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The dynamically downbeat duo of Metabeats and Don Leisure who make up the Darkhouse Family have just put this litte beat tape together for the guys over at 92bpm.com and it points to some exciting goings on at the camp with a bunch of unreleased group, solo and collabo material alongside their released tracks on Fat City.

Download: Darkhouse Family - DHF Beat Tape via 92bpm

Tracklisting:

01 - Metabeats - Transposer
02 - Don Leisure - Punta Skala
03 - Darkhouse Family - Stay Blazed
04 - Don Leisure - Slix (Money)
05 - Darkhouse Family - City Rd
06 - Darkhouse Family - Kola Bruiser
07 - Don Leisure - Hear Diss!!!
08 - DHF x Mask - Mein Atari
09 - Metabeats x Diverse Concepts - Embossed
10 - Darkhouse Family - Sliced Up
11 - Don Leisure - Birthday Bounce
12 - Metabeats - Toaster Jazz
13 - Don Leisure - Your World
14 - Don Leisure x Immerse - Artichoke Rising
15 - Metabeats - Opa Beat
16 - Darkhouse Family - Tears
17 - Metabeats - Oh No You Don't
18 - Darkhouse Family - Lemon Drizzle
19 - Metabeats - Whoutalkinto
20 - Darkhouse Family - Blueberry
21 - Darkhouse Family - Blues
22 - Don Leisure - Theme
23 - Darkhouse Family - Meditation
24 - Darkhouse Family - Next Shit
25 - Metabeats - Do Dat
26 - Don Leisure - Elgin Baylor

Thanks to a certain popular sitcom Barry is finally on the map and has even tidied itself up a little bit over the past year or so, but it ain't all Gavin & Stacey in the small Welsh seaside town known locally as Basra. Still, just like the social problems in 70s South Bronx helped to spawn Hip-hop, there's a certain energy in Barry that keeps the culture going when all around scenes are dying off, albeit in a rather darker and sinister cerebral form that embraces rather than tries to escape it's surroundings.

Out of this raw creative scene comes the Squid Ninjaz family, consisting of heavyweight artists such as Metabeats, Joe Blow, Cervantis, Skamma, Cesto and a whole heap more both direct and extended family members. Mudmowth, Ralph Rips Shit, Ruffstylz, Dead Residents, 4Dee, Imakemadbeats and Beretta 9 from Wu Tang affiliates Killarmy, all make appearances on their impressive forthcoming album Revenge Of The Blowfish and make it one of the heaviest, grimiest and also most lyrically creative Hip-hop releases of 2009.

Check this Metabeats produced head cracker from the album that also features our man Stagga on the cuts and drunken style rants courtesy of another of our favourite new producers Shadow Law's Ming Dy Nasty.

(YSI) Squid Ninjaz - Wowzers / alt link


You can catch most of the Squid Ninjaz live in the Cardiff area next month (see above flyer) alongside one of the most influential UK crews of the past few years, Task Force who I'm pretty sure haven't reached the city since their last controversial visit to Higher Learning near the start of the decade (except for supporting Super Furry Animals a few days later).


Unfortunately it doesn't look like honourary member Ramson Badbonez will be there, a man we've been watching rip battles since before he was old enought to enter them. It does however give us enough of an excuse to post up some of his recent tracks that have all found their way onto his blog in the past few weeks.

(YSI) Ramson Badbonez - Black Mags (Badbonez Remix) / alt link

(YSI) Ramson Badbonez - Here Today Gone Tomorrow Dub / alt link

And hell seeing as we're on a UK Hip-hop tip, here's a couple of tracks from those good fellas over at HHC Digital who have made something of an impressive shift online after the sad, but perhaps over due demise of their printed version earlier in the year.

(YSI) Kyza - Sin City / alt link (From the Shots Of Smirnoff Mixtape)

(YSI) Charlie Sloth feat. Rodney P and Killa Benz - We Run Everyting / alt link

We’re currently collecting tracks together for a special Welsh hip-hop Mix (more details of which we shall reveal soon) and we just had a selection of absolute stunners from Cardiff / Barry producer Diverse Concepts. We thought we’d share some of the more twisted and disturbing ones with you, including a track with those emcees most evilest Quiet Poison (Squid Ninjaz)


(YSI)Diverse Concepts – Scream For Me

(YSI)Diverse Concepts & Quiet Poison – Quiet Concepts

(YSI)Diverse Concepts – Sharp

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.