Grievous Angel

While you’re waiting, here’s some music to keep you entertained. It’s a UK Garage mix I did last year, focusing on the more abstract, chthonic elements of classical UKG. It’s funky as fuck and has some of my favourite 2step tracks on it. It’s here at http://www.grievousangel.net/Abstract_2_Step_Mix.mp3. Track listing: Dem 2: Keep It Coming Dem [...]

Yes I know no-one’s reading right now but I just wanted to pop this in here so it’s in the archive at least… There’s a lot of discussion right now about whether we can have, or need, a “proper” magazine. There’s a lot of rumination on the glory days of the NME. Eden talks about [...]

While you’re waiting, here’s some music to keep you entertained. It’s a UK Garage mix I did last year, focusing on the more abstract, chthonic elements of classical UKG. It’s funky as fuck and has some of my favourite 2step tracks on it. It’s here at http://www.grievousangel.net/Abstract_2_Step_Mix.mp3. Track listing: Dem 2: Keep It Coming Dem [...]

With many apologies to Mark K-Punk and John Eden, the bookmark for this blog is changing again due to unavoidable technical difficulties. Please don’t bookmark the current location unless you don’t mind changing again in a week or so, and if you’ve already done so, I’m sorry. The new location will be http://blog.grievousangel.net, but there’s [...]

Pounding System: “I Believe” Great stuff. Dubversion is clearly a man who needs one of my Belief Is The Enemy T-shirts. And big up Dubversion for liking the Come Together jungle remix I did. However: “(PS these are some things that i decided i didn’t like this week:Bitches Brew. Vashti Bunyan. Piles. the NME (again). [...]

I’m now running this blog on a new server: it’s here: http://blog.grievousangel.net

Please tell ten friends The Breast Cancer site is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily to meet their quota of >donating at least one free mammogram a day to an underprivileged woman . It takes less than a minute to go to their site and click on “donating a mammogram” for [...]

WOEBOT: “If Grime came to be understood as UK Hip-Hop it’d be a disaster. Why? Because, put simply, Brit-Hop has never managed to get over being a inferior version of American Hip-Hop (Grime on the other hand seems mercifully oblivious of America).” Excellent, excellent piece on this topic from Matt. Excellent because he’s not just [...]

WOEBOT: “A surprise and a delight, here.” Getting bigged up on Woebot is like getting an Oscar. Certainly more valuable than getting a bloggy or whatever BS award is being invented. “Here’s one for fans of my discomfort.” Shit, that must be irritating. I guess a demanding fan can be pretty critical. For a fan [...]

shards, fragments and totems:: “So I’m looking at the moveable type faq, and I’m thinking, this looks like a nightmare. “ And of course, my host doesn’t do movable type. But it does appear to like word press — so why won’t it damned work? Bloody computers.

movabletype.org : Requirements So, I’ve got this spiffy new webspace to host my trax and mixes and stuff. And of course to host the blog, with photos etc. So I d/led WordPress, cos it’s the updated version of Eden’s blog software. And can I get it to work? Can I fuck. So I’m looking at [...]

Keith: gwan nice’tup wit ma bredren…: “nothing is better than Nasty Crew’s live sets. If you haven’t yet, do yourself a favour and listen to that one I linked to down below, it’s better than Boy in da Corner, which is album of the year” I went back to this page — which I’ve blogged [...]

WOEBOT: “like this recent contibution to an old post by Rolo who used to be in The Woodentops.” I just want to point out that the Woodentops were according to my memory both a fantastic band and an important one, absolutely crucial in describing the cross-over from rock to dance. Absolutely KILLER live — I [...]

Amazon.co.uk: Music: Coughing Up Fire: “Occult roots of grime” Just got this as a present off John Eden and it’s an absolutely magnificent record of eighties Brit dancehall reggae done live. Saxon were arguably the greatest British sound system ofthe 80s and on this CD you can hear why. It’s all about the DJs so [...]

I’ve decided to use this blog to release my music. This is slightly ironic in view ofthe current mp3-hosting debate (how often do producers release tracks through bloigs? All the time probably). In any event, most of these tracks start from loving a tune, but having a different mix of it running in my mind, [...]

WOEBOT: ” followed the link through to Down Hill Battle, and was really alarmed at what they’re up to, which seems to be a ‘rolling together’ of an antipathy to the big five labels with a tactic of encouraging file-sharing. … I’m quite sympathetic to the major labels. I’ve heard plenty about record companies ‘evil’ [...]

WOEBOT: “Anyway it got me thinking. A lot of people spun out of Post-Punks orbit into mad crazy shit like Free Jazz (you meet Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry on the road out of PP), Dub and Roots (Prince Far-I and Scratch) Improv (Tristan Honsinger, Toop and Beresford), Electro (Tommy Boy) and most importantly World [...]

I found this great paper here on the subject: “Will MP3 downloads Annihilate the Record Industry? The Evidence so Far”. It’s by a Stan J. Liebowitz, School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, who is not so far as I am aware a sublow fan posting on the woebot thread, but lets give him [...]

Just a few notes on the recent discussion of the ethics of mp3 hosting, sharing and consumption. 1. The most important point — for me — is that mp3s give me a chance to actually hear stuff that I wouldn’t otherwise get a chance to hear. This is a good thing in my view. DJ [...]

I’ve tried three times so far to write something cogent about Dust on Saturday and I just can’t so you’ll have to put up with the usual random wibbling. Dust is a techno club. It’s rapidly becoming a bit of an institution, not because it’s big and successful and creating a big coke-addled career for [...]

… lying in bed moaning and holding my head. Worst flu ever. Came on last wednesday, just as I was walking back over the Broom Hill in brilliant sunshine having dropped the boy off at the nursery. Started with a strange pricking sensation under my scalp, then by the end of the day — blam. [...]