Big Toe’s Hi Fi “Shotgun Sounds”
Big Toe’s Hi Fi sent a short promo video of Daddy Scotty and Barba Poppa Choppa on the farm in Ontario getting the Canadian people ready for their sound.
Video: Big Toe’s Hi Fi & Skratch Bastid
A video of Canada’s Skratch Bastid playing on the massive sound system of Big Toe’s Hi Fi.
Rise Ashen Podcast – HDI Mix 2010
For his HDI Mix 2010 podcast, Rise Ashen delivers his signature style of richly crafted mixes covering a broad range of afro house, electro, deep house and techno.
Big Toe’s Hi Fi Podcast – Live In Dublin
Big Toe’s Hi Fi, the Scotland sound system legends showcase their sound from a show recorded earlier this year. Live In Dublin features Barba Poppa Choppa on turntables and deejays Daddy Scotty and Dangerman on the mic.
Video: Big Toe’s Hi Fi @ Meadows Festival
Here is a video of Big Toe’s Hi Fi live at 2009′s Meadows Festival with deejays Lil Nat, Daddy Scotty and Figgs pon the mic. They had run ins with Edinburgh Environmental Health all day, wanting to shut them down for being too loud. Amazing Edinburgh singers and DJ’s contributed to a great vibe and…
New Release: J57′s Digital Society
J57′s groundbreaking anthemic electronic hip hop album; Digital Society is out now at all major digital stores. The 21 track project which received the “dope” stamp from DJ Premier, includes appearances by Juno winner DJ Brace, DeeJay Element, and prominent MCs such as Homeboy Sandman, Brown Bag AllStars, Fresh Daily, Sene, Skyzoo, Co$$ and P.SO.…
J57 Interview
After launching his vinyl-only EP this spring, we’re happy to announce that today we officially release J57′s full-length album Digital Society on both CD and digital download. Furthermore, here is an interview of the man by Ricardo for the website Friedmylittlebrain.
Citizen Sound Podcast
Toronto-based DJ and producer Citizen Sound is perhaps better known as Aram Scaram, co-host of Version Xcursion, the weekly Saturday night radio show that has provided Toronto with some of the wickedest dub and more for the past 12 years. With Version Xcursion, Aram has produced and released two full-length albums along with three EPs,…
MEME Festival
MEME is a multi-day music and digital arts festival featuring live indoor and outdoor electronic music performances, large scale projection, and video installations. MEME also features educational clinics and workshops, digital visual artists, and new media installations. MEME is a non-proft event fueled by enthusiasm, volunteerism and community support.
New Release: Trouble
Citizen Sound and Ammoye team up on the single Trouble. The song calls for an end to the violence among the youth. Ammoye’s soulful delivery and dancehall sensibilities compliment this progressive, bass driven, steppers rhythm. The digital single also features a remix by Rise Ashen.
Welcome Balanced House
All of the content from our sublabel Balanced House has been merged into this website. You can get all of our releases and podcasts episodes in one easy-to-access location. Watch for more releases from Balanced House very soon.
Out Now: District 2
The second volume of Billy Rockwell and Hitori Tori’s District Series, appropriately named District 2 is now available.
Digital Society Is Ready To Drop
J57 is just about to launch his Digital Society vinyl EP and digital album (coming soon) with Balanced Records. Check out this brief review at FWMJ’s Producers I Know.
Balanced For Uptown’s Best Record Label of 2010
Every year Uptown Magazine celebrates local people and places with their annual “Best of Winnipeg” issue. Please vote Balanced Records for Best Winnipeg Record Label and while your at it, cast your vote for some of the other categories up for grabs. Voting is now closed on the Uptown site. Check their website for results…
Happy Birthday Balanced!
Balanced Records turns nine years old on April 23rd. Please help us celebrate by posting something nice on our Facebook Page or check out Jason “Funk” Permanand’s documentry about Balanced called From Out Of Nowhere and learn a bit more about us.
Dubmatix Wins Juno Award
A huge congratulations to Dubmatix for winning the Juno Award for Reggae Recording of the Year! Apart from his work with Prince Blanco, Dubmatix can be found on Northern Faction 4 (which also features 2009 Juno Award winner DJ Brace). Dubmatix will also be in Winnipeg on June 19th for The Memetic Festial.
Richie Phoe Video from Dirty Sanchez
Two cuts from Richie Phoe‘s excellent Eye On the Prize EP were featured on MTV UK’s television programme Dirty Sanchez. Watch a clip from the video by clicking the link below. Richie can also be found on Northern Faction 4 and Bumpy’s Lament.
Noiseshaper Video: “Big Shot”
Berlin’s Noiseshaper recently released a video for their tune Big Shot found on their latest album Satellite City which also features the song Universal. Universal originally appeared on Balanced Record’s release Northern Faction 4.
Bumpy’s Lament Is Getting Some Love
Richie Phoe’s latest release, Bumpy’s Lament is getting some major global airplay by the likes of Andy Smith (Portishead), Mr. Scruff, DRM (Bastard Jazz) & Jon Kennedy and continues to top the Juno Records dub charts.
More Dubmatix Live
Here is another awesome Dubmatix live video, this one features The Dubmatix Sound System along with Murray Man & LT Foxy. Dubmatix can be found on Northern Faction 4.