Foundation Stepper has selected a mix of dubwise, jungle and reggae beats out and about and around Melbourne since 2001. His reggae, dub and downbeat residencies and support slots include gigs with The Red Eyes, Chant Down, Ruffneck Souljahs, Livewire and Dialekt. He has also played gigs in NZ and Japan, appearing at Disco Beans, Osaka as well as some other venue where the reggae heads were quite confused by what he was playing. His reggae sets sway towards a roots focus, foundation era tunes and nuff 70's dubwise... with a healthy serving of tricky dancehall riddims and outernational dub and ragga experiments... Foundation Steppers jungle sets are a polyrhythmic mash-up of new school ragga sounds, toxic dancehall and concrete jungle with smatterings of breakcore, dub bass and eleven secret herbs and spices. Foundation Stepper is a DJ project of Eliot Palmer, hailing from Christchurch, living in Melbourne... He is currently undertaking a few too many projects - studying masters, doing sound design work and researching the effect of low frequency sound on the body, and vibration in performance spaces.... Other aspects include a Max/MSP project which aims to emulate the sound of objects resonating and buzzing to bass sounds. Contact via email - foundation_stepper at ... (this lizardy site.com) and make the subject say something about jungle so it passess the spambots. Or visit his myspace page.

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		Foundation Stepper - Roots reggae - Fire on the Wire Special Guest Selection for Fire on the Wire - 2SER, Sydney... one and a half hours - pure roots vibes inna radio style. Focus on UK sounds, Australian productions and other favourites... massive roots selection Massive respect to Firehouse Crew for having me! Download 192k Weather Report – The Tennors (Trojan LP) Everyday Wondering – Johnny Clark (Trojan LP) Mun-dun-go – Cedric IM Brooks (Soul Jazz 12”) Fancy Make Up + Version – Johnny Clark (Barbell 7”) African Man – Earl Cunningham (Jah Shaka 12”) War Cry – Mad Professor (Ariwa LP) Tribute to Stephen Lawrence – Mikey B (Blakamix LP) Yerushalem dub – Disciples (Disciples LP) None A Dem – Horace Andy (Blakamix LP) Dub Dem Right – Dennis Mixman (Blakamix LP) My Kingdom dub – Red Eyes (Melbourne yard – PBS radio compilation) Roller Dub – Beam Up (unreleased) Fleish – Bo Marley (Jahtari LP) Wurst Dub – Disrupt (Jahtari LP) Run Come Call Me – Kenny Knots (Honest Johns LP) Homeward Bound – Prince Far I and the Arabs (Pressure sounds LP) Reality Poem – Linton Kwesi Johnson (Island LP) Utterance – Black Uhuru (Island LP) Danger Zone – Errol “Flabba” Holt (Island LP) Gi Me – Gregory Issacs (Charisma LP) Rub This Dub – Tappa Zukie production (Blood and Fire LP) Jah Is Watching You – Dennis Brown/ Flat Foot Hustling – Dillinger (Auralux LP) Natty Dread dub – Linval Thompson (Trojan LP)
		Left at Black Cat A mix in two parts... Part A is a nice mix of foundation and digital roots reggae and dub - about an hour... Part B is dub focused but strays into hiphop briefly as well as more chilled beat driven stuff, quite introspective... its got high personal rotation!! play them together - its how its intended!!! This is a recording from the fortnighly residency at black cat, cafe bar vibes, been going some years now... niceness on a couch Pretty patchy tracklists, going from memory mostly... Part A Download 192k An upsetter produced track and version Black Uhuru - Puff She Puff Linton Kwesi Johnson - ? Chalice in Mind - Carlton Livingstone Tonight version Tonight - Eccelton Jarret Cocoa Tea - Eighteen And Over Courtney Melody - ninja mi ninja Ini Kamoze - world a music Barrinton Levy - A Yah Wi Deh Love grocer - Forty Nights ? Thunder mountain - Thunder Mountain? Shaka - something off a dub salute record Black uhuru - dub of englington Drums dub - Drum song riddim Upsetters - word a mouth dub? Larry Marshall - Run babylon Winston Jarrett - Crucial Times Rocking Time Riddim Winston Jarrett - Fear Not Part B Download 192k A phat roots dub track Digital dub into EOSS - who are you - delayed and warped into some dubstep track by Timeblind V Snares Vs Bong Ra - a remix of one of those unpronounceable tracks Larvae - Banjos & Brimstone? Anyway its nice and brooding Ghislain Poirier - Tribute to Tiger Instrumental A electronic/hop hop track the name of which escapes me - the album has really cool silkscreen cover art though! Dj/Rupture - Je Suis Peuple Sans Visage Roots manova - track off dub come save me - its really sneaky and creepy… A track by the Etherealites on a dubhead 10" Then an oldish spaced out dub track by pitch black from NZ Mad professor - Laws Of The Jungle Outro
		Live at Jungle Soundclash April 2006 saw Melbournes first Jungle Soundclash with new school jungle junkies Livewire, Unsoundbwoy and Foundation Stepper up against the old school styling of AC23, Hybryd and Trooper. Round for round, licks were shot into the early hours of the morning, with the sound of new emerging victorious. A recording of Foundation Steppers soundclash set, pushing dub and dancehall flavours to just beyond their breaking point. Now linked up at the mashit DJ mixes page - check for more ragga jungle madness!! Nuff new school ragga stormers. Blam! Download 192k Download 320k Tracklisting Gregory issacs/Dj C - Gone a jail version Young ax - Sunrise Debaser - Crazy Baldheads (Press Up Mix) General malice - Dancehall bustlin' Krinjah - Squeeze remix Tuffist & lyon - My sound (false alarm) Monkey steak - Knocking around the zoo Bong-ra - Blood & fire DJ C - Billy jungle (version) Krumble - Backward country boy explosion Soundmurderer - Lock it off Soundmurderer - Stick Up "quick mix" Wayne and Wax - DJ C it Dat Version DJ C - Crazy Baldheads (Mashit Mix) Dancehall niceness - Mi Ninja Bombing Champion Outro
		Dancehall Bungle A mix of mostly 90's dancehall flavours with a few snippets of newer rootsy vibes and a sprinkle of jungle beats, all fun... short and sweet - around 30 minutes Artists/producers such as ranking joe, taxi, Innocent Crew, Buju, Starkey Banton, Shabba, Shadetek, T.O.K., DJ C, Ninja Man... Download 192k Download 320k
		Live at Forward the Bass - Horse Bazaar Right, so this is a recording from forward the bass at Horse Bazaar! "live dj set" whatever that means - 1 hour long - outernational dub styles: rootical, bass heavy and unexpected beats. Artists such as gregory issacs, david last, hydroponics in dub, dual tone, strategy, dub connection NZ, once 11, electro organic sound system, grim dubs, etherealites, nettle, cutty ranks, jah warrior, spooky, mad professor... Download 192k Download 320k