serpentine

noah and the whale

The First Days of Spring Official Trailer from charlie fink on Vimeo.

The excellent Noah and the Whale have only gone and made a ruddy movie to go with their new album. This is the trailer, it looks simply beautiful.

holiday snaps

went to South of France and Barcelona and took these snaps on my phone.

Last couple of dayz

Went down to the Long Leave party on Wed to see professor green and Skream, pretty good night, Skream played a couple of wicked jungle tunes half way through his set, a bit dissapointed with PG as I really like his stuff on record but the live hip hop PA didn't work too well with all the backing singers, hypemen and dancers (on a pretty small stage).





Then last night went to Joker and El-B at the Legion which was heavy, El-B was smashing it up all night and Joker finished with robot rock which was....rather refreshing.





next month the giant that is the motherfuckin' gaslamp killer is going to be in town


If you still haven't checked this guy out...watch this

alice in wonderland

Slacks.

Haven't posted in a while, despite having all the time in the world, I have had a lack of material to share. On Sat I cycled to brighton...that was nice-weather was shite, nice ride though. Took a couple of snaps yesterday.

OG familia-notice the dog in the basket. Apparently Supermom does that every morning on the school run. word.



This guy was cool, albeit a bit crazy. A little bit like the irish guy Bon posted a while ago, except matey boy here was wearing a Marcus Garvey t shirt and singing/dancing/playing harmonica and drinking tenants super.

like an eagle

More proof that the past is better than the present. This guy was a porn star who later got aids and blew his brains out with a shotgun. Fact.

smoking a lot of cigarettes lately

Rankin did this. I'm gunna go see Marina and the Diamonds with loads of other decent people at Scala tonight, come.

antichrist

I can't wait to see this film. By some magic it appears to have not been leaked anywhere online yet.

tweet tweet

:(

i change shapes just to hide in this place

i meant to post this before i went away but forgot. then sinden played it when we were at Exit.



exit was siiiiiick.
will post sme photos later when i can get them off the boyfs camera.

besos

HItler finds out MJ is dead

Pon De Floor

I just copped the Major Lazer album 'Guns Don't Kill People...Lazers Do'.

If you didn't know, Major Lazer is a fictional Jamaican commando who lost his arm in the Zombie War 1984. He now has a prosthetic lazer limb and poses as a nightclub owner to conceal his real occupation as soldier for an underground government operating in secrecy!!!

Well fuck all that, Major Lazer was conceived by Philly's Diplo and London's Switch (the producers behind M.I.A's Paper Planes) to front their debut dancehall project. If you have watched any of their music videos you will see that they are on a Gorillaz flex. The album dropped on Monday and got mixed reviews. NME described it as 'scrotum-tighteningly hip' and reckon it is a bit pedantic in it eclecticism, but that's the equivalent of online magazine DanchellUSA attempting to review The Klaxons! The Guardian on the other hand gave it a four star rating (out of five might I add) and embraced its mish mash medley of sounds as 'everything you always loved about reggae, and perhaps thought had disappeared.'

Personally, I think it's a real summer banger with an impressive list of collaborators (Santigold, Vybz Kartel, Nina Sky, Amanda Blank and Mr Vegas to name a few). Some of you may have heard that bizzare ringtone of an auto-tuned baby cry... it's on THIS album lol! If you are partial to a bit of dancehall or need a pre-carnival warm up, give Major Lazer a go and let me know your thoughts.

You can catch Major Lazer at the Notting Hill Carnival in August and at Bestival on the Isle of Wight in September (maybe sold out though!).

xXx

Gangsters

It is almost impossible for today's auteurs to make crime epics like The Untouchables, Goodfellas and Carlitos Way (three of my personal faves). I say almost...



Mesrine: Killer Instinct charts the rise to notoriety of L'Ennemi Public Numéro Un - Jacques Mesrine. Bank robberies, prison breaks, kidnappings, murders and even taking a judge hostage during his own sentencing, Mesrine's life is the stuff of legend. And if you have seen Vincent Cassel as the frantic and menacing boyfriend of a rape victim in Irreversible, or as the angry estate kid in La Haine, you will agree that he was destined to play Mesrine.

Whether you will be able to catch this at your local Vue cinema I couldn't say, but it will be showing at Curzon Soho from 7th August. AND as if that wasn't enough... Mesrine: Public Enemy No.1 opens on 28th August!

I can't fucking wait!!!

What's good tonight

Get bait for cheap

Crystal Fighters + Magic Wands

Warning - the bass in the following track may result in you throwing up on your sweet Nikes and having to leave them in the street like what happened to this guy.

Magic Wands TUNE Black Magic has been knocking around for a bit, but it's awesome and stands strong next to any of the other female-vocal-lead synth based music of the moment (Solid Gold, La Roux, Little Boots etc)... they also made an excellent decision to get a remix done by our friends and live-dance-act of the moment Crystal Fighters, here it is at 320kbs

Magic Wands - Black Magic (Crystal Fighters Remix) (zShare)

another dead bird

computer animation and house music were both better in 92

Michael Jackson is dead.

No shit Sherlock. Why are all these mofos rejoicing?! Why has it taken his death for people to acknowledge his importance in music and the HUGE impact he has made on so many lives. Oh and also fuck all the conspiracies and all the shit about 'the promoters', 'the O2' and 'bo selecta' killing MJ. Get a fucking grip and have a little respect. Aside from all the shit that has been aired on the TV channels; from documentaries about his life that were whipped up and put up within a day of him dying, to MJ's greatest hits on rewind on all the music channels, one programme has actually really impressed me and I suggest you all listen to it. Seani B has done an hour of mashups using MJ beats and vocals over some real cool tracks. Listen to it here. Skip to around 2 hours into the show


I don't really want to speculate, but what I will say is this. No one will ever, ever take MJ's place in music, no one will outsell his records . Our taste has become too diverse, our attention spans have shrunk, our 'choice' has expanded to an extent where it will be impossible for a collective to choose the same thing as they did back in MJ's hayday. RIP.

Ride or die

Long time, I know. Old, but I can't stop bumping this at the moment so I thought I'd share it with you...



Out to my boy xxx

Deadly Riddim

Had the first DR in East for a while, heavy night, good vibes. Shame Coki didn't show, although he was nice enough to let us know 39 minutes before his set..

We got Chef to boost over from Croydon to Old Street in record time to replace him, SMASHED it!


The Oneman//Tomb Crew B2B was insane in the brain.


Next month:


expect shit like this


and check Joker's Sonar mix here

Mega

Went down to mega on thursday, shame Zinc cancelled but it was still a good night, Count and Sinden played a heavy set shame Glastonbury had hoovered the shoreditch punters up.

SELEMANI

is the name of my driver.
(still in Malawi)

he likes Lionel Richie.

Yes, that does mean where ever he drives you he will listen to Lionel. But also he SINGS!!!

So this morn (its 6.45am here) I bailed on the club as I have worked at a fashion show this evening and am knackared (and lazy) so called on Selemani to do his job. So he was right there waiting to drive me home. Got home. No keys. Drove back to club. Jager bomb. Drive back. He skips to 'easy like Sunday Morning'.

Then we go past this:


mist on a dam.

EASY LIKE SUNDAY MORRRRNINGGG.

Just made some toast.

Missing the ladies (and le bebe) so so bad.

kisssssssssssesssssssss

Bears Cave

Paul Coudamy is a designer who, looking at his other work, has never had a good or original idea (office made out of cardboard anyone?), but then he came up with this. Simply nailing pieces of unwanted and scrap wood one on top of the other to create this 'cave' effect. I think it looks awesome, and I can guarantee that if I tried it it would look like total shit.

pets

maria

the tortoise - currently unnamed but i think albert would work.

anyway. both of these were saved from the road. maria was hurt so she was bought home and albert was just in the middle of the road so he probably would have been really hurt. maria just roams the garden and seems pretty happy but albert has a tiny little section... tbh i think he's meant to be hibernating but anyway i thought i'd let him out to roam a bit. and now...

maria is bewildered! she's following him around and poking him with her hoof. i think they're friends now.
albert is on his 3rd lap of the garden. i dont think he knows how to take a corner... he keeps on trying to climb the walls. i dont think it's gonna happen but i'm watching him just incase.

besos

Last Ever Metros Gig

You have to be there, right?

Blur

Took this picture on my phone on Saturday. It's Blur playing a friends and family matinee show at Brixton Academy that I was lucky enough to have a ticket for. It was surreal enough to be in a half if not mostly empty Brixton Academy, let alone the fact that Blur were playing their full 2 and a half hour set that they're playing at Glastonbury, with the full light show, let ALONE the fact that Phil Daniels came on stage for Parklife. It was incredible. Do any/every thing you can to get a Glasto ticket or tickets to Hyde Park. You dont realise until 2 hours in of knowing every single word how massive and important this band really is, and they still have the energy and the balls that they always did (song 2 was truly ferocious)...

Ukey Love

As mentioned a while ago, I was going down to the Uke fest to shake my booty. What an awesome day it was. Unfortunately didn't meet the 'hot uke playin' laydeez as promised but still... The record for most Uke's played has been broken, with something like 839 playaz banging out Sloop John B. Here are the pictures:

The Fleas banging it out


Rufus=Original badaman


After the record:


The view from Devonshire Square:


I wanted to go see Blur tonight, but as time ticks, it seems more and more unlikely

Still Hungry

We went down to the brainfeeder party to check joker and gaslamp who both destroyed it and actually showed up both Kode 9 and Flying Lotus. Really regretting not taking my camera, it was a heavy night, I checked the vids of the Barcelona party the night before where there were apparently 8000 people. In the vid FlyLo looks raw, but last night apart from playing tealeaf dancers, he just played the most obscure, left field beats for 45 minutes. Which in a way I shouldn't be surprised or too dissapointed about. But it just felt a bit 'consistent'.



Kode 9 played a kind of stubborn 'to educate' set (off a laptop with midi controls!!!!) and I get the whole 'don't want to play wobble' malarkey cos I don't want to hear it. But at least play some tunes. You have a whole labels worth (arguably the finest at the moment) of music at your disposal yet as well as loads of your own bangers....Maybe it was because spaceape wanted to talk ambiently over the beats? I don't know but I want the old Kode 9 back. He just didn't seem to enjoy it at all and It just felt a little too serious



On the other hand we had Gaslamp Killer, who is probably my favourite artist at the moment and a real nice guy as well. If you haven't seen him live or seen videos of him djing, I suggest you check this video out and also download his wemakeitgood mix. That is the kind of crazy shit he was doing last night. No boundaries, just stripped down raw beats with some cool OG vibes all over.




Overall a heavy night at a wicked place, shame the beer ran out and we left before we could see Benji B. Joker and El-B are playing at Deadly Rhythm on the 25th July @ The Legion on Old St, so come check! Also I will edit the post if I can find some good pictures from the night.