Following the Black Dog’s devestating performance at the legendary Park Hill Flats I was inspired to do a new mix of techno. Actually it’s been on my mind for a while because there is a big techno and acid revival brewing, partly with Jackmaster / Numbers playing techno (but with rewinds and MCs) and partly with people like Funk Butcher dropping bits of acid into funky sets. Naturally I have some acidic funky tunes ready to drop. But this set is mainly about the sheer visceral head rush of good techno, acid and hard house. I still have a lot of this stuff I want to put in a mix, especially things like Dave the Drummer’s gigantic The Speed Freak, Cosmic Trigger’s the Oracle etc.
It starts with a load of rave-destroying hard acid, drops down into more minimal techno, some tough house before spazzing out completely over Dubfire’s utterly bonkers refix of Plastikman’s Spastik. You’ll like it. It’s a 100% original vinyl mix in one take, for those of you who still care about such things.
Shabba Ranks: Lets Get It On (Beef Jpint) (Dillinja / Goldie remix)
Beenie Man: Gimme De Gal (DJ SS remix)
DBO General / Mickey Finn / Aphrodite: Some Justice 95 (Arsonist)
Krome & Time: Ganja Man
Shabba Ranks: Wicked Inna Bed (DJ SS remix)
Prisoners of Technology: Deadly Technique
MA2: Hearing is Believing
Prisoners of Technology: Ghetto Shit
Digital: Deadline
Congo Natty: Jah
Congo Natty: Jah Set It
Congo Natty: Fever 98
Digital: Fix Up ???
Digital: Sounds of Freedom
Congo Natty: Radical
Aphrodite: President
Congo Natty: Your Love
Digital Feat. YT: Hard Ears (Dem Can’t Hear Must Feel)
Recored live on 2 decks and a mixer Saturday 27th February 2011 at Grievous Angel Sound, Sheffield.
I love grime but I haven’t done that many grime mixes. I suppose the biggest one so far is the Grime in the Dancehall mix I did with John Eden for blogariddims. That was back in 2008 and not long after, I did this mix… and then never sent it to anyone other than John. I always thought it was alright but could’ve been just a bit better. Anyway, I’ve gone back to it and it sounds fine TBH so I’m happy to put it up, especially since I’ve got a few more grime mixes I want to get into. I mean, I still haven’t put up a mix with my favourite grime instrumental – in fact my favourite electronic record of all time – Big$hot’s Glitch. Trust me, that tune destroys the dance every time.
So this is a mix of mostly mid- to late-period grime, some instrumentals and some vocal cuts, with an emphasis on banging percussive FOWARD-ness. It’s only half an hour and I can’t remember what all the tunes are but they’re all good. I think you’ll like it.
I wanted to do a mix of rough as fuck MC-driven garage… the stuff that flowed from UK fast chat and US hiphop and eventually filtered into grime in 2002. And here it is – a new year’s present for you.
Martin Blackdown Clark was kind enough to let me remix Margins Music, his first album with Dusk, and to promo the release I did two mixes for his blog. This is the first one, re-mastered, tidied up a bit, and now available straight off this site rather than via a fileshare service. It’s a selection of hiphop, r’n'b, wigged out future garage, grime and dubstep, all in dub or refixed, and quite a bit louder and punchier than first time round.
Big up Martin and thanks to Shaun Bloodworth for letting me use this amazing photo of the light at FWD / Plastic People for both this mix and for the label of my Soundclash1 release on Keysound.
0:00 Intro
0:09 MF Grimm / DJ Premier – International Rules
2:04 The Streets – Lets push things forward (Roll Deep Remix)
4:50 DJ Premier / Gangstarr: Mass Appeal (instrumental)
5:05 Blackdown: Beta
7:50 Joe: Rut
13:30 Untold & D Franklin: Beacon
14:30 Prince: Soft and Wet (screwed and chopped)
16:09 Pearson Sound: Gambetta
18:08 D’Angelo: One Mo Gin
22:21 Shortstuff: A Rustling
25:33 Prince: Black Sweat (Grievous Angel Refix)
27:45 Musical Mob: Pulse X
27:45 Blackdown: Defocused
28:56 Big$hot: Glitch
30:57 Ends
Fabulous selection from John as usual. I just did FX, edits and mastering. Amazing introduction to Lovers Rock, if you haven’t experienced really good lovers, this is the mix you need, reckon this might change a few minds!
I had a blast doing this mix. Quite a few dubs, including a bunch of new things from me, and a few favourites. It’s good fun, deep as you like and people seem to like it. Check out the Kuma remix at the end, it’s got a corking vocal from Juakali on it!
Here’s the track listing.
Grievous Angel: Lady Dub (2step mix) (Devotional Dubz Volume 1). 2008
Grievous Angel Vs. Missy Elliott: Work It. Unreleased. 2008
Sully: Jackmans Rec (FRIJSFO BEATS FRJ005) 2009
Wascal: Know U. Unreleased? 2009
Kowton: Stasis (Keysound Recordings LDN013) 2009
Grievous Angel Vs Method Man: So High. Unreleased. 2004
Hackman: More Than Ever (Jamie Grind Remix). Unreleased. 2010
Jamie Grind: Bad Attitude (And You Know It). Unreleased. 2010
ID & Skinnz: Issues. (EARWAX EAR011). 2009
Crazy Bald Heads: First born (Four Tet remix). Unreleased. 1999
Burial: Pirates (Burial CD). 2006
Mista Men: Lengthy Riddim (Hackman remix). Bass Tourist 009. 2010
23hz & Numaestro_-_zumo_(Sully_rmx). Unreleased. 2008
Geeneus ft. Riko, Wiley and Breeze: Knife and Gun (Blackdown and Dusk Garage Remix) (Keysound Recordings dubplate). 2008
Hackman: WDYGOAPHAGFY. Unreleased. 2010
Gremino: Face It (Ruff Revival dubplate) 2009
Naphta: Jungle Republic (Grievous Angel Remix) (Ruff Revival dubplate) 2010
Kuma ft Juakali: What It’s Not (Grievous Angel remix). Unreleased. 2010
Grievous Angel Vs. Jill Scott: Deeper, Wider Dub
Groove Chronicles: Life is what you make it (DPR 1998)
El B Feat Reis and Dee: Keep the Love (Scorpion Records)
MJ Cole: Bandalero Desperado (El-B VIP mix) (Talkin Loud 2000)
Sevi G / El B: Beautiful Music (Dub Mix) (Vinylocity 2000)
Ghost: The Club (Ghost 2000)
Ghost: Lyrical Tempo (Ghost 2001)
El B: Serious (Locked On 2001)
Ruff Cut Bias: Down (Locked On 2000)
Groove Chronicles: Faith In You (DPR 1998)
Sonrisa: Grooving Me (Splash It Like Champagne Mix) (Public Demand 2000)
Sevi G / Groove Chronicles: In the Air Tonight (2 Step Mix) (White)
Shade Sheist Feat Nate Dogg: Where I Wanna Be (Dub-A-Holics R&B Switch Mix – Explicit Version) (Public Demand 2001)
De La Soul: Ain’t All Good: MJ Cole Remix (Tommy Boy Music 2000)
Victor Romeo: Love Will Find A Way (Ray Hurley & Mark Yardley Dub Mix) Public Demand 1998
Ramsey and Fen: Love Bug (Bug Records 1998)
The Bomb Squad: Bad Acid (Big Kid Productions 2000)
Kevin Real Deal: Breaking Rocks (White 1998)
The Bomb Squad: No Dub (Big Kid Productions 2000)
Monie Love: Slice of Da Pie (El B Remix) 1999
Groove Chronicles: Be Happy (White, 1999)
Angie Lee: What’s Your Name? (MJ Cole Master Mix) (WEA 1999)
Roll: Let it Roll (White, 1999)
I am playing in Manchester on Friday 11th at Band on the Wall.
The line up is AMAZING!
Dusk and Blackdown playing Margin’s Music live – I remixed the album, got them into Ableton, now they’re playing it out! But with a massive twist – they’ve got a whole live band too, including Farah. AAAAAAAANNDD… their show is featuring Durrty Goodz!!!! Being on the same line up as Durrty Goodz is an ambition fulfilled
But that’s not all… there’s United Vibes (LHF Vibzin), Scratcha DVA, AND Starkey, who is absolutely fantastic live! I’m so glad to be playing with him again. He’s electrifying!
Dunno when I’m on – probably fairly low down the bill given how big the names are – but it’s going to be a massive night!
£10 to get in. 9.30 kick off. Tickets on sale now from here.
I’ve got a load of tunes now, too many for any future album. I’m going to give away some of the better ones.
There might be some paid-for ones in the future. I also want to start hosting dubz in there too when I work it out.
I’m at http://grievousangel.bandcamp.com
I’ve got two tracks up so far. Darkness is that folk / garage tune that Mary Anne played and which was up on my site for a while. It’s good, I’d do a better mixdown now though. There’s a load more folk tunes I want to do. There’s an Eliza Carthy sample that’s been going through my head for months, for example.
Erzulie is this wonky thing that’s the companion piece to Harpy (on the flip of Soundclash).
Soundclash artwork is here. It looks amazing. The photography was specially comissioned and is of a little corner of London that us of great personal and psychogeographical importance to me. Very happy about this!
@djlogansama journalism needs more grime. No releases no coverage. My distributor could sell all the grime it gets twice over. in reply to djlogansama#
@donrosco it's through baked goods so it should be easy to get hold of. Will be in at boomkat, rooted, juno etc. No direct – too lazy! in reply to donrosco#
New dirty rnb dub tune at 140… Girl you know it's true… Sounding really grimey and fat #
New broken techno thing us good but a bit, well, fucked #
