Whatever happened to drum and bass? So many d&b stalwarts have started making dubstep, and DJ Zinc has lately been spinning straight 4/4 beats he calls “crack house.” Well, Camo UFOs is ridin’ in like the cavalry to make drum and bass fun again—heck, the crazy sounds they’re making actually sound more like d&b’s original name, “jungle.”
Camo UFOs is two dudes, (thee) Mike B and Nate Day. (thee) Mike B is one of the funkiest dudes around—if you’ve gone out in the Los Angeles area in the last few years (or Helsinki—dude is mad large in Helsinki, for reals), you’ve heard him spin at the best spots: he was resident, for example, at the late, great DJ AM’s legendary Banana Split party from jump. Nate Day, meanwhile, hightailed it from Philadelphia to El Lay to bring some City of Brotherly Love groove sauce to the City of Angels. Together as Camo UFOs, they prove a truly dynamic duo: on their remixes for Major Lazer’s “Pon De Floor” and Count and Sinden’s “Mega,” B and Day bring the same post-modern rude bwoy lunacy to d&b/jungle that Major Lazer did to dancehall, reinvigorating it in the process. In Camo UFO’s hands, d&b sounds totally current, yet teems with the kind of try-anything braggodocio that, say, Aphrodite had when he used to make jump-up tracks with the Jungle Brothers. Camo UFOs is all about skittering breakbeats going nuts and video game synths taking over the world, and it’s just a dubplate good time. That’s clear from their new mixtape, which they’re giving away free here. It traces the rude roots of the Camo UFOs sound, combining genre classics with their slamming remixes. And Camo UFOs don’t just make dope music—they also have cool swag. If you see them out DJing somewhere, hit ‘em up for a Camo-branded lighter! Rewind!


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