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Been a while since we posted anybody else's dope videos up here so...

We've always had love for the Seclusiasis label on here but this video from Warsnare and Fille de la Lune properly blew me away. Not heard the EP yet but I'm off to get a copy as soon as I've written this post.

Dark moody swagged out business from Black Dahlia, a dope new project from one of our favourite producers, Blue Daisy and rapper Hey!Zeus.

This is probably our favourite thing right now. Pure sunshine vibes from our South Wales compadres, Metabeats, Vanity Jay and the Associated Minds family. 80 Boogie Meets 90s RNB, Meets Future Funk... and that's just the video. Complete win.

This SOPHIE track hasn't got a video to go with it as such but as their only sending out YouTube promos and I'm feeling it, here it is.

We got a few new vids (and downloads) come our way recently, so here they are in alphabetical order...

Astroid Boys + Beatbox Major - Free?Style



Blaktrix & Ralph Rips Shit - No Drama



No Drama ft Ralph Rip Shit by blaktrix

Elucid - Together



Download: Elucid - Together / alt link

Junior Disprol - Associated Minds Spittin Pt 11



Korbin Pheenix feat Omega - Art Of The 2



Memory9 feat. Juakali - Mission



Ninjah - Zulu Hip Hop



Download: Ninjah - Zulu Hip Hop / alt link

Skream & Example - Shot Yourself In The Foot Again



Shot Yourself In The Foot Again - Radio Edit by Ministry of Sound

Our amigos Don Leisure and Metabeats aka Darkhouse Family dropped a great little mixtape for the Friends Of Friends site. Here it is with a bit of blurb from the crew...

“Darkhouse Family is the product of many smokey studio hours shared by Don Leisure & Metabeats… Linking up in late 2007 the duo gelled quickly over a shared musical heritage of hiphop and uk club culture and a loose beat tape project began to grow. This later turned into DHF after the old chopped up soul sample sound was replaced by a more synthed out, smoked out & synthetic sound that the group is known for… The Family Trees EP on Fat City Recordings put Darkhouse on the map with solid DJ support from Martyn, The Gaslamp Killer, Alex Nut, Illum Sphere, Kutmah, Dibiase & more.

This mix is just a collection of some new stuff we’ve been sent and are feeling and some of our latest beats also. One of the loose ideas of the mix was to showcase a bunch of new producers who are making dope tracks who may not be household names to everyone.

We are planning an LP in 2011 but will release some more material on Fat City hopefully this year and also undertake some remix work for Frite Nite and Jon Wayne. Don Leisure also has some solo project work on the bubble and Metabeats is set to release his 2nd LP on Associated Minds and also continues to shake skirts with his CRST project.”

FoF Mix #5 Darkhouse Family - "Pump That In Your 4×4" by FoFMusic

Tracklisting:

DHF – INTRO
MADLIB – SLAPPED UP [SLAP N CLAP] – STONES THROW
EXILE – POPULATION CONTROL [SAMIYAM MIX] – PLUG RESEARCH
DARKHOUSE FAMILY – DE LA GHETTO – CDR
DAM FUNK x BIGGIE – GOING BACK TO CALI – CDR
LLOYD BANKS – BEAMER, BENZ OR BENTLEY (INST) – EMI
LAZER SWORD – WEB SWAG – INNOVATIVE LEISURE
DARKHOUSE FAMILY – RED LEATHER – CDR
J DILLA – DON’T NOBODY – HOUSE SHOES RECORDINGS
DEVONWHO – WINDMILSHIRE – CDR
DON LEISURE – PUNTA SKALA – CDR
LAKRITZE – TROPICAL MEAT – ROBOX NEOTECH
SLUGABED – BREADCRUMBS & BUTTERBEANS – CDR
EPROM – PSYCHO – CDR
JOHN WAYNE – A BANGER – CDR
SHIGETO – AND WE GONNA [SAMIYAM RMX] – GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL
DIBIA$E – DUNGEON DUST – CDR
METABEATS – OPA BEAT – CDR
ILLUM SPHERE – ONE FOR DIMLITE – CDR
BUSTA RHYMES – GENESIS – FLIPMODE

Metabeats and Dubbledge combine on the 'The Making Of A Slave' in honour of Black History Month. Inspired by the Willie Lynch letter, ‘The Making of a Slave’ sees Dubbledge at his most controversial, ironically morphing into the shoes of a slave owner to breakdown the various techniques used to create slaves. However he does so with an intellectual, tongue in cheek delivery and enough humour to turn the ugliest of subjects into an inspirational look at the methods used to create an inbuilt self-destructive mentality that will & has spanned generations. It's thought provoking & definitely worth a listen for some true edutainment.

Dubbledge & Metabeats - The Making of a Slave aka Willie Lynch by AssociatedMinds

The download is free, however. please use the following link and help work towards a better future for us all.

http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/en/donate.htm

The track is also available from www.dubbledge.bandcamp.com including the original Willie Lynch letter and alternative artwork.

Big thanks to everyone who made it down to our 2nd Birthday Party at Cardiff Arts Institute on Friday especially Mr Healan, Benjamin One, Blue Daisy and Monky for rocking some killer sets (and extra special props to Monky for taking it that extra mile). We also had a Squid Ninjaz invasion briefly as both Skamma and Joe Blow jumped up to do a couple of tunes, including their firing new Genik Riddim track and OK Luv, both with Stagga (OK Luv is a reworking of the Starkey track using the Stagga remix instrumental, should be dropping sometime in the future).

Also from Barry we had a newcomer to the scene, Beatbox Major jump up and smash it on the vocal instrumentation tip. Here's a couple of vids from the night, Genik Riddim and a little jam sessino from outside the club with Beatbox Major and Traxx from the Astroid Boys crew.

The Associated Minds boys are canny lads. Whilst there has been something of a Hip-hop drought of late they have been stock piling some serious tunes to unleash on us all. I say this with a certain amount of guess work, a touch of faith and the slightest bit of actual knowledge. You see they've been keeping their cards closer to their chest than Nicole Kidman playing Strip Poker. We keep catching glimpses, although it might not be wise to use any kind of nipple analogy when referring to some of their rappers.

The latest snippet to sneak out of the stable is this Metabeats produced crunked up funk bumper. The Lollipop Lady’s Favourite is the first single from Willo Wispa’s eagerly anticipated Wot’s Willo On!?! album and features our favourite jazzy Welsh starlet in the making Ruby Samba.

WILLO WISPA (Prod by METABEATS) 'The Lollipop Lady's Favourite' Snippet by AssociatedMinds

The tune is a while heap of fun and we can't wait for the video which looks like it's going to be triple jokes galore if this 'Making of' is anything to go by...

We've been looking forwards to the new Metabeats and Mudmowth LP for longer than is polite to have to anticipate anything but looks like the wait is nearly over and it ain't gonna be pretty. The first sign of impending destruction comes in the shape of this controlled explosion from a fearsome foursome. Riding the stutter funk production is three of the UK's finest: Sonnyjim, Mudmowth and Skamma and this tune gives us that warm evil feeling inside like lacing your mate's toilet paper with chilli powder.

METABEATS & MUDMOWTH 'Maaad Tight' feat. Sonnyjim & Skamma by AssociatedMinds

Plus another new one from our boy Ruffstylz, he rips this beat apart...

Ruffstylz - Case Closed by AssociatedMinds

Whoops the Christmas situation has thrown our days into even more confusion then usual, we only just figured out it was Monday in time to hit you with these. No tracklistings unfortunately but the first is forged from beats entirely of San Fran 'Blap' pioneer Dnae Beat's making, whilst the second is more of a straight up Hip-hop offering from the Associated Minds' catalogue, past present and still to drop including Metabeats, Ruffstylz, Mudmowth, Dubbledge and Elucid.


There's a Wormhole in My Bathroom by DNAEBEATS


Download: DJ Jaffa - Associated Minds Xmas Mixtape

Rapper, producer and all round musical prodigy P.L.O. from the Associated Minds stable has just created this beautiful 'homage of the brooding shining violence' by reworking the Chromatics already rather broody track In The City into something that would fit perfectly into the Manhunter soundtrack (you know, the original Hannibal film from the 80s).

P.L.O. - Chromatics 'In The City - The Manhunter Remix' by AssociatedMinds

Download: Chromatics - In The City (P.L.O. Manhunter Remix)

Our man Metabeats has been mightily busy of late. As well as the soon to come Sledgehammer Kisses EP with Mudmowth and the new album from his clique Squid Ninjaz for which he's provided a number of beats, and even a few rhymes, he's also been setting dancefloors on fire with the Chesus & Rodski stuff and is working on a new solo album, for which information is scarce but we do know that Elucid makes an appearance or two in there some place and no doubt some of the other Squid Ninjaz and Associated Minds family will find there way in there too.

On top of all this he's found time to drop us this small slice of Dillafied future soul, new beat generation type business. You can grab the wav here or a 320 MP3 below.

(YSI) Metabeats - Fruit Salad / alt link


If this is your flavour then the track is also included in this BBC Radio 1 mix from Don Leisure who is also collaborating with Metabeats on yet another project under the Darkhouse Family moniker and who, as his Drum & Bass alias Jamal has just hit us up with one of the filthiest half time D&B tracks we've heard in a while in the shape of Untitled Stink which you can check on his Myspace.

(SS) Don Leisure Mix on BBC Introducing in Wales (inc interview)

Tracklisting:

Brenk - Dont Stop (MPM BEAT 45)
Don Leisure – Slix (money) (White)
Don Leisure – Birthday Bounce (White)
Debruit & Om'as Keith – Im going wit you (Civil Music)
Don Leisure – Deluxe Pez Suite (White)
Dam-Funk – Chocolate (Stones Throw)
J-Dilla – Untitled (White)
Hudson Mohawke – Are you feeling hot? (White)
Metabeats – Fruit4 Salad (Associated Minds)
808 State – Pacific State (Lazarus Project Bootleg) (Cease & Desist)
Don Leisure – 1x1 (White)
Don Leisure – Russel Dust (White)

Mudmowth was over at the Associated Minds Studios the other day and our good friend Mayor caught this footage of him ripping over a PLO beat... Heavyweight skills!



(YSI) Mudmowth - Skullcrackology (Flying Skulls Remix) / alt link (from Flying Skulls' Club Crack EP)

His mini LP with Metabeats (aka Fidget / B'more producer Chesus) Sledgehammer Kisses featuring Sonny Jim and Skamma is coming soon.

We had this Mudmowth tune up a while back, plus it was the only track not to make it past the censors on our BBC Radio 1 mix for Rob Da Bank & Friends last year. But now there's a whole new dimension to this track. Associated Minds are also looking for people to remix this video so anybody interested hit us up at the address on the right and we'll let you know more about that.


Mudmowth - 'Skullcrackology' in HD from Associated Minds on Vimeo

Apologies, apparently the link was broken to this in the previous post

(YSI) Mudmowth - Skullcrackology (Radioish Edit)

Last night we showed off our roots a little bit and did a Welsh Hip-hop Mix for Rob Da Bank & Friends on BBC Radio 1. The mix is probably the most definitive yet for the Welsh Hip-hop scene and incorporates a wide variety of styles. It also shows that far from being an isolated and backwards country as many people in the rest of the UK, and even some in Wales itself would believe, we have emcees from all over the country, from all over the world infact who have congregated here and helped to add to that rich diversity. There are also some great collaborations by Welsh artists with emcees from California, Philadelphia and London on the mix too. Take a listen, we have also included many of the tracks for download via YouSendIt here as well.


Any questions about the artists or the scene in general then hit me up on whosthecaptain@hotmail.com

Listen Now: Chrome Kids: Enter The Dragon - Welsh Hip-hop Mix on BBC iPlayer

Tracklisting (and Downloads)

Metabeats / Ralph Rips S**t / Ruffstylz / Mudmowth /Cervantis – F**k With Me (Radio Edit) (Associated Minds)
Metabeats ft Cesto – ‘Meta’s Cypher’ (Associated Minds)
Qred ft Opus One – ‘Dungeon Siege’ (White Label)
Qred / Joe Blow / 4Dee / Skamma – ‘Lunar Burn’ (White Label)
The Incredible Torture Show – ‘God Told Me To’ (White Label)
Secondson & Humurak D Gritty – ‘Rags’ (SFDB)
Beatbox Fozzy ft Willo Wispa – ‘Tuna Fish’ (Associated Minds)
Metabeats ft Pergyl & Cervantis – ‘Live & Let Live’ (Associated Minds)
Diverse Concepts ft Mind Kontrol – ‘Any Means Necessary’ (White Label)
Y Diwygiad ft Daedelus – ‘W.E.N.G.L.I.S.H.’ (Dockrad)
Ralph Rips S**t ft Dubbledge – ‘Kiss The Guns’ (Associated Minds)
Me One ft Durrty Goodz – ‘Pay Me No Mind’ (Frenemy)
Sweet & Tender Hooligans – ‘I Have Seen’ (White)
Flow Of Thought – ‘I Got My Boyz’ (Flow Of Thought)
Blaktrix ft Vocal Recall – ‘Trouble Trouble’ (Dial Up)
Brigzy – ‘One For The Money’ (White Label)
Hoax Emcee –‘Rhymin’ Son’ (White Label)
Lews Tunes & Nobsta Nutts (Headcase Ladz) – ‘Get What You See’ (Wonky Wax)
Parker & Conrad Watts – ‘Western Soul’ (Good Groove)
Ninjah – ‘Woman In Control’ (White Label)
Ming Dy Nasty & Redeye Knight (Shadow Law) ft Ruffstylz – ‘Damage Done ’ (White Label)
Dead Residents – ‘Smash Robot Vs Pacman Ghost’ (Cuthulu Nation)

If you want a quick idea on what the mix is about then here’s a quick interview between Rob Da Bank and Kaptin that precedes the mix.

Only a week til the Swn festival and our official DJ premiere as the Chrome Kids. Still have a bit more info to post about the weekend but one of the nights I’m looking forwards to most is High Contrast, Y Diwygiad, Beatbox Fozzy, Metabeats and Chipmunk at The Point on Saturday night (15th).


For those who aren’t aware of Metabeats, he produced one of the stand out hip-hop albums last year with Metaphysical on the Associated Minds label. Here though he shall be doing a DJ set and I’m not sure what kind of set he’ll be playing but he’s currently smashing up clubs round our way under the name Chesus playing a mix of Baltimore, Garage, House, Juke, Fidget and Baile. Not only this, but he has collaborated with Rodski out of the Skinny White Boys to put together a phat selection of dancefloor fillers to suit the vibe of their DJ sets. Check some of their more Baltimore outings below and go visit them at their Chesus & Rodski Myspace.

(YSI) Chesus & Rodski – Inner Good Mood

(YSI) Benga – 26 Basslines (Chesus & Rodski Waistline Mix)

(YSI) Chesus & Rodski – Doobiemore

And their remix of a classic baile funk track…
(YSI) Edu K – Sexomatic (Chesus & Rodski Refix)

and for good measure, he's one of their new mixes as well.

(Z Share) Chesus & Rodski Vote Eli Mixtape

Some brand new poetic agginess from Joe Blow's heavyweight EP 'Smoking Skills'.



Don't know the full story about this video but heard some of the fellas got caught up in the middle of a fight outside a club the night before filming and the blood you can see on the towel covering Cervantis' face belongs to Joe Blow's cousin who had his ear ripped apart by a knife. Cervantis himself could barely stand as he was run over by a police car in the madness.