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

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

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.

Best thing about the dance stuff i it is that it aint as overdone as you may think. Thats just some funky daggering. If Major Lazer put some fast cheap bass under it it wont be long till Scooter daggers on the bandwagon. I read Jamaica even banned the dance because dudes broke their dingelings doing it (Spate of broken penises caused by dance style ‘daggering’). Tried it at some Großraumdisko. Makes you the star of the night. Believe it.

You can grab the mix here, it’s definitely worth your bandwidth: NEW BURAKA SOM SISTEMA! BLOOD DIAMOND MIXTAPE & LIL’JOHN FEAT ALOE BLACC – OFF WITH YA HEAD

Drugs may make you feel like god, but youre still fucking with the devil.

Quite impressing, huh? We hired Samuel L. Jackson to act as the dope slanging devil in our small brain cracking radio play. He’ll sell you some happiness and kill you or your wickedness. You only got but one life. You gotta live it the way you want…

Wie Gott (Download)

(production work by The Slippas)

Making Of

The video to Rye Ryes Bang is out, directed by M.I.A. hersizzelf. The beat is still a Blaqstarr work.

i stopped feeling the song for the moment but i still hope rye ryes first video brings her to where she belongs. Love bmore being anm authentic scene. The dancing and stuff rocks.

Major Lazer - Guns Don’t Kill People… Lazers Do pre listening

Why do people love it? Guess half of it is the “praising this makes me look like an expert” thing. Second thing is that the album has helluva concept by giving dancehall a facelift. Plus: the album works. Switch and Diplo use baby cries as an instrument, surf guitars (whatever this is I just copied that from somebody), use effects on the toasting and stuff. They worked with dope artists, blabla. Everything on point.

The concept aint new though. Its what you do in this online mash up scene. Its what Buraka Som Sistema did with Kuduro, taking a genre and tuning it with all the sounds and genres that are hot right now. Like Radioclit did with Funana in the mix I just posted (Radioclit Funanan Mix).

I just read an interview for a german mag where Diplo stated wursting dancehall wouldnt be cool at the moment what makes his work revolutonary. Hm. I come across stuff like that daily man. Might be Diplo started the trend (??) but Ghislain Poirier is doing it, Modeselektor, Terry Lynn and Phred do it. Dubstep and Grime have this influence like every second new british genre. So it aint that revolutionary and its definitely cool at the moment.

That aside, the album aint disappointing. Dont know if it’ll make my personal album of the year, but yeah. I dont really find stuff on it that tops Hold The Line, but Anything Goes is fire, Pon de Floor is porn, When You hear the bassline, Jump Up, Bruk Out,… 90% dopeness.  Only Keep It Goin Louder sucks big time due to being a commercial chart fighter with autotune under the wings. I defffnitly like hands in the air techno crap, but they fucked it up. Businesswise it makes good sense of course.

Pill – Trap Goin Ham

“The final scene was supposed to go down in front of the Auburn Food Mart. When we got there a certain gentleman imposed himself onto the scene. Saying “ya’ll need to put pimpin in this video.” When the cameras entertained his shit talking he immediately switched gears demanding money for his time. Of course no one payed attention. Feeling disrespected “pimpin” went digging in the trash can and found a florescent light blub and came back swinging it like he was a Darth Vader.”

The Streets – The Twitter (download removed!!)

1. The Streets – Intro
   
2. The Streets – Long Working Day
   
3. The Streets – Trust Me
   
4. The Streets – He’s Behind You, He’s Got Swine Flu
   
5. The Streets – Skills On Toast
   
6. The Streets – David Hassles
   
7. The Streets – Lovelight Of My Life
   
8. The Streets – A blip On A Screen
   
9. The Streets – I Love my iPhone
   
10. The Streets – Outside Inside
    
11. The Streets – Where my heart Has Been
    
12. The Streets – See if They Salute

Mike Skinner is spending more times on Twitter than on the streets today. Okay, he got an iPhone so may be he combines the two. The outcome of months of heavy twittering is Mike Skinner giving out his newest work for free, right there on Twitter. Nope, that might not be the breaktrough concept for your up&comming emotional skinhead electro ska band, but yes, it once again shows that Mr. /skinnermike is a man of his time. Choosing swine flu as the topic for his “single” might be a sign of that, too.

Mike even stepped his Twitter game up by putting together new musical projects over there. Chantelle Fiddy says on her blog that she does some mysterious projects with Mike Skinner via Twitter. One outcome will be a song with Giggs (read Chantelle Fiddy’s World of Whatever).

So lets get to the tracks on The Twitter. Dont know if they will be on the upcoming last The Streets album Computers and Blues, sice I dont follow as much as he tweets. Mike Skinner told me last year when I interviewed him for Raveline magazine, that hes planning to go in that mash up direction a bit more that keeps clubs and blogs crazy at the moment. Dubstep, Electro, stuff like that.. We were at one that current mash ups by famous(!) artists is most of the time too commercial and without substace, but hey, Mike Skinner might be the right guy to change that.

Some of his new tracks show how he’s really takin that direction, still overall its the Skinner you love to hate. Some melancholic tunes („A Blip On A Screen“ or „Lovelight of my Life“), some faster tracks where he captures the irony of it all („David Hassles“). „I Love My iPhone“ has a dubstep side to it, „Skills On Toast“ features a bumping bass and would have its place on a grime album.

The mixture of fast and slow, melancholic tracks is nice and one thing that might really be like on The Streets’ first album, as promised. Banjos and guitars are nice elements too („Outside, Inside“ and „See if they Salute“), Mike Skinner is playing around in the studio and lets you be a part of it. The tracks are anything but pointless trials though.

You’ll find everythink Mike Skinner tweets on http://twitter.com/skinnermike. I’ll keep you updated with the tracks.

Okay this is the part where I need you contribution. What you say about Mike’s work?