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NovemberNov 1 Saturday 08
A great day in Brixton
If you read this blog regularly or have follow dubstep for a bit, you'll know what happened early in 2006: dubstep, to the complete surprise of most of its core members, blew up.
Around that time Chantelle and Hattie were asked to do a special edition set of features …
OctoberOct 28 Tuesday 08
Rinse October
RINSE
Dusk and I were back on Rinse rolling the grimey, wonky and skippy last Thursday 11-1am.
Download the show here until the Rinse podcast arrives.
Dusk + Blackdown Rinse FM Oct 08 tracklist:
Maddslinky ft Juiceman and Simba "Doing My Thing" (Laws of Motion)
Nude …
OctoberOct 24 Friday 08
Goodz: putting the heat into Heatwave
So I'm at home last Friday after a long hard week, relaxing after some food and everything's nice. Except there's this nagging feeling in the back of my mind.
GoodzGoodzGoodzGoodzGoodzGoodzGoodzGoodzGoodz...
Ohshityeah, it's Durrty Goodz at Heatwave! R U Dumble? So I jump …
OctoberOct 21 Tuesday 08
Bristol bound
Two years after flu prevented it, Dusk and I are finally making our Bristol debut. We're well up for this, given how much incredible music is coming out of that city right now. Damn, two of the two of the guys we're most excited right now, Joker and Gemmy, are on the …
OctoberOct 15 Wednesday 08
Devotional Dubz
It's an incredible blend of soul samples and early dubstep classics, r&b vocals and 2step garage rollers. An early version …
OctoberOct 13 Monday 08
Where is grime?
The other week I rolled through the free Adidas/RWD Mag/Kano gig at the O2's Indigo.
A few years ago I saw this talk by this hairy hilariously named American new media dude called Randy Farmer. Only in America. My mate reckons he once knew an American guy called Randy …
LDN008
geeneus ft. riko, wiley and breeze "knife & gun"
a) "knife & gun"
b1) "knife & gun (blackdown remix)"
b2) "knife & gun (blackdown devil mix)"
out on 12" on november 17th
listen to the tracks audio on our myspace
keysights by Nicobobinus
mastering by
OctoberOct 10 Friday 08
Pitchfork October 08
New Pitchfork column from me on Zomby and grime's inroads into the mainstream but on its own terms.
OctoberOct 7 Tuesday 08
Rinse Sept (delayed)
RINSE
Dusk and I were back on Rinse rolling the grimey, wonky and skippy recently.
You can download it here.
Dusk + Blackdown on Rinse Oct 08
Wookie "Far East" (Manchu)
Ms Dynamite "Boo" (FFRR/Social Circles)
Sunship "Cheque One-Two" (Filter)
El-B and Nude "Reality" …
SeptemberSep 28 Sunday 08
Spyro v Marcus NASTY v Mak 10 v Maximum = wot do you call it?
· Spyro v Maximum
· Spyro v Marcus NASTY
· Marcus NASTY v Mak 10
Over the last month, the rate of acceleration of the funky scene and it's interaction with grime, has seemed to speed up through the sets of four super selectors. No doubt the warm, 4x4 housey end …
SeptemberSep 17 Wednesday 08
LDN007
LDN007
a) dusk + blackdown ft farrah and teji "kuri pataka (the firecracker girl)"
b) blackdown ft farrah "con/fusion"
UPDATE: out now on 12".
out now digitally.
mastering by transition.
vinyl distribution by baked goods.
SeptemberSep 14 Sunday 08
Dot Dot Dot Smash
In July I covered Dot Rotten's mixtape for Pitchfork but the full interview that went with it, remained on tape. Finally I found a spare (literally) seven consecutive hours in my life to transcribe it.
To me, Dot Rotten is one of the most interesting, developed and …
SeptemberSep 12 Friday 08
Pitchfork September
It's the rise of the boundary smashers aka The month in dubstep, grime, garage, funky, soca-grime, wonky, UK hip hop-that-thinks-it's-grime, grime-that-thinks-it's-trance, -or house, -or pop, plus chip tunes, vocoder funk or free (road) jazz. Geddit? Geddit here.
SeptemberSep 9 Tuesday 08
Beyond
Pros of funky, to me:
· It's an exciting new urban London movement.
· It from the same communities that gave you dubstep and grime, and before that jungle and garage.
· It's feminine, percussive and rhythmically interesting: things dubstep and grime are failing at …
It's Mercury night!
UPDATE: ah bollocks, yet another win for an indie band. Ah well, probably no bad thing for a man who above all really wants to just make tunes and keep his privacy.
SeptemberSep 3 Wednesday 08
Rinse August
RINSE
Dusk and I were back on Rinse rolling the grimey, wonky and skippy. Was a lot of fun, again.
**Dusk + Blackdown on Rinse August 08**
Download it HERE.
Nu-Birth "Any Time (Tuff & Jam's Kick Dub)" (Locked On)
A Baffled Republic "Bad Boys (Move in Silence) (Blouse N' …
SeptemberSep 1 Monday 08
Pure rollage
A few months ago I interviewed Grievous Angel for use in my Pitchfork column. Now the dust has settled on that, I wanted to publish the whole piece. It's a little rambling but contains enthusiasm and discussion on so much of what interests me, Grievous and much of the …
Mmm sweet, never forget...
Roots of El-B CD
1 "The Club" Ghost [Ghost]
2 "2000" Ghost [Ghost]
3 "Express" El-B [Ghost]
4 "Show A Little Love" El-B feat Simba and Juiceman [Scorpion Records]
5 "Lyrical Tempo" Ghost [Ghost]
6 "Digital" El-B feat. Juiceman [Locked On]
7 "Buck n Bury (Original)" El-B …
AugustAug 28 Thursday 08
LDN007
LDN007
a) dusk + blackdown ft farrah and teji "kuri pataka (the firecracker girl)"
b) blackdown ft farrah "con/fusion"
UPDATE: out now on 12".
out now digitally.
mastering by transition.
vinyl distribution by baked goods.
Rinse August
RINSE
Dusk and I were back on Rinse rolling the grimey, wonky and skippy. Was a lot of fun, again.
**Dusk + Blackdown on Rinse August 08**
Download it HERE.
Nu-Birth "Any Time (Tuff & Jam's Kick Dub)" (Locked On)
A Baffled Republic "Bad Boys (Move in Silence) (Blouse N' …