Epic

If only all Usher videos were this good.

Night Slugs

This Friday (tomorrow) I'm hosting the room upstairs at Night Slugs at the Red Star, Camberwell. Fun times.


Non Stop DJs - All Cylinders

In the main room they've got DJ Guy from Non Stop DJs who plays loads of amazing ghetto tech stuff. Listen to the mix above, which is easily one of the top 5 mixes of all time. There's over 100 tracks in 70 minutes.

I deal with views and opinions / Grew up on a reggae band called Abyssinians

David Rodigan, the omniscient reggae god (only slightly exaggerating), is DJing this Thursday at Joyride in a club called East Village in East London. I've never been there but I have been told the sound system is almost of Plastic People proportions. Anyway in celebration of this event, I am uploading two of my favourite songs of all time, as introduced to me by Rodigan.


The Abyssinians - "Satta Massagana"


Burning Spear - "Marcus Garvey"

Dancehall masochist

I thought the video I posted of the Japanese dancehall fan girl (which has now been removed, unfortunately) was a bit worrying in places, but this is next level. These guys are putting some WCW-style sex pest moves on her. I was expecting the Jamaican Undertaker to come out at any minute and clothesline her before finishing her with a Tombstone Piledriver.

Prancehall.com goes foreign language

Hungarian cod-ska gypsy music with a 2-step intro - I bet you 50p there will be a Mad Decent podcast on this stuff before the end of the year. Also, if you were to add a couple of vocal drops like "Porky Pie Productionz" or "DJ Cameo exclusive" on top of it and loop the sound of someone blowing wind, this could be a shit bassline tune.



This is a clip from a film called You, The Living. I nearly walked out of the cinema when I discovered it had subtitles, but this is the only film I can remember seeing that had me constantly laughing out loud without resorting to crude, inappropriate jokes or name-calling.

"I do like these trotters, I must say"

Esco and Fresh Money - "Dun Dem Credit"

This is Esco of Leftside & Esco fame (not the guy in Slew Dem Crew who annoyingly refuses to release anything) trying to put on an English accent in a recent dancehall song. Apparently they were watching an English film and decided to start Googling English things to talk about. By the sound of it, I would guess Danny Dyer was probably playing some type of part in the film. Innit. Btw, do you think this is kind of like what Jamaicans hear when someone like Jamakabi does his "yardie flow"?

Me, me, me

I've been preparing you over the last few weeks for this point. I'm leaving behind UrBaN Mu$iC to move into animal journalism. My column in Vice this month is the start of this new career. You can read the online version here, although it's slightly different to the printed copy. Someone has callously Americanised the word "favourite". Also, they edited my honourable animal mentions list, taking out George W. Bush.

Dirty dog

Anyone heard that new Kano mixtape?

"I'M PRESSING CHARGES, I'M PRESSING CHARGES, I'M PRESSING CHARGES, I'M PRESSING CHARGES. Where my doo-rag at?"

I think this is my favourite new "Crank Dat" version – just surpassing my previous fave. This lovely young lady even throws in some of Soulja Boy's new single, "Yahhh!", for good measure.

Hungry hamster

Cockney Boy

Much prefer this girl's voice to Estelle's nasally lounge diva vocals.

Urban faux pas of the week: acoustic versions

Urban acoustic versions are the musical equivalent of buying a new car and then taking the engine out, sealing the doors and pumping it full of faeces before strapping a bomb to the side of it while the hand brake is off at the top of a very steep hill. I'm not really into them.