{"id":3857,"date":"2010-09-08T21:17:11","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T20:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/?p=3857"},"modified":"2012-03-09T19:24:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T19:24:05","slug":"the-bug-catch-a-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/the-bug-catch-a-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bug &#8211; Catch A Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"411\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b-sSqMsckgM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I caught up with Kevin Martin recently at a mad gig by Stephen O&#8217;Malley and Steve Noble at Cafe OTO*.<\/p>\n<p>He mentioned a whole bunch of stuff which had me reeling &#8211; King Midas Sound, &#8220;Skeng&#8221; remixes, stuff with <em>Scientist<\/em>. When I woke up the next day, I thought I&#8217;d dreamt it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/tv\/#\/musicvideo\/8362-the-bug-catch-a-fire-ninja-tune\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3859\" title=\"front.664\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/front.664.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"228\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But no, click up top for a video of a new track by The Bug. It&#8217;s based on the skeleton of &#8220;Skeng&#8221; but has an entirely new exo-skeleton on top of it &#8211; maybe it&#8217;s fairer to describe it as that track&#8217;s world weary and wiser sister, I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>Coming out soon as part of the 4 track &#8220;Infected&#8221; EP on Ninja Tune. Great video, too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/119350.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3860\" title=\"119350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/119350-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a King Midas Sound seven inch in the offing on Hyperdub, featuring Roger doing &#8220;Lost&#8221; and Puppajim (of Maffi\/Jahtari\/Disrupt fame) vocalling\u00a0 the &#8220;Cool Out&#8221; riddim. Steve Barker played the latter track on his &#8220;On The Wire&#8221; show, and it sounded wicked &#8211;\u00a0 I got that &#8220;jolt&#8221; when I realised what it was &#8211; that little frisson you get the first time you hear the full vocal of a dub track you&#8217;ve caned for ages.<\/p>\n<p>Also &#8211; I don&#8217;t know if I ever mentioned the <a href=\"http:\/\/kingmidassound.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">King Midas Sound blog<\/a>? A wonderful blend of things that are doing it for them, their influences and other bits.<\/p>\n<p>*I&#8217;ve been going to a few mad gigs recently. I also saw The A-Band at OTO and Cindy Talk and Position Normal over the road at The Vortex courtesy of Exotic Pylon. I have enjoyed them very much &#8211; all the more for not feeling obliged to document them in any way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I caught up with Kevin Martin recently at a mad gig by Stephen O&#8217;Malley and Steve Noble at Cafe OTO*. He mentioned a whole bunch of stuff which had me reeling &#8211; King Midas Sound, &#8220;Skeng&#8221; remixes, stuff with Scientist. When I woke up the next day, I thought I&#8217;d dreamt it. But no, click &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/the-bug-catch-a-fire\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;The Bug &#8211; Catch A Fire&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":[17,12,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grime","category-hackney-london","category-reggae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857","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=3857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5097,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857\/revisions\/5097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}