Not Even An Afterthought.

Part of a stellar lineup of residents at the luscious Ginger Minx is me doing my bit on Wednesday nights. Make a date with destiny and pop yerself down. Thursdays the taste master Stinky Jim foibles is Traktor down, Friday Roger Perry and Benwah nip in, and Saturday Andy Beck does one of his many things. Wholesome, hearty, licentious (perhaps) fun. Each month a special edition with guest disc jockeys throwing down in a civilized manner. Right. Self promotion blitz done for now.

Both a radio show and a free album?

From 6-8pm every Saturday on www.kfmradio.co.nz NZT...we even have tracklist this time! Hosting soon come perhaps...in the meantime, czech some of these beats and beatettes on youtubular as soon as utterly possible. It may or may not change your life.

Dub Mechanics - Deep In The Jungle
Mono Poly - Get A Move On
Snowman - Street Corner Music
Bullion - Crazy Over You
Lil Wayne - I Feel Like Dying (Flying Lotus Remix)
Flying Lotus - Camel
Lil Flip - I'm A Baller (Dorian Concept Remix)
Dorian Concept - Trilingual Dance Sexperience
Eprom & Profisee - Zoning (instrumental)
Destiny's Child - Bills (James Blake Remix)
Jack Sparrow - I & I
Monk Fly - Birthday Funk
Slugabed - Titans
Rustie - Inside Pikachu's Cunt
Dorian Concept - The Fucking Formula
Detail - ET On The Bayou
Ikonika - Phonelines VIP
Jose James - Warrior
Von D - Nouvelle Histore
Crystal Fighters - I Love London (Brackles Remix)
Slugabed - Ultra Heat Treated
Jaybird - Word Dat Box
Donae'o - Riot Music (Skream Remix)
Slaughter Mob - Splurt (Skream Remix)
Untold - Anaconda
Untold - You Didn't Win The Holiday
D1 - Just Business
Baobinga - Ride It
Martyn & DBridge - These Words (Roska Remix)
Martyn - Megadrive Generation
Ramadanman - Humber
Oogun - Salegy
Cyrus - Junk Yard
Wedge - Running Away (Guido Remix)
RSD - Naked Mario Kart
Eprom & Profisee - What It Seems
21STFK & Rustie - Cafe De Phresh
RJD2 - Ringfinger
DJ G - The Gate
Mizz Beats - My World

In a moment of wayward excitement I foolishly didn't get a chance to play the wonderful new James Blake EP out on the ever-impressive Hessle, but still let loose some behemoths nevertheless. Of particular note I'd point out the Eprom & Profisee bits, the Bullion and Mono Poly treats, and the musssssive new Slugabed EP previously mentioned some way down the page. Spoil yourself and buy the mp3s at beatport if you don't have the goannas to purchase the black crack.

A couple of large dubsteppers found their way in also, the James Blake remix of Destiny's Child is haunting and uncomfortable, Jaybird's entirely spastic "Work Dat Box" is a winner, as was the bro Oogun's wikked wild "Salegy". Keep an eye out for a release date. Forthcoming on Lodubs is the HUGE "The Gate" from SF's DJ G - buy it when it hits shops. No fucking about on that one. Delving into the realms of 130bpm territory we rolled Baobinga (more on what he's up to later), new Roska remix, and Lowquid reached for Martyn's broken beat "Megadrive Generation" whittling away on Hyperdub.

Somewhere on the internet for FREEEEEE is the Flying Lotus reworks of Lil Wayne...the Gaslamp Killer was dropping these on his NZ tour last week, and they really work on a dancefloor. Try google. These are most chur.

So Baobinga? Turns out him and his partner-in-crime ID are giving away an album of their music for free. Keep an eye on the very cool bassmusicblog for more...

Enough of this heady writing. What do you do on a sunday around midday in Auckland Fucking City? Why, mince about on the internet of course.



Go dance.

The Greengrocer of Fruitbeat

Whenever I think "Fruitbeat" ( thanks Splash ) the connotations are immediate. In some other beautiful dimension this man will be the President, everybody will communicate through synaesthesia and this will be the national anthem...



Robots would command much more respect than they do now, and would hold giant raves in the wide urban sprawls with the soundtrack going something like this:



Disc Jockeys would be treated like university professors, and strict measures would be taken to implement a quality control to this honorable title. One such measure would inevitably be to own a copy of this:



I may or may not have over-thought this concept a little. Any excuse to play this strange music loudly is fairly welcomed around these parts though I'd say. In fact, if we all did more of it, there would be so much more harmony because everyone would spend their time trying to track down the next uproarious synth line...hats off to the producers I must mention eh?

Gosh this blogging caper is good innit? Now to see if I can keep it up whilst staring right down the barrel of a very intense year of glorious, glorious academia.

Tired eyes versus Friday Night

So the inimitable motherfucking Gaslamp Killer touched down in AK last night. Despite being fraught with technical difficulties and strange results of sound the man's west coast phreakish hyphy-purple WOW-next level hiphop steez had a crowd going loony. Highlights in the form of phresh synth-laden goodness from the one and only flying lotus, and THAT tune I've been thrashing for some time, JAmes Blake's remix of "Stop What You're Doing".



Trying to DJ afterwards was hairy at best, I had been on a ballastic beatport bender earlier in the afternoon and had such treats as the new Slugabed and Kuedo from the wonderful quality control that is the Planet of Mu, but due to CDJ nightmares that didn't happen. A shame...



What to do now but linger in that trustworthy infallible mode of spinning large black discs on turntables...what a pleasure it is to drop "Midnight Request Line" on wax just about 5 years after it burst dancefloors apart with its arppegiated goodness.