Archive for the ‘d**step’ Category.
February 27, 2010, 12:23 pm
spent last weekend in Leeds, mainly to check out Sub Dub at the West Indian Centre.
Main room is dubstep played through Iration Steppas soundsystem. 2nd room a little more eclectic, and thus where I spent most of my time.
Top bash with Kode9, Heatwave and Mr Grievous Angel turning in some especially excellent sets. Nice crowd also – great to hook up with Matt B again and meet a bunch of other people for the first time.
Frustrated to find that Woofah contributor Ashes57 was also there taking snaps, but we didn’t manage meet!
SUBDUB// Exodus DMZ 4th Birthday – a set on Flickr.
February 26, 2010, 8:35 pm
KEEP PLASTIC PEOPLE ALIVE Petition.
If you have ever been there, you will want to sign this.
February 24, 2010, 2:43 pm
Our fearsome Security Kitty patrols Woofah HQ
I’ve been neglecting the blog recently, but updates have been appearing regularly in the sidebar cos of my new twitter feed. Apologies to all the people who’ve left comments here, especially NagHammadiEye, for my lack of responses…
My suspicion is that short updates and links will appear there from now on and bigger pieces will be blogged. I have mixed feelings about this but it seems like the easiest option with not much time available…
So the new issue of Woofah is being warmly received. All contributor copies have been mailed out now and tonight I will tackle the backlog of orders. London shops will get copies after work tomorrow.
As many of you will know, Woofah was conceived on the dancefloor of BASH – the reggae/grime/dubstep club run by The Bug and Loefah at Plastic People. Plastic People is an awesome venue probably best known for its regular FWD nights – FWD is to dubstep what Metalheadz at the Blue Note was to drum ‘n’ bass I suppose.
Plastic People’s soundsystem and its selection of promotions has made it legendary. I first went there for some nights run by the Manasseh crew which included Sugar Minott and the late Junior Delgado toasting over records selected by folks like Dave Hendley and Manasseh themselves. It was an incredible experience being literally feet away from some reggae legends with the full weight of PP’s soundsystem.
The club is now under threat as its licencing regime is challenged by the Metropolitan Police and reviewed by Hackney Council.
More news on that soon (and the campaign to keep it open), but it should go without saying that I would be gutted if it closed.
As History Is Made At Night has pointed out, this has to be seen in the context of the wider gentrification of the south of Hackney – the City moving slowly north.
February 19, 2010, 9:52 pm
woofahmag.com
I can barely believe I’m saying it but the new issue is here and ready to get out to you all!
Believe me it’s worth the wait – up to a massive 92 pages this time and some incredible content that I am completely amazed we managed to secure. And it’s still the same price!
In the shops next week, but you can order direct NOW:
woofah magazine » Buy.
(copies to contributors and allies will be mailed out early next week, or can be got from me in person)
February 9, 2010, 6:18 pm
weareie: Finally!!.
Woofah issue 4 just landed at Chateau Droid. The shipment will now cross the Irish sea and reach London early next week.
Hit the link for more info or stay tuned to this channel…
I’m excited – you should be too!
January 5, 2010, 10:47 am
Irie Up Vol 1 Issue 1 Jan Feb 2010 – magazine.
From Berlin, in English. Looks very interesting!
December 9, 2009, 9:28 pm
FACT magazine: The month in…Bass.
Tom Lea interviews Blackdown and Grievous Angel about the “Margins Music Redux” remix album. Which I am sure is great, but for some reason I haven’t received my copy yet… hmm?
Here is a nice promo video for the album:
Paul is a suitably excitable interviewee as usual, dropping in references to Hawksmoor and Stewart Home along the way… 
Coupla exclusive GA mixes available for download over at Blackdown’s blog right now also.
November 26, 2009, 12:00 am
First vinyl release on Ruff Revival, following on from the tremendous debut of Naphta’s “Long Time Burning” album on CD. (See my gushing review in Woofah issue 3). And yes, some heavy involvement from Droid, so I am biased – but only because his programming ensures he always comes correct with this stuff.
El-B’s remix of “Soundclash” complements the Grievous Angel cut on Keysound perfectly – where Paul Meme boshes it out and makes your adrenaline pump, El-B makes your hairs stand on end with slinky dread bizness.
“Fully Loaded” sees Naptha busting out some proper junglist sub and breaks underneath some cold yardie vocal samples. The minimalism of the intro reluctantly giving way to an incredibly satisfying, yet dangerous maze of warehouse sonics.
Some serious time, effort and thought has gone into this…
http://www.myspace.com/ruffrevival
November 23, 2009, 8:15 pm
Yeah it’s a bit incessant but there are so few releases right now that really excite me I’m going to roll with this for a bit!
The Hyperdub bash at the weekend was awesome, lots of nice people, lots of chat and catching up. Bit too rammed, great soundsystem.
King Midas Sound came on around midnight and were great. Kevin on the buttons, mixing it up like an old school On-U Sound session, tweaking the tracks in a raw dubwise style – harder than the album. Roger’s vocals were a bit more forthright onstage as well. They opened with “Cool Out” and it was much more directly in your face than the vinyl version – live and direct, in fact. Hitomi came out stage front a little later on and brought her own styles to the equation – each of the trio has great stage presence.
It was awesome stuff for a group who have only performed live once before, I can’t wait to see them again. The rest of the line up was of similar quality from what I saw – Kode9 and Spaceape live were verging on “stadium” with lots of funky stylings – manging to fill the room up with sound and voice without resorting to wobblers, natch. Which is possibly one of the unwritten laws of Hyperdub.
Mala’s set in the small room was also a joy, lots of classics that even dubstep cynics like me knew and loved.
Then I got into wandering around, chatting and drinking territory so that’s yer review in full.
Shout out to they guy sitting next to me on the N253 at 3:30am who threw up all over the place. You twat.
Anyway, I daresay all you lot out there are weary of me banging on about KMS given that the album isn’t even out yet? Fair enough! Time for some audio…
First up check out comrade Johnny Mugwump’s interview with KMS over at The Quietus. It is accompanied by an exclusive Kode9 mini-mix that gives a good flavour of the “Waiting For You” album (out very soon! On Hyperdub! ha ha).
Then head over to FACT Magazine and snaffle their exclusive King Midas Sound mix, which features their own tunes alongside some classic lovers rock, soul, arsequake and avant garde business. Mixed by Kevin Martin. Exclusive one-away vocals from Roger Robinson and Hitomi. Yes really. You need this.
November 16, 2009, 5:09 pm
King Midas Sound
An interesting development – some exclusive bits of artwork, linkage and lyrics. Oh and the full text of “Scientist Meets The Ghost Captain”, Kevin Martin’s excellent sleevenotes from the seminal “Macro Dub Infection” compilation.
King Midas Sound perform their London debut at Corsica Studios this Saturday as part of the Hyperdub “5″ event:
