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Saturday, 22 August 2009

COOLY G

Cheers to everyone who came down to Gold Soundz, will start work on another one, possibly in London, when I move back up early September.

Bit late on posting this but it's something I've been feeling for a few months now. I saw a trailer for a documentary about her on YouTube, don't know too much about it but it looks cool. The trailer is just Cooly playing at Plastic People and dropping Narst at the end, which I'm obviously all about right now. Here's Narst:

There used to be a full version up but it's been taken down.
Strongly suggest getting this, out now on Hyperdub. B/W Love Dub.
Also check out Cooly's mix for Fact or her Rinse FM podcast.

Saturday, 8 August 2009

GOLD SOUNDZ PROMO MIX

Put a mix together for my upcoming local night, Gold Soundz.

Get it here:
http://www.zshare.net/audio/638205250d8950c0/

Tracklisting:

Skream - Filth (Tempa)

Gemmy - BT Tower (Planet Mu)

Mark Pritchard & Om'Mas Keith - Wind It Up (Hyperdub)

Zomby - The Lie (Ramp)

Joker - Re-Up (Kapsize)

James Blake - Sparing The Horses (Hemlock)

Youngstar - Volcano (White)

Zomby - Strange Fruit (Ramp)

Brackles - Lizards (Apple Pips)

Youngstar - Bongcat Riddem (White)

Brackles - Get A Job (Apple Pips)

James Blake - Air and Lack Thereof (Hemlock)


Saturday, 4 July 2009

Happy 4th July (Well, for yesterday)

Living at home proper now it seems, bit weird, really fun in places but variety of reasons (no job and woman stuff) kinda holding back what has the potential to be an amazing summer. SUXX. Ongoing Serato vs. vinyl war in my head. Should be putting up a mix I'm gonna put together using just vinyl on the next few days so hold tight.

Sunday, 14 June 2009

NEW TUNES

Half finished two tracks earlier. Not very polished, not mixed properly or mastered at all.

First one is pretty dark, get it here:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/61353209d2171c7a/

The other is quite Dilla-esque, 90 BPM

Get it here:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/613624359e94d5db/

Any feedback would be great

Thursday, 28 May 2009

bleurgh

Everyone's gone home really, sucks a lot. Moving in with Becca and Tan in Bow for a while until I get my new house. Gonna be fun. Miss my decks and nice home stuff now though, and that all my shit is spread around 3 separate houses. 

Thursday, 21 May 2009

The Angriest Man Alive

This is pretty mad. I've been on this for a while but this version on Logan Sama's show is worth a post. Tempz starts off pretty chilled (well, as chilled as you can be whilst threatening to rob someone's house and steal their kids' toys) and works up until he's screaming. Sama drops Saxon towards the end, succeeding in making this sound very much like a shark attack before seemingly proclaiming the whole thing too much and turning off the radio. The sound effects or gun shots and smashing windows don't help, and neither does the wonky camera thing whenever they get dropped. 


Saturday, 2 May 2009

Burial Vs. Four Tet

Just heard the Wolf Cub/Moth split 12". Moth is my favourite, the more Burial sounding of the two,  though the 4/4 house beat hints at a possible new direction. Wolf Cub has the cut up Four Tet drums that are all over Everything Ecstatic but towards the end Burial's staple rumbling low-end bass comes in. Perhaps the best thing about this release is that it is so clearly a collaboration - elements of both producers' style can clearly be heard, and both of their respective sounds fuse, creating a dark nightscape courtesy of Burial and giving a loose, improvised impression from Four Tet.

Both tracks are available on MP3, but unfortunately the 12" release was extremely ltd. edition and is sold out.