Given my recent trip to Oz, I’ve developed a fear of the Drop Bear.
What with all of the locals over there warning me about them, I spent large amounts of time lying in the gutters of Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney outside bars and hostelries, looking up into the trees to try and spot the little critters before they savaged me.
Though this blog sometimes seems to fixate upon the biggest and bounciest of Ghetto breaks and hip-hop, there is a softer, gentler, more cuddly side to your humble blogger, and the new Jesse Futerman EP is definitely appealing to it.
The Bastards are baaaaaack
After the critical success of Le Discotheque Martydom and it’s associated remix album, Le Discotheque Remixicon, both certified Tin for selling half a dozen copies, the Bastard Sunz, Bristols most deliberately offensive hip hop crew had gone a little quiet. Rumour had it that their lyrical driving force, the one known as B’Tilla the Cunt had disappeared, leaving the boys in the lurch …
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First review for a while but as it’s new beats from the Keep Up! boys – Yay!
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Another day, another review, this time with Blend Mishkin‘s wubtacular Mama Proud Riddim and a whole host of MCs showcasing their talents over the top
The riddim itself is a cracker, mixing a dancehall vibe and a dubstep style foundation bothering bassline, complete with gunshots, rave horns, skittering hi-hats and claps, giving plenty of space for the vocals to come. I can see this one being a fixture in Reggae & Bashment DJ’s bags for a while
More loveliness incoming from the guys over at Cast-a-Blast in the form of the Outta Here EP from the MustBeat Crew.
Right, got a fat sack of promo sitting here to go through, so you lot are in for a treat over the next couple of days!
First up comes from those bassline noise terrorists over at Irish Moss records, with the Slowdown EP from Future Reggae crew, Flatline.
As its the festive season, there are a whole load of DJs giving away the the odd track to the masses, like the crumbs swept from their beat laden table, but Johnny Pluse has gone the whole Christmas Turkey and dropped an entire albums worth of tracks on us poor paupers.
If you’re the kind of person who doesn’t have enough twisted wobbly versions of well known tracks, Mr Pluse is ensuring festive bounty, with the 14 tracks on This Will Twist Your Head covering an eclectic set of source material from the 70’s to the present, from the well known to the wtf?
All are pretty tidy, and manage to pack in a stupendous amount a familiar samples, beats, breaks and cuts. The pick of the bunch from the album for me are the thoroughly chopped and sliced take on DJ Formats 33% B-Boy
and the spaced out version of The Fun Lovin’ Criminal by the Fun Lovin’ Criminals
Preview of the entire shebang below and a free download here
If you like bouncy beaty breaky goodness, and haven’t been living in a cave for the last week, you’ll be aware that those nice chaps at Ghetto Funk HQ have given us an early Christmas present in the form on the follow-up to their ground breaking ‘Icons’ album.
For some unknown reason, I took it upon myself to review the whole shebang -who says I’m at a loose end on holiday from work, eh?
Sadly I ran out of beer, and split this into a game of two halves – I’ve gone all Motson haven’t I …
Still, here’s part two.
(for part one covering tunes 1-10 look here, for the ‘missing’ tracks, I covered them in my first look blogpost)
After the quite staggering reponse to the last Ghetto Funk presents: Icons Remixed Vol. 2 related post I made a few days (about three months traffic to the blog in three days, and more comments and links that I’ve had in a while) I thought I’d give the people what they want and do a full review of the release, especially since a stack of videos have dropped for them as well.
This has nothing to do with the fact that I’m on holiday from work at the moment, and have little else to do with my time … honest.
Right-ho – sixteen more lovely wobbly, breaky, beaty stuffed morsels to go- I feel like Greg Wallace after a sentence like that.
(yes, I know the ‘whole damn review pt 1 is a daft name when it’s in two parts, but I don’t really care … tune in tomorrow for the other half)
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