Grievous Angel

Here’s the info:

“Greetings good people.

Please consider Dub-Love, the latest TT mix, for immediate posting. This special blend of soulful dubstep was made as a guest mix for UBLF’sThe Chilldown Period. Similar to TT, TCP is an great podcast/blog with an affinity for downtempo and dubstep sounds.

Permalink: http://www.turntablethoughts.com/2010/05/27/dub-love-tt-x-the-chilldown-period-05-2010/

Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/turntablethoughts/dub-love-turntable-thoughts-x-the-chilldown-period

Mixcloud: http://www.mixcloud.com/turntablethoughts/dub-love-tt-x-the-chilldown-period/

Download: http://bit.ly/bpG8Z1

01. Me’shell Ndégeocello – Love Song #1 (TT edit)
02. Bob Marley – Is This Love? (Logik Dubstep Remix)
03. Pusuit Grooves – Whisper
04. Quest – Eden
05. Dezaray Dawn – Chameleon (TT edit) 
06. Pinch ft. Yolanda – Get Up (L.V. Disco Mix)
07. Mite & Distal – Chocolate Circuit
08. Pinch – Gangstaz w/
09. Jill Scott – Crown Royal (TT edit) 
10. Kryptic Minds – Stepping Stone
11. Liquid Stranger ft. Deeyah – Hexed and Perplexed w/
12. Erykah Badu – Honey (Seji Mix)”

Yeah he bigged me up in the email but this is a nice mix, check it.

Shaun Bloodworth is a well known and excellent photographer who is best known in music circles for his portrait work for Rinse. Those amazing pictures of people like Geeneus, Chef, Skream etc? They’re by Shaun. He did the Margins Music album cover too. So he’s a badman basically. Plus, for this year’s Sonar, Mary Anne Hobbs commissioned Shaun to make a film to act as a backdrop for the artists performing on her stage. This took things to another level, with Shaun using the video function on his stills camera to shoot video of raves in Sheffield, as well as filming video portraits of particular ravers.

The film turned out great.

And then he wanted to have it out there with a soundtrack – and got a slot to premiere it, at prestigious Sheffield art cinema the Showroom. He had someone else lined up to do the soundtrack, but they couldn’t do it, so a week last Wednesday Shaun asked if I could do it.

By midnight that night, I’d delivered. And Wednesday this week, we went to the premiere!

That was an amazing night, with Mark from Wall of Sound and 6Music doing a speech on how amazing Sheffield is for inspirational music, and various art figures and Council big wigs in attendence. Best of all, Martin Ware from the Human League and Heaven 17 was there talking about the great new film about Heaven 17 that also premiered. It was cool!

And now, Shaun’s film is online. Titled Minds Locked Together, it’s a portrait of Sheffield clubbing, putting the crowd to the forefront. There are various DJs and MCs in the film, most importantly and amusingly the mighty Rodigan, but it’s really all about the people. It’s scenius in action.

My sound track starts off with jungle, including the title track, before sliding down into house, funky and sort-of-dubstep. It went off on the big system in the Showroom and I’m really pleased with the way the whole thing comes together.

You can see it here.

Please blog this, write about it etc, it’s really worth supporting!

Post on Brainfeeder here.

Post on the Bleep blog here.

Fundamental: | Future Sound Directory

New sit dedicated to garage and future garage. good shit. Doing some stuff for them.

Kalbata owns dubstep right now. But he’s also a fantastic reggae DJ. Check out this truly wonderful mix. Eden – this one’s for you!

RBMA Radio – Kalbata Soul Jazz, Tel Aviv – Train Wreck Mix – Crucial We Crucial

Harry Belafonte – Love, Love Alone
Shinehead – Mama Used To Say
Little John – Brandy
Little John And Billy Boyo – Houseman Connection
Jah Thomas And Barrington Levy – Tribute To Moa Anebassa
Nigger Kojak And Liza – Black Skin, Blue Eye Girl
Captain Sinbad – Sinbad And The Eye Of The Tiger
Determination Band – Gal Dem Papa
O’niel Clarke – Kinfecut
Private Constable – Poor People Priority
General Doggie & Tenor Saw – Chill Out
Eccleton Jarett – Turn On The Heat
Horace Martin – Sting Me A Sting
Courtney Melody – Ninja Me Ninja
Little John – Man Tonic
Frankie Paul – Cassandra
Ninjaman – Murder Dem
Papa San – Big Me Bad
Beenie Man – Too Fancy
Billy Boyo -Billy Boyo In The Area
Yellowman – Lost Me Love
Conroy Smith – Dancehall Posse
Everton Chambers – Hold Yu Corner
Nitty Gritty – Run The World
Risto Benji – Don’t Pirate It
Nicodemus – The Plane Land
Papa Santress – Dance Inna Mount Zion
Early B – Imitator
Shorty Perry – Food Control
Little Twitch – Homoni Corn
Teddy Irie – We Rule The Border
Trinity – Jesus Dread

Move Down Low VIP - out on Soul Jazz

Yup. I got a release on Soul Jazz records. I am soooo excited! Taken almost a year to come out but I am so pleased.

It’s out on Monday but its in the Soul Jazz web shop now.

It’s a new funky remix of Move Down Low. The main draw is the VIP – which is, though I say so myself, absolutely massive. Goes off every time in the dance. Best thing I’ve ever done. All massive drums, big drops, snatch of Rubi Dan’s vocal – latin funky apocalypse. Like the Ice Rink b-side mix but bigger and ruder. Sinden’s been caning it for months.

The A-side is the original funky mix – not the one that came out last year on my Devotional Dubz imprint, the one I did for Kode 9. As has passed into legend, I made the tune, sent it to Kode that night, he cut it the next day and played it at the first of Rinse’s Beyond funky sessions. He’s been playing it ever since and it’s on the new DJ Kicks mix CD he’s done. So it’s a result all round.

Will be in all the usual stores any day now.

Listen to the A-side here.

ROUGH DISKO w/ SUBEENA Planet Mu / GRIEVOUS ANGEL @Harley-Fri 2nd Apr-£3 – – Sheffield Forum
ROUGH DISKO presentSUBEENA Planet Mu / Sub FM / OpitwithGRIEVOUS ANGEL Keysound / Devotional Dubz / Idle HandsandRD residentsFRIDAY 2ND APRILTHE HARLEY10PM-3AMTAX: £3 FREE B4 11!

Blackdown
“O: All the values I enjoyed in early garage, especially the bpm, the shuffle, the beat base – it’s all coming back again with this new stuff. The whole 'new Wot Do U Call It dark house, Martin Kemp, Doc Daneeka thing” is that I think it fills a gap in where house is meeting dubstep at the moment and I think its really important and relevant to both scenes, because its like what I hear in those records is what definitely what I heard in dubstep in 2004/05 – just a sense of space and atmosphere, not so much about the melody but just bass beats and weird odd sounds.”

Amply demonstrated at Doc Daneeka’s fantastic set at the Harley last night. The pure rhythm, garage-tempo bass and drum, massive subs and crisp beats, that’s what’s working right now.

Though interestingly the biggest reaction of the night was for speed garage, really made the whole venue jump. Bodes well for my remix of Gremino’s Bee and Cee which pretty much merked it on Blackdown and Dusk’s Rinse show in January.

I missed Ben UFO last night though, just too knackered to make it. Would have been good to see what the best DJ in the country is drawing for at the moment to triangulate with Doc Daneeka and OneMan.

Yes. I’m playing Exodus / DMZ next month.

Warming up for El B and the magnificent Heatwave.

Most of my dubstep heroes in room 1. Kode, Mala, Loe, Scuba, Silkie…

Absolutely fucking mental. I cannot believe it.

They want 80s dancehall and “your own productions”. So there’ll be some new funky stuff, maybe the Shabba / Wicked Inna Bed remix that’s I’ve been working. Dying to play some Congo Natty too – probably Your Love, since it’s the greatest record ever made.

This is so fantastic…

Clean living in difficult circumstances: Haiti
None of these facts really point towards a supernatural cause belying the natural disasters that Haiti and New Orleans have endured. I’m a strong believer that “The Devil” only really exists as a personification of the horrors that human beings perpetrate upon one another and upon the planet. Such as slavery, for instance. Or being so abjectly terrified of a free black territory that has violently thrown off the yoke of slave owners, that you conspire to undermine its economy and stability in such a way that the repercussions are still being felt centuries later.
Gypsy Lantern on the demonisation of vodoun within the coverage of the Haiti earthquake disaster.

Hollow Earth
“though a longtime Mac-user (since Mac OS 8)”
Ah, a new boy! I helped run the introduction of OS7 when I was working in the Mac business. I go back to system 4 and a bit of system 3, but I used System 6 (and for a while, 5) professionally – including when I was a Mac journalist.

All of which shows nothing more than that I’ve got a few more grey hairs than the eternally youthful Mr Ingram

Elijah and Skilliam of Butterz have done a wicked new grime mix! You’ll love it. Lots of purple influence on there, not just Joker and Starkey tunes but some fab new stuff on their own label and Terror Danjah’s fantastic Acid, forthcoming on Hyperdub. You will love this. No wonder Blackdown’s been making grime recently.

It’s here.

Butterz clearly a label to watch in 2010.

Here’s the tracklisting – read it and weep!

Swindle – Open Your Mind (Butterz)
Royal T – Hot Ones Remix (Unreleased)
Terror Danjah – Acid (Hyperdub)
Swindle – ‘Trending Topic’ (Butterz)
DVA feat P Money – Wind It Up (No Right Turn)
Rude Kid – Absolut Vodka (No Hats No Hoods)
DOK & Terror Danjah – Hysteria (Butterz)
Swindle – Air Miles (Planet Mu)
Silencer – Miss Asia (Wow Bass Level 3)
Joker – Output One Two (Tectonic)
Rude Kid & Terror Danjah – The Best Crawler (No Hats No Hoods)
Tempa T – Boy Off The Ting (No Hats No Hoods)
Terror Danjah – Bipolar (Butterz)
OGZ – Hot Ones (Deeco Remix)
Maniac – Lengman Tune (Unreleased)
Terror Danjah – Sidechain (Swindle Remix) (Planet Mu)
SRC – Powerman 9 (Unreleased)
DOK – Keep Making Grime (Unreleased)
Rude Kid – Electric (Earth 616)
J Beatz – Life & Death (SCUK)
Terror Danjah – Air Bubble (Butterz)
Starkey – Ok Love (Planet Mu)
????? – ?????? (Teaser)

Also soon come is the first release on their own label – and they’ve only scored terror danjah’s fantastic bipolar.

Butterz001 – Terror Danjah – Bipolar EP from Butterz on Vimeo.

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2009 has been the most exciting year since 2005, loads of great stuff coming out and the clubs have been FIRING, people have really gone for it. Every time I’ve played out the vibe has been fantastic, less so in London obviously but everywhere else has been cracking. People have wanted it. Bad.

I’ve loved the way that funky has turned so much around. Both in itself – Cooly G’s Love Dub is my tune of the year, alongside her Dis Boy – but also in its ripples and echoes. Dubstep heads took the hint and created a spectrum of new sounds from Ramadanman / Pearson Sound, Brackles, Untold and many more. The best of the old garage heads saw funky for what it was – an attempt to deal with the unfinished business of UK Garage, and Zed Bias and MJ Cole made some fantastic tracks as a result. Mind you, most of them aren’t out yet.

Dubstep itself was all about the dark rollage of people Kryptic Minds and SP:MC, the psychedelic grime of Joker, and the percussive deepness of Peverelist, Ramadanman and Untold. I’ve done quite a good mix of this stuff for Inverted Audio: http://www.inverted-audio.co.uk/$blog/2009/12/29/_i_a__mix_07_grievous_angel?_c=1

Musically it’s been a big year for me. There’s nothing like seeing a big room go off to your tunes and I’ve seen my funky and garage gear light up crowds – it’s an enormous privilege, I’ll treasure those memories forever. Kode in particular has been caning Move Down Low for months. Loads of DJs have been playing my stuff… Skream, Blackdown, Atki2, Tim Dub Boy, MJ Cole, Jamie Vex’d, Paul Hotflush, Mary Anne Hobbs… I’ve put out three singles (Loser, Soundclash, my funky refix of the grime classic Ice Rink ) that have done well. There are some more to come in 2010. I’ve done a DJ mix for Radio 1 and had loads of play on the pirates. I’ve done guest mixes for loads of websites. I’ve just put another album out, my remix / DJ mix / dub album of the entirety of Blackdown and Dusk’s Margins Music. It’s been one hell of a ride. And I moved into the house I built.

It’s been a great year!

The second of my special promo mixes is now up at Blackdown’s Blog.

Go there for it.

These two volumes are two of the best mixes I’ve ever done. Both done live in one go and then split up and edited a tiny bit.

The new one is great. Jill Scott and Erykah over heavy dubstep rollers is a FABULOUS combination.

Loads in there. There was even more! Like Tom said, me and Martin can both talk for England so he had a job cutting it down.

Think I need to get some new pix done.

This is out soon with my hard-as-nails remix on the flip.

Dub Boy showing why he’s one of the UK’s greatest DJs!

This is gonna be large.

I’m playing some deep space dubstep, bit of garage and pure fire funky. Got loads of fresh dubs and exclusives as well as a load of old stuff.

DARK CRYSTAL presents THE SEVEN CRYSTAL BALLS !!

DJ DISTANCE
GREIVOUS ANGEL
ROGUE STATE & ALEX DEADMAN
JUNGLIST ALLIANCE
AUTOGRAFF, DEADBEAT & VANDAL

MC WALKER

DARK CRYSTAL is back with a bang!

DISTANCE
Part of the small nucleus of South London based Dubstep innovators, Distance has been a name on everyone’s lips since day one, and is widely recognized as having helped to lay the foundations of what dubstep is and develop what it has become.
http://www.myspace.com/djdistancedub

GREVIOUS ANGEL
As all locals will know, Sheffield is stuffed full of musical gems. Grevious Angel is one of these gems and has been residing in the seven hills since 2002. He has now created a strong name for himself through punchy ragga licks and deeply moving 2-step garage influenced dubstep.
http://www.myspace.com/grievousangelsoundsystem

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So,  Forensics was one of the hardest working men in dubstep. And now he’s on this whole other thing which was very hush-hush – except it’s blowing up already, so I guess we can now talk publicly about A Bridge Far Away. Downtempo niceness with vocals and real instruments, including some tunes with the magnificent Indi Kaur. I had the pleasure of remixing one of them, called Drift, which I turned into a crunchy, sour, heavily spiced halfstep pounder.

And it got played on BBC Asian Network last night by the redoubtable Bobby Friction, who is actually one of the best radio DJs in the UK. Linkage with listen again facilities now up.

In other news, Kiss 100 DJ and crucial new music maven Sinden has been in touch and is also playing some of the new GA gear that is about to hit the stores, so stay tuned to him too.

after years of involvement in dust science I am delighted to now be one of their artists! And I am part of a corking free ep – but hurry to get it…

here’s the info…

To celebrate the label relaunch, Dust Science has a new EP of established and new artists who are based in the label’s hometown of Sheffield (UK). The “In The North EP” seeks to re-establish Sheffield’s reputation as the touchstone of high quality electronic musical innovation.

The Black Dog offer Tesco, a chunky, rolling tech-house with delightful Sheffield-style hooky pads. Carl Taylor’s Walk On By is a moody slice of Omar S-style electronic soul. New signing Grievous Angel, whose dubstep, garage and uk funky releases have torn up pirate radio and dancefloors for the last three years, delivers a heavily swung slice of percussive, techy dubstep. Youthful wobble mentalist The Bass Soldier provides a heavy slice of electro-soaked gutter house that will literally shake the room into life.

Tracklisting

A1. The Black Dog – Tesco (Dark House)

A2. Carl Taylor – Walk On By

B1. Grievous Angel – Show Love v1

B2. The Bass Soldier – You Still Live With Your Mum

FREE DOWNLOAD AVAILABLE NOW

This release is now available as a free download at: http://www.duststoredigital.com . Want some full fat WAV files? Well, you can get those Here

MP3 of the mix for Radio One with Soundclash and a bit of Harpy in it. Only 15 minutes but worth hearing.

http://www.grievousangel.net/GAMixes/GrievousAngel4MAHJuly09.mp3
39 Mb MP3.

Tracklisting:

Grievous Angel – ‘I Love Dem’ (Devotional Dubz)
Toasty – ‘Knowledge’ [Untold Remix] (Hotflush)
Grievous Angel – ‘Culture Killer’ [Discomix]
Joy Orbison – ‘Hyph Mngo’ (Hotflush)
Narcossist – ‘Metronome’ [Grievous Angel remix] (White Label)
Grievous Angel ft. Rubi Dan – ‘Move Down Low’ [VIP mix] (White Label)
Pearson Sound – ‘Wad’ (Soul Jazz)
Grievous Angel – ‘Harpy’ (Keysound)
Big$hot – ‘Glitch’ (White)
Naphta – ‘Soundclash1’ [Grievous Angel Remix] (Keysound)
23Hz Vs Numaestro – ‘Zuno’ [Sully Remix] (White Label)

Blackdown and Dusk have cooked up a neat little preview video for Margins Music Redux or, as I like to call it…

GRIEVOUS ANGEL MEETS BLACKDOWN AND DUSK UPTOWN!!!!!!!

It gives you a fair idea of what it’s like… but the actual mix is much better… it’s a real headfuck. Disorientating…

Thank you Boomkat!

Niiice review from Boomkat! Pleased with that.

Soundclash is the best thing I’ve ever done. Maybe the best thing I’ll ever do. It’s massive, it moves the crowd every time people play it. But it’s a choon – a song – it’s not a mix tool, though Atki2 uses it that way, it’s a record that people connect to. It’s worth having.

Harpy compared to Wiley… like that… Harpy’s arpeggiated heavy jazz wonk out of eski-bizniz… I’ll take that…