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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…

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.

c90 soundclash: HEAT BECOME HONEY NY Tropical meets UK Bashment dj/rupture [dutty artz / soot] – dexterous urban dancefloor turntablist / polymath Jahdan Blakkamoore [dutty artz] – grime MC meets Rasta sufferation singjay from the streets of the city that never sleeps Hanuman [werk / punchdrunk / death$ucker] – bassline Balkan beats, klezmer confusion and heavyweight raggadancehall frenzy Sequoia Sound System [cold up norf] – huge boxes of heavy dread Sat 19th July, The Shakespeare, 146/148 Gibraltar St, Sheffield S3 8UB 9pm-1am £4 www.negrophonic.com www.myspace.com/jahdan1 www.myspace.com/duttyartz www.myspace.com/lordhanumanmusic www.myspace.com/sequoiasoundsystem www.c90.org

www.negrophonic.com www.myspace.com/jahdan1 www.myspace.com/duttyartz www.myspace.com/lordhanumanmusic www.myspace.com/sequoiasoundsystem www.c90.org

Yes I know it’s a bit sad to be posting pix of your record being stocked, but having something that’s in at Hardwax is just hugely exciting!

They picked one with a particularly good print on the label… nice…

That’s an ambition fulfilled!

Blimey, I’m getting name-checked on other people’s Boomkat reviews now!

ZOMBY, Liquid Dancehall / Strange Fruit – Boomkat
‘Liquid Dancehall’ occupies the A-side with a techno-insistent slab of dubstep bass science, still definitely one for the rudeboy crew but formatted into a brutally minimal and linear structure with a 3:2 time signature hailing the onset of the forthcoming ragga techno invasion spearheaded by Grievous Angel and TRG amongst others, definitely a direction we like to see things headed.

This is a GOOD TUNE so big up Zomby. I’d have liked to have made it.

There’s a strong beat but it’s not THAT 3:2-ish, it’s more skippy sub-4×4 with the snare on the third beat. I like it a lot – i should do more stuff like that on the more straight ahead dubstep tracks. And of course it’s a lot like Benga’s gear which is always a good thing. But proper ragga techno has a proper ragga MC on it – hard to find but it’s great when you do!

Yes yes! The world’s biggest and best writer on grime and dubstep interviewed me for his magnificent Pitchfork column. Check it out here. Big up Blackdown! Representing the scene!

The interview covers the album, the Devotional Dubz releases and the mixes… loads of gear.

Wicked piece on Young Dot as well.

The wonderful Mary Anne Hobbs has played Culture Killer on her show. Second track too, and bigging up the album! Fantastic. Big up da MAH! You can still listen again to the show here.

I’ve just had the pleasurable experience of hearing a tune on the radio just a few hours after finishing it.

This morning I spent a couple of hours finishing off a couple of tunes, both built round the same vocal sample, with a working title of What We Had. One was a ragga techno banger which is quite good in a peak-time-Subliminal-crossed-with-hard-dubstep style – it’s up on the Grievous Angel MySpace.

The other was a really nice garage tune that was pure rollage, just minimal bass and drum and bleep with this little sample going round. I had to finish it really quickly but I didn’t really think it stood a chance of getting on the show. I was amazed when Blackdown had time to listen to it, let alone put it on the show. Thanks loads for playing it Martin! It was a top show too, the grime was ridiculously good, top new Joker tune, and of course the Blackdown and Dusk album tracks that sounded great, Lata remix in particular hit the spot for me.