Steve Barker’s “On The Wire” radio show is 20 years old and should be familiar to many of my readers. The show has featured legendary tie-ins with Lee Perry, On-U Sound and a host of others as talented as they are diverse. Barker also contributes the monthly dub reviews column to The Wire magazine. Reading …
Since Breakcore as a genre seems to be at the verge of “acceptance”, it’s worth looking back and evaluating some of the history. A whole new audience has emerged in the last couple of years, that in many cases seems to know very little about the history, ideas and culture. This situation is not helped …
Win the entire JUNK back catalogue! You lucky lucky people! Aphasic is a stalwart of the breakcore/speedcore/whatevercore scene. He was one of the founders of the legendary Dead by Dawn nights at Brixton’s 121 Centre and released a number of tunes on the seminal Praxis label before starting his own Ambush Records with DJ Scud. …
I did better than Mark K-Punk at the Maffia/Aphex ATP thing last week. Ended up sandwiched between two sets of mates in the queue, saw a bunch of people inside… shame about most of the “entertainment”. Earlier in the day I had been listening to Dennis Brown Presents Prince Jammy: Umoja / 20th Century DEBwise. …
With everyone from DJ /Rupture to All Tomorrow’s Parties linking to my Mark Stewart & The Maffia piece, I thought I’d better remove some of the more serious errors from it. See also tackhead.com for an overview of recent and forthcoming Maffia activity and K-Punk with details of a Resonance FM special on Monday.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we present for your delectation, a load of rough with a dab of smooth, the massive sounds of… Now hosted by the good people at http://www.londonsoundscape.net/ Tracklist: 1. pierre henry – la dixieme symphonie 2. king tubby – a rougher version 3. sweet sweetback’s badass song 4. bong ra – soundwave 5. …
yesterday, down my road: mentalist 1: “oh yeah I found loads of great dubplates in there”. me: “huh?” mentalist 1: “yeah Studio One, Prince Buster…” me: [speechless] mentalist 1: “yeah all that stuff like the Fun Boy 3. [mutters] it’s not my thing really. [continues muttering, stares into space]. me: oh right. I guess that’s …
The goth-dub retro fusion mashup has now OFFICIALLY begun over at Pounding System with Dubversion’s rather excellent Bela Lugosi’s Dread available for download and comment. He’s currently weighing up the logistics of a vinyl release complete with remixes by Dub Dada and the one like Aphasic (Ambush/Junk). Get it now for free and tell him …