Haus!

BLEURGH. Finally completely settled and ready to blog the shit out of this internet game.

Firstly big up to Fuck The Whiteboard for Friday night. My DJ debut as Mickey Rawkus (geddit) playing back to back with Pariah, who, if i'm honest, completely blew me out of the water. Had a great time, really want to play out as much as possible so if you're reading this and you put on a night get in touch and book me. I will play (almost) anything. But I won't play almost anything (yeah, that is a diss to that bitch who kept shouting PLAY RUSKO at us. No, i'm not playing Rusko. Nothing against the fella but REALLY?). Kept it rollin' with some garage classics and uk funky mainly, with some wonky and house thrown in for good measure. I dropped Anaconda by Untold and it went off. Got a rewind. I am very happy about this. Highlight was Pariah dropping Shystie. Or maybe when he dropped 'Detroit Falls' at the end. Anyway, enough wankery for now but please do get in touch. I want to get this dj ting well and truly up and running.

In other news I've really got into this kinda house stuff. Not really proper deep house, and I've been on UK funky for a while, but the stuff by a few guys related to the Dubstep thing, though Dubstep now seems to work as a term for good bass music, as well as loads of midrange wobble wank flannel music.

First up FaltyDL. I've ignored this dude for far too long, just heard a few tracks and neglected to actually good deep into it. It's a fusion of Garage and House with a transatlantic feel and a really strong sense of melody, but with the standard chest-breaking Bass synonymous with nearly everything I love right now. Track 'To London' is my personal favourite, though more can be found on full lengths for Planet Mu and his mix for the intimidatingly brilliant FACT Magazine.

FaltyDL has more of a garage slant than the next guy, who I've been into ever since I was turned onto him by a track on Alexander Nut's FACT mix (there they go again...). I was gutted to miss Floating Points at FWD>> yesterday. I don't know how I find it so hard to get to Plastic People on a Sunday for some reason. This is my favourite by him. The track starts well enough, establishing a luscious groove, but it's all about the bass drop later on in the track, which really does take my breath away.

Lastly, I really am not pretending to know the slightest about House (but believe me, I am doing my best to educate myself) and I am aware that the tracks I've posted so far on here are far from what many might perceive to contain the traditional notions of house, so here's a tune that is undeniably Housey. What I'm beginning to recognise in house is the ripples of energy and melody that build like a tide over the music, and this is what I look for a lot of the time in House tracks. This is a perfect demonstration of this effect by on of the masters, Omar S, who I was lucky enough to catch at Fabric months and months back.

I'll be doing my best to post on here as much as I can from this point on, I really have no excuse. Also working on my production and saving up for as many records as I can possibly grab. PLEASE SOMEONE BOOK ME :)

Peace out x

Carnival ting

Went to FWD>> Sunday, Alexander Nut absolutely rocked it, started with some wonky kinda hip hop bits and then played some Zomby and the Loefah mix of Jah War, which i was pretty happy about as I've been revisiting it for the past few weeks. It was amazing on the Plastic People soundsystem.

Next up was Pangea Vs. Untold. They opened with a remix of Islands by The XX, a favourite band of mine recently, their self titled debut is set to be one of the highlights of the year. I'm not sure who's mix it was, it sounded like Untold with his trademark huge bass hits but I might be wrong. Rest of the set was made up of a lot of unreleased Untold and some Pangea bits here and there.

From here I caught Dekheads at Catch, not my kinda thing, mostly just fidget house bits, but my man Doop dropped a mix of Nirvana and we all had it out for a bit. I was a bit drunk by about 1 and decided to go back to a mates flat to stay fresh for carnival business the next day.

I have no idea why I haven't been to Notting hill carnival before. It is pretty much the best thing in existence: Loads of huge homemade soundsystems playing Reggae, Dancehall, Dubstep, Grime and whatever else; jerk chicken and Red Stripe. We tried to get in to the Mad Decent party but failed in epic fashion, so eventually found a grime system where POW! got (surely) a record 6 rewinds. Was a bit worse for wear again so struggled home, as every tube station for miles around was closed.

Playing B2B with Doop warming up for Tomb Crew at El Mono tonight...should be interesting. Waiting some records in the post, really hope they get here so I can play them out later.