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Malice found religion and Pusha’s apparently still cooking up..

Constantly delivering freshness in hip hop, the better half of the Clipse has a new video.

Pusha T – Blow

Faze Miyake is getting big in grime now.. and no doubt you’ll see him about a lot this year.
He’s been doing stuff with some of my favourite MCs of the moment, including Family Tree’s M.I.K. (click here) and Merky ACE (check this remix)

In anticipation of his new EP, The Take Off , out on the 13th May he’s released a free-for-download mix on MTV’s The Wrap Up.

Faze Miyake – The Faze Wave Mix by Joseph ‘JP’ Patterson

Big up JP for pushing grime forward.

Yo let’s take it back to ’99 for a second with a public service announcement from the LBC…

They like it funky, they bring you… Carly Bond. Big summer time production from Get Some favourites R1 Ryders. Get this bumping, could be the summer anthem!

Carly Bond – Aint Wastin’ No Time (R1 Ryders Production) by R1 Ryders

(The old Meridian crew, with Big H and Prez T on the left)

A few months back Trim sent for Bloodline, check these two tracks out

On the one below, he imitates Bloodline members Prez T and Big H

Nothing was heard from Bloodline for months, and finally, today we get a reply from Prez T

Two grime legends against each other

One of my favourite US hip-hop producers and rappers, Young L from The Pack

Thank you Sara for giving me his awesome, sounding almost like grime, Young L-E-N mixtape a while ago.. download free here

New single from N.A.S.T.Y. Crew member Lil Nasty, “Nasty By Nature” released yesterday..

You can cop it right here..

Listen to the tune “Fall Back”, which is also on the release, here..

Download his free RockNRolla mixtape here..

And watch the video to the single below..

Sometimes you come a across a video that’s so fruitful it makes you think, “I’m glad it’s 3am, I have work tomorrow and I’ve spent the past 3 hours aimlessly stumbling from video to related video”.

This my friends is one of those videos..

Marger is getting a lot of hype.. and for good reasons I reckon. What he’s doing is a bit different and the beats are a bit fresher. Mark my words, this could be a move forward in grime.

I would definitely recommend listening to his mixtape, which he released for free right here..

The tune below is also on free release and can be found here

It’s nearly time for our party on Saturday people! Following on from Simbad’s wicked mix, we caught up with one of our other headliners, Doc Daneeka, for a few words. Read on…

Who are you and what do you do?
Hi – I’m doc Daneeka and I make beats. Most of these beats are possible to dance to.

Where are you from and where are now?
I’m from the Big SwansAY in South Wales. It’s pretty much a massive dump. Like a small Detroit by the sea.

When did you first get involved with music and what were you doing?
I used to play in loads of bands, then I started dj’ing. Then I started making beats. and somehow it ended up like this.

First record you bought? Last record you bought?
Hmmmm, first record I had when I was a kid was Simple Minds – Don’t You Forget About Me. My auntie worked for CBS at the time and gave it to me when I was a toddler … Last one was Model 500 - No UFO’s, been catching up on some of that Detroit shit (edit: listen here).

What is your most memorable moment in music?
Finishing up my set in New York recently and hearing the applause was pretty amazing. With all the jetlag I’m not sure I’d actually clocked I was playing in New York – it kinda kicked in for a second then. Big up the New York lot!

Where/Who do you get you inspiration from?
Everything. rhythm wise, the first people that made me want to do this sort of thing were Bugz and Quantic. That rhythm just flipped me out. My sound, to my ears, is almost broken beat meets jungle.

What’s next for you/your label?
I have a single Hold On dropping on Ramp in late august, and my second e.p. ‘Television dropping on PTN shortly afterwards. There will be a couple of remixes floating about too. Apart from that the label will be pretty busy up until October so keep peeled on that one…

If your career in music never was, what would you be doing now?
Something to do with food. Maybe a tea or wine buyer.

Who should we be watching in 2010?
C.R.S.T. and anything on Ten Thousand Yen.

And finally, please complete the following sentence…
GET SOME…tickets for get some and come party on the 14th!

Doc Daneeka – Hold On by DocDaneeka

Doc Daneeka – DizzeeHeights by DocDaneeka

Fatherless Doc Daneeka’s MrrSnrrzz Remix by DocDaneeka

‘This goes out to all my players in the back sippin’ yak…’

Strictly club bangers from me this weekend for which I make no apologies for.

First up. A welcome return to form for one half Outkast, Big Boi. Tune is dope. Video is sick. Check out the thick thighed thang at 1.46!

Next, wicked house and funky mix from Rinse FM’s Scratcha for Fabriclive. Bang this while you get your drink on before hittin’ the club.
Scratcha DVA – FABRICLIVE Promo Mix by fabric

And finally, pop a bottle of Ciroc and bump this out the Veyron. New Diddy, T.I. and Rick Ross. That is a fuck load of fireworks.

Oh yeah and if you don’t know by now, we are rocking the Queen of Hoxton on Sunday night with the Monorex crew. See you there.

I come bearing gifts.

Youth Blood (12th Planet & Flinch Remix) by Little Jinder

” They had their cynical code worked out. The public are swine; advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill-bucket.”

George Orwell – Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936)

Black and whites in music are irresistible. Indie and dance. Rhythm and melody. 4-4 and broken beats. Even though some of the above are arguably the same meta category (the big one, er, ‘Africa versus Europe’, ‘black versus white’ if you’d rather) they’re still useful in defining some sort of polarity that tells us who we are, what we like.

Problem is, increasingly the black and whites that I used to depend upon are deserting me in favour of a confusing agenda of preferences made up of other prejudices: memory and nostalgia, shock and awe, plain old quality. When you no longer fall into any of the camps around which popular music forms its allegiances you need to find an agenda for every circumstance. The one on my mind right now is head vs body. This one I reserve these days for nightclubs, particularly Berlin’s Berghain (a body club in every definition).

On last visit I was struck by how listless the crowd at the club’s top room house outpost, Panoramabar, seemed compared to the ruthless clarity of purpose evident on the main Berghain dancefloor. I’ve always enjoyed Panoramabar; it does housey decadence with more class and intelligence than most places. At its best it’s a place where hetros happily rub shoulders with exhibitionists, muscle Marys and the club’s obligatory weirdos. Where you can sashay around with a rum and coke at some ridiculous hour, get offered fresh fruit at the bar, exchange beatific grins with fellow late night travelers and whoop and holler your way into the next evening. All this listening to sets by Carl Craig, Andre Galluzzi, Efdemin.  Bliss.

But nonetheless, it’s always been a more blood-pumping experience for me plunging into the quadrant of Function One piled high in Berghain. Down here you don’t just sashay around elegantly wasted, you tend to jump up and down or stand mesmerised in the mist. The music isn’t appealing to your head, your waist, your ego. It’s after your body, your Id. It’s primal. It’s body music. And the body music that thunders through you from that incredible soundsystem is, of course, largely driven by pile-driver 4-4s.

Increasingly, though, the DJs entrusted with that floor – the Marcels, Ben Klock, Norman Nodge – are looking to the broken grooves of dubstep to punctuate their strain of intensely reduced techno, finding in it the scale and physicality the space demands. Scuba, who runs Berghain’s regular dubstep night, Sub.stance, is charting a perverse mirror of their journey as his production and sets become more and more pinned around the metronomic 4-4. Surely it’s no coincidence that this dancefloor is the common ground of all these experiences.

So, with the polarities slowly dissolving but dubstep and techno still just flirting with each other, trying to figure out how to reconcile their differences from Bristol to Berlin, it may be a safe bet that the answers reside in the body and not the head.

It’s been a good 6 months since I’ve been this excited by an artist. As seems to be the way these days, Rudi Zygadlo hails from Glasgow, and his futuristic, choral, poppy take on electronica/dubstep is unlike anything I’ve heard before. Since I got his album ‘Great Western Laymen’ through from the people at Planet-Mu I’ve been unable to listen to anything else. Check out the lead single from the album ’Resealable Friendship’ below, and not can you pre-order the album here, you can also stream the whole thing. Don’t miss out on this one.

Photo by Shaun Bloodworth

Is this a new video? Great little documentary by Palladium and VBS about pirate radio in London.