Gidman's Treasures And Nuggets

Uncle Dugs "Run Come Follow Me" Radio Show .........

2011-11-27T07:48:00.001Z

For a number of months now I have been listening to Uncle Dugs "Run Come Follow Me" Radio Show on RINSE FM (UK)- Every show is a history lesson when it comes to Oldskool Rave/Jungle/Drum & Bass. So I thought I should post a heads up for this weeks show.......another BANGER !!!

"Uncle Dugs Run Come Follow Friday show recorded live on Rinse FM on 25-11-2011

On this weeks show we had a bag of 92 classics right up till our special guest Mr Danny Donnelly of Sub Base, Boogie times and loads more popped in for this weeks interview..

We spoke about everything from before the shop and label days right through that whole rave period up till what he has done in recent years with the best seeling Pure & Euphoria compilation brands and now his career in writing and directing movies..

Wicked tunes, wicked interview...!!

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Tracklist

1. macka brown - dubplate style - labello blanco
2. dj edge - compnded - edge
3. dj seduction - higher now - impact
4. criminal minds - baptized by dub - white house
5. urban shakedown - some justice (concrete jungle mix) - urban shakedown
6. ratpack - searchin' for my rizla - big giant music
7. dance conspiracy - dub war - metamorphosis
8. mc lethal - the rave digger - network
9. doc scott - nhs (disco mix) - absolute 2
10. bodysnatch - euphony - big city
11. rufige cru - believe - reinforced
12. nookie - give a little love - absolute 2
13. menace makes 3 - do you feel what im feeling - danse city
14. urban hype - trip to trumpton - faze 2
15. sacred - keep it going - white
16. origination - break down - rudeboy
17. criminal minds - flynny's theme - white house
18. phantasy & gemini - never try the hippodrome - liquid wax
19. ragga twins feat junior reid - shine eye - shut up & dance
20. demon boyz - jungle dett (hardcore house mix) - tribal bass
21. brothers grimm - exodus (the lion awakes) - production house
22. jonny l - hurt you so - yo!yo!
23. code 071 - a london sumtin' - reinforced
24. guy called gerald - sunshine - juice box
25. awesome 3 - dont go - entity
26. acen - trip to the moon pt 2 (the dark side) - production house

Danny Donnelly interview

27. dj hype feat mc gq - roll the beats - sub base
28. dj hype - dubplate fever - sub base"

A Return From my Hiatus

2011-11-17T20:07:00.000Z

It's been quite a while since my last post - due to unplanned opertion to my back... all good now and what better way to return than with a masterful mix by Objekt.

"FACTs 300th mix comes from almost certainly our dance music newcomer of 2011, Berlin’s Objekt.

Objekt hasn’t released much in 2011, but that’s one of the reasons his emergence has been so welcome. In an age of oversaturation and overexposure, where people feel the need to upload their entire life stories to Soundcloud after two weeks of watching Logic tutorials, he’s the definition of someone who’s taken time to hone a craft (he’s actually worked as a programmer at Native Instruments for several years, which goes some way to explaining why his music is so sonically potent), and waited until they’re 100% ready before exposing their wares to the world at large.

And what an impact Objekt’s music has made. His first self-released single, ‘Tinderbox’ / ‘The Goose That Got Away’, was such an impressive amalgamation of half-step atmospherics and rickety techno drum programming that people were convinced it was the work of a more established producer under a new alias, while its follow up paired one of the year’s most stratospheric techno tracks (‘CLK Recovery’) with a B-side that proved that club-stopping dubstep drops don’t have to be stupid in 2011 (‘Unglued’). Combined with remixes for Call Super, Sbtrkt and Radiohead, and ‘Cactus’, a deadly dubplate that proved a highlight of Ben UFO’s recent mix CD for Rinse, he’s built up a small but powerful discovery with hints of STL, Mala, Peverelist and more to it already.

Objekt’s FACT mix is roughly in line with the music he’s released so far: underground techno full of staggered drums and inventive sampling, presented impeccably while never sounding too straight, smooth or unnatural. No tracklist provided, but there appears to be at least one unreleased Objekt cut in there for the spotters".

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New Mixtape from OSSIE - check it.....

2011-06-30T11:47:00.000+01:00

This Friday’s FACT mix comes from one of the brightest talents in UK house music, East London’s Ossie.

If you’ve listened to underground house favourite DJ Petchy at any point in the last eighteen months, there’s a good chance you’ll have heard Ossie’s ‘Tarantula’. A beauty of a track, built on gloriously natural percussion and slide rule synths, with the support of Petchy and others it became an anthem on Live FM and other London pirates, before being snapped up for full release by Lightworks, a new label formed by Reecha (Dirty Canvas/No Hats No Hoods) and Jon Rust.

This month, Ossie followed it up with arguably an even better second single, the vocoder-led ‘Set the Tone’ on Hyperdub. He also played a show-stopping closing set at our recent party at Cable; time, thought we, to ask him for a mix.

What’s key with Ossie’s productions is that instinctive, live sounding percussion he uses, and his love for natural drums also comes through in his FACT mix. Blended to perfection, they melt and slip into each other like butter. Download the mix below, and check page two for a short Q&A with Ossie.

FACT mix 257 - Ossie (Jun '11) by factmag

Tracklist:

Moloko – Sing It back (Ossie Remix)
Karizma – Groove A ‘K” Ordingly (Atjazz Remix)
FCL – Let’s Go
Ossie – The Power of Love
DJ Gregory & Sidney Samson – Dama S Salon
Plesurekraft – Tarantula (Ghooppee Remix)
Ossie – That’s Mine
Danny Marquez & Tuccillo – Mumba
Ossie – Set The Tone
DJ Gregory – Attend 1
Vikter Duplaix – Manhood
DJ Gregory – Traffic
Bopstar feat. Zara Mc Farlane – Chiaroscuro (Vudoo Reprise)
Marlon D – Jesus Creates Sounds
Ossie – Ossie Baba

2011-06-30T11:41:00.000+01:00

On July 23 and 24, the Portishead curated ATP event, I’ll Be Your Mirror, rolls into town.

To celebrate the event, the legendary Bristol group have made a two hour mixtape that features the majority of the acts playing I’ll Be Your Mirror, including Swans, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, The Books, Factory Floor, DOOM, Grinderman and Company Flow.

ATP I'll Be Your Mirror London Mixtape by All Tomorrows Parties

Tracklist:

* 00.00 “…They Don’t Sleep Anymore on the Beach…” / Monheim – Godspeed You! Black Emperor
* 13.19 We Carry On – Portishead
* 19.44 A Cold Freezin’ Night – The Books
* 23.04 Gazzillion Ear – Doom
* 27.15 You Fucking People Make Me Sick – Swans
* 32.20 Yang Yang – Anika
* 35.11 Real Love – Factory Floor
* 42.32 Infinity Skull Cube – DD/MM/YYYY
* 45.51 Untilted – Helen Money
* 51.42 “Four Spirits In A Room” Excerpt – Alan Moore & Stephen O’Malley
* 56.50 Plaster Casts Of Everything – Liars
* 60.43 8 Steps To Perfection – Company Flow
* 65.23 Written On The Forehead – PJ Harvey
* 68.49 Arabic Emotions – The London Snorkeling Team
* 71.27 Wulfstan – BEAK>
* 77.28 When My Baby Comes – Grinderman
* 84.09 Paris Signals – S.C.U.M.
* 88.30 Lovers With Iraqis – Foot Village
* 92.18 Gratitude – Acoustic Ladyland
* 96.29 Violence – The Telescopes
* 100.01 Hannibal – Caribou
* 106.15 Walk In The Park – Beach House

RBG - Gil Scott Heron Godfather of Rap (6 Parts)

2011-06-01T10:33:00.000+01:00

Here are the 6 parts of the great documentary - 'RBG - Gil Scott Heron Godfather of Rap'.....

(Part 1)

(Part 2)

(Part 3)

(Part 4)

(Part 5)

(Part 6)

Gil-Scott Heron R.I.P

2011-06-01T09:56:00.000+01:00

"Gil Scott-Heron, who died on May 27 aged 62, was a composer, musician, poet and author whose writings and recordings provided a vivid, and often stinging, commentary on social injustice and the black American experience; his declamatory singing style, allied to the overtly political content of his work, made him widely recognised as one of the inspirational figures of rap music." (The Telgraph)

"Scott-Heron first came to attention with his 1970 recording The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, an attack on the mindless and anaesthetising effects of the mass media and a call to arms to the black community: “You will not be able to stay home, brother./You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out./You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,/Skip out for beer during commercials,/Because the revolution will not be televised.”

Written when Scott Heron was just 18, it first appeared in the form of a spoken-word recitation, his impassioned incantation accompanied only by congas and bongo drums, on his debut album Small Talk at 125th and Lenox.

The following year Scott-Heron recorded the song for a second time, this time with a full band, for his album Pieces of a Man, and as the B-side to the single Home Is Where The Hatred Is.

The song went on to be covered, sampled and referenced in innumerable recordings, the title entering the lexicon of contemporary phraseology. In 2010 it was named as one of the top 20 political songs by the New Statesman.

Scott-Heron’s music reflected something of the militancy and self-assertiveness of such theorists and polemicists as Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael. Over the course of some 20 albums he produced a series of sardonic and biting commentaries on ghetto life and racial injustice, including Whitey’s On The Moon, Home Is Where The Hatred Is, The Bottle (a lamentation about people squandering their lives on liquor, set to an irresistibly seductive Latin beat) and the anti-apartheid anthem Johannesburg. But anger was only colour in Scott-Heron’s music palette; songs such as Must Be Something and It’s Your World were moving affirmations of faith in the power of the human spirit.

A tall, rail-thin man with a wispy goatee beard and a countenance of prophetic gravity, Scott-Heron sang in a rough, declamatory voice that was once described as a mixture of “mahogany, sunshine and tears” and that always emphasised lyrical content over technique. The bass player Ron Carter, who played on Scott-Heron’s second album, Pieces of a Man, described it as “a voice like you would have for Shakespeare”.

His vocal style, and his political message, would be a major influence on such groups as Public Enemy and NWA, and would lead to his being described as “the godfather of rap”. It was a title that Scott-Heron himself always deplored: his music covered a far broader and more sophisticated emotional range than the crude rhetoric of so much rap music, which he dismissed on the ground that “you don’t really see inside the person. Instead, you just get a lot of posturing.” He preferred to describe himself as “a bluesologist”.

Gil Scott-Heron was born in Chicago on April 1 1949. He was named after his father, Gilbert Heron, a Jamaican who had settled in America, where his prowess at football (soccer) brought him to the attention of talent scouts from Scotland; in the early 1950s Gilbert snr played football professionally for Celtic and Third Lanark, earning the nickname “the Black Arrow”, before returning to Chicago. It was there that he met Gil’s mother, Bobbie, a librarian and an accomplished singer who had once performed with the New York Oratorial Society.

Scott-Heron would encapsulate his early years in a poem, Coming From A Broken Home: “Womenfolk raised me and I was full grown/before I knew I came from a broken home.” His parents separated when he was two, and he was sent to live with his maternal grandmother, Lillie Scott, in Jackson, Tennessee. Scott-Heron would credit his grandmother with being one of the primary influences on his life: “[She] raised me to not sit around and wait for people to guess what’s on your mind — I was gonna have to say it.”

Cultivating his interest in music and literature, she bought him a second-hand piano from a local funeral parlour and introduced him to the writings of the Harlem Renaissance novelist and poet Langston Hughes, who utilised the rhythms of jazz in his poetry and who became a major influence.

When Gil was 12 his grandmother died, and he moved to New York to be reunited with his mother, who brought up her son on her own. On the recommendation of his high school English teacher, Gil won a scholarship to a private school, the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, before going on to study at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, where Langston Hughes had once been a student.

In his second year at university he was given leave of absence to write a novel, The Vulture (1970), a thriller about ghetto life, while working as a clerk at a dry cleaners. On graduation he published a second novel, The Nigger Factory (1971), about campus unrest, and a collection of poetry, Small Talk at 125th and Lenox.

By now Scott-Heron had begun performing his poetry in coffee houses and jazz clubs, where he was approached by the jazz producer Bob Thiele who, as head of the Impulse label, had recorded such artists as John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins and Dizzy Gillespie, as well as being the co-writer, with George David Weiss, of Louis Armstrong’s What a Wonderful World.

Thiele signed Scott-Heron to his own Flying Dutchman label, and released Small Talk at 125th and Lenox, a live recording of one of Scott-Heron’s club performances. The follow-up Pieces of Man brought him together on record for the first time with Brian Jackson, a keyboard-player, flautist and composer whom he had met at Lincoln University, and who would become his principal collaborator on nine albums.

With Jackson, Scott-Heron refined an intoxicating hybrid of jazz, Latin and Afro idioms that established him in the vanguard of black American music in the 1970s. The success of a single version of The Bottle in 1974 led to his being signed to a major label, Arista. He enjoyed further chart success in 1976 with Johannesburg and, in 1978, with the anti-drug song Angel Dust: “Please, children would you listen, Just ain’t where it’s at. You won’t remember what you’re missin’, but down some dead end streets, there ain’t no turnin’ back.”

These lyrics were to prove ironic, for by the end of the 1980s Scott-Heron was himself beginning to be undermined by drugs use. Between 1970 and 1982 he made 13 albums, but it would be a further 11 years before the release of his 14th, Spirits; the album’s centrepiece was a gruelling three-part explication of the hells of drug addiction, The Other Side. While he continued to perform intermittently, Scott-Heron became a notoriously unreliable figure.

Monique de Latour, a New Zealander photographer who met Scott-Heron in 1995 and lived with him for several years, described how he would frequently vanish for days on end without explanation, often retreating to one of a number of flophouse hotels in Harlem.

In the hope of shocking Scott-Heron out of his addiction, de Latour took to photographing him when he was comatose on drugs and hanging the pictures on the walls; but he refused to look at them. “He didn’t like to look at himself at all,” she recalled. “He didn’t like to look in the mirror.”

In 2000 Scott-Heron was sentenced to 18 to 24 months of in-patient rehabilitation for possession of cocaine and two crack pipes, but given leave to complete a European tour. After failing even to turn up at a subsequent court hearing he was sentenced to between one and three years in prison. Released on parole, in 2003 he was again charged with possession of a controlled substance after cocaine he had hidden in the lining of his bag showed up on an airport x-ray. And in 2006 he was sentenced to two to four years in a New York State prison for violating a plea deal on a drug possession charge by leaving a rehabilitation centre.

In 2010 there was a resurgence of interest in his work when he returned with his first studio album in 16 years, I’m New Here. The record had come about after an English fan and record producer, Richard Russell, had written to Scott-Heron and then visited him in prison on Rikers Island in 2006.

The record put Scott-Heron into an abrasively contemporary musical setting, placing his gruff, time-worn spoken-word recitations — including a reworking of the Robert Johnson blues Me and the Devil — in a setting of dark, down-tempo beats, loops and samples.".

To celebrate the phenominal career of Gil - Kirk Degiorgio has posted a new Sound Obsession show :-

Sound Obsession - Vol 59 - Tribute To Gil Scott-Heron

In a career spanning over two decades, Kirk Degiorgio has earned the tag of 'the producers producer'. From his humble beginnings in 1983 as an electro DJ to his As One productions for Clear, Mo' Wax and Ubiquity, Degiorgio has remained true to his love of everything soulful, edgy and funky. Inspired by a vinyl buying visit to Chicago and Detroit in 1990 Kirk sold all his records and put together ART Studios in the model of those he saw at Transmat and Metroplex. Kirk fused his vision of the Detroit sound with funk and jazz influences resulting in a succession of projects under the names Future/Past, As One, Offworld, Esoterik, Elegy and Super-A-Loof - only recently has he used his actual name for his purist techno releases on the New Religion label. He has remixed artists as varied as Azymuth, Coldcut, 4 Hero, Innerzone Orchestra, Papo Vasquez and many more. His collaborations include work with visionaries like Ian O'Brien, Tony Allen, Carl Craig, and Paul Randolph. From 1992 until 1997 Kirk's ART/OpArt labels released important early productions from B12, Carl Craig, Aphex Twin, The Black Dog, Photek and others. Kirk has also recorded several albums as As One, as well as working as producer, writer, and backing singer for the band The Beauty Room.

TRACKLISTING:

Gil Scott-Heron - On Coming From A Broken Home Pt.1 - XL
Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Flying Dutchman
Gil Scott-Heron - Lady Day And John Coltrane - Flying Dutchman
Gil Scott-Heron - Home Is Where The Hatred Is - Flying Dutchman
Gil Scott-Heron - The Needle's Eye - Flying Dutchman
Gil Scott-Heron - Pieces Of A Man - Flying Dutchman
Gil Scott-Heron - Did You Hear What They Said - Flying Dutchman
Gil Scott-Heron/Brian Jackson - Peace Go With You Brother - Strata East
Gil Scott-Heron/Brian Jackson - Song For Bobby Smith - Strata East
Gil Scott-Heron/Brian Jackson - Winter In America - Arista
Gil Scott-Heron/Brian Jackson - Ain't No Such Thing As Superman - Arista
Gil Scott-Heron/Brian Jackson - A Toast To The People - Arista
Gil Scott-Heron/Brian Jackson - A Lovely Day - Arista
Gil Scott-Heron/Brian Jackson - It's Your World - Arista
Gil Scott-Heron/Brian Jackson - The Bottle (Live) - Arista
Gil Scott-Heron/Brian Jackson - Racetrack In France - Arista
Gil Scott-Heron/Brian Jackson - We Almost Lost Detroit - Arista
Gil Scott-Heron/Brian Jackson - Better Days Ahead - Arista
Gil Scott-Heron/Brian Jackson - Third World Revolution - Arista
Gil Scott-Heron - Legend In His Own Mind - Arista
Gil Scott-Heron - The Train From Washington - Arista
Gil Scott-Heron - Morning Thoughts - Arista
Gil Scott-Heron - B Movie - Arista
Gil Scott-Heron - On Coming From A Broken Home Pt.2 - XL
Gil Scott-Heron - Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? - Flying Dutchman

New Podcast by Mala (DMZ) for XLR8R.........Number 200

2011-06-01T09:35:00.000+01:00

The second half of XLR8R's two-part 200th podcast comes courtesy of another musical heavyweight, dubstep kingpin Mala (a.k.a. Mark Lawrence).

Whether operating solo or as one half of legendary outfit Digital Mystikz, the man helped put dubstep on the musical map in the mid-'00s, not only as a producer and DJ, but also as the co-founder of the genre-defining DMZ label and club night with Coki and Loefah. Along the way, he also found the time to start up his own Deep Medi imprint. His work has undeniably influenced an entire generation of bass-loving artists, including a large swath of those folks who regularly appear in XLR8R. These days, when he's not travelling the globe and reminding people of the power of sub-bass, he's still turning out new music—most recently last year's Return II Space album—and now he's kicking off a new mix series, Sound*System*Musik, the first chapter of which is this podcast for XLR8R. Over the course of its 45 minutes, Mala drops one low-slung, speaker-rattling tune after the next, many of them DMZ dubplates, and almost all of which seriously emphasize the dub end of the dubstep equation. He's a true master craftsman, someone who manipulates and massages low-end sonics with the precision of a surgeon, making his contribution to the XLR8R podcast series to true pleasure to behold.

01 Mala - Digital Mystikz "Livin' Different VIP" (DMZ)
02 V.I.V.E.K "Feel It" (Deep Medi)
03 Goth-Trad "Seeker"
04 Coki - Digital Mystikz "Ironshirt"
05 Mala "Enter Dimensions"
06 Kryptic Minds + Youngsta "Arcane"
07 Dark Tantrums "Unborn"
08 V.I.V.E.K "Big Bang" (Deep Medi)
09 Mavado "Dem A Talk (TMSV Refix)"
10 Coki "Revolution"
11 Jack Sparrow "Afraid of Me"
12 Mensah "Gambia"
13 The Dub Mechanics "The Clash"
14 Mala "Bad Spirits on Shoulders"
15 Digital Mystikz "Dun Stinky"
16 Commodo "Saracen" (Deep Medi)
17 Coki "Duppy Sour Sap"
18 Johnny Osbourne "Fally Rankin (V.I.V.E.K. Dub Version)" (Greensleeves)
19 Mala "Education" (DMZ)
20 Old Apparatus "Untitled Intro" (Deep Medi)

Click here to download....

FACT mix 250: 2 Bad Mice (Bring back the Oldschool)

2011-06-01T09:16:00.000+01:00

Apologies for not posting recently - have been distraceted by life outside the blogsphere...anyway i'm back with a FACT mix recently posted....its Oldschool/Jungle group 2 Bad Mice...... killer.

FACT mix 250 is a time machine. It’s destination? 1991, ’92, ’93, ’94.

This time machine has been built for us by 2 Bad Mice, the original nutters whose early productions – produced in collaboration with Rob Playford – constitute some of early rave’s finest musical moments, and midwifed jungle into life.

Founded in 1991 by Sean O’Keefe and Simon Colebooke, and, in a brilliant contraction of distant points on the map of English culture – dirty raves and bucolic children’s literature – they took their name (and that of their signature, breakthrough track) from Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Two Bad Mice, about two good-f0r-nowt rodents who vandalise a little girl’s dollhouse. The moniker, with its connotations of mischief, mayhem and bare-faced cheek, was perfect for O’Keefe and Colebrooke’s concoctions of shifty breakbeats, impish vocal loops and earth-quaking sub-bass.

“To be honest, I wasn’t sure about the use of [the name] as I thought it slightly cheesy,” Colebrooke would later recall. “But the anticipation of what could happen with the release made us so excited that it was soon forgotten. Sean knocked up the collage style cover, a test press and promo run were done and we were ready to unleash our first release…”

Key to the power of 2 Bad Mice’s beats was their then third member and producer Rob Playford, in whose poky studio their tracks were laid down in a haze of spliff-smoke. By the time he went on to engineer Goldie’s Timeless, Playford was happily describing drum ‘n bass as the next prog-rock and privileging the album format as the genre’s optimum vessel of expression, but for us the work of his that will truly endure is the more raw, impromptu and altogether less self-aware fare that he produced with 2 Bad Mice and their other collaborative project, Kaotic Chemistry. Taking their cue from souch trailblazers as Shut Up and Dance and Shades Of Rhythm, 2BM and KC brought a hip-hop approach to rave, sampling rhythms and chopping them up and sanding them down into devastatingly lean and mean dancefloor detonators – it’s telling that their most seminal anthem was titled ‘Bombscare’. At times you could be forgiven for thinking otherwise, but the fact is that 2 Bad Mice, unlike so many of their peers, resisted the toytown cartoonishness that’s often part and parcel of ‘ardkore, while also remembereing to make their music fun – just listen to the rollercoasting keyboard vamps, chipmunked soul vocals and parping horns on ‘Hold It Down’. There’s obviously and innocence and naivety to their productions, and that’s part of its charm; at the same time, have you ever heard as deliciously dark-hearted and minimal as ‘Waremouse’?

In parallel to their work as 2 Bad Mice, O’Keeffe, Colebrooke and Playford were making music as Kaotic Chemistry, whose choice of titles and imagery made no secret of rave’s narcotic drive. The front cover image of the Five In One Night EP (which features the classic ‘Drumtrip’) depicted a typical coffee table scene, a hand at the edge of the shot holding a fag and chopping out a line of speed, discarded wrap just out of focus; the photo on the back showed the same table adorned with a pile of pills. If at this stage you were still doubting the inspiration behind the record, the whispered intonation ‘Ecstasy…Ecstasy…Ecstasy…’ that kicks off the title track soon dispelled it. The follow-up LSD EP (Moving Shadow, 1992) tightened up chaotic Kaotic Chemistry sound; the breaks are at once more polished and more punishing, the vocal loops are less comical and more genuinely disorienting, the overall production and manipulation of space terrifically advanced, not just on past 2BM/KC product, but compared to anything being made at the time. ‘Illegal Subs’, ‘Drum Trip II’, ‘Space Cakes’, ‘LSD’ – every track on this EP is exemplary, mingling mirth and menace as only early UK rave can. It really is one of the most essential 12″s of the era, and still sounds rabble-rousing today. All together now: “You are the people of chemistry / the people of physics / the people of civilisation / the people of music / the people of rhythm!”

After that spasm of future-rushing activity across ’91-’94, 2 Bad Mice went quiet, O’Keeffe and Colebrooke choosing to concentrate on other projects and, you know, life. O’Keeffe in particular has produced some extraordinary solo work, especially under his Deep Blue guise, beginning with 1993′s classic ‘The Helicopter Tune’ and continuing right up to the mid-noughties. Having sold in excess of 120,000 records on labels like Moving Shadow, 31 and Good Looking, these days his primary interest “techy, tribal and DEEP house”. But 2 Bad Mice are not dead, oh no.

For the past half-decade or so O’Keeffe and Colebrooke have been treating a new generation of ravers to the initimable 2BM sound. Joined by their old mucker Rhodesy, who remixed ‘Bombscare’ with Rob Haigh in ’94 and worked for Parliament Records and Kiss FM in subsequent years, for their modern-day sets 2BM stay true to their ’91-’94 sound; their sets are a living testament to the potency of the hardcore sound, which despite having created or mutated into myriad different strains of different dance music since, remains unbeaten in its ability to make euphoria and dystopia feel like natural bedfellows.

2 Bad Mice play the resurgent Glade Festival on June 10. Other acts on the whopping bill include Photek, Untold, Hyetal, Machinedrum, Ben UFO, Object and Pangaea. It’s worth noting that none – repeat, none – of these artists would exist in the form that they do without 2 Bad Mice, so whether your a craggy old-skool survivor or a fresh-faced rave debutante, be sure to go pay your respects and experience the party of your life while you’re at it. More information and tickets here.

FACT Mix 250 - 2 Bad Mice (May '11) by factmag

And so….here we have 2 Bad Mice’s FACT mix. It’s out 250th episode, something of a landmark, and we’re delighted to have Sean, Si and Rhodesy behind the decks for the occasion. Mixed with deadly precision, it’s essentially a greatest hits of hardcore and early jungle, all killer and no filler. With the possible exception of last week’s Machinedrum workout, we’re hard-pressed to think of a 2011 FACT mix this year that we’ve enjoyed quite this much. Whether you know ‘Space Cakes’, ‘Rockin’ Down The House’, ‘Bombscare’ et al like the back of your hand, or whether it’s all new to you, we strongly urge you to batten down the hatches and get raving.

TRACKLISTING:

1. Underkut – “Both Ends” Mendoza
2. Da Juice “Hear The Angels” Torso
3. Walters & Allen “On De Ball” Mendoza
4. 2 Bad Mice “Bombscare” Moving Shadow
5. Kicks Like A Mule “The Bouncer” Tribal Bass
6. Code 071 “A London Sumtin” Reinforced
7. The Sorcerer “Odyssey” ADR
8. MC Jay J & DJ Devious D “Time Of Our Lives” Awesome
9. Kaotic Chemistry “Space Cakes” Moving Shadow
10. Chemical Company “Define the Beat” White Label
11. M17 “Rockin’ Down The House” Chill
12. DJ Phantasy & DJ Seduction “DJ’s Unite” Impact
13. Edge 1 “Compounded” Edge Records
14. DJ Tim & DJ Misjah “Access” (Rhodesy VIP) X-Trax
15. Urban Hype “Trip” (Renmix) Faze 2
16. Phuture Assassins “Future Sound” (2 Bad Mice Remix) Suburban Bass

New Banksy artwork appeared last night......

2011-04-26T14:14:00.000+01:00

This morning when I drove pass BT Tower, I noticed a new peice of graffiti - it was a BANKSY - could it be new, was he there last night ?

JACK IS BACK - Meat Beat Manifesto's London GIG - 1 day away.....

2011-04-06T14:11:00.000+01:00

The '80s electro duo from Swindon return, comprised of Jack Dangers and Jonny Stephens.....

New Selection - Hold Box Flat 036

2011-03-29T14:52:00.000+01:00

HBF036 by holdboxflat

TRACKLISTING

TRACKLISTING:

Soul Mann and The Brothers / Bumpy's Lament // Pickwick International Inc.
InfinitiRock / SpaceOut // Base Trip Records <-- free download
George Fitzgerald / Tell Me (Dubstep Refix) // White Label
Koreless / 4D // Pictures Music
Build An Ark / World Peace Now // Kindred Spirits
Raphael / Hommage a Kabylie // Selection Records
Mariella / Lovesick (MdCL Remix) // Tru Statement Records
Brotto / Perma Culture // Tea and Cake Records <-- free download
Luminiscent / Syntax // Independent
Busta Rhymes / Still Shining // Elektra Records
Frente Cumbiero / Pitchito // Strutt Records
Ofege / Amayo // EMI (Nigeria)
Kraftwerk / Atem // Vertigo
Bill Laswell & Jean Touitou / Cuban Beat // A.P.C
The KLF / 3am Somewhere Out Of Beaumont // KLF Communications
Ravi Shankar / Scenic Tour // World Pacific
Roy Budd / Main Theme - Carter Takes A Train // Castle Communications
Paz / The Buddha // Spotlite Records
Sabu Martinez / Wounded Knee // Pure Records
Sly and The Family Stone / Small Talk / Epic
Patrice Rushen / (She Will) Take You Down To Love // WEA Records
Martine Girault / Revival // FFRR
Orphies / Quiet... Aliens Talking // Realtime Records
Paperclip People / Remake (Basic Reshape) // Planet E
Theorem / Shift // M_nus
Master C & J / In The City // State Street Records
Madlib / The Ride (Nightcoastin' Instrumental) // Madlib Invazion
InfinitiRock / Castillian // Base Trip Records
4th Measure Men / 4 You (Maya Jane Coles Remix) // Defected
Napihedz / Jah Bless // Prime Numbers
Onmutu Mechanicks / Lupos Moon // Echocord
June Miller / Half Top Feel // Horizons
Calibre / Manchester Nights // Signature Records
Mobb Deep / Give Up The Goods (Just Step) (with Big Noyd) // BMG
Jeru The Damaja / Whatever // PolyGram Records

The Stepkids - New 3 peice outfit from Conneticut

2011-03-19T14:18:00.001Z

The Stepkids are three singer/songwriters. “A lot of what excites us about this band is this band itself,” says bassist and keyboardist Dan Edinberg. “It’s not either of us; it’s about creating an entity where the entity itself is what’s important.” As a result, every song on the Stepkids self-titled debut album is written with equal input from each member.

“All three of us write and all three of us sing,” says Jeff Gitelman, who resigned from touring as Alicia Keys' guitarist to concentrate full-time on recording the Stepkids self-titled debut album. Drummer Tim Walsh continues, “There's an equal split in the creative process. Any lyric, any melody, any idea could have been done by any of us.”

This approach comes from more than a decade of musical experimentation and experience. Raised on the East Coast jazz and R&B circuit, individual band members went on to share stages with 50 Cent and Lauryn Hill, tour internationally with indie punk band Zox, score movies and commercials and produce solo albums.

The Stepkids groove is a fusion of punk and jazz, West African and 1960s folk, neo and classic soul, classic funk and 20th century classical. The band produce, engineer and record themselves on a reel-to-reel.

There’s no singular icon, no singular sound, and no singular way of making it happen for the Stepkids. It’s psychedelia for the 21st century, where the focus is on the whole

The Stepkids - Shadows On Behalf by stonesthrow

There Offical Website is HERE.

Check there Twitter feed HERE.

You can listen to a live set and interview they did for Break Through Radio below.....

New HOLD BOX FLAT podcast - No. 35

2011-03-18T15:28:00.000Z

New podcast from the guys at HOLD BOX FLAT.... looks like another killer show...... download from the soundcloud page below.....

HBF035 by holdboxflat

TRACKLISTING

Tyler, The Creator / Yonkers // XL
GraveDiggaz / 1-800 Suicide // Gee Street
The Notorious B.I.G / Who Shot Ya // Bad Boy
The Notorious B.I.G / The What // Bad Boy
The Notorious B.I.G / What's Beef // Bad Boy
The Notorious B.I.G / Things Done Changed // Bad Boy
Strong Arm Steady / Loose Girl (Electronic Drunk Demon Version) // Stones Throw
Dorian Concept / Her Tears Taste Like Pears // Ninja Tune
Guem Et Zaka Percussion / Le Serpent // Harmonia Mundi France
Moritz Von Oswald Trio / Structure 1 // Honest Jons Records
Cooly G / Floating // Dub Organizers
Fatima / Red Light // Eglo
Owiny Sigoma Band / Wires (Theo Parrish Remix) // Brownswood
Cosmin TRG / Negligee // Rush Hour
Radiohead / LotusFlower // Self Released
Ghostpoet / Cash & Carry Me Home (Ean Remix) // Brownswood
Koreless / MTi // Pictures Music
D'Marc Cantu / Set Free // MOS Holland
Boddika / Bodikka's House // [Naked Lunch]
Gill Scott-Heron and Jamie xx/ I'll Take Care Of U (Special DJ Version) // XL Recordings
Actress / Gershwin // Nonplus Records
Radiq / Luv N Pain // Deep Raw and Real pt 3
Virgo Four / I Have Always Wanted // Rush Hour
Raphael / Archangelo // Heavenly Sweetness
Kelan Phil Cohran and Legacy / White Nile // Captcha Records
The East Side Symphony / Hot Pants Road // Trans Air
Those Shocking Shaking Days / Panbers 'Haai' // NowAgain Records
William Onyeabor / Why Go To War
GraveDiggaz / Nowhere To Run, Nowhere To Hide // Gee Street
Johnny Clarke / Don't Trouble Trouble
Chrissy Murderbot / Da Vibe Iz So Rite (ft. MC Zulu - Rashad & Spinn Remix) // Planet Mu
DJ Roc / Let's Get It Started // Planet Mu
Kahn / Helter Skelter // Punch Drunk
Photek / This City (DJ Extended Version) // Photek Productions
Virgo Four / Let The Music Play // Rush Hour
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs / Waulking Song (2 Bears remix) // Greco Roman

Photek - BACK !!! Interview on Benji B's Radio Show

2011-03-07T08:26:00.000Z

Photek is BACK... with a new EP and more to come, according to his interview with Benji B in this weeks 'Exploring Future Beats' radio show......

Two hours of only Photek tunes on this weeks Benji B show. In hour one we get classic drum&bass tunes and in hour two we get the newer dubstep and house productions from Photek.

Photek - Avalanche EP (2011)

Side 1 "Avalanche"
Side 2 "101"

"Rupert Parkes brings himself up to date with two sides of Dubstep and deeper Tech House on his revived Photek Productions label. On A-side 'Avalanche' the drums are crisp, the bass is heavy and the synths robust, turn over and '101' twista the lines between Tech House, Breaks and Trance. The digital version also includes a remix from Boddika" (BOOMKAT RECORDS)

“Photek joins Benji to explore more future beats – bringing with him a bag full of exclusives.”

DOWNLOAD HERE.

Tracklisting:

Photek — Consciousness - Metalheadz
Photek — First Sequence - Photek 1
Photek — The Book Of Changes - Photek 2
Photek — The Physical - Photek 3
Photek — The Water Margin - Photek 4
Photek — Seven Samurai - Photek 5
Photek — Rings Around Saturn - Photek 6
Photek — Kjz - Science 001 / Virgin
Photek — Ni Ten Ichi Ryu - Science / Virgin
Photek — The Rain - Metalheadz
Photek — Mine to Give ft Robert Owens - Science / Virgin

PHOTEK INTERVIEW

Photek — 101 - White
Photek — Into The 90s - Metalheadz
Photek — This City - White
Photek — 124 - Virgin
Photek — 001 Resolution
Photek — Yendi - Science / Virgin
Photek — UFO (Adisson Groove Remix) - Unreleased
Photek — Closer - Techtonic Dubplate
Photek — Avalanche - White
Photek — Modus Operandi - Science / Virgin
Distance — Falling (Photek Remix) - Unreleased
Photek — Complex - Photek 5
Photek — Can’t Come Down - Science / Virgin

Carl Craig does an Essential Mix For BBC Radio 1

2011-03-01T15:31:00.002Z

There are few more important techno producers than Detroit's Carl Craig. Not only has he ceaselessly pushed the genre forward with his pioneering productions, but his label Planet E has been responsible for releasing countless forward-thinking and now classic techno cuts.

This year Planet E celebrates its twentieth birthday and to mark this occasion, Carl Craig completes an Essential Mix For Radio 1 - check it here
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TRACKLISTING:

Dimitri Kneppers — The Kick Off (c2 Entranced)Planet E Communications
Martinez — Mzuzu Chant Cadenza Anonym — Go Deeper (Kenny Larkin Remix)
Sushitech
Anthony Shakir — The Floor?ller (Skudge?s Floor Killer Vers)Rush Hour
Sawf — Slim (DVS 1 Four by Four Mix) Perc Trax Strip
Steve & Das Glow — Calcium BNR Trax
Faze Action — In the Trees (c2 Rmx) Juno
Robert Hood — Family M-Plant
Carlo Lio — Black Sci+Tec
A. Mochi — Alpha Figure
Recloose — Can?t Take It (Milton Jackson Vers)Planet E Communications
Kenny Larkin — Glob (Ben Klock Vers) Planet E Communications
Agoria — Speechless (feat. Carl Craig) In?ne
Vozendiano — There?s A Light (Rolando Remix)Be As One
Robert Hood — Power to the Prophet M-Plant
Carl Craig — Angel (Jerome Sydenham Dub) Planet E Communications
Ben Klock — Sub Zero Ostgut
Tun Clark — Clip Planet E Communications
Snuff Crew — Kings Cross International DJ Gigolos
Kenny Larkin — You Are Planet E Communications
Oliver Dodd — Minos Clink
Architectural — Architectural 03.2 Architectural
Moodymann — Dem Young Sconies Planet E Communications
Ramadanman & Appleblim — Void 23 (c2 Edit) AUS Music

"In 2011 Carl Craig's Planet-E will be 20 years old. To celebrate, he is dedicating the year to releasing selected music on Planet-E; including albums, new remixes of tracks from the depths of the Planet-E back catalogue and unreleased tracks.

The first album release of 2011 will be 20 F@#&ING Years - We Ain't Dead Yet - a best of Planet-E compilation featuring artists including Carl Craig, Recloose, Martin Buttrich, Kenny Larkin and Basic Channel, to be initially released on February 22nd digital only (PE/RA/Beatport/C2 website/PE website/iTunes).

CD TRACKLISTING

1. Moodymann - Dem Young Sconies
2. Attias - Analysis
3. Martin Buttrich - Full Clip
4. Lazy Fat People - Club Silencio
5. Recloose feat Dwele - Cant Take It
6. Quadrant - Hyperprism
7. Jona - Altiplano
8. Gemini - A Moment of Insanity
9. Paperclip People - Clear & Present
10. Urban Tribe - Covert Action
11. Balil - Nort Route
12. 69 - Jam The Box
13. 4th Wave - Electroluv
14. Innerzone Orchestra - Bug in the Bassbin
15. Urban Tribe - Repeating Decimal
16. Future/Past - Clinically Inclined
17. Flexitone - Pulse of Revolution
18. Carl Craig - Dominas
19. Niko Marks - Chune
20. Naomi Daniel - Stars (DJ Dos Mix 2)
21. Tres Demented - Demented or Just Crazy
22. Ican - Pa Mi Gente
23. Tres Demented - Shez Satan
24. Kenny Larkin - You Are - C2 rmx*
25. Tribe - Living in a New Day - C2 rmx
*previously unreleased

Beginning in March will be a monthly vinyl / digital remix package release from the Planet E and Carl Craig back catalogue. Artists including Luciano, Ricardo Villalobos, Dubfire, Richie Hawtin, Loco Dice, Seth Troxler, Kevin Saunderson, Francois K, Mad Mike Banks, Dennis Ferrer, and others have selected their favourite track from the Planet E back catalogue to remix and release. First up will be a Luciano remix of Recloose's 'Can't Take It', with monthly remix releases to follow". (skiddle.com)

Hold Box Flat release next instalment of there podcast series - Hold Box Flat 034

2011-02-28T16:08:00.000Z

HBF034 by holdboxflat

TRACKLISTING:

Babylon excerpt
Aswad / Warrior Charge // Chrysalis
Boom & The Voltsong / Stepping Up To Zion // Goldage
Ijahman Levi / I Am A Levi (Extended) // Basic Replay
Shackleton / Deadman // Honest Jons Records
Tribe / Tunnidge // Deep Medi Musik
Radiohead / Feral // Self-released
Kode9 & The SpaceApe / Otherman
Untold / Just For You (Mosca Remix) // Hot Flush
House Of Jezabel // Rush Hour
Rick "The Godson" Wilhite / In The Rain // Still Music
Julio Bashmore / Ribble To Amazon
Johnwaynes / Cut Out (City Raw) feat. Disconine // Compost Black Label
Motor City Drum Ensemble / Monorail (John Roberts remix) // MCDE
Braille / The Breakup // CD-R
Gill Scott Heron / Home (Jamie XX remix) // Young Turks
Syreeta / Black Maybe // Motown
Oh No feat. Roc C / Move Pt. 2 // Stones Throw
Bilal / For You // Interscope
The McCrary / Emerge // Ubiquity Records
Sergio Ricardo / A Fabrica // Soul Jazz Records
The Panthers / Malkaus // Sublime Frequencies
Chris Powell / I Come From Jamaica // BMI
Black Sugar / The Looser // Secret Stash Records
Bakey Ustl / Untitled // Unthank
FaltyDL / St. Marks (Sepalcure remix)
Objekt #1 // White
Boddika / Warehouse // HotFluh
Steffi / Manic Moods
Levon Vincent / Polar Bear Make Nice With That Sea Lion // Deconstruct Music
2562 / Aquatic Family Affair // When In Doubt
The Oliverwho Factory / Galactic Transit // Rush Hour Recordings

FACT MAGAZINE have posted an 'Influences' Mix by the Legend that is Photek

2011-02-28T16:02:00.001Z

For their 226th podcast, FACT are incredibly proud to present a mix by legendary jungle and house producer, Rupert ‘Photek’ Parkes.

Renowned for his impeccable drum programming, Photek had already been releasing singles for several years when, in 1997, he released Modus Operandi, his legendary first album and a record remarkable as much for its atmosphere, restraint and measured, ice-tipped grooves as its potential to send dancefloors wild.

Having established himself as one of the kings of the jungle (ahem), Parkes would go on to experiment with house music (most notably on 2001 single ‘Mine to Give’, featuring Robert Owens), as well as soundtrack work, and collaborations with artists as disparate as Goldie and Nine Inch Nails.

2011 has seen Photek back with a vengeance that fans haven’t seen in years, releasing a new EP this month, Avalanche, and working on remixes for Daft Punk and Ray LaMontagne as well commissioning mixes of his own material by Boddika, Breach and Addison Groove. According to his people, there’s more new Photek material to come, and so what better time for a FACT mix than now. Billed as an “influences mix” by Parke, it’s an expert selection of bleep techno, classic house, hip-hop and more, with highlights coming from LFO, Mr. Fingers and The Soulsonic Force. (FACT MAGAZINE)

FACT mix 226 - Photek (Feb '11) by factmag

Tracklist:
1. Sueno Latino – Sueno Latino (DFC)
2. Mr. Fingers – Can You Feel It (Trax)
3. LFO – LFO (Leeds Warehouse Mix) (Warp)
4. Renegade Soundwave – The Phantom (Mute)
5. Easymo – Nightmare (D-Zone)
6. Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force – Planet Rock (Tommy Boy)
7. Nightmares on Wax – Dextrous (Warp)
8. Leftfield – Not Forgotten (Hard Hands Remix) (Outer Rhythm)
9. Joey Beltram – Energy Flash (Transmat)
10. Meat Beat Manifesto – Radio Babylon (Nothing Records)
11. Liberty City – Some Lovin’ (Murk)
12. Funky Green Dogs from Outerspace – Reach for Me (Murk)
13. Reese & Santonio – Rock to the Beat (FFRR)
14. Richie Rich – Salsa House (FFRR)

Hold Box Flat 033

2011-02-14T10:02:00.000Z

Here is the new episode from the 'Hold Box Flat' crew.....

TRACKLISTING:

Ochieng / Olieu // Honest Jons Records
Mizz Beats / Bit Road // Eglo
Eric Lau / Star Trekking // Kilawatt Music
Madlib / Louder (Blast Your Radio Theme) // Madlib Invazion
Dimlight / Circadiam // Stonesthrow
Praezisa Rapid 3000 / Thin Air Bottled to Garbage Cans // Doumen01
Lapalux / There Are Monsters In The Bed // Pictures Music
Demdike Stare / Bardo Thodol
Objekt #1 // White
Sepalcure / Taking You Back // Hot Flush
Pangaea / Won't Hurt // Hessle
Funkystepz / Hurricane Riddim // Hyperdub
Braille / The Year 3000 Is Gonna Be Alright // CD-R
Marcellus / Perception // Deeply Rooted House
Romanthony / The Wanderer (Club Anthem) // I Play Vinyl
Hundred20 / Upper Alley // MCDE
Peven Everett / I Can't Believe I Loved Here
Red Shape / Future Shock // Delsin Records
Star Band de Dakar / Sala Bigue
Santos Junior / N'Gui Banza Mama // Analog Africa
Afro-Soultet / Torrid Zone // Luv N' Haight
April Fulladosa / Sunlit Horizon // Luv N' Haight
James Blake / I Never Learnt To Share // Atlas
Old Apparatus / Untitled // Deep Medi
Forrest Swords / Hjurt // No Pain in Pop
Arkist / Rendezvous Home // Applepips
Untold / Sweat // Hotflush
Kelis / Brave (Dark Sky Remix) // CD-R
Jet Letts & Sumera / iDark Woman
Cubic Zirconia / Night & Day (feat. Bilal) // LuckyMe
Eddy meets Yannah / This Is Love (Rainer Truby Remix) // Compost Black Label
Martin Buttrich / Stoned Autopilot (C2 Version) // Planet E
EVS / DT08 // Tube 10 Recordings
Morphosis // White

Hold Box Flat 033 by holdboxflat

SWAMP81 To Release Sicko Cell and further releases.....

2011-02-10T10:06:00.000Z

Having caused a storm on the forums since late last autumn, the anonymously titled UK bass anthem-in-the-making ‘Sicko Cell’ will see a release soon on Loefah‘s hugely on form Swamp81 imprint (via FACT).

Having been caned by the likes of Oneman, Loefah, Bok Bok, Jackmaster et al, the origin of the track is still under wraps (though current favourites seem to be either Steve Oneman or Loe himself). ‘Sicko Cell’s “I’m the information / cocaine powder” refrain and 808 bass has caused devastation on dancefloors throughout the capital, with a photo posted on Swamp81′s tumblr account confirming it will be Loefah’s label releasing the track as Swamp014.

The keen-eyed amongst you will also notice that 2 of the preceding releases will be a 12″ from New York’s FaltyDL, plus a double pack from Instra:mental’s Al Bleek in his Boddika guise, as Swamp010 and Swamp 011 respectively.....

Next Release:

Boddika - Electron/Underground 12" (SWAMP 008)

Tracklisting:

Side 1: Electron
Side 2: Underground

FACT mix 218: Hercules & Love Affair

2011-02-01T13:31:00.000Z

"We’ve been nagging Andy Butler to record a FACT mix ever since the release of his debut single as Hercules & Love Affair, ‘Classique #2′. Four years later, and the boy’s come good.

In fairness, it’s been a busy half-decade for the New York producer and DJ. Hercules & Love Affair’s debut album, released via DFA in 2008, saw he and his band rocketed into cult/pop stardom, and by God did they tour that album hard – in 2008-9 you couldn’t even go down the newsies for a packet of crisps without catching a H&LA live show en route.

Hercules & Love Affair’s new album, Blue Songs, is out this week on Moshi Moshi, and things have changed. Recorded with Patrick Pulsinger in Vienna, and to some extent eschewing the brassy disco tropes that defined the band’s debut, it finds Butler delving deeper than ever into his ’86-’94 house obsession – lead single ‘My House’ is a loving homage to Chicago and New York’s overlapping 4/4 golden eras, while ‘It’s Alright’ is a beatless cover of the Sterling Void jam – but also developing the range of his songwriting, even singing himself on the agreeably frail title track. This an album that expertly juggles ecstasy and heartbreak, the melancholic and the celebratory. With Nomi Ruiz and Antony Hegarty absent this time around, Butler and his trusty sidekick Kim Ann Foxman have recruited young pup vocalists Aerea Negrot and Shaun Wright, both of whom maintain the tears’n'mascara diva-ishness of their predecessors while bringing a palpable and infectious enthusiasm to proceedings.

So why is Butler so preoccupied with classic house? Even his recently minted record label, MR INTL., is dedicated to new productions hat evoke and allude to that bygone era.

There was an elegance, subtlety, a sophistication to that music,” he explains over the phone. “It was fine art. The depth and substance is unparalleled. I don’t think anything goes as deep as those early Murk records, for example. Nor do you get the opposite. You don’t get to hear people go off in the way Tyree did, you know, going off but classily.”

FACT mix 218, it’s fair to say, goes off classily. Butler – a killer DJ who knows his shit and then some – builds it around classic cuts from the likes of MK and Praxis, but also includes a couple of recent cuts from Hercules and Kim Ann that show how his crew are trying to take that sound forward today. There’s nothing blue about this selection, we can assure you." (FACT MAGAZINE)

Tracklist:
Jax – No.1
MK – Give It To Me (Dub Mix)
? – Shake Your Booty
Serge Santiago – It’s A War
? – Shake Your Booty
Kim Ann Foxman – Creature
React To Rhythm – Whatever You Dream
Praxis feat. Kathy Brown – Turn Me Out
Orlando Voorn – Paradise 3001
Raven – Forever Together
Humanoid – Cry Baby
Hercules & Love Affair My House

FACT mix 218 - Hercules & Love Affair (Jan '11) by factmag

MBM Announces European Tour Dates!

2011-01-22T12:29:00.001Z

Meat Beat Manifesto Announces European Tour Dates!

Friday, 21 January 2011 18:03
At long last, what you've been waiting for: The 2011 European Tour Dates for A.C.I.D.!

April 4 - St. Gallen, CH @ Grabenhalle
April 6 - Paris, FR @ Divan Du Monde
April 7 - London-Camden, UK @ The Purple Turtle
April 8 - Brussels, BE, AB @ Domino Festival w/Blixa Bargeld
April 9 - S-Hertogenbosch, NL, W2 @ FAQ Music Festival
April 10 - Berlin, DE, Volksbuhne am Rosa @ Luxemburg-Pla

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Its Been a while........New Purchases for 2011

2011-01-22T09:33:00.001Z

Sun Ra - The World Is Not My Home (Jazzman JM.079)

Tracklisting:

A A Foggy Day
B Mayan Temple
C October
D Blues On Planet Mars
E Disco 2100
F Sky Blues (Live)

(Limited edition of 999. )

3 x 7" singles on clear vinyl with a glow in the dark slipmat, in hand numbered, hand-printed gatefold sleeve.

From Jazzman Label:

Following the unprecedented success of our previous Sun Ra triple pack (JM.073 – The Shadows Cast by Tomorrow) which sold out worldwide within 24 hours of release, here is the second and final installment of our foray into the intriguiing, beguiling and mythical world of the Sun Ra 45. The triple 45 set includes 6 sides of Sun Ra in his various incarnations spanning three decades.

CHRIS POWELL - I Come From Jamaica / Country Girl Blues 7" (JBJ.1012)

Tracklisting:

A) I Come From Jamaica
B) Country Girl Blues

"New from Jukebox Jam comes something else - a wild Carib-Jazz flavoured R&B gem flipped with a big and brash big city Jump Blues number! A neat pairing of two of Chris Powell‘s hottest sides! The top side ‘I Come From Jamaica’ is a totally unique early exotic RnB jam, whilst ‘Country Girl Blues’, is a delicious RnB dancehall mover aimed at shakin’ hips & shufflin’ feet!

Bandleader Chris Powell was a relatively busy in Philly through the late 40s and 50s, cutting a raft of Jump sides and a number of crooning big-band ballads for the Columbia, Okeh and Grand labels.

Amidst his releases for Okeh lies this curious novelty - ‘I Come from Jamaica’, unlike anything else Powell recorded and similarly out of sorts with much of the contemporary R&B sounds of the day. From the off, as we hear odd percussive sound effects over an off kilter latin rhythm, it’s clear that we are in experimental territory. What follows is a sheer delight - an exotic, jazzy, Caribbean themed dancer which ALWAYS turns heads! This also showcases the first known recorded work of the influential jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown…" (Jazzman Records)

LEE MOSES - Reach Out, I’ll Be There / Day Tripper 7" (JM.079)

Tracklisting:

A) Reach Out, I’ll Be There
B) Day Tripper

"It was 1966 when lead singer Levi Stubbs of the Four Tops belted out the original version of Reach Out, I’ll be There, reaching No. 1 in the RnB charts in the process. And deservedly so, because this Motown gem is widely regarded as one of the best songs ever recorded. So much so that it’s attracted a variety of cover versions, including everything from disco (Gloria Gaynor) to punk (Snuff), from psych (Merrilee Rush) to new romantic (Human League). That’s all very well, but in my considered opinion the BEST cover version has to be that from little-known soul singer & guitarist Lee Moses.

The problem with a cover version arises from its contradictory nature. The song itself has already been created, so how to create something that’s the essentially the same, but different? And then how to make it distinctive, and better? One way is to choose a different style, such as the punk/disco/psych versions mentioned above. Back in 1967 Lee Moses did just that – and he chose RAW, HEAVY FUNK as his theme. And wow did he succeed! It’s easy to make a mess of a cover because comparisons are always going to be made with the ‘superior’ original. But I think it’s fair to say here that Moses blows the Four Tops into orbit. He rips the Beatles to shreds too, check Day Tripper on the flip for a mind-blowing example of how to put some passion and soul into what was essentially a plod-along pop song. If you want to hear how to do a cover version, take a lead from Lee Moses – put some fire, soul, heat n guts into it, and do it better!" (JAZZMAN RECORDS)

Billy Byrd - Lost In The Crowd / Silly Kind Of Love 7" (Soul7.018)

Tracklisting:

A) Lost In The Crowd
B) Silly Kind Of Love

"Big Tune!!! Top drawer modern soul with an irresistible thumpin' beat that’s RARE RARE RARE, now out on our SOUL7 label for all to hear! Another quality double sider and with Billy Byrd’s throaty vocals appearing on two class songs. Produced by Georgia native Calvin Arnold, known for his funk output, perhaps it was his influence that gave this record such a solid, intense rhythm? Yes it’s the beat that really counts, few records of this nature have such an incessant, heavy groove that has so much appeal to the dance floor. Back in the ‘70s when it was first released the record went nowhere, and it’s remained extremely scarce ever since. Why such low sales? Was ‘Lost on the Crowd’ ahead of its time? We certainly think so, and NOW is the time to put that right!"

DYNAMIC CORVETTES - Keep Off The Grass 7" (Ru Jac / tr126)

Tracklisting:

A). Keep off the grass
B) Its a trap

"Here we have another sought after funk 45 which gets a proper re-issue treatment. The Dynamic Corvettes recorded those two sides in 1971 for Rufus Mitchell's Ru-Jac Records label out of Baltimore, Maryland. Between 1963 and 1972 Mitchell put out more than 50(!) 45 r.p.m. singles on his label. Most artists recorded soul music, but some were jazz musicians or hybrids of the two. An interesting side note is that a young Joe Quarterman spent time writing for many Ru-Jac artists in the 1960s." (Sounds Of The Universe)

THE 6 DEGREE SOUTH - Loving You (Is To Far Out) 7" (FRY 008)

Tracklisting:

A) Loving You (Is To Far Out) (part 1)
B) Loving You (Is To Far Out) (part 2)

"The Six Degree South's deep funk anthem 'Loving You (Is To Far Out)' is commonly acknowledged as a masterpiece of its genre. Not just for the amazing drumming, the sultry female vocals, or the doom-laden horns - but because they pulled off what so many R&B groups of the early 70s tried (and failed) to do... they combined the sinister 'end-is-near' dark psychedelia of the late '60s, with the funkiness and dance floor punch of early '70s street funk - creating a weaponised hybrid brand of funk that sounds fresh and exiting
To read Lois Black's lyric 'My hot pants are just a part of me' on paper suggests a cash-in novelty tune of the era, but contrasted with the stark and relentless funk of the backing track it becomes absolutely transportational!

A nomadic group, spending most of the 70s playing one-nighters at military bases and residencies at ski lodges (!) with no real home-base - the band had previously been classed as impossible to locate. Funk DJs and collectors had been on their trail for over a decade when a chance phone call in 2009 found a member living in Atlanta. Which brings us to the legitimately licensed and uber-anticipated reissue of this genre-defining deep funk jewel, here at long last it's the Six Degree South!" (Fat City Records)

IMPERIAL TIGER ORCHESTRA - Lale Lale / Yefikir Woha Timu 7" (BS 45009)

Tracklisting:

A) Lale Lale
B) Yefikir Woha Timu

"We are really proud to present the first single of the Imperial Tiger Orchestra with 2 exclusive tracks recorded in our own larsen studio ! They play ethiopian groove instrumentals, just as Mulatu Eskete or Getatchew Mekurya did during the late sixties & early seventies ! They already released a self produced mini album, and a 12” on Mental Groove Records. They were the big sensation on stage during the last “Musiques Ethiopiennes”festival in Addis Abeba (organized by Francis Falceto the originator of the classic Ethiopiques compilations series). They also played with the likes of Melaku Belaye, Selamnesh, Zinash or Mesele Asmamaw, & we now impatiently wait for their first long player !!" (Larsen Records)

Stones Throw Podcast 64: Stones Throw 2011 mixed by PB Wolf

2011-01-04T16:40:00.001Z

Peanut Butter Wolf with a 50-minute mix of current & upcoming Stones Throw Records for 2011.

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Madvillain: Avalanche & Victory Lap
Madlib: Two from Rock Konducta
MED: Even Though & Play with You
Dam-Funk feat. GT: Rest in Peace
Dam-Funk: I Wanna Do Some Things Wit U
Steve Arrington: Good Feeling & Higher
Jonti Dan AKA Danimals: Hornets Nest & Christmas Worm
The Stepkids: Shadows on Behalf & La La
James Pants: Kathleen & Beta
Vex Ruffin: Walking Sideways & Avalanche
Myron & E: Let Me See You Do It & On Broadway
CX Kidtronik feat. Jon Wayne: The Buddykrak
CX Kidtronik feat. 4 5th: She’s A Murderer
J. Rocc: Rocchead's Delight & Supersound
Anika: Terry & No One's There
Mayer Hawthorne: Drums (Demo)
Bryant K Steward: Daisy’s Grow
Unknown Artist: Same Thing Tomorrow

Alex Paterson & Youth discuss "Impossible Oddities" Album OUT NOW

2010-12-30T13:04:00.000Z

2010-12-22T11:04:00.002Z

Last night was Gilles Peterson's Worldwide 'Best of 2010' show, and here is the tracklist....

Listen HERE.

Tracklist:
The Rongetz Foundation — Broken Doll Beat
Nick Rosen — Ancestral Echoes
John Blake Jr — Motherless Child
Quest — Smooth Skin
Grace Jones — Love You To Life (Digital Mystikz Remix)
Mala — Eyez
Koreless — 4 D
Ramadanman — Glut
Mount Kimbie — Blind Night Errand
Bonobo & Andreya Triana — Eyes Down (Floating Points Remix)
Joy Orbison — The Shrew Would Have Cushioned The Blow
Sepalcure — Love Pressure
Scuba — You Got Me
MJ Cole & Wiley — From The Drop
Girl Unit — Wut
Dark Sky — Reflex
Gonjasufi — Ancestors
Jyoti — First Stitches
Bilal — Move On
Taylor McFerrin — A Place In My Heart
John Legend — Hang On In There
Rick Ross — Maybach Music III feat. T.I., Jadakiss & Erykah Badu
John Legend feat. Kanye West — Blame Game
Erykah Badu — Window Seat
Homeboy Sandman — Parallel Perpendicular
The Roots feat. Blu, Phonte & Patty Crash — The Day
Shad — Yaa I Get It (Oddisee Remix)
Aloe Blacc — Dollar
Big Boi — Shutterbug
Jai Paul — Btstu
Baths — Lovely Bloodflow
MdCL & Rahel — Hope
Raashan Ahmad — Pain On Black
Gil Scott-Heron — New York Is Killing Me feat. Mos Def
Theophilus London — Calypso Blues
Nas & Damian Marley — As We Enter
Brasstrnaught — Good Times
Janelle Monáe — Locked Inside
Great Weekend — Let’s Do It Again
Cerrone — Hooked On You (Kon Re-Edit)
Scuba — So You Think You’re Special (Joe Remix)
Gold Panda — Snow & Taxis
Gilles Peterson's Havana Cultura Band — Rezando (Michel Cleis remix)
Ogris Debris — Miezekatze
Wbeeza — He So Crazy
Kode9 — Don't Wash Dub (Actress Remix)
Doc Daneeka — Hold On
SBTRKT & Sampha — Look At Stars
Flying Lotus — Mmm Hmm
James Blake — Cmyk
Jamie Woon — Night Air (Ramadanman Remix)
Caribou — Sun Midland Edit
Roska — I Need Love
Four Tet — Sing (Mosca Remix)
The 2 Bears — Be Strong
Ramadanman & Midland — Your Words Matter
T Williams feat. Terri Walker — Heartbeat Mosca Remix
Kink — E79
Lone — Once In A While
Cee Lo Green — I Want You (Demo Version)
Jay Electronica — Exhibit C
Shuya Okino — Still In Love
Ezel — In my Lifetime Deetron Remix

NEXT MADLIB RELEASE: Medicine Show No. 11: Low Budget High Fi Music Triple Vinyl

2010-12-22T10:35:00.007Z

After a brief pause in the Medicine Show series, Madlib returns with a 28-track, full- length hip-hop album of collaborations with AG, Guilty Simpson, MED, Oh No, Strong Arm Steady and others. Karriem Riggins pops in for a short Supreme Team session, Madlib & Oh No debut their group The Professionals, and we hear for the first time a Jaylib-era track from Madlib & Dilla\'s never- realized second album.

A 28-track hip-hop album of exclusive Madlib collabos w/ A.G., Guilty Simpson, MED, Oh No, Strong Arm Steady and others. Karriem Riggins pops in for a Supreme Team session, Madlib & Oh No debut The Professionals, and we hear a Jaylib-era track from their never-realized second album. Low Budget High Fi also contains several Loop Digga instrumentals and of course interludes, outerludes and probably quaaludes.

THE LIMITED-EDITION 3/LP VINYL contains 14 additional Madlib beat instrumentals. The covers are one-of-a- kind, hand silk-screened by Hit+Run, with Hennessy-infused paint.

Supreme Team (Madlib & Karriem Riggins) - Interview #4080 by stonesthrow

The unofficial title of this album is Dirty Demos selected by the Loop Digga, a reference to a fire which destroyed some of this album's master tapes - a story detailed in the CD's 12-page booklet. The CD cover is by Isabel Samaras, LP illustrations by Gustavo Eandi, and design by Jeff Jank.

TRACKLIST

1. Sounds of the Studio (Prelude)
2. Hold Up The Professionals
3. Handmade Hustle (Instrumental) Madlib
4. Start Sumthin’(93033) feat. Roc C The Professionals
5. Thoughts Of An Old Flame Guilty Simpson
6. Minze (Come Closer) Madlib
7. Louder (Blast Your Radio Theme) Madlib
8. The Ride (Nightcoastin’ Instrumental) Madlib
9. O.G. Pt. 1 (Whirlwind Mix) A.G.
10. O.G. Pt. 2 (Underwater Mix) Oh No
11. Stageridin’ (First Demo Double Image Mix) Frank Nitty
12. Love/Hate (Instrumental) Madlib
13. Loose Girl (Electronic Drunk Demon Version) Strong Arm Steady
14. Smoke Break (Whodat?) Madlib
15. Interview #4080 Supreme Team
16. Embryo Thought (Instrumental) Madlib
17. The Adventures Of Soul Bra And Docta Dick’em (Pts. 1 and 2) Madlib
18. Cheaters (Episode #3) feat. Poke MED
19. Interliberation (Interlude) Madlib
20. Mic Check (Smoke Break II) Madlib
21. Real Talk L.M.D.
22. The Sound of Champions (Instrumental) Madlib
23. Charlie Hustle Strong Arm Steady
24. Girls (Prelude) Madlib
25. Same Madlib
26. Snakes 101 MED
27. Girls J Rocc
28. Uh (Outro) J Rocc
29. The Middle East (Bonus Vinyl Only) Madlib
30. L.A. California (U.S.) (Bonus Vinyl Only) Madlib
31. Jamaica (Bonus Vinyl Only) Madlib
32. Memphis (U.S.) (Bonus Vinyl Only) Madlib
33. Oakland, California (U.S.) (Bonus Vinyl Only) Madlib
34. New York (U.S.) (Bonus Vinyl Only) Madlib
35. Brazil (Bonus Vinyl Only) Madlib
36. Asia (Bonus Vinyl Only) Madlib
37. Philadelphia (U.S.) (Bonus Vinyl Only) Madlib
38. India (Bonus Vinyl Only) Madlib
39. The Lost Gates (Bonus Vinyl Only) Madlib
40. London (Bonus Vinyl Only) Madlib
41. Keebler Elf Forest (Bonus Vinyl Only) Madlib
42. Detroit (U.S.) (Bonus Vinyl Only)

Earthquake's New Years Eve Warehouse Party London

2010-11-09T20:20:00.003Z

Tron - The Legacy (New Trailer)

2010-11-09T19:00:00.002Z

The third official trailer, which you can find below these very words, reveals a few more snippets of footage we haven’t yet seen, including the faintly spooky sight of a young, computer-generated Jeff Bridges, and retro television announcements of his character’s disappearance in the late 80s.

Kode9 – Asia Promo Mix and HYPERDUB@s next releases....

2010-11-09T17:05:00.007Z

Hyperdub boss Kode9 put together a mix to promote his current DJ-sets.

Kode9 - asia promo mix by Sub-Culture

Tracklist:

01. Morgan Zarate – Hookid
02. Addison Groove – Nautilus
03. Joe – Claptrap
04. Wiley – Eskimo (Devil mix)
05. Terror Danjah – SOS
06. Endgames – Ecstasy (Jam City rmx)
07. DVA – Step 2 Funk
08. Funkystepz – Fuller
09. Redlight – What U Talkin About (Roska rmx)
10. Ossie – Set the Tone
11. DVA feat. Fatima – Just Vybe (Soulpower mix)
12. LV feat. Omkalumkoolkat – Boomslang
13. Lone – Pineapple Crush
14. Terror Danjah – I’m Feelin U
15. Mala – Don’t Let Me Go
16. Riko – Woo Freestyle
17. Terror Danjah – Minimal Dub
18. D Double E – Street Fighter

The HYPERDUB label have a few scheduled releases coming up......

HDB042 Darkstar - Gold / Gold (John Roberts remix)
HDB043 Ikonika - Ikonoklast / Idiot (Funkineven rmx) / Yoshimtsu / Ikonoklast (JOH rmx)
HDB044 Morgan Zararte - Hookid / Buy Bye / SP - info forthcoming
HDBCD006 Darkstar - North (UK release - October 18th, 2010)

HDBCD007 Terror Danjah - Undeniable (2010)

And also being released as 4 E.P.'s with superb artwork.....

HDB045
A1. Grand Opening ft Dream Mclean
A2. Story Ending
B. Breaking Bad ft Baby Face Jay

HDB046
A. Minimal Dub
B1. This Year ft D.O.K, Mz Bratt & Griminal
B2. Im Feelin U

HDB047
A. S.O.S.
B1. Sonar (Selassi Mix)
B2. Undeniable ft D Double E (of Newham Generals)

HDB048
A1. Leave Me Alone ft Bruza
A2. All I Wanna Do ft Lauren Mason
B. Time to Let Go

The Beat Makers

2010-11-09T15:13:00.001Z

Story Of The Bloods and The Crips

2010-11-09T15:08:00.002Z

"Raised in the Athens Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, Cle "Bone" Sloan was four years old when his father died, and 12 when he became a member of the Bloods. Now an inactive member of the notorious gang, Sloan looks back at the history of black gangs in his city and makes a powerful call for change in modern gang culture with his insightful documentary, BASTARDS OF THE PARTY".

Mambo to Hip Hop

2010-11-09T15:05:00.001Z

'Future Sound' Documentary

2010-11-08T17:51:00.001Z

Dir: Jamie Whitby & Rachel Lob-levyt // UK // 2010

Future Sound is a short documentary that looks into a small cross section of London's forward-thinking underground dance music scene, exploring some of the things that define and affect it as it moves into a new age of digital innovation.

Featuring interviews with Roska, Scratcha DVA, Blackdown, Mark Fisher, and Lisa Blanning, plus footage from a live SBTRKT DJ set

Future Sound - An Underground Electronic Music Documentary - HD from Jamie Whitby on Vimeo.

New Podcast #037 from Numbers Label by Girl Unit (Night Slugs)

2010-11-08T15:11:00.004Z

New podcast time and this one comes from the mighty Girl Unit, the man behind IRL and Wut.....It features some unreleased Nightslugs tracks, classics from DJ Assault and Der Zyklus, fresh heat from Boddika, LV, Lando Kal and more.....

A Mix by Girl Unit (Night Slugs) by Numbers

Tracklisting
1. Lone – Once In A While (Werk)
2. Space Dimension Controller – SH-8040 (Acroplane)
3. LV & Okmalumkoolkat – Zharp (Hyperdub)
4. The Living Islands – Empire (Sam Tiba Remix) (Forthcoming Abracada)
5. Der Zyklus – Elektronishes Zeitechno (Gigolo)
6. Boddika – Boddika’s House (Naked Lunch)
7. Gant-Man – Atraxion (Melo Mix) (Unreleased)
8. Egyptrixx – Liberation Front (Forthcoming Night Slugs)
9. Lando Kal – Moist (Forthcoming Lo Fi Fnk)
10. Taylor – CMB (Girl Unit remix) (Forthcoming Super)
11. Jam City – Magic Drops (Forthcoming Night Slugs)
12. Salva – 40 Karats (Instrumental) (Unreleased)
13. Taz – Gold Tooth Grin (Forthcoming Numbers)
14. Ludacris – Slap (Instrumental) (Disturbing Tha Peace)
15. Ciara – Deuces Freestyle (Dubbel Dutch remix) (Unreleased)
16. Mista Men – Stutter (Unreleased)
17. DJ Rashad – Pop Them Thangs (Juke Trax)
18. DJ Assault – Tyrone (Jefferson Ave.)

To DOWNLOAD go to click here.

Article on The Orb and the bands future.....

2010-11-08T13:14:00.001Z

When The Orb were hailed as the new Floyd, Alex Paterson worried it could ruin thier rep. Now, 20 years on, he's delighted to be working with Dave GilmourPremium Article !

By Aidan Smith

"ALMOST 20 years ago, Alex Paterson's The Orb were hailed as the new Pink Floyd and a music magazine managed to bring psychedelic-rock legend Dave Gilmour and the young pretender together for a front-cover feature.
It seemed like the obvious comparison. Both acts wanted to expand minds and explore space. Both favoured long pieces of music and lengthy song-titles - the Floyd with Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving WitADVERTISEMENT h A Pict and The Orb with A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld. And to add to Paterson's credentials as a watcher of the skies, his Kintyre-born father helped construct the Telstar satellite.

But the Orbman was nervous. "I remember we met in Notting Hill at what I think were Dave's offices - I was told he was obsessed with aeroplanes and there were propellers everywhere," says Paterson. "I thought being called the new Floyd would be bad for us. We'd already made two experimental albums; we'd invented this thing called ambient house. I thought that being associated with this guy from a different generation would hold us back. Dave, of course, was very gracious. He must have thought I was this snotty upstart, which I was, but he didn't let on. So it's pretty funny and pretty amazing that we've ended up making this record."

The collaboration, Metallic Spheres, involves two pieces of Orb noodling built round Gilmour's guitar, both lasting around 20 minutes, the length of one side of vinyl back in the day, and grew out of a charity event for Gary McKinnon, the Glasgow-born hacker fighting extradition to the US. Back in the day, the two would have shared the same studio. "This was more like file-sharing," says Paterson. The tracks began with Gilmour jamming with Paterson's regular collaborator Youth, then he took them away and manipulated them.

When Pink Floyd were in their prog-rock pomp and making giant inflatable pigs fly, 49-year-old Paterson was a punk. "I must have hated Pink Floyd back then," he says. "Like everyone else in that movement, I was blinkered in the belief they were old hippies and therefore had to die. God, I must have been insufferable, smashing things up for the hell of it. I'm only glad I didn't become a fully-fledged football hooligan."

But when he casts his mind further back, Paterson acknowledges that he loved the Floyd, that they soothed him through an often troubled adolescence. "My dad died when I was three and shortly after that I was ostracised by my mum. I got sent to this private boarding school, Kingham Hill, where Dark Side Of The Moon became this little soundtrack to my life and I had the pyramids poster you got free with the LP on my bedroom wall. I also loved the Floyd's Meddle album for the track Echoes, which lasted all of side two and sampled football chants.

"The school was an odd place. You were either a kid from a broken home or a vicar's son and it was real sink-or-swim stuff.

My best friends were Martin Glover, before he called himself Youth, and Guy Pratt, who would one day play bass with Pink Floyd. We were always crying out for the normal family life we thought everyone on the outside was enjoying. We dealt with the tADVERTISEMENTrauma of, aged 11, suddenly having to look after yourself, and we ended up swimming. And when we left we soon realised that 'normal' doesn't really exist."

Duncan Alexander Robert Paterson is proud of his Scottish roots. He's just as likely to call himself a European these days, although despite being London-born and a Chelsea fan, admits he couldn't bring himself to cheer for England at the World Cup. He's father to Mia Arizona, ten, and four-year-old Tiger Young (named after the 1950s calypso musician Young Tiger, not the golfer). Paterson's older brother Martin died in 2001 and is much missed.

"There were nine years between us and it's nine years since he passed away so I'm about to go to Bologna where he lived for a party with his Italian friends. Martin took me to my first gigs, for which I'll always be grateful. And he reminded me of two people: Tom Baker as Doctor Who and Dave Gilmour."

Paterson started out as a drum roadie, couldn't sing or play an instrument and is deaf in one ear so he can easily appreciate great musicianship like that of Gilmour. "His importance, and that of the Floyd, cannot be overstated. It's not about grandeur but the way they used music to evoke emotion, which is a special talent."

The Orb have been burbling away for two decades now, their blissed-out music often in stark contrast to rows, rapidly changing personnel and legal disputes over the sampled voices of Minnie Riperton and Rickie Lee Jones among others. Paterson, who played chess for the duration of their sole Top Of The Pops appearance, has been the one constant. He talks of eventually handing over The Orb to daughter Mia - "She sings our song Fluffy Clouds around the house" - but isn't retiring yet and indeed appears to have been re-energised by the hook-up with Gilmour.

"Jimmy Cauty, the original other member who left to concentrate on the KLF, has asked to come back to the fold and we're going to re-record what should have been our first album but never got released. I'm also doing an opera - the Royal Opera House has commissioned one from The Orb for 2012. And I'm going to be working with Lee 'Scratch' Perry who, like Dave, was an original hero of mine. One by one, I'm knocking them off."

What a shame, then, that Paterson and Gilmour didn't actually share a pot of tea or something stronger during the making of Metallic Spheres. "Youth cocked that up by not sending me a text saying Dave was in the studio. I was his prefect at school, you know, so there will be punishment." v

Metallic Spheres (Columbia) is out on 11 October

• This article was first published in the Scotland on Sunday on September 26, 2010

FACT mix 200 by Darkstar

2010-11-08T13:03:00.002Z

"FACT’s mix series is 200 sessions old. To honour the occasion, we’ve got a mix from one of our favourite groups of recent times, Darkstar.

Darkstar started as the duo of James Young and Aiden Whalley, with a series of singles on their own 2010 label, as well as MG77 and Clandestine Cultivations. Within a year, they’d become a key part of Kode9’s Hyperdub roster, debuting for the label with the minor classic ‘Need You’/’Squeeze my Lime’. UK garage and synth-pop filtered through a chiptune lens with vocals sung by the world’s saddest robot, it expanded on the promise shown by early Darkstar cut ‘Out of Touch’, and showed glimpses of the mournful computer pop to come.

A year later, Darkstar released ‘Aidy’s Girl is a Computer’, fulfilling that promise and winning them fans beyond the FWD>> circuit they were primarily known in. A whole album of these frozen Mac laments looked set to follow (and would have, if album outtakes ‘Automating’ and the original version of ‘Gold’, found on this FACT mix, are anything to go by), but at some point between them and now, Darkstar scrapped that idea and became a three-piece, with comparatively clean vocals sung by new recruit James Buttery.

Last month, they released their debut album, North. You can read FACT’s review here; needless to say, we think it’s great. Darkstar’s FACT mix features the original version of North highlight ‘Gold’, as well as cuts from Games, Radiohead, Moodymann, New Order, Shed and more. In the words of the group’s James Young, ‘it’s a mixed selection, and I’ve tried to keep it in an arrangement that I myself would listen in personally. It’s typical of tunes I’d skip between before I record, and what we were listening to recording the album.” FACT MAGAZINE

FACT Mix 200 - Darkstar (Nov '10) by factmag

Tracklist:

1. ‘Les Reves’ Alexandre Desplat
2. ‘Slowdance’ Matthew Dear
3. ‘It’s 2 Late 4 You & Me’ Moodymann
4. ‘Kid A’ Radiohead
5. ‘Be True’ Commix, Burial Remix
6. ‘Heartlands’ Games
7. ‘Get Out’ New Order
8. ‘Gold Version .1′ Darkstar
9. ‘HDRT’ Shed
10. Interlude
11. ‘Must Move’ Funkin Even
12. ‘Maybe’ Machinedrum
13. ‘I don’t Love Her’ Crime Kills Kids
14. ‘Un Prophete’ Alexandre Desplat
15. ‘Get Ohn’ Actress
16. ‘Tether Beat’ Twin Shadow
17. ‘Mack The Knife’ Jimmie Dale Gilmore
18. Sq….
19. ‘In The Wings’ Darkstar

The Christmas Party is here again.....

2010-11-02T17:26:00.003Z

"Ahhh… the office xmas party and all its associated cliches… it’s a British institution, and one that we will wholeheartedly embrace come the 18th December 2010 as Brownswood invites a few friends and family to dance, drink and be merry at London’s xoyo. We’ll provide the music and the dancefloor – you bring the xmas cheer. Yes, it’s a little way off yet, but let’s face it, the weeks preceding xmas generally pass in a fog of mulled wine and manic sociability, so we wanted to give you the date for your diary well in advance. Plus, it gives us plenty of time to pressgang Gilles into dressing up as Santa!" (Brownswood Records)

Grab your tickets over HERE.

Transmit / Box / Flat 027

2010-11-01T21:28:00.002Z

A new mix from the Transmit / Box /Flat team......

TBF027 by holdboxflat

Lee Perry :: Exercising (Horse Power Remix) :: Tempa
Mount Kimbie :: Ruby (live at Berghain, Berlin) :: Hotflush
James Blake :: I Only Know (What I Know Now) :: R&S
The Gaslamp Killer :: Shattering Inner Journeys (with Computer Jay) :: Low End Theory
David Lee Jr. :: Love Parable :: Universal Sound
Minor Sick :: Sad Struggle :: Duzz Down San
Olaf Arnolds :: Surrender feat Bjork :: One Little Indian
Owiney Sigoma Band :: Untitled :: Brownswood
Woima Collective :: Credo :: Kindred Spirits
Mulatu Astatke :: Motherland :: Mochilla
Jank Random vs Earl Leonne :: Sirius :: P.OB.H
Darkstar :: Gold (John Robert Remix) :: Hyperdub
Francesco Tristano :: Idiosynkrasia :: Infine Music
2 Bears :: The Lunatics :: CD-R
Model 500 :: OFI :: R&S
DJ Roc :: Break It Down :: Planet Mu
Wayne For President
Lil Wayne :: La La La
RZA :: Diesel ::Think Differently Music
Pete Rock & CL Smooth :: Anger in the Nation
Seams :: Hung Markets :: Pictures
Greek Gods :: Y'all Ain't Serious :: CDR
Pearson Sound :: Blue Eyes :: Hessle Audio
Ramadanman & Appleblim :: Void23 :: Aus Music
Shed :: My R-Class :: Ostgut Ton
Sbtrkt :: Look At Stars :: Young Turks
Reggie B :: The Kingdom >> FREE DOWNLOAD via PinBoardBlog
Gang Colours :: No Clear Reason :: Brownswood
Pinch :: Elements :: Swamp 81
Modeselektor :: VW Jetta :: MonkeyTown
Benny Ill vs. J KIng :: Kosmic 78 :: Deep Medi Musik
Will Saul & Mike Monday :: Sequence I :: Aus Music
Theo Parrish :: Twin Cities :: Harmonic Park Records
Oasis :: Detroit #1 :: FXHE Records
A Made Up Sound :: Demons (Reprise) :: A Made Up Sound

New mix by Gazman: Deep Technique 01

2010-11-01T19:11:00.000Z

Deep Technique

Deep Technique by Gazman

Tracklist.

1. SBTRKT - The Unspoken (Monkeytown)
2. Elgato - Blue (Hessle Audio)
3. Omar S - Solely supporter, These Complimentary Tracck'x 12" (FXHE)
4. Boddika - Boddika's House (Nakedlunch 10")
5. Baker(s) Dozen - Piano Lessons (Foot & Mouth)
6. Lone - Once In A While, Midland Remix (Werk Discs)
7. Azari & III - Reckless With Your Love, Goodguy Mikesh & Filburt Remix (Permanent Vacation)
8. Darling Farah - Berline, Funkineven Remix (Civil)
9. A Guy Called Gerald - Merfted, - Tronic Jazz The Berlin Sessions Sampler Vol.4 (Laboratory Instinct)
10. Model 500 - Huesca (R&S)
11. SBTRKT & Sampha - Evening Glow (Ramp)

Label Showcase - NIGHT SLUGS

2010-11-01T15:53:00.009Z

Label of the month: Night Slugs

UK bass music is ever-changing, and Bok Bok and L-Vis 1990's new imprint is at the forefront of its most recent mutation.

You're no longer feeling your local music scene. Do you a) bitch about it, or b) do something about it? "We wanted to bring on a new era and that is what we were saying from the get go," says Alex Sushon, AKA Bok Bok, on the inception of the Night Slugs parties back in early 2008. Sushon and partner James Connolly, AKA L-Vis 1990, have since translated a sense of personal disquiet into one of London's freshest sounding parties and 2010's most celebrated labels.

The revolutionary aims Sushon refers to were, in his case, a reaction to the London grime scene. Having played, produced and partied to the music since discovering a DJ Slimzee mix in 2003, he had grown disenchanted with grime's apparent shift away from the dance floor. In terms of UK dance strands, he fell back on the nascent bassline scene but was simultaneously getting kicks from much further afield. "I was interested in grime from a socio-economic point of view and I started looking around the world to see if there was anything similar happening," he remembers. "I got into a lot of the US localised ghetto genres. I got really into the Baltimore club sound, the Chicago ghetto house sound and in Detroit, ghetto tech. I checked out what was going on in Africa and really got into the South African stuff."

L-Vis 1990 and Bok Bok.Connolly's grounding, meanwhile, was as a promoter, DJ and producer in his hometown of Brighton. He co-ran drum & bass and breakstep night Fallout with locals Mumdance and High Rankin during his teens, then, after gradually losing interest in the genres, started the party that would prove pivotal. So Loud! became indicative of Connolly's more electro-fied tastes. He credits the booking of Drop the Lime (and the ensuing party) for setting him on the musical path he now finds himself—and for the inspiration behind his 2008 breakout track, "Change the Game." Its speed garage inflections and crafty US hip-hop samples caught the ear of the London-based Sushon, who contacted Connolly through MySpace. The pair began a dialogue based on uncannily similar tastes, while a still Brighton-based Connolly booked Sushon for a party he was throwing up in London.

"It took James to move to London for us to really get going," recalls Sushon on his partner's eventual relocation north, "but from an early point when we started to talk about music we said that the status quo in the clubs at that point was basically shit and we weren't feeling it." The first Night Slugs party was staged at the Redstar in south London's Camberwell, March 2008. (The venue now boasts a small chapter in bass music folklore having provided an early platform for artists such as Oneman, Ben UFO, Shackleton and Ramadanman.) The initial party was a smash success, followed by a dip in numbers at subsequent gigs as they experimented with bookings and found their feet. There was also a sense that people were unwilling to venture south of the river for a night out, and the event shifted to the more centrally located East Village.

The array of DJs booked for those early forays—Oneman, Zomby, Rekless, Lil Silva, Kode9, Jackmaster, Crazy Cousinz, DJ Zinc—cultivated a fertile patch of ambiguity surrounding the party; their "4x4/Heavy Bass/Gutter House" descriptor at the foot of flyers was similarly nebulous. Sushon and Connolly had come good on their freewheeling aims. And from the melting pot something new began to form. "After a while it just made a lot of sense," says Sushon. "What we found was that as DJs in our own right as well as [those playing at] the night, a certain sound was starting to come together around it. There was ourselves, and other people around us started to make tracks that just fit together and fit in our DJ sets."

The lesser known Girl Unit, Egyptrixx and Kingdom were at the core of this colourful collective—although their sound world continued to reside only within the confines of their club nights. "After a while we found that a lot of the tracks weren't getting a home and were just sitting around not getting released," explains Sushon. "In particular some of the early Kingdom stuff was a big motivation. James and I said to each other, 'Why is this stuff just sitting there? Why aren't labels picking this stuff up?' Six months might go past and the same tracks might still not be signed and it was quite frustrating so we thought, 'Why not just do it?'"

NS001 dropped in January 2010 and sent out a picture-perfect postcard of not only the Night Slugs parties, but the smorgasbord of London bass music. Square One also represented Mosca's debut release. In its digital form the EP collected eight tracks, including "Nike"—a ten-minute meander through boulevards of bleeps and broken beats—an uproarious remix of "Square One" from Bristol talent Julio Bashmore, and further re-rubs from Roska, Greena, Bok Bok and L-Vis 1990. The EP's artwork also couldn't fail to be noticed. Sushon has been behind all of Night Slugs' incandescent presentation (he has a professional background in design) and agrees that the sounds feed directly into the sights: "There is a lot of neon going on in the music in general I think especially with those really bright analogue synths. I am really obsessed with Tron and that kind of luminescence."

The world seemed ready and willing to embrace the Night Slugs label from the off. A certain youthful zest and fluorescent brilliance endeared UK sympathetic media outlets to their releases and cast a thematic shaft of light across their discography. It's best then to think in terms of colours when attempting to delineate the Night Slugs sound: how else to group the nocturnal juke of Girl Unit's "IRL," the 8-bit Funky of Lil Silva's Night Skanker EP, and the mutant R&B of Kingdom's That Mystic? Connolly is also swift to dismiss any suggested associations between UK Funky and the label. "I wouldn't want any genre name applied to the label at all," he says sharply. "UK funky is something totally different. It was Crazy Cousinz, Roska and all those dudes back then. I think that UK funky as a genre is pretty much obsolete now. I think it has turned into a big soup of different sounds."

Shadowing the imprint proper has been the Night Slugs white label series which began with a re-release of L-Vis 1990's Compass / Zahonda. "That was one for the heads really," comments Connolly on their pseudo sub-label. "Getting tracks out that we didn't want to put on the label to be a statement. It was more getting out tracks for the dance floor and bootlegs as well that we can't really put out for legal reasons." On that last point Jam City's "Ecstasy (Refix)" comes immediately to mind. Endgame's 1983-released "Ecstasy" was given a sub-bass makeover and has proved to be the imprint's most coveted 12-inch. A sense of anticipation had been built over Jam City's debut, but Sushon says that, generally speaking, they favour speed over secrecy: "I learnt lessons from dubstep where in the early-to-mid days of the scene people like DMZ would leave tracks floating around for a year before they would put them out and I saw people getting really frustrated at that. As much as I'm into the dubplate culture, I didn't want it to be an elitist thing that drives people mad."

"Brand" is a frowned upon term in certain music circles, although it would be fair to say that Night Slugs is pushing hard on multiple fronts. The pair toured the United States in late 2009—before the imprint was even formed—and the same can be said about their regular show on London's Rinse FM which began around the same time period. In terms of the label, their first compilation, Night Slugs Allstars Volume One, will drop in November and will be followed by albums from Jam City, Egyptrixx and L-Vis 1990. Connolly has recently spent time in New York feeling out the vibe of his classic house-indebted LP. "It's like Night Slugs but made in Chicago in 1988," he says, again illustrating his and the imprint's resolutely forward momentum.

Night Slugs is flourishing within in an unprecedented climate of creative endeavour that has recently gripped UK bass music; innovation is a word that both Sushon and Connolly use liberally. "That is something that we have always had to a greater or lesser extent and that's why our music scene is cool," concludes Sushon when asked why the UK scene is in the midst of such a purple patch. "There is constantly a side of our music scene that doesn't give a shit and is trying to do something new at the expense of any kind of a rule book. I think that's what the UK has that some places don't at the moment. Currently there are two things going on: Firstly, because of the internet and the fact that people have started to pay attention to the UK... it seems like there is a new thing when there might not necessarily be a new thing. Secondly, amongst us guys and maybe our peers, there is a reaction against the more formulaic genres that dominate most of the clubs around the Western world. Formulas are shit and we don't want them, so that's why we don't do them."

Night Slugs Mix
This month's label showcase comes courtesy of L-Vis 1990, one-half of the team behind Night Slugs. Over the course of three-quarters of an hour, he takes us through the neon-lit world of the label.

Download: RA Label of the Month 1011 Mix: Night Slugs Mix

DOWNLOAD HERE.

Filesize: 64.7 MB
Length: 47:02

Tracklist

Girl Unit - Shade On
L-Vis 1990 - Forever You Dub
Egyptrixx - Liberation Front
Mosca - Square One VIP
Kingdom - Bust Broke
Girl Unit - IRL (Bok Bok Remix)
Jam City - Magic Drops
Lil Silva - Golds 2 Get
L-Vis 1990 - Reprise
Jam City - Arpjam
Velour - The Scent of Romance
Jacques Greene - (Baby I Don't Know) What You Want
Optimum - Broken Embrace
Girl Unit - Wut

QUOTED FROM RESIDENT ADVISOR

New Mix from Space Dimension Controller

2010-11-01T14:23:00.006Z

The time-traveling producer brings out a funk-filled selection for the RA podcast.

Click here for MP3.

"Space Dimension Controller was born sometime in the 24th century. Lucky for us, then, that he traveled back in time, crashed his Electropod and has been stuck here for just long enough to release some of the finest and funkiest electro-tinged records of 2010. (That, or he's Jack Hamill, a young Belfast producer obsessed with hardware.) SDC's sound may be retro-tinged, but it has excited everyone from Kyle Hall (who remixed SDC on Clone's Royal Oak) to Josh Wink to the brains behind legendary techno label R&S. The latter will likely put out SDC's debut full-length next year. To tide us over, SDC has found time in between repairs on his Electropod, filling in for Tensnake at our ADE party this year when the Hamburg producer found himself with wisdom tooth troubles and otherwise touring around the world on old-fashioned airplanes to put together a mix that stitches together his own tracks with a healthy dose of (mostly) old school treats.

What have you been up to recently?

Since narrowly avoiding death by sending myself back in time to the year 2010, I've just been enjoying myself on Planet Earth. Of course, I need to get back to my own time, but unfortunately my Electropod was damaged when I crash landed on Earth. I'm trying to fix it, but there are so many distractions here... So many synthesizers and other hardware that I could never obtain in the future are easily accessible and, with all this access to amazing equipment, I just finished my debut EP for the label R&S.

"The ‘Temporary Thrillz’ doublepack vinyl release sees Jack advancing his signature sound over this maxi EP format, that also includes 4 locked grooves and comes in a limited first run on purple splattered vinyl! People have difficulty pinning down the SDC sound, I’ve seen it described as electro, space funk, cosmic disco, pop-psychedelic, techno-funk, jazz fusion, disco house and electronica.

temporary thrillz sampler by spacedimensioncontroller

It’s probably all those things and more, and we are proud of the fact that its so hard to pigeonhole. The ‘Temporary Thrillz EP’ contains intergalactic slow jams, deep club excursions and mid tempo space funk, all with the SDC trademark depth, soul and finesse"

Along with the EP, I've also just done a remix of Model 500 for R&S and a remix of Anthony Shakir for Rush Hour. The annoying thing is that I had already been in contact with R&S from the future and had a whole album's worth of music aboard my main vessel, but that will have to stay there until I fix my time travel device and I can send it back to them for Earth to enjoy.

How and where was the mix recorded?

The mix was recorded aboard my Electropod which is docked in my secret base in an uncharted area of the Atlantic Ocean. I used my laptop, various machines and hardware effects plus a few old mixers to give it a real gritty feel.

Can you tell us a little bit more about your idea behind the mix?

I didn't want it to be just another laptop mix, so I kind of treated it like I treat my own tracks when was making it. I like scrutinising tiny details and starting to loop tracks out of nowhere, then bringing in a drum machine or two or filter a tiny bit here and there. I don't like things being repetitive for too long, which could be seen as a bad thing if you're playing a set in a club, but I don't really care. I'd rather do what feels right in my head even if it means the dance floor gets angry because I cut out of a track before it even gets to the peak time full support bangerschnerden bit.

What are you up to next?

Depending on how long I'm back in your time, I might end up making another single for R&S before I fix my time travel device. Once I'm back in the year 2352, I'll make sure to send my album back in time for R&S to release it to the world. Those guys at R&S really are the best and they know exactly what's going down. They have made my stay here on this primitive, yet funky planet so much easier. I'm a complicated man, but no one understands me like my synthesizers". Resident Advisor

SAD NEWS: Panasonic discontinues Technics analog turntables

2010-10-31T18:46:00.002Z

"Dead spin: Panasonic discontinues Technics analog turntables
October 28, 2010

TOKYO (TR) – Fans of analog music were dealt another blow when consumer electronics company Panasonic announced earlier this month that it would be discontinuing the audio products within its Technics brand, most notably the legendary line of analog turntables.

On October 20, the company said that it was winding down production of the Technics SL-1200MK6 analog turntable, the SH-EX1200 analog audio mixer and the RP-DH1200 and RP-DJ1200 stereo headphones due to challenges in the marketplace.

“Panasonic decided to end production mainly due to a decline in demand for these analog products and also the growing difficulty of procuring key analog components necessary to sustain production,” the company said in statement issued to The Tokyo Reporter.

Last year, Japan’s last remaining vinyl pressing plant, owned by the production company Toyo Kasei, produced around 400,000 discs from its multifloor factory in Yokohama’s Tsurumi Ward, a far cry from the industry’s peak of 70 million four decades ago.

Panasonic said that sales of analog decks today represent roughly 5 percent of the figure from ten years ago. At present the company has no plans for putting analog turntables back on the market.

The SL-1200 series turntable, which enjoys a massive following in the DJ community, had been in continuous production since 1972. Since then 3.5 million units have been produced, making the brand’s purple and gray logo (“Technics” written twice) an icon in clubs.

The turntables are acclaimed for their quick start-up and reliability, achieved through its durable Direct Drive turning mechanism (via magnets, as opposed to being belt-driven) and its heavy 12.5-kilogram base (composed of what is known as the Technics Non Resonance Compound), which isolated the platter so as to reduce feedback and the chance that the cartridge would jump.

Japan’s DJ community was abuzz, notably on the social-networking site Twitter, following the announcement. Tatsuo Sunaga (dubbed “The Record Chief”) said in an email that the announcement was unfortunate.

“I’ve been using these products for around 20 years and rarely suffered a breakdown,” explained Sunaga, who is a club DJ, spinning jazz up and down Japan, and the author of “I’ll Take That Record!” — a chronicle of a three-year vinyl-buying spree. “This type of excellence is something not seen globally, and I think the fact that one doesn’t need to purchase subsequent models as being the reason for forcing the move.”

But even if turntable manufacturers targeting top DJs continue to shrink their output, Sunaga sees those who prefer analog today as being too obsessed with the format to allow it to become extinct. “I don’t think analog users will lose interest,” he said.

Regarding the Technics brand itself, nothing has been decided other than the discontinuation of the mentioned products, the statement said".

New mix from my main man - Gazman : Hi-Technique

2010-10-31T17:00:00.002Z

01-Hi-technique

01 Hi-Technique by Gazman

A 1 Hour HiTechnique mix
This is a 100% Vinyl mix no Technological Trickery
2x Technics 1200's + Vestax PMC 05Pro

1. 2562 - The Wind Up. Modeselektor vol. 1 (rough Trade)
2. Boddika - Syn Chron (Naked lunch)
3. Roska & Untold Myth - Long Range (Numbers)
4. Ramadanman - Work Them (Swamp81)
5. XXXY - Turn. Every Step Forward E.P. (Fortified Audio)
6. Elgato - Tonight (Hessle Audio)
7. Pinch - Croyden House (Swamp81)
8. Darling Farah - Berline original mix (Civil Music)
9. Untold - Come Follow Me (soul Jazz)
10. Addison Groove - Dumbshit (Swamp81)
11. Superisk - Find Your Way (Punch Drunk)

Interview with Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels,

2010-10-24T19:43:00.000+01:00

Great Interview with Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels from RUN DMC.....

The three members of Run–D.M.C. grew up in the neighborhood of Hollis in the Queens borough of New York City, USA.[3] As a teen, Simmons was recruited into hip-hop by his older brother, Russell, who was then an up and coming hip-hop promoter. Simmons appeared onstage as a DJ for rapper Kurtis Blow, who was managed by Russell. Performing as "DJ Run, Son of Kurtis Blow," the younger Simmons soon began trading rhymes with Kurtis Blow and beat-boxing for the audience.[6] He would often come back to Hollis and play his taped performances for his friend Darryl McDaniels. Previously, McDaniels had been more focused on athletics than music, but soon began to DJ after purchasing a set of turntables. Simmons convinced McDaniels to start rapping, and though McDaniels wouldn't perform in public, he soon began writing cool and fantastic rhymes and calling himself "Easy D."

Simmons and McDaniels (who, over time, had overcome his early stage fright) started hanging around Two-Fifths Park in Hollis in late 1980, hoping to rap for the local DJs that performed and competed there, and the most popular one known to frequent the park was Mizell, then known as "Jazzy Jase". Mizell was known for his flashy wardrobe and b-boy attitude, which led to minor legal troubles as a teen. Thereafter, he decided to pursue music full-time and began entertaining in the park soon after. Eventually, Simmons and McDaniels rapped in front of Mizell at the park, and the three became friends immediately. Following Russell's success managing Kurtis Blow, he helped Run record his first single, a song called "Street Kid." The song went unnoticed, but despite the single's failure, Run's enthusiasm for hip-hop was growing. Simmons soon wanted to record again—-this time with McDaniels, but Russell refused, citing a dislike for D's rhyming style.[6] After they completed high school and started college in 1982, Simmons and McDaniels finally convinced Russell to let them record as a duo, and they recruited Mizell (who now called himself Jam-Master Jay) to be their official DJ. A year later, in 1983, Russell agreed to help them record a new single and land a record deal, but only after he changed McDaniels' stage name to 'DMC' and marketed the group as "Run–D.M.C.", a name which, incidentally, that the group hated at first. DMC said later, “We wanted to be the Dynamic Two, the Treacherous Two — when we heard that shit, we was like, ‘We’re gonna be ruined!’ ”[7]

After signing with Profile Records, Run–D.M.C. released their first single "It's Like That/Sucker MCs", in late 1983. The sound was a revolution in hip hop: aggressive, cocky rhymes over spare, minimal, hard-hitting beats. Previously, rap music had been chiefly funk and disco-influenced, but Run–D.M.C.'s sound, like their name, was unlike anything that had been heard in rap before. The single was well received, peaking at #15 on the R&B charts.[8] The trio performed the single on the New York Hot Tracks video show in 1983. Emboldened by their success, Run–D.M.C. recorded their eponymous debut and, released in 1984, Run–D.M.C. was an instant hit and, arguably, rap's first classic album.[citation needed] Hit singles such as "Jam-Master Jay" and "Hard Times" proved that the group were more than a one-hit wonder, and the landmark single "Rock Box" was a groundbreaking fusion of raw hip-hop and hard rock that would become a cornerstone of the group's sound and paved the way for the rap rock movement of the late 1990s.

Run–D.M.C.'s swift ascension to the forefront of rap with a new sound and style meant that old school hip hop artists were becoming outdated. Along with pushing rap into a new direction musically, Run–D.M.C. changed the entire aesthetic of hip hop music and culture. Old school rappers like Afrika Bambaataa and Melle Mel of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five tended to dress in the flashy attire that was commonly attributed to rock and disco acts of the era: tight leather, chest-baring shirts, gloves and hats with rhinestones and spikes, leather boots, etc. Run–D.M.C. discarded the more glam aspects of early hip hop's look (which ironically, was later readopted in 1990 by more "pop" rappers MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice) and incorporated a more 'street' sense of style such as fedoras, leather jackets, and unlaced Adidas shoes.[1] The group's look had been heavily influenced by Mizell's own personal style. When Russell Simmons saw Jay's flashy, yet street b-boy style, he insisted the entire group follow suit.[9] Run said later:

“ There were guys that wore hats like those and sneakers with no shoestrings. It was a very street thing to wear, extremely rough. They couldn’t wear shoelaces in jail and we took it as a fashion statement. The reason they couldn’t have shoelaces in jail was because they might hang themselves. That’s why DMC says ‘My Adidas only bring good news and they are not used as felon shoes.'[10] ”

That embrace of the look and style of the street would define the next 25 years of hip hop fashion. (Wikipedia)

RED ALERT RED ALERT.......Ramadanman kills it again — Stifle

2010-10-21T17:37:00.002+01:00

OMG......Ramadanman is killing it right now and his latest monster is a track called 'Stifle', which although it hasn't been released yet - its being canned by Benji B on his BBC Radio 1 show.

Check the track below......WHATCH YA BASSBINS (around 1'30 in....)

Madlib Medicine Show No.10 PREVIEW

2010-10-20T21:10:00.000+01:00

ITS COMING.......

2010-10-13T14:25:00.000+01:00

This Thursday!
Hold Tight! 100% Dynamite returns for one night only to fight off three of the UKs biggest soundsystems - Metalheadz, Skream & Benga, and Channel One. Not to be missed!!!!!!!

This Thursday Oct 14 at the Roundhouse, tickets from:

The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Road, London, NW1 8EH
October 14th, 7pm-3am

Tickets: limited early bird tickets £15, £18 advance and £20 on the door
Box office: 0844 482 8008

The line-up:

Reigning champions, Goldie’s Metalheadz ft Andy C, Shy FX & MC GQ
Plus three new crews ready to battle: -
- The Soul Jazz Records Sound System presents 100% Dynamite.
- Skream & Benga’s Dubstep Allstars ft Joker, NType, Artwork & Sgt Pokes.
- Original Drum and Bass from Channel One Soundsystem ft Mikey Dread, Ras
Kayleb and full crew.
- Hosted by Don Letts
Holy guacamole!

DJ Shadow BACK 2 BACK with Gilles Peterson on Worldwide

2010-10-11T17:30:00.004+01:00

MASSIVE show this week.... Approx 8 years ago, Gilles Peterson and DJ Shadow came together for a special Brownswood Basememnt show.... last week they did it again and what a show it was......

"Gilles was joined by super crate digger and music icon, DJ Shadow for a special Brownswood Basement.

The pair dive into the music, with a whole host of rare tunes from all corners of the globe ; Australia to Hungary and tracks from Meditation Singers, Omar Khorshid, Andrew Wartts, Darling Dears and more.

They also get deep into conversation, chatting about how DJ Shadow gets through 400,000 7" records, Korean psych, record shop tactics & and his ultimate record!" Quoted from BBC Website

Click here for DOWNLOAD link.

Tracklist:

1. Omar Khorshid – Rasket El Fadaa
2. Gerald Wilson and His Orchestra – Algerian Fantasy
3. Sh/Jazz Quintet – Jordu
4. Toldi Maria – Fazom
5. King James Version – He’s Forever
6. Andrew Wartts – Rise Up
7. Darling Dears – I Don’t Think I Could Ever Love Another
8. The Meditation Singers – Let Them Talk
9. The Meditation Singers – Trouble’s Brewing
10. David Frost & Billy Taylor – Bright Star In The East
11. DJ Shadow – I’ve Been Trying
12. DJ Shadow – Organ Donor
13. DJ Shadow – 6 Days
14. DJ Shadow – This Time
15. DJ Krush – Duality Feat DJ Shadow
16. Impluse – Face From The Past
17. The Limit – Do It
18. Jerome – Guitar Rap
19. Doty Gouock – Wouck
20. Earl Rodney – Juck Juck
21. [unknown] – Untitled
22. Sonny Okosuns – Sound Of The Forest
23. Brain Train – Me

NEW Medicine Show from the main man MADLIB - No.10 this time around....

2010-10-03T20:37:00.002+01:00

Madlib Medicine Show #10: Black Soul

"Titling an album Black Soul is a risky move. Soul can mean anything, depending on who you’re talking to. And Black Soul – the name that adorned countless compilations the world over in the early 1970s – is generally used to refer to that specific breed of soul music that came to the fore when James Brown rocked a pompadour, and Aretha Franklin’s weight was southward of 160 pounds. But leave it to Madlib to use the term Black Soul to refer to a dynamic point in the Black American musical experience – the mid to late 70s, when soul was giving way to disco, when the groove was on it’s way to the boogie, when funk was on it’s way to fonk. This is a mix that, like the previous entries in the Madlib Medicine Show skirts convention while testing its listener’s music acumen.

Note: Madlib Medicine Show #9 has been delayed - release is currently TBA" (Stones Throw Records)

New Album by Natural Yogurt Band

2010-10-03T17:42:00.004+01:00

Natural Yogurt Band - Tuck In With.....

Details are sketchy.... but there is definately a new album from The Natural Yogurt Band released for the world by Now Again Records....BRING IT ON !!

Art by Errol Richardson

Recent purchases.......

2010-10-03T15:36:00.007+01:00

Billy Byrd - Lost in the Crowd (Soul7.018)

Big Tune!!! Top drawer modern soul with an irresistible thumpin' beat that’s RARE RARE RARE, now out on our SOUL7 label for all to hear! Another quality double sider and with Billy Byrd’s throaty vocals appearing on two class songs. Produced by Georgia native Calvin Arnold, known for his funk output, perhaps it was his influence that gave this record such a solid, intense rhythm? Yes it’s the beat that really counts, few records of this nature have such an incessant, heavy groove that has so much appeal to the dance floor. Back in the ‘70s when it was first released the record went nowhere, and it’s remained extremely scarce ever since. Why such low sales? Was ‘Lost on the Crowd’ ahead of its time? We certainly think so, and NOW is the time to put that right! (Jazzman)

Tracklisting

Side A - Lost In The Crowd
Side B - Silly Kind Of Love

Nappy Brown - Coal Miner (alternate version) b/w Coal Miner (original version) (JAZZMAN JBJ.009)

Originally issued in 1961 on Savoy Records and at the dwindling tail end of Nappy Brown’s initial R&B career, Coal Miner was a huge record which belonged, sound-wise at least, to his peak, some years prior. With its honking sax and sleazy Fever-esque bass line, the song probably arrived a little too late in the day to seriously trouble the charts at the time but nowadays it sounds perfect for the R&B set and is Nappy’s signature record on the Mod and Popcorn scenes, and beyond.

A few years ago, a previously unheard take of Coal Miner was uncovered, a little longer and with slightly more off-kilter percussion and sax refrains – and dig that triangle! Still keeping the stomping, rasping, honking feel of the released version in place, but amplifying the quirkiness no end, this take was probably deemed a little too unconventional for release, but again it has fast become the version today. We are pleased to finally offer up this version on 45rpm vinyl for the first and what will also probably be the last time ever! Backed up with the original Savoy take, as released, which is still an incredible sound in its own right.

The label has been named ‘Saxco’ in tribute to the late and very, very great bandleader, songwriter and arranger Sax Kari, whose long and largely unsung career enhanced that of many other artists. Sax passed away just over a year ago, with little to no tribute or fanfare in the mainstream media, and not even much noise made in R&B circles. We can only recommend further investigation into Sax’s long and winding career, and would say that any 45 bearing his credit is one worth listening to... (Jazzman)

Tracklisting

Side A - Coal Miner (alternative)
Side B - Coal Miner (original version)

Amos Milburn - One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer/ Chicken Shack 7 Inch (Aladdin Records)

Seminal booze blues from Amos Milburn, sparking a million spin-offs and answer records when it hit the R&B charts in the early 50s. A song which, even if you've heard it a thousand times, can't fail to put you in a better spot. Which is odd really, as the lyrics are the polar opposite of uplifting Amos missus has walked out on him and he is pleading with the barman not to kick him out on the street. And he's not asking for much, just a Scotch with a Bourbon chaser and a nice Pint to wash it down. Ah, we've all been there, haven't we!?!? (Jazzman)

Tracklisting:

Side A - One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer
Side B - Chicken Shack

Buddy Lucas - I Got Drunk 7 Inch (Groove)

2 really superb Jump movers back to back from the always excellent Buddy Lucas. 'I Got Drunk' is a brash stomper with excellent vocals about boozing and being totally sozzled! On the other side, Buddy takes a step back to lead the band and hand vocal duties over to Almeta Stewart. (Jazzman)

"Classic Pittsburgh twin spin monster two sided double header - yes indeedy. I thought "Sloppy Drunk" was the best R&B drinking song, but I reckon "I Got Drunk" might just top it. On the flip Almeta Stewart takes the mic for a baseball-themed female vocal version using the same backing track." (Piccadilly Records)

Tracklisting:

Side A - I Got Drunk
SIde B - My Pinch Hitter

NEW - SBTRKT MIX for Mista Jam (Radio BBC)

2010-10-03T15:31:00.002+01:00

New mix from SBTRKT. He’s got some forthcoming releases on Nmbrs (opening track) and Young Turks (closing track), but in the meantime, check out this mix he did for Mistajam’s show on 1Xtra.

Tracklisting:

Jessie Ware & SBTRKT - Nervous (Numbers)
SBTRKT - Deep Sea Creature (n/a)
Benga - I Come From London (Tempa)
Humanleft - Arnaud & Bernard (50 Weapons)
Cosmin TRG - Liebesunde (Rush Hour)
Mr De - Whoneleeone (Electrofunk)
Seiji - The King (n/a)
Headhunter - Prototype (Modeselektor Remix) (Tempa)
Terror Danjah - Power Grid (Hyperdub)
Pearson Sound - Wad (Hessle)
Mt Kimbie - Carbonated (Hotflush)
Girl Unit - IRL (Night Slugs)
SBTRKT - Fright (Numbers)
Greenmoney - Suh Mi Stay (Karizma Remix) (Fools Gold)
Altered Natives - Restless Natives (Eye 4 Eye)
Joe - Claptrap (Hessle)
Distal - Tortellis Slave (Embassy Rec)
Boy 8 Bit - The Keep (This Is Music)
SBTRKT - Step In Shadows (Young Turks

SBTRKT Guest Mix For Mistajam BBC 1xtra by sbtrkt

NEW - Transmit Box Flat 025

2010-10-03T15:28:00.003+01:00

TRACKLISTING:

Maxmillion Dunbar :: Girls Dream :: Ramp Recordings
DJ Nature :: Feeling Like A Woman :: Gulf Channel
Ghostface Killah feat. Raekwon and Cappadonna :: Assassination Day :: Sony Music
On (Sylvain Chauveau / Steven Hess) :: The Inconsolable Polymath :: Type Recordings
Ayatollah :: Jackie Mittoo :: Basic Replay
Ras Clifton :: Queen Of The Universe :: Wackies
Little John :: What You Want To Be :: Rusty International
Roots Manuva :: Dub Styles (Micachu Remix) :: Ninja Tune
The Bug :: Skeng (Autechre Remix) :: Ninja Tune
Andreya Triana :: A Town Called Obsolete (Mala Remix) :: Ninja Tune
James Blake :: Limit To Your Love :: CD-R
Quest :: Smooth Skin :: Deep Medi Musik
Taylor McFerrin feat. RYAT :: A Place In My Heart :: CD-R
Floating Points Ensemble :: Post Suite :: Ninja Tune
Exile :: Your Summer Song (feat. J. Mitchell) :: Plug Research
Yesterdays New Quintet :: Una Esta :: Stones Throw
Philip Cohran And The Artistic Heritage Ensemble :: Frankiphone Blues :: Zulu Records
Misel Quitno :: Get Up, It's Crumblingday :: Ehstrawlogy
Gaslamp Killer :: When I'm In Awe :: CD-R
Ananada Shankar :: Renunciation
Jneiro Jarel :: Castaju Cajunea :: Rush Hour
Emmanuel Jai :: Kuar (Henrik Schwartz Remix) :: Innervisions
Noze :: Ethiopo :: Circus Company
dOp :: Def Wagrant :: Circus Company
Skudge :: Overture :: White
Conforce :: Shade :: Delsin Records
Commix :: Be True (Burial Remix) :: Metalheadz
James Blake :: I Never Learnt To Share :: CD-R
Pariah :: The Slump :: R&S Records
Pedestrian :: Hei Poa ::CD-R
Duffstep :: No Lies :: Saigon
Dark Sky :: Drowned City :: CD-R
Letherette :: In July Focus :: HoTep
Machinedrum :: Mean Mean :: LuckyMe
Moondog :: Rimshot :: Honest Jons
Desire Mozambe :: Senegal Part II
Salim Daoud :: Abuthiyya :: Honest Jons
Jay Z :: Dead Presidents :: Roc-A-Fella
Whoodini :: The Haunted House Of Rock :: Jive
EPMD :: The Main Event :: deHop
J Rocc :: Star :: CD-R
Kyle Hall :: I<3 Dr. Girl Friend :: Wild Oats
Balam Acab :: Sea Birds (Moon) :: Tri Angle

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Midland takes charge of our 185th FACT mix

2010-09-17T13:14:00.003+01:00

Midland takes charge of our 185th FACT mix.

The up-and-coming producer/DJ announced his arrival earlier this year with the ‘Your Words Matter’ 12″, a collaboration with his friend Ramadanman released on Will Saul’s Aus Music label. This was followed by Play The Game, a four-track EP on Phonica Records that really showcased the breadth of his sound. Midland makes warm, tensile house and techno, but the narrative shape of his tracks and his regular deployment of fragmented, ethereal vocal snippets betray the influence – conscious or otherwise – of dubstep individualists Burial, Pangaea and Joy Orbison.

If his epic 23-track FACT mix is anything to go by, our man also draws inspiration from much further afield. It’s packed with unreleased material, including Midland originals ‘Shelter’, ‘Hub’ and ‘Dead Eyes’, together with his remix of Caribou’s ‘Sun’ and cheeky re-edits of Washed Out and Massive Attack, and Appleblim & Ramadanman’s immense, forthcoming ‘Void 23′. There’s also classic house from Kerri Chandler, shark-eyed minimal from Arnaud Le Texier and DJ Koze, plus recent cuts from Space Dimension Controller, Workshop, 6th Borough Project and a special edit of Boards Of Canada exclusive to this mix.

Download: FACT mix 185 – Midland(Available for three weeks)

Tracklist:
1. Boards of Canada – Corsair - Warp (Hyde park field recording)
2. Matthew Dear - Honey - Ghostly International
3. Midland feat. Anywayawana – Hub – Unreleased
4. Al Green – Truth n time – The Right Stuff Records
5. Space Dimension Controller – BBD Alignment – Royal Oak
6. Boards of Canada – Olson – Warp (Midland Re Edit – FACT Version)
7. Massive Attack – Unfinished Sympathy (Nellee Hooper Instrumental Remix – Midland Rearrangement) – Wild Bunch
8. Ron Deacon – Untitled B2 – Workshop
9. Rainer Trueby – Ayers Rock – White
10. Loot – Dollkraut – Doppelschall Records
11. Washed Out – You’ll see (Midland Re- edit) – Unreleased
12. Roberto Rodruigez – I Got – Forthcoming Fina Records
13. Archie Bronson Outfit – Chunk (6th borough project remix) – Domino
14. El Txef A – She Kissed Me first (Minilogue Hypno Remix) – Forthcoming Hypercolour
15. Mathias Kaden – Kawaba (Dj Koze’s Kosi-san Remix) – Vakant
16. Adultnapper & Big Bully – Low point on high ground – Simple Records
17. Sideshow – Scary Biscuits (John Tejada Remix) – Aus Music
18. Midland – Dead Eyes – Forthcoming This is Music
19. Terrence Dixon (Arnaud Le Texier remix) – Change – Children of Tomorrow
20. Ramadanman & Appleblim – Void 23 – Forthcoming Aus Music
21. Midland – Shelter – Forthcoming Aus Music
22. Kerri Chandler – Fortran (Argys Legendary Bonus Beats) – Deeply Rooted House
23. Caribou – Sun (Midland Remix) – Unreleased

Meat Beat Manifesto - NEW ALBUM for 2010

2010-09-15T17:10:00.001+01:00

ANSWERS COME IN DREAMS

Metropolis Records will release the new album, Answers Come In Dreams, on CD and digital in the US & Canada on October 12th. Hydrogen Dukebox will release the album in the UK on digital on October 12th and on CD & LP November 1st.

The iTunes deluxe version of the album will feature two bonus videos (“# Zero” and “Quietus”).

There will also be a limited edition CD/DVD version of the album in the UK featuring five of the videos Jack has created for the album.

US track listing:

1. Luminol
2. Mnemonic
3. MYC
4. Let Me Set
5. # Zero
6. Quietus
7. Token Words
8. Waterphone
9. 010130
10. Zenta!
11. Please
12. Chimie Du Son

TOTALLY TOGETHER EP

Released today, this digital-only EP is totally compiled from tracks that will not be on the new album. The iTunes version includes a bonus video for “Totally Together” and is available here:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/totally-together/id388500940

MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO STORE & PRE-ORDER

We are working on a store re-launch to hit in about two weeks. In the meantime we will also shortly be launching a pre-order for the new CD with a bonus track not available elsewhere. We’ll also be making a new T-shirt for the new album and hope to have the UK LP and limited edition CD/DVD in the store too.

Check this BLOG - Room 6 (Folkestone) Rave History 1989 - 1992

2010-09-13T18:19:00.003+01:00

Room 6 (Folkestone) Rave History 1989 - 1992

This Blog is dedicated to the Raves & DJ's of Room 6 (Folkestone). DJ TNT and DJ Jeff (Room 6) were the original pioneers of raving in Folkestone from 1989, organising small illegal raves at the Warren and Trance Dance which made the Folkestone Herald to one offs at village halls, the East Cliff Pavillion, The Metronome and club nights at Heroes and Bottoms.

This BLOG has been created by my good Friend Mr. S Wiggins who has focused on the illegal and legal raves around 1989-1992. For those who know.....

Dan Keeling Presents- 'A Long Time Ago In A Galaxy Far Far Away' Mix ...

2010-09-13T14:22:00.006+01:00

A Long Time Ago, In A Galaxy Far Far Away....

'A Long Time Ago In A Galaxy Far Far Away' Mix by Dan Keeling

A Guy Called Gerald - 'Rhythm Of Life'
X Ray - 'Lets Go (Amix)'
Mr Fingers - 'I'm Stong' (inst)'
Thompson Twins - 'In The Name Of Love' (Shep Pettibone remix)
KC Flightt - 'Lets Get Jazzy' (Blaze Dope Dub)
Phuture - 'Spank Spank'
Club MCM - 'Club MCM' (K Alexi Mix)
Dopplereffeckt - 'Speak & Spell'
Kraftwerk - 'Numbers'
Nitzer Ebb - 'Join In The Chant'
Depeche Mode - 'Behind The Wheel' (Shep Pettibone remix)
DJ Gilb'r - 'Espece Funk Drums'
Sueno Latino - 'Sueno Latino' (Derrick May remix)

This Mix was put together by Dan Keeling AKA BUBBLE CLUB who has released 3 12's so far under the BUBBLE CLUB label - the latest 12" including a storming remix by Brennan Green (LISTEN BELOW).......

Check BUBBLE CLUB website HERE.

His latest release:

BUBBLE CLUB - Lonely Acid (Brennan Green Remix) (BUBBLE CLUB RECORDS BC3)

Tracklist:

1. Lonely Acid
2. Lonely Acid (Bubble Club Takes A Trip Mix)
3. Lonely Acid (Brennan Green Remix)

Lonely Acid (Brennan Green's Dub Mix) by Dan Keeling

"Maintaining their simple ethos of releasing wonderful music in beautiful bespoke screen-printed sleeves with a gang of red hot remixers along for the ride, Bubble Club return with number three in the series and we're starting to get a better idea of where the Bubble Club may be.

"Lonely Acid" is an immaculately produced slice of lysergic soul, recalling those formative days of House emerging from Chicago's underground gay scene but rendered in glorious 21st century Technicolour. It's another instantly catchy track, which works wonderfully well in it's original vocal form, but takes on a whole new shape in the truly incredible 'Bubble Club Takes A Trip' version, which effortlessly straddles the point where Italo meets early House and takes more than a few sips of the acid punch before purposefully wading into the fray.

As if that wouldn't be enough to further confirm BC as one of the most exciting new labels around, they've raised the bar once again with a truly gobsmacking interpretation from NY's Brennan Green Taking the lysergic inspiration in hand he pulls off a beautifully tripped out Dub excursion, which sounds like Basic Channel remixing Paul Simpson". (Phonica Records)

New FACT mix 182 – Four Tet

2010-09-06T17:23:00.002+01:00

This Monday’s FACT mix is by a man named Four Tet. He should require no introduction.

Born Kieran Hebden, Four Tet was already making waves as a member of the group Fridge when he dropped ‘Thirtysixtwentyfive’, his 1998 debut single for Trevor Jackson’s Output label (you can probably guess how long the track lasted). A debut album, Dialogue followed, but what really propelled Hebden to stardom – and set the tone for Four Tet as one of music’s most celebrated and in-demand remixers, later lending his magic to Bloc Party, Radiohead, Anti-Pop Consortium and many more – was his remix of Aphex Twin’s ‘[Cliffs]’, commissioned for Warp Records’ Warp 10 + 3: Remixes collection.

A series of acclaimed albums for Domino followed, along with more improvisational collaborations with late jazz drummer Steve Reid, the end credits of a Bond film, and a blink-and-you-missed it 12” release with Burial, accumulating in this year’s There Is Love In You – arguably Hebden’s most realised, composed, and beautiful album to date.

A large part of Four Tet’s musicianship in recent years has revolved around his residency at Plastic People, the much-loved East London club that earlier this year faced closure. Well, seeing as it’s now re-opened, Hebden will be restarting his residency this Saturday, September 11, and this mix is done to celebrate it. Ramadanman, Villalobos, Oni Ahyun and more feature, along with Four Tet’s own mixes of Rocketnumbernine and Bob Holroyd, and an original new Four Tet track for Soul Jazz’s Future Bass compilation.

Tracklist:

1. Rocketnumbernine – Matthew and Toby (Four Tet remix) [Text Records]
2. Pheeroan Ak Laff – 3 in 1 [Passin' Thru]
3. Soul Capsule – Seekers (Ricardo Villalobos remix) [Trelik]
4. Mount Kimbie – Blind Night Errand [Hot Flush]
5. Grevious Angel – Move Down Low VIP [Soul Jazz]
6. Ro 70 meets Move D – Untitled [Source Records]
7. Floating Points – J+W beat [Planet Mu]
8. Ramadanman – Glut [Hemlock]
9. JD Robb – Canon in Percussive Sound [Folkways]
10. Index – Starlight (break) [Record Shack Records]
11. Four Tet – Nothing to see [Soul Jazz]
12. Falty DL – St Marks (Cosmin TRG remix) [Rush Hour]
13. Luke Abbott – Holkham Drones [Border Community]
14. Oni Ayhun – OAR004A [Oni Ayhun Records]
15. Bob Holroyd – African drug (Four Tet remix) [Phonica]
16. Lata Mangeshkar – Too Mere Saath Rahega Munne [EMI]

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Global Communication To Reform both live and in studio......

2010-09-06T17:21:00.002+01:00

After close to 15 years apart, electronic duo Global Communication will reunite for a live show in Amsterdam next month.

Comprising Tom Middleton and Mark Pritchard, both of whom went on to find success in other areas of electronic music, Global Communication’s ‘90s work is considered seminal, particularly their debut album 76:14, an interstellar ambient house-fest that still sounds inspiring today. They also compiled number 26 in Fabric’s mix CD series, but Pritchard had moved to Australia by that point, so they never collaborated in person while recording it.

Well, now the two will join forces again for two shows at the SCI+TEC showcase at Amsterdam’s Dance Event [via Resident Advisor]. The pair claim that their sets will “span many genres and eras, and explore our inspirations from early ’90s techno, house, ambient and electronica right up to the cutting edge of modern production.”

And that’s not all, GC have confirmed that there will be more live dates next year, and even better, they will begin producing new music together again. Good show. (FACT Magazine)

RECOMMENDED: Lone - Pineapple Crush / Angel Brain 12" (MAGIC WIRE 001)

2010-08-26T19:06:00.002+01:00

"Introducing Magic Wire Recordings….. New label from WerkDiscs' artist Lone (AKA Matt Cutler). With this debut 2 track 10" from the man himself we're graced with two slabs of nostalgic neu haus and early 90's hardcore, some what of a departure from the dreamy, hazed out hip hop of his albums 'Ecstasy & Friends' and the now classic 'Lemurian'. 'Pineapple Crush' hits us with old skool 4/4 808's and heavy rave stabs, all drenched in his own unique melodic style….. This is music that will destroy the club but will also soundtrack hazy afternoon parties in the sun. Gorgeous but heavy and already being cained by the likes of Glasgow's LuckyMe crew, Alexander Nut, Kode 9, TRG, Gilles Peterson, Joy Orbison and Mike Paradinas. This is a huge step forward you won't have seen coming!! Flip to side B for 'Angel Brain' - a 130bpm rushed up house banger, again showcasing Lone's childhood roots in all things Detroit and London warehouse hardcore. Huge euphoric stabs ride over pounding funky house drums. Like a sort of imaginary style of rave music that should have sound tracked 'Streets Of Rage' back in the day. If there's one theme linking what Lone's doing here to his earlier releases, it's the feeling of nostalgia. Where as before the reference points where 80s TV themes or tripped out synth boogie, here it's the sound of your older brother's pirate rave tapes, super heavy and totally warped out. As we wait for further heavyweight releases this year on like the massive 'Once in a While' and 'Raptured' - let this be an introduction to the next phase of Lone's master plan.…." (PHONICA RECORDS)

Catch The Beat: The Best Of Soul Underground 1987-91 COMING SOON

2010-08-25T21:01:00.001+01:00

Catch The Beat: The Best Of Soul Underground 1987-91 COMING SOON. A unique time capsule of the early years of hip hop and house, pulled from the super-collectible fanzine. 440 pages of fresh writing on dance music and clubbing in London Manchester and New York, with fantastic articles on everyone from KRS-1 to Bobby Konders. The Sound Factory, warehouse parties, the first raves, the birth of acid jazz, not to mention about 200 brilliant charts...

Download FREE 40-page sampler pdf (10MB)

RBMA Culture Clash is back - 14th October 2010 @ The Roundhouse, London.

2010-08-24T21:04:00.001+01:00

Last years (first) RBMA Culture Clash was so epic, I can’t tell you. I’m very glad it’s coming back this year, if you missed it last time round – please, please, please don’t mug yourself again, make sure you attend this one. If you were there last year – you know what to do/see you in there.

Last year DMZ were robbed the Metalheadz won (don’t get Zayns started on that madness lol), this year they’re back and will be fighting for their title once again. The line up this time round looks a little something like this…

Metalheadz: Andy C, Shy FX, Storm, MC Justyce and MC GQ
Soul Jazz Records Soundsystem feat Oxman
Channel One Soundsystem: Mikey Dread, Ras Kayleb & Full Crew
Skream & Benga presents: Joker, MC Nomad & Artwork

Skream, Benga, Joker, Shy FX…Get the f*ck out? Don’t be stupid, go buy yourself some tickets (£15 early booking, £18 in advance and more on the door) from www.roundhouse.org.uk. October 14th soon come.

Dam Funk Interview

2010-08-23T19:27:00.002+01:00

LA Producer talks UFO's, Gangsters, his love of vinyl and his club night 'Funkmosphere'.

Collecting Records Is An Obsession.....

2010-08-23T19:18:00.002+01:00

Zaf Meets the Record Dealers: Nick The Record and Martin Snow

Zaf of Soho's iconic Reckless Records and eponymous online store Zaf's Music hooks up with fellow vinyl vendors Nick The Record and Martin Snow - two of the UK's most in-demand record dealers - to discuss their long-lasting passion for the wax and how digitization of music has helped or hindered their trade.

Meat Beat Manifesto announce NEW ALBUM - "Answers Come in Dreams" (2010)

2010-08-20T15:08:00.006+01:00

"Seminal electronic band Meat Beat Manifesto (MBM) is gearing up for the release of its new album "Answers Come in Dreams" via Metropolis Records on October 12, 2010. Minimal, textural and cinematic in scope, this album follows sound sculptor and music innovator Jack Dangers into more experimental territory. An artist who sees the very fluid connection between audio and visual, Dangers will be creating videos for each of the twelve tracks on the record - welcome news for those who are familiar with MBM's mindblowing live performances that combine a sonic electronic assault with their stunning and often provocative and political video mash-ups.

"I don't feel like this is a new direction," explains Dangers about the minimal nature of this record. "It's just an extension of my sound. Maybe it's more minimal than previous records - that was a conscious decision because I am making a video for each song more or less."

Each video is planned to be gradually rolled out until the release of the record in Fall (more info forthcoming).

Planned to preceed the album release this Fall is "Totally Together," a four-track EP containing four tracks not included on the album that will be released on September 14, 2010.

1. 4OUR 4:13
2. MOVING BODY 5:26
3. TOTALLY TOGETHER 6:03
4. TRS2 4:44

Also known for his astute political observations and often outspoken stances through his music and live performances, Dangers has steered his trademark acute attention away from government for this release since the political environment is shifting.

"With the politics in the country taking a small turn for the better, I didn't feel the need to comment so much and decided to put more focus on the music," he says. "Plus, it's easier to make a point with video - it's more visceral...straight into the mind's eye, straight to the point."

Self described half-snarkily as "sub harmonic colonics...schadenfreude with extreme prejudice on those disbelievers of 7Hz," "Answers Come in Dreams" is just that - a mind-flushing reboot of the current state of music. Always on the lookout of ways of sculpting sound into new and groundbreaking shapes, Dangers utilized samples from a 'numbers station' to incorporate into the the paranoia-inducing contrasting layers of "# Zero." He describes the sames as "creepy disembodied covert radio transmission still used by spies" ("I recorded stuff like this way back in 1980-1981").

MBM's consistent musical invention has led to all forms of electronic musical experimentation over its 23 year history, from jungle to techno to industrial to dubstep to jazz fusion. Its long string of influential futuristic classics includes such groundbreaking tracks as "God O.D.," "Strap Down," "Psyche Out," "Helter Skelter," "Radio Babylon," "Edge of No Control" to "It's The Music." The single, "Prime Audio Soup" (from the album "Actual Sounds and Voices") was featured in the sci-fi fantasy blockbuster The Matrix and on its platinum-selling soundtrack.

An acknowledged and celebrated innovator in the electronic music scene (his remix of Tower of Power's "What Is Funk?" was nominated for a Grammy in 2006), Jack Dangers continues to stretch sonic boundaries and influence new generations of sound activists. As a premiere remixer, producer and sound designer, he has played a seminal role in defining tomorrows' music today. Past production/remixing projects include: Public Enemy, David Bowie, Orbital, Nine Inch Nails, David Byrne, Bush, Depeche Mode, and Tower of Power.

With the release of the "Totally Together" EP on September 14th and the full-length "Answers Come in Dreams" on October 12th, Meat Beat Manifesto will propel electronic music into another dimension yet again. We can only dream where they'll take us next". (MBM Website)

"Jack Dangers, the mastermind behind Meat Beat Manifesto, has already established his reputation as a legendary figure in electronic music. With classic albums such as Storm The Studio, Armed Audio Warfare, Satyricon, In Dub, and 2008’s Autoimmune, MBM has never stopped evolving and influencing the musical landscape. Over the course of its existence, MBM has been labeled industrial, techno, breakbeat, IDM, Acid House, Drum N’ Bass, Dubstep, and more. No label seems to stick, as the music evolves with every release. With the new album, Answers Come In Dreams, Mr. Dangers once again expands on the Meat Beat Manifesto sound. Hypnotically beautiful, the album pulses with life". (Brainwashed Website)

Released on Metropolis and available October 12th, 2010.

01. Luminol
02. Mnemonic
03. M.Y.C.
04. Let Me Set
05. #Zero
06. Quietus
07. Token Words
08. Waterphone
09. 010130
10. Zenta!
11. Please
12. Chimie Du Son

Click here TO PRE-ORDER....

New 'Funk & Soul Covers' Book to be published by Taschen

2010-08-18T19:56:00.007+01:00

Funk & Soul Covers
Joaquim Paulo, Julius Wiedemann
Softcover with flaps, 24 x 24 cm (9.4 x 9.4 in.), 432 pages
£ 24.99

ISBN: 978-3-8365-1986-1
Multilingual Edition: English, French, German
Availability: September 2010

"Following the success of Jazz Covers, this volume features over 500 legendary covers from the golden era in black music that have conquered the world. From Marvin Gaye to Michael Jackson, the Temptations to Earth, Wind & Fire, and James Brown to Prince, Funk & Soul Covers portrays the often breathtaking album art that helped make these essentially African-American musical forms both world famous and massively influential, and an essential part of 20th century music history.

Featuring interviews with key industry figures—including performers, producers, and writers—Funk & Soul Covers also provides cultural context and design analysis for many of the record covers.

About the author:
Joaquim Paulo is as a consultant for major labels and directs a number of radio stations in Portugal. He started collecting vinyl at 15, and flies to London, Paris, New York and São Paulo to enrich his collection of over 25,000 LPs. He lives and works in Lisbon and dedicates his free time to recovering old and rare recordings.

About the editor:
Julius Wiedemann was born in Brazil, studied graphic design and marketing, and was an art editor for digital and design magazines in Tokyo. His many TASCHEN digital and media titles include Illustration Now!, Advertising Now, Logo Design, and Brand Identity Now!"

Click here to order.

New ORB Album to be released..featuring David Gilmour

2010-08-18T17:23:00.003+01:00

Electronic music group The Orb will release their next album called Metallic Spheres in October 2010 and features the work of Pink Floyd guitarist, David Gilmour.

The album will be released in multiple formats worldwide and, according to the blog on David Gilmour's website, all artist royalties will be going to helping British hacker Gary McKinnon fight off extradition to the USA.

The Orb, the successful and influential UK 'ambient/house' collective, came to collaborate with David Gilmour after working together on a version of Graham Nash's "Chicago" for a charity project. Youth (aka Martin Glover), a frequent Orb accomplice, was invited to create a remix, and he and Alex Paterson, as The Orb, were so energized by the task that they continued working until it was an album-length entity. Having asked Gilmour to bring his guitars to Youth's studio in South London to prolong and enrich their new creation, the trio worked up a sonic mixture in a range of styles. Thus, the 'Metallic Spheres' project was born.

'Metallic Spheres' is designed to be heard in two parts - 'Metallic Side' (24'48"), and 'Spheres Side' (25'09"). Also present are five musical sub-divisions in each part. The album uniquely utilizes David Gilmour's discernable electric guitar and lap steel guitar, Alex Paterson's sound manipulation, keyboards and turntables, and Youth's bass guitar and keyboards.

The album will be available in the following formats:

Standard CD
Double CD: The second disc is a 3D60 mix - www.3d60.co.uk - of the album which allows the listener to experience the album in three-dimensional sound
Standard album Download
Double album Download
Double LP

Artwork, continuing and expanding on The Orb's spatial art style, has been created by longtime Orb visuals designer Simon Ghahary.

Additionally, special laser light shows created specifically for the release of 'Metallic Spheres' will be shown to the public in early October in New York and Los Angeles. More details to follow.

Gary McWho??

The American's want to get their hands on Gary McKinnon for hacking into US Military computer systems in the wake of the September 11th attacks.

Gary, who has Aspergers Syndrome, claims he was just looking for the existence of aliens on the computer systems. He has admitted he did the crime but it is felt by some that sending a man with mental illness to the likes of Guantanamo Bay (where the Americans routinely torture British citizens) is not on!

Perhaps the Americans should think twice about putting sensitive information on the Internet in the first place, especially with China and Russia's blatant use of it as an economic and political weapon!

Standard Album and 3D Sound Version!

In addition to the standard album, there will be a ‘Deluxe’ double-disc version: the first disc is the same as the standard, the second is a 3D60™ version, which, as the name suggests, allows you to listen in glorious three-dimensional sound.

3D60™ is a new sound production process developed by Youth, Mike Brady (The Jam’s live sound engineer) and Ian Thompson (musician and multimedia producer). You don’t need any special equipment to enjoy 3D60™, by the way; it will sound amazing on any headphones in any format. Have a listen.

As well as the option of downloading the standard album from iTunes, there will also be a vinyl version, exactly the same as the standard CD, but including a download card permitting you to download the full album plus an additional ambient bonus. So that’s something you’ll be familiar with from the various guises of Live in Gdańsk.

NEW MODEL 500 12" ON R&S RECORDS - Check it Here

2010-08-18T15:28:00.004+01:00

Model 500 - OFI / Huesca (RS1006)12"

"Not many single releases can be labelled as events, especially not in the ever homogenised techno world, but the first single from Model 500 in eleven years, and the first recorded by the new band line up is most definitely an event.
It’s only fitting that this single is released on R&S Records, whose relationship with the man widely acknowledged as the originator of Detroit techno goes back 17 years and who released the last Model 500 album back in 1999.
In 2007 Atkins partnered up with Mike Banks from Underground Resistance to form a Model 500 band. It wasn't the first time they had played together as Model 500 but this time Atkins added Detroit DJ/producer DJ Skurge to the mix along with longtime associate and established funk and techno producer Mark Taylor.
As the "new" Model 500, they began performing as a band, debuting at the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, and not too long later, performing at festivals in Europe and Japan.

This single is the first music to come from sessions of the new line up, with Juan Atkins, Mike Banks and Mark Taylor sharing writing credits.
OFI is classic Model 500, the kind of insanely funky electro-techno that Juan Atkins pretty much invented with amazing vocals from Juan himself. Underground Resistance legend ‘Mad’ Mike Banks comes correct with a superb stripped down remix of OFI in true UR style. Finally ‘Huesca’ on the flip is a perfect example of classic deep Detroit techno featuring classic string arrangements that could have only come from the UR connection".(R&S Website)

Tracklisting:

1. Model 500 - OFI
2. Model 500 - OFI (Mad Mike Remix)
3. Model 500 - Huesca ..... STREAM HERE

Stream the 'Huesca' Track here.

PRE-ORDER HERE.

August Purchases

2010-08-17T14:47:00.009+01:00

CV313 - Subtraktive (King Midas Sound / The Sight Below Mixes) 12" (ECHOSPACE 011)

"**Clear Vinyl** Heavyweight remix package from Echospace, pitting the ethereal space-pressure of Steve Hitchell and Rod Modell's CV313 against the claustraphobic dub menace of Kevin Martin's King Midas Sound and the layered ambience of Rafael Anton Irisarri's 'The Sight Below'. Its the King Midas version that pretty much owns this record though, more or less completely re-structuring and re-working the original into a noxious burner complete with the signature deadpan narration of Roger Robinson and the far-flung, almost detached vocal delivery of Hitomi pitted against a compacted tangle of deeply unnerving low-end rumbles and a mesh of effects and midnight drones worthy of Martin's involvement with Experimental Audio Research all those years ago. Remixes are rarely this ambitious - and it's a credit to all parties involved that the end result is a substantial contribution not only to the Echospace discography but to the King Midas Sound canon - small and perfectly formed as it is. The Sight Below, meanwhile, keep much more closely to the original's genetic code, unwinding hazy dub chords around a padded 4/4 with subliminal washes of melody that have become something of an Irisarri signature over the last couple of years. Ending off the twelve, Modell and Htchell reserve the flipside for themselves with an extended live mix that lifts the track into a more defined warehouse environment, with shuffling percussion and fathoms-deep bassline intact. Limited copies - highly recommended." (Boomkat Records)

Tracklisting

1. Subtraktive (King Midas Sound Dub)
2. Subtraktive (The Sight Below Mix)
3. Subtraktive (Deepchord presents Echospace Live Mix]

Arp 101 - Dead Leaf / Galactic Warrior 12" (EGLO09)

"All you boogie funkateers, listen up! Eglo drop some of that red top, gangster cruising illness with Arp 101's debut release, a pair of down-slow and effortlessly groovy R'n'B joints featured heavily on Alex Nut's radio show of late. Fresh-sealed drums punctuate each side for a slow drawling effect while 'Dead Leaf' licks up Kraftwerk-on-the-strip synths and 'Warriors Galactic' is all about the oversized bassline spilling gin and juice over your new crepes. Mary Anne Hobbs, Sinden and Falty DL are all signed up to this guy's fanclub, get in quicksharp" (Boomkat Records)

Tracklisting

1. Dead Leaf
2. Galactic Warrior

Jam City - Ecstacy (Refix) 12" (NSWL 004)

"The Night Slugs juggernaut continues apace, with another limited white-label pressing and the long-awaited vinyl debut of hugely tipped London producer Jam City. To many he first came into view when Fact magazine hailed him as the most exciting prospect for bass music in years, and after devouring his by now classic mixes for Lower End Spasm and Fact itself we really couldn't possibly argue - despite the fact that he's had no releases of his own to speak of until now. So all of this is just to say that there are people clamouring for this twelve, and a few minutes in the company of the opening track will bend you into submission if you had any resistance left in you, 'Ecstacy Refix' is just one of those anthemic wonders that defies easy categorisation, employing distinctive Grime signatures but with an almost euphoric color palette that takes in rave stabs and distant percussive hits, proper hands-in-the-air styles for peaktime summer jams. Over on the flipside "Let me Bang Refix" does a similar thing with a different trajectory, borrowing bouncy booty bass structures and reducing them to a gooey mess of layered strings and fluoro synths, while Shut The Lights Off (Devil Refix) gives off an Eski vibe but with the urban angst replaced with a late-night-drive scene that's just owning it for us right now. Crazy times - this is just too good". (Boomkat Records)

Tracklisting

A. Ecstasy Refix
B1. Let Me Bang Refix
B2. Shut The Lights Off (Devil Mix)

Ramadanman - Fall Short/ Work Them 12" (SWAMP81 06)

"Brand new for you on Loefah’s Swamp 81 label. Ramadanman brings the noise as only he can! You know the deal, funky wonky broken and with extra boom! Work Them is reminiscent of his recent DBridge remix and hits all the right places - early 80's electro, Miami Bass subs and modern cut-up vocals comparative to Addison Groove. A similar concept is applied to Fall Short but this time high-pitched diva vocals echo early garage cuts. Big release for the right floors..." (Phonica Records)

Tracklisting

1. Fall Short
2. Work Them

Throwing Snow - Un Vingt / Cronos 12" (HO TEP 001)

"Debut release on Alex Nut's new label: Ho Tep!* Throwing Snow's debut 'Un Vingt' is the 1st drop on Alex Nut's promising new label, Ho Tep. The A-side is a very canny blend of broken dubstep and more psyched-out textures, perhaps best described as the mid-way point between older Martyn releases (before he went house) and Shackleton (er... before he went house too!). However, there is a unquantifiable element to this track that makes it stand out, whether it's the chord progressions or the tucked drums we're not sure, but it's impressive either way. On the flipside, it'd be fair to put 'Cronos' with the wonkier, or more progressive dubstep brigade, along with the likes of Floating Points and Illum Sphere, but again, there's a natural kink and cosmic inclination that puts this fella out on his own limb. Really strong debut, Recommended!" (Boomkat Records)

Tracklisting

1. Vingt
2. Cronos

Addison Groove AKA Headhunter - Footcrab / Dumbsh*t 12" (SWAMP81 005)

"Ladies and Rudeboys, this has to be one of the best twelves of 2010. Addison Groove is the Jukin' alter-ego of Headhunter. Over the last 12 months he's become notorious for ripping through fierce sets of Chicago Juke music; the mutant niche offspring of DJ Funk and Slugo's booty house designed to incite mindblowing dance moves from liquid-hipped quicksteppers. If you don't know what we're talking about, get on youtube and peep some DJ Nate or Walacam videos. Anyway, Headhunter has bravely stepped out of the dubstep shackles to craft his own take on the style, resulting in the anthemic 'Footcrab'. He takes the 808-derived percussion of Juke proper and reconstitutes the groove at a 'step compatible 136bpm, contrasting the 808's booming potential with hi-pitched toms and rapid-fire samples intoning the title 'Footcrab/Footcrab/F/F/F/Footcrab' to make the dancefloor go f*cking spare. It's already become ubiquitous in the sets of everyone from Kode 9 to Loefah and now with a full release we expect things to go off. On the flip we get the slightly more laid back 'Dumbsh*t' which still works it hard but just doesn't have the same velocity as it's dancefloor challenging bruv on the flip. We're utterly addicted to this record and have no qualms looking like a total doyle trying to dance to it. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!" (Boomkat Records)

Tracklisting

1. Footcrab
2. Dumbsh*t

Digital Mystikz - Return II Space (Limited Gatefold 3xLP) (DMZLP 001)

"As half of the Digital Mystikz production unit and label, Mala has practically revolutionized UK dance music. The reverberations of those earliest DMZ platters and their subsequent evolutions have now spread virus-like into new stylistic hosts, with mutant traces assimilated into everything from the new M.I.A album to the Berlin nightscape. With ultra-high production values indebted to the dub and soundsystem culture he grew up alongside, Mala re-encoded the subbass memes of Jungle, Garage and Dancehall into a new form of half-timed pressure, putting emphasis on a slower, dread-infused style of dancefloor tension, now known as Dubstep. For many 'Return II Space' is the most anticipated album of the last half decade, a definitive statement from one of UK Bass music's most venerated practitioners, loaded with exclusive dubs previously only heard in his presence at the weighiest dances. Split over 3 heavy 12"s, each marked with individual DMZ catalogue numbers, the album rolls with it's own sense of space and pace that's incredibly unique to Mala's imagination. The delicate contrast of glassy keys and skull quivering subs in 'Unexpected' starts the dance according to his mantra of "Meditate On Bassweight' before turning to the sci-fi darkside with the extraordinary dreadnaught vibes of 'Pop Pop Epic', a hulking ten tonne stepper staring red-eyed and ready from yer quaking speaker cones. The scrunched synth and visceral pressure of fan's favourite 'Eyez' makes an appearance on the second plate, backed with the creepily affective special 'Mountain Dread March', and a final disc presents the tentatively probing keys of 'Livin Different' replete with Ital subbass harmonics and finally the gargantuan skank of the title track, built fi dem wha' do. Perhaps our only gripe with the album is that he could have flexed out on a wider range of tempos, but that's really only a small concern as the tracks we do have are f**king outstanding. Highly recommended." (Boomkat Records)

Tracklisting

1 Unexpected
2 Pop Pop Epic
3 Mountain Dread March
4 Eyez
5 Livin' Different
6 Return II Space

Skream - Outside The Box 4xLP (TEMPALP 016)

"Listenin To The Records On My Wall", is the perfect introduction to why Skream's current level of success is just the beginning. It's a joyful, ragingly energetic celebration of the last quarter decade of British street music, inspired by the hardcore and jungle records used by his older brother Hijak who was part of Grooverider's Internatty Crew. It's also a brilliant pop record that makes perfect sense to everyone who grew up surrounded by the breaks and beats of the 1990s - and to those who didn't.

This, however, is not a revival record. A natural born modernist, Skream has selected 14 tracks that cover hip hop ("8-Bit Baby", with LA rapper Murs from Living Legends), bass-wobbling dubstep (the self-explanatory "Wibbler"), dreamy electronica ("Perferated"), a dark and tribal track with La Roux, and a strong dose of euphoric jungle on "The Epic Last Tune"; a track that is inadvisable to listen to whilst driving - unless you want another six points on your licence. "Outside The Box" is the sound of an artist who is ready to take his considerable talents to a wider audience without compromising any of the raw, hedonistic, emotional, lose-yourself madness that has made him literally legendary to the hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. There's the 8-bit computer game inspiration of "CPU"; the Daft Punk styled vocals of "How Real" featuring Freckles; the tuff but soothing heart-beat of "Fields Of Emotion" and the Jocelyn Brown-sampling "I Love The Way", which sees the first lady of disco pitched right down." (Piccadilly Records)

Tracklisting

1. Perferated
2. 8 Bit Baby (feat. Murs)
3. CPU
4. Where You Should Be (feat. Sam Frank)
5. How Real (feat. Freckles)
6. Fields Of Emotion
7. I Love The Way
8. Listenin’ To The Records On My Wall
9. Wibbler
10. Metamorphosis
11. Finally (Feat. La Roux)
12. Reflections
13. A Song For Lenny
14. The Epic Last Song

Madlib Medicine Show # 8 : Advanced Jazz' CD.....COMING SOON

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Madlib has always called himself a DJ first, producer second, with jazz music as his first love and inspiration. With that in mind you might say this is what he does best.

The title card of Madlib Medicine Show No. 8 reads: Imagine an 80-minute music history course talking place in a dusty, hazy studio with wall-to-wall jazz vinyl - records from the past 40 years – jazz, fusion, funky, obscure. This course will not be graded. There will be no lecture. Madlib’s at the turntable. Class is now in session.

"Madlib follows High Jazz with the eighth installment in his Madlib Medicine Show, a mix of the multiple facets of jazz music: Advanced Jazz!
Madlib’s been busy this year. And while his recorded output always spans the gamut, he often returns to recurrent themes, spread across the genres that serve as home base – or bases, as it were. Jazz is one such base.
High Jazz, the previously released Madlib Medicine Show album, showed a marked development in Madlib’s craft: every element of jazz was encapsulated in that eighty-minute opus. What better way to follow such an album than with a companion-piece culled from the thousands of jazz albums that inspired Madlib’s first forays into the genre?

The resulting mix, Advanced Jazz, is, as the title hints, a step (or three!) deeper than the Steve Kuhn and Weldon Irvine albums that he first enjoyed as he was first delving into his Yesterdays New Quintet project Angles Without Edges in 2001. Some of this music – to the untrained ear – might not seem to be “jazz” at all. But rest assured – this is a jazz mix through and through, as exhilarating a ride as Madlib’s Brain Wreck Show and Flight To Brazil.

It’s a celebration of this great American music and while it focuses on the past forty years, it clearly heralds every innovation – both domestic and international - of this century-old musical form." (RUSH HOUR RECORDS)

The front & back cover is the painting Jazzcats Crossing the Hudson (info). CD contains an 8-page booklet.

The classic painting “Jazzcats Crossing the Hudson” will appear on the next edition of Madlib Medicine Show, the 8th in the series, a jazz mixtape titled “Advanced Jazz”.
from Wikipedia:

“Jazzcats Crossing the Hudson is an 1851 oil-on-canvas painting by German American artist Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze. It pre-emptively commemorates the arrival in New York City of jazz greats Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders, Steve Kuhn and others. The painting is remarkable for the fact that it was created decades before the birth of any of these jazz artists.”

Label: Stones Throw
Catalogue: MMS008
Format: CD
Country: US
Released: August 2010
Producer: Madlib
Genre: Jazz

Tracklisting coming soon

Missing The Big Chill this weekend !!!

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Just came across some pics.. from The Big Chill Festival 2010 via the Big Chill Website......made me reminise over the time we went in 2007......I'm experiencing "Festival Cold Chicken".....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebigchillfestival/sets/72157624542890487/show/ (Copy this URL and enter into your address bar).

Biggabush by Big Chill Radio on Mixcloud

Don’t forget your radio - Big Chill Radio will be broadcasting on 87.7FM all weekend long!

Bigger, better and brighter than ever, Big Chill Radio returns for another five solid days of wireless mayhem. From sun-up on Thursday morning, to tent-down on Monday morning, we’ll be broadcasting to the entire site on 87.7fm day and night, bringing the flavour of the festival to your radio.

We’ll bring you the best music from our DJs and special guests, news from around the site, interviews with artists, live sessions from bands and a whole load of random nonsense.

We’ll be twittering like mad once again, so give us a shout on @bigchillradio with your dedications, photos and requests for tent pegs

Plus we’ll let you know where you can hear all the stuff you’ve missed after the festival. So come and say ‘hi’ to us at our bijou studio in the Uptown field and keep it locked to 87.7fm

Thursday 5th August
8am: Bicycles, Tricycles, Testing…
9am: TBC
10am: TBC
11am: Mach V
Midday: Sherlock Ohms
1pm: Leggobeast
3pm: Biggabush
4pm: Bam Bam Sound
6pm: Peepshow Paddy and Count Skylarkin
8pm: Michael Cook
10pm: DJ Shepdog

Friday 6th August
Midnight: El Diablo’s Social Club
2am: Big Daddy
4am: Ahmet Gunes
6am: Sherlock Ohms
8am: Sparky and Edd
10am: Chris Coco’s Melodica
Midday: Live From The Stages
3pm: Big In Wigan with Seb White
5pm: Live From The Stages
7pm: BBC Hereford and Worcester
10pm: Live From The Stages

Saturday 7th August
1am: Luke Solomon
3am: Mixmaster Morris
6am: The Svelte One
8am: Mach V
10am: DJhistory’s Balearic Breakfast Butty
Midday: Live From The Stages
1pm: Hospital Records Allstars
2pm: Christopher Tubbs (Heads Down)
3pm: Roy Shay
5pm: Live From The Stages
7pm: Craig Charles Funk & Soul Show
9pm: TBC

Sunday 8th August
1am: Futureboogie and Crazy P
4am: Max Cooper
6am: Mr Tom
8am: alucidnation
10am: TBC
Midday: Mikey D.O.N.
2pm: Fantasy Funk Band
3pm: Live From The Stages
4pm: The Pool with Matty J
7pm: Paul Jonas (Tru Thoughts)

Monday 9th August
1am: Special Guest
3am: Andrea and Mr Black
6am: Myles
8am: Ole’ Smokey
10am: Scriv
Midday: Paul Noble
2pm: Closedown. Bye!

Summer Purchases since I've been back........

2010-08-06T09:52:00.013+01:00

Here are some items i've grabbed since coming back off holiday......

Bobby Jackson - The Café Extra-Ordinaire Story (2010)(JMANLP.035)

"You won’t find the name Bobby Jackson in the jazz books. Yet here is a remarkable man who did more than anyone to promote live jazz in his hometown of Minneapolis, risking everything to open a venue for jazz lovers and putting on such luminaries as Freddie Hubbard, Roland Kirk and Elvin Jones. In so doing he rode the wave of financial insecurity, dealt with problems involving drugs, the law and the police, not to mention the issues and temperaments of the musicians themselves. Yet he still managed to keep things together enough to record a truly deep and inspired album with his band - although it took another 8 years before it was finally released, albeit in minimal quantities and with zero distribution!

And so the seventh release in our HOLY GRAIL series tells the story of Bobby Jackson and his Café Extra-Ordinaire. The music is deep, modal and progressive jazz. The story is one of bearded coffee-drinking jazz heads, Elvin Jones shedding tears, silver foil backdrops, and we also reveal what happened when a young man named Prince ventured into the café one day with the intention to sit in on a jam session!
The LP is a reproduction of the original, pressed on 180g virgin vinyl. The CD also contains a 12 page colour booklet with previously unpublished pictures provided by Bobby Jackson himself. Interviews with Jackson and his band help to make up the extensive liner notes, telling the engaging story of the Café Extra-Ordinaire and all who took part in it." (Jazzman Records)

TRACKLISTING:

A1 Paul's Ark 3:20
A2 Ya Kum Ba 3:25
A3 Bobby's Blues 5:50
A4 Understanding 2:30
A5 Peepin 4:20
B1 Fluck Flick 7:35
B2 Ebonite 5:30

The NATURAL YOGURT BAND - Eastern Promise / Psalm 7" (JM.076)

".....continuing where they left off the NYB don’t disappoint with another glimpse into their extensive archive of ethereal, esoteric and otherworldly sounds! Percussive polyphonics, transient pulsations and phonosynthetic oscillations massage your brain and ease your senses into a floating world of physiodelic cosmic space throb…

Nothing much has changed since ‘Away with the Melancholy’, the first album recorded by NYB. It sold out everywhere, quickly, and much was said about the band, much of it rumour and conjecture. They have yet to perform live, and they still refuse to do interviews. We put out their records and we still haven’t even met face to face!

Of course what really matters is whether or not they make good music. Here’s a single that’s taken from their new album, ‘Tuck in with the Natural Yogurt Band’, which will be out in the autumn. Let your ears decide!"

TRACKLISTING:

Side A - Eastern Promise
Side B - Psalm

Marga Benitez - Geechie Goomie/ Winos on Parade (JBJ 1007 - Marga/Jukebox Jam) 7"

"It’s our 7th release on the Jukebox Jam label, so we thought it was about time to throw you a curve ball with something truly interesting and unique…Back to back on one 45 are the 2 best sides from the 2 super hard to find singles accredited to the mysterious Marga Benitez, a calypso singing ‘exotic dancer’ originally from the Caribbean who first made her way to a studio in 1954 with vocal group the Mello Tones. The label artwork for this reissue, incidentally, features an illustration of the lady herself, in full shake ’n’ maraca mode!

The top side here features the potent and intoxicating concoction that is ‘Geechie Goomie’, a record unlike any other we’ve ever heard like of. The slinky, seductive tones of Ms Benitez and her whacked out lyrics sit alongside an almost clunky exotic piano-led accompaniment and some oddly sinister backing vocals from the Mello-Tones to create a wonderful record which was perhaps always destined to find its audience in another time and place.

The B-side features the prize of the earlier session for Decca Records, ‘Wino’s on Parade’, a curious one-off oddity which should definitely appeal further to fans of the weird and wonderful with its unique blend of calypso vocals, quirky story-telling lyrics and doo-wop backing vox. Both singles dually flopped on original release and whilst ‘Geechie Goomie’ has had a small but dedicated following on the Belgian popcorn scene for a while, we anticipate that with this limited run 45rpm reissue the time and place for Marga Benitez’s indisputably unique charms has finally arrived!" (JAZZMAN RECORDS)

TRACKLISTING:

Side A - Geechie Goomie
SIde B - Winos on Parade

Madlib - 'Medicine Show No. 7: High Jazz (Yesterday's New Quintet) (DELUXE EDITION with BONUS LP) (3xLP)

"Madlib follows Brain Wreck Show with the seventh installment in his Madlib Medicine Show, a jazz album with his Yesterdays New Quintet called High Jazz.

Madlib's been busy this year. And while his recorded output always spans the gamut, he often returns to recurrent themes, spread across the genres that serve as home base – or bases, as it were. Jazz is one such base. This year, he's already released two albums from "spin off bands" that he introduced on the 2007 Yesterdays New Quintet Yesterdays Universe album. And, with High Jazz, Madlib begins anew – offering familiar jazz sounds from a series of "new" groups from his ever-augmenting cosmos. Call it "Yesterdays Galaxy."

High Jazz, the name itself a tribute to the landmark jazz-fusion album released by Stanton Davis's Ghetto Mysticism in 1976, shows a marked development in Madlib's craft. Every element of jazz is there. Is that tune modal-funk? Was that song psych-fusion? Was that a bossa-tinged run or another kind of latin-affair? Where did that sitar come from? Madlib's Yesterdays-excursions are never easy to categorize and that's the point – while experiencing chops like these, the desire to rigidly define takes a back seat to aural pleasure.

The Madlib Medicine Show series is a combination of Madlib's new hip-hop productions, remixes, beat tapes, and jazz, as well as mixtapes of funk, soul, Brazilian, psych, jazz and other undefined forms of music from the Beat Konducta's 4-ton stack of vinyl.

Limited edition 3-disc vinyl: Madlib has collected an additional 30 minutes of music for the limited edition vinyl release of High Jazz. These tracks are not available on the CD or digital release. Album covers will be hand screened by Hit+Run with a design by Jeff Jank, and individually numbered".

TRACKLISTING:

1. The Jackson Conti Band - 'Steppin' Into Tomorrow (Prelude)' (Produced By: Madlib)
2. Generation Match - 'Electronic Dimensions' (Produced By: Madlib)
3. Jahari Massamba Unit - 'Pretty Eyes' (Produced By: Madlib)
4. The Kenny Cook Octet - 'High Jazz' (Produced By: Madlib)
5. Yesterdays New Quintet - 'Medley: Don't You Worry Bout A Thing (Live At Spear For The Moondog)' (Produced By: Madlib)
6. Interlude (Produced By: Madlib)
7. The Big Black Foot Band feat. The Black Spirits - 'Reality Or Dream' (Produced By: Madlib)
8. Russell Jenkins Jazz Express - 'Drunk Again' (Produced By: Madlib)
9. Poyser, Riggins & Jackson - 'Funky Butt, Part 1' (Produced By: Madlib)
10. Jahari Massamba Unit - 'Wonderin'/Nightime' (Produced By: Madlib)
11. R.M.C. - 'Space & Time' (Produced By: Madlib)
12. Yesterdays New Quintet - 'Conquistador' (Produced By: Madlib)
13. The Big Black Foot Band feat. The Black Spirits - 'Tarzan's Theme' (Produced By: Madlib)
14. Interlude (Produced By: Madlib)
15. Joe McDuphrey Experience - 'Kimo' (Produced By: Madlib)

16. BONUS LP:
17. Jahari Masamba Unit - 'Falling' (Produced By: Madlib)
18. Yesterdays New Quintet - 'Runnin' Fast (On The Run)' (Produced By: Madlib)
19. Sound Directions feat. Malcolm Catto - 'Shady Cops' (Produced By: Madlib)
20. The Eddie Prince Fusion Band - 'The Struggle Is Over/Next Chapter' (Produced By: Madlib)
21. O.D. - 'Wasted (Themes Variations)' (Produced By: Madlib)

James Blake - CMYK EP 12" (Limited Yellow Vinyl) (R&S 1003Y)

"This is the debut single for the hugely tipped young London based producer on R&S.
James Blake is making some of the most startlingly original music to have emerged from London in 2010 and is a real star in the making. In between studying Popular Music at Goldsmiths and writing a debut album that will take a lot of people by surprise, he has released amazing singles on Hemlock & Hessle, pushing the boundaries of what is expected of ‘dubstep’ music.

This underground introduction has made him a star on influential blogs and websites and has now pricked up the ears of more mainstream press".

TRACKLISTING:

1. James Blake - CMYK
2. James Blake - Footnotes
3. James Blake - I'll Stay
4. James Blake - Postpone

Pariah – Safehouses EP 2x12" (TEST PRESSING) [RS1005]

"The recently refreshed and newly vibrant R&S Records – they who released James Blake’s breakout ‘CMYK’ recently – are housing the second release from London based Scot, Pariah. Having been vocal fans and supporters since we first heard ‘Detroit Falls’ b/w ‘Orpheus’ at the tail end of last year the new EP is a welcome listen as Pariah displays the breadth of his tastes, flexing his production muscles in all directions from tribal roll outs and deep house textures to tweaked hip hop and ambience.

Percussive roller ‘The Slump’ drops hard from tribal accented beats into an almighty bass pulse that would make Untold and Ramadanman proud. Eski-like beats stomp under the building layers of percussion and bass weight until a release comes in the form of melodic soulful vocal samples and twilight pads. Like a garage cousin of Rishi Romero’s 'African Forest' in a head on collision with Pulse-X and a healthy does of melancholic melody; it’s a big one. With its deep and housey vibes ‘Prism’ is a welcome addition to the front end of the EP, where the dance floor is more of an obvious target. It’s a subtle number mind, keeping it close with a tight and bumpy percussive roll; synth’s refract and spin off in different directions over building wide screen pads.

The late night vibes of ‘Railroad’ take things down to nice and blissful as Pariah excels at a slower more bump laden tempo. He merges that awkward hip hop vibe with a slinky garage bump with ease; its like you’re stuck on a bus mid summer, heavy with sweat with no hope of getting to where you got to go on time. Sweeping melodies with an emotional pull get pushed into shape by deep bass and junglist breaks before it all melts into field recordings and the next track ‘Crossed Out’ which takes off where ‘Prisim’ left but with a rattling garage bump more prominet.

The final two tracks see Pariah in atmospheric mode, first up is ‘C - Beams’ where he harnesses his inner Dilla, which he kets stutter out under field recordings, bittersweet soundtrack pianos and computer game lilted funk. Things go deeper still with atmospheric drones on the closing track ‘Safehouses’, its almost reminiscent of GAS in some ways, its layers of sound wrapping itself around your ears before it engulfs you in a bed of looping tones. ‘Safehouses’ is a varied and solid EP with enough range and scope to keep the dancefloor working; though its real strength lies in its diversity and range of flavours and styles on offer". (Words: James Balf)

TRACKLISITNG:

1. Pariah - The Slump
2. Pariah - Prism
3. Pariah - Railroad
4. Pariah - Crossed Out
5. Pariah - C-Beams
6. Pariah - Safehouses

Gilles Peterson's Havana Cultura Band - Roforofo Fight (Louie Vega Remixes) 12" Vinyl Single (BWOOD055)

"This Fela Kuti cover was made about a year ago, when Gilles Peterson spent five days recording in Havana, Cuba with jazz pianist Roberto Fonseca and his band. The results –a blend of Latin- and Afro-jazz fusion teeming with prodigious efficacy–became Havana Cultura: New Cuban Sound, released last year on Peterson’s Brownswood label.

Massive Louie Vega remixes of a perfect tune for summer, Gilles Peterson’s Havana Cultura Band’s cover of Fela Kuti’s "Roforofo Fight". (Picadilly Records)

TRACKLISTING:
1) Gilles Peterson's Havana Cultura Band - Roforofo Fight (Louie Vega EOL Remix)
2) Gilles Peterson's Havana Cultura Band - Roforofo Fight (Louie Vega Remix)
3) Gilles Peterson's Havana Cultura Band - Roforofo Fight (Louie Vega Remix Instrumental)
4) Gilles Peterson's Havana Cultura Band - Roforofo Fight (Bonus Beats)

Gilles Peterson's Havana Cultura Band - Remixed 12" Vinyl Single (BWOOD048CD)

"This is the 12" sampler from the Gilles Peterson's Havana Cultura Band REMIXED Project.....

The Gilles Peterson curated and produced Havana Cultura project is given the remix treatment by some of the worlds leading DJs and producers. The Album includes reworks by Louie Vega, Carl Cox, MJ Cole, Seiji, Michel Cleiss and 4Hero. With a list like that you know the musical scope is going to be wide, and the set takes in everything from house and techno to nu-jazz, UK funky and beats of varying styles" (Piccadilly Records)

1) Gilles Peterson's Havana Cultura Band feat. Roberto Fonseca - Rezando (Michel Cleis Remix)
2) Gilles Peterson's Havana Cultura Band feat. Mayra Caridad Valdés - Chekere Son (Seiji Rerub)
3) Gilles Peterson's Havana Cultura Band - La Revolución del Cuerpo Pt.1 (Skinner's Owiney Sigoma Mix).

Brownswood Electric Sampler - Eliphio/B Bravo - 12" Vinyl Single (BWOOD056)

"This sampler includes two tracks taken from the "Brownswood Electric" CD only album - Eliphino's "Let Me Love You Forever" and B Bravo's "Computa Love" - which highlights the amazing hybridism in today’s sound system culture. Both cuts aimed squarely at the dancefloor, with Eliphino flexing a mighty UKG / bruk shuffle, dubbed-out vocal and plenty of low end for your rump, and Red Bull Music Academy 2010 student B Bravo pitching headlong into classic boogie territory with half-time crunke........

Brownswood come correct with a fifteen track survey of the current beats scene, squaring off minimal D'n'B, Funky, Dubstep and garage from the likes of Rockwell, Pearson Sound, Mosca, 16 Bit and Mount Kimbie. To our knowledge this is the first time a lot of these tracks have appeared in unmixed form on a CD, so it's your first chance to cop thrillers like Mosca's 'Square One', Rockwell's slick twyster 'Underpass' and Pearson Sound's 'Wad'. The selector behind the disc obviously knows his beans, also drawing for exclusive freshness like Elephno's glowing house ride 'Let Me Love You Forever', the Joy Orb-alike 'Painted Jezebel' by George Fitzgerald and the fluttering bounce of Hypno's 'Over The Top', next to hiphop groovers like the Low Limit remix of Shlohmo's 'Antigravity' and Devonwho's 'Whispers'. Trust us, this is heavy" (iccadilly Records)

Side 1- Eliphino - Let Me Love You Forever
Side 2 - B. Bravo - Computa Love

I'm back from my break to Portugal......and here's a new 'Hold Box Flat' mix-up selection'.......ENJOY

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Transmit Box Flat 023

TRACKLIST

Birth / Speed / Merging / Aomawa // Pyramid Records
Hype Williams / The Throning / Taboo // CD-R
Welelela / ?? // ??? << please tag your mp3's
Ahuuuuuuu / To Love // One Handed Music
Vakula / Intro // Firecracker Recordings
Stingray313 / Sentiment // NakedLunch
Redshape / Grind // Shaped World
Hauntologists / Untitled (03A) // Hauntologists
Dan Mela & His Crew / Happy Birthday Compost (vocal) // Compost
Zomby / Across The Water // CD-R
Ramadanman / Work Them // Swamp 81
Mosca / Tilt Shift // CD-R
Skream / Arola // Freeizm
Quantec / Circles (re-edit) // PHONOBOX
Bich Loan and CBC Band / The Greatest Love // Sublime Frequencies
Oluko Umo / Praise Jah // Trans Air
Theo Parrish / Sun Ra - Saga Of Resistance // Kindred Spirits
Omar-S / Psychotic Photosynthesis // FXHE Records
F.911 / Senate Missing // Slow To Speak
Ame / Junggesselenmaschine // Innervisions
Noa Siano / Kwani // Kindisch
Sampha / Shadesv // Young Turks
Brackles // BLO << free from XLR8R.com
Santiago Salazar // Jamilia's Theme << free from XLR8R.com
Peven Everet / Kickin Up Dust // The Realness
George McCrae / I Get Lifted // Ocean Records
Silvia Striplin / You Said // Universal Sound
Brigth Engelberts / Free Me Now // Hotcasa Records
Outkast / She Lives In My Lap // Arista Records
Earl Sweatshirt / Wakeupfaggot // CD-R
Onra / White (forthcoming on Rush Hour)
Vybz Kartel feat Pop'Caan & Gaza Slim / Clarks // Mad Collabo Riddim
Tony Matterhorn / ??
Kassav / Zouk La Se Sel Medikaman
Dougla / Split meh in Two

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Transmit / Box / Flat - Podcast No. 20

2010-06-25T22:21:00.003+01:00

TRACKLISTING:

Carlos y Gaby / Happy Summer Solstice // All City Records
Omar Souleyman / Eih Min Elemkom (From The Day That I Told You) // Sublime Frequencies
Ghostpoet / Morning // Brownswood
Arp 101 / Dead Leaf // Eglo
Morgan Zarate feat. Sarah Ann Webb / M.A.B // K7 Records
Afrika Hi Tek / How Does It Make U Feel // WARP
Mount Kimbie / Mayor // Hotflush
GreyMatter // Mind Over Matter (Throwing Snow Remix)
Kode9 / You Don't Wash (dub) // K7
Fourtet / Sing (Mosca remix) // Domino
Carl Cox // Unknown // CD-R
Alex. O. Smith / Ultra Fine One // FXHE
Motor City Drum Ensemble / There's A Truth feat. Stee Downes // MCDE Records
Deetron / Dark Matter
Actress / Purrple Splazsh // Honest Jons
Kavsgrave / Quotes // Numbers
Mr. Mageeka / Different Lekstrix // Numbers
Mala / Eyes // Deep Medi
Conforce / Machine Conspiracy // Meanwhile
Johnny Hammond / Walk In Sunshine // Beat Goes Public
Love Unlimited / Love's Theme // 20th Century USA Recordings
Blend / Uphigh Collective // On Point Recordimgs
Sekta / Liquid Tek //Shifting Peaks
Roy Brooks / The Free Slave // Muse Records Inc.
Bo Hansson / De Gra Hamnarna //
Eddie Palmieri / My Spiritual Indian // Soul Jazz Records
The Mebusas / Son Of Mr. Bull Dog // Academy
Mahlathini & Mahotella Queens / Wozan Mahipi // Nascente
Edip Akbayram / Kaslarin Karasina /

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Dave Pearce Street Sounds Special on BBC Radio 6 Mix 20th June 2010

2010-06-22T18:17:00.006+01:00

Dave Pearce presents a 6 Mix special charting the history of the Street Sounds compilation albums which dominated UK dance music in the early 1980s.

Started in 1982 by London based Streetwave Records as a way for people to get hold of expensive, rare dance and hip-hop 12 inch records only in available in the USA, Streetsounds compilation albums bought previously underground music onto Britain’s high streets with a new album every three month. Street Sounds compilations soon became essential for anyone into hip hop, house, rare groove or electro music, at a time when the British charts were dominated by the New Romantic bands like Visage and Spandau Ballet.

Founder Morgan Khan licensed early tracks from Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaatta and The Fatback Back as well as opening the doors for US labels like Def Jam and Profile recordings, at a time when the UK music industry was still a closed shop for anyone but the traditional major labels. Morgan Khan joins Dave in the studio to tell the incredible story of how a Hong Kong-born Indian who grew up in 1970s London came to be so influential in the early days of dance music and how Street Sounds helped bring hip hop and electronic music to the mainstream. Dave and Morgan also play and talk about seminal tracks from the Street Sounds back catalogue including D-Train, Scott La Rock, Roy Ayers and Todd Terry.

Raw Silk – Do It To The Music (1982)
Roy Ayers – Running Away (1983)
Candi Staton – You Got The Love (1986)
Fatback Band – I Found Lovin’ (1987
The Sugarhill Gang – White Lines (Don’t Do It) (1984)
Masquerade – Set It Off (1985)
Rose Royce – Magic Touch (1984)
Chuck Brown – Bustin’ Loose (1978)
Hashim – Al-Naafiysh (1983)
Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force – Planet Rock [1982]
Joe Smooth – Promised Land (1988)
Todd Terry – Bango (To The Batmobile) (1988)
Stakker – Stakker Humanoid (1989)
DJ Scott La Rock – South Bronx (1986)
The Egyptian Lover – Do U Wanna Get Down [Deb’s Duel Of Legends Mix](2010)

DAVE’S STREET SOUNDS MIX

Dayton – The Sound Of Music (1983)
Cheryl Lynn – Encore (1984)
The Staple Singers – Slippery People (1984)
Class Action – Weekend (Larry Levan mix)(1983)
Aleem – Get Loose (1984)
Peter Black – My Love Is Free (1986)

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The third volume in the Nu Electro series will continue where the highly successful vol.2 left off. Vol.3 will feature the most upfront, freshest & biggest Electro tunes in the Universe! Both the CD & Vinyl also feature 2 incredible and exclusive bonus Mastermixes.

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Musica De Futebol - mixtape

2010-06-13T17:11:00.003+01:00

Antal was actually made for the 2006 World Cup, but with the seleção entering the tournament on Tuesday, this is a good time to bring it back. Enjoy one hour of Brazilian gems with football commentaries as interludes.

You can download it HERE.

FACT mix 157: Addison Groove AKA Headhunter & FACT mix 156: Kode9

2010-06-13T15:20:00.004+01:00

Addison Groove is, in fact, an alias of Headhunter, a dubstep mainstay who’s released a multitude of singles for Tempa as well as an album for the label, Nomad. He’s been playing Chicago juke in his DJ sets for a while now, and his work as Addison Groove is where that influence is allowed to come to the forefront, with stripped down drum machine beats, acid basslines and hip-hop / booty-leaning vocals.

His FACT mix starts off in the 120-130bpm range and finishes at about 160, taking in Detroit Grand Pubahs, Mosca, Ramadanman, Rashad, DJ Spinn and Leatherface along the way. There’s also plenty of unreleased Addison Groove tracks, including ‘Footcrab VIP’.

You can catch Addison Groove, along with Insfra:mental, Luke Vibert and and more at So Not Barcelona next week. For more information and tickets, see our preview.

Tracklist:

1 Dynamix ii – Just Give The DJ A Break
2 Detroit Grand PuBahs – Sandwiches
3 Submersible Machines – Cold Seep
4 Altered Natives – Crop Duster
5 Mosca – Square One – Julio Bashmore longhorn remix
6 Mosca – Nike
7 Girl Unit – Shade One
8 Ramadanman – Work Them
9 Addison Groove – Footcrab VIP
10 Andrea Parker – Freaky Bitches
11 Addison Groove – Work It
12 Mr Dee – Time Space Scrilla
13 Addison Groove – Sexual
14 Rashad & Spinn – Transported
15 Rashad – Freakin Me On The flo
16 Leatherface – King Kong
17 Rashad – Get Down And Make Em Freak
18 Rashad – Drop Out Juke

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Debuting on Tempa in 2002 with ‘Fat Larry’s Skank’, Kode9 has spent the last decade exploring an aesthetic that’s taken him from suffocating dread-filled dubstep to toxic house music. Along the way, he’s released a superb album (Memories of the Future, with frequent collaborator Spaceape) and become just as famous for his record label as his own productions: since Hyperdub’s inception in 2004, it’s released albums by Burial, Ikonika and King Midas Sound, and singles by Zomby, Terror Danjah, Cooly G, Mala and more.

This month, 9 will release the latest in K7’s DJ-Kicks series of mix CDs, a journey from elasticated house and dancehall, through soul, funk and hip-hop, to overbearing dubstep and grime. Kode is one of the world’s best DJs – his extended sets at Plastic People last year are spoken of with pure reverence, and this year he’s let out specialist mixes in 2step and “sino-grime”. Here he contributes a mix of “mostly ’94-’96 jungle”, bound by an icy, misty quality. Lemon D, DJ SS, Undercover Agent and more feature.

Next week, Hyperdub, Plat du Jour and FACT will be presenting an off-Sonar party at Club Mondo, Thursday 17 June. Already on the bill are Darkstar, Cooly G, Ikonika, Guido, Mweslee and Kode9 himself, plus Plat du Jour residents. There’s also a ton of special guests – to find out who, you’ll have to attend.

Tracklist:

1. Soundman & Don Lloyde with Elizabeth Troy – Greater Love
2. Lemon D – Manhatten Melody
3. Dope Style – You Must Think First
4. Nut Nut – Special Dedication
5. Undercover Agent – Oh Gosh
6. DJ SS – MA2 remix
7. 12-10 Series Mk 1 – All that Jazz
8. L Double featuring Bassman – Da Base too Dark
9. Urban Jungle – Back in the Daze
10. Sacred – Kall the Kops
11. Fusion Forum – Vintage Keys
12. Maldini – Def Roll
13. Bad Influence feat. DJ Rush Puppie – Time & Time

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Madlib Medicine Show #6:The Brain Wreck Show RELEASED 22nd JUNE

2010-06-04T11:31:00.003+01:00

Global psychedelia, Asian funk, Prog. Rock, conspiracy theories, paranoia, and rabbits who fuck in the forest - all in one Madlib mixtape.

Madlib follows History of the Loop Digga: 1990-2000 with the sixth installment in his Madlib Medicine Show, his psych-prog-avante-freak-out-funk rock mix Brain Wreck Show. Madlib s been pegged as a jazz guy as far back as 2000, when he as his alter ego Quasimoto released the song "Jazz Cats." His releases with the fictional "jazz group" Yesterdays New Quintet didn't help matters. But, no matter how many jazz records are thrust at him by money-hungry record dealers, he most often at least lately gravitates to the rock side of the spectrum. That's late 60s to late 70s psych-prog-avante-freak-out-funk rock mind you; from the Tropicalia of Brasil to the Krautrock of Germany to the fuzzy sonds of mid 70s Nigeria, the Beat Konducta's rock tastes know no cultural bounds. Actually, we're not sure if they know any bounds. This an introductory mix entitled the Brain Wreck Show (admission, he wrote on the CD master, "One Brainticket" an homage to one of his favorite Krautrock bands) should serve to give its listeners a delightfully freaky funked up experience into the rock side of Madlib's collecting conscious. We're glad you re along for the ride.

The Madlib Medicine Show series is a combination of Madlib's new hip-hop productions, remixes, beat tapes, and jazz, as well as mixtapes of funk, soul, Brazilian, psych, jazz and other undefined forms of music from the Beat Konducta's 4-ton stack of vinyl.

Release date: June 22nd

Teebs Podcast for XLR8R

2010-06-02T16:31:00.003+01:00

“Young Teebs is more than just another producer in Southern California’s über-fertile beat scene. The Chino Hills resident—who swears that he’s moving back to LA proper very soon—is not only busy putting the finishing touches on a debut album slated for release on Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder label later this year, he’s also an accomplished skater, artist, and painter. Basically, he’s one of those dudes who’s seemingly good at just about everything he does. Like many of his musical brethren, he claims to have been originally inspired by trips to vaunted weekly club night Low End Theory, although we’re guessing that the fact that he also has spent time living with FlyLo and Samiyam certainly hasn’t stifled his development as an artist. Now he’s fresh off the release of his collaborative Tropics EP with UK producer Jackhigh, and about to embark on a summer tour with like-minded young buck Shlohmo, so we were lucky to pin Teebs down long enough to put together a mix for the XLR8R podcast. Stuffed with hazy, blunted beats, the mix nicely captures the spirit of the LA sound and also happens to feature a grip of unreleased and exclusive tunes.” (XLR8R Webpage)

To Grab the Podcast click HERE.

Tracklisting

01 Kutmah “Warm Like The Sunshine” (Poobah)
02 Million Young “Chlorophyl”
03 Jeremiah Jae “Money and Food”
04 Teebs “Arthurs Birds”
05 Teebs “Cook, Clean, Pay the Rent (2nd Edit)”
06 Kona Triangle “Mango Rubicon” (Porter)
07 Flying Lotus “Drips/Auntie’s Harp” (Warp)
08 Alex B feat. Harold “Seriously Again”
09 Flying Lotus “Satelllliiiiiteee” (Warp)
10 Dungen “Fretag” (Kemado)
11 Baths “Hall” (Anticon)
12 Teebs “While You Dooooo”
13 Juj “My Room” (Wedidit)
14 Teebs “Personal Winter” (Dublab Japan)
15 Flying Lotus “One for Kutmah”
16 Boards of Canada “Music Has the Right to Children (Oscar McClure Remix)”
17 Savath & Savalas “Te Quiero Pero Por Otro” (Warp)
18 Knxledge “Give Em Some Beats”
19 Knxledge “BB125.84”
20 Teebs “Why Like This”
21 Kutmah “Intro/Outro Shit”

Besti-mix 20: Zero 7 Summer Mixtape

2010-06-02T16:11:00.002+01:00

"We are officially 20 mixes old, or should that be young? Anyhow, in celebration of our minor anniversary we’ve drafted in major musical talent in the shape of much-loved purveyors of downtempo goodness Zero 7.

A reflection of their eagerly-awaited set at this year’s Camp Bestival, Henry Binns and Sam Hardaker’s exclusive mix of classic soul, boogie and disco by the likes of diva deluxe Diana Ross, diamond-dusted lung-busting gals the Pointer Sisters and vibes legend Roy Ayers is perfectly pitched for summer days and nights kicking back in the great outdoors with friends. And now that the sun’s final here, you can do exactly that by clicking on the download below. As Roy Ayers himself is fond of saying, everybody loves the sunshine..." (Besti Blog Website)

Download HERE.

Tracklisting:
1. Brian Bennet - Solstice
2. The Valentine Bros. - Lonely Nights (Intro)
3. Big Noyd - My Rhyme (Dub)
4. The Stylistics - Hurry Up This Way Again (Dub)
5. Grey & Hanks - How Can You Live Without Love
6. Gene Harris - Losalamitolatinfunklovesong
7. Bobbi Humphrey - My Little Girl (Edit)
8. Earth Wind & Fire - You Cant Hide Love
9. Timmy Thomas & Nicole Mcloud - New York Eyes (Edit)
10. The Love Unlimited Orchestra - Strange Funky Games & Things
11. Diana Ross - Love Hangover (Edit)
12. Leroy Hudson - All Because Of You (Edit)
13. Sylvia - Sweet Stuff (Edit)
14. Bobby Caldwell - Open Your Eyes
15. Loose Ends - Hangin On A string
16. Sylvia Striplin - You Turn Me Away
17. The Pointer Sisters - Dont It Drive You Crazy
18. Teddy Pendergrass (R.I.P) - Close The Door
19. Roy Ayers - When I See You (Edit)

European Dates announced for Roger Walters 'The Wall' Tour....

2010-05-27T21:57:00.005+01:00

Fans in Europe, your wait is over: Roger Walters announced today that he will bring The Wall Live to Europe for a 28-date tour in the Spring of 2011. Kicking off in Lisbon on March 27, the tour will cross the continent before wrapping up in Dusseldorf on June 18. The complete list of confirmed dates can be seen below.....

DATE VENUE LOCATION Tickets

Mar 21, 2011 Atlantico Pavilion Lisbon, PT Tickets

Mar 25, 2011 Palacio de Deportes Madrid, ES Tickets

Mar 29, 2011 Palau Sant Jordi Barcelona, ES Tickets

Apr 1, 2011 Mediolanumforum Milan, IT Tickets

Apr 2, 2011 Mediolanumforum Milan, IT Tickets

Apr 8, 2011 Gelredome Arnhem, NL Tickets

Apr 12, 2011 Sports Arena Budapest, HU Tickets

Apr 15, 2011 O2 Arena Prague, CZ Tickets

Apr 18, 2011 Atlas Arena Łódź, PL Tickets

Apr 23, 2011 Olympiski Moscow, RU Tickets

Apr 25, 2011 SKK Arena St. Petersburg, RU Tickets

Apr 27, 2011 Hartwall Arena Helsinki, FI Tickets

Apr 30, 2011 Telenor Oslo, NO Tickets

May 4, 2011 Ericsson Globe Stockholm, SE Tickets

May 7, 2011 Parken Copenhagen, DK Tickets

May 11, 2011 O2 Arena London, UK Tickets

May 12, 2011 O2 Arena London, UK Tickets

May 17, 2011 O2 Arena London, UK Tickets

May 20, 2011 Manchester Evening News Arena Manchester, UK Tickets

May 21, 2011 Manchester Evening News Arena Manchester, UK Tickets

May 23, 2011 O2 Arena Dublin, IE Tickets

May 27, 2011 Sportspaleis Antwerp, BE Tickets

May 30, 2011 Bercy Paris, FR Tickets

Jun 3, 2011 SAP Arena Mannheim, DE Tickets

Jun 6, 2011 Hallenstadion Zurich, CH Tickets

Jun 10, 2011 Colorline Arena Hamburg, DE Tickets

Jun 15, 2011 O2 Arena Berlin, DE Tickets

Jun 18, 2011 Esprit Arena Düsseldorf, DE Tickets

New Jack Dangers MBM Material......

2010-05-26T21:51:00.004+01:00

Jack Dangers is protective of sharing too many technical details about TapeLab, his Mill Valley music studio. The place is a tangle of cables, pins, and shiny knobs that evokes post–World War II films showing telephone operators making manual switchboard connections. It's here that the producer keeps a 600-pound synthesizer so rare that he's one of the only musicians putting it to use; a vocoder collection that'd make T-Pain envious; and a gong emblazoned with the logo of Meat Beat Manifesto, his highly influential 23-year-old band. Mac laptops and a freshly dead computer tower attest that he's no stranger to digital, but it's clear that Dangers' passions lie in analog gear.

Dangers' latest musical partner, an avowed Meat Beat fan named Jon Drukman, is a digitally leaning electro producer who works under the name Bass Kittens. Together, Dangers and Drukman call themselves the JDs. The moniker pays tribute to James Brown's band (and their own initials), and isan unintended metaphor for how they complement each other musically the way key Brown players Fred Wesley and Bootsy Collins did.

Tracklist
1 Into The World 4:30
2 Now Returns 6:06
3 Dead Calm 6:56
4 I Don't Know When To Stop 9:04
5 Core Limey 4:27
6 Inuit Bedouin 6:47
7 Heterodyne 5:21
8 Computer Woes 5:37
9 Radiation 4:24
10 Come See Goat 4:44
11 Who Controls The Controllers 9:45

The JDs' full-length debut, Education, released May 4 via Drukman's digital label, Pretension Records, is a meeting of analog and digital minds. The electro- and breakbeat-heavy album blends the warm feel of the former with the crispness of the latter, and disparate sounds ignite. Waterlogged minor keys dovetail with metallic beats on the opener "Into the World." "I Don't Know When to Stop" offers a vocoded voice cheerfully proclaiming the title as '80s breakdancing beats dissolve in a tangle of robotic bleeps, while "Dead Calm" mounts a multilayered attack of bizarre boings, spoken samples, and skittering ringtones. It's a taut collection of songs paced for the dancefloor, yet still possessing enough sonic details for the homebound headphone listener.

Most of Education was recorded in two months; it was released as soon as it was completed. "One thing I like about music being centered on the Internet is that the artist is in control," Drukman says of the speed of the record's release. Meanwhile, the Meat Beat Manifesto album will have been finished for more than a year when it comes out in September. The lag is partly because Dangers is still in discussions with labels interested in releasing the physical product in different territories.

The JDs — who've shared the stage for live stints in mutual friend Mark Pistel's band, Pistel — started working on music for fun about seven years ago. They'd run into each other at a party, and Dangers invited Drukman to TapeLab to check out its monster console. At the time of their first recording session, Drukman's wife was pregnant. After his daughter was born, Drukman put his musical efforts on pause. But he shared the two songs he and Dangers had produced with Pietro Da Sacco, a DJ on UC Irvine radio station KUCI. Da Sacco often played the exclusives on his show, Digital::Nimbus, and periodically asked Drukman whether more music would surface. Last fall, those queries spurred Drukman to call Dangers and see if he wanted to collaborate again.

It was good timing for Dangers. He was winding down work on the eleventh Meat Beat Manifesto album, tentatively titled Answers Come in Dreams. He'd also finished coproduction on a 1957 spoken-word recording from Beat-era humorist Henry Jacobs and former San Francisco poet laureate Lawrence Ferlinghetti. They began exchanging musical sketches by e-mail, and got together at TapeLab a handful of times to record improvisational pieces.

The resulting Education showcases a worthy battle for rhythmic supremacy between analog and digital audio technology. It also shows Dangers and Drukman as united minds behind the machines. (Comments By Tamara Palmer Wednesday, May 26 2010)

The JD's - Education (2010) can be purchased here......

In addition, Jack Dangers recentyl completed a mix for the Digital:Nimbus.....

"D::N is excited to present The Most Music; an exclusive Meat Beat
Manifesto 1-hr Ableton Live mix.

Jack Dangers' Meat Beat Manifesto project has inspired an entire
generation of musicians and has constantly evolved (and recycled)
sound into creative reformations over the past 20+ years. For this
exclusive mix Jack unleashes an audio-collage of seismic induced
basslines. The Most Music bends, tweaks and reverberates electro-dub
with ease and control that it is clearly evident MBM's smorgasbord of
analog-to-digital machinery is firmly intact from start to finish. A
few classic MBM offerings and new (unreleased) tracks are mixed with
vintage radio identifications, obscure broadcast announcements,
Brazilian snippets, familiar (deconstructed) samples, syncopated
beats, wobbly bass and heavy distortion.

The Most Music is a ravaging dub-infested dose of heavily drenched
rhythms, off-center funk-breaks and creative sampling summed up in a
60-minute Ableton Live jam-session by Jack Dangers himself. Have a
taste of what's to come with the next incarnation of MBM's sound
pallet as it rips through the airwaves of KUCI 88.9 FM via
Digital::Nimbus Radio".

Tracklisting for Show 365...

Bitcrush :: Nimbus Effect [D::N] M/Cadoo
Jean-Paul Bondy :: L.A. Is Burning [The Path of Most Resistors] Compost

Meat Beat Manifesto :: The Most Music mix [Jack Dangers] meatbeatmanifesto.com

Bassnectar :: Timestretch (West Coast Lo Fi Remix) [Timestretch EP] Basshead
Defrag :: Madness Rides the Starwind [Lament Element] Hymen
Mobthrow :: My Dub Kingdom [Mutant Dubstep V3] Spectraliquid
Broken Note :: Dubversion [Terminal Static] Ad Noiseam
Baobinga & I.D :: South Manchester Weather (ID rmx) [Dubstep Remix EP] Fat!
Scorn :: Stripped Back Hinge [Stealth] Ad Noiseam
Pistel :: Electronic Dub 2 [Electronic Dub Collective 2] BPM

"The Most Music mix" by Meat Beat Manifesto can be downloaded from here.

Transmit / Box / Flat - Podcast No. 19

2010-05-25T16:17:00.004+01:00

bPm & D'Wala have just posted their latest podcast.....

TRACKLISTING:

Moodymann / Its Too Late 4 U and Me // KDJ
Moodymann / Long Hot Sex Nights (featuring NJB)
Actress / Supreme Cunnilingus // Honest Jon's Records
Osunlade / Oxossi Da Focha Branca // Soul Jazz Records
Hedzoleh / Yei Baa Gbe Wo // Soundway
Dadawah / Seventy-Two Nations // Wild Flower
The Observers / Through The Fire I Come Part 2 // Vital Mix
Rasta Clean / Zig Zag (version) // Sprint Records
Fatman: Riddim Section / Togetherness Rock // Peace Music
Roy Brooks and The Artistic Truth / Eboness // Jazzman Records
HouseShoes / Newports // All City Records
Moodymann / The Hacker // Mahogani Music
A Backlodge Edit / Broughton // Honest Jons
Cameo / It's Serious // Chocolate City Records
Delray / Pure Funk (Part 2) // Jazzman Records
Saxon Lee & The Shadows Inferno / Mind Your Business
Owiney Sigoma Band / Jalako Onyoono Paka // Brownswood
Kyle Hall / Love Kontrol // Wild Oats
Swede:art / Embrace The Chill // TokyoDawn
Sepalcure / The Warning // HotFlush
Massimo Voci / Rhythm 23 (original mix)
Rick Wade Duke of Cologne / Moving On // Yore Records
Anibal Velasquez Y Su Conjunto / Carruseles
Joe / Claptrap // Hessle Audio
Roska / TimeStamp // Rinse
Ellen Allien / Flashy Flashy // BPitch Control
Brendon Moeller / Mainline // EchoChord
Pilooski / AAA // CD-R
Fragoso / Respirar (Paraphonic Basic 500 Model) // CDR
Kuroisoul / Listen To Me

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Roger Walters touring THE WALL again......

2010-05-14T08:50:00.003+01:00

Roger Waters’ will be performing his rock opera The Wall in a series of concerts on The Wall Tour 2010. The US dates have been announced on his new website in what is thought to be the first leg of the tour. Hopefully Europe will happen in 2011.

Commencing on 15th September 2010 at Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario, the tour will see The Wall performed live 35 times for what is one of the most eagerly anticipated tours of the Pink Floyd members past and present.

It has also been reported that the tour will "move on to Europe for another 57 dates beginning in March. Waters says he'd like to take the show to other territories, including South America." [source]

The band currently consists of Roger Waters on Bass/Vox, Snowy White and Dave Kilminster on guitars and California group Venice doing male backing vocals. A treat!

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Transmit / Box / Flat - Podcast No. 18

2010-05-10T20:26:00.002+01:00

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Or click HERE to download.

TRACKLISTING:

Donald Byrd / Madlib // Steppin' Again // Blue Note
Theo Parrish // When I'm Gone // Vibes new&rare Music
Pursuit Grooves // Mr. Softee // Tectonic
Deniece Williams // Free // Columbia
Junior M.A.F.I.A // Get Money // Big Beat
Hi Tek // Get Up (Instrumental) // Rawkus
Mos Def // If You Can Huh You Can Hear // Open Mic Recordings
Sarah Webster Fabio // Together To The Tune Of Coltrane's "Equinox" // Folkways records
Johnny Hammond // Shifting Gears
Gill Scott Heron // Home Is Where The Hatred Is // XL Recordings
Luis Gasca // Street Dude // Blue Thumb Records
Try And Love // Whizzy Llabo // His Master's Voice
Fikret Kizilok // Sevda Cicegi // World Wild Productions
Remitti // Lemra // Maison Des Cultures Du Monde
Embryo // 9 & Govinda // Trikont
Tago Mago // Mushroom // United Artists Records
Demon Fuzz // Hymn To Mother Earth // Janus Records
Sam Spence Sounds // ms28 // Finders Keepers
Bob Marley & The Wailers // Burnin' & Lootin' // Tuff Gong
Leo Graham // Voodooism // Pressure Sounds
Roots Manuva // Sanke Bite // CD-R
Lazer Sword // Where Have You Been 7.0 // Numbers
Tokimonsta // Forgetting Numbers // CD-R
Dimlite // On The Same Picture // Now Again
Ollie // Purple Moon // CD-R
Henrik Schwartz // Once Again (Kuniyuki version) // Mule
Pursuit Grooves // Shabaps // Tectonic
Kowton // Basic Music Knowledge // Idle Hands
Blawan // Iddy // Hessle Audio
James Blake // I'll Stay // R&S
Ike Release // Nature Manipulation // Infrasonics
George Fitzgerald // Painted Jezebell // Brownswood
Daedelus // An Armada Approaches // BrainFeeder
Horrace Silver // The Gods Of The Yoruba // Blue Note
Pinot Dark // Pinot Dark // CD-R
Kenny Graham and His Satellites // Lullaby // Trunk
Flying Lotus // Drips / Auntie's Harp // Warp
A Certain Ratio // Kether Hot Knives // Soul Jazz
Busta Rhymes // Rhymes Galore // Explicit Lyrics
Lazor Sword // Trapperkeeper // Numbers
Frankie Zhivago // Disco Funkanoo // Claremont 56

Brownswood Basement - Drum and Bass Special

2010-05-06T11:32:00.001+01:00

"Yep, Gilles finally got around to a Brownswood Basement Special that he’s been promising since about 2003! He spent a whole day rummaging through stacks of 12″s, white labels and old acetates and pulled out about 40 old favourites. Photek, Peshay, Goldie, DJ Hype, Source Direct, LTJ Bukem, Roni Size, Ed Rush & Optical… 110% underground heaters, classic material and golden memories, it’s by no means a comprehensive history of D&B, but it is a great snapshot of a scene in full flow."

Brownswood Basement Drum & Bass Special // 05-05-10

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Source Direct – The Crane (Source Direct Recordings)
Aquarius – Aquatic (Good Looking)
Photek – Fusion (Photek)
DJ Hype – Hello Lover (DJ Trace Remix) (IQ Records)
LTJ Bukem – Horizons (Good Looking)
Peshay – Futurama (Basement)
4hero – Parallel Universe (Reinforced)
DJ Dextrous – Sunny Smiles…(People) (King Of The Jungle)
Lemon D – Urban Style Music (Metalheadz)
Roni Size Reprazent – Trust Me (Talkin Loud)
United Future Organisation – Loud Minority (Alex Reece Remix) (Talkin Loud)
Roni Size – It’s A Jazz Thing (V Recordings)
Fugees – Fu-Gee-La (Goldie Remix) (White)
Photek – Ni Ten Ichi Ryu (Dubplate Version)
Adam F – Metropolis (Positiva)
Ed Rush & Optical – Zardoz (Virus)
Doc Scott – Tokyo Dawn (Good Looking)
Wax Doctor – Never As Good (Talkin Loud)
Grooverider – Time & Space (Dubplate)
Innerzone Orchestra – Bug In The Bassbin (Planet E)
Original Playboys – Come To Me (Dubplate)
Scorpio feat. Leonie – Breakbeat Era (Full Cycle)
Roni Size – Music Box (Full Cycle)
Tom & Jerry – Maxi(mum) Style Booty Style – Part III (Shell)
Johnny One-Drop – Travelings (X Project Remix) (Talkin Loud)
Carlito – Carlito’s Way (Creative Source)
Fernanda Porta – Sambassim (DJ Patife Remix) (V Recordings)
UFO – Something Out There (Ray Keith Samba Mix)
Uncut – Midnight (Mist 2003 Mix) (Warner)
DJ Kane – Let’s Go To Work (Trouble On Vinyl)
Peshay – Switch (Island Blue)
Peshay – Miles From Home (Island Blue)
John Coltrane – Like Sonny (Peshay Remix) (Talkin Loud)
Underwolves – Under Your Sky (Origin Unknown Mix) (Island Blue)
Roni Size – Problems (Dubplate)
Calibre – Hypnotise (Soul:r)
Drumagick – Easy Boom (Sambaloco)
Alex Reece – Feel The Sunshine (4th & Broadway)
Krust – True Stories (Talkin Loud)

History Of Drum and Bass Mixtape by Jaguar Skills

2010-05-06T10:54:00.001+01:00

"The King of Cut and Paste, Jaguar Skills brings his never less than deft chopping hand to the history of drum and bass! From hardcore, through jungle to liquid and jump-up onto dubstep in the present day, this is a bumper mp3 that you have to have in your collection".

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Tracklistings:

The Whittles - Amen Brother
A Guy Called Gerald - 28 Gun Bad Boy
Rufige Kru - Terminator
Omni Trio - Renegade Snares
Deep Blue - The Helicopter Tune
Unknown Origin - Valley Of The Shadows
LTJ Bukem - Logical Progression
LTJ Bukem - Atlantis
Shy Fx - Original Nuttah
Serial Killaz - Code Red (Original Mix)
DJ Hype - Tiger Style
Renegade - Terrorist
Leviticus - Burial
M Beat - Style
Dead Dred - Dred Bass
DJ Krust - Jazz Note
Goldie - Inner City Life
Prizna Ft Demolition Man - Fire
Firefox and 4 Tree - Warning (Powder Mix)
2 Bad Mice - Bombscare
M Beat feat. General Levi - Incredible
Soundman and Don Lloydie - Greater Love
DJ Krust - Set Speed
Adam F - Circles
Source Direct - Exit 9
DJ SS - The Lighter
Ganja Kru - Super Sharp Shooter
Aphrodite - King Of The Beats
Shimon & Andy C - Night Flight
Bad Company - Bad Ass
LTJ Bukem - Horizon
Nasty Habits - Shadow Boxing
Adam F - Metropolis
Alex Reese - Pulp Fiction
Photek - Ni Ten Ichi Ryu
Jonny L - Piper
Roni Size - Brown Paper Bag
Ray Keith - Chopper (Shy FX Remix)
Roni Size - Heros
Ed Rush, Optical & Fierce - Cutslo (Lokuste Mix)
Ram Trilogy - Warhead
Adam F - Brand New Funk
Bad Company - The Nine
Trace - Sonar
Dillinja - Fluid
DJ Die - Clear Skyz
Shy FX - Bambaataa
Ed Rush, Optical & Fierce - Alien Girl
Dom & Roland - Can't Punish Me
Adam F - Dirty Harry
E-Z Rollers - Walk This Land
Ed Rush & Optical - Bacteria
Ed Rush & Optical - Sicknote
Ed Rush & Optical - Watermelon
Bad Company - The Pulse
Krust V Roni Size - Kloaking Device
Ram Trilogy - Titan
Moving Fusion - Turbulence
Digital - Deadline
Dillinja - Nasty Ways
Roni Size & Reprazent - Dirty Beats (Roni Size Remix)
E-Z Rollers - RS2000
Badmarsh & Shri - Signs
Bad Company - Planet Dust
DJ ZInc - Casino Royal
Shy FX & T Power - Shake Ur Body
Fernanda Porto - Sambassim (DJ Patife Remix)
Shimon & Andy C - Body Rock
DJ Marky & Xrs - LK
High Contrast - Return Of Forever
Dillinja - Twist Em Out
Shy FX & T-Power & Skibadee - Don't Wanna Know
Concord Dawn - Morning Light
Klute - Part Of Me
Dillinja - Grimey
Uncut - Midnight
Raiden - Fallin'
M.I.S.T. - Jam Hot
Hive - Neo
London Elektricity - The Great Drum & Bass Swindle
Bad Company - Nitrous
D Kay & Epsilon - Barcelona
Jahiem - Put That Woman First (DJ Calibre Remix)
M.I.S.T. - Outaspace
Shy FX & T-Power - Feelin U
Friction and Nu Balance - Robocop
Logistics - Together
Calyx & Teebee - Follow The Leader
High Contrast - Racing Green
Calibre - Drop It Down
D Bridge - True Romance
Calibre & High Contrast - Mr Majestic
Artificial Intelligence - Through The Gate
High Contrast - Twilight's Last Gleaming
Concord Dawn - Don't Tell Me
Pendulum - Another Planet
Pendulum - Tarantula
Jenna G - In Love
Shy Fx & T Power - Feelings
Nu:Tone - Strange Encounter
Alix Perez & Specific - Love Bug
Konflict - Messiah
Noisia - The Tide
Fresh - Floodlight
Potential Bad Boy - Submission
Chase And Status - Duppy Man
Logistics - The Trip
Photek - Thunder (DJ Die and Clipse Remix)
Sub Focus - X Ray
Pendulum - Slam
Tommy Boy - Love And Happiness
Die & Clipz - Number One
Total Science - Soul Patrol
Noisia - Facade
Total Contrast - What We Do
Pendulum - The Vault
Sub Focus - Airplane
TC Featuring Jakes - Deep
Ben Westbeech & Die - Get Closer
Chase & Status - Love's Theme
Michael Jackson - Human Nature (Makoto & Specialist Remix)
Alix Perez & Specific - Just Memories
Benny Page - Turn Down The Lights
Potential Badboy - Hot Girls
Commix - Be True
TC - Where's My Money
Zinc feat. Makoto & Stamina MC - Thinking Back
Roni Size & DJ Die - It's A Jazz Thing (Utah Jazz Remix)
Alix Perez ft. MC Fats - Down The Line
Matrix & Futurebound - American Beauty
Nu: Tone - System
Chase & Status - Dumpling Riddim
Pendulum - Blood Sugar
Chase & Status - Hurt You
High Contrast - If We Ever
Breakage - Clarendon
High Contrast - In A Gadda Da Vida Loca
Potential Badboy - 4 D Girls Dem
J Majik & Wikaman - Crazy World
DJ Fresh featuring Mc Darrison - All That Jazz
Artificial Intelligence - Bloodlines
High Contrast - Pink Flamingos
Future Prophecies - Dreadlock
Potential Badboy - Girlz
High Contrast - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
London Elektricity - All Hell Is Breaking Loose
Sub Focus - Timewarp
DJ Hazard - Machete
Jonny L - Oh Yeah
Blame - Stay Forever
Brookes Brothers - Tear You Down
High Contrast - Hometown Glory
Danny Bird - Shock Out
Spor - Aztec
DJ Fresh - Hypercaine
P Money - Everything (Blame Remix)
DJ Fresh Heavyweight
Noisia - Stigma
Foreign Beggars - Contact (Noisia)
Logistics - Jungle Music
Sigma - Paint It Black
Blame - Because Of You
Sub Focus - Rock It
Danny Bird - Sweet Harmony (Jungle Remix)
Jaguar Skills feat. MC Skibadee - Outro

Happy James Brown Day........

2010-05-03T16:33:00.003+01:00

James Browns's birthday was today (3rd May), so with this in mind Benji B asked Mr. J.Rocc of beat junkies fame, to bless the Deviation Radio Show with a tribute mix.....

And here it is.....Download Here.....or stream below.

R&S RECORDS ARE BACK !! and its huge......

2010-04-30T09:24:00.004+01:00

James Blake - CMYK EP (R&S Records) (2010)

R&S records still bringing the heat after all these years.....

Tracklist:

01 CMYK
02 Footnotes
03 I'll Stay
04 Postpone

"Blake’s past releases on Hessle Audio and Hemlock have gathered him close to universal acclaim – not least from us – and ‘CMYK’ sees more of the fried synth torture and cut vocals that have become his trademark.

On the EP’s title track, which is both its immediate stand-out and a staple of recent DJ sets by Ben UFO and others, the staccato vocals are maybe more in your face than any Blake track to date, and also like most Blake to date, sounds very good. The rest isn’t bad either.

The ‘CMYK’ EP will be released on May 31, in digital and 12″ vinyl" (FACT MAGZINE)

GUARDIAN INTERVIEW - Future go-to producer of UK urban pop? James Blake

Hometown: London.

The lineup: James Blake (vocals, music, production).

The background: James Blake is a 22-year-old producer who has been studying contemporary music at Blur's alma mater Goldsmiths College, and in a way it sounds as though he's regurgitating a lot of what he's learned, in the best possible way. There's a lot of music to take in here; certainly it's going to be harder than usual to say what it is, although we can have a stab at saying what he does.

He does a few things – three, principally, only two of which we've heard. He's a dubstep artist who's just signed to the excellent R&S label, and although we're not as knee-deep as Mary Ann Hobbs in the stuff, his 2009 debut 12-inch Air and Lack Thereof places itself superbly – in terms of production detail, noir melody and sense of London as exciting psychogeographic space – alongside Aidy's Girl Is A Computer, Black Sun and the best of the Hyperdub label.

The second thing for which Blake is making a name for himself are his R&B/ hip-hop-sampling exercises that he records as Harmonimix, where he reworks tunes like Lil Wayne's A Milli and Snoop Dogg's Drop It Like It's Hot. And thirdly there are his hissy, scratchy, simple and plaintive piano tracks recorded on his laptop. They're supposedly primitive but personal affairs featuring his own, albeit treated, vocals – like we say, we've not heard them, but we're guessing at an approximation of Moby's field recordings, only think London Fields, not somewhere rural and American.

Actually, Blake's new EP, CMYK, appears to be a conflation of those first two ventures. It comprises four tracks, and they're based almost solely on R&B samples from the likes of Aaliyah, Brandy and R Kelly. There are micro-beats, lots of space (or do we mean "lost in space"?), some Auto-Tuned vocals, possibly Blake's own, as well as cut-up, chopped, diced and sped-up or slowed-down male and female vocal melodies from barely recognisable urban hits. It's a kind of dubstep R&B, but unlike, say, Squarepusher's 2001 single My Red Hot Car or Aphex Twin's Windowlicker, which were equal parts loving and facetious homage to UK garage and Timbaland's avant-dance, this stuff appears to be a reverential take on the soundtrack to the 6'5" wunderkind's youth. The title track, for example, is a beautiful piece of music: twitchy, tense, but captivatingly melodic and brilliantly arranged, it essays a new form of intelligent but never arid, electronic urban soul.

The buzz: "There's a unique and playful soulfulness to Blake's tracks, which often feature his own singing voice slowed down by intense digital effects. The result is a bit like a futuristic, lurching take on Moby's Play" – Pitchfork.

The truth: Welcome to Blake's heaven (rickety late-70s Brit sci-fi TV show pun intended).

Most likely to: Make Blake the go-to producer of UK urban pop.

Least likely to: Hang around Deptford any longer than he needs to.

What to buy: The CMYK EP is released by R&S on 31 May.

File next to: Beaty Heart, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Darkstar.

ALSO CHECK OUT......

Pariah – Detroit Falls/Orpheus (R&S)(2010)

Tracklisting:

1. Detroit Falls
2. Orpheus

"Debut single for hotly tipped London based producer Pariah on the legendary R&S record label. Pariah is a precocious young talent, and part of the same London bass music scene that has spawned the likes of Burial, Bullion, James Blake, Pangaea and Untold. The two tracks on this debut single were the his first ever finished productions and snapped up by R&S under the noses of a whole bunch of interested high profile labels. Both cuts wear their influences on their sleeve, referencing the hip hop beat collages of Dilla and the moody atmospheric 2-step rhythms of Burial, Levon Vincent, Fennesz and classic Detroit techno as well as the likes of MJ Cole and Steve Gurley, but still contain the rich Pariah DNA which will be even more apparent on his future R&S singles." (PICCADILLY RECORDS)/

Purchases for April/May

2010-04-29T16:54:00.006+01:00

Just grabbed myself a few new tasty releases direct from JAZZMAN RECORDS....

Roy Brooks & the Artistic Truth - Ethnic Expressions (JMANLP.034)

Easily one of the most coveted and sought-after of all jazz LPs is the elusive Holy Grail that is Roy Brooks’ Ethnic Expressions. It’s not just rarity that makes a record of this nature so desirable, nor is it the compelling music within… sometimes, like a Van Gogh or a Picasso, it’s the personality of the artist himself that’s inexorably entwined with the record itself that lends a fascinating, mesmeric and mythical quality that simply can’t be contrived.

The sixth release in our HOLY GRAIL series is an attentive reissue of one of Detroit drummer Roy Brooks’ two LPs for the tiny Im Hotep label out of New York. This Jazzman release is in conjunction with P-Vine records of Tokyo, whose Japanese reissue has already vanished with only a handful having reached these shores late in 2009.

Ethnic Expressions was recorded live in NYC in 1973, and exhibits a powerful message of black consciousness and spiritual freedom. This is post-Coltrane progressive jazz of the highest order! With a cry to his African roots, Brooks’ music combines modal, rhythmic and Afro-centric jazz with politics, spirituality and a positive vibes. The result is deep, esoteric spiritual jazz that any fan into real deal vibrant jazz will require as essential listening.

The LP is a reproduction of the original, pressed on 180g virgin vinyl. The CD also contains a colour booklet with extra pictures and liner notes translated from those written by respected Japanese jazz collector Yusuke Ogawa.

Tracklisitng:

Side 1
1. "M'Jumbe"
2. "The Last Prophet"
Side 2
1. "The Smart Set"
2. "Eboness"
3. "Eboness (Kwanza)"

Kellee Patterson - I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little Bit More, Baby/Mr Magic 7" (JM.075)

As covers go Kellee Patterson’s versions of the Barry White-penned classic and the theme made famous by Grover Washington Jr don’t fall far short of spectacular! Recorded back in sunny ’76, this is sublime femme soul with impeccable production, a classy double-sider that cannot fail to please!

BACKGROUND
Back in the ‘70s, when Kellee wasn’t winning beauty contests, she was winning singing competitions. The talented lady won a contract to record an LP for the esteemed Black Jazz label, before turning her hand to a more soulful album venture for Shady Brook. The single taken from the album included an abridged version of Barry White’s ‘Im Gonna Love You Just a Little Bit More, Baby’, but here for the first time is the FULL LENGTH version, released here in its entirety as it was always meant to be heard. Backed on the flip with a stunning vocal rendition of ‘Mr Magic’, the tune that catapulted Grover Washington Jr into the big time, what we have here is a soulful seven that’s too good to ignore. DJs watch out for immediate dancefloor reaction, whichever side you decide to play.

Tracklisting:

1. I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little Bit More, Baby
2. Mr Magic

BUNKER HILL - You Can’t Make me Doubt My Baby / Little Red Riding Hood 7" (JUKEBOX/JAZZMAN)

When David Walker did a spot of moonlighting under the pseudonym ‘Bunker Hill’ with Link Wray and his band, the alter-ego was necessary not only to avoid a conflict with his other commitments but also to allow Walker to break out from his gospel shackles and raise some hell – which he most certainly did on the unique and astounding set of recordings he made under this new moniker. Redefining the term ‘Blues Shouter’, Bunker Hill’s vocals are screamed, barked and growled with a truly wild abandon, like a deranged synthesis of Little Richard and Howlin’ Wolf. The accompaniment from Link Wray and his Raymen, meanwhile, is a masterclass of stark, primitive blues noise.

‘You Can’t Make Me Doubt My Baby’ is a bass heavy stomper, a rolling rhythm with cool piano hits and of course Walker’s gruff vocal. On the other side, ‘Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf’ showcases Bunker Hill’s (even) wilder side as he yells and riffs a call and response sermon based on the nursery rhyme of the same name over an insistent, sparse, clattering drum-led back drop.

It’s worth mentioning that all of the original singles were released on terrible styrene, which as most collectors know deteriorates progressively on repeated playing. So not only is it a pleasure to offer up Bunker Hill’s unique madness to a wider audience, but also to preserve these two tracks on good quality vinyl for the first time.

Tracklisting:

1. You Can’t Make me Doubt My Baby
2. Little Red Riding Hood

WALTER WILSON - Love Keeps Me Crying / Not Now But Later 7" (SOUL7/JAZZMAN)

Another northern rarity on Wand - out now on SOUL7!!! And as usual this SOUL7 reissue is FULLY LICENSED and restored from the ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES so it SOUNDS GREAT – unlike what you get from SHODDY BOOTLEGS! And in keeping with the spirit of collecting the pressing run is limited to ONLY 500 COPIES worldwide!

Through our Soul 7 label we are committed to the continuing pursuit of the rarest and most sought after quality soul sides on the planet. For our latest release, few could argue that we haven’t kept our part of the bargain as we bring you a reissue of Walter Wilson’s awesome two-sider from the Wand catalogue. A real lost gem of mid-‘60s soul, the single gives us a Northern dancer from the very tip-toppest shelf on the ‘A’ and a real beauty of a mid-tempo ballad on the flip. Why the single is so scarce is anyone’s guess.

Wand was a large and prolific independent and though it is common to find obscure titles on such labels – records which perhaps had one promo run and were then canned – rarities of this magnitude are unusual full stop. What we do know is that you could likely count the known copies of the original on one hand and that the last (perhaps the only?) to go through at online auction fetched a healthy figure of over $6000 (yes, six thousand US dollars).

Of course, such glaring figures make interesting reading but it’s no use if the record doesn’t hold up musically. Have a listen below, and we think you’ll agree that Walter Wilson’s two fine ‘60s soul sides hold up perfectly.

Tracklisting:

1. Love Keeps Me Crying
2. Not Now But Later

Madlib Medicine Show #5: History of the Loop Digga, 1990-2000 HAS ARRIVED

2010-04-28T17:21:00.007+01:00

Madlib Medicine Show #5: History of the Loop Digga, 1990-2000

IN THE STORE - MADLIB MEDICINE SHOW #5: THE HISTORY OF THE LOOP DIGGA, 1990-2000

Pre-order for CD and 3LP. Release date: May 25.

CD 34 tracks, 12-page booklet/comic (64:00 mins)
3-LP DELUXE 34 tracks + 10 track bonus disc, limited edition, numbered, with individually screened LP covers (98:00 mins)

Back in the 90s, “beat tapes” were literally that: cassette tapes of beats that a producer made either for himself, friends, or potential collaborators. Madlib made a bunch of them in the days between his early productions for the Alkaholiks (circa ’92) and the release of his Quasimoto album (2000), after which he took a couple of years off of the beats to focus on making jazz music before beginning a new era of hip-hop with Madvillain, Jaylib and Beat Konducta.

This collection of beats showcases the way that Madlib’s early hip-hop demos were filtered out to his crew of friends and associates, providing an opportunity for a unique view into Madlib’s working process. These beats, often freestyled on SP1200 or whatever machine he had at the ready, were picked up by rappers over a period of many years. Trainspotters will find it interesting that beats later destined for the likes of Wildchild and Percee P were made some years before those albums saw release.

This album is punctuated with a series of early solo-raps by Madlib and his Quasimoto alter ego and features the crew known collectively as CDP – those rappers who worked side by side with Madlib during the days of his Oxnard CA-based “Crate Diggas Palace” studios. The Madlib Medicine Show series is a combination of Madlib's new hip-hop productions, remixes, beat tapes and jazz, as well as mixtapes of funk, soul, Brazilian, psych, jazz and other undefined forms of music.

About the CD & vinyl release:

Madlib Medicine Show #5: The History of the Loop Digga will be released on CD, digital and a deluxe 3LP format. The deluxe 3LP set includes 34 minutes of vocal & instrumental material not available on the CD or digital release, and one-of-a-kind individually screened covers by Hit+Run. The artwork is by Benjamin Marra who has created a comic book for the album about the fictional 90s-era Rapper X who goes on a vengeful cop-killing rampage. The comic is included with the CD.

MP3: Madlib - Static Invazion
MP3: Madlib - Episode XVI

1. Warning (Intro)
2. Static Invazion
3. Stakeout Madlib
4. Rapper X Radio
5. Last Day's Music
6. Episode VI
7. Nothing From Nothing
8. Episode VIII
9. Episode IX
10. Episode X
11. Episode XI
12. Episode XII
13. Episode XIII
14. Episode XIV
15. Episode XV
16. Episode XVI
17. Episode XVII
18. Episode XVIII
19. Episode XIX
20. Episode XX
21. Further Adventures of Walkman Flavor
22. Episode XXII
23. Episode XXIII
24. Episode XXIV
25. Episode XXV
26. Episode XXVI
27. Episode XXVII
28. Live From Outer Space
29. Real Days
30. C.D.P. Assassins Pt.1
31. C.D.P. Assassins Pt.2&3
32. C.D.P. Assassins Pt.4
33. C.D.P. Assassins Pt.5
34. C.D.P. Assassins Pt.6

OLDSCHOOL RENEGADES Documentary Film Trailer..........

2010-04-28T15:10:00.007+01:00

"The Definitive Film about the rise of West-European Techno

Dutch director Maurice Steenbergen is working on a documentary about the golden age of house music: Oldschool Renegades. The trailer also mentions Antwerp as one of the destinations in the documentary. Plus: Maurice Engelen (Praga Khan, Lords of Acid) is listed as one of the talking heads.

Go to the movie's website for more Click here.

Quotes

Joey Beltram (Mentasm, Energy Flash)
"Hi Maurice. Yeah would love to take part."

Ben Stokes (DHS)
"I'd love to be in your film."

Bruno Sanchioni (Plexus)
"Cher Maurice, Ton projet est une bonne idée."

Jens Lissat (Interactive)
"I have to be in it."

John Kutski (BBC Radio 1)
"It is a documentary about the early house / techno / rave scene in the 90's, like 'scratch - the movie' was to hiphop if you have ever seen that"

Maurice Engelen (Praga Khan)
"Maurice V2 can count on me."

Michael Alig (Limelight, NYC)
"Thanks for thinking about me, i would love to help in any way i can"

Nick Halkes (XL Recordings, UK)
"I'd be happy to help"

Olivier Abbeloos (T99, Quadrophonia)
"Sounds great to me!"

Lucien Foort (Quadrophonia)
"There’s no future without a past.
This movie will open eyes!
Getting chills reminiscing about them days.
Wicked idea Maurice, Count me in!"

Luca Pretolesi (Digital Boy)
"I'll be very happy to be part
of this movie my friend!..."

Alex Quiroz Buelvas (Ramirez)
"Hi Maurice, it is a pleasure to
participate in your project"

R.I.P. MC Guru 'Gifted Unlimited Rhymes Universal'

2010-04-26T13:15:00.007+01:00

"On February 28, 2010, Guru went into cardiac arrest and, following surgery, fell into a coma.[11][12] It was claimed that Guru had briefly wakened from his coma[13] but died on April 19, 2010, aged 48, from multiple myeloma.

Solar claimed that Guru had awoken from his coma whilst DJ Premier and members of the rapper's family stated that he never regained consciousness from his coma. Guru's family claimed that Solar prevented them from contact with Guru during the latter's final illness. The validity of the death-bed letter has been challenged by Guru's family. Harry J. Elam, Guru's older brother, wrote a personal memoir in remembrance of his brother, Keith “Guru” Elam, published in the Boston Globe on April 23, 2010" (Wikipedia)

Premier Responds.....

It has been three days since Guru passed away from cancer and until now, his partner in the seminal rap duo Gang Starr, DJ Premier, had yet to comment. Finally, the DJ/producer ended his silence this afternoon (April 21) by releasing a statement, expressing his thoughts on the death of the rapper born Keith Elam

“It was a sad day for me to get confirmation on the death of a man who I will continue to call my brother,” Preemo said.

“From 1988-2004 we experienced so much success together that we were able to expand our business independently and give each other what Guru called ‘creative space,’ before planning to reunite for our seventh LP when the time time was right,” he continued. “Tragically, we will never reach that day.

“I’ve been asked to comment on a letter speaking ill of me which was supposedly written by Guru in his dying days,” he added, addressing a press release delivered by Guru’s business partner Solar. “All I will say about it is our time together was beautiful, we built a hip-hop legacy together, and no one can re-write history or take away my love for him. One thing I would never do is play around with the truth about his life.”

“I will celebrate Guru’s life…I will honor his memory…I will grieve with the Elam family over his untimely death…I will remember the Gang Starr foundation and all of the original members of the Gang Starr who came before me…mostly, I will cherish everything we created together as Gang Starr, forever,” he concluded. “I’m gonna miss hearing his signature monotone voice when he walks in the room, but the songs will always bring it back to me…his rhyme flows were insane, and I will never remove him from my heart and soul…rest in peace to the man who felt ‘satisfaction from the street crowd reaction’…I love you Goo.”

Guru suffered from multiple myeloma for over a year, according to a press release issued by Elam Family. Accrued complications from this illness led to respiratory failure and cardiac arrest, which put the rap legend in a coma. On Monday morning, Guru became hypertensive due to low blood pressure and suffered a fatal heart attack. — Elan Mancini

WHATEVER THE CONTROVERSY SUGGESTS - THE MUSIC SAYS IT ALL......

DJ Premier's – Keith “Guru” Elam Tribute Mix

Tracklist:

Gang Starr – Betrayal (Feat. Scarface)
Gang Starr – Intro (The First Step)
Gang Starr – Execution Of A Chump (No More Mr. Nice Guy Pt. 2)
Gang Starr – Name Tag (Premier & The Guru)
Gang Starr – Speak Ya Clout (Feat. Jeru the Damaja & Lil Dap)
Gang Starr – Peace Of Mine
Gang Starr – Eulogy
Gang Starr – Royalty (Feat. K-Ci & JoJo)
Gang Starr – Daily Operation (Intro)
Gang Starr – In This Life… (Feat. Snoop Dogg & Uncle Reo)
Gang Starr – Above The Clouds (Feat. Inspectah Deck)
Gang Starr – The Planet
Gang Starr – Daily Operation (Intro)
Gang Starr – Next Time
Gang Starr – 93 Interlude (Unreleased Moment Of Truth Interlude)
Gang Starr – The Militia II (Feat. Rakim & WC)
Gang Starr – Intro (HQ, Goo, Panch)
Heavy D. – A Buncha Niggas (Feat. The Notorious B.I.G., Busta Rhymes, Guru, Rob-O & Third Eye)
M.O.P. – Salute Part II (Feat. Guru)
D&D Allstars – Hot Shit (Feat. Big Daddy Kane, Sadat X, Guru & Greg Nice)
Gang Starr – PLAYTAWIN
Gang Starr – Soliloquy Of Chaos
Group Home – The Legacy (Feat. Guru)
Gang Starr – Conspiracy
Gang Starr – Stay Tuned
Gang Starr – Zonin’

Jaguar Skills also laid down a tribute mix which appeared on Trevor Nelson's BBC Radio show - check it here.....

Tracklisitng:

Guru — Name Tag
Guru — Full Clip
Guru — Jazz Thing Video Mix
Guru — The Question Remains
Guru — Soliloquy Of Chaos
Guru — Take It Personal
Guru — Daily Operation Intro
Guru — All 4 The Cash
Guru — Stick To The Script
Guru — Check The Technique
Guru — Hard To Earn To Earn
Guru - Brother — Guru
Guru — Just To Get A Rep
Guru — Speak Ya Clout
Guru — What I'm Here 4
Guru — Skills
Guru — Above The Clouds
Guru — Ex To The Next
Guru — Mass Appeal
Guru — Who Gonna Take The Weight
Guru — Stick To Sa
Guru — Now Your Mine
Guru — Dwick
Guru — Step Into The Area
Guru — Blowing Up The Spot
Guru — Code Of The Streets
Guru — You Know My Steeze
Guru — Words In Manifest
Guru — Next Time
Guru — Step Into The Area Intro
Guru — Moment Of Truth

CLASSIC GURU POSSEE TRACK WITH CLASSIC PREMO' BEATS

Rush Hour – Acid House Revival Mix (April 2010)

2010-04-20T14:19:00.005+01:00

Nice Acid House mix by Chris Cool

Rush Hour Trax Mixbywarmhq

Tracklist:

Mr. Fingers 2 – Nite Moves
Ace & The Sandman- Let Your Body Talk
Master C&J – Make You Happy
Jamie Principle – Bad Boy
Phuture – Spank Spank
Maurice Joshua – I Gotta Big Dick
Jesse Velez – Laugh The Night Away
Marcus Mixx – House Flash Back
Rude Boy Farley – Give Your Self To Me
Pleasure Zone – I Cant Understand
Virgo – Ride
Blackman – Beat That Bitch
Marcus Mixx – Liquid Love
Mr Fingers – Can You Feel It
Virgo Four – Do You Know Who You Are
James Jack Rabbit – Another Vicious Lie
Sweet D – Thank Ya
The Housemaster Boyz – Trax U Lost
Virgo – Never Want To Loose You
Z – Factor – Fantasy
Farley Jackmaster Funk – Farley Knows House
Phuture – Your Only Friend

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New Lefto Mix on Hold / Box / Flat BLOG

2010-04-20T08:19:00.003+01:00

hold bXL flatbyholdboxflat

Tracklisting:

Sepalcure - The Warning - Hotflush
Roska - I Need Love feat Anesha - Tempa
A Hundred in the Hands - Dressed in Dresden (Kyle Hall rmx)
2Bears - Be Strong - CD-R
Cobblestone Jazz - Sun Child - K7
Gilles Peterson's Havana Cultura Band - Rezando (Michel Cleis Remix) - Brownswood
Cumbia Colombiana - Tropical Treats - Sofrito
Mad Man Jaga - Hankuri - Soundway
Luis Garcia - For Those Who Chant - Blue Thumb Records
Gonjasufi - kobwebz - Warp
Ghostpoet - I Just Don't Know - CD-R
Mos Def - Umi Says - Rawkus
Carlos Nino & Miguel Atwood Ferguson - Fall in Love - Dwala Edit
Mount Kimbie - Maybes (James Blake RMX) - Hot Flush
Sepalcure - Love Pressure - Hot Flush
Mala - Eyes - Deep Medi
Ikonika - Psolaris - HyperDub
Martin Kemp - Bowser - Hold Box Flat
Mark Pritchard - Heavy as Stone - Deep Medi

New Mix by 2562 aka A Made Up Sound aka Dave Huismans....

2010-04-19T16:26:00.004+01:00

Dave Huismans brings the techno and dubstep fusion on this week’s RA podcast.

"Of the artists to emerge from the dialogue between techno and dubstep, The Hague’s Dave Huismans must be rated as one of the finest. His production roots are actually in broken beat and his Dogdaze moniker, but 2007 saw him launch the 2562 project on Pinch’s Tectonic Recordings, forging techno sounds to dubstep beat structures to great effect. While debut album Aerial was fairly singular and streamlined in its approach to the fusion of techno and dubstep, his sophomore effort showed a totally different side to Huismans’ sound. With more overt references to UK garage and house, Unbalance managed to scrape into the top ten of last year’s RA albums poll, with Oli Marlow calling it “a zenith for techno-tinged dubstep in 2009.”

He’s also been keeping busy with his A Made Up Sound moniker which operates in a slightly more conventional house and techno vein. Last year’s “Rework” on his own A Made Up Sound imprint and the four-track EP on Clone were essential releases if you like your 4/4 beats to be swung and bass-heavy, and those two adjectives are definitely something that you say about his effort for this week’s RA podcast. We caught up with Dave via e-mail to talk about the mix, his relationship with Tectonic and running his own label." (RESIDENT ADVISOR)

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