Grievous Angel

I did 10 10-minute sound tracks to videos of graffitti artists, for the graf / street art collective Dirty Face. Check out (and buy!) Dirty Face’s fantastic t-shirts here. The videos had an amazing story – Dirty Face organised a 10 day festival at Sheffield’s brilliant Bank Street Arts centre, where they got top graffiti artists in and over 10 days, they would each paint a wall in a day… the same wall, mind, with their work being white-washed over the top! Dirty Face video’ed each day, and did a 10 minute time-lapsed edit for me to work to. These videos and their soundtracks unfortunately haven’t surfaced yet, so I’m putting these little mixes out there, on their own. They’;re really nice, fully-rounded despite being short, yet easily consumed because they don’t hang around long. There’s a range of genres in there and, frankly, theres some lovely moments in there.

Here’s the first one: Day 1 – Matt Sewell:

http://www.grievousangel.net/GAMixes/DirtyFace/Dirty_Face_10X10_Day_1_Matt_Sewell.mp3

Tracklisting is:

Lukid: On_and_on

Scuba: Ruby

Lorn: Cherry Moon

Hudson Mohawke: Fuse

The tunes here are nicely atmostpheric and melodic but they’ve still got a lot of welly… I’ve put layers of dub fx and filtering on top too…

Check it, you’ll like it

http://www.grievousangel.net/GAMixes/DirtyFace/Dirty_Face_10X10_Day_1_Matt_Sewell.mp3

The classic mix of reggae-influenced grime and grimey reggae from John Eden and me is back – remastered, louder, clearer and better than ever.

Click here to get the mix. 

320 MP3, weighs 175Mb.

The original John Eden blog post talking about it is here:

http://www.uncarved.org/blog/2008/04/blogariddims-40-john-eden-grievous-angel-present-grime-in-the-dancehall/

The original Grievous Angel blog post is here:

http://blog.grievousangel.net/blogariddims-40-john-eden-grievous-angel-present-grime-in-the-dancehall

The original version of this mix was released as Volume 40 in the Blogariddims podcast series – see Droid’s blog post here: http://www.weareie.com/2008/04/blogariddims-40-grime-in-dancehall.html

Tracklisting:

00:00 Introduction
00:26 Neckle Camp feat. Jammer, Rinse FM
01:02 Turbulence acapella
02:06 Turbulence – Notorious (THC Muzik 7”) 2005
02:40 Trim & Radioclit – Turbulence remix (from Soulfood vol 1) 2007
06:45 Richie Spice – Marijuana (from Spice In Your Life 2004)
08:25 Jammer – Burning (from Are You Dumb vol 2) 2007
10:45 Bob Marley and the Wailers – So Much Trouble in the World (from Survival, 1979)
14:05 Mercston – Trouble (from Da End of Da Beginning) 2006
16:31 Skepta – Blood, Sweat and Tears (from Greatest Hits) 2007
19:32 All In One – Flows (from Bless Beats – A Hard Days Graft) 2008
21:14 Frisco – Skeng Man Mode (from Peng Food) 2008
23:24 Slix – Maniac (from Down vol 1) 2006
26:12 Neckle Camp feat Jammer, Rinse FM
27:39 Baby Cham & Mister Easy – Funny Man (Mad House 7”) 1996
28:53 Lady Saw – Sycamore Tree (Mad House 7”) 1996
30:01 Frisco Kid – Rubbers (Mad House 7”) 1996
31:05 Buju Banton – How It Ago Go (Mad House 7”) 1996
32:08 Tanya Stephens – Yuh Nuh Ready Fi Dis Yet (Mad House 7”) 1996
33:37 Slew Dem – Joyride Vocal (Slewdem Productions 12”) 2005
35:13 Dutty Doogz – Pum Pum Stealer (Night Flight 12”) 2003
36:35 Harry Toddler – Good Good (Night Flight 12”) 2003
36:49 Flow Dan – Galist (Night Flight 12”) 2003
37:16 Jamaka Bi – Zoom 4 Pum (Night Flight 12”) 2003
39:15 Kano and Vybz Kartel – Buss It Up (679 7”) 2006
43:16 Neckle Camp feat. Jammer, Rinse FM
44:01 Yami Bolo – Top Shotta (Black Diamonds 7”) 2002
45:48 Junior Reid – Rise Up (Black Diamonds 7”) 2002
46:32 Half Pint – Bounce (Black Diamonds 7”) 2002
47:37 Lukie D – One In Ten (Black Diamonds 7”) 2002
49:12 Rossi B and Luka – Nobody Knows (from The Legacy EP, Heavy Artillery 12”) 2007
51:29 Ini Kamoze – World a Reggae Music (from Sly and Robbie’s Taxi Sound, Auralux LP) 1984
53:03 Rossi B and Luka – Run 4 Cover instrumental (12” white label) 2005
53:48 Rossi B and Luka feat. Nasty Crew – Run 4 Cover (12” white label) 2005
56:45 Neckle Camp feat. Jammer, Rinse FM
57:13 Breeze – Ice Rink (Wiley Kat 12”) 2003
59:16 Tinchy Stryder – Ice Rink (Wiley Kat 12”) 2003
60:36 Kano – Ice Rink (Wiley Kat 12”) 2003
63:56 Riko – Ice Rink (Wiley Kat 12”) 2003
65:58 Sizzla – Give Me A Try (from Rise to the Occasion) 2003
67:18 Jammer – Give Me a Try (from Are You Dumb vol 2) 2006
71:04 Sizzla Vs Rhianna – Give Me A Try (remix) 2007

BIG UP Droid, all Blogariddims crew, Woebot, Dan Hancox, Blackdown, all Woofah Magazine crew and all dancehall and grime selectors, producers, MCs, promoters, labels, record shop people, and dancers! WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Contact on Twitter:

@grievousangeluk

@johnedenuk

Think the link may have gone bad so here’s a re-up. 

http://www.grievousangel.net/GAMixes/Lovers_Mix_Volume_2.mp3

Tracklist

1. Audley Rollins – What’s Your Name (Matador 7″)
2. Alton Ellis & Phyllis Dillon – Remember That Sunday (Treasure Isle 7″)
3. The Silvertones – Two Time Lover (Studio One 7″)
4. Harry Hippy – Cover Me (Pioneer 7″)
5. Ronnie Davis – I Won’t Cry (Love 7″)
6. Gregory Isaacs – Sunshine For Me (African Museum 7″)
7. John Holt – If I Were A Carpenter (Striker Lee 7″)
8. Chantells – Waiting In The Park (Phase 1 7″)
9. Terry Linen – Your Love Is My Love (Raggedy Joe 7″)
10. Leroy Gibbons – To The End Of Time (House of Hits 7″)
11. Tony Curtis – Let’s Go (House of Hits 7″)
12. Bobby Kray – Silly Games (Sun Land Mix) (no label 7″)
13. Lukie D – Young Love (Special Delivery 7″)
14. Gyptian – Pretty Darling (Special Delivery 7″)
15. Oba Simba – Whistling Bird (Special Delivery 7″)
16. Tairo – La Vie Qu’Je Mene (Special Delivery 7″)
17. Ava Leigh – La La La (Virgin 7″)
18. Toni Braxton – Yesterday (Sticky’s Lovers Remix) (Atlantic 7″)

Track by track analysis over at John Eden’s blog. 

I’ve done the 10th mix in the Future Garage series.

It’s a mix of deep rolling dubby garage with loads of dubs from two of the hottest producers around – Wen and Etch. Some seriously great, forward looking tunes in here! Welcome to the new dub…

File is here.

Tracklisting is

J-One & Etch – Sounds – Unreleased 2012
Etch – Aquamarine – Unreleased 2012
Dem 2 – Holding – 2011
Wen – Medusa – Unreleased 2012
Wen – Swingin – Unreleased 2012
Sully – Your Love – Keysound Recordings LDN026 – 2011
Grievous Angel – FU – Forthcoming Devotional Dubz 2013
Wen – Takin’ Over – Unreleased 2012
Wen – Spark It – forthcoming Keysound 2013
Grievous Angel Vs Ashanti – Still On It Refix – Unreleased 2012
Etch – See Me On The Road – Unreleased 2012
Wen – Walk the Walk – Unreleased 2012
Naphta – Jungle Republic (Grievous Angel remix) – Unreleased 2012
Etch – Take Me – Unreleased 2012
Etch – Pulse – Unreleased 2012
Artek – And Then – Grievous Angel Remix – Unreleased 2012
Wen – Wind it Up – Unreleased 2012

Here’s the third volume of the 2Step Heaven series:

http://www.grievousangel.net/GAMixes/2Step_Heaven_Vol3_Grievous_Angel.mp3
This was an all-vinyl, one-take mix – it sounded good so I decided to do ESC off vinyl 
Some really nice blends on here and not many mistakes. Happy with it.
Enjoy this for now… there’s some nice mixes of new / unreleased stuff on the way…

B15 Project – Girls Like This
M-Dubs Feat Lady Saw – Bump’n'Grind
Groove Chronicles – Life is What You Make It
D’Souza: Keep It Coming – Dem2 Remix
Rusty – Something’s Gpt Me Started – Wideboys Dub Mix
Stone Kold Joints – Wicked Press
M-Dubs – Body Killin
Basement Jaxx – Red Alert – Steve Gurley remix
Groove Chronicles – Faith in You
Groove Chronicles – Black Puppet

The wonderful people at Electronic Supper Club have put up the video of me playing there last Wednesday. It’s not a bad set, tunes are great and not too many mistakes in the mixing. Check it out and look at the excellent video of Mella dee and Six Foot Sick, as well as the other DJs (especially Squarehead).

Big up the Black Dog and Shaun Bloodworth for kicking this off, CADS for hosting it and the lovely people at Dangernoise Audio for the massive sound system!

And make sure you get on the invite list – you can only come in if you’re on the list and it’s a really, really nice scene

A small dark room full of really cool people, fantastic film projections in the background, and a huge, high quality sound system. Heaven on earth. That’s what Electronic Supper Club is like.

Invite only so mail us if you need to get there and we don’t know you already.

Mista Men and SixFootSick are awesome DJs. I’ll be playing a few garage, grime and funky records and might indulge in some Ableton performance too.

New hard UK funky track out now exclusively on Boomkat.

There’ll be a bunch of tunes coming out on my Devotional Dubz label over the next few months. It’ll mostly be UKF, house, 130-ish ragga and a bit of 140. First up is ERZULIE04, Torn Apart b/w Rock Da Bass, two heavy funky tunes.

It’s the follow up to Kleer on Forefront recordings, a heavy acid 130 tune that went over OK, got some airplay from Marcus Nasty – this is an awesome clip: http://www.grievousangel.net/GAMixes/Kleer_by_Grievous_Angel_on_Marcus_Nasty_RInse_FM_28_March_2012.mp3

Read full review of Torn Apart / Rock Da Bass – GRIEVOUS ANGEL on Boomkat.com ©

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!

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

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.