Away in Devon and probably in the rain for a week. See you on the other side.
Hattie C goes overboard for Prince!
And quite right too.
http://hattiecollins.blogspot.com/2007/05/prince-love-continues.html
So last night, after doing what a good journalist does best and blagging myself two tickets to the hottest show in town, I had what could be described as a near-religious experience.
I used to do some work with people who quite literally regarded Prince as a god. It was one of the [...]
admin, May 23rd 2007
deeptime brings Shackleton to Ottawa 07.05.27
deeptime » Blog Archive » Shackleton » Ottawa 07.05.27
Large up Paul Nomos for bringing the mighty Shackleton to the western Atlantic shore. This is how our crew represents – we bring the music makers to the people! Good work…
admin, May 23rd 2007
YouTube – straight cockney
YouTube – straight cockney
Some of it looks more like Elm Park than Romford to me, think the first bit is round the station somewhere.
Good enough lickle tune tho.
admin, May 23rd 2007
PRANCEHALL
PRANCEHALL
I went and did an interview with Trim the other day in the Isle of Dogs. Good vibes. He played me most of Soulfood Vol. 2, which is sounding about three and a half times better than the first mixtape, which is a good mixtape because its Trim and I like Trim, but isnt actually [...]
admin, May 21st 2007
Blog orgy
deeptime
And then this is just insane. Greg from Beatdiaspora has organized a Blogariddims Orgy on WHRB Cambridge, Harvard Radio Broadcasting. (WHRB’s ‘Orgies’ are, apparently, a 40 year old, post-exam tradition – the first was 9 consecutive Beethoven symphonies) This co-production of the Record Hospital (www.recordhospital.org) and The Darker Side (www.whrb.org/tds). A big thank you to [...]
admin, May 21st 2007
John’s on 2.2!!!
uncarved.org blog
I’ve upgraded to Wordpress 2.2 and started using the Fluid Blue 1.0 theme.
So things look a little different and this blog now supports “widgets”. The first of these is a “recent comments” section at the top of the sidebar.
Feck. No sooner do I update myself to 2.1.3, but they release 2.2 and John is [...]
admin, May 21st 2007
Technology Review: Solar Power at Half the Cost
Technology Review: Solar Power at Half the Cost
“A new mechanism for focusing light on small areas of photovoltaic material could make solar power in residential and commercial applications cheaper than electricity from the grid in most markets in the next few years. Initial systems, which can be made at half the cost of conventional solar [...]
admin, May 21st 2007
Trim: Soul Food
I don’t know about you but I think there’s a huge grime renaissance going on right now. Alex Bk Bk has moved over to grime from dubstep almost completely and as you may have noticed, John Eden has been blasting it (a few years too late, but I always told him he’d get into it [...]
admin, May 21st 2007
Archive recordings?
I also picked up a few bits and pieces on Archive Recordings from Boomkat, including a very nice 10 inch with Junior Reid’s One Sufferation and some Tubby’s versions. I assume it’s a reissue label but some cursory searching has revealed nothing. Doubtless every reggae fan in the country knows all about them but there [...]
admin, May 21st 2007
Basic Replay re-issues – get ‘em while they’re hot
There seems to be a Basic Replay re-issue deluge happening at the moment and most of them are TOP so get on it.
ACKIE / CHESSE ROOTS, Call Me Rambo / Rambo Gun Salute
C64 helicopter noises never sounded so good! This is a super-heavy Brit MC plate, very enjoyable, with slightly less acomplished versions.
“This was recorded [...]
admin, May 21st 2007
Grime spree | Urban | Guardian Unlimited Music
Grime spree | Urban | Guardian Unlimited Music
“Dizzee’s vision was further than mine at the time, and our manager had to take Dizzee to where he was going, but he left us all behind,” says Wiley
Most Dan in the Guardian writing about Wiley’s new album. Hold tight for the director’s cut version at Lower End [...]
admin, May 18th 2007
Mala in Sheffield, 16-5-07
After seeing Youngsta last week I was HYPE for seeing Mala in Sheffield. He’s my second favourite DJ in the world (after Shaka). Sadly I was never likely to get there – I tried to schedule this week’s trip to New York so I could get there but I was going to fly the next [...]
admin, May 17th 2007
Blogariddims 22: Disintegrations « The Rambler
Blogariddims 22: Disintegrations « The Rambler
Unlike my previous Blogariddims contribution there was a plan behind this mix. But as I started putting it together I also decided on a different strategy for mixing too. On Voices from Afar the idea was very definitely to keep layering things, filling up the sound space as much as [...]
admin, May 14th 2007
lower end spasm.: FWD>>
lower end spasm.: FWD>>
It felt very much like a homecoming on Friday down in Plastic People at JME’s birthday party and Serious launch, as grime MCs once again re-addressed the balance.
Top notch review of FWD / JME birthday by Alex Bok Bok.
admin, May 14th 2007
Sage – WOEBOT
Sage – WOEBOT
Matt showing us his old Black Dog video. I should really write about Dust Science, the home of tBD…
admin, May 14th 2007
Chicken pox…
So, my mum swears blind I had chicken pox when I was little, and that all three of us kids had it one after another. This gives you lifelong immunity right?
Hence I was quite happy to be looking after my two boys over the last few weeks as they suffered through it. So when I [...]
admin, May 14th 2007
gutterbreakz back on decks
gutterbreakz
I’ll be playing a full hour at H.E.N.C.H this Thursday (17th) along with D1, Blazey and the residents.
Fellow dubstep dad gutterbreakz pon deckle on Thursday. Brizzle crew, yuh know…
admin, May 14th 2007
wayneandwax.com » Follow Me Now: The Zigzagging Zungazung Meme
wayneandwax.com » Follow Me Now: The Zigzagging Zungazung Meme
Wayne&Wax red hot, as ever, this time on the trail of Yellowman’s infection of US hiphop (and other) cultures.
Ummm… I have Boops, but I can’t remember the Zungazung bit! I am an idiot…
admin, May 14th 2007
deeptime
deeptime
Paul totally OTM on my recent Miles Davis orgy at Blogariddims.
admin, May 14th 2007
STREAMIZM! dubstep saved my life archives now up!!!
STREAMIZM!
Boomnoise (and friends) put a massive effort into the first big dubstep forum event, even to the extent of getting it streamed live – now that’s professional! And from all accounts it WENT OFF. But! You can judge for yourself. Streamizm is putting the archives up ALREADY! Downloads soon. The link above is for the [...]
admin, May 14th 2007
New Ramadanman for free
dubstepforum.com :: View topic – free MP3 of mine
The increasingly impressive deep’n’melodic dubstep sound of Ramadanman is available as a free release… take a look…
admin, May 14th 2007
FWD JME Birthday Bash recordings
Surely you haven’t missed this… if you have, it’s amazing… big fat chunks of all the key sets from the night. I am overjoyed to be able to catch this since I couldn’t make it – amazingly I don’t think John Eden has posted a review to his blog yet. Naturally I like the Loefah [...]
admin, May 13th 2007
Soul Jazz Sampler review
Kode 9: Magnetic City – who’d have thought the nine would have come out with a deep house-inflected number? Downtempo, well, down to house speeds anyway, clicking off-beat 4×4 hats, only the 3:2 ragga-style kick deviating from the Basic Channel rhythm. The melodica Steve talked about in a recent interview is present in full effect [...]
admin, May 12th 2007
Youngsta videos
Video from the early part of the set:
Video from mid-set:
Video from late in the set:
admin, May 10th 2007
Youngsta at Dark Crystal, Sheffield, 3-5-2007
I’m not sure I can put into words how good Youngsta and Task were last Thursday. It was a DJ set that simultaneously displayed such awesome power, evil groove and monumental beauty that it was impossible to experience it without an over powering sense of transcendence.
Everything good that Youngsta is famous for was fully present [...]
admin, May 10th 2007
