{"id":1133,"date":"2007-11-26T23:42:31","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T22:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2012-03-10T17:36:45","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T17:36:45","slug":"the-bug-ft-warrior-queen-and-flowdan-poison-dart-ninja-tune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/the-bug-ft-warrior-queen-and-flowdan-poison-dart-ninja-tune\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bug ft. Warrior Queen and Flowdan &#8211; Poison Dart (Ninja Tune)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/pdart.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yeahhhhhhhh. Fanbwoy time again! Ha ha. He just keeps getting better and better I think. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/?p=1062\" target=\"_blank\">Skeng<\/a> seemed almost impossible to top, but this latest release does actually manage that by broadening out a bit rather than going for the sledgehammer blow. Two twelve inches this time which lets Kevin Martin exercise his collaborative inclinations to the max. &#8220;Networking&#8221; has a horrible image of false grins and business cards offered in sweaty palms, but actually <em>creating<\/em> networks like those around the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/?p=1111\" target=\"_blank\">Ambient&#8221; comps for Virgin<\/a>, and his work with GOD, and of course at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/photos\/main.php?g2_itemId=40\" target=\"_blank\">BASH<\/a>, is &#8220;scenius&#8221; in action. Drawing dissidents together to plot and form new cells of resistance&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lZGl4J2aSbE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Warrior Queen<\/strong> is her usual uncompromising self and any hyperbole I write here is kind of redundant in the face of the video above &#8211; how cool is it to see a label getting properly behind this stuff and giving it a bit of audio\/visual push?<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Skream remix<\/strong> ramps up the dubstep disco wobble bizness and comes across a lot cleaner than the original. I&#8217;m sure it sounds great over a big system mixed in with something else which has a slightly different wobble, but it kind of defeats the object of a Bug record for home listening in my book. Something for the <em>young people<\/em>, ha ha!<\/p>\n<p>My promo doesn&#8217;t have the full <strong>Flowdan<\/strong> vocal mix on it, dammit, but there are snippets from it in <strong>DJ Baku&#8217;s megamix<\/strong> and they sound well up to Flo&#8217;s usual level of rapid fire malevolence: <em>&#8220;Would it be wise to mess with the big money sound? &#8230; No I don&#8217;t think so. SHUT UP!&#8221; <\/em>Baku seriously disrupts the juggernaut flow with his(?) turntablism &#8211; Warrior Queen and Flo come in and out of the mix in a ghostly duet. The slowly increasing sense of dread becomes more fragmented &#8211; you don&#8217;t know where the danger is coming from.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also gaging to hear the <strong>South Rakkas Crew<\/strong> remix &#8211; the people who brought you the <em>Bionic Ras<\/em> and <em>Red Alert<\/em> acieeed dancehall riddims, talk about spoilt for choice&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ninjatune.net\/ninjashop\/index.php?cat=0&amp;type=EP&amp;by=6&amp;code=ZEN12202#ZEN12202\" target=\"_blank\">Twelve 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ninjatune.net\/ninjashop\/index.php?cat=0&amp;type=EP&amp;by=6&amp;code=ZEN12202X#ZEN12202X\" target=\"_blank\">Twelve 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Digital bundle release (including Skeng!) to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeahhhhhhhh. Fanbwoy time again! Ha ha. He just keeps getting better and better I think. Skeng seemed almost impossible to top, but this latest release does actually manage that by broadening out a bit rather than going for the sledgehammer blow. Two twelve inches this time which lets Kevin Martin exercise his collaborative inclinations to &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/the-bug-ft-warrior-queen-and-flowdan-poison-dart-ninja-tune\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;The Bug ft. Warrior Queen and Flowdan &#8211; Poison Dart (Ninja Tune)&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grime","category-music-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5127,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions\/5127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}