Here's a nice mix to finish off the month from Dublin based DJ Conan who's been DJing around the city these last five years playing electro, techno and dubstep. If you like what you hear, check this mix he did back in January.
Tracklist
1. Bionics - Kaffa 2. DJ Hatcha - Just a Rift 3. Skream - Shake-it 4. N-Type - Street Justice 5. Skream - Wobble That Gut 6. Jakes - 2 Steps Back 7. Mac Koall - The Rasta Core 8. Rusko - 2 NAQ 9. N-Type - Way of the Dub – caspa remix 10. DZ & Roksteady - Forward 11. Babylon System & Noah D 12. Scanone - Red 13. Matt Green - Something for your Mind 14. Hoodz - Kong 15. Elemental & 3D -Sirens – elemental 07 reifx 16. Darqwan - Universal Wan-Ting 17. Dubchild - Lethal Dubs II – B1 18. Skream & Cluekid - Sandsnake 19. Cluekid -Odyssey 20. Benny Page -Swagger 21. 12th Planet -Smokescreen 22. TRG -Everything we Stand for 23. Martyn - All I have is Memories 24. 12th Planet -Hell-O 25. Bar 9 - Pull Up 26. Sensi -A1 27. 12th Planet -28 Hours Later 28. Sarantis feat Warrior Queen - More Than Money 29. Komanazmuk & Whiteboi -Search for Truth 30. Mundo -Down in the South 31. Silkie - I Sad 32. Nyabingi - Back A Yard 33. Jack Sparrow -Preditor 34. Benga -The Germ
Ah well, its that time again. Nearly the end of summer already, not that you'd realise much of a difference in Ireland. Floods, rain, beautiful grey skies, and more rain. Many of us are hoping for an Indian summer, just a few weeks in september is all we ask to be able to fire up the bbq for once... Anyway, here's this months mix - some old 2step to begin as I just can't resist, alongside some classics and brand new ones that are putting a smile on me face. Enjoy responsibly.
Tracklist
1. Groove Chronicles - Masterplan 2. TJ Cases - One By One (Full Force Remix) 3. Hatiras - Space Invader 4. Mark Force - Gypo (Doasulikey) 5. Metalbox Products - Don't Let Me Down 6. Sully - Broadway G 7. Ramadanman - Blimey 8. LV feat Dandelion - CCTV 9. Joker - 80s 10. Landslide - Dreams and Visions (Compound One Remix) 11. Geiom feat. Marita - Reminissin' (Kode 9 Remix) 12. Dusk + Blackdown - Focus 13. Skream - Percression 14. Silkie - Dam 4 15. TRG - Everything We Stand For 16. Rob Sparxx - Independent Life (TRG Remix) 17. Randomer - Travelogue 18. Search + Destroy - Candyfloss (Toasty Remix) 19. Skream - Angry 20. Untold - Yukon 21. Martyn - Natural Selection 22. Digital Mystikz - Anti War Dub 23. Shut Up And Dance - Epileptic (Martyn Remix) 24. Forsaken, Joker + Ben Blackmore - Into The Sunset
Well, my internet has been down (no surprise in Dublin) these last few days, so when it came mysteriously back to me today, I was greeted by this short clip. The legends that are Bionic and the late Sipho of the mighty London Posse live on Telly Eireann back in '86.
Accents are strange things at the best of times, with the Dublin/Naija examples above owing more than a little debt to The Great Satan. Same goes for the native Paddy type below though.
Wasn't this scourge eradicated in the 80s? The Brits had the sense to purge the mid-atlantic accent from national radio back then, but you'll still find it on the radio and TV in Ireland. Perhaps its provided the fertile soil for new mutations of TuPac and Tallaght, making it (somehow) acceptable enough to be proudly posted on YouTube so fuckers like me can bemoan what once was music. This has been a shocking development brewing among the youts these last years. The virus seems stronger than ever, dog. Y'knowwamsayin?
Bleahh.
Not to mention everyone's favourite bingo caller. All the MC skills of a fried banana. There are infinitely more 'rappers' and less MCs than there were 15 years back. You can count these Irish MCs on one hand, with a couple of fingers thrown in(on a good day). Today is not a good day.
The Black Tea Bubbling Tour is travelling across Ireland this coming week promoting the pre-release of the Melodica Deathship Volume One ep. The tour features Melodica Deathship and Devon Drounz, projects of true school Irish hip hop vets Exile Eye and Troubled Soul.
The melodica deathship is a combination of rugged beats, ghostly melodica, and salty lyrical themes Inspired by a dark fascination with the sea. Imagine The Pogues, Augustus Pablo, King Tubby and El P making a dubbed out racket in the hull of a galleon bound for hell...and you're getting there... Check the exclusive instrumental dub of '1803' below for an example of the Deathship sound...
Melodica deathship Volume one will be released in the next months on Equilibrium, with a pre- release version available at gigs featuring exclusive artwork and tracks.
Catch the Black Tea Bubbling Tour: 21 August, Bierhaus, Galway
June 2008, and Original Junglists RickyForce and SafetyBoy in session with MC Rungus at the Black Box, Galway City, for the launch of this years' Mantua Festival. The sheer size of the place is apparent, but its always nice to see de young people doin' the high speed bogle.
Also in attendance at the launch party was Ireland's premier sound Rootical Soundsystem, and here's some footage from their tent at the festival itself....
And finally, just one of the bizarre aspects of Ireland's friendliest festival - the now infamous Holy Hour. For those of you that weren't there, the music had to stop for an hour for Mass in the local Church. Only in Ireland... or possibly the Phillipines.
Ok, so the above record has been out a while now, but big respect due to Carlow label Naked Lunch on this big release. There's more to come too, and here's Naked Lunch's Mickey on the mix ,presenting some tasty exclusives, classics, and possibly forthcoming tracks on the label. G'wan Carlow.
Here's another great selection, and this one even comes with a concept - Carribean Rave Music. Mixed by Gabriel Heatwave and Ben Dubstar to promote their new night, Immediate Sounds, its a half hour mix outlining the type of sounds you can expect if you're lucky enough to live nearby(I'm not) - so plenty Garage, Jungle and Funky, 'filtered through the tasty carnival vibes of bashment and soca' as they put it.
Tracklist
1. Beenie Man & So Solid Crew - Yagga Yo 2. Ms Dynamite & Menta - Ramp 3. El-B - Shorty (Steppas Remix) 4. Glamour Murphy - What The Woman Want (Acapella) 5. QQ - Screechie 6. Stacy - Let Meh Know 7. Kyla & Paleface - Do You Mind (Crazy Cousins Remix) 8. Geeneus & Zinc - I Try (Instrumental) 9. Vybz Kartel - Stop Gwaan Stush (Acapella) 10. Top Cat & Double 99 - Ripgroove 11. Durrty Goodz - Pum Pum Stealer 12. Tubby - Turbo Shandy 13. Destra & Dizzee Rascal - Flex (Tim Turbo Refix) 14. Plastic Gangsters - Rock To The Rhythm 15. Shabba Ranks - Love Punaany Bad (Baby G Remix) 16. Elephant Man - Nobody Nobody 17. Notch - Nuttin' Nuh Go So (RCola Remix) 18. Soundclash feat Red Fox & Screechie Dan - Pum Pum Shorts
A great Funky selection from the mysterious Spliffman, this mix is without a tracklisting so far, but its got a lot of the usual suspects on it. Unfortunately, it also has an annoying judder between tracks, so the mix isn't smooth but you should get the idea.
More Irish sounds now in the form of Limerick's K3bee of The Nu Killa Crew. Called 'Dark Whisper', its a deep and techy one. If you like what you hear, check his other productions on his Virb page.
Belfast DJ / Producer Beckett has put together a mini-album of recent productions, 'Donations', up for download on his virb page. Spanning the tempo ranges of House, Dubstep and D'n'B, here's the track 'True' to give you a flavour.
A brand new one here from Crysis of Galway crew Get Low. A dark and dirty grind of a track, and hopefully forthcoming on their new label DubCulture. This sucker is Nuclear.
An undeniable summer anthem from Paleface, remixed by Crazy Cousinz, and featuring the vocal talents of Kyla, this track has been stuck in my head these last couple of months. I think the worse the weather gets the more I need this sound.
From back in October 2006, some nice footage from Bassbin's 10th Birthday Rave-Up at Traffic in Dublin. Many a familiar face in the well-up for it crowd...'Unoffical Ghost' into 'Metropolis' as well, two tunes I used to rinse to death many moons ago...nice.
One DJ set I really enjoyed at The Mantua Festival was on the friday in the Low End Tent, courtesy of Konspiracy.
It was the first time I'd heard him playing out and was well impressed. Konspiracy, along with Major Grave, Johnny Oakley, and 16Hz, represent the younger and very much up and coming face of DJs and Producers in Dublin working within the 140(ish)bpm range. Following in the footsteps of the elders(Grizzle, Don Rosco, T-Woc, Stacks, Safetyboy, A-Force and others who've been pushing the sound in Ireland) they're definitely carrying the torch. Enjoy.....
Tracklist
1. TRG - Broken Heart (Martyn Rmx) 2. Skream - Dutch Flowers 3. Gatekepper & Grizzla - Shade Darker 4. Smasher D - Back In Da Day 5. TRG - Feel For You 6. El-B - Endorse And Set It 7. OSC - Shot Like this 8. Babylon System - Loaded 9. Babylon System & SPL - Shevil 10. Tes La Rock - Darkness Falls Upon Us 11. Jazz Steppa - America B 12. Jack Sparrow - I and I 13. Zomby - One Spliff A Day 14. Matty G - West Coast Rocks( Caspa Rmx ) 15. Rusko - William H tonkers 16. Mac Koall - The Rasta Core 17. Toasty Boy - Knowledge 18. Quiet Storm - Tribute 10
Keysound Video presents Margins Music, the debut visual feature from Blackdown and director Jonathan Howells.
It documents an audio visual journey through the margins of urban London, soundtracked by dubstep and grime from the forthcoming Dusk + Blackdown CD, "Margins Music" out August 18th 2008 on Keysound Recordings.
Singer - feckin' - songwriters. Normally they leave me cold - and God knows we have a glut of the whingeing, self-obsessed poseurs in this city. In fact, the only way the media will take any notice of Irish music is if its dressed up in the Georges Street Arcade uniform of the pretentious wannabe troubador; misty eyed, pale and angsty sells. This point of view was challenged for me in 2003 when I saw this documentary on RTE. You'll either love him or hate him, but you can't deny the man.
'An English pipe fitter who was racially abused in his Irish workplace has been awarded €20,000 in compensation.
The man, who worked for an engineering company on a Dublin building site, claimed colleagues called him names and frequently ganged-up on him to sing Irish rebel songs.
Some workers never spoke to him and whenever staff had to enter tanks or dangerous spaces they would say 'send the Brit in' to make the way safe.'
I had a quick chat with my workmate Dave this morning as I was finishing the night shift, and he was beginning the morning shift. Dave is a true-blue SE14, London born and bred geezer who was lured to this island a few years ago by the love of a cailín deas ó Baile átha Cliath, so I wanted to get his angle on what is a first for Anglo-Irish relations. It didn't take us long to decide a plan of action - starting next week I'll be raving about 800 years of occupation and genocide, ranting about the Queen, and singing the entire Wolfe Tones back catalogue at the top of my voice. Ten grand for Dave, ten grand for me, and all I'll have to worry about is being fired. Its our own little Anglo-Irish Agreement.
Without doubt one of my favourite producers at the moment is Gemmy. What is it with Bristol? Is there something special in the water over there? Anyway, finally he has a 12 coming out soon on Punch Drunk, a label whose releases get most of the heads I know (this side of the wet divide) very excited. This one will be no exception...Punch Drunk009 will feature 'BK 2 The Future' and 'Bass Transmitter', two tracks I cant get out of my head lately. Check them HERE.
The vinyl will be out in September. In the meantime, whet your greedy hunger with another Gemmy production, 'BT Tower' (below).
Here's a little bit of my set at The Mantua Festival last week, uploaded by Lisadal. He/she promises more uploads soon, so if any come along I'll throw them up in here.
JohnnyAlpha recorded the whole thing (audio anyway), so as soon as he gets it to me I'll fire it up for download. Out to everyone who enjoyed it.
A documentary series on Dublin in the 1990s by American Director Daryl grant. Filmed on the cusp of the economic boom, and with more than a little yankee rose-tint on the lens, already the city and the attitudes seem far far away and fadó fadó.
Here's one of Savwar's ITF Scratch Sets from 2005. I managed to catch his set at Mantua, first time I've seen the bwai at work in a couple of years...very nice.
Many thanks to Micksacro for uploading this footage of the '91 Irish DMCs. Many recognisable heads in the (wilding out) crowd...I was hovering down the back somewhere. Big Up DJ Control, one of the scene leaders way back in Dublin.
Dublin's own DJ Mayhem rocking an old ITF juggle routine. I always thought he was the big talent in Creative Control, and its good to see he's still knocking out his own quality productions on his MySpace.
Yes folks, a movie is on the way about the legendary Juice Crew, a story familiar to all us bus pass holders. Will it kick off like The Bridge Wars? Can we expect a movie response from The Boogie Down? Will Juice Crew Diss be on the soundtrack?.....
I just had to post this. Memories of sitting around the VCR with a pirate copy with my mates, studying every move while being subliminally educated on the music of Kraftwerk. I get a strong emotional memory rush just watching this clip, we must have watched the movie a thousand times back then. I hadn't seen it in over two decades until today, so I'm sure you can imagine. So, cheesefest and all that it is, this evening I'm going to settle back, stick it on and sob into the sofa as I lament my LOST YOOF.
DJ Goldy has put this set together for the Solid Steel/Ninja Tune crew. A rare one for Goldy, as this actually has a full tracklist for broadcast reasons. Enjoy.....
Tracklist
1. LEXICON "VOODOO" INST 2. CUTTY RANKS "HIT MAN" 3. RED FOX "PRESSURE DEM" 4. FUNK MOB "RAVERS SUCK OUR SOUND" 5. JUSTIN WARFIELD "BUG POWDER DUST" (CHEMICAL BROTHERS REMIX) 6. SLAYER "AT DAWN THEY SLEEP" 7. METHOD MAN "RELEASE YO DELF" (PRODIGY MIX) 8. DADDY LIVINGSTON "RUDY A MESSAGE" 9. VIKTOR VAUGHN "RAEDAWN" 10. MARDEN HILL "COME ON" 11. FANTOMAS "BOOK 1 – PAGE 3" 12. LEADERS OF THE NEW SCHOOL "SPONTANEOUS (13 MC'S DEEP)" 13. DIGIABLE PLANETS "WHERE I'M FROM" REMIX 14. DEL THA FUNKY "MISADOBALINA" REMIX 15. JILTED JOHN "JILTED JOHN" 16. REDMAN "RED MEETS REGGIE" 17. NEXTMEN "PIECE OF THE PIE" INST 18. RUTS DC "WHATEVER WE DO" 19. BRIAN ENO "AN ENDING (ASCENT) 20. BEYOUND THERE "ON WAX" 21. OLDE ENGLISH "WILDSTYLE (DJ KRUSH HANDSHAKE REMIX) 22. RAGGA TWINS "RAGGA TRIP" 23. J.V.C FORCE "NU SKOOL" 24.NOMEANSNO "ITS CATCHING UP" 25.CHRIS ROCK "O.J. & O'JAYS" 26.THIS MORTAL COIL "DREAMS MADE FLESH" 27.BULGARIAN VOCAL CHOIR "GHEL MOMA" 28.WILLAIM SHATNER "LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS" 29.PRINCE "BALLAD OF DOROTHY PARKER"30.DANNY SABER "INDIAN SUMMER" 31. BUDDY RICH "SOMEDAY MY PRINCE WILL COME" 32. SOUND DIMENSION "GRANNY SCRATCH SCRATCH" 33. L.L COOL J "(NFA) NO FRONTIN ALLOWED" 34. CASH MONEY "UGLY PEOPLE BE QUIET" REMIX 35. SOFT CELL "SAY HELLO WAVE GOODBYE" 36. BARRY WHITE "ITS ECSTACY WHEN YOU LAY DOWN NEXT TO ME" 37. JOCELYN BROWN "SOMEBODY ELSES GUY" 38. BOOTMAN "BOOTMAN: TO THE HIP" (TEE'S FREEZE MIX) 39. LORD FINESSE "THE REMATCH" 40. BASS BOYS "LET THE BASS GO" 41. HERBIE HANCOCK "RAINDANCE" 42. ENNIO MORRICONE "ELEGY FOR A DEAD CHERRY" 43. TOM WAITS "EARTH DIED SCREAMING" 44. RON GRAINER "DOCTOR WHO THEME"
About time we got an old school mix up in here, and our man in Inverness Leeroy Bambaataa has stepped up to the plate. A definite soundtrack to my youth, its a 100% vinyl cut and paste electro / hip hop mix, featuring many of the old favourites including Afrika Bambaataa, Kraftwerk, Hijack, Hashim, C.O.D, Chris "The Glove" Taylor feat. Ice-T amongst others, with a touch of adult humour from the one and only Andrew Dice Clay thrown in for good degenerate measure.I know a lot of the heads in Dublin have been enjoying this mix of late, if you haven't checked it yet you can do so below...
for a while theres been some talk about who i am , but its not a big deal i wanted to be unknown because i just want it to be all about the tunes. over the last year the unknown thing become an issue so im not into it any more. im a lowkey person and i just want to make some tunes, nothing else. my names will bevan, im from south london, im keeping my head down and just going to finish my next album, theres going to be a 12" maybe in the next few weeks too with 4 tunes. hope u like it, i'll try put a tune up later
sorry for any rubbish tunes i made in the past, ill make up for it
a big big thank you to anyone who ever supported me, liked my tunes or sent me messages, it means the world to me
