• RT @colz: @GrievousAngeluk crazylegs mix = soundtrack for summer – Thanks Colz! #
• Doing some broken latin funky VIPs of Move Down Low #
• RT @LDN: Great pic – Saturday's thunderstorms over LDN, seen from East Sussex – http://bit.ly/GSCgC – worth a look #

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• RT @sideb0ard: Ben ufo dropping joy orbison's 'hyphmango' at fwd – amazing! THIS IS A CHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNN #
• @bok_bok what are they saying alex? Assume yr with manat in reply to bok_bok #
• Redone broken funky tune a bit, gonna send it out. Wanna do a dub mix of it. #
• Can't decide whether to make some beats or paint some floors #

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• @ballardian I love a nice pink shirt, every man should have one. Or two. in reply to ballardian #
• @ballardian Srsly. Love a good pink shirt, will send some pix! in reply to ballardian #
• Took wife to posh Italian restaurant last night. My @crazylegsclub mix was playing via a radio station in monte carlo! Mental! #twilightzone #

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• @jrowett Vinopolis is alright. Not as good as the sunday times wine club though. in reply to jrowett #
• @wayneandwax well, do you want MJ for president or not?!? If alive, of course. in reply to wayneandwax #
• @bok_bok you doing funky or broken or gutter? in reply to bok_bok #
• @mjcole Gotta have it is a motherfucker of a tune in reply to mjcole #
• @maryannehobbs yeah but anyone who's a player loves ya. in reply to maryannehobbs #
• @joemuggs so, garage set yeah? Can't think of any part of London better suited to a Kosmiche set than Herne the Hunter Hill in reply to joemuggs #
• result: massive new sofa & "snuggle seat " (room for you and small child in need of cuddling!). acoustics of living room improved no end #
• @joemuggs yeah I used to get that all the time on herne hill. Tree of yddraggsill is there! in reply to joemuggs #
• @stephenfry yeah great to see matt suffering #archers in reply to stephenfry #
• @kidkameleon check the new garage/funky/house mix-if you no like, you don't like funky! in reply to kidkameleon #
• iPhone email send issue: user name & password for outgoing server is not optional. And check port number #
• Best MJ track? Don't Stop Till Ya Get Enough, no question! (via @Mentazm) #
• Fuck, the specials are superb at what they do. #
• ok, i'm just going to say it. i wish Cliff Richard had died instead. (via @jrowett) #
• Just got vocal parts from Indi Kaur for my tune "Black Ice". Sounds beautiful! Wait for it!!! (via @selectormoldy) wow #
• @SteakhouseBeats yeah the world tree. You can get them from b&q in reply to SteakhouseBeats #
• @jrowett andrews in reply to jrowett #
• @dub_u pyramid power! 70s revival! in reply to dub_u #
• @jrowett wtf? Coastguards? in reply to jrowett #

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My contribution to excellent Bristol nightclub Crazy Leg’s terrific series of dj mixes is now up.

Get it here.
Note that the link has changed.

I went for garage, UK funky and proper house here. The mix is bouncy but fairly deep, goes just about as banging as you could possibly want UK funky to go, has some good vocal numbers, but has gobfulls of dub all over it. I was also excited to have some drops / shouts from our very own Rubi Dan, the brilliant Bok Bok, and best of all, COOLY G HERSELF!!!!! I nearly wet myself with excitement when I got them.

Big up Andy from Crazy legs who is a lovely bloke and a terrific promoter, I hope I get the chance to play there soon.

Technicals: this was an Ableton mix that I did 100% live, no edits, including the rewinds and FX. The drops / shouts got added afterwards along with a bit of polishing and mastering. This is basically what I sound like live, when I’m doing a funky set anyway.

Next up is probably a grime mix and, if I can finish it, Dubstep Sufferah 4…

Here’s the tracklisting… there’s a few tunes here you won’t hear anywhere else!

0:00 Dem 2: Baby You’re So Sexy – Vocal MixIt
3:50 Dru Hill: Freak Like Me – El B Remix
7:00 Missy Elliott: Work It – Grievous Angel Remix
11:30 Cooly G: Floating
13:30 Uncle Bakongo: Baga
16:10 David Byrne and Brian Eno: The Jezebel Spirit
19:11 Hard House Banton: Sirens
21:05 KenLou: The Bounce
25:16 Riko: Ice Rink – Grievous Angel’s Drum Ritual Remix
29:06 Riko: Ice Rink – Grievous Angel Remix
35:16 Roska: Climate Change
36:55 Cooly G: Dis Boy
41:30 Q Burns’ Abstract Message: Innocent – King Britt Scuba Mix
46:02 Refuge: Frozen – Grievous Angel Remix
49.48 Lady Saw & Cecille: Loser – Grievous Angel Remix
54:40 Grievous Angel Ft. Rubi Dan: Move Down Low – Funky Remix
56:13 Ends

• @TKGMusic what style is that tune? in reply to TKGMusic #
• @starkbotbeats uh me too suddenly stopped talking to server. Pissing me off! in reply to starkbotbeats #
• Tomorrow the new mix for crazylegs goes up. Its big, deep, as banging as you'd want it, VERY dubby, but sweet too. Garage, funky & house. #
• RT @martinclarkLDN: Hyped about Rinse tonight – we're all hyped about rinse tonight! #
• @TKGMusic yes – which of your many styles are you displaying on TKG3 in reply to TKGMusic #
• @starkbotbeats SMTP issues on iPhone getting to be a real pain… in reply to starkbotbeats #
• @UK_FUNKY I'll send you the URL when it goes live tomorrow. You will need a promo of Loser / Move Down Low as well, coming out July 13th! in reply to UK_FUNKY #
• MJ in cardiac arrest http://bit.ly/15PFWv #
• Times: http://bit.ly/DY3vO #
• RT @ScubaUK: Prince was better anyway. – Yeah but MJ had Quincy Jones. Off the Wall… chooooooooon #
• RT @jimitheexploder: fuck me Dusk & Blackdown are going in HARD right now! #
• @colz yeah it was! in reply to colz #
• FUCK the recording of dusk and blackdown just broke. Missed all that great funky in the first hour. Bummer. Have to make do with shitty 64k #
• @ramadanman that new tune is awesome – oity?!?! #
• I'll try and post the second half tomorrow. sleep now! #
• re-editing the broken tune #
• RT @tom_watson: Most devoted fan video award? Thriller. In Lego. http://bit.ly/mrsiT #
• RT @davidhepworth: Not many people remember that Steven Wells used to be a regular on "Whistle Test". Oh yeah! I'd forgotten that #
• RT @crazylegsclub: CRAZYLEGS 002: mixed by Grievous Angel – OUT NOw!!! http://bit.ly/b5pr6 GO RT! It's worth a listen #
• RT @baobinga: FREE Baobinga breakstep riddim – http://post.ly/yHz – and don't forget the Derrick Carter mix – http://post.ly/xTY #
• @dub_u big up fella, when we going to get a new mix from you? in reply to dub_u #

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Steven Wells is dead. This is a bummer. A great writer who I totally lost track of. I used to see him at gigs in the 80s and chat to him while buying his fanzine. He was a cool bloke, really nice. Now his dead.

The headline is one of the comments on one of his startling frank but incredibly funny stories about his terminal cancer for the Philadelphia weekly.

He is genuinely much missed.

• Drifting in garden in sunshine 1 #
• @danhancox I think that joke is (c) the odd couple isn't it? in reply to danhancox #
• @danhancox the joke about chinese food and old people ! in reply to danhancox #
• @DprRecords HdZ UP! Checkout MASTERPLAN/MILLENIUM FUNK by NOODLES http://bit.ly/sKMFG – one of the greatest records ever made in reply to DprRecords #
• @martinclarkLDN how many of the zomby beats are finished? in reply to martinclarkLDN #
• @martinclarkLDN he should release a 200-track CD of loops that you turn into tunes yourself in ableton! (would be good actually) in reply to martinclarkLDN #
• finishing off idents on crazylegs mix #
• @TKGMusic look forward to hearing yr samples in reply to TKGMusic #
• @bat020 you're joking what did Seething Wells die of? Used to knock around with him a bit in 80s, fanzine scene in reply to bat020 #
• @gervasedewilde sister nancy = cool and deadly! in reply to gervasedewilde #
• @bat020 genuinely saddened by swells' passing in reply to bat020 #
• Stephen wells last column is here: http://bit.ly/ksrQI (via @bat020) #
• @factmagazine mala, jah shaka, kode, joker, starkey, placid, black dog, Saxon sound in reply to factmagazine #

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“I suspect Zomby’s more recent stuff is using similar techniques, even if he’s using a controller to manipulate samples (as opposed to a Soft Synth) from within a PC. It’s the new face of electronic music and a weird flashback to how the control surface of the TB-303 was an escape route from the struggle of programming FM synthesis for DJ Pierre et al.”

Errr… I cannot recall a time when soft synths have not been controlled by external boxes, nor when this didn’t have a transformative effect on music-making. Not necessarily a GOOD effect, but a transformative one. Matt may not have been into music making long enough (his recent releases are great BTW!) to remember things like the Fat Boy controller, which mapped to rebirth and indeed all kinds of other things. Or indeed the original novation bass synth, which i have somewhere and whose knobs were often used to control  soft synths. I don’t think it’s that big a deal – I don’t dispute any of his empirical evidence, FlyLo etc, but I think a  lot of people have been doing that stuff for a long time.

But Matt is quite right to point to workflow as a driver of innovation. I think something like ableton and its open-ended triggering, re-sampling, synthesising and tweaking is also transformative. And what does that approach remind us of? Well, probably Orbital’s use of multiple Alesis hardware sequencers that they used to cut up the sequences driving their synths, live…

Sister Nancy live in London!
Info courtesy of uncarved.org blog

dark disco

The Starkbot, Mayor of Starkville, live in session: “limited edition 320 of Starkey’s stunning performance at Various in Portland, Oregon April 11, 2009.” I know I always rave about Starkey but he is a complete fucking genius. Live he is, quite simply, heaven. I just found this mix today, check it out – and buy the great mix cd he did for Lo dubs.

DOWNLOAD HERE:
http://www.pdxindub.com/files/audio/Starkey_Live at Various 4.11.09.mp3

Riddim.ca – Grime and Dubstep in Canada and the Americas – Interview: Roska
Interview: Roska
Written by Riddim
Tuesday, 05 August 2008

Climate change:  Recent stirrings in the UK underground jolt Riddim.ca back to life…

Kicking off our open-ended investigation of London’s rapidly mutating house scene, we sit down for an email exchange with Roska.  With a foot in broken beat and shades of grime, his new EP Climate Change maintains a healthy balance between houseful sensuousness and rugged riddimic experimentation.  It’s also getting caned by DJs from Marcus Nasty to kode9.  Get to know Roska…

The TPs of Move Down Low remix are in and they sound FAT – yes they are really here as you can see from the pic below…

There will be just 400 for the world, no represses and no downloads (well maybe for Move Down Low, vinyl comes first though). All those who pre-ordered at Red Eye breathe easy, it is coming. Release date should be 13th July, right before the Dog Days, one year on from the first Devotional dubz release, Lady Dub – ERZULIE01.

Previews are up on the MySpace. You’ve all heard this tune and you know it goes off in the dance whether it’s played by Skream, Kode 9, Dub Boy, Blackdown, Hanuman, Atki2 and all the other DJs who have been battering this on plate.

Special shout out to Kode 9 who cut Move Down Low within hours of me sending it, on the day I made it, and played it at the inaugural Beyond. Both tunes have been in his box ever since and he’s played one or both every time I’ve seen him. That’s just briliant!

Hold tight for the new broken stuff and I’ll be doing VIPs of MDL and Loser once solstice season is out of the way. Watch out for ICE RINK REFIX too – it’s been on Rinse a few times with Heatwave and Blackdown and there’s a clip on myspace if you want to hear it. Big up all soundmen!

• @raffertie you could use the torrent version? only 8.0 and buggy but it works. am about to install the legit versh!! in reply to raffertie #
• @boomnoise that could be most useful thank you! in reply to boomnoise #
• @jamrock that's a really cool idea, I will check it out! Thank you! in reply to jamrock #
• @Mentazm wow never met a chrome use b4. @jamrock suggests http://www.xmarks.com/ – sync between computers and browsers… in reply to Mentazm #
• fuck I'm missing @djoneman on rinse, been cooking curry and listening to the new funky tune #
• @jrowett do tell what hifi you've got… in reply to jrowett #
• @jrowett #geekalert# impressive little sub, didn't know those speakers could do dance music, cool… in reply to jrowett #
• @DprRecords I'm after wavs of Stone Cold, 1999, Black Puppet for a start in reply to DprRecords #
• @jrowett so the BK plays more than one note then? I only been to FWD once :0. Had 4 tracks played though in reply to jrowett #
• @caitlinmoran had so many good times at the Pink Toothbrush. Rockabilly hypermales! in reply to caitlinmoran #
• fuck. can't find my copy of the Putple Image album (obscure funk LP from '74). Wanna refix All My Life I Lived in the Ghetto. Bugger. #
• Apparently Prada trainers are OK! #
• @jamrock nice pic in reply to jamrock #
• iPhone won't sync outlook tasks! Epic fail!!!!! #

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• @raffertie you could use the torrent version? only 8.0 and buggy but it works. am about to install the legit versh!! in reply to raffertie #
• @boomnoise that could be most useful thank you! in reply to boomnoise #
• @jamrock that's a really cool idea, I will check it out! Thank you! in reply to jamrock #
• @Mentazm wow never met a chrome use b4. @jamrock suggests http://www.xmarks.com/ – sync between computers and browsers… in reply to Mentazm #
• fuck I'm missing @djoneman on rinse, been cooking curry and listening to the new funky tune #
• @jrowett do tell what hifi you've got… in reply to jrowett #
• @jrowett #geekalert# impressive little sub, didn't know those speakers could do dance music, cool… in reply to jrowett #
• @DprRecords I'm after wavs of Stone Cold, 1999, Black Puppet for a start in reply to DprRecords #
• @jrowett so the BK plays more than one note then? I only been to FWD once :0. Had 4 tracks played though in reply to jrowett #
• @caitlinmoran had so many good times at the Pink Toothbrush. Rockabilly hypermales! in reply to caitlinmoran #
• fuck. can't find my copy of the Putple Image album (obscure funk LP from '74). Wanna refix All My Life I Lived in the Ghetto. Bugger. #
• Apparently Prada trainers are OK! #
• @jamrock nice pic in reply to jamrock #
• iPhone won't sync outlook tasks! Epic fail!!!!! #

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• @raffertie you could use the torrent version? only 8.0 and buggy but it works. am about to install the legit versh!! in reply to raffertie #
• @boomnoise that could be most useful thank you! in reply to boomnoise #
• @jamrock that's a really cool idea, I will check it out! Thank you! in reply to jamrock #
• @Mentazm wow never met a chrome use b4. @jamrock suggests http://www.xmarks.com/ – sync between computers and browsers… in reply to Mentazm #
• fuck I'm missing @djoneman on rinse, been cooking curry and listening to the new funky tune #
• @jrowett do tell what hifi you've got… in reply to jrowett #
• @jrowett #geekalert# impressive little sub, didn't know those speakers could do dance music, cool… in reply to jrowett #
• @DprRecords I'm after wavs of Stone Cold, 1999, Black Puppet for a start in reply to DprRecords #
• @jrowett so the BK plays more than one note then? I only been to FWD once :0. Had 4 tracks played though in reply to jrowett #
• @caitlinmoran had so many good times at the Pink Toothbrush. Rockabilly hypermales! in reply to caitlinmoran #
• fuck. can't find my copy of the Putple Image album (obscure funk LP from '74). Wanna refix All My Life I Lived in the Ghetto. Bugger. #
• Apparently Prada trainers are OK! #
• @jamrock nice pic in reply to jamrock #
• iPhone won't sync outlook tasks! Epic fail!!!!! #

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• everybody follow @RhapsodyDance – it's the amazing Philip Sherbourne #
• @bat020 see what you mean but I thought it was quite dignified and romantic of the psychologists to see it like that in reply to bat020 #
• Had 303 followers!!! #acid !!! 304th is someone I and every other electronic music fan hugely respects – @maryannehobbs #
• Listening to masters of Soundclash and Harpy – Keysound LDN011. Sounds FAT. #
• About to listen to TP of Move Down Low and Loser – funky remixes. Done this one as BUBBLEZ #
• @SteakhouseBeats Superb news, so glad Steakhouse is rolling! in reply to SteakhouseBeats #
• @colz LOL think I'll work my way up to 707 with the latin beats, then 808 with the hiphop first… 808 will be I Love Dem, biggest subs~ in reply to colz #
• @djplastician Your FWD garage set was OFF THE HOOK, I loved it, superb stuff in reply to djplastician #
• @colz Wicked, never heard that! What awesome synth sounds, so hard to make now! Speed that beat up to 130 & put a ragga MC on it… heaven in reply to colz #
• @DprRecords Can I buy WAVs / AIFFs rather than mp3s off you please? These are the best records ever made, I want FULL FAT versions! in reply to DprRecords #
• Test pressing of Loser / Move Down Low sounds hot. Label is Devotional Dubz, Artist is Bubblez, Cat.no is ERZULIE02. Hyped! #
• @wayneandwax bizarre… new broken funky tune is called Panama… in reply to wayneandwax #
• @urbanmuzak yeah, taken forever… couldn't do a Lady Dub follow up, then focused on the blackdown remix album & Soundclash. New one's good. in reply to urbanmuzak #
• @maryannehobbs Jam on Oakbrook road. Very technical cutting, cuts look good for ages. Good jukebox and coffee too. in reply to maryannehobbs #
• Looks like the iphone might be arriving today #
• @paul_lynch aiff and wav are exactly the same data. There are lots intermediate bit depths from 320 to 1440. They don't add much though. in reply to paul_lynch #
• Listening to a new house track and unboxing the new iPhone #
• RT @DJTayo: i want this Roska remix of Neighbourhood. I think we all do! @zedbias when?!?!? #
• iphone does'nt sync with firefox bookmarks!!! EPIC fail!!! #
• looks like my (finally!) legit copy of Logic has showed up already it's an apple-tastic day here #

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• Journalism mag: daily mail poll http://bit.ly/Ns0LB #
• @OctaPush I bet you slayed 'em with your own stuff then! in reply to OctaPush #
• @DprRecords GC 1999: possibly the best record ever made. in reply to DprRecords #

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Welcomed the solstice dawn sat with john eden in his back garden at 4am, lovely

Just ordered iphone 3GS 32gb in black

did a pretty sweet broken funky thing last night, 128bpm, no 4×4, real good syncopation, taking to studio 2morw

Editing a mix for the magnificent @crazylegsclub. Nuff garage, funky and house

Done a nice little chilled 140 thing, prob 1/3 done

Right helped boy do maths and reading, now we go into studio to do some djing together!

Watch out for metaphi, prodigously talented young producer, amazing technical chops. Just needs some focus

Ting is, soundclash is a /record/, not a mix tool. Pity really but thats how it is. Took it out of scuba 3:2 tech, worked gr8

What is it about soundclash that makes everyone dance, it’s almost bizaare, everyone gets up when it comes on

Soundclash got all the girls dancing – as usual

@bok_bok not a producer, just a mentally good booty/gettotech/bassline/gutterhouse dj. Off cds. Dances! Rocks, i’ll try get him to d