Been gone for a minute

Damn,.. What can I say, time flies. A couple projects and the daily grind have been choking my blog game sumthin fierce.

While I was away, I heard a few things worth checking out:

Kode9 and Burial goodbye mix for Mary Anne Hobbes
Some burial dubs, lotta old school girl next door garage and a crazy new terror danjah piece by the sound of it. All stitched together with a crackling radio spectrum sliding dial interlude style. Really feeling this one, mostly for how spacious it feels

Songs for endless cities
Picked up this Brackles mix CD in one of my four-times-a-year let's go buy a physical piece of music and put bread on the artist's table moves. Moves through fly lo and zomby glitch to your more uptothatime uk house, pretty dope.

Diplo on rinse
Yeah well pretty late on this one, but if you haven't heard it yet, go listen to mr lazer's latest throw down.

And can't forget terror danjah and kode nine on the elijah and skilliam show. Danjah talks over all of his own riddims and some how turns an antibootleg precaution into a history lesson... slash lovelines therapy moment. Catch up with this shit pronto.

Matt Shadetek on Mudd UP!

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too many exclusives on here, watch for the jah dan dub at 30 mins in.. big tune!

get to know dj oneman

if there has been one name that's stuck for me recently, out of all the radio rips and whatnot i've been running thru, it's oneman. this guy has consistently thrown down spontaneous, diverse, hype sets that mix up the old and the new without sounding scattered or all over the place. Serving up a gang of old school garage, funky, grime, dubstep and PURPLE, his sets seldom disappoint. If like me, you're just getting wind of this guy, there is a bunch of material for you to get through:

on rinse Dec 10th 2009

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on rinse Nov 19th 2009

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on rinse Nov 5th 2009

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on rinse May 7th

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mary anne hobbes guest mixes + comp

been knocking these for a minute, but I just got around to cutting them up. three guest mixes on mary anne hobbes' experimental show, from a few weeks back.


airhead+jamesblake


joy orbison


pearson sound

also, I picked up her new CD a while back. very heavy.



mary anne hobbes presents: wild angels (on bleep)

Wiley on Rinse

Grab the first radio appearance from Wiley in over a year. Lots of new bars, lots of jokes and vibes on the set. JJ on decks. Wiley is obviously not shy about trying new lyrics and flopping them on the air, which makes for some interesting sequences.. where you get to hear the same piece reloaded 3 times in succession, getting tighter each time, slightly different sound and flow.


JJWiley61009.mp3

longplayer roundup

It feels like I have been listening to more london radio sets and mixes than at any other point in recent memory - its hard to keep up. Every day brings an avalanche of new tunes to retrieve, load up and listen to. One look at the rinse playback feed shows that this funky 4x4 thing has completely taken over and whatever you may feel about this latest phase, (or which theory you employ to make sense of it all) it does seems futile to try to pretend it isn't here to stay. Or, to put it another way, you might as well know about it.

Cooly G - FACT mix
Cooly is a new hyperdub signee who produces and sings. This mix is wicked.

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LVIS1990 - UK house mix for Curb Crawlers
This mix supposedly focuses on the less nursery rhyme / skank side of things. If you find this distinction confusing, check out what Blackdown has to say about it here. Lvis says to file this under uk house, not funky. Either way the set is a big one.

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OneMan - live on rinse
not sure how to file this one, but it is definitely big, drops some new joker pieces, and runs some bars from escobar..

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Blackdown and Dusk - live on rinse
Droppin' the NUMM! some heavy throwback stuff at the front, and a short mix of zomby specials in the middle.. Check it out.

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Grievous Angel - Funky Manifesto

I am into this. Grevious Angel, big man in the scene, heavy with meticulous mp3 metadata + tracklists, has put together a new uk funky/whatdoyoucallit compilation. Instead of trying to hunt down the crucual tunes, which must be quite a challenge, GA has spliced together bunch of radio sets, and the result is BIG.

This is not a mix. Rather, this is a compilation of the best UK Funky I could find, taken from radio shows. I’m NOT pretending I have these tunes. Rather, I’m showcasing the best in UK Funky. Because, while funky is wonderful, there’s a lot of tunes out there I don’t like that much, and I wanted an hour of music I could point that would say, “this is what I want. This is what I want to make.”

http://blog.grievousangel.net/funky-manifesto-a-compilation-of-superb-uk-funky-radio-rips