Quick one this week, as I have a grumpy daughter who won’t sleep, and a festival to pack for.
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Three on a Thursday #72
Booty Fruit / Proper Produce Volume 2
Everyone loves a good mashup don’t they? Taking a well known track, spinning it on it’s head and watching the dancefloors reaction of “ooh, I know thi … wait a minute” before going mental is a great laugh.
It’s also somewhat of a speciality of the Booty Fruit boys and girls and they’ve done the business again on Proper Produce Volume 2.
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Leading from the front , the EP opens with label boss Hidden Riddim and his compadre El Bomba’s track, Dr Fluteski. Taking a chopped and screwed flute loop from the Beastie Boys laid over a snapping snare, this will surely set your head nodding.
Next up Bristol boys, The Allergies, take it to a mellow place, reflipping Blueboys Remember Me, adding some Grace Jones and a soupcon of Dennis Edwards to give you Remember. I love the cheeky little Eric B & Rakim sample from Paid in Full on the outro.
On Where’s Me Washboard, Hong Kong Ping Pong show their love of both kinds of music, Country *and* Western when they go digging for samples. Featuring a full-bore gap-toothed yokel style ‘harmonicky solo’ over one of Kernows biggest recent exports – Bass.
The prolific DJ Maars sees us out with Givin Up, a cheeky little lift of Mos Def’s massive hit Mathematics over the top of a personal favourite of mine, New Orleans Funk legend Lee Dorsey’s Give it Up, then add some extra bongos. Nice
Available now from junodownload.
And as an extra-bonus-doubleplusgood feature, here’s the video for the Allergies tune below!
Three on a Thursday #71
Ahoy kids, I’m back!
Apologies about the lack of a ToT last week – sadly had to spend 8-9hrs driving to and from visiting a very ill relative and really *really* wasn’t in the right headspace to write anything.
That’s not happened this week though, so we’re back with the beat (and rhymes – yes – it’s a bit hip-hop heavy this week …)
Onwards!
Brisfest 2012 lineup announced!
Back in the mists of time there was a ‘Community Festival‘ up at Ashton Court in Bristol – over the years it grew from a few mates in a field into one of the largest free festivals in Europe, with all the public nudity and dogs on strings that that brings.
Eventually the two enemies of fun, Licensing Law and ‘Elf and Safety, demanded such niceties as ‘insurance’ and ‘a fence to keep the troublemakers out’ which drove costs up and despite sponsorship from Orange, the debts piled up. Sadly, a washout in 2007 was the final nail in its coffin and the good times rolled no more.
Like a phoenix from the ashes, a couple of good eggs filled our festival shaped hole with Brisfest – a couple of days of mental music and good times, held at venues all over the city. It did well – so well, in fact, that they’re stepping up their game and taking the festival out of the city into the fields again.
If this alone doesn’t tempt you, they’ve just announced their lineup today. Oh yes.
Tickets are available here. I’d suggest you get on it.
Frameworks / Ain’t No Use b/w Classic (feat. QnC)
How’s your neck?
A bit stiff?
Try this…
Anything?
No?
What about this?
Still not feeling limber?
Right, it’s time to roll out the big guns. Frameworks new joint should do it …
