Isaac Hayes was an absolute legend. Check my post on Stax Records a couple weeks ago, him and the label were amazing, its a great loss.
Also this week Bernie Mac passed away, both will be dearly missed.
Monday, 11 August 2008
R.I.P Isaac & Bernie
Isaac Hayes was an absolute legend. Check my post on Stax Records a couple weeks ago, him and the label were amazing, its a great loss.
Also this week Bernie Mac passed away, both will be dearly missed.
R-E-U-P-G-A-N-G
After Pusha sported a Man United Shirt in his latest video 'The Fast Life' I decided that my love for the Virginian rap duo the Clipse had more than diminished... In fact, purely on principle alone I couldn't support the duo with the same vigor I once did. 'The Fast Life' is probably their poorest record to date but for me these two are the "Rae & Ghost" of the modern era, I love what they do. And even after hearing that their cocaine tales of criminal glory are not all they are 'cracked' up to be, pardon the pun, nonetheless I still find them entertaining. 'Hell Hath No Fury' provided the soundtrack to my year in Miami.
Check the interview below. Oh and if you know where you can cop Play Clothes from, their clothing line - holla.
Shout out to Nah Right.
Check the interview below. Oh and if you know where you can cop Play Clothes from, their clothing line - holla.
Shout out to Nah Right.
Tuesday, 5 August 2008
Witness The Newness
DJ MK today posted a short mix of cuts off of the new Roots Manuva album 'Slime & Reason' cop it here
I'm more than excited after listening to this 15 minute mix. It's sounding incredibly fresh, I wasn't initially convinced by 'Buff Nuff' but its certainly grown on me, and after having heard this mini-mix I'm eagerly anticipating the full release.
Roots Manuva is some what of an enigma, a fascinating character both on and off wax, I had the fortune of working with him a couple of years ago at Itch FM's 5th Birthday Bash. Rodney killed it, I was helping run the stage that night and it was quite an experience. Performing with his entire Banana Klan, consisting of about 9 or so members, affiliates, musicians and MCs it was quite the task getting them all on stage! It was a heavy show and Mr. Manuva was as humble as ever, a real nice bloke.
He is easily in my top 5 UK MC's of all time! He broke barriers with 'Run Come Save Me' and shifted an awful lot of units, with die hard hip hop heads, students, broad sheet readers and a few in between taking heed of his South London, yard-slang driven raps.
Two videos off 'Slime & Reason':
Again & Again
Buff Nuff
For those of you who have been a sleep for the last 10 years here is a selection of classic Roots Manuva material:
Witness
Dreamy Days
Too Cold
Cold Cut feat. Roots Manuva - True Skool
Go cop the full release when it drops later this month on Big Dada.
I'm more than excited after listening to this 15 minute mix. It's sounding incredibly fresh, I wasn't initially convinced by 'Buff Nuff' but its certainly grown on me, and after having heard this mini-mix I'm eagerly anticipating the full release.
Roots Manuva is some what of an enigma, a fascinating character both on and off wax, I had the fortune of working with him a couple of years ago at Itch FM's 5th Birthday Bash. Rodney killed it, I was helping run the stage that night and it was quite an experience. Performing with his entire Banana Klan, consisting of about 9 or so members, affiliates, musicians and MCs it was quite the task getting them all on stage! It was a heavy show and Mr. Manuva was as humble as ever, a real nice bloke.
He is easily in my top 5 UK MC's of all time! He broke barriers with 'Run Come Save Me' and shifted an awful lot of units, with die hard hip hop heads, students, broad sheet readers and a few in between taking heed of his South London, yard-slang driven raps.
Two videos off 'Slime & Reason':
Again & Again
Buff Nuff
For those of you who have been a sleep for the last 10 years here is a selection of classic Roots Manuva material:
Witness
Dreamy Days
Too Cold
Cold Cut feat. Roots Manuva - True Skool
Go cop the full release when it drops later this month on Big Dada.
Monday, 4 August 2008
Hardest Working Man In The Game
SEMTEXTV - BACKSTAGE AT ROCK THE BELLS [FEAT REDMAN, JAY ELECTRONICA, GREEN LANTERN, AND SUPERNATURAL] from DJ SEMTEX on Vimeo.
And I don't care what any of you say, this guy grinds 24/7, its a pleasure to have worked with him.
Sunday, 3 August 2008
The Rebel
"I proclaim that I believe in nothing and that everything is absurd, but I cannot doubt the validity of my own proclamation and I am compelled to believe, at least, in my own protest. The first, and only, datum that is furnished me, within absurdist experience, is rebellion. Stripped of all knowledge, driven to commit murder or consent to it, I possess this datum which gains greater strength from the anguish that I suffer. Rebellion arises from the spectacle of the irrational coupled with an unjust and incomprehensible condition. But its blind impetus clamours for order in the midst of chaos, and for unity in the very heart of the ephemeral. It protests, it demands, it insists that the outrage come to an end, that there be built upon rock what until now was written unceasingly upon the waters." - Albert Camus.
Car Park Cool
I came across Axel Peemoller via the good people over at Frank151. (shout out to Justin)
He is a heavy designer and I'm really feeling a lot of his work, his site is doing alot for me and I really like how he's put together his page, check him out here.
A project that he's recently curated in a Melborne Car Park is particularly inspiring. When we are exposed to so many notices, signs and directions everyday in the city, it is always refreshing to see someone take a truly mundane but practical notice and flip it. A lot is to be said of a well signed car park! The amount of times i've acknowledged losing the whip in a multi-story is pathetic!
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