{"id":219,"date":"2009-06-03T16:01:03","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T15:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/?p=219"},"modified":"2026-03-31T14:16:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:16:36","slug":"pearsall-presents-drop-the-hammer-4-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/pearsall-presents-drop-the-hammer-4-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearsall presents Drop The Hammer 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/pearsall-presents-drop-the-hammer-4-new\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/dth4\/Pearsall-DropTheHammer4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mixes-upload.pearsall.workers.dev\/mixes\/dth4\/Pearsall-DropTheHammer4.mp3\">Pearsall presents Drop The Hammer 4<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>right-click on the title and save as to download<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mixed in London, May 2009<br \/>\n(48:06, 82.14  MB, V0 VBR MP3)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/dth4\/Pearsall-DropTheHammer4BIG.jpg\">Large version of the cover<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mixes-upload.pearsall.workers.dev\/mixes\/dth4\/Pearsall-DropTheHammer4.cue\">Cue file<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Style: breaks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->direct link to the mix:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mixes-upload.pearsall.workers.dev\/mixes\/dth4\/Pearsall-DropTheHammer4.mp3\">https:\/\/mixes-upload.pearsall.workers.dev\/mixes\/dth4\/Pearsall-DropTheHammer4.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tracklisting:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>01. Aquasky vs Masterblaster &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Aquasky-vs-Masterblaster-Take-It-To-The-Floor-War\/release\/214549\">Take It To The Floor<\/a> (Shadow Cryptic)<br \/>\n02. Shimano &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Rennie-Pilgrem-vs-DJ-Dee-Kline--Shimano-Hardcore-Beats-Album-Sampler-3\/release\/297222\">Baddest DJ VIP<\/a> (Rat Records)<br \/>\n03. Aquasky vs Masterblaster &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Aquasky-vs-Masterblaster-Wheels-of-Steel-Yeah-Sucker\/release\/317881\">Wheels Of Steel<\/a> (Passenger)<br \/>\n04. Jammin &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Jammin-Go-DJ-Dirty\/release\/21678\">Go DJ<\/a> (Bingo Beats)<br \/>\n05. Autobots vs The Prodigy &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Altern-8--Prodigy-Infiltrate-202-Outa-Space\/release\/255002\">In &#038; Outa Space<\/a> (White Label)<br \/>\n06. Hyper On Experience &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Hyper-On-Experience-Lords-Of-The-Null-Lines-Remixes\/release\/141070\">Lords Of The Null Lines (Aquasky vs Masterblaster Remix)<\/a> (Moving Shadow)<br \/>\n07. Backdraft &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Backdraft-Labrat-Lurker\/release\/314088\">Lurker<\/a> (Passenger)<br \/>\n08. Chase &#038; Status &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Chase-Status-Wise-Up-Tricky\/release\/193607\">Wise Up<\/a> (Bingo Beats)<br \/>\n09. Distortionz &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Distortionz-Hitman-Slingshot\/release\/259721\">Hitman<\/a> (Hardcore Beats)<br \/>\n10. The Breakfastaz &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Breakfastaz-Big-Breakfast-Part-2\/release\/294058\">The March<\/a> (Cyberfunk)<br \/>\n11. Vinyl Junkie &#038; Dope &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Vinyl-Junkie--Dope-Worries-In-The-Dance-We-Can-Do-It\/release\/330151\">Worries In The Dance (Ed209 Remix)<\/a> (Warehouse Wax)<br \/>\n12. DJ Mutiny vs Shopliftas &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/DJ-Mutiny--Shopliftas--L-Jay-Daily-Operation-No-Compromise\/release\/335021\">Daily Operation<\/a> (Hardcore Beats)<br \/>\n13. Baobinga &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Baobinga-The-Bashment-Track\/release\/329086\">The Bashment Track<\/a> (Cyberfunk)<br \/>\n14. DJ Deekline vs Freq Nasty &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/DJ-Deekline-vs-Freq-Nasty-Every-Posse-Crew\/release\/43895\">Every Posse And Crew (Dancefloor Bully Mix)<\/a> (Rat Records)<br \/>\n15. The Insiders &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Insiders-Disciples-Of-The-Watch-Drums-In-The-Deep\/release\/304256\">Drums In The Deep<\/a> (Vinyl Addiction Breaks)<br \/>\n16. Jammin &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Jammin-Hello-As-We-Do\/release\/111007?ev=rr\">Hello<\/a> (Bingo Beats)<br \/>\n17. Deekline &#038; Wizard &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Deekline-And-Wizard-Ill-Street-Blues\/release\/333499\">Ill Street Blues ft Yolanda<\/a> (Botchit &#038; Scarper)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"240\" src=\"\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?feed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Fpearsall%2Fdrop-the-hammer-4%2F&#038;embed_uuid=4c53d564-de4e-47ed-ab7d-b25848229394&#038;stylecolor=&#038;embed_type=widget_standard\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; height:3px; width:472px;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"display:block; font-size:12px; font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin:0; padding: 3px 4px; color:#02a0c7; width:472px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/pearsall\/drop-the-hammer-4\/?utm_source=widget&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=base_links&amp;utm_term=resource_link\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#02a0c7; font-weight:bold;\">Drop The Hammer 4<\/a><span> by <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/pearsall\/?utm_source=widget&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=base_links&amp;utm_term=profile_link\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#02a0c7; font-weight:bold;\">Pearsall<\/a><span> on <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/?utm_source=widget&#038;utm_medium=web&#038;utm_campaign=base_links&#038;utm_term=homepage_link\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#02a0c7; font-weight:bold;\"> Mixcloud<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; height:3px;\"><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the darker, heavier breaks mix I promised back when I did <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/pearsall-presents-drop-the-hammer-3-new\/\">Drop The Hammer 3<\/a>. Funnily enough, when I did that one I said that it was intended as a palate-cleanser while I procrastinated over doing a longer mix, which is exactly the same scenario as this one! I have been through several drafts of a fresh dubstep mix, but I am having a bad case of perfectionism (I guess you&#8217;ll see why when I finally finish the fucker!), so I decided to do this mix last weekend just to relieve the tension. <\/p>\n<p>This was banged together in one take, and although it has one or two little mistakes, I&#8217;m really happy with it. It&#8217;s got a lot of energy, and a nice live, unrehearsed feeling to it. Sometimes with mixes I spend a lot of time fussing over track order and getting very anal-retentive about the programming of the mixes, so it is occasionally nice to just hack something together off the cuff. <\/p>\n<p>Personally, I always like a bit of roughness in my mixes. I listen to a lot of mix CD&#8217;s, and sometimes I get a bit bored of the perfect smoothness that you get on most commercially-released mixes. I guess that&#8217;s the result of using Ableton, but it&#8217;s nice to hear a bit of the art of the dj, as opposed to just 15-16 tracks strung over 70 minutes blended smoothly and inoffensively. I like to hear a bit of fire! Hell, I don&#8217;t mind hearing mistakes, because they happen to everyone and they put the rest of the mix into context. Everyone screws up, so if you hear a little mistake you know that the rest of the mix is for real, and that the dj is actually working and hasn&#8217;t just given some tracks to an engineer to sequence in Pro Tools or Ableton or whatever before wandering off for some drinks\/spliffs\/crack. <\/p>\n<p>Not that this was a totally unplanned mix. I had put them in a (rough) order (although a changed a few tracks around in the course of the mix), but I hadn&#8217;t thought through how I was going to mix them. I just hit record and went with it! <\/p>\n<p>I suppose it&#8217;s my techno roots, but I always enjoy mixing quickly (and I also have a bit of a low attention span for this kind of music), so I&#8217;ve fired through these 17 tunes quite quickly. If you are the type of person who likes to hear the full length of a track this mix is probably not for you! On the other hand, if you like lots of cuts and constant bassline-switching mayhem, you will probably enjoy this very much. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m certainly in the second camp &#8211; I&#8217;ve been rocking this mix constantly for the last couple of days on my iPod.<\/p>\n<p>Sonically, it&#8217;s certainly not innovative stuff, and I make no bones about it. It&#8217;s kind of the ugly step-brother to the <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/pearsall-presents-drop-the-hammer-3-new\/\">Drop The Hammer 3<\/a>, being all gnarly basslines and hard-hitting beats. I was briefly very into this kind of stuff when I was living in New York back in 2004\/2005, before I ran out of money for imported vinyl. Anyways, this was the point at which you started seeing an influx of producers from drum n&#8217; bass and garage into breaks, bringing with them a tougher sound sharpened by the various flavours of UK street dance music. As a long-term fan of rough, nasty dance music in all its manifestations, not surprisingly I became a big fan quickly.<\/p>\n<p>When I do mixes I usually try to build a kind of sonic narrative, even though I prefer to work within one genre in each mix, but with this one I have just gone for fifty minutes of straight up bangers. No shame in admitting it! I haven&#8217;t even really bothered to reach for a variety of producers on this one, since when I was into this kind of thing I was mainly into what Aquasky, Jammin (aka Zinc), and Deekline (boss of both Rat and Hardcore Beats) were doing. Consider this a rather hectic time capsule.<\/p>\n<p>If you want some more info on the sound from the producers that were really doing it for me at that time, check out these vintage interviews:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukmusic.com\/features\/interviews\/deekline-interview.html\">Deekline interview from February 2004<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuskoolbreaks.co.uk\/viewtopic.php?f=7&#038;t=87697&#038;start=0\">Aquasky interview from 2005<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More new mixes soon, but in the meantime I hope you enjoy this mix!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>50 minutes of bass-heavy breaks, featuring tracks from Aquasky vs Masterblaster, Chase &#038; Status, Jammin&#8217;, Deekline, Autobots, and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[21,39],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mixes","tag-breaks","tag-drop-the-hammer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6148,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/6148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}