It’s Sunday morning and I am inhaling this new oral histroy podcast from Kiss FM. You get eight 20 minute episodes and there is a lot of ground covered: from the cockney fast chat of Saxon Soundsystem right up to UK Drill. There are some breathtaking moments, like Asher Senator describing his first few times …
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I’ve scanned these issues of Black Echoes from the late 1980s and uploaded them to archive.org. They are a great window into black culture and the events listings, charts and adverts reveal as much if not more than the features. (I’ve also added a bunch of Rodigan Kiss FM shows and documentaries to archive.org that …
I recorded this mix 10 years ago but I don’t think I ever did anything with it… 1 Night Raver (2007 repress) by Mike Brooks 2 River Jordan by Luciano & Ras Zachari 3 Jah Works – We Tek Up by Jah Mali 4 Ava Leigh by Ava Leigh 5 Levi Riddim by Manasseh 6 …
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Text Nostalgia was the order of the day: I wrote a new foreword for the ebook reprint of Stewart Home’s classic 90s counter culture anthology Mind Invaders by Bread and Circuses. The foreword puts the texts in context and includes some reflections on my time then and how this sort of activity might be relevant now. …
TRACKLIST HOLGER CZUKAY-HOW MUCH ARE THEY ROMIE SINGH-DANCING TO FORGET 400 BLOWS-RADIO PRESSURE IMAGINATION-SO GOOD, SO RIGHT FATS COMET-DUB STORM SCRITTI POLITTI & RANKING ANN-FLESH AND BLOOD BRILLIANT-IT’S A MAN’S MAN’S MAN’S WORLD THE FLYING LIZARDS-MONEY B RESTRICTION RE-ACTION SANDOZ-HIGHER THAN THAT JAH SHAKA-HUNTER RED BEAT-MORE OR LESS CUT COLOURBOX-BABY I LOVE YOU SO
If you follow me on twitter you will have seen me hyping this show over the last few months- always a great unpredictable mix up of JA and outernational dubwise styles and genres. Bokeh Versions have also released a great 7″ of freak dub from Seekersinternational – one of the few new artists I truly …
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Roll up! Roll up! Get ya scrappy xerox rag! Now sold out. 20 pages A5. Mainly by me, but with contributions from 2ndFade and (unbeknownst to him) Martin. Trades/Blags are welcome. (Images below are a bit compressed – the cover looks redder and slightly less ragged) UK: £1.50 Europe: £2.69 Rest of World: £3.33