Free Free Free – Todd Edwards remixes – Joy Orbison, MJ Cole and More

Check it out, freeness

Roots Dilla Mixtape

eat it up.

Current Activities..

Currently Listening to – Low End Theory Podcasts, 2562, Benji B

Currently Watching – Lightroom 2.5

Currently Reading – Monocle, Decanter, Wax Poetics, The Guardian, Wine and Spirits Textbook

New mix – What the Funky?

So I finally got a soundcard, haven’t recorded a mix since 2008, too long methinks. Here’s a quick unrehearsed 20min throwdown of some Funky and UK bassline garage stuff, who knows what they call it these days..

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1.  Simian Mobile Disco – Sleep Deprivation

2.  Twizzle – Skydiving (Greenmoney Mix)

3.  Toddla T – Shake it

4.  MJ Cole feat Serocee – AO (Zed Bias wind up mix)

5.  Seiji – Yo Voy (Seiji mix)

6.  Zinc – Submarines

7.  Zed Bias – Neighbourhood (El B remix)

8.  Joy Orbison – BRKLN CLLN

more to follow soooon

Vancouver

All this talk about Winter Olympics just makes think about this tune…

Sounds best if you listen with a nice set of headphones  [perhaps even some Bose noise cancelling ones if you can afford them!]

Also, the album Great Lengths by Martyn was definitely one of my picks for last year, a piece that spans  many genres but does so very smoothly .. sometimes technoey, dubsteppy, housey, sublime.

Stuff you should have listened to last year

I didn’t post in 2009. Here’s what you missed: [Click here to play all]

Mount Kimbie

Joy Orbison

Hudson Mohawke

Dam Funk

Harmonic 313

Joker

Clint Mansell

2010 Reboot

Time to give this a kick and wake it up again.

Slight change of format, still going to be about music, but with less text and more sound.

No more gig reviews either, if I can’t be bothered reading reviews of amazing gigs I didn’t go to, then other people probably feel the same.

The reason for this wake up is to share stuff that i’m discovering and digging at the moment and not have to have the same conversation with 15 different people (not that I mind, but music speaks louder right?).

I’ll try and keep it weekly but no promises..

In the meantime, for some well written music commentary and insightful anecdotes I suggest checking the Grumpy man here.

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Old School Mo Wax!

Mo Wax is one of those labels which I can pretty confidently say that I got on to pretty late in the piece – given that their peak was in the late 1990s. Still, that doesn’t mean any less for its releases.. which include classics from the likes of UNKLE, Dj Shadow, Blackalicious, Dr. Octagon, Air (on a brief outing) and of course Dj Krush…

Roll Out Summer Mix

After a long long long time.. i have spent many hours (which should have probably been spent doing something else) compiling a new mix. It turned out to be quite long so I decided to split it into 2 half hour parts which link up if you play them back to back.

Enjoy and turn it up louder

Fernando – Roll Out Summer Mix Part 1

Fernando – Roll Out Summer Mix Part 2 – NOW ROLLING

Tracklisting is something like this:

Mercury Awards Time and new Metalheadz Website

It’s that time of year again… the shortlist is as follows.. (shamelessly borrowed from a certain Wiki resource)…

• Adele – 19
• British Sea Power – Do You Like Rock Music?
• Burial – Untrue
• Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid
• Estelle – Shine
• Laura Marling – Alas, I Cannot Swim
• Neon Neon – Stainless Style
• Portico Quartet – Knee Deep In The North Sea
• Rachel Unthank and the Winterset – The Bairns
• Radiohead – In Rainbows
• Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Raising Sand
• The Last Shadow Puppets – The Age of the Understatement

I can’t actually say that I have heard too many of these albums, although I am familiar with the artists (Living in London it seems inevitable).

Personally i’m backin Burial and Radiohead.. although i’m not really sure which one I would rather won it.. I would say that Radiohead deserve it just as much as Burial does, perhaps Radiohead in recognition of their ‘long service’ and contribution to the UK and world music scene.

On a related note, the Metalheadz label has been preparing a remix album entitled ‘Recall to Mind’ remixing tracks from the ever popular Commix album which was released earlier this year..  on that you will be sure to encounter this Burial remix of ‘Be true’ (for a limited time only!), as well as many other gems from the likes of Instra:mental, Carl Craig and Matthew Justin.. it promises to be an epic outing reversing the trend of drum & bass remixes to become drum & bass remixed!

read all about it on the brand spanking new (flash) Metalheadz Website – 7 years in the making they say!