Just a little roundup of whats rocking our world right now, starting of with Harry Shotta, the best MC we have heard for a while. With an extreamly witty and machine gun delivery he stormed the drum n bass scene originally along with junglist stallwarts Skibadee and Funsta. However Harry's skills are too big for just 160-170bpm's of DnB and he has increasingly been making a big noise in the Hip Hop world and has even spat over Dolly Parton's 'Nine to Five'! The spittin' boy wizzard is all over youtube but we have selected our favourite clip below of his flows over Dead Prez's 'Hip Hop'.
Next up is Flutist and Beatboxer and like Harry a former Drum N Bass MC, Nathan Flutebox Lee. Basically he does exactly what it says on the tin ; Beatboxes and plays the flute.....at the same time! We love his link ups with Beardy Man as demonstrated in the video below :
Finally we want to celebrate the rising profile of Kieren Dickins AKA DELS. An incredibly versatile and experimental MC who believe it or not comes from little old Ipswich ; BLS second home after Sarf London. We are naturally proud of DELS sucsess as it's proof, if needed, that there is a huge amount of talent in this Eastern backwater. We can't claim any part of his sucsess, it was in fact electro rockers Hot Chip, although we have enjoyed working with his hugely talented Ip's producers and rappers PEP's and Eli.(More about them soon) We are hoping these local heroes might be next to signed too DELS label Big Dada, home to UK Hip Hop Hero Roots Manuva. DEL's is also an extreamly talented graphic designer (See artwork for his Shapeshift EP below)
UPDATE : This as good a place as any to post our latest rock/hip hop mash up of Tame impala V Bruno Mars/BOB
Just to proove that here at BLS we are not all about Hip Hop/Urban musical styles we present a new mash up of South Central LA's Hip Hop Slackers The Pharcyde on Oxford Indie 'Shoegazers' Ride track 'Leave Them all behind'.
It has also made us think it would be a good idea to highlight some of our favourite Hip Hop and Rock hook ups over the years. Probably the most influential rock/hip hop crossovers would be RunDMC and Areosmiths 1986 track 'Walk This Way' (The groundbreaking video is below)
The story goes that Run DMC's late, great DJ; Jam Master Jay used to use the opening
two measure drum beat intro by Areosmith drummer Joey Kramer in thier early sets, looping it into an endless beat. Years later when approached by thier Record Company to release the track with the 70's glam rockers Areosmith, Run DMC were suprised and revealed they had never listend to the track beyond the drum beat intro!
Rick Rubin & Jay Z
The sucsess of the track opened the floodgates and produced a rash of rock and hip hop collaborations. Although not a collaboration, The Beastie Boys work with Def Jam producer Rick Rubin, produced one of the greatest collision of rap and hip hop in thier track 'Fight for your Right to Party'. (Video of the original track and the star studded 2011 update below)
On the heavy side of things we have to mention hook ups like Public Enemy and Anthrax seen performing below at the 2004 Hip Hop awards
Also loving his thrash metal is Ice T and his rock outfit 'Body Count' made infamous for thier LAPD baiting track 'Cop Killer', which suprisingly didnt go down with the United States 'moral majority'. Ice T said when asked about the bands name stated :
"We named the group Body Count because every Sunday night in L.A., I'd watch the news, and the newscasters would tally up the youths killed in gang homicides that week and then just segue to sports. 'Is that all I am,' I thought, 'a body count?'"
You can see how this trend lead to one of the most sucsessfull Rock/Rap collaboration, Jay Z and 'emo' rockers Linkin Park (video below)
Most of this mid eighties craze for Rock/Rap hybrids concentrated on the heavy side of the US 'thrash metal' scene like Anthrax and Slayer. However where things get more interesting is on the mash up scene that cast a wider net of both the rock and Rap/RnB scene. Probably the greatest mash up was Freelance Hellraisrers The Strokes Vs Christina Aguilera mash up - 'A Stroke Of Genie-us' (video below)
We also have to mention Belgium based art rockers SoulWax '2 Many DJ's' bootie/mash up project that mixed Salt n Peppa with the Stooges and Nirvana with Beyonce
(check back for updates, this blog will be updated, please add ur sugestions for the best rock/rap crossovers in the comments section)
Jimi Needles : M.I.A vs The Honey Drippers - Paper Presidents
Freqnik & WDRE: The Message vs The Message Funk Mashup
Jimi Needles: Dizzee Rascal vs Dizzy Gillespie - Dizzy Sirens
The Gaff : Bring the Noise
DJ Tommy2Bob : Champ V Tramp mash
Blade : The Coming Is Near
Hi Karate : I Got Soul
???- One for The Money
DJ Tommy 2Bob: Let's Breath & Stop
DJ Tommy 2Bob : Dangerous Horn
Here at BLS we are still huge fans of the mash up genre and present to you today a roundup of some of the best mash up artists out there. The great thing is that nearly all of them are from Soundcloud and can be downloaded for free. Below the tracklist for the mix we have pasted in the original tracks (with no radio edits, we had to censor the mix for broadcast) We have chosen to select dub, reggae and funk tracks combined with 90’s era hip hop accapella’s, which to be honest always seem to work the best on a mash up level.
A couple of artists we have to big up in particular for their genius level mashology. Firstly New York based producer & DJ Max Tannone who is represented here by the excellent track ‘Panta Move’ which combines Talib Kweli’s ‘Move Something’ with Lee Scratch Perry’s incredibly influential riddim track ‘Black Panta’. I heard about Max from trawling my favourite NYC record shop Turntable Lab and seeing his album of Talib Kweli versus Dub Reggae called ‘Dub Kweli’. A bit of research and i found the album had been bootlegged from his own free upload on his website.Max has uploaded both the Dub Kweli album and his Mos Def versus Reggae album and the incredibly useful (for any potential mash up producer) instrumentals for free download.
Next up is probably the most well known of all the producers here is Londons own J Star. We have been buying and playing out his 7" for years and i have nearly worn out my copy of his stylus stimulating classic hip hop/reggae mash up 'Tooting Gangstar' (Toots and the Maytals versus Gangstar- its on our mixtape UK Bass Culture Vol2) His Soundcloud page is as good as anywhere to start and you can get some of vinyl releases still on the aforementioned Turntablelab. But its back to NYC for 'Producers, Party Rockers & Record Nerds' Freqnik and WDRE who really get the party started on the mixtape with thier inspired funky reggae version of Wiz Khalifa's Black & Yellow, and just when you thought you were two bored of 'The Message' mashups they produce an almost definitive mix of Grandmaster Flash's slightly corny social message track that rumour has it they were instructed to produce by the pony tails in A&R . Another UK DJ & Mashup producer rinsing out the Soundcloud community is 'bootlegger extrordinaire' Jimi Needles . This guy really knows his battle breaks and adds quirky, complex jazz and funk rythms to MIA & Dizzy Rascal on the two tracks we have selected. We also loved Canada's The Gaff's mash of Public Enemy's 'Bring The Noise' ; his use of the Lowell Fusion's (or is it the Brothers Lloyds all star version? i cant tell) instrumental of the funk classic 'Tramp' inspired us to include our own little Tramp v Champ cut up's that we have sporadically dropped in to our live DJ sets over the years.
The Soundcloud Top 9 Mash Ups tracks (In order as on the mixtape) :
As the established music industry goes into a terminal decline, the economy collapses and mainstream entertainment and media present music only if its related to mindless celebrity, lame talent shows or the most processed dolly like clones ; it is more and more important to get your unsigned/underground material to the right ears and find a market.(phew! that was a long sentence)
The internet seems to make it all the more difficult as big budget web marketing is bound to restrict you to a handful of views and you will be more likely to get an STD than your vid going viral on YouTube.
Anyway the answer to the question in the title of this post is remarkably simple : just post your tracks to BBC Introducing (follow the link) and get your tracks directly to DJ's like Target on BBC 1xtra, Tom Robinson at BBC6 and Friction on the BBC Asian network. Simple, we did it and we will let you know how we did. Your limited to three uploads, so let us know which tracks on the Blessed Love Studios player on the right of the blog you would select as most likely to get airplay.
We heard about this after watching the excellent BBC show, Goldies Band. The only thing we don't like is the whole Royal Family and by Royal Appointment thing, which goes totally against the very cool, innovative and radical theme and content of the show. We have always loved Goldie who is, appropriately TV gold right now after triumphing as a classical music conductor, but best remembered by those a little older as the master of the time stretched 'Amen' break sample. Goldie is joined by a group of 'mentors' who include the wonderful king of jazz/hip hop poetry, Soweto Kinch who together try and find the most cutting edge young musicians from typically 'challenged' backgrounds. That 'reality show' sob stories soon become irrelevant when we are introduced to very edgy and inspired talent. The group (in episode two) meet up and work together on a performance for Prince Harry (Groan! They should have got a festival at least) You have to hear the female singer and songwriter, guitarist and harmonica player in particular, but the stress is on them being in a band and working in a group (something we are very keen on here at BLS) Will it end up as a Special AKA of the new millennium? We hope so, tune in.
Screen grabs from the video which can be played below
Scroll down for part two of the video
Although delighted by the popularity of our mixes on the Soundcloud platform, we wanted to try something a bit different with this latest mix of the latest dubstep by DJ Tommy 2 Bob, so decided to attempt a 'video mash up' to compliment the beats with imagery and graphics. Influenced by the VJ exploits of Warp Films and a host of 'gorilla' film makers on the web we chucked a wide range of out favourite films, music videos and other random sources into the video blender using Adobe Premiere. (Wish we had Adobe After Effects as well but we managed with Premiere alone which is not everyone's favourite video production suite but its the one we are the most familiar with.)
We acknowledge we have run rough shod over copyright laws to achieve this but think we have come out with an 'art work' in its own right that could bring a new audience to some of the film makers and artists involved. We recommend you check out the source material itself, so in that spirit i will list the source material here :
1. Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance, is a 1982 film directed by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke.
The film consists primarily of slow motion and time-lapse stock footage of cities and many natural landscapes across the United States. A 'cult' film in the late seventies and eighties and has been a favourite of 'VJ's' (Video Disk Jockeys) in clubs for years. The soundtrack by Phillip Glass has also been hugely influential.
The film provides most of the background visuals in Part 1 of the video.
2. Naqoyqatsi: Life as War, Follow up film to Koyaanisqatsi is a film which could be described as an experimental documentary, although not a straightforward documentation of reality, or an art film. It is the third and final film of the 1983-2002 Qatsi trilogy written, directed, and produced by Godfrey Reggio, and edited by Jon Kane. The three films of the trilogy have musical scores by composer Philip Glass, but no commentary or speech.The film makes up a lot of the background images in part 2 of the video and is more disturbing and less pastoral than Koyaanisqatsi.
3. Rize is a documentary movie starring Lil' C, Tommy Johnson, also known as Tommy the Clown and Miss Prissy. The documentary exposes the new dance form known as krumping that originated in the early 1990s in Inner City Los Angeles. The film was written and directed by David LaChapelle, previously known as a Vanity Fair photographer. It gives a political context to Hip Hop dance culture by reflecting on the aftermath of the 90's LA riots and the notorious community relations of the LAPD (LA Police). We chroma keyed (the 'flying Superman' effect normally used with a blue or green screen, but we got around that) a lot of the amazing dance sequences that in the original sometimes look like they have been artificially 'sped up'. We did in fact speed them up as well as slowing sequences down. Do yourself a favour if you enjoy watching dance and see the whole movie, its a must.
4. DJ Majuva Township Funk Video,
Elvis Maswanganyi, better known as DJ Mujava, is a South African DJ.He was raised in the Pretorian town of Attridgeville, where local taxi drivers distributed CDs of his music to their fares.The fantastic video can be found here : DJ Majuva Township Funk Video .
Township Funk is a Kwaito style track, Kwaito is a music genre that emerged in Johannesburg, South Africa, during the late 1990s. It is house music combined with local African sounds and is championed by western DJ's like Diplo.
We also included Busta Rhymes absurd and surreal classic video for his track Woo Ha (Got u all in check) I think its directed by Spike Jones and featured Busta at the top of his game (Why did he cut off his locks?) We used this because of the track 'Disco Rekah' by Loefah that opens the mix and samples the track.
4. Non Newtonian Fluids & Bass.
Using excellent examples of experiments on youtube of the effects of non-newtonian fluids such as the conveniently simple mixture of cornstarch & water added to a speaker cone probably playing dubstep. Don't do it to your Dad's new stereo! Find out more here : Bass so deep its underwater , Colin's Lab DIT Cymatics, Creature in the sonic liquid
5. One for the heads who remember 'Charley Says' was a series of very short cut-out animated cartoon Public Information Films for children, shown in the United Kingdom in the 1970s and 1980s for London's Central Office of Information.
Couldn't resist matching it with the hilarious cautionary warning about the drug M-Cat in High Rankin's track 'Meow Meow'. Just say no kids!
6. Um Bongo and Kia-Ora fruit drinks advert from the 1980's. Included for their pure nostalgia content really. The crows pretending to be dogs in the Kia Ora advert were always cool, and the Um Bongo advert was the first to include graffiti to my knowledge, and no, they do not drink it in the Congo to my knowledge!
We started putting this video in late Feb 2011 (takes ages to 'render' footage like this, even with a fast PC) but friends who have seen it thought it was about or included references to the Japanese Tsunami and Nuclear disaster. Well it wasn't meant too as the event had not even happened and the images of waves, floods, damaged buildings and nuclear power plants were all coincidental but perhaps a Little prophetic. Spooky or what?
The full audio mix is pasted below (we had to cut it down for the video due to youtubes 2gb upload limit)
Set list
Rusko : Come Ere and Say That
Rusko : Woo Boost (Bogmore Remix)
Loefah : Disko Rekah
Bird Peterson : Zutopong (Akira Kiteshi VIP Mix)
Breakage & Roots Manuva : Run 'Em Out
Ivory : Hand Grenade (Datsick & Excursion Mix)
High Rankin : Meow Meow
Bassnectar - Boombox (DJ Vadim & Mixicans with Guns Remix)
Bassnectar : Teleport Massive (RJD2 remix)
Precocious talent emerging from the Waterfront with a freestyle hip hop meets folk pop version of Jessie J's 'Do it like a dude'. We are really excited by this collaboration of multi talented Daizy and top young Ippie spitters Lev, Mo-Tive and producer J Dot that just came together in a very organic way at our regular workshops at The Waterfront Community Centre. The spontaneous set went on for quite a lot longer but i missed a lot of it on camera and didnt get a chance to better record the audio. 'Proper' version coming soon we promise!
1.Dead Prez v Antibalas 'Turn Off the Radio' (2bob remix)
2.Ak'sent Featuring Beenie Man 'Zingy'
3. Afro Heat Vol 4 Mashup
4.Cheryl Lynn 'Encore' (2bob remix)
5.Klaxons 'No Diggidy'
6.Adele 'Rollin' in the Deep' (Jamie XX remix)
7. Dj Manuva ‘Township Funk’
8.Mim Suleiman 'Mingi'
9.Bassnector 'West Coast Lo Fi'
10.Yasmin & JamieXX‘Touch Me’
11.Bonobo ‘We Could Forever’
12. The XX ‘Crystalised’ (Panue v Arete & Kaution Remix)
13. Deadmau5 versus The XX ‘I remember Shelter’
Inspired by tne uber producer of the moment, Jamie XX of the XX, we have produced this mix with the same minimal style mixing Afro Beat with the best modern bangers. Using Ableton Live 8 excellent warping tools we also added beats from the likes of Bow Wow Wow, Wretch 32 and Fela Kuti and Antibalas.
If you want more from Jamie XX check out his recent BBC 6 mix here.
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