Here: http://www.grievousangel.net/GAMixes/Post_Punk_Mix_Grievous_Angel.mp3

the stooges: down on the street / 1969

killing joke: requiem / 1980

siouxsie and the banshees: monitor / 1981

loop: vision stain / 1988

the young gods: nous de la lune / 1987

killing joke: tension / 1981

world domination enterprises: trouble enough / 1988

the membranes: spike milligan’s tape recorder / 1986

the birthday party: loose (live) / 1982

live skull: raise the manifestation / 1986

loop: mother sky / 1988

one take vinyl mix from original pressings by grievous angel

Following the Black Dog’s devestating performance at the legendary Park Hill Flats I was inspired to do a new mix of  techno. Actually it’s been on my mind for a while because there is a big techno and acid revival brewing, partly with Jackmaster / Numbers playing techno (but with rewinds and MCs) and partly with people like Funk Butcher dropping bits of acid into funky sets. Naturally I have some acidic funky tunes ready to drop. But this set is mainly about the sheer visceral head rush of good techno, acid and hard house. I still have a lot of this stuff I want to put in a mix, especially things like Dave the Drummer’s gigantic The Speed Freak, Cosmic Trigger’s the Oracle etc.

It starts with a load of rave-destroying hard acid, drops down into more minimal techno, some tough house before spazzing out completely over Dubfire’s utterly bonkers refix of Plastikman’s Spastik. You’ll like it. It’s a 100% original vinyl mix in one take, for those of you who still care about such things.

It’s here. Worship the kick drum.

(Feel free to share the link: www.grievousangel.net/GAMixes/AcidTechnoMix-GrievousAngel.mp3)

Tracklisting:

Vinny Vincent & Harry Hash: The Siren (DJ Misjah Remix)

Mary Kiani: When I Call Your Name (Hardfloor Dub)

Fini Tribe: Squelch (DJ MIsjah Remix)

Chris Liberator:  System Test

The Drum Club: Exit 23 (Drum Club Remix)

Dave the Drummer: Coke Hakker

Harry ‘Choo Choo’ Romero Presents Inaya Day: Just Can’t Get Enough (Robbie Rivera’s Bangin’ Dub)

Shaboom: Bessie (DJ Sneak Remix)

Plastikman: Spastik 2010 (Dubfire Rework)

Alan Braxe: Vertigo (Virgo Edit)

The wonderful people at Sonic Router blog have been kind enough to host a big new mix from me, and do an interview, which is very good of them. In fact it’s an ambition fulfilled – Sonic Router is one of the absolute top blogs / sites out there and it’s a privelege to be featured.

Here’s the link for the interview and the mix: http://www.sonicrouter.com/2011/07/sr-mix-93-grievous-angel-keysound/

It’s number 93 in the series, which is of course quite amusing  as is the fact that it was posted right at the start of the Dog Daze of July.

Here’s some notes on the tracks:

Kerri Chandler & Monique Bingham: In The Morning (Lost Love Dub) [Bigga Sounds 2006]

Classy, groovy deep vocal house track, classic sound

Shackleton: Blood Rhythm (Grievous Angel Edit) (2011)

just a hint of my edit of this great track for atmosphere

Jamie Woon: Night Air [Ramadanman Remix] (Grievous Angel 130 Edit) [Candent Songs 2010]

Love this remix, and love playing it at 130 not 110 – special little edit from me. Great vocal tune obviously

Zander Hardy: Attack [Deep Teknologi Records 2010]

Taking it just a touch heavier now, so much great Deep Teknologi gear out there right now

Oddyssey: Use It Up and Wear It Out (Grievous Angel Edit) [RCA 1980]

Been meaning to work up an Odyssey refix since 2009, might send this out as a full edit some time

Unknown Soulja: Killing Kong [Unreleased 2010]

One of my absolute favourite tunes from 2010, brilliant refix by Unknown Soulja

Don Morris: Amiga [Deep Teknologi Records 2010]

Another great tough house sound from DT

Grievous Angel: Kleer [Unreleased 2011]

There’s an acid revival coming, here’s one of my contributions, big swooping acid arpeggios and harsh sawtooth stabs on a funky beat, want to put this out

DJ Gregory: Don’t Panic [Faya Combo 2009]

Quite simply one of the biggest house tunes ever made and a seminal influence on UK funky, still destroys the dance

T.Williams: Drumstrumental [Deep Teknologi Records 2010]

You know where I’m going with DT now

DiscoKaina: Click Me On (Grievous Angel Remix) [Unreleased 2011]

Cracking New York disco diva on a UK funky flex, Amy B is a fantastic vocalist, hot latin vocal action

DJ Gregory & Gregor Salto: Con Alegria (Solo ‘More Cowbell’ Remix) [Defected 2009]

Stepping up a gear now, more latin action!

Grievous Angel Vs Kalbata: Reload [Unreleased 2011]

Really heavy dread funky – brand new collaboration between me and the brilliant Kalbata who is one of my favourite producers. Wicked tune!

Grievous Angel feat. Rubi Dan: Move Down Low VIP [Soul Jazz 2010]

Probably my biggest tune. Still goes off.

Wiley: Electric Boogaloo (ROLLER EXPRESS RMX) [One Love 2010]

Amazing remix, love it so much, massive

Delphic: Halcyon. (L-Vis 1990 Remix) [Chimeric Records 2010]

LVis totally smacked it on this. Massive synths

Felix Da Housecat: Kick Drum [2009]

Weird half step house, really good, got into this when Cooly G started playing it, goes great at 140 over Loefah

Grievous Angel: Lush Vibes [Unreleased 2010]

Brand new thing from me, big synths, big melodies, proper performance, quite a few people been into this

Shackleton: Blood Rhythm (Grievous Angel Funky Remix) [Unreleased 2011]

Another version of Blood Rhythm, love this tune, can’t stop re-doing it!

So I’m pretty proud of this mix. Plenty more coming – another garage / dubstep one, a 4×4 UKG one, and an 80s rock one all waiting to go up!

I’ve done a new grime mix

I’m putting it up for solstice, this is great midsummer music.

Grime Volume 2 Mixed By Grievous Angel

It’s here:

http://www.grievousangel.net/GAMixes/GrimeVolume2GrievousAngelDJMix.mp3

It’ll be up on my increasingly active Soundcloud page as well soon. Should be going out as a podcast on iTunes too (if that’s working yet).

Tracklisting:

Wiley Kat: Frostbite. Wiley Kat Records 2003

DJ Charmzy: Roller Coaster. Black Ops 2004

Youngstar: BongCat. DDJs Productions 2004

Jammer / Neckle Camp: Drive By. Neckle Records 2006

Slew Dem / Jammer: We Ain’t Got Time. Neckle Records 2006

Wiley: Eskiboy Remix. Southside Records 2006

Unknown

Big$hot: Glitch. Southside Recordings 2003

Ruff Sqwad / Dirty Danger: RSMD Instrumental. No Hats No Hoods 2008

Dirty Danger / Ruff Sqwad: RSMD Vocal

Rossi B & Luca Feat. NASTY: Run For Cover. White 2005

Slew Dem / Spooky: Da Firing Range. Slew Dem Productions 2005

Wiley feat Jookie Mundo: I Got Lyrics. Southside Records 2006

Danny Weed: Kick Off. Dump Valve Recordings 2006

Rossi B and Luca: Nobody Knows. Heavy Artillery 2007

Slew Dem Feat Wiley, Skepta, Chronik & Esko: Bumbaclart Badman. Slew Dem Productions 2007

Starfox: Jumanji. Slimzos Recordings 2004

Slew Dem feat Angry , Chronik, Murkleman, Sickman , Skepta: Relay. Slew Dem Productions 2007

It’s a 46 minute, 105Mb 320.

Enjoy

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Smiley Culture onstage at Reggae Sunsplash in 1985.

I don’t know how someone can stab themselves in the heart…

Here’s our tribute to him… back up.

Grievous Angel Presents Jungle Pressure

74 minutes of ruffneck ragga jungle with a few bits of techstep and jump-up added in. 100% vinyl.

Here: http://goo.gl/3twqs

Shabba Ranks: Lets Get It On (Beef Jpint) (Dillinja / Goldie remix)
Beenie Man: Gimme De Gal (DJ SS remix)
DBO General / Mickey Finn / Aphrodite: Some Justice 95 (Arsonist)
Krome & Time: Ganja Man
Shabba Ranks: Wicked Inna Bed (DJ SS remix)
Prisoners of Technology: Deadly Technique
MA2: Hearing is Believing
Prisoners of Technology: Ghetto Shit
Digital: Deadline
Congo Natty: Jah
Congo Natty: Jah Set It
Congo Natty: Fever 98
Digital: Fix Up ???
Digital: Sounds of Freedom
Congo Natty: Radical
Aphrodite: President
Congo Natty: Your Love
Digital Feat. YT: Hard Ears (Dem Can’t Hear Must Feel)

Recored live on 2 decks and a mixer Saturday 27th February 2011 at Grievous Angel Sound, Sheffield.

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I love grime but I haven’t done that many grime mixes. I suppose the biggest one so far is the Grime in the Dancehall mix I did with John Eden for blogariddims. That was back in 2008 and not long after, I did this mix… and then never sent it to anyone other than John. I always thought it was alright but could’ve been just a bit better. Anyway, I’ve gone back to it and it sounds fine TBH so I’m happy to put it up, especially since I’ve got a few more grime mixes I want to get into. I mean, I still haven’t put up a mix with my favourite grime instrumental – in fact my favourite electronic record of all time – Big$hot’s Glitch. Trust me, that tune destroys the dance every time.

So this is a mix of mostly mid- to late-period grime, some instrumentals and some vocal cuts, with an emphasis on banging percussive FOWARD-ness. It’s only half an hour and I can’t remember what all the tunes are but they’re all good. I think you’ll like it.

It’s here: http://www.grievousangel.net/GAMixes/GrimeMix_GrievousAngel.mp3

Tracklisting:

Starfox: Jumanji / 2004

Slew Dem inst’l / 2007

Skepta, Wiley & Esco: Bumbaclart Badman / 2007

JME: Raptor / 2007

Crazy Titch: I’m Like You’re Like / ?

Tinchy Stryder – ft Chipmunk: Sorry U Are / 2008

Stage Show Riddim / 2008

Wiley: Fly Boy / 2008

Mark One: Amazon / 2002

???

Wiley: Carnival / ?

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I wanted to do a mix of rough as fuck MC-driven garage… the stuff that flowed from UK fast chat and US hiphop and eventually filtered into grime in 2002. And here it is – a new year’s present for you.

It is here. www.grievousangel.net/GAMixes/MC_Garage.mp3

Tracklisting:

Digital Dubz: Sound of Da Police Refix 1999

Busta Rhymes: Dangerous (Garage refix) 1999

Corrupted Cru feat. MC Neat: G.A.R.A.G.E. 1998

The Corrupted Crew: How Much Gal? 2000

DJ Luck and MC Neat: A Little Bit of Luck (DJ Luck and Shy Cookie Remix) 1999

Tasty Jay and Nicky Nai Feat MC Jenksy: Rinse Out 2000

Teebone, Sparks & Ki: Fly Bi 1999

Jameson: This One (Club Mix) 2000

DJ Chubbstarr & A Fernandes Feat MC Preshus: RInse Out 1999

Headtop: The Don Donna 1999

Uncouth Youth & MC Dee: Steppin’ Up 2000

Headtop: The Don Donna – Dub Mix 1999

Recorded 23/10/2010. All vinyl, two takes. 107Mb 320.

Next up is a grime mix… a really banging percussive one.

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Martin Blackdown Clark was kind enough to let me remix Margins Music, his first album with Dusk, and to promo the release I did two mixes for his blog. This is the first one, re-mastered, tidied up a bit, and now available straight off this site rather than via a fileshare service. It’s a selection of hiphop, r’n'b, wigged out future garage, grime and dubstep, all in dub or refixed, and quite a bit louder and punchier than first time round.

Big up Martin and thanks to Shaun Bloodworth for letting me use this amazing photo of the light at FWD / Plastic People for both this mix and for the label of my Soundclash1 release on Keysound.

It’s here: http://www.grievousangel.net/GAMixes/GAMix4BlackdownVol1-REDUX.mp3

Please re-post / re-tweet etc.

Tracklisting:

0:00 Intro
0:09 MF Grimm / DJ Premier – International Rules
2:04 The Streets – Lets push things forward (Roll Deep Remix)
4:50 DJ Premier / Gangstarr: Mass Appeal (instrumental)
5:05 Blackdown: Beta
7:50 Joe: Rut
13:30 Untold & D Franklin: Beacon
14:30 Prince: Soft and Wet (screwed and chopped)
16:09 Pearson Sound: Gambetta
18:08 D’Angelo: One Mo Gin
22:21 Shortstuff: A Rustling
25:33 Prince: Black Sweat (Grievous Angel Refix)
27:45 Musical Mob: Pulse X
27:45 Blackdown: Defocused
28:56 Big$hot: Glitch
30:57 Ends

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Something to warm you up in this cold dark time:

An hour of sweet, heavy lovers rock.

Plus vast quantities of tape echo and distortion.

It’s here: http://www.grievousangel.net/GAMixes/LoversMix_Vol1.mp3

Enjoy.

Fabulous selection from John as usual. I just did FX, edits and mastering. Amazing introduction to Lovers Rock, if you haven’t experienced really good lovers, this is the mix you need, reckon this might change a few minds!

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This is a 4×4 garage mix I did in the summer and put up on Twitter but not here yet… people seem to like it, full of great twisted jacking deep 4×4 garage tunes. Worth the download just to hear the first one from Madie Myles, absolute ecstasy…

Tracklisting:

Recorded Summer Solstice 2010

☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆

Madie Myles: I’ve Been Waiting (Dem2 Remix) (Azuli 1998)

El B: Be Happy (4×4 dub mix)

Roll – Let It Roll (4×4 remix) (white 1999)

Mr. Vegas – Western End (B15 Project remix) Oracabessa Records 1998

Qualifide: Ruff and Tuff (MJ Cole’s Cherry Vodka Mix) (Qualifide Recordings 2008)

Robbie Craig: Searching (Krush Groove Mix) (Public Demand)

Dunno

Lavonz Vs Deneshae: Personality (2001 Lavonz Dub) (Locked On 2001)

Dunno

Madie Myles: I’ve Been Waiting (Tuff Jam Remix) (Azuli 1998)

Wide Boys: Get on Up (Garage Jams 2002)

Dunno

Wideboys: Move It Down (4×4 mix) (Garage Jams 2002)

Sevi G / Groove Chronicles: In the Air Tonight (4×4 Mix) (White 1998)

El Tuff: Drive Me Crazy (Qualifide Recordings 2003)

Dixie Peach: Gwann (Mr. Bumpy Dub Mix) (Jah Tubby’s Studio 2002)

WideBoys: She’s the One (4×4 mix) (Garage Jams 2001)

Dem 2: Destiny (New Horizons Remix) (Locked On 1998)

☺☻☺☻

67 minute 320. All vinyl, one take.

Here: http://www.grievousangel.net/GAMixes/4x4HeavenVolume2.mp3

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Following my big interview at the Fundamental Garage blog I’ve done a mix of Future Garage for them.

It’s here – check it out, there’s a load there

I had a blast doing this mix. Quite a few dubs, including a bunch of new things from me, and a few favourites. It’s good fun, deep as you like and people seem to like it. Check out the Kuma remix at the end, it’s got a corking vocal from Juakali on it!

Here’s the track listing.

Grievous Angel: Lady Dub (2step mix) (Devotional Dubz Volume 1). 2008
Grievous Angel Vs. Missy Elliott: Work It. Unreleased. 2008
Sully: Jackmans Rec (FRIJSFO BEATS FRJ005) 2009
Wascal: Know U. Unreleased? 2009
Kowton: Stasis (Keysound Recordings LDN013) 2009
Grievous Angel Vs Method Man: So High. Unreleased. 2004
Hackman: More Than Ever (Jamie Grind Remix). Unreleased. 2010
Jamie Grind: Bad Attitude (And You Know It). Unreleased. 2010
ID & Skinnz: Issues. (EARWAX EAR011). 2009
Crazy Bald Heads: First born (Four Tet remix). Unreleased. 1999
Burial: Pirates (Burial CD). 2006
Mista Men: Lengthy Riddim (Hackman remix). Bass Tourist 009. 2010
23hz & Numaestro_-_zumo_(Sully_rmx). Unreleased. 2008
Geeneus ft. Riko, Wiley and Breeze: Knife and Gun (Blackdown and Dusk Garage Remix) (Keysound Recordings dubplate). 2008
Hackman: WDYGOAPHAGFY. Unreleased. 2010
Gremino: Face It (Ruff Revival dubplate) 2009
Naphta: Jungle Republic (Grievous Angel Remix) (Ruff Revival dubplate) 2010
Kuma ft Juakali: What It’s Not (Grievous Angel remix). Unreleased. 2010
Grievous Angel Vs. Jill Scott: Deeper, Wider Dub

Didn’t know he’d even checked it out! Cool.

Here.

Here’s the info:

“Greetings good people.

Please consider Dub-Love, the latest TT mix, for immediate posting. This special blend of soulful dubstep was made as a guest mix for UBLF’sThe Chilldown Period. Similar to TT, TCP is an great podcast/blog with an affinity for downtempo and dubstep sounds.

Permalink: http://www.turntablethoughts.com/2010/05/27/dub-love-tt-x-the-chilldown-period-05-2010/

Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/turntablethoughts/dub-love-turntable-thoughts-x-the-chilldown-period

Mixcloud: http://www.mixcloud.com/turntablethoughts/dub-love-tt-x-the-chilldown-period/

Download: http://bit.ly/bpG8Z1

01. Me’shell Ndégeocello – Love Song #1 (TT edit)
02. Bob Marley – Is This Love? (Logik Dubstep Remix)
03. Pusuit Grooves – Whisper
04. Quest – Eden
05. Dezaray Dawn – Chameleon (TT edit) 
06. Pinch ft. Yolanda – Get Up (L.V. Disco Mix)
07. Mite & Distal – Chocolate Circuit
08. Pinch – Gangstaz w/
09. Jill Scott – Crown Royal (TT edit) 
10. Kryptic Minds – Stepping Stone
11. Liquid Stranger ft. Deeyah – Hexed and Perplexed w/
12. Erykah Badu – Honey (Seji Mix)”

Yeah he bigged me up in the email but this is a nice mix, check it.

Shaun Bloodworth is a well known and excellent photographer who is best known in music circles for his portrait work for Rinse. Those amazing pictures of people like Geeneus, Chef, Skream etc? They’re by Shaun. He did the Margins Music album cover too. So he’s a badman basically. Plus, for this year’s Sonar, Mary Anne Hobbs commissioned Shaun to make a film to act as a backdrop for the artists performing on her stage. This took things to another level, with Shaun using the video function on his stills camera to shoot video of raves in Sheffield, as well as filming video portraits of particular ravers.

The film turned out great.

And then he wanted to have it out there with a soundtrack – and got a slot to premiere it, at prestigious Sheffield art cinema the Showroom. He had someone else lined up to do the soundtrack, but they couldn’t do it, so a week last Wednesday Shaun asked if I could do it.

By midnight that night, I’d delivered. And Wednesday this week, we went to the premiere!

That was an amazing night, with Mark from Wall of Sound and 6Music doing a speech on how amazing Sheffield is for inspirational music, and various art figures and Council big wigs in attendence. Best of all, Martin Ware from the Human League and Heaven 17 was there talking about the great new film about Heaven 17 that also premiered. It was cool!

And now, Shaun’s film is online. Titled Minds Locked Together, it’s a portrait of Sheffield clubbing, putting the crowd to the forefront. There are various DJs and MCs in the film, most importantly and amusingly the mighty Rodigan, but it’s really all about the people. It’s scenius in action.

My sound track starts off with jungle, including the title track, before sliding down into house, funky and sort-of-dubstep. It went off on the big system in the Showroom and I’m really pleased with the way the whole thing comes together.

You can see it here.

Please blog this, write about it etc, it’s really worth supporting!

Post on Brainfeeder here.

Post on the Bleep blog here.

Fundamental: | Future Sound Directory

New sit dedicated to garage and future garage. good shit. Doing some stuff for them.

Kalbata owns dubstep right now. But he’s also a fantastic reggae DJ. Check out this truly wonderful mix. Eden – this one’s for you!

RBMA Radio – Kalbata Soul Jazz, Tel Aviv – Train Wreck Mix – Crucial We Crucial

Harry Belafonte – Love, Love Alone
Shinehead – Mama Used To Say
Little John – Brandy
Little John And Billy Boyo – Houseman Connection
Jah Thomas And Barrington Levy – Tribute To Moa Anebassa
Nigger Kojak And Liza – Black Skin, Blue Eye Girl
Captain Sinbad – Sinbad And The Eye Of The Tiger
Determination Band – Gal Dem Papa
O’niel Clarke – Kinfecut
Private Constable – Poor People Priority
General Doggie & Tenor Saw – Chill Out
Eccleton Jarett – Turn On The Heat
Horace Martin – Sting Me A Sting
Courtney Melody – Ninja Me Ninja
Little John – Man Tonic
Frankie Paul – Cassandra
Ninjaman – Murder Dem
Papa San – Big Me Bad
Beenie Man – Too Fancy
Billy Boyo -Billy Boyo In The Area
Yellowman – Lost Me Love
Conroy Smith – Dancehall Posse
Everton Chambers – Hold Yu Corner
Nitty Gritty – Run The World
Risto Benji – Don’t Pirate It
Nicodemus – The Plane Land
Papa Santress – Dance Inna Mount Zion
Early B – Imitator
Shorty Perry – Food Control
Little Twitch – Homoni Corn
Teddy Irie – We Rule The Border
Trinity – Jesus Dread

New mix of classic 2step is now out! Been waiting for the warm weather to come back. It’s hot today so it’s now OUT. Music to play in your car.

It’s here.

All vinyl, one edit. More mixes here.

Groove Chronicles: Life is what you make it (DPR 1998)
El B Feat Reis and Dee: Keep the Love (Scorpion Records)
MJ Cole: Bandalero Desperado (El-B VIP mix) (Talkin Loud 2000)
Sevi G / El B: Beautiful Music (Dub Mix) (Vinylocity 2000)
Ghost: The Club (Ghost 2000)
Ghost: Lyrical Tempo (Ghost 2001)
El B: Serious (Locked On 2001)
Ruff Cut Bias: Down (Locked On 2000)
Groove Chronicles: Faith In You (DPR 1998)
Sonrisa: Grooving Me (Splash It Like Champagne Mix) (Public Demand 2000)
Sevi G / Groove Chronicles: In the Air Tonight (2 Step Mix) (White)
Shade Sheist Feat Nate Dogg: Where I Wanna Be (Dub-A-Holics R&B Switch Mix – Explicit Version) (Public Demand 2001)
De La Soul: Ain’t All Good: MJ Cole Remix (Tommy Boy Music 2000)
Victor Romeo: Love Will Find A Way (Ray Hurley & Mark Yardley Dub Mix) Public Demand 1998
Ramsey and Fen: Love Bug (Bug Records 1998)
The Bomb Squad: Bad Acid (Big Kid Productions 2000)
Kevin Real Deal: Breaking Rocks (White 1998)
The Bomb Squad: No Dub (Big Kid Productions 2000)
Monie Love: Slice of Da Pie (El B Remix) 1999
Groove Chronicles: Be Happy (White, 1999)
Angie Lee: What’s Your Name? (MJ Cole Master Mix) (WEA 1999)
Roll: Let it Roll (White, 1999)

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I am playing in Manchester on Friday 11th at Band on the Wall.

The line up is AMAZING!

Dusk and Blackdown playing Margin’s Music live – I remixed the album, got them into Ableton, now they’re playing it out! But with a massive twist – they’ve got a whole live band too, including Farah. AAAAAAAANNDD… their show is featuring Durrty Goodz!!!! Being on the same line up as Durrty Goodz is an ambition fulfilled

But that’s not all… there’s United Vibes (LHF Vibzin), Scratcha DVA, AND Starkey, who is absolutely fantastic live! I’m so glad to be playing with him again. He’s electrifying!

Dunno when I’m on – probably fairly low down the bill given how big the names are – but it’s going to be a massive night!

£10 to get in. 9.30 kick off. Tickets on sale now from here.

Move Down Low VIP - out on Soul Jazz

Yup. I got a release on Soul Jazz records. I am soooo excited! Taken almost a year to come out but I am so pleased.

It’s out on Monday but its in the Soul Jazz web shop now.

It’s a new funky remix of Move Down Low. The main draw is the VIP – which is, though I say so myself, absolutely massive. Goes off every time in the dance. Best thing I’ve ever done. All massive drums, big drops, snatch of Rubi Dan’s vocal – latin funky apocalypse. Like the Ice Rink b-side mix but bigger and ruder. Sinden’s been caning it for months.

The A-side is the original funky mix – not the one that came out last year on my Devotional Dubz imprint, the one I did for Kode 9. As has passed into legend, I made the tune, sent it to Kode that night, he cut it the next day and played it at the first of Rinse’s Beyond funky sessions. He’s been playing it ever since and it’s on the new DJ Kicks mix CD he’s done. So it’s a result all round.

Will be in all the usual stores any day now.

Listen to the A-side here.

ROUGH DISKO w/ SUBEENA Planet Mu / GRIEVOUS ANGEL @Harley-Fri 2nd Apr-£3 – – Sheffield Forum
ROUGH DISKO presentSUBEENA Planet Mu / Sub FM / OpitwithGRIEVOUS ANGEL Keysound / Devotional Dubz / Idle HandsandRD residentsFRIDAY 2ND APRILTHE HARLEY10PM-3AMTAX: £3 FREE B4 11!

I’ve got a page on Bandcamp for free downloads.

I’ve got a load of tunes now, too many for any future album. I’m going to give away some of the better ones.

There might be some paid-for ones in the future. I also want to start hosting dubz in there too when I work it out.

I’m at http://grievousangel.bandcamp.com

I’ve got two tracks up so far. Darkness is that folk / garage tune that Mary Anne played and which was up on my site for a while. It’s good, I’d do a better mixdown now though. There’s a load more folk tunes I want to do. There’s an Eliza Carthy sample that’s been going through my head for months, for example.

Erzulie is this wonky thing that’s the companion piece to Harpy (on the flip of Soundclash).

There’ll probably be some funky up there soon.

The legendary Steve Barker wrotes with news of a special show from on the wire:

“On the Wire will broadcast the second art of “Rudies On the Wire” on Saturday 20th February 2010, 10 through till 12 midnight on BBC Radio Lancashire (103.9FM, 95.5FM, 104.5FM – not on DAB or MW) the show will also be found on the net at www.onthewire.uk.com. The first part “Rudies On the Wire” is archived at January 2010 on the show’s website www.otwradio.blogspot.com. As usual selections are from OTW co-conspirator Harry “Mr. Classics” Hawkes.

Previous vintage shows originally broadcast in the early nineties can now be found at:
www.otwradio.blogspot.com/2006/07/on-wire-dub-specials.html
These include:

Ø Spear On The Wire – including archive interview with Mr. Winston Rodney aka Burning Spear following his gig at Cleopatra’s in Huddersfield in 1980
Ø Rockers On The Wire Broadcast On Radio Lancashire 24/6/90 2-5pm – an Augustus Pablo tribute
Ø Scorcher On The Wire – Broadcast On BBC Radio Lancashire 16/7/89 2-5pm broadcast in tribute to Mr. Clement “Coxsone” Dodd
Ø Yabby You On the Wire Broadcast 26/8/90 – in tribute to Vivian Jackson
Ø Scratch On the Wire mc’d by Mr. Lee Perry himself
Ø Dentist On The Wire (aka Keith Hudson)
Ø Moods On the Wire – A tribute to the work of Mr. Harry Mudie

The site’s search facility will locate other specials from Wailing Souls, Andy Capp, Derrick Harriott, I Roy vs. Jazzbo, Jimmy Radway (Fe me Time) and recently a two partner on Bob Andy’s Songbook featuring album, single and dub/instrumental versions of the classic tunes from arguably reggae’s greatest song/vocal album. The original “Dubs On the Wire” shows from the late eighties are still to be archived on to the site.

Forthcoming for 2010 and onwards is a Randy’s special with Clive Chin (from Beijing), an overdue retrospective on Desmond Dekker, a three part King Tubby’s Special including guest selectors and a riddim-riot from Rhythm-Master Glen Brown.”

Blackdown
“O: All the values I enjoyed in early garage, especially the bpm, the shuffle, the beat base – it’s all coming back again with this new stuff. The whole 'new Wot Do U Call It dark house, Martin Kemp, Doc Daneeka thing” is that I think it fills a gap in where house is meeting dubstep at the moment and I think its really important and relevant to both scenes, because its like what I hear in those records is what definitely what I heard in dubstep in 2004/05 – just a sense of space and atmosphere, not so much about the melody but just bass beats and weird odd sounds.”

Amply demonstrated at Doc Daneeka’s fantastic set at the Harley last night. The pure rhythm, garage-tempo bass and drum, massive subs and crisp beats, that’s what’s working right now.

Though interestingly the biggest reaction of the night was for speed garage, really made the whole venue jump. Bodes well for my remix of Gremino’s Bee and Cee which pretty much merked it on Blackdown and Dusk’s Rinse show in January.

I missed Ben UFO last night though, just too knackered to make it. Would have been good to see what the best DJ in the country is drawing for at the moment to triangulate with Doc Daneeka and OneMan.

Thanks to Joe Gamp…
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Many thanks to Martin Dust of the Black Dog for spotting this!

Yes. I’m playing Exodus / DMZ next month.

Warming up for El B and the magnificent Heatwave.

Most of my dubstep heroes in room 1. Kode, Mala, Loe, Scuba, Silkie…

Absolutely fucking mental. I cannot believe it.

They want 80s dancehall and “your own productions”. So there’ll be some new funky stuff, maybe the Shabba / Wicked Inna Bed remix that’s I’ve been working. Dying to play some Congo Natty too – probably Your Love, since it’s the greatest record ever made.

This is so fantastic…

Clean living in difficult circumstances: Haiti
None of these facts really point towards a supernatural cause belying the natural disasters that Haiti and New Orleans have endured. I’m a strong believer that “The Devil” only really exists as a personification of the horrors that human beings perpetrate upon one another and upon the planet. Such as slavery, for instance. Or being so abjectly terrified of a free black territory that has violently thrown off the yoke of slave owners, that you conspire to undermine its economy and stability in such a way that the repercussions are still being felt centuries later.
Gypsy Lantern on the demonisation of vodoun within the coverage of the Haiti earthquake disaster.

Hollow Earth
“though a longtime Mac-user (since Mac OS 8)”
Ah, a new boy! I helped run the introduction of OS7 when I was working in the Mac business. I go back to system 4 and a bit of system 3, but I used System 6 (and for a while, 5) professionally – including when I was a Mac journalist.

All of which shows nothing more than that I’ve got a few more grey hairs than the eternally youthful Mr Ingram

Elijah and Skilliam of Butterz have done a wicked new grime mix! You’ll love it. Lots of purple influence on there, not just Joker and Starkey tunes but some fab new stuff on their own label and Terror Danjah’s fantastic Acid, forthcoming on Hyperdub. You will love this. No wonder Blackdown’s been making grime recently.

It’s here.

Butterz clearly a label to watch in 2010.

Here’s the tracklisting – read it and weep!

Swindle – Open Your Mind (Butterz)
Royal T – Hot Ones Remix (Unreleased)
Terror Danjah – Acid (Hyperdub)
Swindle – ‘Trending Topic’ (Butterz)
DVA feat P Money – Wind It Up (No Right Turn)
Rude Kid – Absolut Vodka (No Hats No Hoods)
DOK & Terror Danjah – Hysteria (Butterz)
Swindle – Air Miles (Planet Mu)
Silencer – Miss Asia (Wow Bass Level 3)
Joker – Output One Two (Tectonic)
Rude Kid & Terror Danjah – The Best Crawler (No Hats No Hoods)
Tempa T – Boy Off The Ting (No Hats No Hoods)
Terror Danjah – Bipolar (Butterz)
OGZ – Hot Ones (Deeco Remix)
Maniac – Lengman Tune (Unreleased)
Terror Danjah – Sidechain (Swindle Remix) (Planet Mu)
SRC – Powerman 9 (Unreleased)
DOK – Keep Making Grime (Unreleased)
Rude Kid – Electric (Earth 616)
J Beatz – Life & Death (SCUK)
Terror Danjah – Air Bubble (Butterz)
Starkey – Ok Love (Planet Mu)
????? – ?????? (Teaser)

Also soon come is the first release on their own label – and they’ve only scored terror danjah’s fantastic bipolar.

Butterz001 – Terror Danjah – Bipolar EP from Butterz on Vimeo.

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2009 has been the most exciting year since 2005, loads of great stuff coming out and the clubs have been FIRING, people have really gone for it. Every time I’ve played out the vibe has been fantastic, less so in London obviously but everywhere else has been cracking. People have wanted it. Bad.

I’ve loved the way that funky has turned so much around. Both in itself – Cooly G’s Love Dub is my tune of the year, alongside her Dis Boy – but also in its ripples and echoes. Dubstep heads took the hint and created a spectrum of new sounds from Ramadanman / Pearson Sound, Brackles, Untold and many more. The best of the old garage heads saw funky for what it was – an attempt to deal with the unfinished business of UK Garage, and Zed Bias and MJ Cole made some fantastic tracks as a result. Mind you, most of them aren’t out yet.

Dubstep itself was all about the dark rollage of people Kryptic Minds and SP:MC, the psychedelic grime of Joker, and the percussive deepness of Peverelist, Ramadanman and Untold. I’ve done quite a good mix of this stuff for Inverted Audio: http://www.inverted-audio.co.uk/$blog/2009/12/29/_i_a__mix_07_grievous_angel?_c=1

Musically it’s been a big year for me. There’s nothing like seeing a big room go off to your tunes and I’ve seen my funky and garage gear light up crowds – it’s an enormous privilege, I’ll treasure those memories forever. Kode in particular has been caning Move Down Low for months. Loads of DJs have been playing my stuff… Skream, Blackdown, Atki2, Tim Dub Boy, MJ Cole, Jamie Vex’d, Paul Hotflush, Mary Anne Hobbs… I’ve put out three singles (Loser, Soundclash, my funky refix of the grime classic Ice Rink ) that have done well. There are some more to come in 2010. I’ve done a DJ mix for Radio 1 and had loads of play on the pirates. I’ve done guest mixes for loads of websites. I’ve just put another album out, my remix / DJ mix / dub album of the entirety of Blackdown and Dusk’s Margins Music. It’s been one hell of a ride. And I moved into the house I built.

It’s been a great year!