ShutUp&ForgetAboutIt

How many of you are prepared to admit that you like this. . . ? Ge4orce on the remix. Or whatever they were called. The vinyl goes for about 3 pounds.

shades of my first few brushes with UK dance culture.

Pretty Wings

New maxwell.

male swooooooon.

album is around the way.

Ladies

MP3: Lee Fields & The Expressions - Ladies

can't even begin to communicate how happy I am that Truth & Soul have decided to put out a Lee Fields album on June 2nd.

Life is Beautiful again. . . .

But I know some of you have been sleeping. Check out BOTH sides of 2007's 7-inch for Truth & Soul. Some of the best below surface soul music I've heard since my creation.

I Love Melanie

Mr. Beatnicks leak series just got a whole lot hotter. Believe me I hounded him a long time for this one. .

MP3: Phat Kat - Lovely (Ft. Melanie Rutherford) (Mr. Beatnick Re-Edit)

Edit: On that RE-UPPP.

Tell Her

Fred Williams & The Jewels Band.

Hiphoppers will know about this. . Who sampled it? Tooo Easy.

Magic Man

I'm the majorest of suckers for G.O.O.D music.

MP3: Kanye West & Malik Yusef - Magic Man (Ft. John Legend & Common)

great to hear Malik on the mic again. It's beeeen time. Since Wouldn't You Like To Ride. So In control.

off a forthcoming comp. about time.

I Wish It Would Rain

original wax pressings

I'm starting to love damon a little bit more. Not only does he have super deep crates, he also isn't on that power trip about hoarding the gems to himself. He also wears a vest sometimes when he dj's. A bruce willis vest.

Everywhere I'm turning, I'm hearing good things about him. clearly musics most likeable guy right now.?.

& the music. .

the recent Stones Throw release from him made me a little bit hungry.

BUT this Stussy X Stones Throw mix has caused famish status chez moi. TRACKLISTING.

I need all I can get of this sound.

NDM Vol. 3: Cooly G vs. Nobodydancenomore

^ Cooly G. With a release coming very soon on Hyperdub and at least another 4 CDR's of dubs set to hit BM Records, I thought it would be a good idea to get the first lady of funky to showcase a few of the forthcoming pieces. .

Deep & sexy for the fans with their backgrounds in soulful, but with enough grit for the techier fan base. Spanning the genre is a unique look considering the way funky has broken up to date, & so you should never be surprised to hear Cooly's music in sets at either end of the spectrum. Those who carve out a niche for themselves tend, and deserve to go the furthest.

. . so . . yeah. . jump on and explore the sound. If you ain't into funky right now, use this as a route in! if your already in, use this as a springboard for the forthcoming pieces (and Fact Magazine mix) on the horizon. . . hit her on the myspace if your feeling it.

MP3: NDM Vol. 3: Cooly G - Cooly G Vs. Nobodydancenomore
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TL

Dis ‘Broken’ Boy
Love Dubbed Step
Feeling You
Digitalized
Craze pt2 Dirtbag Mix
Weak
Tell U (Marcus Nasty Dub Special)
Love Dub Refix

ALL Cooly G Productions.

Many Thanks obviously to Cooly. And also to Carmen who's technical assistance was greatly valued.

Jahari Masamba Unit

Karriem Riggins + Madlib = Jahari Masamba Unit

something else to look forward to before the year is out.

Top 1 Selected

MP3:Elzhi - Deep (Prod. Black Milk)

right now, nobody can fffff with him NOBODY

Ruffage 090409

Words escape me as to the quality of this Ben UFO set.

An effortless passage between garage, dubstep and the house I have come to love. Featuring the old, the new, and the yet to be.

& the sole track that is rewound is done so for an insanely good reason. .

MP3: Ben UFO - Ruffage 09.04.09 (Direct Link from SUB FM)

He does this nearly every week too. SUB FM. Thursday Nights 8-10pm.

1. 1+1=3 - I'm On Beat [Hyped on E mix] (Cutting Traxx)
2. Kenny Dope - Soundbwoy (Naughty Uptown White)
3. Move D - Quit Quittin' (Uzuri)
4. Martin Kemp - Bowser (Unreleased)
5. Aaron Carl - Oasis [Nick Holder dub] (Superb Entertainment)
6. Pearson Sound - Beat 3 (Unreleased)
7. Kerri Chandler - In The Morning [Love Love Dub] (Bigga Sounds)
8. Dom Haywood - Tuff Beat (Unreleased)
9. Karizma - Tech This Out pt. 2 (R2)
10. L-VIS 1990 - Flux (Unreleased)
11. 24 Hour Experience - Scatter (Nice n Ripe)
12. Hint - One Woman Army [Club mix] (Forthcoming Tru Thoughts)
13. Ear Dis - Sexiboogie [Instrumental] (WunnaDemWuns)
14. Shortstuff and Mickey Pearce - Tripped Up (Unreleased)
15. Lil Silva - Pulse Flex (White)
16. Egyptrixx - Just Say Really [Bok Bok remix] (Unreleased)
17. Dukeyman - Roof About To Blow (Club Classics)
18. PHD - I Need (In The Air)
19. Antonio - Pick Me Up (New London Soul)
20. Brackles and Shortstuff - Sutorito Faita (Unreleased)
21. Darqwan - Pipe Dreams (Texture)
22. Peverelist - Esperanto (Unreleased)
23. Pangaea - Memories (Unreleased)
24. Pearson Sound - PLSN (Unreleased)
25. Shackleton - New Dawn (Scuba)
26. James Blake - Air and Lack Thereof (Forthcoming Hemlock) - rewound
27. Ikonika - Loser (Forthcoming Hyperdub)
28. Untold - Moon (Unreleased)
29. Coki - Triple Six (DMZ)
30. Joe - Rut (Hessle Audio)
31. Groove Chronicles - Stone Cold (GC)
32. Greena - Pattern Recognition (Unreleased)
33. Menta - Sounds of the Future (SODF)
34. Gremino - Ruffness (Unreleased) - rewound
35. Starfox - Blink (Slimzos)
36. Untold - Anaconda (Forthcoming Hessle Audio)
37. Aquadizz - Stand Up Fresh (Unreleased Oneman Mashup - UOM)
38. Double Helix - Cryosleep (Unreleased)
39. Joe - Untitled (Unreleased)
40. Guido - You Do It Right (Unreleased)
41. 2000F and J Kamata - You Don't Know What Love Is (Hyperdub)
42. Zomby - Rumours and Revolutions (Brainmath)

Pop

MP3: Chester French - She Love's Everybody (Neptunes Remix)

You'l love it for an afternoon or so.

SHOOK #005

KODE9 / David Mancuso / Calma / Godzilla / FunkyHouse Skanks / UK Jazz Dance / Cameo / Mulatu Astatke / Omar S / Aschobi Designs / Gemma Weekes / Marvel Comics / Harmonic313 / Martyn / Culoe De Song / Silkie / Ghislain Porier / Ashley Beedle / Horace Andy / Rich Medina / Bobbito Garcia / Ame

support.

SHOOK

Messages (AJ Refix)

Vikter needs some new press shots. I almost used his Dj Kicks cover - but the coat is too much.

MP3: Critical Point - Messages (Aaron Jerome ReFix) (REUP)

But enough. Here, Aaron Jerome not only opens my eyes to an original that had completely passed me when, or where ever it came out , but he also gives it a huge kick into the present. So much in fact, that it sounds like it's come custom built for certain corners of the Rinse roster. .

I also thank the man for putting me onto the said DJkicks - THE NEPA ALLSTARS TRACK.

You probably can't not like this.

EDIT: Props to Beatnick for just dropping it on Rinse.

We Are Hunted

'We Are Hunted is the Online Music Chart. We aggregate social networks, forums, music blogs, Torrents, P2P Networks and Twitter to develop a daily chart of the 99 most popular songs online.'

About time. I haven't had a relevant, consistent chart in my life since Mark Goodyear left the R1 chart show. And the only reason I listened to that was because I was still being spoonfed.

WeAreHunted

Lets see if they can develop what is essentially a very good idea into something major. .

Arale 01 Launch Party

A nice touch with the 7inch on entrance. And an amazing line up featuring plenty who will be filling your ipod's in the not so distant future. .

Brainfeeder N.Y.C

I don't know if I have any followers in NewYork (...I don't know if I have any followers. period.). . but this should act as a taster for what will go down in London come June. Not necessarily the same line-up. . .but no doubt the same quality of line-up.

140 experiments

apparently '140 experiments' is all we need to know about Calibre's quick jaunt on deep medi 017.

I found this clip via stholdings. .

MP3: Calibre - Deep Medi 017 (preview)

All about what I perceive to be the 'b

April 20th.

4:15

best unsigned?

MP3: Ayah - Might Not Be

There is something between a mixtape and an album coming today. 15th. Ayahmusic.com .

Believe me, I've been following her since before Problem Woman Mixtape . Whatever it is, It'l be dope.

tuesdaymorning TABwatch

Demise of the US Newspaper industry (Wall Street Journal)

Newspapers and the Internet (Wired)

Online Crate Digging (Guardian)

A Conversation with Mulatu Astatke (LA Weekly)

Computer Jay - Distance (Ramp Recordings)

French solution to online piracy (Guardian/Figaro)

Nacho Patrol - Futuristic Abeba (Rush Hour)

Christian Prommers Drumlesson - The Jazz Thing (Schema Italy)

InSystemTravel

yeah yeah yeah just another bait Jamie Vex'd / Planet Mu post.

But who am I to dictate where the music comes from.

..merely the messenger. .

InSystemTravel EP

-begging to hear it on a system. Particularly the title track - arrangement is superb.

and look out for the starkey remix he's put together - making me go all loopy right now. Even though the B-side of that is the equivalent of being ... well something with a gameboy/nintendo. You know the metaphor.

& Yeah, that's also Planet Mu.

Post Pyramids of Boom

shouts to Andy Brown for this. .
footage from FlyLo, Rustie, HudMo @ the Subclub.

Melanie

times over the last year that drum n bass has crossed my mind. . . . twice.

..when that one in fabio and grooverider got nicked in Dubai.

&...when I finally persuaded my sleeping partner to let me fall asleep with the radio on, only for Rider radio to keep me awake until way past the small hours.

perfect for when everything else is quiet. It's a past lover who I still think fondly of. But make no effort to get back in touch with.

Alix Perez was there when I left. and if you check the video you'll see he's more than still around.

I'm speaking like a veteran of the scene, but don't get me wrong ... I came late to the game but I'l be here till the end. .

play the video when everything else goes quiet. And roll..

15th May 2009

something else at Fabric worth fighting for.

13th May 2009

broken by Put Me On It fam.

Madlib, J. Rocc, Benji B at Fabric. Does it get any bigger. .

Close to my exams. & I know I've gotta make sacrifices if I want to go certain places in life. but can I really afford to miss this?

VisionsofMantada

Patrice Scott. Yeah I do beatdown.

Music/Sangam

French Kings of the re-issues, 'Heavenly Sweetness' have dug deep YET again to put me back into full blown nerd mode.

1978 and still absolutely kicks it against anything I have ever listened too in my lifetime. Indian percussionist Latif Khan lays the foundations for each track, with master trumpeter Don Cherry left to work all sorts of magic on top and in between. There's a certain amount of chemistry you can hear in these records that your normal re-issue is sometimes lacking. props must go to the heavenly sweetness team for that.

Gradually more and more experimental as the 5 tracks pass. . but still consistently mind blowing.

Juno/Boomkat

Web Trend Map

No justice is done by the embedding above, but make sure you go hit up the fulll scale map on flickr. Absolutely fascinating to see it laid out like this.

333 most influential web domains
111 most influential web people
the tokyo metro map.

More at Techcrunch.

'If you need anything call'

The Graffiti Plumbers

Gole Gandom

the video repeats itself. But still it serves the purpose of putting your attention onto the new Jazzman/Now Again Records collaboration....The compilation 'Spiritual Jazz: Esoteric, Modal and Deep Jazz from the underground 1968-1977'. . .

More news here. But it's out today. . . ! Get A real education.

49 day's late. .

on this. Why didn't you make more of a buzz about Drake ....? He's made what 808's and heartbreak should've been. And it's tossed away to join the millions of other free releases circulating the innernets. .

Seriously go and grab this @ Octobersveryown (Drake and his cohorts outlet. . . . )

And as for the debut album coming this year. It could go one of two ways. . . one more rung up the ladder on this. . . or a rejigged version of this. Either way, it's probably worth parting with funds for.

One Eye Open

Time for some more Paul White. . .

Paul White - One Eye Open (Extended Version) by alexchase

one-handed music Myspace

and if your even more familiar with new internet buzz soundcloud, you can catch bullion's remix of PaulWhite's Hustle.

Penthouse Anthem

Wa-lay on the sell out. . ! Album still one of my most anticipated. .

MP3: Wale - Penthouse Anthem

I'm not going all quantity > quality on you just because of the several short posts. . .

Light For Drowning

NO PATTERN update.

gazillion grand

cop the Album. I inadvertently went against Lex's wishes...!

o.g. beat produced by Dilla.

TAKE on R1 Experimental

100 downloads. The man TAKE and his Mary Ann Hobbs set. . run run run. .

MP3: Take - MAH Mix (250309)

Late at TATE

From a CDR party I attended a few weeks ago at the Tate. CDR Boys, Soundspecies, Dorian Concept and Mark Pritchard at the controls.

Love Is A Liability

This album is out on Planet Mu in late May, but as we know. . music blogging is about being first. haha. .

I've been hitting FaltyDL's myspace for about a month now, almost non-stop. Not for the black and white photos of period women that he has littering his page. but for the player. .

'To London' - forthcoming on Ramp. . consistently blows my mind. feel the panting.

'Anxiety', 'J Vox' and 'Paradise Lost' will be on the album in various forms. The latter is so, so, so, fresh. Try staying passive while something like that is on a system.

'Human Meadow' not sure if this is on the album, but what I am fortunate to know. . is that the man boxcutter has killed the remix.

If you just let these tracks play out you'll see why I'm buzzing for the album. Soundwise, leading the current garage renaissance with an incredibly sexy set of 'plates. .

so yeah, not really a review. not really a concise news bulletin. just excited rambling. but, hey, I'm first. . . and thats what counts right...?

3 other things;

two tunes can be heard on the jamie vex'd mix I FWDED to you last week sometime

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FaltyDL will be / is looking for dates UKway in the near future. . Get at him promoters!

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should really have led with this. ... . but I like the artwork too much. However here is a 10 minute album preview.

I Mean Business

that was supposed to be the last of the night, but someone affiliated with this project just fired this through. thanks.

this is surely what hiphop should be right now in the '09. It seem's that everything oddisee is involved in right now = dopeness. And both X.O. & YU got spit. put together and the release is only going to be the sum of all parts and some more.

They call themselves Diamond District. And if you want the 1st single which they also shot out for free. . then travel here. All forthcoming news about the project will be there first. . I'm just re-tweeeting all of that.

So. Enjoy. . .

MP3: Diamond District - I Mean Business
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gone to town on the hyperlinks considering I'm. all. out.

The School Boy

I'm too overloaded (2.14am business when you know you've got hours to go. . . . ) to contemplate anything new right now. But things like this still sound so fresh . . . 1969 can you believe?

MP3: David Axelrod - The School Boy

Killer artwork too.

OnPoint with Dorian Concept

Dorian Concept - Interview
by on-point

Dorian Concept in a field with On-Point team.

Big up to both camps. .

A lot of hype surrounding dorian, but if you listen to the album. . . . it is well deserved considering what he is bringing to the beats table.