Ok first off I'd like to say congats to Truth for not only being 3 years deep in this promotion thing but also for putting on another dope hiphop show
and cobbling a half decent band together in the process! To be honest if I ever get married I'm gonna book Millionaires By Morning for a rap covers set, Common's 'The Light' had me signing along on my own, and their funked up version of Truth's 'Pass It' was also another highlight. Jack Flash I have to say gave the most professional performance of the night, he was the most concise with his mic and after spraying over an array of beats and tempos the crowd definitely should've showed a bit more appreciation. Stig did his usual shouty thing and then
didn't come to Krazy Kitchens with us, which by the way, is THE best kebab shop in The IP. They even do falafel with feta cheese and olives, suck on that vegetarians!
The next evening saw me and Deafman go back to back on an old skool garage flex in Fire on the warmup for Devlin. To be honest I'm not normally a fan of playing that club but the boys sorted some decent monitors and an alright system so fair cop. They'd also brought in the newest Pioneer CDJs (2000s I believe) and boy did they look shiny and expensive, I only took vinyl so I can't give you a review on those I'm afraid, by the looks of things you'd need a good session to get used to all the features. Zeuts used them but the same way he'd use the 1000s 800s or 400s so couldn't gimmie any more info! I got there early and was kinda bored and broke by the time Devlin came on but I did stay to watch a couple of tracks including 'London City' (which he changed to 'Ipswich City' - we're a town mate, do your research!). The crowd we're showing love but I'm guessing Cloud 9 lost a few heads when they changed headliner from Newham Generals, anyway it's nice to see some underground music pulling 200 or so people into a club in Ipswich, Troopa wants to get me more involved with the nights so we'll see how it pans out over the next few months.
This wednesday see's me DiDi and Deafman orbit half the M25 to reach Reading on some 3 way DJ pissup, we're on right after Nero so a real good slot to get, and I think we're gonna do another hour earlier on in the night, we're likely to play funky, dubstep, garage and jungle so if that tickles your fancy come join the Ipswich massive on tour!
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Hoppin' in The Lemon to for a cruise up to Norwich to catch Rugged Man tonight! Big up to Truth for sorting tickets, also shouts go to Franko Fraize, hopefully catch his crew up there as well. My first Roots & Culture so expect a lil' feedback later in the week. Suffolk County - Ride With Us!
This week our disco/rap/funk/house/etc. night "Just a Groove" returns to The Cock&Pye in Ipswich town centre for the first time since September. As you may have guessed it's somebodies birthday and we're gonna be tearing down the house with all kind of flavours! I'm gonna be concentrating on the disco & funk elements, we've got our good friend Si on his Groove debut bussing out the hiphop jams and Lay will be doing a bit of indie along with some house & trance; proper mixed bag from us boys & real nice of Aido let us DJ on such an occasion!
Ok first off I'd like to say congats to Truth for not only being 3 years deep in this promotion thing but also for putting on another dope hiphop show and cobbling a half decent band together in the process! To be honest if I ever get married I'm gonna book Millionaires By Morning for a rap covers set, Common's 'The Light' had me signing along on my own, and their funked up version of Truth's 'Pass It' was also another highlight. Jack Flash I have to say gave the most professional performance of the night, he was the most concise with his mic and after spraying over an array of beats and tempos the crowd definitely should've showed a bit more appreciation. Stig did his usual shouty thing and then didn't come to Krazy Kitchens with us, which by the way, is THE best kebab shop in The IP. They even do falafel with feta cheese and olives, suck on that vegetarians! 
Gonna be spinning at this one tonight, check the link below for all the small print. Although I'm not sure if they're giving free shots out as some jobsworth at the council got wind of it (through facebook!) and put a stop to it last week. Oh well if you're in the area scoot by and say hello, I'll be cobbling some CD mixes together as the boys decided they can't be arsed to bring Technics down, frowny face for them :(
Finally got to one of the Get Low nights at Po Na Na in Norwich last night, they've had some big names come through in the last few months & I've been meaning to go for ages. Tomb Crew who I've seen in Nottingham a couple of times, played pretty much what I expected which was party/jump up dubstep so I was looking forward to some atmospheric, moody, half-step D&B and dub from Breakage.
Here's a little runthrough for this Saturday in London, I've only got 40 minutes so I'd thought I'd see if all the tracks would fit in, and yep, they do! Probably gonna go over a couple of bits in the middle to make sure they're tighter for the night, but overall fairly pleased. There's plenty of dubstep DJs on the lineup so I thought I'd come from a completely different angle, should be hearing more sets like this from me this year. Been experimenting with Ustream for a little while now and may start a regular show on there in the not too distant future, keep your eyes peeled. Set time is 11pm on Saturday, few of us from Ipswich are heading down, couple of my mates from London are coming too and Fused Forces like a drink so I'll be propping the bar up with those boys mos def! If you're in the area make sure you make an appearance, it is free after all.
Wanna draw some attention to this LA based hiphop/skwee/dubstep producer who goes by the name KidLogic. First got wind of him last summer through dubstepforum where he posted a re-working of Kool & The Gang's Summer Madness, the drums sounded like they we're being played a lazy stoner, with snippets of "Summer, summer, summer time" laced over the top. Recently the boy has put up a load of new tracks, and I strongly recommend 'Suprise Potatoes' from the FREE Baconomics EP and also checking out his SoundCloud page. The track below I'll be dropping at Woofer Attack! in London next Saturday along with loads more electro-skwee-disco-rap business! Check previous post or keep it locked for more info on that.
