No Pain In Pop

Hallowe’en

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NPIP + FACT = WKND

…And it’s heavy. But no standing there with licked finger to the air trying to catch our drift. Go see the magi collective over at FACT magazine for a download link, tracklist after ‘the jump’.

Enormous thanks to the gentleman Jah Pat for a mix that hulks and struts and swells and rattles and bounces and baulks the best. Thanks too to FACT for asking after us.

Enjoy your weekends’.



MP3: Jah Pat - FACT Mix 36: No Pain In Pop

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Five imaginary musical futures: alternatives to 2009

Photography by the inordinately talented Hannah Elisabeth

2009’s already been talked out, so halt your tongues and tuck in cheeks for five sights of music running on splintered time, rails leading most to bass-weight and rhythm.

Article originally published at DrownedinSound.

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2OO8 ≠ 32

Photo: Tom King

It’s hard not to feel berk or beast when attempting to cram 12 months into 700 words, so we won’t even try. This late in the day there’s going to be omission to an extent that outstretches the impatient collateral of memory loss, especially as the mind wanders back to recall a year of live music that’s without peer in my 23 on this earth.

So, there’ll be no divvying up of 2008 between movements and moods here. Just a necessary trawl through the shipwreck, flotsam fished from choppy waters and beacon buoys twinkling in the ocean of our terrible collective memory.

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Buggin’

Ripping into your hippy innards, scattering those healing crystals all over the pavement as claret coats all, ‘Skeng’ remains one blade lurching gutwards, fleshing you out. Released way back when on Hyperdub and later re-appearing for The Bug’s finest collection of apocalyptic dub bludgeons yet with the release of London Zoo a few months back, this bass-heavy bastard finds everyone’s favourite Roll Deep riddim menaces Killa P and Flowdan slash it out over Kevin Martin’s usual low-end grind. Video comes courtesy of Anne-Marie Bergeron; text by ssssamuel.
N.B. normal service and MP3 resumes soon, bandwidth blaggards.

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