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Posted on May 11th, 2007 by Joshua Mostafa.
Categories: music.
There are a few mixes I’ve downloaded that I keep coming back to … I thought I’d post links to the ones that are still online …
Diamond Eye’s reggae-flavoured Soul’n'Bass mix has been online for a while but well worth checking out. There’s a King Tubby Tribute Mix I came across recently by someone called Fhex; an hour and a quarter of proper old dub. The Infinite Potential Oddcasts are brilliant, tongue-in-cheek sonic excursions that are rooted in hiphop but take in random snippets from all over the place, each one about twenty minutes on a particular theme. I dig Semper-Fi’s Dub Come Forward mix as well.
witchdoctor mix
Posted on May 9th, 2007 by Joshua Mostafa.
Categories: music, mix.
Little roots reggae / dubstep studio mix for your listening pleasure:
The Judgement - Benga vs Skream
Heathen - Cocoa Tea
Murderer - Buju Banton
Scrye - Ekaj
Praise Him - Sanchez
Blue Eyes - Skream
Rastaman Chant - Sugar Minott
Sweep Over My Soul (dub) - Fatis Burell
Way of the Dub - N-Type
Burnin’ - Coki
War (Matty G remix) - Bob Marley
Anti War Dub - Digital Mystikz feat. Spen G
Mud - Loefah
It’s a Pity (a capella) - Tanya Stephens
the bass is way bigger back in texas, man
Posted on May 2nd, 2007 by Joshua Mostafa.
Categories: music.
Listening to Sub FM just now I was startled to hear the DJ giving shout outs in a Southern drawl … turns out a couple of dudes called Grommit and Innerlign have hooked up a show with Sub FM (which is based in London) that they transmit all the way from Austin, Texas. Good on em. And good to see the vibes spread so far …
reggae old gold
Posted on April 20th, 2007 by Joshua Mostafa.
Categories: music, sydney.
Nasty Tek Soundsystem, whose Dancehall Reggae Bounce parties over the last couple of years have given Sydney’s reggae and dancehall heads somewhere to get their groove on, are putting on a free one-off night called Reggae Old Gold, at Jimmy Sing’s Record Stand, 302 Cleveland St, Surry Hills, this Saturday.
Nasty Tek, Gold Finder Sound and Jimmy Sing are playing (from the promo email): “strictly big reggae tunes from earlier eras, 80s classics, Studio One, singers tunes and old gold tunes galore!” Should be some tasty cuts - I haven’t heard the other guys play but Nasty Tek have mad tunage from way back when. Click the little flier on the right to see it fullsize.
extreme music policy
Posted on April 17th, 2007 by Joshua Mostafa.
Categories: music.
This is the funniest stipulation of a music policy I have ever read .. from my mate whose birthday party I’m playing a few tunes at:
If u tried to play anything but hip hop I would slice your hands off with a machete and feed them to your next of kin
Well maybe nothing like that but hey u R PLAYING HIP HOP ! AND NOT ANY KIND OF HIP HOP BUT UK HIP HOP !
alice russell
Posted on April 16th, 2007 by Joshua Mostafa.
Categories: music.
Saw Alice Russell at the Forum on Friday night. Blinding. I have to get a copy of the new album .. standout track for me was ‘What We Want’ - a two-step-ish tune off My Favourite Letters - the way the live band interpreted the electronically produced original was fresh and inspiring. But it was her incredible voice that made this show. Gush, gush. It’s all glory to my home town (she’s a Brighton girl) .. represent!
news roundup
Posted on April 13th, 2007 by Joshua Mostafa.
Categories: music.
Just a quick roundup of the more interesting bits I’ve been reading around the web ..
YardFlex.com has a brief interview with Sizzla. The first paragraph seems, by referring to his early output (by which standards, his more recent efforts have abandoned both quality and integrity for the sake of prolific output and commercial success) to hint obliquely at his fall from grace. But either I am reading too much into it or they are too squeamish to criticise someone whose best material is so good he is still a living legend. Grow some balls - whoever you are, you’re only as good as your last album.
There’s some other tidbits of news on that site though, such as the end of the Vybz Kartel / Mavado feud, in the interests of keeping peace between more rabid elements of their fanbase. Speaking of beef, Cocaine Blunts reports that KRS-1 and Poet have cut a collaboration, ending another hiphop feud - the tune is pretty good (there’s a sample alongside the article), with some nice lyrics from both.
Hiphop production blog Can I Bring My Gat is carrying an interview with El-P. His comments on the fact that many of his fans are not hiphop heads are interesting:
I think that you could say the same thing about pop music, couldn’t you? Like pop-hip-hop, top 40 hip hop. People who have no connection to hip-hop other than the fact that they are listening to top 40? People who listen to whatever pop music is, and therefore hip-hop is pop music, but they are not in love with hip-hop. I think that there are people that are attracted to the music that myself and some of my peers do that may not know a lot about hip-hop, but we’ve become a gateway drug ya know? And I’m proud to be that. I would love to be that drug, that introductory drug into the world that I love so much and know so much about. you gotta get there somehow I suppose, right?
Gateway drug - I like that. I’m not sure I agree but it’s a good analogy.
1Xtra’s MistaJam reports that Just Blaze is doing a live production / recording session with Klashnekoff, Skepta and JME, today in front of an invited audience, while designer Brent Rollins simultaneously designs the sleeve artwork.
If you haven’t seen Dizzee’s new video for Sirens, check it out on YouTube (link from Prancehall).
wii remote as virtual theramin
Posted on April 12th, 2007 by Joshua Mostafa.
Categories: tech.
CreateDigitalMusic has a little article on using the Wii remote as a virtual theramin, among other uses … weird.
