So here’s a track that brings together two of the mightiest forces in bass-oriented underground music right now. Bruxa have remixed Deathface‘s “From Beneath”, taken from last year’s excellent EP of the same name, with expectedly good results. In other related news, Deathface dropped a new video for “Six Feet Deep”, a collaboration with @LILINTERNET; and Bruxa got a remix treatment from MADDEN, whose take on ”Paper Weight”, a standout track from Bruxa’s album Victimeyez, is streaming below.
Bruxa‘s Victimeyez was easily one of the most exciting full-lengths to have dropped this year, which would probably explain why it made it onto our albums of the year list. Here, the Portland trio lists their favorite tracks of the past year. And although a lot of these have been on heavy rotation with us as well, we have managed to come across a couple of discoveries (that Daniel Savio track, for example). Voilà – Bruxa’s top ten tracks of 2012, in no particular order:
> Zebra Katz – Ima Read
> Grimes – Genesis
> 100s – My Activator
> RL Grime – Grapes Alla Vodka
> Purity Ring – Belispeak
> Freddie Gibbs – Thuggin’
> TNGHT – Higher Ground
> Daniel Savio – Revolt
> Mykki Blanco – Wavvy
> Sticky K – Persian Algebra
Like BRUXA.
Out of all the amazing records that came out this year, we found Laurel Halo’s Quarantine to be the most exciting (and can’t help but feel sorry for the people who have a problem with those vocals). Julia Holter misses the number one spot second year in a row, but I don’t think she’d mind since we both loved Quarantine. Speaking of which, another cool thing about 2012 is that we got to hang with a couple of our favorite acts. Anyway, there were a lot of cool records we enjoyed but just hadn’t spent that much time with them, and then there were, of course, a lot of records that we thought sucked – we’ll leave you to ponder on which of those categories whatever you think we missed falls into. These are the albums and mixtapes we’ve found ourselves returning to the most this year, listed in a somewhat particular order:
Laurel Halo: Quarantine
Carcass
Julia Holter: Ekstasis
Marienbad
Actress: RIP
Serpent
Litanic Mask: Litanic Mask
Kabuki
SpaceGhostPurrp: The Chronicles of SpaceGhostPurrp
Osiris of the East
Death Grips: The Money Store / NO LOVE DEEP WEB
Artificial death in the west
Vatican Shadow: Ghosts of Chechnya / Ornamented Walls
Voices Came Crackling Across a Motorola Hand-Held Radio
Light Asylum: Light Asylum
Pope Will Roll
Purity Ring: Shrines
Saltkin
Le1f: Dark York 
Infinity
Tamaryn: Tender New Signs
Violet’s in a Pool
Andy Stott: Luxury Problems
Numb
Holy Other: Held
Held
Chairlift: Something
Met Before
Scott Walker: Bisch Bosch
‘Epizootics!’
Haleek Maul & Supreme Cuts: Chrome Lips
M00N
Chelsea Wolfe: Unknown Rooms
Sunstorm
Vessel: Order of Noise
Lache
Trust: TRST
Sulk
Bruxa: Victimeyez
Roll Sharp
Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland: Black Is Beautiful
Raime: Quarter Turns Over a Living Line
Jeremih: Late Nights with Jeremih
Holly Herndon: Movement
Cooly G: Playin Me
Grimes: Visions
Chromatics: Kill for Love
Evian Christ: Kings and Them
Frank Ocean: Channel Orange
Sand Circles: Motor City
Swans: The Seer
Recondite: On Acid
Silent Servant: Negative Fascination
X-TG: Desertshore/The Final Report
Human Teenager: Animal Husbandry
Dreamers: Dreamers
Palmistry: I Swear
iamamiwhoami: Kin
Samara Lubelski: Wavelength
Lee Noble/Ensemble Economique: Motion Forever
BRUXA are one of our favorite bands right now so we got pretty excited when they announced their debut full length the other day. VICTIMEYEZ is out digitally September 1st via ????? Records, with a cassette release due in October courtesy of Sweating Tapes. Two new songs are streaming below, you can download them from ????? and IVIYH respectively. By the way, it’s been exactly two months today since we posted BRUXA’s radd (hah!) guest mix that made us go back to nineties’ trip-hop and listen to Post all summer. Thanks, guys. This new mix for Textbeak is even sicker though.
BRUXA @ Soundcloud.
The latest guest mix comes from the up and coming Portland trio Bruxa, comprised of Bianca Radd, Derek Stilwell and Saint Michael. ”Witch-step”, “horror-gaze”, call it what you like, Bruxa draw from a bunch of very different influences, creating a fresh take on the now-hip dark bass-heavy beat-based music. Their debut EP was released via Sweating Tapes last Summer, and the new one is supposed to drop soon. If you haven’t heard Bruxa’s killer remix of ‘Killing Time’ by labelmates Nightmare Fortress, do yourself a favor and grab it right here right now. Peep Bruxa’s Soundcloud for more goodies. As for their heavy-chillout trip-hop guest mix, Bruxa hooked us up with some classic, more and less known 90′s electronic, trip-hop and hip-hop gems. D?WNL??D:
01. Tricky – 6 Minutes (Greg Nice Mix)
02. Gravediggaz – Defective Trip (Trippin)
03. Primal Scream – Give Up But Don’t Give Out (Portishead Mix)
04. Massive Attack – Sly (Underdog Mix)
05. Monkey Mafia – Ward 10 (Voodoo Mix)
06. DJ Shadow – Dark Days (Main Theme)
07. REQ – Razzamatazz
08. Wagonchrist – Rexcist
09. Method Man – Sub Crazy
10. Björk – Possibly Maybe
Sweating Tapes have been on the go lately, positioning themselves as the dark synth label of the moment. One of their latest signees are Nightmare Fortress, a “grave rave” four-piece from Seattle. Their debut Until The Air Runs Out EP comes out next month, you can stream it here. We give you this sick Bruxa remix of ‘Killing Time’, premiered by Gucci Goth the other day.
Nightmare Fortress – Killing Time (Bruxa remix)