Ramble ramble

A flyer here, a flyer there, a subtle link here, a subtle hint there. Well, no more self-promotion from me. Enjoy yourselves.

Here's a simple bloggy post; the beatz i've been cranking out. These posts don't always have to have a point; you should just be satisfied to be hearing what I listen to. Here are my top reggaeton/dancehall/one-drop tracks.

Btw, you should note that the each have Youtube links; it's not to make a point about illegal downloading or owt, it's just because Youtube seems to be the focal point for new dancehall, rather than forums or blogs or whatever. So, with each song, if you're lucky, you'll get a video with jiggly sexy ladies. Or you may get a picture of jiggly sexy lady. Or you may get a silhouette of a sexy lady, standing against a Jamaican flag.

Beenie Man, feat T.O.K. - Bring It On

Beenie Man is pretty much my favourite dancehall dude; the main parallel to be drawn between American hip-hop and dancehall is that it's primarily about singles and the occasional mix-tape. Which means that Beenie is the main man, simply due him being so consistant with the quality of his work. Nice.

Turbulence - Notorious

A bit of an obvious selection; I play it every party I'm ever at and it's generally considered to be the high-point of reggae or, probably more specifically, one-drop of this century. Although, Turbulence hasn't come close to matching this track. But then again, no-one else has so I'll cut home-boy some slack.

Chezidek - Call Pon Dem

Another no-brainer. I won't pretend to understand the political aspect of the track, other than venturing that it's something to do with 'legalising da 'erb'. But never mind; melodically, it's a nice wee breezy hummable number. Sweet organ on the chorus too.

D'Angel - Blaze

Probably the most Americanised track here, which makes it odd that it was overlooked by day-time radio over here. Not much to say really; just a straight-forward bit of club music. I'm not up on my dancehall gossip, but I think I remember hearing that she's Bennie Man's missus. Recognise.

Sean Paul - Watch Dem Roll

I'll actually defend Sean Paul to the death. His beats can sometimes be lazy, but his flow is consistantly brilliant. So i've no problems with him. This particular track works very well because it has a nice hyper drum track, which I'm appreciating very much. Props to Sean Paul; his rhyme schemes are just as good as Lil Wayne's or 3000's, so I don't know why he gets overlooked.

Aiiiii. Oh, and it's the Ballers Social Club's 1st birthday at the Art School on the 12/9. Sets from The Bug and Warrior Queen, as well Memory9 and Rob Soundcrash.

Bring in the love, yeah?

God bless Artrocker

Well, it turns out Artrocker know their stuff after all. Please find below a very nice review of future-Rugcutters So So Modern (as well as a positive stanza or two about local people Plaaydoh, but they're not on out next bill, so fuck em....)

Artocker loves So So Modern

Awesome. BTW, Artrocker is in my blogroll. They're usually relatively on the ball, so give them a go eh?

OH! And another thing!

I just slapped together a wee playlist for my Last.FM page. It has ADF, and Spank Rock, and AFX, and Turbulence. Eeeeeeees veeeeery laaaahvley.

What? You didn't know we had a LastFM? Really?? Here it is. No need to be stand-offish.

Digi-PR?

We have a Last.FM page! Look! Here it is!

Help us out, eh? We have no Last.FM, or Twitter, pals.

Btw, So So Modern, My Elvis Leg, and Gdansk play Rug Cutting at the Captain's Rest on the 6/9. Yaldi!

'Click-Hop'

New mix from Pip Sherburne; boss

Tweet Tweet

Look everyone; a manga avatar! Isn't that freaking neat?

Speaking of things which are neat; this is our Twitter page! Bitchin...

I party hardy

A wee while ago I made Alan, from my real-life work, a mix CD which was full of dubstep (Burial, Benga, maybe Rusko. I can't remember), glitchy electronics (Autechre and AFX; the standards) and tons and tons and tons of minimal techno (Ricardo Villalobos, Supermayer, maybe Dominik Eulberg). He didn't like it; he said it was too 'intense'. So I've just made him a party mix:

1) Drei auf drei - Sascha Funke
2) Sensual seduction - Snoop Dogg
3) Calabria 2007 - Enur, feat Natasja
4) No sex for Ben - The Rapture
5) Yah! - Buraka Som Sistema, feat Petty
6) Marindo - Ratatat
7) Meat grinder - Madvillain
8) Skip divided (Modeselektor remix) - Thom Yorke
9) Drop - Timbaland and Magoo, feat Fatman Scoop
10) Hollaback Girl (Diplo remix) - Gwen Stefani
11) Like a Child (Carl Craig remix) - Junior Boys
12) Remember Love - Noze
13) - Beautiful Life - Gui Borrato
14) Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order
15) Happy House - The Juan MacLean

Yes. I fucking party.

Feel free to download this mix onto your iPod, and pretend to be friends with me.

Talulah Gosh Rock My Socks

The pitfalls of listening to twee-pop #1


You spend ages doing hand-drawn promo's

I think I'll get a bowl-cut

At Least It Wasn't Norman Cook

Homeboy here is such a big fat disappointment

Fuck

blimey; i've not blogged in a while.


we had our first Rug Cutting night last Friday and it was really really good. Unfortunately, my phone ran out of battery at about 18:00 so I can't supply any video's or photo's, as planned. So apologies. no-one else seems to have thought of doing so either and all that remains from the night is a fairly poor-quality video of Popcorn Superhet playing a NIN cover.


All the bands were brilliant though; Sean started things off really really well and created a few high spirits, which seemed to hang about for the rest of the night. Popcorn Superhet (0r 'Alan') was as noisy as I'd expected, which was nice. And Super Adventure Club were also very good and provided lots of nice wee twists and turns. After that, I just went home.

Sean Murray

Popcorn Superhet

Super Adventure Club


I was supposed to go to Ratatat on Saturday, but I forgot to buy tickets so I thought I'd get some on the night, but it was sold out. I was gutted. Nicola, the girl I was supposed to be going with, didn't seem all that concerned. We just went to Sleazy's instead.