The mixes keep on coming on this site, we've actually got a backlog of amazing stuff - no drop in quality, just ace mixes. Here's a 21st Century Soul mix from Geoff B. Geoff's a guy I've met through the Electric Chair and Northern Disco - he's a great guy with some deep soul/boogie knowledge, and some great, great tunes. I'm pretty sure this is the first mix he's done for a while, but on this evidence, he should definitely do more. Have a download if you like that sweet hiphop soul sound. All from the last [...]
Mocking a religion or belief is rocky ground. I don't really care what you think as long as you are nice and don't act like a cunt. Saying that, Scientology is bonkers. So there has been loads of activity around YouTube and a clip with Tom Cruise barking like a huge spider ego. It was taken down. Shame. Fear not. Here is another link. Watch the whole thing. Then email me stating you have booked flights to LA, where we shall buy guns and kill him. Mr Cruise...you sir are fucked. [...]
A new take on the snorkin series by Frank Kozik, The Monger farms country time breakfast set hit shelves on Feb 28th. Far, far to silly for my liking though, y'know what i mean?
So two posts in ten minutes. Lord forgive me. So last Friday (11th Jan) I was in Amsterdam and a little 'tired'. So myself and a friend got a cab. After a quick chat and a sharing of 'ideas'....we ended up being driven around for ages listening to this. Gentlemen - Dem gone I haven't heard of this artist before but seemed to fit the mood. Weirdly the rest of his stuff doesn't seem to be all that.
This looks interesting. I think something was done like this before in the UK with my old hip hop friends/producers The Creators. Actually I think the competition has now ended but that hasn't stopped me posting this. Perhaps I should post old news of things that have already happened. *Newsflash* - America has invaded Iraq. Anyway check it out. Beat Digging Comp
Another great mix for you from Kelvin Brown (Plastic People/Electric Chair/Eyes Down). After the massive downloads for Kelvin's last mix I'm sure this one will do the internet equivalent of flying off the shelves, whatever that may be. Effortlessly moving from folk to polish funk to dubstep, amongst many other genres, this mix is another one of the high quality that we've come to expect from Kelvin. My only real complaint about his mixes is that they tend to cost me a load of time and money in tracking down the excellent tunes contained within - so if after [...]
Exciting news came this week that funk legend Maceo Parker is coming back to do a mini tour of the UK this spring. His only northern date is at Stylus at Leeds University on Thursday 17th April, and with tickets only £15.50, its sounding like a unmissable gig. Joining Maceo's band on the night is jazz trombonist Dennis Rollins who has preformed or toured with the likes of Erykah Badu, Roy Ayers, Gorillaz and The Brand New Heavies. The main support comes from Leeds [...]
Want to hear some old blokes playing records? Course you do. It's all neon and tight trousers otherwise. With over 100 years of Acid House experience between them, The Bears draw on several lifetimes' worth of dance music culture to bring you the most diverse, eclectic, entertaining two hours of beats and banter every Thursday on Unity Radio between 10 and 12 pm, single handedly raising the average age of broadcasters on the station above 23. Souls sold on the dancefloors of The Hacienda, Venus, Most Excellent and Back to Basics, at the Balearic crossroads of [...]
Amy's lost the beehive, gone blond and got a natty headscarf.
I'm a back up and runnin. Yes the great BT blackout of Blackley is over on this side of the clough, and to celebrate here's a couple of my favorite tunes from '07. Have yourself a little dance to these- Belleruche - Northern girls Linkwood Family - Piece of mind Lee Douglas - New York story Hot 8 Brass Band - Sexual healing Plumstead Radical Club - One way [...]
Shamelessly stolen from The Real Man Fraternity , it's a transcript of a conversation between Zane Lowe and The Westwood. Tim: ...what do you play at your parties? Zane: ...it's everything. It's covering all the different genre's that you guy's, you know, expertly deliver, individually and specifically. We're lucky, we get to sneak in to your record boxes every single day and steal only the finest cuts. Tim: Yeah, I'm with it, I'm with it. Zane: Then we marinade it, we fry 'em up, we put 'em on a platter, and we [...]
BT have helpfully fucked my line up, so you'll have to wait for the slew of mixes I've got for you til approx 2009. In the meantime I'm posting this from my blackberry, which obviously makes me really, really great. I'm basically Tron. Anyhoo - happy new year n that, hope y'all had a good one. I had a party at mine, so big ups to Chris, TC, Jif and Ben for helping out on DJ duties and making the whole night perfectoid. Sorry neighbours. Aaaargh. Posting using a phone is a pain in the arse.
Nah not really. Just some real fucked up clip involving Mr Welk. Happy New Year Suckers. The Shit
Its nearly NYE now, and if your in Manchester and have still to decide on where to go then here's a very quick look at whats on where. Top choice goes to Mr. Scruff with his Keep It Unreal NYE party at The Music Box(9-4 £20), in second place comes El Diablos with their ho down at every promoters new favorite venue MOHO Live, feat - Prins Thomas and Danny Webb and Neil Scott from Nish Nash Nosh(9-5 £15 adv £20 on the door), and last but not least good old Friends and Family [...]
Well you will never guess what i overheard in Asda this morning. Well, you know that tall Tim from the hot chicken section?. He has only been knocking off that Saturday girl Alice from the lotto kiosk. The above is made up. Ignore. No, having spent most of Boxing day recovering on the sofa watching 2 different version's of Alice in Wonderland, i did a quick search on the interweb to find out who was in each one, only to find out the has been bloody loads of Alice films. And now add another as Tim [...]
Just a quick one to wish all our reader's a very Merry Christmas! Hope you all have a great time...and here's a little present to get you in the mood - The Jackson 5 with Up on the house top , a great and under played Christmas tune. Dont say i never give you anything. x
OK. So we were watching some old Ren and Stimpy episodes on video last night, (yes, i did say video, remember them? i'd forgotten just how...a) bad quality the were and b) just how bloody noisy the are when rewinding, Christ it was like a plane taking off in the corner of your lounge.) Anyway... one of the episodes feature's this song - The Royal Canadian Kilted Yaks-men! and it's been going around in my head all night (in my sleep) and i woke up this morning going " our yaks are really large". So i thought i [...]
This month's Wax Poetics's radio i think will have great interest to reader's here, as Monk One gets down with legendary hip hop producer DJ Premier. Here's the detail's - Monk chops it up with the greatest beat maker of the last century in an exclusive, no-holds-barred convo. Gasp in amazement as never-heard-before sample sources are revealed. Head bop uncontrollably as legendary bangers from the Gang Starr chef are cooked before your eyes. Chuckle at Primo's technique for dismantling wack laptop-using DJs. Scratch your head as he professes [...]
Whoa mama, this looks like one hell of a package - NYC live throwdown , containing 26 hour's of live hip hop performance's from the like's of Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5, The Cold Crush Brothers, Funky 4 + 1, Grand Wizard Theodore, Zulu Nation, Jazzy Jay etc, all crammed onto one DVD (in mp3 format) and comes with a neat little 24 page booklet of vintage live show flyer's and artwork! And then comes this - Ultimate Breaks And Beats [...]
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[LISTEN] Gotye (Passion Pit Remix)
Big Boi & Theophilus London (feat. TRE LUCE) - 'She Said OK'
