Thursday, June 25, 2009

SOME KIDS I USED TO KNOW



I WENT TO SCHOOL WITH JAME AND DAMIAN. THEY HAD SERIOUS GUN OBSESSIONS.

RIKY RICK & THE MONOPOLISATION OF AUTOTUNE ROMANCE

THIS IS SOUTH AFRICA'S RISING SUPERSTAR RAPPER/SINGER/PRODUCER...

EVERYONE IS EITHER MOANING OR GOING GAGA WITH KANYE REFERENCES OFF THIS SONG...

I SAW THE KID PERFORM TWO WEEKS BACK AND WAS INSTANTLY CONVERTED...HE IS TOO FUCKING CHARISMATIC FOR HIS OWN GOOD. PLUS HE SLID ME HIS UPCOMING ALBUM AND BELIEVE IT WHEN I SAY, HE HAS TOO MUCH FLAVOUR OF HIS OWN. WILL HOPEFULY BE ALLOWED TO BLOG HIS BIG ZULU TUNE *BEE* SOON. UNTIL THEN, HERE'S SOMETHING TO SING TO YOUR EX GIRLFRIEND

AZANIA 3000 TOUR!! SWEAT.X IN EUROPE!!




SWEAT.X EUROTOUR AZANIA3000 STARTS TODAY! CHECK OUR MYSPACE FOR DATES. WE DOING SOME COLLABO SHOWS WITH GAZELLE

GOD>DJ WHATWHAT>HOUSE MUSIC



TRACKS FROM MY FAVOURITE ALBUM FOR A LONG TIME, DJ WHAT WHAT'S *WHAT FOR?*! IF YOU CAN...BUY IT ON SIGHT!!

DJ WHAT WHAT - DREAMS
DJ WHAT WHAT - SEKELE
DJ WHAT WHAT - COME TOGETHER FT SNAKE

DJ CLEO'S PROTEGE, DJ WHAT WHAT IS A LOT BIGGER THAN HOUSE MUSIC AND ONLY A BIT SMALLER THAN A GOD. HIS ALBUM *WHAT FOR?* HAS KEPT ME DANCING IN MY SOCKS FOR THE LAST WEEK...I AM NOT EVEN SKIPPING THOSE VOCAL HOUSE TUNES I HATED SO MUCH ON FIRST LISTEN. YOU CAN CATCH ME SINGING *COME TOGETHER* AT THE TOP OF MY VOICE.

DRY ASS BIOGRAPHY FROM WILL OF STEEL WEBSITE:
DJ What What hails from Bloemfontein, where, due to his status in the South African DJ scene, he gets accorded superstar status. He studied at the same school in Johannesburg as DJ Cleo, who would later become his mentor, completing a diploma in sound engineering.

Having aced the course, and with time to kill (musicians do not get 8 to 5 type of jobs), DJ What What started messing around with some beats in his home studio, putting into practice what he had learnt in school. It was during this creative process that DJ What What began drawing attention from more established DJs and producers countrywide.

In 2005, DJ What What received a call from his idol, DJ Cleo, who had already released a hit album entitled Eskhaleni and was working on his second project. As luck would have it, DJ What What was offered the privilege, and grabbed it with both hands, of working with DJ Cleo on what was certainly the biggest song of 2005, called ‘Goodbye’, which remains one of the most recognizable tunes in the South African dance scene today.
DJ What What
But when you want to achieve greater things in life, you need patience, and it was not until 2007 that the young lad form Bloemfontein would see the his hard work and two year long learning process, culminate into his debut album, ‘What If’, which was released in August. The album is progressive, yet easy on the ear, allowing the listener to mellow into it, sampling such songs as “I’m yours’, ‘Feel the DJ’, ‘Bloemfontein’ which he dedicates to his hometown and the massive dance floor filler, ‘Can we try’.

Judging by the ever-increasing number of bookings and accolades coming his way, DJ What What has certainly earned the respect of the industry, is garnering a lot of fans, and is headed to the top.

Talent, determination, hard work and sober habits intact, DJ What What is here to stay for a longest while…**

YOURS DEVOTED SLAVE TO THE RYHTHM
SPOEK MATHAMBO

MTKIDU PUNK LEG MIX



DOWNLOAD THE MTKIDU PUNK LEG MIX FOR A TASTE OF THE MAYHEM THEY BRINGING TO THE NEXT !DIRTY!DIRTY! PARTY

A KINDA BOOTLEG CASSETE...AND HERE IS KIND OF THE OPPOSITE...A SNIPPET FROM THEIR BIOGRAPHY:

*Mtkidu is a live beat construct and visual manipulation team, comprised of Murray Turpin (M18J92T), Nicholas Nesbitt (Kidu) and Hayley Junkin (chinxxx(VJ). Mtkidu was formed 3 years ago in the pursuit of a sound and visual language that was both relevant, authentic and experimental. For all intents and purposes, we concentrate on the creation and innovation of a new, dynamic sound/vision in South Africa and as the art galleries and clubs stagnate in white and grey cube commercialism, we will not forget the original purpose and potential of these spaces, for invention and exploration…*

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

THAT WAS THEN AND THIS IS NOW



NEW ANTIPOP CONSORTIUM ALBUM DROPPING SOON. HIGH SCHOOL YEARS CULMINATED IN A SERIOUS NERDY JONESING FOR APC. SINCE THEN I HAD THE SUPREME PLEASURE OF DOING SOME SHOWS WITH THEM AND HANGING OUT WITH SAYYID...AND THE FANDOME ONLY DEEPENS! THEIR RETURN SET AS A GROUP, AT NUIT SONARS IN LYON WAS DUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTY!! VERY CURRENT, NOW TO SEE IF THE ALBUM CAN HOLD IT DOWN

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

PIRACY FUNDS TERRORISM

CAME ACROSS THIS LIL' CRACKER FROM 2003 BEFORE I KNEW WHAT GRIME WAS...PARANOID SKITTERY DRUMS, POST APOCALYPTIC BASSLINES, LYRIC LYRIC LYRIC STYLE AND PATTERN...I AM HAVING FUN, IMAGINING A WORLD WITHOUT GRIME'S SUBSEQUENT AQUISITION OF THE *WE CANNOT MAKE DECENT ALBUMS* CURSE...BEFORE ALL THE *BIZZLE BIZZLE*. THIS ALBUM HAS ALL THE STELLAR PROTOGRIME, THE GARAGEY BITS (IGNORE THE SOPPY R&B OF *SOLDIER'S FALLEN*)

DOWNLOAD THE FULL ALBUM



Tracklisting:

1. Intro
2. Oi
3. Back Then
4. Over Now
5. Insecurity
6. Lock Down
7. Smokin'
8. Burnin You
9. Still The Same
10. DenialNever Trust
11. Politics
12. Popular
13. Haters
14. Soldiers, Fallen
15. Over Now (2003 Version)

*Another classic for yall from 2003, more fire crews first and only album before they split, Lethal B and Ozzie B went on to form Fire Camp and Neeko went his seperate way. *

plus checkout ukgrime.blogspot for more full albums and old grime sets and live PAs

SUMMERTIME/WINTERTIME



BEEN IN THE TROPICS. WHO WOULDA THUNK IT. THE NDEBELE IN THE TROPICS RAPPING AND ACTING THE FOOL. REUNION ISLAND WAS TICK! HUNG WITH SIBOT, BEN SHARPA, RAIKO, DPLANET, SPOOKIE, AND THE AFRICAN SOUNDSYSTEM. AFRICANS CAUSED A LOT OF HAVOC.

JOHANNESBURG IS COLD AND SCHITT.

TWO MORE DAYS UNTIL SWEDEN FOR TWO MONTHS! HYPE TING!



this is not a prank call...everybody being a bully...there's a bully in the house

PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

MAXWELL D



MAXWELL D - BLACKBERRY HYPE (ON A LIL SILVA PRODUCTION)

DOWNLOAD THIS MIXTAPE OF MAXWELL D SITTING ON THE BIGGEST UK FUNKY

Granted, the cover is cheesey in a nasty dance compilation kinda way...the songz are fucking heavy though!

FYI

Saturday, June 13, 2009

CITINITE SAYS: Stakker



**The Evil Acid Baron Show released in 1988 was the first acid house video, created by Stakker, with music by Farley ‘Jackmaster’ Funk, Tyree, Baby Ford, Royal House and S’Express. The first video that I saw was actually the more accomplished Eurotechno (video still above), which came out the following year. Eurotechno blew me away when I first saw it at a house night in Cornwall and I went to Woolworths to buy a copy on VHS, which thankfully I still have. The pulsing, ever-changing graphics go perfectly with the futuristic acid soundtrack and is just as fresh as it was then .

Stakker were video artists Mark McClean and Colin Scott. After using other people’s music for their first video, they decided they wanted their follow-up to feature music they had commissioned themselves so that the music could more closely match the visuals. **

**McClean and Scott used a Fairlight CVI graphics machine, which was the video “sister” to the Fairlight CMI digital sampling synthesizer made famous by the likes of Herbie Hancock and Art Of Noise.**

READ THE REST AT THE CITINITE BLOG

THE BEST RAPPER IN SOUTH AFRICA



I JUST WITNESSED THE BEST SCHITT THAT HAS COMPLETELY RESTORED MY FAITH IN RAP MUSIC. AND IT GOES BY THE NAME OF RIKY RICK. I AM LISTENING TO HIS ALBUM NOW. TRACK FOR TRACK KILLER. SO MANY STORIES. THE BOY IS SINGING, RAPPING, MOURNING, MACKING, FIGHTING, FUCKING, WINNING...A REAL TREAT.

SWEDISH BANANA

MAPEI ON THE TOM? NEONAZI HOMOEROTICA? JACKING PARIS FROM DETROIT GRAND PUBAHS' FACE?



prancehall writes

Friday, June 12, 2009

CITINITE SAYS: Optigram

MANNY Z SAYS:
**Optigram is a new project I've started... some samples here at Flickr. Optigram.net website coming soon, once there's enough work completed**

GO OOGLE AND DROOL AT THE Sepulveda / Optigram's photostream





YOUR AUNT RUNS THE ROAD



SOLID GROOVE REMIX. NUFF SAID.

sunship feat warrior queen-almighty father (solid groove mix)

SOUND PELLEGRINO COVER ART

SOUND PELLEGRINO COVER ART...REVISIONIST...CLASSICIST...DUTTINESS
MUST LOOK A DREAM AT 12" DISC SIZE.




A: YOU'RE A JERK!! B: I KNOW!!

BEEN SUCKED INTO THE YANKEE TEEN RAP/DANCE/FASHION SENSATION THAT IS 'JERKIN'.

MY INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD WAS THE JERKIN WITH JHAWK MIXTAPE WHICH IS NICE

(ASIDE: HOW YOUNG IS THIS WHOLE SCENE...AND SO GUTTERMOUTH!! THESE TEEN RAPPERS POSSES AND UNCANNY ABILITY TO WRITE OODLES AND OODLES OF BANGERZ ABOUT *EATING OUT THE PUSSY*)

READ MORE AT COCAINE BLUNTS

YOU'RE A JERK - NEWBOYS

DANCE CRAZES ARE IN FULL EFFECT...ALWAYS!!





BIG SPACE

LET ME HEAR YOU SAY *NEW TUNE*!!

BIG SPACE HAS BEEN COOKING UP SOME INSANE HEAT. GO CHECK THE NEW BANGERS ON BIG SPACE'S MYSPACE


*WHINE UP (INFINITY)* IS MY FAVOURITE JOINT RIGHT NOW!! LEVELS ARE UP IN THE SKY.

L-VIS 1990

I AM OFFICIALLY A FANATIC. SO FAR THE KID HAS DONE NO WRONG...I AM REALLY EXCITED...I THINK I HAVE A SEMI...

IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY, DOWNLOAD HIS DUBPLATE MIX
THOROUGH THROUGH AND THROUGH!!

READ THE INTERVIEW

PROMO FOR HIS EP


THIS IS THE B-SIDE TO UNITED GROOVE.

Thursday, June 11, 2009

CITINITE SAYS: Earl "Snake Hips" Tucker



**Often called the "Human Boa Constrictor" and the "Gelatinous Dancer". Originated and made famous the dance called the "Snakehips" in the early 1920's. A dance that is a wriggling, hip type dance that is descriptive of its name.

Tucker came to New York in the mid 1920's via the May Kemp show from Baltimore. Snakehips got his first dance Show at Connie's Inn shortly after arriving into town and became a fixture for many years there. As time passed he would work for many
Night Clubs and theatres namely The Lafayette and Cotton Club.

His costume was designed to show off his movements; it consisted of a loose fitting silk shirt with puffy sleeves, form fitting black bell bottom pants with a sequined cumberbun with a sparkling buckle in the center from which hung a large tassle. Sometimes he would replace the cumberbun and tassle with a sash wrapped around his waist a few times, tied, and hung down at the side. His aura was coarse, deep suggestive and menacing all at the same time, like a cobra stalking its prey.**

READ MORE AT:
DANCE HISTORY ARCHIVES

Monday, June 8, 2009

!DIRTY!DIRTY!

WE CAN DANCE
AND WE CAN SING
LOVE AND HAPPINESS
WE CAN BRING

Photobucket

SHUFFLESHAME

IT'S NO SECRET THAT I AM A GRUMPY CUNT. AND MUCH OF BEING A GRUMPY CUNT INVOLVES THE WORK OF HATING EVERYONE WHO (A) DID NOT GIVE BIRTH TO YOU OR (B) IS NOT WEARING YOUR UNDERPANTS RIGHT NOW.

BARRY AND JORDAN AKA SHUFFLESHAME FROM JOHANNESBURG MAKE IT VERY VERY HARD BEING A HATER CUNT...THEY MAKE IT NEAR IMPOSSIBLE. I LOVE THEM TO BITS AND WANT TO GIVE BIRTH TO THEIR CHILDREN AND HAVE OFFERED TO LEND THEM ALL MY UNDERWEAR.

THEY PLAYED MY LAST !DIRTY!DIRTY! PARTY...HERE IS THEIR SET

ShuffleShame AT !DIRTY!DIRTY! 29th May 2009



'**Last week Friday, the second !DIRTY!DIRTY! party, saw the debut performance of Jordan and I as ShuffleShame... !DIRTY!DIRTY! are amazing parties and this one was no different.

We had so much fun we decided to record the set we played out for all of ya'll that asked (shot.) and for those of ya'll that couldn't be there...**'


HERE IS A PICTURE OF BARRY FROM SUFFLESHAME BEING A STUD PIMP AND PLAYING THE TUBA


http://www.mediafire.com/?gjmdtjzq1w4t

ELEPHANT SHOES



I just got married!! I am a married man!! Besides the thrills of getting my back patted raw and seeing reels of young hopefuls' hopes dashed, I am beeming in love.

The soundtrack to my buzz has mostly been (gasp!), dancehall and uk funky...I have been in Sweden for the last while and that has meant no township tech (and for some crazy reason unbeknownst to me, my wife refuses to pop the new DJ Cleo CDs out of their clingwrap packs).

I am not sad about this, in fact, this bubbly Carrabean Rave has only but added more pep to my step (which was already sufficiently pepped).

The favourite things have been:

MATT SHADETEK'S DUTTY ARTZ MIX



Matt Shadetek’s Dutty Artz Blend:
1. Dotstar, "Stick Up" (Dutty Artz Dub)
2. Father Bookie, "Mi Name" (Matt Shadetek Tropical Rmx)
3. Kingdom, "Fogs"
4. Noble Society, "The Swarm"
5. 77Klash feat. Matt Shadetek, "Pressure"
6. Jahdan Blakkamoore, "Go Round Payola" (Matt Shadetek Bye Haters Rmx)
7. Marcus Visionary, "Big and Bashy"
8. Matt Shadetek, "Battery Charge"
9. Matt Shadetek, "Pure Riddim"
10. Jahdan Blakkamoore, "The General"
11. Beniton The Menace, "Recession"





DOWNLOAD JACKMASTER'S MIX FOR THE WIREBLOCK

Jackmaster's wireblock mix Tracklist:
1. Elecktroids - Future Intro
2. Lando Kal - Fuzzy Ankles (Wireblock)
3. Lunice - Wobble (Unreleased)
4. Guido - The Way You Make Me Feel (Punch Drunk)
5. Shabba Ranks - Mr Loverman D.M. Ragga Hop Remix (Epic)
6. Dials - Riggle Giddum (Unreleased)
7. Rustie - Ultraman Remix (Unreleased)
8. Debruit - Pouls (Musique Large)
9. Redinho - Mo Brap (Wireblock)
10. Ghosts On Tape - Equator Jam (Wireblock)
11. Peter Digital Orchestra aka Fulgeance - Red & White (Wireblock)
12. Apparat - Hold On Modeselektor Remix (Shitkatapult)
13. $tinkworx - Coelacanth (Strange Life)
14. Shadow Dancer - What Is Natural (Boys Noize)
15. L-Vis 1990 - United Groove (Mad Decent)
16. Apple - Chantes (Unreleased)
17. Lil Silva - Different (Unreleased)
18. Sticky - Juneirah Riddim (Ltd.)
19. Emvee - Nocturnal (Wireblock)
20. Secret Agent Gel Feat. Coppa Kid - Crew (Bok Bok Remix) (Unreleased)
21. Starkey - Knob Twiddler (Unreleased)
22. Dorian Concept - Trilingual Dance Sexperience (Unreleased)
23. 77Klash - Pressure (Unreleased)
24. Touchy Subject - Wicked Act (Wireblock)
25. Crime Mob - Knuck If You Buck (Accapella)
26. DJ Oddz - Strung Up VIP (Black Majik)
27. Mr. De' - Detroit Zoo (Electrofunk)
28. Joker - Purple City (Kapsize)
29. Low Deep - I Know (Colourfulstate)
30. Redinho Bare Blips (Wireblock)
31. Clarke - Dirty Pixie (Warp)
32. Ludacris - Pussy Poppin'
33. AFX - Analord 9 Edit (Rephlex)
34. Bonecrusher - Never Scared (So So Def)
35. Rustie - Jagz The Smack (Stuffrecords)

ON THE WAGON/OFF THE WAGON

FAMOUS TEETOTALLERS

Adolf Hitler
Jacob Zuma
Che Guevara
Bruce Lee
Donald Trump

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

WHAT IS MARRIAGE

L-VIS 1990

CURRENTLY RUNNING THE WORLD WITH HIS DUBBLESTEP EDITS AND THIS VIDEO

SIPPIN YAK IN THE BACK OF MY BLACK ON BLACK LAC

MORE GANGSTERISM PT 1: FUCK YO MOTHAFUKKIN MYSPACE PAGE



SPOEKINO

!DIRTY!DIRTY! CLUB GUY



I HAVE A NEW CLUB NIGHT IN JOHANNESBURG. IT IS CALLED !DIRTY!DIRTY! IT'S THROWN BY MY POSSE, THE PARTY CLUB. I DJ AS H.I.V.I.P WITH BIG SPACE. WE PLAY SOMETIMES PLAY MUSIC TO MAKE THE GIRLS DANCE, SOMETIMES WE PLAY MUSIC TO MAKE YOUR FACE BLEED.

THESE ARE PICS FORM THE LAST ONE.