Womack is Back

Heard this via Cerys On 6′s show from Sunday, they’ve been playing this a lot on BBC 6Music but unusually it’s not an old 2011 release, the album’s not released yet apart from this single. I thought on first listen this was a mashup, it sounds closer to Jamie XX’s post-remix work on Gil Scott-Heron rather than anything that comes out of studios nowadays. Production is by Damon Albarn and Richard Russell, and it goes a little way of reclaiming Damon’s career post that partly laughable heynonnynony of Dr Dee (for the record I don’t hate all the LP, might play some of it on the podcast, but some of it really doesn’t work especially packaged as a solo LP). Anyway the LP also titled ‘Bravest Man In The Universe’ is out early June.

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Old Skool Jungle FIRE!

This came in via the contact form, and pushes all my old-skool jungle buttons. It’s the debut single from Kamistry No. 1 – like Fire especially. Booyaka! *gunshot*

Next single is out in July, on the results of the first one, check it!

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Dem Girls Stealing My Rolex – 4 years later mashup confession

Being a Man Of Many Aliases (some of which have never been shared, dear reader) after DJNoNo and before I was Captain Obvious (and round about the same time as DJ Contaminations) I did a single spoof track by Buyrite Soundsystem, a spoof of a few friends of mine and their Rolex/Wiley connection, and the general tendency for neon, whoop-whoop lazer noises and deep basslines predominant at the time. Except rather than a cool 4×4 UK bass (yes that’s what they called it, 4×4 rather than 2-step, silly term) mashup, Zig & Zag got in on the mix.

Must have been doing something right as APC posted it back in the day, but now I can confess it was I, L’Eclair. Although anyone with half a brain probly worked it out, given that it sounded like DJNoNo Goes Neon Hoxton Rave.

Buyrite Soundsystem – Dem Girls Stealing My Rolex

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The Frown

If you cross Peter Greenaway with a pop video, you get this spooky gem ‘The National’ from The Frown. They’re from South Africa, and Spoek Mathambo shouted them out on BBC Radio 6 yesterday.

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