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Beauty and the er, Beat, again...

A slight update and re-up of the link (sorry to anyone who tried to download this in the last year or so) to this compilation I did a few years back. Still looking for a few of the tracks sampled on Beauty and the Beat, the search continues...



DOWNLOAD HERE.

Get The Fever...

The ever-busy CHOPPED HERRING RECORDS have stepped up with part 2 in their "Queens Series", The Total Meyhem EP by MEYHEM LAUREN, which is a strictly limited VINYL ONLY release featuring a song called Got The Fever which is about graffings. Urban, no?

There's only 350 copies available so pre-order yours HERE sharpish

Get the bo, the bo, the bo, bozak...

PWS-TNF man dem Bozak appearing on the SMB radio show.

Check it out...

S M B OZAK EPISODE 1 by SMB Radio

Child's Play...

All wannabe producers posting videos of themselves po-faced and punching the 16 keys (whilst secretly hoping for that elusive 5 album major-label deal, followed by endorsements from Mc Donald's and Nike and a guest slot on The Simpsons) need to watch this video of 10 year old Diana rocking her father's MPC and recognise that the ability to chop samples and tap rubber keys in a rhythmic pattern does not make you a producer - ANYONE CAN DO IT!!

Seriously, stop wasting time filming yourself trying to look cool whilst convincing yourself that you are the next PREMIER /PETE ROCK /MADLIB /DILLA /WHOTHEFUCKEVER and concentrate on making new, interesting music

Actually, it probably makes more sense if I just stop searching Youtube for interesting MPC/SP12 related clips and you lot can carry on impressing yourselves til your heart's content.

That aside, look at Diana go...

Four Pence...

FOURPENCE promo from Darren John on Vimeo.

Straight Jack It...

Yup, another day, another mixtape... this one is mixed by MR THING (who's actually quite good - should go far!!) for YUNGUN who rhymes over a smoother, jazzier selection of beats than yer average UK rapper (what, no "Ten Yat Commandments"?) and collaborates with the likes of, amongst others, GURU, I.G. CULTURE, THE NEXTMEN, TONY D & DOC BROWN.

It's a decent, entertaining and welcome return from yet another rapper who seemed to teeter on the brink of the bottomless, where-are-they-now pit for a while when it turns out he was just busy hammering away at new tracks for a forthcoming album.

Available to download for nada HERE or if you're one of those progressive, no-record-collection-having, mp3jay types, you can download the unmixed versions HERE , set your computer to "mix like a goodun" and pretend that you were once a member of the Scratch Perverts.It's never been simpler.

Not Like Before...

album available to pre-order on VINYL or CD HERE

The Attic Man...

Cappo - the hardest working / most underrated, with more pseudonyms than Howard Marks - returns with the long-awaited mixtape "Gusto Grizwold: International Vacation" of which Capps says, "For the past year I have been developing my flows and lyricism and expanding my music horizons, this tape marks my metamorphosis from Iron Condor to Isotope Flow Glider"



Released on his own UNDER THE CAP RECORDS label, "Gusto Grizwald ..." is available as CD or download HERE
(check the ELP sampling "Fitted & Snapback" below for an idea of what you get for your fiver...)




Oh and while you're at it, you should recognise the real and cop some of this man's extensive back catalog HERE

Twenty One