DJ C SAMURAI MIXES

DJ C has just posted his 2-part mix for Samurai FM. As expected, it has a bit of everything: AC/DC, bhangra, reggaeton, Pixies mashups, Baltimore and Balkanika. Truly amazing journey through the realness of world music as it should be! And while being there, don't forget to download Murderbot tape for january '08 (inclusion of Rick Astley refix and Jiri Ceiver in one session sounds truly memorable).

YAHH UK

New Soulja Boy single - the UK edition has remixes by Wideboys. Perhaps not terribly essential but at least one of the tracks I found useful.

Soulja Boy - Yahhh (Wideboys Radio Edit)

PARTY BEN CALLS OUT

Extraordinary mashup wizard Party Ben has just created a 5-pack of his reworks of a classic "Callin' Out" by Lyrics Born. It's not only remastered and polished to the max but also includes "brand new crazy techno mix" colliding the abovementioned track with guess guess "Ross Ross Ross" by Sebastian. Stuttering insanity all over. Detailed write-up, zshare of the whole thing plus separate tracks here.

Bonus Track: SebastiAn vs. Lyrics Born - "Callin' Ross"

FRIENDS GIVE ME BREAKCORE 7"S. I TAKE.

My dawg Mac HD is blogging like crazy. Among all the Koopa singles and most horrible Keith Richards pics he tend to post I located a link to this massive blog with d'n'b/dubstep/breakcore records galore. He found there some vintage jungle stuff that I'm to absent-minded to care about, while I found new Rotator vs Cardopusher 7 inch on a new French label Brothers In Blood. Quite noisy and disjointed, too.

KLIPZ WID KIDZ

Two newish vids by Justice ("Phantom II") and Larry Tee ("I Love U"). The latter is talked about much, with Missing Toof posting sweet summary with remixes by The Bulgarian, Christopher Just, Bart B More, Sebastian Leger and Swanque. For some reasons (grown-ups are disgusting?) both videos feature fair amounts of kid-related footage. It's all about lil girls. Justice one reminds me of bad 1990 zombie flick "Demon Wind". Not exactly the same thing but certain atmosphere is there.

NAYCKI INDUSTRY'S LOCAL THUNDER

I know exactly nothing (well in fact now I know a bit) about "local" riddim producers Naycki Industry, apart from the fact that everyone here spits some sort of crazy versh of French. And riddim itself is this jittery hyperenergetic thing that's not quite dissimilar from some Kuduro and Caribbean style productions. Good stuff, all over the place, apparently a debut from that crew.

Personally, I could use one track with female vocals, but who I am to complain?

Naycki Industry - Thunder Race Riddim (Version)

Yealo - Ennemie

Full riddim album here, incl. artwork and some notes (by way of Power-Dancehall's blog)

U DON'T NEED VERNACULARS

Fast-moving fuzz-themed vid from Skepta, with guests drops by Trigga, Spyda and mighty Roll Deep MC Flowdan. Features airhorns galore, gangsta behavior and really nasty synth lines. This is going to break big anytime soon.



(by way of JP..."U WOT U WOT")

FUNK LIKE MAN (RECORDINGS)

Last minute discovery: XLR8R has a new podcast, this time slightly hotter than usual, featuring an exclusive mix by Berlin funkeiro Daniel Haaksman, guy responsible for Edu K records and great Funk Mundial vinyl series but also Nao Wave - obscure 80s bleepwave comp. Oh, I forget to add it all comes out on his own Man Recordings imprint. Don't sleep. Snoring is bad for your heart.

SHAKE YR CRAZY LEG

New voice of Baltimore. As totally endorsed by heads and academics alike - see PDF file of an enlightening paper published in December 2007 Journal of Popular Music Studies (by way of Government Names blog).

DJ Blaqstarr & Rye Rye - Shake It To The Ground

MORE TODDLA T FIYA

Everyone's favorite post-hyper-dancehall Sheffield producer Toddla T, remixed last November by Count of Monte Crystal and Sinden, is at it again. Mad Decent just published Sinden's Kiss FM show of 16/01 with Toddla T in the mix. It is all here in its exciting entirety, while ever-so-better Fact magazine of London has a new section called "Clicks, Whistles and Radio Rips" where among extensive coverages of Grime mixtapes you've never heard of, they have Toddla T's recent mix with DJ Pipes for their Kabal club NYE Party (hefty 150mb dl so be prepared). Sheffield Steel Town Reprazent!!!

I NEED CURSES!

This is what I need at the moment, some shitty quality samples included on the page. Just out on Trouble And Bass.

MISTER WONDERFUL IS OVER

NY Times Sunday Magazine's Funny Pages just published last 20th installment in Daniel Clowes "Mister Wonderful" series. PDF files of the whole series up for grabs, registration required.