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The one and only Solution Sound kick off the new year with a residency down Dalston way:

SATURDAY 7th FEB
10-16 Ashwin Street, Dalston E8
Session will run from will run from 10 – 4.30
cost £6.50/£5 concessions, and will have a (raffle) bar running all night.

Music policy is strictly Raw Roots, From Studio 1 to Xterminator and anything raw in between! The sessions will include our usual quota of talented singers and players (final line up TBA) over the sound, which is large and our own, for those who don’t know….

The flyposters up Stamford Hill also reckon there will be dates in March and April. Check it…

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Dnyl also twiddled with various bits which allow me to update the sidebar – first effort is to the left [right! it’s to the right! agh!]. Obviously doing this is fraught with difficulties, like – do you include certain mates who never seem to update their blogs? do you include every single blog which links to you?

As ever, I’ve just done the bloody thing. More additions later.

Ananova – Liquidator chant falls foul at West Brom

A Division One football team has dropped its pre-match anthem after concerns were raised about obscene chants accompanying the tune.

West Brom was advised to remove The Liquidator from its playlist amid concerns it incited foul language directed at rivals Wolves. […]

[…]The Liquidator will be replaced by Jump Around by House of Pain from tonight, before the Black Country derby against Walsall. Club officials are now searching for a new pre-match anthem.

Would that be the same “Jump Around” which includes the line “if your bitch steps up I’m slapping the ho”?

A huge improvement over the word “fuck”, obviously.

how do YOU spell “conservative”?

Dancehall, dub and drum ‘n’ bass are party music. These spin-offs are apolitical, devoid of spirituality and rely too heavily on electronic mixing, they argue.

Goddamn that new-fangled “electronic mixing”! Oh for the days of King Tubby, er… no…. Coxsone, er….

Bingi drumming sessions in the hills it is then.

See also: yer standard rockist criticism of reggae not being exactly as it was when Marley was about. Some nice quotes from Randy Chin, tho.

“The demographic for reggae is unbelievabably confusing,” he said. “It’s worse now than ever.”

2003 best of part four

Pointless, now, surely to produce the fanfared second part of k-punk’s end of the year round-up – only eight days into the year and all that stuff just seems so old.

He’s right of course, but I notice it doesn’t actually stop him doing it either 😉

Under the counter, guv

1. 2 x CDRs of early Greeensleeves 12″ courtesy Andy on the Blood & Fire Board

2. Paul Meme – Nervous Ragga mix and lots more

3. The Bug Vs Soundmurderer soundclash on John Peel

4. Hollow Earth – Gangsta Techno mix

5. Woebot – Brickwall mix

6. Woebot SS – Resonance FM show

7. Inglistan – Roots CDR

8. Dubversion – Riddim mix

9. Stuart Borthwick – Rasta mix

10. Herve’s mate’s roots mix

Uncarved

1. The Bug

2. Abashanti – Greg Mario Whitfield

3. Adrian Sherwood – Greg Mario Whitfield

4. Small Space Dynamics CTRL-ALT-DELETE

5. pirates, politics, parochialism

6. Nocturnal Emissions

7. Throbbing Gristle

8. Various ruminations on Whitehouse and industrial culture

9. Luther Blissett on contra-acting and consultancy

10. Nihilism

the rest

Shake The Foundations volume 2 mix/dj-ing at some brilliant parties including BOTH UK-Dance bashes and Riddim/Greg Mario Whitfield’s deep bass philosophy and evangelism/Sick and Twisted – Bong Ra, Aphasic, Sonic Belligeranza sets/Seeing Shaka again/Solution Sound @ Arcola Theatre in April/Dr Beck’s bastard bootleg mash ups at the ICA/The Bug and Aphex @ Neighbourhood/City of God/8 Mile/Dirty Pretty Things/Six Feet Under/Scratch/24/Hackney IWCA/everyone who kept me relatively sane for another year (you know who you are)/blogs/boards/pints/curries/me partner/our daughter

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You can download Paul Meme’s wicked new ragga jungle track here.

“In the classical tradition of ragga jungle, it’s essentially a jungle
boot of a dancehall tune…Oh, and I’ll try and cover myself
up front by saying the production’s got a sort of punk attitude!”

Big up! Let him know what you think of it…