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Last week was a bit mad, so sorry for a lack of posts.

Woofah has really taken off, with a bucketload being ordered direct from the website and some really good responses from shops and distributors. (There is a full up to date list of stockists on the site).

Woofah readers stretch from a few doors down from my flat, to Estonia, to Japan, to America, to Australia.

People who have seen the mag have loved it – we’ve put a nice page of comments up on the site as well. Lots of cool people have offered to contribute and we’re in the process of putting together issues 2 (and 3) at the moment.

All this has meant that other things have taken a back burner so apologies if you’ve emailed me and I’ve not got back to you.

If you want something great to read, buy the magazine while stocks last.

Rinse01: Geeneus

rinse01 CD mixed by Geeneus

My review of this awesome mix CD is in the new issue of The Wire (with Polly Harvey on the cover).

This issue of the mag also features Dave Stelfox’s interview with Trim and Simon Hampson’s review of his Soulfood Vol 2 CD. And of course Steve Barker’s excellent reggae reviews, Dave sneaking in some bashment to the hip hop reviews and so on. Great mag, great CD…

drumzofthesouth

D.O.T.S. last week was just excellent. A great little club with some amazing djs (and me).

I kicked off with some 70s roots and dub, brought things up to date with some 21st century reggae sevens and then closed with a digital selection. It went down well and I even managed to throw on the odd CD without cocking things up.

Jason Munro from Dallas followed me with a load of his own dubplates. What he does is take whopping great bits of reggae records and put gigantic wobbly basslines underneath them, which is often very effective. He is a very animated chap behind the decks as well.

Benga, tho – wow. This was proper legendary stuff. His set was of old 8-bar 12″ – basically the ancestor of dubstep and grime circa 2000. The tunes were fantastic – there was an incredibly fluid swing to them with space and womph in exactly the right combination. I have no idea what records he played. I imagine very few people would! It felt very special witnessing the set and everyone in the place was grinning like a loon throughout.

Woofah contributor Alex Bok Bok kept up the momentum with some bassline house, but I missed Boomnoise’s performance art dj set of 80s classics cos I had to get home.

Get down there if you are on the southside for definite – it’s a great night. Hello to everyone I had a good natter with as well.

Next month:

D.O.T.S DANCE N PRANCE at PLAN B

6TH SEPTEMBER

SKREAM (exclusive funk / disco / soul set)
WADADDA (punk / reggae / dub)
ONEMAN (dubstep / garage / house )
VERSION (dub / reggae)
SUBEENA b2b DOT (dubstep)
INFINITE (no idea!)

8pm – 2am

£5 / £3 conc

www.myspace.com/joindots

CHECK SKREAM’S recent FUNK podcast courtesy of RINSEFM.BLOGSPOT.COM

“Hold tight all the mums and dads”

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reading

Punky reggae party

Letter from John Lydon to a fan who asked about what reggae to check out, circa early PiL era. Courtesy of Greg Whitfield.

BTI. You’ve bookmarked this, right?

Underground literature

Vague - Control Data Manual

Paul Nomos on subterranean living/troglodisation.

K-Punk on Tom Vague. I did have a chuckle at Mark bigging up the contributions to Vague from Mark Downham. Easily the most inaccessible verbose stuff to appear in the ‘zine. Which I guess is a bit of a value judgement on my part but I much preferred the cartoons, rants, mad collages from people like God Told Me To Do It and so on. And of course the neoist/SMILE stuff which was probably quite difficult in places but just appealed to me a whole lot more.

Ribcage rattlers

Drumzofthesouth on idiots/haters and folk music (with bassbins).

Prancehall on his new mix “Anger is a gift”, which you should go and download right now. Lots of specials on there and some laffs as well.

Dan over at Dot Alt with a nice grime round up.

Woofah zine #1 coming soon

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A number of us are putting together a new zine about reggae, grime and dubstep.

There are some amazing things in the first issue. It is nearly ready to go to the printers.

Hold tight all the contributors. More news soon.

http://www.woofahmag.com

http://www.myspace.com/woofah

EDIT: thanks for all your interest in the `zine. I should add that you will be able to buy it direct from the two sites above if you have paypal (and from me) and we are also hoping to get it into some shops and online distributors.

We have been plagued by a few last minute glitches which have been masterfully dispatched by Paul Meme and Droid. Massive respect to them for keeping their heads as I went into meltdown…