Grabbed this the other day, and even though I rather mixed compilations, it's worth a listen, especially if you haven't heard the likes of 'Carla' by Ramadanman, Skream & Cluekid's 'Sandsnake', Pinch's mighty 'Qawwali', or any of Martyn or TRG's stuff. Each to their own n' all that old bollox, but the Caspa tracks are the equivalent of a donkey farting in to a barrel, in my opinion, but whatever man (some 320s in there too for you digital selectors).................
Disc: 1
1. Skream Ft. Cluekid - Sandsnake 2. Geiom Ft. Marita - Reminssin (Skream's Time Traveller Refix) 3. Skream - Bahl FWD 4. The Bug - Poison Dart (Skream Mix) 5. Caspa - Big Headed Slags 6. Caspa - Louder 7. TC - Where's My Money (Caspa Remix) 8. Caspa - For The Kids 9. TRG - Broken Heart (Martyn DCM Remix) 10. Martyn - Natural Selection 11. Martyn - All I Have Is Memories 12. Shut Up & Dance - Epileptic (Martyn's No Strobe Mix)
Disc: 2
1. Pinch - Qawwali 2. Pinch - Punisher (Loefah's SE25 Remix) 3. Pinch Ft. Yolanda - Get Up 4. Pinch - Midnight Oil 5. Cotti Ft. Doctor - Calm Down 6. Cotti & Cluekid - The Legacy 7. Cotti vs Mr. Party Ft. Jammer 0 Dem Fi Know 8. Cotti - Bassface 9. Ramadanman - Carla 10. Ramadanman - Blimey 11. Howie B vs Casino Royale - Royale Sound (Ramadanman Refix) 12. TRG - Put You Down (Ramadanman Refix)
Bought this last week from the good folks in Plugd Records, as I've always thought Friction was pretty decent..........not totally sold on this one so far; there's a few too many 'jump-up' type tracks for my liking and a vocal number which reminds me of something Tiesto might play, but on the other hand there's some quality on it aswell - maybe it'll grow on me with further listens. Anyway, feel free to check it out;
1. Chubrub - Ed Rush & Optical 2. Clear Skyz/True Romance - DJ Die/D-Bridge & Vegas 3. Skinz - Total Science 4. Set It Off - Friction & K-Tee 5. Now It's Going - Break (1) 6. Down The Line - Perez, Alix 7. Lovechild - Dillinja 8. Ruffest Gunnark - Top Cat (2) 9. Let It Happen - Break (1) 10. Just One Second/Freenote - London Elektricity/Zinc 11. Pulp Fiction - Reece, Alex 12. Basement Track - High Contrast 13. Winter Sun - Break (1) 14. Rags To Riches - Lenzman 15. Stray - Perez, Alix 16. Paint It Black/Hidden Track - Sigma/Zinc 17. Blind Eye - AI (3) 18. Ultra Clean - Commix & Icicle 19. After Shower/Deadline - Break/Digital 20. Bleeps, The - Friction & K-Tee 21. Splinter - Spirit (5) 22. Driftwood - Noisia & Icicle 23. Ho Bass - Distorted Minds 24. Heavyweight - DJ Fresh 25. Entrapment - Apex (1) 26. Fired Up/El Presidente - Friction & K-Tee/Sigma 27. Borrowed Time - TC & Sub Focus 28. Warning - Scratch Perverts 29. Shadow Knows/Neo - Shimon/Hive 30. Junglist - Smith, Simon 'Bassline' & Drumsound 31. Aztec - Spor 32. Tuning/If We Ever - D Kay & Lee/High Contrast
Wicked Reggae mix from Adam Prescott (For The Win Records).......one of the best Reggae selections I've heard in ages, and definitely one of my favourites mixes of '09 so far.......do not sleep on this beauty!!
Ey Up everyone! This originally started as a little project from my mate Nick who wanted some good reggae so I started compiling some of my favourite tunes which hopefully covers all bases of the sound. We’ve got some dub, some roots, some rasta, some lover’s rock, some political tunes, some Dj tunes, some early dancehall, some one drop and some upfront militant dubwise riddims! Some tunes you might know, some you won’t but defiantly worth the download! - Adam Prescott
Roots Radics Rockers Reggae Mixxx 2009
1. Scientist & Prince Jammy – The Alien Aborts 2. Delroy Wilson – Cool Operator 3. Cornell Campbell – The Gorgon Is Back 4. Bushman – Fire Pon A Weak Heart 5. Ini Kamoze – Them Thing Deh 6. Cocoa Tea – We Do The Killing 7. Tenor Saw – Golden Hen 8. Hugh Mundell – Jacqueline 9. Super Cat – History 10. Luciano – Trod Out 11. Dennis Brown – Slave Driver 12. Early B – Visit Of King Selassie 13. Captain Sinbad – Bam Salute 14. Dennis Brown – Want To Be No General 15. Barrington Levy – Robber Man 16. Eek-A-Mouse – Wild Like A Tiger 17. Jacob Miller – I’m Just A Dread 18. The Heptones – Cool Rasta 19. Dawn Penn – You Don’t Love Me (No, No, No) 20. Ranking Dread – Fattie Boom Boom 21. Gregory Issacs – Rumours 22. Buju Banton – Buju Banton 23. Junior Reid & Prince Jammy – Jail House 24. Shabba Ranks – Ting-A-Ling 25. Johnny Osbourne – Buddy Bye 26. Wayne Smith – Under Me Sleng Ting 27. Reggie Stepper – Under Mi Sin Ting 28. Jah Shaka – Glory To The King Dub 29. Iration Steppas – Rasta Dub 30. Vibronics – Oh Let His Name Be Praised (Iration Steppas Remix)
Former Wales, Arsenal and Celtic striker John Hartson is in a critical condition after emergency surgery on his brain following a cancer diagnosis.
At the weekend, 34-year-old Hartson was told he had testicular cancer.
The disease spread to his brain and on Wednesday, doctors confirmed it was also present in his lungs.
The father-of-three had undergone surgery at Morriston Hospital in Swansea, after being transferred from the city's Singleton Hospital.
A hospital statement read: "He is currently being cared for by the critical care team at Morriston and is receiving round-the-clock care aiming to stabilise his condition.
“ We have been overwhelmed by the support and goodwill from many thousands of football fans, players, clubs and sporting figures and we have drawn strength from this support ” John Hartson's family
"He will resume radiotherapy and chemotherapy as soon as possible."
After being diagnosed with cancer on Sunday, Hartson was admitted to Singleton Hospital where further tests were carried out.
Since retiring from a glittering career in football in February 2008, the striker has worked as a television pundit.
Relatives issued a statement on Wednesday saying that all close family and friends "are continuing to support John in any way we can".
"He is receiving outstanding care from all the medical and surgical staff and we would like to thank everyone at both Singleton and Morriston, as well as the excellent ambulance staff," it went on.
"We have been overwhelmed by the support and goodwill from many thousands of football fans, players, clubs and sporting figures and we have drawn strength from this support."
The family also requested that the star's privacy, and that of his family, is respected as he continues his hospital treatment.
Officials at Arsenal have said the club is "deeply saddened" by news of his cancer.
The former centre forward joined Arsenal as a teenager from Luton in January 1995 and, in two seasons at Highbury, made 62 appearances, scoring 16 goals.
The player left Arsenal for West Ham United in February 1997 and continued his career with the Hammers, Wimbledon, Coventry City, Celtic, West Bromwich Albion and Norwich City.
"Everyone at Arsenal Football Club would like to take this opportunity to wish John, together with his family and friends, all the very best in the challenging times that lie ahead. Our thoughts are with you," the statement added.
During his international career, he scored 14 goals before stepping down in February 2006 to concentrate on his club football.
Hartson made his Wales debut in March 1995 in an away match against Bulgaria, often leading the line as a lone striker, until his last game in November 2005 against Cyprus.
Very sad to hear this about Big John. Not only was he a great player for Celtic, but he also seems like a very nice guy. Hopefully things will go his way and he can come out the other side of this. Good luck from the Crank, John; if anyone has the strength to beat this, then it's you.
I featured this video in the blog last month, but have to bring it to the fore again, as it's gonna be feautured in an episode of CSI on Network 2 tonight........Irish hip-hop ripping things up on a Yank prime-time show.........not bad, ha?? Big up to Ri-Ra......hopefully this will get him some much-deseved credit and lead to further album sales. Keep it goin' Sir!
More Reggae and Dub compilations for the massive - all the files are WAVs, so may take a while to download, but as the old saying goes; 'never mind the width - feel the quality'! ;)
The Mighty Diamonds - I Need A Roof Frankie Jones - Don't Smoke The Seed The Mighty Diamonds - Right Time Don Carlos - Natty Dread Have Credentials Lone Ranger - Natty Burial The Meditations - Woman Is Like A Shadow Sammy Dread - Road Block The Revolutionaries - Burial The Wailing Souls - Things & Time Dillinger - Cocaine In My Brain Barry Brown - Far East Dillinger - Cb 200 I Roy - Welding Frankie Paul - Worries In The Dance Yellowman - Herbsman Smuggling Barrington Levy - Dances Are Changes Sugar Minott - Show Me That You Love Me Girl Ernest Wilson - I Know Myself Ranking Trevor - Truly (Dj Mix)
Disc 2
The Jay's - Truly The Tamlins - Hard To Confess Leroy Smart - Ballistic Affair John Holt - Satisfaction Dillinger - Ragnampiza The Revolutionaries - Mpla The Revolutionaries - Death In The Arena Clint Eastwood - Prema Ballerina Delroy Wilson - Sharing The Night Together Sugar Minott - Babylon Little John - Smoke Ganja Hard Junior Byles - Fade Away The Jay's & Ranking Trevor - Queen Majesty Leroy Smart - Without Love John Holt - Up Park Camp The Jay's - Yaho Super Chick - Roach Killer Lone Ranger - M16
These are a few months old, but don't let that stop you from sampling them. Three big selections from Code, Source and Ricky Force..........big tings!
IDNB10-CODE
"The first in our series of re-records of the sets played at the irishdrumandbass.com 10th birthday party at the twisted pepper. This one is a heavyweight selection of beats from subtle audios main man, Code."
Dub One - Never Forget (Scientific Wax soonish CDR) Digital - Spacefunk (Original) (Timeless) Dissident - Such A Real World (Counter Intelligence CDR) Photek - Complex (Photek) Insight - Redzone (Unreleased CDR) Nebula - Cruel (Unreleased CDR)
"The second in our series of re-records of the sets played at the irishdrumandbass.com 10th birthday party at the twisted pepper. Phase2???s Source steps up and drops a set of stone cold classics. Keep an eye on RTE Pulse for the Phase2 Drum and Bass show for more from Source."
Nasty Habits - Golden Fingers Ed Rush and Optical - Gas Mask Optical and Trace - Mercury Switch Bad Company - 4 Days Nasty Habits - NHS Total Science Remix Marcus Intalex and ST Files - How You Make Me Feel Manix - Hardcore Junglism Total Science Remix
"The third in our series of re-records of the sets played at the irishdrumandbass.com 10th birthday party at the twisted pepper. Ricky Force brings it for all junglists! Badman jungle selection."
Krome and Time - Brok out Liftin??? Spirits - Cup-A-Cha Remarc - Menace Dillinja - Muthafucka Remarc - RIP Shabba Ranks - lets get it on (goldie and dillinja rmx) Photek - The Truper Krome and Time - The Licence rmx RickyForce - Underground -S2P002A Modular and Outrage - Falling Bombs
Great set from Irish techno stalwart Sunil Sharpe, at this year's Life Festival in Co.Westmeath. Considered by many to be the set of the weekend, Sunil dropped some classics amongst some newer stuff, and really rocked the place - enjoy!
Had the pleasure of hearing Brigadier JC in action recently, at The Big Chillum, in Dolans, Limerick, and he, amongst many others, played some great tunes and helped create, what turned out to be, the event of the summer so far, in my opinion anyway (more on that coming up). When I visited his MySpace page the other day, I was glad to see that he had posted up a Reggae selection, which he's kindly let me re-post it here, and I highly recommend everyone to check it out.......
Welcome to Limerock - Brigadier JC
Easy Star All Stars - Speak to me - Breathe The Dynamics - Seven Nation Army Al Campbell - Take a ride + Version Johnny Osbourne - Truth And Rights Horace Freguson - Sensi Addict Pablo Gad - Hard Times Bim Sherman - Golden Stool Hugh Mundell - Jah Will Provide The Wailing Souls - War Marcia Griffith - Feel Like Jumping + Version John Holt - Hooligan + Version The Paragons - Got to get away Brigadier Jerry - Every man a me brethren Michael Prophet - Gunman Sugar Minott - Roof Over my head Dennis Brown - Here I come Luciano - Destruction Bushman - Terrible inna the gideon Lyricson - Government live fi war Queen Omega - Big Up Papa Mickey General - Live the life you live Capleton - Weh dem feel like Sizzla - The World Queen Omega - Judgement Capleton - Dem Doom Burro Banton - Man Guinep DJ Vadim - Fear feats ft. Emo and Syrus Nightmares on Wax - 70s 80s
If you had just recently been introduced to Drum n' Bass, and someone told you that they thought putting a sample of Whitney Houston's 'I Will Always Love You' on a track was a good idea, you'd probably laugh, right? Right. If they told you that this 'proposed' track would go on to become a bonfide Jungle classic, you'd probably think they were completely delusional, right? Wrong! Well luckily, Leicster's DJ SS had that very idea many years ago, and what a fucking stomper it really did turn out to be (and not a wooden line from Kevin Costner anywhere to be seen).That track is, of course, the mighty 'Black':
Don those old white gloves you put away in the early ninties, and steal your Dad's luminous County Council jacket; it's time for a Hardcore and Jungle mash-up from Luke Vibert, the likes of which hasn't been seen since 1992........pass the vicks!
Bang Face mix - Luke Vibert
shades of rhythm - homicidal HHFD - total confusion blapps posse - don't hold back DHS - number 9 bad acid mundo muzique - acid pandemonium white label, mate! see above... perfect rhythm - trip into the future friends of matthew - the calling ragga twins - wipe the needle code 071 - stand together rum & black - wicked after dark - RAW hackney hardcore - dancehall dangerous white labia, sorry and again... prodigy - your love bloody white label ibiza - music with a beat JJ frost - pornography ghetto people - static substance jonny l - more life higher sense - cold fresh air N.U.T. 10 - soundboy jonny L - sam bizzy B - check one remarc - ice cream and syrup don of dons - babylon alec empire - the destroyer lowkey - chopsticks white lab DJ SS - rollers convention pt.3l white lab coat
Probably gonna get slaughtered for this one, but fuck it. I like that desperate sense of melancholy and dejection she puts across, and as for the "five-storey fire" line.....well, I couldn't have put it better myself. Cunts, the lot of 'em ;)
Jet Li. No, not the chinese lad, but another man who can beat your head in - albeit in a slightly different way: with a barrage of Amen breaks and a ton of phat basslines. Jet Li's been a name on the Irish Drum N' Bass scene for quite a while now, but I had never had to opportunity to witness him in action until last Saturday night at Fusion, in Killarney, and he did not disappoint! He played exactly what I love to hear in a DnB set; big, fuck-off, belting tunes, that aren't too much in the 'jump-up' vein, but aren't too 'liquid-ey' and watered down either - stuff that catches you by the bollox and fires you on to the floor.......and the inclusion of a couple of ragga-infused efforts displayed his Jungle roots (always a great thing in my book). Managed to get some of the action recorded, and though there's not much happening visually, due to lack of light, Jet Li's soundtrack more than makes up for it......and he's a fucking Kerryman to boot - up ya boy ya!
Heard this played out in Killarney last Saturday night by Jet Li (more about him coming up), and it reminded me what a fucking stormer of a tune it really is. Mr.Breakage, take it away;
Jedi Mind Tricks droppin' serious knowledge, and a crazy sick verse from R.A......
True story... Call me Thorburn, John H. Staff Sergeant, Marksman Skilling, killing, illing I'm able and willing Kill a village elephant, rapin' and pillage your village Illegitimate killers, US Military guerillas This ain't no real war, Vietnam shit World War II, that's a war, this is just a military conflict Soothing, drug-abusing, Vietnamese women screwing Sex, gambling and boozin', all the shit is amusing Bitches and guns, this is every man's dream I don't want to go home, where I'm just a ordinary human being Special OP, Huey chopper gun ship, run shit Gook run when the mini-gun spit, won't miss, kill shit Spit four-thousand bullets a minute Victor Charlie, hit trigger, hit it I'm in it to win it, get it The lieutenant hinted the villain, I've ended up killing I did it, cripple, did it, pictures I painted is vivid, live it A wizard with weapons, a secret mission we about to begin it Government funded, behind enemy lines bullets is spraying It's heating up, a hundred degrees The enemies the North-Vietnamese, bitch please Ain't no sweat, I'm told "be at ease" Until I see the pilot got hit, and we about to hit some trees till the rotor broke, crash land, American man Cambodia, right in the enemy hand Take a swig of the whiskey to calm us Them yellow men wearing black pajamas They want to harm us They all up on us Bang, bang, bullet hit my chest, feel no pain To my left, the captain caught a bullet right in his brain Body parts flying, loss of limbs, explosions Bad intentions, I see my best friend's intestins Pray to the one above, It's raining and I'm covered in mud I think I'm dying, I feel dizzy, I'm losing blood I see my childhood, I'm back in the arms of my mother I see my whole life, I see Christ, I see bright lights I see Israelites, Muslims and Christians at peace, no fights Blacks, Whites, Asians, people of all types I must have died, then I woke up, suprised I'm alive I'm in a hospital bed, they rescued me, I survived I escaped the war, came back But ain't escape Agent Orange, two of my kids born handicapped Spastic, quadriplegia, micro cephalic Cerebral palsy, cortical blindness, name it they had it My son died he ain't live, but I still try to think positive Cause in life, God take, God give
R.A. The Rugged Man
Brilliant verse, partially based on his old man's experience in Vietnam;
UK Techno isn't a genre as such, but it remains a criminally overlooked part of electronic music history. The period 1992-1996 was particularly strong, as myriad little-known producers released exceptional pieces of work, cross-pollinating a variety of styles and precipitating a whole slew of new genres.
British musicians have a knack of taking an existing sound and doing all sorts of peculiar, beguilingly eccentric things to it. Consider how Soft Machine approached rock music in the 1960s, unwittingly birthing the prog behemoth and making it unfashionable. A similar fate arguably befell the simplistic early sounds of US house and techno. By 1993 early breakbeat had begotten Hardcore, and Drum ‘n’ Bass was well on its way to becoming a totally separate strain, while under the umbrella of Warp records, a number of prodigiously talented artists - Aphex Twin and Autechre among them - were emerging with something that was still techno, but beginning to sound very different indeed.
The age of mass raves was now virtually at an end, with only the (now legendary) Tribal Gathering events left, along with the embryonic stages of the Big Chill. Club nights such as Lost, Sabresonic, Final Frontier, Atomic Jam, The Orbit, Voodoo and House of God sprung up to fill the void. The blossoming of Warp’s progeny was complemented by a host of similarly impressive homegrown production projects such as B12, LA Synthesis and The Black Dog. The sound of Americans Robert Hood, Jeff Mills and Dan Bell, invited by Steve Bicknell to play at Lost, set in motion a "minimal" trend that would see the flowering of such labels as Ifach and the aggressive thunder of The Advent and Bandulu, not to mention the more industrial approach of Birmingham's Downwards.
Meanwhile, Detroit’s second wave would influence the likes of Kirk De Giorgio, Ian O’Brien and Steve Pickton, an, in Brighton and Edinburgh, ever so slightly isolated talents such as Neil Landstrumm and Cristian Vogel would begin to cultivate their own ideas of what techno was and could be. Kiss FM in London even had its own radio show dedicated to the genre, hosted by Colin Dale.
Yet by 1996 the music itself and attitudes within clubs was changing, and not altogether for the best. Whilst undoubtedly the DJ of the 90s, Jeff Mills' three-deck approach - which had laid to waste many a dancefloor during an epochal period of '94-'97 - had begun to influence a new army of producers and DJs who were singularly interested in the monolithic dynamic of "chunky" techno, a sound encapsulated and influenced not just by Mills’ own Axis productions but also a slew of compressed Drum Code records coming from Sweden. Melody and emotion were sacrificed to this relentless minimalism, and from a DJ's perspective, it was soon more about how many records you were mixing rather than whether the tracks themselves were any good.
An era of looped techno had begun, and in my opinion it damaged some areas of the scene permanently; numbers in clubs dwindled rapidly, crowds only interested if the big US DJs such as Mills, Hawtin or Derrick May happened to be playing. Nonetheless, the contrast between the quality of British techno records released now and in 1995 is utterly startling, with only a handful of producers still pushing the genre forward. Like those prog rockers in the late 60s, many musicians in the field realised the genre's limitations, and sought to experiment elsewhere.
So what’s the point of this article? Artists such as Aphex Twin, Dave Clarke, Autechre and Underworld have all sustained considerable artistic and commercial success over the past decade and a half. And before you start tapping your keyboards in anger, i'll tell you now: none of those acts appear on this list. They've already received the exposure they deserve elsewhere. What the 20 records that I have chosen will go to show is a veritable goldmine of talent and ideas exists beyond the well-documented big guns; one that shifted the focus of techno away from its American roots. Hopefully you don't need to be reminded of the outstanding qualities of Aphex Twin’s 'Quoth', of Black Dog Productions, or of Autechre’s 'Eutow'.
Furthermore, there are many facets of the UK techno that aren't represented in this list, such as the burgeoning free party scene embodied by the anarchic Spiral Tribe, whose influence on Dutch labels such as Bunker is not to be underestimated; nor is there space for the UK tech-house scene that emerged from South London. I have also steadfastly avoided mentioning the Gescom/Skam/Warp influence because to me it's almost a separate genre that grew out of the period. This is of course a personal view, but I've taken care to include records and labels whose influence can really be felt in contemporary techno.
The likes of Luke Slater and Tony Child [Surgeon] cast a long shadow over the new breed of slick techno typified by labels like Sandwell District and countless other faceless 12”s emanating from Berlin's Hardwax, constructed almost precisely for playing at Berghain. People are falling over themselves in blogland to chime in about how good these new acts are. I say that they’re doing nothing new at all - and 15 years down the line, that’s simply not good enough. Go back and listen to the originals.
Here's the full list, and below are some of my favourites from it......check it;
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