Just got this today and it´s pretty tight. The Heatwave from London, who´ve been throwing raves and parties with bashment, dancehall and some global riddims for more then 7 years now, are having a live performance from female MC Stush next thursday at The Big Chill House in London. Sticky is resident with The Heatwave, and has made himself a proper reputation through tons of releases and some good collabs with Miss Dynamite and others in the garage and grime scene.
To promote their party they give away a free track, so grab this one and if you´re in London town, get your ass downtown to Hot Wuk to shake to some hot funky carribean riddims against the cold weather!
“Hot Wuk is London’s biggest weekly dancehall night, with residents The Heatwave and Sticky playing the baddest bashment from Kingston to London.
Forget about joining the gym – Hot Wuk is your weekly dancehall workout.
On Thursday 25th February Hot Wuk will host a live performance from Stush, one of the biggest female MCs in the UK.
Stush
Stush is the original bad gyal MC from south London, leading the UK’s formidable pack of female bashment vocalists. With recent mainstream press celebrating her unique style and delivery, she’s ready to blow up all over again.
After ten years tearing down raves around the world, Stush has built a reputation as one of London’s finest MCs. Her squeaky machine-gun flow is instantly recognisable over garage, house or bashment.
From starting out as a dancehall MC, Stush teamed up with garage legend Sticky in 2001 to produce the club smash Dollar Sign. Since then Stush has had a stream of big singles including top ten hit Get Low with Groove Armada and last year’s massive We Nuh Run alongside Hard House Banton.”
Mate 3re aka Wanklerotaryengine from Melbourne just played at Uberlinguas big Meltdown Party at the 30st of January and smashed the place at 3.45am!
Incredible tracklist and incredible mixing too. Big things coming from Melbourne!
Ben Sharpa from Soweto, South Africa, has been getting support from Jarring Effects since his track on “Capetown Beats” compilation in 2008. Furthermore, Mary Ann Hobbs played his tune “Into the Black” on BBC Radio1 and in november last year Ben Sharpa has returned with a new full length album.
Growing up in an alien culture, since his parents relocated to Chicago, Illinois, fleeing from South Africa’s brutal Apartheit regime, Ben was inspired by the radical new voice that Hip Hop was giving the oppressed. In 1993 he came back to South Africa for the first free elections and quickly establishing himself as a major force in underground hip hop, known for his crews with experimental, abstractedly asynchronous beats and stream of consciousness rhymes.
“B.SHARPA”, his new album, is now at the forefront of a new wave of soundsystem music, underpinned by heavy, hybrid hip hop beats with influences from electro, dub, Detroit techno, dancehall, electronica and glitch.
The Low End Theory is a weekly clubnight in Los Angeles specialized in music for which you need a very good soundsystem and with resident DJ’s that know how to destroy a very good soundsystem. The Low End Theory has also launched a decent podcast, which you find on ITUNES or as download directly on their page. The latest episode number XI features noize head and resident DJ Gaslamp Killer together with all around artist and producer Kutmah.
Furthermore I was happy to see there is also an insight documentary about the club, ok I’m a bit late on this one but lately I’m becoming a total music movie geek, so check the trailer below!
For anyone out there with a liking for some nitty gritty dub and dubstep, check the Sunday podcast from Connectionist out of Manchester, UK, broadcasted on the online radiostation RangeFm. Big one! Always between 21 and 23h UK time, sometimes longer.
Culture System is a wonderful blog from NYC, which I found via Globalibre. Waer Rock just released a NYC mixtape on it with all things bass, which I have to repost. It’s good. It comes with a Radiohead Remix, so watch out.
“A collection of mostly unreleased and new bass music from New York. From dubstep and dub to boom bap and garage. This mix is not comprehensive, it’s more of a snapshot. There’s quite a few more artists we’re really feelin’ out here.”
… is a label based in London managed by Squaredº, which I came across on Facebook. Squaredº also does parties together with Neon Skullz called Azteks on Acid, so watch out for some funky madness in Londontown! As the name says they’ll be throwing azteks music with acid and dancefloor business together!
Have a listen to Mr. Pollinates latest mix, in which he mingles all and everything from UK Funky to Kwaito, Cumbia and Bassline, including his own stuff!
Just got this today and it´s pretty tight. The Heatwave from London, who´ve been throwing raves and parties with bashment, dancehall and some global riddims for more then 7 years now, are having a live performance from female MC Stush next thursday at The Big Chill House in London. Sticky is resident with The Heatwave, and has made himself a proper reputation through tons of releases and some good collabs with Miss Dynamite and others in the garage and grime scene.
