{"id":4771,"date":"2011-09-18T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T19:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/?p=4771"},"modified":"2012-03-09T19:25:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T19:25:41","slug":"stars-dub-featuring-champian-and-some-nice-artwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/stars-dub-featuring-champian-and-some-nice-artwork\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars Dub featuring Champian and some nice artwork!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"411\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tkNWmTXhPS8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mans like Abu Zaki and Woebot hipped me to this. A nice relick of the Stars riddim by Mr Benn featuring Champion on deejay duties. I&#8217;m assuming this is the same Champion as the microphone veteran at London&#8217;s Tighten Up nights. That Champion (aka Champian) has proper heritage &#8211; MCing in London back in the eighties and making what I think is his vinyl debut on Part One of the (still obscure, but can a reissue be long now?) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Various-Raiders-Music-Presents-Live-At-DSYC\/release\/1706749\" target=\"_blank\">Live At DSYC LPs on the Raiders label<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The vid was done to promote the rather fine artwork and animation of David Cox. There&#8217;s also this one:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FJdF7RSJTL0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I think they both show a nice flair for doing idiosyncratic animation, which I love &#8211; I was a big fan of Vision On and Sesame Street as kid, largely because of the short cartoon clips that I later realised were quite trippy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mans like Abu Zaki and Woebot hipped me to this. A nice relick of the Stars riddim by Mr Benn featuring Champion on deejay duties. I&#8217;m assuming this is the same Champion as the microphone veteran at London&#8217;s Tighten Up nights. That Champion (aka Champian) has proper heritage &#8211; MCing in London back in the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/stars-dub-featuring-champian-and-some-nice-artwork\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Stars Dub featuring Champian and some nice artwork!&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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reggae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4771","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=4771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5098,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4771\/revisions\/5098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}