Chase & Status‘ new single Let You Go featuring Mali, just released (August 15th). Nice one. Radio friendly and still quality stuff, all good. Let You Go is the first single from the new and yet to be titled second album by Saul Milton and Will Kennard.

Next to the original version youll be gettin some Doppelgängers on the album, namingly the Nero Remix, Brookes Brothers Remix, the Feed Me Remix and the Chase & Status VIP Remix. We got you at least three of the version. Nero‘s dubstep version kicks ass.

The video is nice too. Just that the story is lacking surprises. I dont know about the talk-show-host-sex-scandal history in the United Kingdom of Great Britain, but us here, in Germany, we had us some. I remember one at least: dude that was supposed to have forced a chick to suck his little co-host. Came out she just made all of that up, I belive. Dude’s career was destroyed anyways.

Whatever, to get back to the point: yea, the dude in the video is a hypocrite. Most self-centred sermonizers are, especially the ones on TV. So actually a good portrayel of guys like him. But: I understood that at the beginning, what about some turning points?

But then..: done see enough wanna be LA Crash-meets-Memento movies. So I guess: good idea by the guy who did the video.

Oh, and then I learned the guy in the video is a portrayel of british talk show host Jeremy Kyle. So perhaps it’s just a funny diss video only islanders understand. Do a Kraut version with our dick suck rapist then! Story had some incredible turning points!

Chase & Status – Let You Go (feat. Mali) (Nero Remix) [Download]

Chase & Status (feat. Mali) – Let You Go (Brookes Brothers Remix)

Skippng through ARTES TV program and next to the Donk coverage (see below) we found good old young n sexy Terry Lynn. Hope to here something new from the Jamaican lady in the near future. Until then enjoy the live clip, filmed in paris.

Ah yeah, the mentioned donk post from ARTE:

DONK ON ARTE – IS THERE A MORE FRIGHTENING COMBINATION?

More about Terry Lynn:

TERRY LYNN FEAT RADIOCLIT – IT WAS WRITTEN EP (FREE DOWNLOAD)

TERRY LYNN!!! KINGSTONLOGIC 2.0

Been some time since we covered Donk. Good news! Its still existing. Why we felt the Blackout Crew? Only because they started rapping on something that sounds like Happy Hardcore while Schakkerhart used to put rap on Gabber back then? Yeah. Something like looking in a mirror. An ugly funny dope as fuck english mirror. Yeah. Lets start a worldwide chav movement.

Since Donk is definitely some high class culture, Arte covered the topic. Achtung. This video is broadcasted in German. All you non-understanders just enjoy the quality music and visuals.

And check out the old posts in great british:

BLACKOUT CREW – DIALLED

BOUNCY TECHNO? TERRIBLE RAPPING? DONK?

As I mentioned, what we did back then wasnt too far from what they do if you break it down to rapping on hard techno. We got hip to Donk because The Guardian covered them as well as us:

German rhymes barked over relentless gabba techno – is there a more frightening combination in hip-hop? Probably not

Feels like home. Don’t know why they put that under “comedy” on YouTube. And I didnt know that the Netherlands are even more like Ruhrgebiet than I already knew. If you know what Im saying.

The New Kidz are famous in the netherlands for some years and now got translated to German. Check them out here or here

News from Diplos “we sign all the top cats” Überlabel Mad Decent. After signing Buraka Som Systema, J-Wow aka Joao from Buraka gives his solo debut on the label: “O Dedo”.

Video is done by The Genie and made up by scenes of a german documentary on the Wodaabe people (Herdsmen Of The Sun) from southern Sahara.

J-Wows single comes as package with a dubstep remix by SBTRKT that you can pre listen here:

O DEDO – SBTRKT REMIX

…and a Bird Peterson electro house remix:

O DEDO – BIRD PETERSON REMIX

All three versions on trackitdown

Older solo stuff by J-WOW:

We got Klang, which means “sound”, if your german is whack:

J Wow – Klang

Than we got

“Off With Their Heads”

featuring Aloe Blacc.

The b-side of that single is “Too Late” Africa Hi-Tec, recorded at Red Bull music Academy Torornto:

Africa Hi-Tec – Too Late

One guy got injured but Skerrit Bwoy had fun. Me too.

On thursday Electronic Beats Cologne took place with appearances by Moderat, Major Lazer, Kele of Bloc Party, Miike Snow, Turboweekend and Little Dragon. We saw the last three shows, Kele, Moderat and Major Lazer. All three ways of playing electronic music live known to mankind.

Bloc Partys Kele had a live band with him.  We tried to smoke cigarettes without being caught by the babyfaced security boy more than once every 15 minutes.

Than Moderat (=Modeselektor + Apparat) entered. Fucking great show. The three guys arraied like our funky neighbours Kraftwerk on stage with a perfectly done video installation behind them. The hip audience stood there nodding and posting Tweets while Moderat performed some chilled out quality music which had its highlights when some dubstep basslines kicked in. What does the hipster do when he flaps his notebook at night? He watches guys doing music on their laptops with a video installation in the back. Tweeting! Yeah. So cool to be uncool, guys. Ah yeah: I had a steak bun with mustard and ketchup.

After all that quality, Diplo took the stage. Without Swift, but escorted by to fine ass dancers and one crazy ass Skerrit Bwoy. Diplo played a funky CD, pushing buttons to it that made lazer noises. Skerrit Bwoy rocked the stage, dry fucking the dancer and throwing rubber pets in the audience. During the final, Diplo put on Major Lazer‘s latest song and Skerrit Bwoy tried to break the worl record for highest stage dive, breaking somebody hand instead. That’s 2:04 in the video. My celly got thrown to the ground by some rubber dragon that we wrestled down and took home afterwards. Helluva show. Loved it.

Ah there would be a forth way to perform electronic music live: DJing. But that doesnt count as “live” I guess. So you need yourself a band, videoinstallations and midi controllers or a bad ass hype man. No enjoy your weekend kids, class is closed.

Pics by virtualnights.com

Some more reporting from last weekend:. DJ Funkstar did a road movie on his trip to Schakkerhart System‘s performance in Bochum last weekend. Why the hell did nobody film the party heads?! Praise the lord, we got pics. And a mix to round that one up.

Pics: Schakkerhart System @ Bochum Wasted Youth

Schakkerhart System – Wasted Youth Mix

Here we go with the Soul Bossa Nova from Delft to Bochum:

It’s cold outside. Theres blood in my hallway. The worlds a rough ball to live on. Put on your bomber jackets and turn up your iphones. It’s time for a fucking war.

Okay let’s start with which songs we gonna hear while we’re rotting in the trenches.

First nomination: Bok Bok presents his „Citizens Dub“ with some vocals by Bubbz.

Bok Bok feat Bubbz – Citizen’s Dub

Shit, war aint no afterhour chill out joint with hippie couches and we damn sure aint snowball-fighting. Whats next? Wobble T., also known as Triple Wobble and stemming from Italy has a real beauty for us. A “ghetto beauty“. At the end of 2009 he made himself a name with his bassline remix to Fake Bloods “Mars“, this one starts with dubstep and steps on the gas in the second half.

Wobble T. – Ghetto Beauty



No that was something I could rot to. Number three: “Headspin” by HavocNdeeD and Skaught Parry. HavocNdeeD are a dubstep duo from Phoenix and yeah, they’re killin it.

HavocNdeeD feat Skaught Parry – Headspin



If we were just rotting, this must have been heaven. So since the sun just made her way to the top, we might as well make the balkony snow-laden Nature One surrogate. Piss a sun in the snow and stop crying. Finishing the post is Flores Remix to her own track “Feel Me“. Kuduro and Drum n Base influences with some wobble and a nice tension spanning part in the middle.

Peep the original too, comes with nice “2 hot for mtv” video. Lyrics done by Shuda K. If it’s cold outside stay in, pick a blue pill and give your girlfriend more than the usual grimey ten minutes. Aint there a time more romantic than january?

Flore – Feel Me Remix

Flore – Feel Me

Botchit & Scarper on MUZU

I’m in New York at the moment and had some other shit on my mind than blogging, sorry you had to bridge the time of my urban safari with reading our very good archive. While I was looking for some partys to go to I found the new Uffie video: Pop The Glock. Yeah, right. The song was her first single and is out since 2006. The video was released october, 3rd 2009.

Nice one, I like it. Like watching american football in a uk style pub in the middle of manhattan drinking Brooklyn Lager.

If it made it remember this one, here it is.

Talking bout Ed Banger, you might check a minimix by the newly signed DSL brothers. I damn sure will, the tracklist is funky. Lets see if they fucked it up or made it sound as good as it reads.

DSL Minimix

Gil Scot-Heron – Your Daddy loves you
The Jackson – style of life
Siriusmo – last dear
Phoenix vs DSL
M. – le roi des ombres
DSL J’m’en bats les couilles (instru)
Kassav – bel kréati
Buraka – luanda lisboa
Yo Majesty – blame it on a change
Mr Oizo – Lars Von Sen
Bullion – Get Familiar
DSL Stupid Bitches – DATA Rmx
Sefyu – Molotov

Dizzee Rascal‘s Tongue N’ Cheek will be droppin on September 21th, Holiday just started ruinin rulin airwaves. I talked to him at Splash festival to record an interview for Hiphop.de.

I know artists dont like genres nowadays because everybody is so much of an individual he surely cant be compared to anyone else doing music. And I know Dizzee doesnt like being asked about grime. But another thing I do know is it still interests me. So we talked about grime, collaborating with Armand Van Helden (he asked Dizzee so he did it..), UKs electronic music scene and whatnot.

Heard Dizzee doesnt like interviews neither what makes it kinda hard talkin to him in front of a camera, but it still worked out fine. I did like 20 interviews with a bad hang over but it was a dope weekend. So if you ready for some heavy german accent clashing cockney, here we go.