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Our 3rd issue is available now and features:
The Bomb Squad – exclusive interview with Hank and Keith Shocklee
Flowdan – the lowdown from the Roll Deep MC and collaborator with The Bug
Dusk and Blackdown – navigating the bass cultures of London
Twilight Circus – dubbing from the Netherlands to Jamaica
Soulja – Rinse FM and FWD stalwart Sarah
An extensive history of UK Dub, including a top 30 essential tracks with comments from the artists and producers
2562 – next level dubstep
Bellevue – an investigation into the notorious Kingston mental hospital and its links with reggae
Badman Commandments
Reviews
And much much more.
NO adverts
NO rehashed press-releases
NO pdfs or downloads – printed version only
Big up John Eden and Droid!
Mary Anne Hobbs played my folk refix on radio one last night
Big up Mary Anne. First FACT Magazine, now national airplay – this is a result!
Trying to let Real World know it’s happening, but no response yet. They probably have better things to do than think about some strange garage remix of a folk record! This isn’t coming out BTW – the distributor hated it!!! Hilarious…
“BBC – Radio 1 – Mary Anne Hobbs
Tracklisting: Wednesday 26th November
Flying Lotus – ‘Roberta Flack’ Martyn’s Heart Beat mix from ‘LA EP 2X3’ Warp
Scuba – ‘Tense’ Hotshore Dubplate
Exclusive
Qemists feat Wiley ‘Dem Nah Like Me’ King Cannibal mix Ninja Dubplate
Kwaidan – ‘Hoichi’ Highpoint Lowlife
Silent Witness & Sirius – ‘Proceed’ from the LP ‘All Sounds Electric Two’ Critical Vindicatrix – ‘Private Places’ Shackleton and MM remix Mordant Music
Omar Rodriguez Lopez – ‘Trilateral Commission As Dinner Guests’ from the LP ‘Old Money’ Stones Throw
Kromestar – ‘Pass The Light’ from the album ‘My Sound’ Dubplate
Mount Kimbie in the mix:
Mount Kimbie – ‘Untitled’
Mount Kimbie – ‘Untitled’
Mount Kimbie – ‘Maybes’
Dabrye – ‘Game Over’ feat. Jay Dee & Phat Kat
Jamie Woon – ‘Wayfairing Stranger’
Mount Kimbie – ‘William’ feat. Adonye Green
Exclusive
Appleblim & Geiom – ‘Flame Tree’ Berkane Sol Dubplate
Claro Intelecto – ‘When The Time It Right’ Modern Love
Subeena – ‘Call It Anger’ Imminent Dubplate
Hot City in the mix:
Hot City – ‘No Matter What I Do And Then You Work It’ unreleased
Hot City – ‘Head Work’ Highpoint Lowlife
Hot City – ‘Hot City Bass’ unreleased
Hot City – ‘Setting Me Free’ unreleased
Hot City – ‘Yeah’ Highpoint Lowlife
Stacy Epps – ‘Floatin’ from the LP ‘The Awakening’ Dubplate
Grevious Angel – ‘Darkness The Welcome Sailor Retold’ Dubplate
Distance ‘Free Me’ from the LP ‘Repercussions’ Planet Mu
Kito – ‘What If’ Disfigured Dubz
Radiohead – ‘Reckoner’ Nosaj Thing mix Dubplate”
Garage Tape 2000
I’ve been promising this for ages. Now the Devotional Dubz mix is finally out – thank god, took forever! – I can start clearing out some of the backlog of other, less vital mixes. First up is my first ever 2step mix, even predating the Abstract 2Step mix. It’s from – as you can tell from the pic of the sleeve of the tape – August 2000, so it’s from when most of the classics had come out and the scene was turning very 4×4 (as chronicled on the 4×4 Heaven mix) and very aggy, as the police shut off all the garage raves, and scene turned into grime, and later, dubstep. Oh and house as well, with brilliant DJs such as DJ Roo going house, never to return – wonder if he’s bought Do You Mind yet…
So, this is a live mix, off tape – dubbed to my Mac via my lovely new toy, a mint condition Nakamichi CD2 tape deck, which I have plans for! – and therefore done all in one take, live, no edits. In fact I had to turn the tape over half way through, irritatingly in the middle of It’s a New Dawn. So that’s actually one edit then – I wasn’t going to leave a gap was I? So the mix isn’t perfect, there’s a couple of clatters, and the sequencing isn’t as neat as I would have liked, but it’s still a massively vibey little piece. And there’s some tunes in there that I’ve never really heard anywhere else – they’re all probably old news to someone like Ben UFO, but In the Air Tonight (yes a cover of the Phil Collins song and Belaeric classic!), Rinse Out and Bad Acid weren’t big on radio at the time and don’t seem particularly canonical. Sadly I don’t have access to most of these tunes since they’re all in storage for the next few months, so I can’t redo the mix, but I think you’ll really, really enjoy this little thing. In fact, this tape has been a car journey favourite for me and my wife for the last eight years and surely there’s no higher recommendation than that.
Get it HERE. 170Mb 320.
Tough 2Step Mix August 2000
DJ Chubbstarr & A. Fernandes feat MC Preshus: Rinse Out (1999)
Same People: Dangerous (1998)
Missy Elliott: She’s a Bitch (1999)
M Dubs feat Lady Saw: Bump’n’Grind (1999)
Ramsey & Fen: Love Bug (1997)
The Bomb Squad: Bad Acid (1999)
DJ Zinc: Super Sharp Shooter
Carlito’s Revenge: Real Man
DJ Zinc: 138 Trek (1997)
Carlito’s Revenge: Jump Up
Section 13: Freak the Funk (2000)
<can’t remember> It’s a New Dawn (Feelin’ Good) remix
Sevi G / Groove Chronicles: In the Air Tonight (1998)
Dem 2: Baby You’re So Sexy (Big Time Scary Dub Mix) (1999)
<can’t remember>: Let it roll
Two Ton Bad Boy: Worries In The Dance (1999)
Basement Jaxx: Jump’n’Shout (Dem 2 Remix) (2000)
Artful Dodger: Woman Trouble (1999)
If anyone can fill in some of the blanks I’d be grateful…
Blogariddims Terminus
Droid’s a bad man.
That’s pretty much all you need to know, but let me expand.
I don’t believe in the great man theory of history, or the great man theory of management for that matter, but it is a fact that key people are nodes in the network and make cultural life happen. Sarah at Tempa is the classic example, tirelessly promoting a multiplicity if post-ardkore scenes. I had the privelege of bigging her up in person at the wonderful Beyond night a couple of weeks back. And it is no exaggeration to speak of Droid in the same breath. He is a man who links the dancehall diaspora with European electronica, arthouse with rough house, and text with sound.There are few like him and it has been a wonderful experience working with him on Woofah. Similarly, it has been a wonderful experience working with him on the Blogariddims series. Where else can you find such a high-quality series of podcasts that are both diverse yet connected, constantly stimulating yet not falling into the trap of mere electicism? Almost nowhere – there’s been nothing like it, and a vast reservoir of musical inspiration has been opened up by the series.
Now, after a monumental 50 episodes, the series is coming to an end, and it’s a special edition with contributions from a load of the regulars.
There’s a delightful circle-jerk across all the contributors going on; our predecessor is Paul Autonomic, John’s is up here (I’ve no idea what he’s going to write about, probably denounce the whole project!), while our successor is Leeds reggae supremo Matt B. Naturally me and John decided to do a Woofah-style instrumental grime mix. It’s only short – obviously – but pretty heavy, with the main cut being Big$shot’s massive Glitch, which is, this week, my favourite record of all time! The other guys are going to have to work hard to drop anything better!
Anyway. Big up droid. Droid’s a bad man!
dubstep forum dies
Check it: http://www.dubstepforum.com/
If this is for real, this is absolutely fantastic and very, very funny!
Big up Dubway and everyone else involved for having the balls to do it!
Long live jungle, garage, grime, dubstep and funky!
Beyond
Wicked night and a quick post before bed… Beyond was fab, kode played a blinder, I missed the start cos I was at a business dinner but he tells me he started with some theo parrish (yay!) and some Maw (yay!) before moving into loads of heavy Funky, mostly his own productions which are all unfinished but mostly sounded sick and brilliant. Particularly One utterly great broken tune that blackdown pointed out and I got rewound :).
I had a great time, hooked up with Blackdown who introduced me to the – as you know – fantastically talented Farrah. And his lovely partner. Hooked up with boom, met melissa bradshaw for the first time (yay!) and bigged up sarah (double yay!).
and of course kode played my new tune – funky version of move down low which I finished a couple of days ago, , which I sent to him last night, and which he cut today. Talk about instant gratification! This is the first time I’ve heard one of my tunes on a big system (bizarrely) so it was a big time for me.
funky is so hot right now…
Soon
Grievous Angel mix for Electronic Explorations
The mix I did for Electronic Explorations is now up. EE is a fab online radio show by Rob Booth that a lot of cool / connected / fun people listen to. It’s worth a punt.
My mix focused on the more techy end of things rather than the garage gear I’ve been championing. So there’s a few tracks off the album together with a load of mainly unreleased stuff that’s in the same vein. It came out pretty darn well! Here’s the tracklisting… BTW this is the mix where I stuck the new Pangaea in within minutes of hearing it, it was so good – both sides…
Grievous Angel – Exclusive Mix – ‘Electronic Explorations’
01 – Grievous Angel – Velvet Dub (Bitten by thee Black Dog) – [”Belief is the Enemy”CD]
02 – Scuba – Bleach – [unreleased]
03 – Grievous Angel – Lickle Friction – [”Belief is the Enemy” CD]
04 – The Black Dog – Floods (Bass Soldier Rework) – [Soma 12″]
05 – Scuba – Duplicity – [unreleased]
06 – Grievous Angel – Culture Killer (Discomix) – [”Belief is the Enemy” CD]
07 – Kowton – Metronome – [unreleased]
08 – Grievous Angel – I Love Dem – [unreleased]
09 – Pangaea – You And I – [Forthcoming ‘Hessle Audio’]
10 – Ramadanman Vs Jill Scott – Golden Carla – [dubplate]
11 – Grievous Angel – Soundman Tribute – [”Belief is the Enemy” CD]
12 – Grievous Angel – Immigrant – [”Belief is the Enemy” CD]
13 – Slaughter Mob – Dub Weapon
14 – Pangaea – Router – [Forthcoming ‘Hessle Audio’]
15 – Grievous Angel – What We Had – [Devotional Dubz Dubplate]
Go here for downloads. and here.
The mix from Duplicity into the culture killer discomix into kowton’s metronome is just luvverly :). Big up all the producers for sending me their gear and to Rob for giving me a shot! Should be another good’un on the boomnoise and pokes show, and a REALLY special devotional dubz one for On The Wire… looks like I’ll preview that here and on DSF though.