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RC 214: Playing Hooky

3 weddings, 2 DJ gigs (I’m kinda of a DJ!) and one New Order gig…that was 2011. Hopefully 2012 will be quieter/busier (delete as applicable). And hopefully I don’t turn into the Shit Bears Say skit…already invented cubstep and dumbstep so far…Amazeballs!

Various covers of New Order, I talk about The Artist, Canterbury Group and early 90′s Welsh pop, the aforementioned wedding, the New Order gig at the Troxy (GILLIAN WE LOVE U!), play an uptempo mix, some Star Wars rave and at least one track that is the Anti-Wedding!

Dubstep is the SHIT!!!! Wuwubuwub… (100Mb, 1:49)

Tracklist:

  • Shit Bears Say and Leftovers
  • Destroyer – Leave Me Alone (from MOJO’s Power Corruption and Lies Covered)
  • Instamatic – Wedding Hounds (Futureheads vs Billy Idol – For Ian and Naomi)
  • The Simonsound – Tour de Mars
  • S.C.U.M. – 5-8-6 (from MOJO’s Power Corruption and Lies Covered)
  • Michael Jackson – Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough (Gigamesh remix)
  • Grum – Together Together (bootleg)
  • DJs From Mars – Eine Kleine Big Booty Bonkers (Dizzee Rascal vs. Bombs Away vs. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) (Best of Bootie 2011)
  • Gay Marvine – Doyouwannafuck? Do You? (Sylvester re-edit)
  • Mark Archer (Altern-8) – Frequency (Chevron Remix)
  • Lobsterdust – Roll It (Salt-N-Pepa vs. Yeah Yeah Yeahs vs. A-Trak) (Best of Bootie 2011 )
  • Dunproofin’ – All The Way Free
  • Mark Archer – Don’t Make Me Destroy You (Rave Wars II – The Hardcore Strikes Back )
  • K-X-P – Murder (from MOJO’s Power Corruption and Lies Covered)
  • Paddy Roberts – Don’t Upset the Little Kiddywinks
  • Wendy O’ Williams and Lemmy – Stand By Your Man (thanks to Music For Maniacs!)
  • The Soft Machine – Why Are We Sleeping?
  • Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci – Meth Aros Tan Haf (Can’t Wait Till Summer)
  • tbc – Her Breath Is The Wind (Rhiannon’s Breath) (Fleetwood Mac vs Sia)
  • Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci – Sometimes the father is the Son
  • Paddy Roberts – Growing Old
  • Another’s Blood – Lonesome Tonight (from MOJO’s Power Corruption and Lies Covered)
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The bigger the bull

Somehow despite growing up around english folk and jazz I’ve never heard of Jake Thackray…apparently Wild Beasts, Arctic Monkeys and Jarvis Cocker are fans, and I can hear why. And like a lot of the 1970′s and 1950′s acerbic songs, from Paddy Roberts to Tom Lehrer to this you can hear a dark serious undercurrent closer to the dark humour of Leonard Cohen that is still seems very relevant today – even if some of his songs wouldn’t survive modern moral scrutinity. And Lah-Di-Dah is probably one of the sweetest yet most realistic love songs ever (thanks to soundhog for posting a Jasper Carrott (yes!) cover of one of his songs…)

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Megaupload gets a better song, WW3 doesn’t happen (yet)

I’m sure most people have been haunted by that Megggaaa MEgaaaUpploaddd… song that reportedly cost 3 million (!!! Was it extra for a decent tune? Apparently Kim dotCom is releasing an album? Not sure how he’d do that from prison, then again rappers have managed it in the past…) but Dan Bull comes up trumps for a figure probably far less on the whole Mega-affair.

There has been a domino effect in the Megaupload affair, a lot of similar sites like FileSonic or Fileserve have shutup shop, closed their rewards programs or changed the sharing to only your own files. Although I was horrified by the Hollywood use of NZ police over a fairly minor matter and rather imperialistic approach the US is taking re: copyright (ACTA in EU is going to be voted on tomorrow apparently – have you spoken to your MEP?) – part of me always thought filelocker/cyberlocker sites who were selling premium access to mostly illegal files were doing pretty much the same as those who sell their own or other people’s mashup. I refused to pay for ‘premium’ access, although I’m sure some used those accounts for legal pursuits *cough*. But certainly there were people sharing files that were their own, mixtapes and albums, tracks and collaborative projects…legally shared. To shut down the whole site cos of illegally shared content was also dodgy.

So I didn’t really cry for Mega, although I do think the whole affair is disproportionate, and has rather more serious issues re: how much America can interfere with other countries, and draft in their local forces into another stupid war, after the war on drugs, the war on terrorism (hey guys those both worked well didn’t they?), now comes the war on copyright.

I mean if they come for the pirates, or even quasi-legal or DMCA co-operating sites, who’s next? Usually I would dismiss this to paranoia but fact is fast overtaking fiction in modern times, from V for Vendetta to Watergate Part II and 1984. there does seem to be a flexing of muscles into a sort of global justice/cop role on the part of the US government (and sadly the UK government as their favourite lapdog), which will backfire…certainly entertaining escalation over Iran, or say trying to raid copyright infringement in Russia – (not signed up with ACTA unsurprisingly, neither has China) could lead to a militaristic response from those countries which would make Iraq seem like primary school. WW3? You betcha.

Actually if Iran or North Korea really wanted to make a few bob AND annoy the US government they should setup content server farms for the likes of Mega, LOL.

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Rusko kicks brostep out of sight

Rusko, the disavowed inventor of brostep, surprised me by creating a complete piano banger of a CHOOOON, Somebody to Love. Now this is proper old skool dubstep, with extra hands-in-the-air rave piano/break kicks in for good measure (and max smiles). Video is really sweet too (and yes like the YT comment I want a WAKE THE FUCK UP tshirt now).

So are we now agreeing the last few years didn’t happen? And continuing on from where Skream’s La Roux mix and Shy FX left off, ignoring the Radio 1 emo trance and going back to the original house/rave feel? Good. Works far better. He said he was creating an anti-brostep album, seems he’s fighting ‘em in the trenches with the one Kryptonite the brostep brigade can’t defend against: tunes. And unlike the headbanging jock moshpits, it gets the girls in too, I bet. Double win!

Coming out tomorrow, and gonna be big…

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Music Trawl: Here comes the Afrobeats

I’d kind of lost track of south african house and kwaito since the last time but one I was there…I’d heard bits since but it seemed just like normal house from South Africa, and the 1Xtra documentary I heard tonight on Afrobeatstalked about that, that the house is moving back to the kwaito/local elements (which I think is a good idea, because faceless house can be made anywhere by anyone, but not those beats and that feel, it’s unique. The difference between kwaito – which currently is a form of South African hiphop but traditionally much closer to the music on Graceland and Duck Rock – and south african house has become increasingly blurred, as kwaito takes more house elements and Afro/SA house does likewise…).

So inspired by that documentary and listening to DJ Edu I went on one of my legendary YouTube/site trawls, not done of those in ages!

Here’s the big Afrobeats tune by D’Banq – Oliver Twist, Estelle and Skepta are all over this:

An example of this kwaito/house crossover: Mr Uptight – Rhythmic Elements. Kwaito? House? Who cares when it’s this much fun!

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