June 2009 – Grievous Angel

June 30, 2009

Chatter for 2009-06-30

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 #

June 29, 2009

Chatter for 2009-06-29

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 #

June 28, 2009

Chatter for 2009-06-28

@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 #

June 27, 2009

Chatter for 2009-06-27

@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 #

June 26, 2009August 23, 2020

Funky mix for Crazy Legs now up

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

June 26, 2009

Chatter for 2009-06-26

@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 #

June 25, 2009

“So, let’s sum up. You’ve spent the last 4 years of your life taking a job from an American while relentlessly shitting on the country that welcomed you in. And now you want sympathy?”

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.

June 25, 2009

Chatter for 2009-06-25

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 #

June 24, 2009

Hollow Earth on soft synth controllers changing the face of music

Hollow Earth
“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…

June 24, 2009

Sister Nancy Live in London July 15th

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