It's all change up on here, we'll be back in a couple of months but we're still active on our Facebook Groups, If you haven't joined any of them then this is the kind of thing you've been missing recently.
Tracklisting: Central Spillz - I Wish (Baked Remix) (from 'Space Travel Remix EP') Astroid Boys – PunkRockCrowd True Tiger feat. Professor Green & Maverick Sabre - In The Air (True Tiger 'Mosh Pit' Remix) Didz & Chico ft Vanity - When I Say Ossie - The Power Of Love Halp - Gazziliaan Yeers Skream - Where You Should Be ft. Sam Frank (Seiji Remix) Chrissy Murderbot feat Rubi Dan - New Juke Swing Mr ShaoDow feat Ghetts - Get Stronger (AK Remix) Maverick Sabre - Where We Gonna Go Ifan Dafydd - Chop.in.Out. Blue Sky Black Death - Fire For Light Wiley - Numbers In Action Durrty Goodz - Don't Ask Me Organ Grinder – Nimbus Stratus
Our next Brain Juice night is part of the Vintage Generation festival so our residents will be digging in the crates unleashing some of their influences, from Hip-hop to UK Garage, Jungle and Old Skool Rave.
KAPTIN (CHROME KIDS) DJ COMFORT (ASTROID BOYS) HALYCON (ESOTERRA) ORANGE ELVIS Plus live set from...
MIKILL PANE Hailing from Shoreditch it’s easy on first glance to see how Mikill Pane has been credited with leading the charge of Hipster Rap for the UK, but besides the fixie bike, hi-top and impeccable footwear there’s also plenty of substance to go with the style and his underground poetics are intelligent, amusing, socially relevant, outrageous and occasionally rather rude.
LOUIS BOSTON Making music since 2006, one half of The Sweet & Tender Hooligans with producer extraidinairre Deemo. Together they released an 10 Track EP called “Bobby Caldwell…It Was Really Nothing” which earnt them weekly airplay on Adam Waltons Radio Wales Introducing Show where their single “Pretty Eyes” was selected as one of the tracks of 2008 on his end of year show along with a Live Session which was described by the man himself as “Classic”. Along with this, Louis has appeared on 1xtra alongside Secondson & played various live sets around the UK backed by both Deemo & DJ Killa Tomato supporting the likes of Ugly Duckling, Jehst, MC Xander… Dynamic, entertaining and singular, Louis’ music is quite simply the your modern day soundtrack.\ Here's a few tracks off hisMoney Making Brothers Mixtape alongside DJ Killer Tomato.
Kaptin will be playing elsewhere in the festival too, doing a tribute to the British Reggae scene tomorrow (Thursday 24th) alongside the legendary DJ Derek, Love + Harmony Sounds and Big Crumb, plus an Electro Swimg set with the Big Swing Soundsystem alongside our gentlemanly brethren, The Correspondents, who have just dropped this video for their new single 'What Happened To Soho'.
Couple of vids from some of our younger Cardiff based rhyme compadres as they jump on two different popular riddims. Astroid Boys ride Mike Lowry and Kitty Cowell goes back for a Pass Out drop of her own.
Plus if these aren't quite deep or heavy enough for you, it might be worth avoiding the next video but we got much love for Kitty here, it's a catchy tune if not a bit too far on the pop sides for our taste and I'm DJing in the video (Kaptin that is). Fair enough?
Right lets jump straight into the New Year. We got some big tunes for you all from some friends and family, so here's to a big 2011 for you all.
Astroid Boys spent the last day of 2010 in the Studio so that they can start the year with a fresh tune for you all. Over some 'dutty stinkin' beat from Curtamos, the boys bring some 'rawdiness' to the proceedings with this one.
The Glitch Mob have had a great year and so as a thank you to all the people who supported them through it they're giving away the version of Drive It Like You Stole It that could be found on their Drink The Sea Part 2: Mixtape
We've also had a great year, albeit something of a blur now. If you need a little recap on what's been going on in the wider world in 2010 (or at least in the UK), here's our amigo Mystro with his UK 2010 Rap Up.
This track's from their new Mini Album dropping next week. You can get more tasters on last week's Chrome Kids show when luckily Traxx from the group managed to come to the studio with Curtamos last minute when my laptop was killed and all the tunes for the show lost.
Plus here's a new mix from DJ Comfort of the crew. Catch all the fellas alongside Magenta, Curtamos and a battle between Beatbox Major and Beatbox Fozzy on Thursday December 9th at Cardiff Arts Institute.
The Astroid Boys are putting in work at the moment, here's a little compilation of shows from the summer, including the Chrome Kids V Astroid Boys outing to Bestival.
They've also just set up a Soundcloud account which includes part of their visit onto the radio show and an accapella for Party & Bulls**t for those who want to try their hand at a remix.
Due to my involvement with Cardiff Arts Institute, I probably bang on about it more than you readers from the rest of the world are bothered about. However just as the blog is an extension of my excitement over the wealth of incredible music out there at the moment, so is the CAI a labour of love that gets me pretty damn excited so it shall probably crop up quite a bit (hopefully) for some time still. Also, don't be too quick to disregard these posts, I intend for the venue to be an upto date marker in music as well (not always an easy task in this fair city of ours) so anyone you see playing there, should definitely be in your radar. With this in mind, here's a few of the acts that shall be appearing over the rest of this month.
Most of you will already know Tomb Crew, however you may not already know Ital Lion or Exotope who shall both be appearing on this night.
Ital Lion is one of the founding fathers of the Welsh Dubstep scene, having first made his way through the Jungle, Garage and Grime scenes first before reaching a unique, almost tribal sound that has always had more than a passing respect for the Dub part of the genre's moniker. This particular track has had alot of play from me recently (sorry no d/l on this as he's still negotiating a release for it).
I only recently met Exotope but had already enjoyed his beat for the Astroid Boys tune Party & Bullshit (which was also released on his Juvenile Scum label). His Dubstep outings are straight dutty stinkers for the filth generation but still maintain a fun element. No doubt all these factors have since triplicated since he became the tour DJ for the Dirty Sanchez boys.
Swn Festival is a fantastic multi venue weekend event here in the city curated by John Rostron and BBC Radio 1 DJ Huw Stephens. For a full line up check their site, it's not an instantly obvious line up but that's what makes it so great, as it's stacked full of new and exciting acts to discover. We shall be hosting the launch party on Monday but also a few different events over the weekend. Here's a couple of acts playing here that I'm particularly looking forwards to.
Seams (Monday 18th October)
A late addition to the already exciting prospect of Toro Y Moi, Seams caught my ear through his remixes for Gold Panda and Bibio but his solo productions don't disappoint either. This latest offering is inspired by the Brummie producer's time in Berlin and amidst the shuffling, atmospheric Four Tetesque Techno is 'field' recordings made using his phone or an old tape recorder.
Okay so the prospect of yet another Indie / Electro / Disco act hasn't instantly got me moist but Shake Aletti are definitely near the top of the new crop and this remix from their fellow Sheffield musical exponent Toddla T helps as well.
Nedryare one of many bands to have been likened to The xx, but that's just lazy. They're actually like a Portishead for the modern generation. S**t, okay that was even more lazy. Either way they combine dreamy ethereal vocals with deep up to date electronic beats that waver somewhere in the Dubstep region... and they do it very well.
Dam Mantle + Quinoline Yellow (Friday 22nd October)
The guys from the Electroneg label celebrate the release of a new compilation with their first live outing including: Cian Ciaran from Super Furry Animals and Acid Casuals; Plyci; Quinoline Yellow; and an incredible new producer calledDam Mantle, from that bastion of Avante-Bass, Glasgow. His Purple Arrow EP has been gaining some heavy rotation from us recently and although the whole line up is strong it's these latter two that I'm most looking forwards to.
The Friday fun doesn't stop with Swn however. Once they close up shop at Midnight, the guys from One Mission (the University D'n'B + Dubstep society) shall be taking over the proceedings for the rest of the evening and have got our good friend Stagga flying in from Berlin for a long awaited set back on home turf. Very much looking forwards to this one.
Although Crooks & Lovers has been on heavy rotation, I'm yet to join the masses of people I've met recently who can say "Oh my God did you Mount Kimbie at (insert Festival here), they were amazing." I figured it was time to put this right and bring them some place where I can't fail to catch them.
Joining them on the night shall be a long term Chrome Kids favourite in the shape of Zwolf and a relative newcomer to our radar by the name of STD.
I think that's probably enough to take in for now. No doubt you shall be hearing me shouting further praises from it's rooftop in the coming weeks. If you are in town, pop in.
We've told you before about the Astroid Boys and their new single Jungle Booku, well the 'B Side' to that is a track called Party & Bulls**t, produced by Exotope out of Telegram From The Queen, also head of Juvenile Scum records who released the single (got a few of his tracks to post up soon so keep an eye out for them). Here's a video for the track which was filmed at the launch of the single at Cardiff Arts Institute last Friday. Gives you a little insight into how crazy their shows get.
The boys will be returning to CAI on Friday 22nd October alongside Stagga who is making a trip to play back home for the first time in a while. Our Chrome compadre has just signed up a few tracks to Starkey's Slit Jockey label. Genik Riddim is due out next month on digital release with remixes from CRST and Starkey, whilst Wild For The Night and Be The Generals are planned as a vinyl / digital single later in the year. Caught Gaslamp Killer dropping Wild For The Night on the Arcadia rig at Bestival, place went off!
For anyone heading over to Bestival for the Weekend we shall be rocking the Chai Wallah tent on Thursday at 6.30pm and then Bestival Radio at 10pm on Saturday. We're taking Astroid Boys with us too so prepare for a hyper than hype set and some serious festival tomfoolery afterwards. As always the line up is second to none with headline slots from The Prodigy, Dizzee Rascal and Flaming Lips, however we're more small tent frequenters,so just as well there's plenty of crazy little off the wall areas to discover. Although we're a bit anti planning when it comes to festivals choosing to discover stuff by chance, some of our friends, family and favourites are all there so you might well catch us checking out some of these acts.
FOUR TET FAT FREDDY'S DROP BEARDYMAN THE CUBAN BROTHERS GASLAMP KILLER DUB PISTOLS GENTLEMAN'S DUB CLUB THE CORRESPONDENTS DERWYDDON DR GONZO THE XX GIL SCOTT-HERON TRICKY THE WAILERS CHIC featuring NILE RODGERS MOUNT KIMBIE CHROME HOOF SOUND OF RUM THE VERY BEST WAX TAILOR ROB DA BANK EROL ALKAN SKREAM GILLES PETERSON DAVID RODIGAN JACK BEATS DAM FUNK JOY ORBISON FLYING LOTUS JOKER MARY-ANNE HOBBS HUW STEPHENS GREG WILSON TODD EDWARDS DJ ZINC DJ DEREK JACK BEATS SHY FX RAMADANMAN ADRIAN SHERWOOD MC DYNAMITE UNTOLD MR B THE GENTLEMAN RHYMER LAZY HABITS AUTONOMIC SHOWCASE FEAT. DBRIDGE, INSTRA:MENTAL & SP:MC MOVITS BREAKAGE TROJAN SOUND SYSTEM THE HEATWAVE PARKER & MONEYSHOT
You can see the full line up here, feel free to recommend us some acts to go see.
Big thanks to everyone who made it down to our 2nd Birthday Party at Cardiff Arts Instituteon 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 Skammaand 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.
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