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Niiice review from Boomkat! Pleased with that.

Soundclash is the best thing I’ve ever done. Maybe the best thing I’ll ever do. It’s massive, it moves the crowd every time people play it. But it’s a choon – a song – it’s not a mix tool, though Atki2 uses it that way, it’s a record that people connect to. It’s worth having.

Harpy compared to Wiley… like that… Harpy’s arpeggiated heavy jazz wonk out of eski-bizniz… I’ll take that…

Only £4.60… get in…

I LOVE THIS WAR AND I LOVE GUNS.

The next Grievous Angel release in my guise as BUBBLEZ is about to drop on Devotional Dubz… my third release on my own 100% bootleg label is the funky remix of Wiley’s magnificent ICE RINK featuring Riko. I reckon this is the ultimate UK gun man tune in any genre and definitely the ultimate funky gun man tune. Serious Ogun business.

As you know this has been caned already by loads of top DJs… FACT Magazine already covered it as a track of the week… It’s a good tune. And it has to be. Ice Rink is one of THE seminal grime tracks, it’s just awesome. Here’s video of the original with Kano et al.

Anyway. It’s out soon. Well it should be, I’ve had the TPs and they sound alright so it shouldn’t be long. There won’t be many of them and there won’t be a repress.

Audio in the CrazyLegs mix I did here.

I’ll let you know when it drops.

Amazing new tunage incoming – yes I know, yet more!

Idle Hands is, as the better connected among you know, the fab new label out of Bristol’s magnificent Rooted record shop…

Idle001 was a wonderful bit of subtechno shuffle matched with utterly Bristolian subby skank… and Idle002 is sheer quality, probably even better! The lead cut is Atki2’s utterly RIDICULOUS remix of Hanuman’s Bola which is… well it’s so good I can scarcely put it into words… it’s a superb bit of fat, bouncy deep, deep, DEEEEEEEP house music that is right up there with Theo, MAW, anyone you want to mention. Totally on it, totally next level, if Cooly G had made it she’d the Queen by now. Awesome.

And on the flip is Dub Boy and Atki2’s Tigerflower, a great little post-soca Karnival-style tune that really sets floors alight. Plus of course my own remix of it, which is absolutely BANGING hard crunchy funky. Real peaktime jump up gear. And from a geek perspective, it’s the best mixdown I’ve done yet!

Atki2 is a dynamite producer btw, very underrated – you haven’t heard his simply awesome Time Freezes yet? Ah. Then you haven’t heard the best record of 2010. Trust.

You already know how heavy octapush are live, right? Well, they rock it with a fantastic combination of low end heft and latin-meets-ragga beats. They had a great cut on Soul Jazz Records’ Stepper’s Delight compilation, blew up the Red Bull Stage at this year’s Sonar in Barcelona as well as the Glade Festival, and have a  unique sound which combines the Lisbon Kuduro sound with elements of Garage, Dancehall and Techno. You’ll like it. And they’ve got a corking 12 out on Iberian records in a couple of weeks.

Main cut Deixa is a fantastic bit of karnival style banging niceness with ragga beats and 8 bit basslines. Top latino MCing from Toni Clean. Fabulous.

Baila Mundo is even better – hard bouncy jump up with the wonderful MC Zulu – he wot worked with Ghislain Poirier on Go Ballistic, which I remixed.

Dubshhh is what happens when wobble meets rave – cracking little tune actually. They’ve got better ones though.

Buy to pep up your funky sets with something with a bit of welly that’ll still get the girls on the floor. Really good stuff, not deep but proper bangers. Out 2nd November through ST Holdings 2009

Posted up last month but in development for some time, though clearly freshly updated, Reynolds on gender and aggression within the nuum.  Comes with some interesting re-assessments of grime (read: “REYNOLDS STILL LIKES GRIME SHOCK”), some attractively snark-free analysis of dubstep (if you ignore the comments): THE NUUM AND ITS DISCONTENTS, # 5: MASCULINE PRESSURE: or,(REAP)PRAISING THE “HARD” IN HARDCORE. via Energy Flash.

I think the main point I would make in reflecting on Simon’s piece is that there is perhaps a cycle between the different male archetypes – from gangsta to lover to rebel to mystic etc, and back again. Lots of performers / MCs will cycle through these personae in the course of a set. Or at least, a career. Just look at Wiley, James Brown, Marley etc. Certainly, scenes will cycle through these archetypes. So dubstep majors on the mystic persona, which is a natural evolution from and complementary to grime’s gangsta persona, which is a natural evolution from garage’s lover persona, etc. You can often see reggae performers deliberately take on these different persona in the course of a single performance. And all the different scenes can occupy multiple personae – but one tends to dominate. So garage had gangsta elements, mystic elements, rebel / political elements etc as well as the Lover archetype.

So it’s less a case of these being divergent paths as points on a continuum.

I think I might be about to put different phases of the nuum on different sephiroth of the tree of life, and no good will come of that, so I will stop now!

Listen to my mix for Mary Anne Hobbs on the radio one website.

15 minutes of banging, heavy dubstep, ragga techno, grime and funky.

The other mixes on there are worth checking too – sbtrkt’s excellent “bastard son of 2step and techno” stuff and Mr Beatnik’s lovely downbeat soul and jazz selection.

Catch it live at U Dun Know at Video Visions Bar in Dalston on Saturday alongside LVis1990.

Grevious Angel in the Mix
Grievous Angel – ‘I Love Dem’ (Devotional Dubz)
Toasty – ‘Knowledge’ [Untold Remix] (Hotflush)
Grievous Angel – ‘Culture Killer’ [Discomix]
Joy Orbison – ‘Hyph Mngo’ (Hotflush)
Narcossist – ‘Metronome’ [Grievous Angel remix] (White Label)
Grievous Angel ft. Rubi Dan – ‘Move Down Low’ [VIP mix] (White Label)
Pearson Sound – ‘Wad’ (Soul Jazz)
Grievous Angel – ‘Harpy’ (Keysound)
Big$hot – ‘Glitch’ (White)
Naphta – ‘Soundclash1’ [Grievous Angel Remix] (Keysound)
23Hz Vs Numaestro – ‘Zuno’ [Sully Remix] (White Label)

You got to admit this is a mentally good line up!

I’m playing garage, percussive rolling dubstep, and stacks of funky house specials.

sheffield: sex city

[Owen went to Sheffield to do something important recently. I tagged along. Sheffield is a marvellous city, but is intent on destroying all its good bits, especially Park Hill. We did something on Castle Market as well, but that’s going to be on another site shortly]

via infinite thØught: sheffield: sex city.

I mised this at the time… FACT bigging up the Ice Rink remix. You can hear this on the myspace and on the mix for Crazy Legs club. I am playing a Crazy Legs soon, on the 31st, so you can hear it on a big system then.

WILEY: ‘ICE RINK’ (RIKO VOCAL – GRIEVOUS ANGEL REMIX)

“Woofah magazine co-editor and the man behind one of last year’s most underrated albums, Belief is the Enemy, has been foraging into UK Funky productions lately, and they’re fantastic. If you’ve heard Kode 9’s recent sets you’ll have heard GA’s edit of ‘Loser’, which is coming out soon on a white label under an alias, but his remixes of Wiley’s classic ‘Ice Rink’ step things up even further. The instrumental is good, but it’s all about the Riko version, which keeps the original’s alien squelches and clashes, mutates the best vocal from the original 12″s, and pretty much pisses all over the entire Major Lazer album.”

Thanks Tom!