In this scene, the Deep Ones, AKA BLUE HADES, are taking an interest in what is happening on the earth’s surface as the stars align and eldritch horrors from beyond space time are becoming more of a nuisance, and the planet’s aquatic powers have despatched some diplomats and specialists to discuss options before BLUE HADES takes matters into its own tentacles and simply destroys all land-based life, which frankly they should have done several million years ago.
The band is led by Ramona Random, now fully manifesting her mermaid nature, although still able to pass on land with a powered wheel chair and glamoured gloves. She has brought along a water dragon diplomat, who is quite excitable on her first trip to the surface. She has also brought drowned corpse which is now possessed by a watery deity and has tentacles; now a sociology researcher he has been collaborating with Dr Yoko Suzuki of the Miyamato Group on the behaviour of sea Yokai, on which Suzuki is an expert. They are now talking shop about research methods and in particular the limitations of statistics to capture the behaviour of magical beings. Random’s final sub sea companion is a diviner, who is most keen to compare the passages in his oracular book with the heirloom manuscript by Evelyn Starkey.
Much to the surprise of the Laundry it turns out that the Deep Ones maintain a coastal facility off the Cornish coast surrounded by drowned stone circles – the Laundry was perviously only aware of the hidden harbours near the Orkneys. The Deep Ones use a LARC-V amphibious vehicle to shuttle from an undersea portal to a pure white coral holding bay the size of Durham Cathedral which is directly beneath Sancreed in the deep west of Kernow. The LARC V is being driven by new Laundry associate Sandy Wilson, with her husband, the Reverend Peter Wilson, leading on liason with local druids. Iris Carpenter is leading on diplomatic engagement and is delighted to catch up with Ramona again.
Random’s final sub sea companion is a diviner, who is most keen to compare the passages in his oracular book with the heirloom manuscript by Evelyn Starkey.
Iris Carpenter is leading on diplomatic engagement and is delighted to catch up with Ramona again.
Plans for the evening and plans are accelerated when Xrkl, a mobile ziggurat, arrives to talk to the sea dragon. Soon after, Ninhursag, the Sumerian goddess of fertility and rebirth, suggests a visit to Slimelight, one of the facility’s night clubs. The Deep Ones love a night club!
Modelling nerd note: The LARC-V is from the Gecko Vietnam war era 1/35 model, which is pretty good although some super glue was involved. The figures are mostly from the wonderful Eldritch Factory on Etsy – really top notch prints. Plus some Chinese prints.
I have started doing a new art form based on making scale models. Rather than just having random posts on modelling forums, Bluesky and Mastodon I thought it was worth collecting these here.
Most of the models I’ve done have been set in science fiction and urban fantasy author Charlie Stross’ Laundry Files and New Management book series, informally known as the Laundryverse. The series premise is that there is an occult variant of British intelligence service MI5, known as “The Laundry”, which deals with threats by horrors from other dimensions, which have been multiplied by unintended computational demonology brought about by the IT revolution.
Here, I’ve portrayed two much loved characters from the series, known as Pinky and The Brain, housemates of the series’ main character (and very unreliable narrator) Bob Howard in The Atrocity Archives. They are a gay couple who work in the Laundry’s research department.
In this diorama, our queer heroes are despatched to deal with an incursion by what is presumed to be a Lovercraftian horror, but which turns out to be a pansexual, hyper-gendered deity whom the Nazi Abwehr’s paranormal intelligence force sought to to exploit in world war 2.
Naturally the deity objected to being bothered by nazis, and dealt with them with a flick of its wrist, while comprehensively redecorating the ME262 involved.
In this scene, Pinky is riding the couple’s own Kettenkrad, inherited from Bob, while Brains is taking the ME262 up to the divine being for one more psychedelic love-in in the sky. Good times! The Me262 has been kept in a force field within a temple, which features sentient semi-mobile paintings on its walls.
Technical details:
This kit is a classic Airfix ME262 German jet in 1/48 scale, with an entirely non-standard paint scheme, from the package which includes a Kettenkrad.
This is a mix I’ve wanted to do to for a while – mainly because I wanted to listen to it . Yes, this is the sort of thing OneMan does so well, and has been doing for ages, but I think this is still really worth doing. Mala in particular has always had a really strong garage swing and this really brings it out. All classic tunes obviously – it starts deep and heavy, slowly moves up to the really intense section around Mountain Dread March, and then moves nicely into a load of 4×4 garage.
I did 10 10-minute sound tracks to videos of graffitti artists, for the graf / street art collective Dirty Face. Check out (and buy!) Dirty Face’s fantastic t-shirts here. The videos had an amazing story – Dirty Face organised a 10 day festival at Sheffield’s brilliant Bank Street Arts centre, where they got top graffiti artists in and over 10 days, they would each paint a wall in a day… the same wall, mind, with their work being white-washed over the top! Dirty Face video’ed each day, and did a 10 minute time-lapsed edit for me to work to. These videos and their soundtracks unfortunately haven’t surfaced yet, so I’m putting these little mixes out there, on their own. They’;re really nice, fully-rounded despite being short, yet easily consumed because they don’t hang around long. There’s a range of genres in there and, frankly, theres some lovely moments in there.
00:00 Introduction 00:26 Neckle Camp feat. Jammer, Rinse FM 01:02 Turbulence acapella 02:06 Turbulence – Notorious (THC Muzik 7”) 2005 02:40 Trim & Radioclit – Turbulence remix (from Soulfood vol 1) 2007 06:45 Richie Spice – Marijuana (from Spice In Your Life 2004) 08:25 Jammer – Burning (from Are You Dumb vol 2) 2007 10:45 Bob Marley and the Wailers – So Much Trouble in the World (from Survival, 1979) 14:05 Mercston – Trouble (from Da End of Da Beginning) 2006 16:31 Skepta – Blood, Sweat and Tears (from Greatest Hits) 2007 19:32 All In One – Flows (from Bless Beats – A Hard Days Graft) 2008 21:14 Frisco – Skeng Man Mode (from Peng Food) 2008 23:24 Slix – Maniac (from Down vol 1) 2006 26:12 Neckle Camp feat Jammer, Rinse FM 27:39 Baby Cham & Mister Easy – Funny Man (Mad House 7”) 1996 28:53 Lady Saw – Sycamore Tree (Mad House 7”) 1996 30:01 Frisco Kid – Rubbers (Mad House 7”) 1996 31:05 Buju Banton – How It Ago Go (Mad House 7”) 1996 32:08 Tanya Stephens – Yuh Nuh Ready Fi Dis Yet (Mad House 7”) 1996 33:37 Slew Dem – Joyride Vocal (Slewdem Productions 12”) 2005 35:13 Dutty Doogz – Pum Pum Stealer (Night Flight 12”) 2003 36:35 Harry Toddler – Good Good (Night Flight 12”) 2003 36:49 Flow Dan – Galist (Night Flight 12”) 2003 37:16 Jamaka Bi – Zoom 4 Pum (Night Flight 12”) 2003 39:15 Kano and Vybz Kartel – Buss It Up (679 7”) 2006 43:16 Neckle Camp feat. Jammer, Rinse FM 44:01 Yami Bolo – Top Shotta (Black Diamonds 7”) 2002 45:48 Junior Reid – Rise Up (Black Diamonds 7”) 2002 46:32 Half Pint – Bounce (Black Diamonds 7”) 2002 47:37 Lukie D – One In Ten (Black Diamonds 7”) 2002 49:12 Rossi B and Luka – Nobody Knows (from The Legacy EP, Heavy Artillery 12”) 2007 51:29 Ini Kamoze – World a Reggae Music (from Sly and Robbie’s Taxi Sound, Auralux LP) 1984 53:03 Rossi B and Luka – Run 4 Cover instrumental (12” white label) 2005 53:48 Rossi B and Luka feat. Nasty Crew – Run 4 Cover (12” white label) 2005 56:45 Neckle Camp feat. Jammer, Rinse FM 57:13 Breeze – Ice Rink (Wiley Kat 12”) 2003 59:16 Tinchy Stryder – Ice Rink (Wiley Kat 12”) 2003 60:36 Kano – Ice Rink (Wiley Kat 12”) 2003 63:56 Riko – Ice Rink (Wiley Kat 12”) 2003 65:58 Sizzla – Give Me A Try (from Rise to the Occasion) 2003 67:18 Jammer – Give Me a Try (from Are You Dumb vol 2) 2006 71:04 Sizzla Vs Rhianna – Give Me A Try (remix) 2007
BIG UP Droid, all Blogariddims crew, Woebot, Dan Hancox, Blackdown, all Woofah Magazine crew and all dancehall and grime selectors, producers, MCs, promoters, labels, record shop people, and dancers! WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’ve done the 10th mix in the Future Garage series.
It’s a mix of deep rolling dubby garage with loads of dubs from two of the hottest producers around – Wen and Etch. Some seriously great, forward looking tunes in here! Welcome to the new dub…
OK. Here’s a mix of fresh, deep dub 130. Basically my tribute to Beneath. This is pure rollage. Obviously the Beneath stuff is the best dub in the world right now but there’s lots of good bits in this mix. I particularly like the blend of City Cycle and Send, and the blend of Waterfalls and the Vibe is so Right. This goes off live. The Ramadanman refix is very special, David played this out quite a bit. No-one’s got that.
Check it, this is a good’un.
Beneath – Wip – unreleased
Beneath – Lost – unreleased
Beneath – Name Droppin’ – unreleased
Cooly G – Dis Boy – Dub Organiser
Beneath – Send – No Symbols 001
Mala – City Cycle – Tectonic
Beneath – Seduction – No Symbols 002
Grievous Angel – Torn Apart – Devotional Dubz Erzulie04
Simpleton – Weh Dem Hear – Grievous Angel Remix – unreleased
Beneath – Rough – No Symbols 02
Grievous Angel – Kleer – Forefront
Rubi Dan Vs Grievous Angel – BadBoyz – Unreleased
DJ Ma1 – Waterfalls
Chrissy Murderbot – Vibe Is So Right (Atki2 Remix) – Planet Mu
Ramadanman – Blimey (Grievous Angel Refix) – Unreleased (and never coming out!)
Beneath – No Limit – Unreleased
Here’s the third volume of the 2Step Heaven series:
http://www.grievousangel.net/GAMixes/2Step_Heaven_Vol3_Grievous_Angel.mp3
This was an all-vinyl, one-take mix – it sounded good so I decided to do ESC off vinyl
Some really nice blends on here and not many mistakes. Happy with it.
Enjoy this for now… there’s some nice mixes of new / unreleased stuff on the way…
B15 Project – Girls Like This
M-Dubs Feat Lady Saw – Bump’n’Grind
Groove Chronicles – Life is What You Make It
D’Souza: Keep It Coming – Dem2 Remix
Rusty – Something’s Gpt Me Started – Wideboys Dub Mix
Stone Kold Joints – Wicked Press
M-Dubs – Body Killin
Basement Jaxx – Red Alert – Steve Gurley remix
Groove Chronicles – Faith in You
Groove Chronicles – Black Puppet
