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As we kick off this week in the warm up to the party on Friday night, we bring you Exel’s interview and mix from Reggae Roast’s latest show at the Jazz Cafe featuring Ishu. Check it out out and have a listen to the sort of sounds they’ll be bringing you at GET SOME 002 here: GET SOME!
PEACE
So, if you don’t already know, I am lovin’ Joy’s work right now and have been for at least 6 months. Whatever this guy touches is GOLD! I caught up with him at Trouble Vision (good rave!) and heard this on the night. One of my heroes of electronic music, Four Tet, who also recently collaborated with Burial (here), has now teamed up with Joy and let him loose on his new single: Love Cry. Have a listen and see what you think, in my opinion it is another exmple of why this young buck is gonna be flying the flag for the UK for a very long time. Long may it continue.
PEACE
JOE – RUT
It’s here and it looks BIG! This is what you need to know…
After the success of our launch party at the Gramaphone in October, GET SOME moves to The Book Club in Shoreditch for the follow up. For our Christmas spesh, headlining are some of the most exciting DJs in Lond…on – GREENA (www.myspace.com/ukgreena) and EXEL & ISHU. The Book Club (http://www.wearetbc.com) is a new venue in Shoreditch, offering art, film, food, drinking and dancing over two floors with excellent lighting and sound.
GREENA’s mixes represent so much of what is great about UK underground music past and present. Full of energy his sets incorporate Grime, 2-Step, Baltimore, Funky, Hip-Hop and Dubstep and always technically on point. Check the Fact magazine mix [http://www.sendspace.com/file/w280dx]
EXEL & ISHU are two artists from the Reggae Roast collective. Regularly rocking out parties across London and abroad the duo stand for positive vibes as they lay down pure fire sets of Dubstep, Reggae and Dancehall. Watch out for forthcoming Reggae Roast releases: Exel & Moodie Reggae Roast Mix Cd ‘Roots Uprising’ Coming out on December 14th, Exel produced ‘Willing & Able’ released on October 12th – Getting plays from Rodigan on Kiss.
Supporting our headliners will be residents SSG (http://soundcloud.com/ssgssg), Dark Arx (http://www.myspace.com/darkarx), Whiskey & Ouzo (www.getsomeuk.com) laying down an eclectic mix of UKG//DUBSTEP//GRIME//HOUSE//FUNKY//TECH.
Free before 10pm, £5 after
Check out the website for interviews, exclusive mixes and up to date information on the night: http://www.getsomeuk.com
TELL A FREIND TO TELL A FRIEND
PEACE
EASY…
It’s Monday morning, and YES, you read correctly, WU-TANG clan meets dubstep. There is a lot of hype about this album so I felt that I should write something about it. I’ve had a couple of listens to this and am still undecided. There are a couple of tracks that stand out, the Scuba mix of ‘Street Corners’ being one, but the majority feels like Dubstep circa 2005/2006 (this isn’t a bad thing of sorts, it’s just the sound has evolved so far beyond that now).
In my opinion it is still worth listening to. Regardless of taste, in the very least, it shows how the two genres (Hip-Hop and Dubstep) can cross over and well. There are other examples of this of course, Dabrye – Air (feat. MF DOOM) Kode 9 remix, and Starkey’s take on street bass definitely hints at some of the more left field/underground Hip-Hop that has been coming out of US in the last five or so years.
I think it is available on iTunes, so go check it out, here is the full tracklist:
1. Deep Space (Jay Da Flex & Yoof Remix)
2. New Year Banga (Rogue Star Remix)
3. Street Corners (Scuba Scythe Remix)
4. Love Don’t Cost (A Thing)/Still Grimey (Nebulla & Dore Remixes)
5. Knuckle Up (Matt U Remix)
6. Biochemical Equation (Datsik & Excision Remix)
7. Keep Hustlin (Trillbass Remix)
8. Now Or Never (Parson Remix)
9. Cinema (Chimpo Remix)
10. Coke (DZ Remix)
11. Iconoclasts (Syndaesia & AKS Remix)
12. Handle The Heights (Stenchman Remix)
13. Do It Big (Baobinga & I’d Remix)
14. Wu-Tang (DZ Remix)
15. Let’s Get It (Evol Intent Remix)
16. Lyrical Swords (Pawn Remix)
17. Think Differently (Hellfire Machina Remix)
18. Pencil/MyPiano/Firehouse (Soroka Remixes)
19. Alphabets (Dakimh Instrumental Remix)
PEACE&OUZO
2: CORSICA STUDIOS
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So, the first part of this piece was about a band form South London, now I am going to talk about a venue. This, in my opinion, is the most under rated and under used music venue in the whole of London. Apart from having two Funktion One sound systems installed (that’s right, two of the bloody things!) it is perfect in location, size and layout for a proper rave! It is under the train bridge at Elephant & Castle which is great for noise, no complaints of music being loud so you can jerk it all night. Size is around 300-400 people, maybe more, split into two rooms and connected by the smoking area out back under a railway arch, nice. If people didn’t get nose bleads every time they cam close to a bridge this place would be banging, maybe even one of coolest late night venues in town. Oh well… your loss, our gain!
It is here!!!! Thanks to everyone who represented at GET SOME 001, it is because of you that we are able to announce that we have arranged 002. Check back in the next couple of days for information on the line up, but the GET SOME DJ’s, WHISKEY & OUZO, plus resident SSG, Princess of Wales (P.O.W.) and Dark ARX will be reppin’ in full force.
We have also moved to The Book Club which is a new venue in Shoreditch (which we have already played at and can vouch for) and we are really looking forward to bringing the GET SOME sound and vibe too.
The line up is looking tasty and, as always, we will be bringing you interviews and mixes from all of the artists. So come on down for another night to remember and don’t forget… TELL A FRIEND, TO TELL A FRIEND, TO TELL A FRIEND… GET SOME!!!!
PEACE
WHISKEY AND OUZO
Very nice bit of work in Basement carpark entrance design, Nike European Headquarters, Hilversum, the Netherlands. ‘MATTE’ are responsible for this as they are for some very nice, very graphical, apparel designs for Nike womans wear. Have a look and see what you think.
PEACE
I really like this guys work. He’s shot lots of people I like and some I know too. He seems to do lots for ID magazine so you might recognise some of his work too. Check it: MADS PERCH.
PEACE
This is a great website! Wonderwall is an interior design firm established by Masamichi Katayama. Their clients include Bathing Ape, Colette, A.P.C., Fendi and UNIQLO. For me though, it is all about their website, I have never seen anything quite like this. Have a look, it will keep you hooked for ages: WONDERWALL.
PEACE
This has seriously got me excited. I mhaven’t been to a proper Warehouse party in ages and this looks like a winner! It’s 5 minutes from my house, which is a good start, and it looks like it’s gonna be an all night Techno banger. They don’t give much away on the on the website, but if you sign up, the send you an invite and bang, you’re in! Exciting stuff south of the river. The next Franks me thinks… the saga continues.
PEACE
Just got mine and I’m lovin’ it!
PEACE
It’s the return of the vocal. There haven’t been many tracks in the vain of Gabrielle (Roy Davis Jr.) in the last ten years, and the ones that have surfaced have been average. This marks the return to the ‘vocal banger’. It feels like something straight out of the 1986 Detroit Techno/House scene, not a bad start. Couple that with the rolling bass style that I have grown to love from Pangaea and you’ve got yourself a dancefloor killa! Ladies and gents alike will be getting down to this one, the sure were at GET SOME.
Enjoy, PEACE
