Next Hype - best grime song of 2009?

Check the Tempz sound board, smash!

http://apartofmedies.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/tempz.html

C!

Social Unrest 2010.

Thanks to Vish for sending me this.

So my gap year plan is to fly straight out to a very high risk nation. On a serious level, this is genuinely quite an interesting map. It proves quite clearly that wealth is not the only factor influencing social unrest. The UK has the same levels of risk as India and Mozambique.

Simba Says.

Although most grime mc's have strong flows, humour, punchlines etc. there is normally one thing missing - a message. That is where Purple differs.

"They think can test me, but they don't chat sense, all they ever seem to talk about it beef, gash and skengs"

King Robbo!

I'm not one for petty graffiti politics but Banksy has slipped up big time..

http://graffoto1.blogspot.com/2009/12/banksy-vs-robbo-wrh-wd-checkmate.html

Under and Over!

Dedicated.

No questions which was the best present in the household this year.

Overshadowed

These are digitally edited but who cares they are banging photos.















www.overshadowed.com

The power of advertising.

It's the festive period and there's one thing that guarantees - being bombarded with advertising. It's everywhere, on television, in magazines, on the bus. We are constantly being told what to wear, how to behave and how to live. It quite simply preys on people's insecurities and anxieties.

This is something I feel links strongly to the wider issue addressed by the Archbishop of Canterbury in his Christmas speech. British children are being 'forced to grow up too soon' and actually touched on advertising as one of the main factors in causing 'misery and exploitation' for many British children.

To quote the speech:

"We do our level very best to turn you into active little performers and consumers as soon as we can, we shall test you relentlessly in schools, we shall bombard you with advertising, often highly sexualised advertising, we shall worry you about your prospects and skills from the word go, we shall do all we can to make childhood a brief and rather regretable experience, on the way to the real thing, that being independence"

Everyone is vulnerable to advertising, but unfortunately it is the young who suffer most. From the moment a child gains the smallest freedoms within society, they are restricted, pressured and moulded. Marketing forces children to feel inadequate without the very latest product (something which is also compeltely unsustainable). This is however precisly what business needs, it demands it - to keep firms ticking over, people need to buy goods and spending money - it keep business good. That is why firms are spending millions on advertising campaigns.

Children need protection from advertising. Kids have lost their freedom to business and marketing campaigns. We are unlikely to see a change, its too fundamental to our economy and those of most developed nations.

It's very clear where our priorities lie. They certainly aren't in the best interests of the next generation.

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Bit of a random rant on advertising, but I feel its a particularly prominent issue at Christmas. Love is the best present any child will recieve.

In the mean time, here's some brilliant subvertisement work from Dr. D:

Oh Geezus It's Xmas

Free Christmas promotional mixtape from OGs.



Download here.

Currently got the N.E Rememberance set on repeat. OGs are making the best grime music in London at the moment and the Logan set is a fitting tribute to one of the Organised Grime's founding members, N.E who died at the start of the month.

In Jankrowville..

He's been missing for years, album delayed, studio robbed etc. But Klash is back releasing tunes. Managed to turn up too late to catch him at the Dead Prez gig but I've heard some material from his forthcoming album, 'Back to the Sagas' and Klashnekoff might, just might be back.



If you have not bought this mixtape by now, you will probably never will - so here's the download link:

FOCUS MODE



1. Intro
2. Focus mode
3. Ya Wrong (Special)
4. McWaffle Presents..
5. Mr K-Lash
6. Jamrock Takeover
7. Get Down
8. Zero 2005
9. No Games
10. Black Rose Revisited
11. Son Of Niya - Featuring Sizzla (Dub Special)
12. Channel K...
13. Jankroville 2005
14. Smack Down Dub
15. Revolution
16. Raw Tings
17. No Escape
18. Back In The Game
19. Let It Go
20. You
21. F** The Long Talk
22. Jah Bles
23. Traces
24. Nightbreed/Outro

Happy Christmas!

Nasty Habits Xmas - BIG.

Copenhagen has been and gone. Nothing has really changed.

"Between 1750 and 2005, developed countries accounted for 80% of the world's CO2 emissions. Even today, with only 20% of the world's population, developed countries pump more than 55% of the total emissions into the atmosphere. So when it comes to emissions, developed and developing countries can't be compared like for... like, not to be painted in the same brush ... This is ultimately about fairness and equal right to development"

Madam Fu Ying speaking at the London School of Economics.

Few phone shots from a while back I just found..





Lowkey at Beats Beat Bullets.



If I wasn't working tomorrow night, I would be there once again..





Support positive hip hop and a good cause - proceeds going to www.stopwar.org.uk

Nightmare before Christmas..

Wednesday 23rd December @ the Den. Massive grime line up :D

DJ Cable mix

From EgoThieves.



.:: Tracklist ::.

01. DJ Cable Vs. Tempa T & Rusko – Mr. Muscle’s Hype (My Pet Monster Dub)
02. Inja Feat. Fallacy & Skinnyman – Hat Low
03. DJ Cable Vs. Joker & Ginz Vs. Lil Scrappy & Young Buck – Re-Up For Money
04. DJ Cable Vs. Mark Pritchard & Dem Franchise Boyz – Wind It Up & Lean Wit It
05. DJ Cable Vs. Wonder & Boy Better Know – What, There’s More Girls In Here?
06. Breakage Feat. Newham Generals & David Rodigan – Hard
07. DJ Cable Vs. Bonecrusher Vs. Chase & Status – Never Scared Of Eastern Jams
08. Lil Jon & The Eastside Boyz Feat. Lil Scrappy – What U Gonna Do?
09. Coki – Tortured
10. Lil Jon Feat. Three 6 Mafia Vs. Coki – Act A Fool (DJ Nappy Thugstep Refix)
11. DJ Unk Vs. Genetic Crew – 2 Step (DJ Nappy Thugstep Refix)
12. Allstar Cashville Prince Feat. Yo Gotti Vs. El Rakkas – Tear It Up (DJ Nappy Thugstep Refix)

Download here.

Ape Lookin

http://www.mightymonkey.co.uk/

Few nice characters I've seen around..

Under the Westway

Came across these photos by Eva Edsjo of the Irish travellers who live under the Westway.

Ruff Squad, we bring the heat.

Big tune from Rapid, one the scene's top producers. Not normally a fan of the grime's 'hit-single' tunes with the flashy videos but this is saying A LOT.

La Haine

Watched La Haine again the other day. It's too much of a good film not to post. The film follows the lives of three young men from the banileues of Paris.

I recommend you watch..

Plastician's Show on Rinse

Plastician - Rinse FM - 07/12/2009



Download Link Here (Save Target As): http://relay.exequo.org/rinsefm/podc...ician71209.mp3

Riton - Radiant (Joker Remix)
Joker - Output 1 & 2
Bar 9 - Hood Ratz
Boogaloo Crew - Days Go By
Crissy Criss - Blow Your Head Off
Crissy Criss & Youngman - No Questions
Emalkay - Solid State
Gemmy - Maroon Chant
Jakes - In The Place 2 Be (VIP)
Flux Pavillion - Normalize
Emalkay - Battle Suit
++Tempa T - Next Hype Acapella++
Rude Kid - Electric
Crissy Criss & Youngman - Kick Snare (VIP)
Plastician - Elixir
Rusko - Do Ya Wanna Have A Party?
Silkie - Planet X

**Trim On Mic**
12th Planet - 68
Caspa - My Pet Monster
Joker & Ginz - Stash
Chase & Status - Against All Odds
Mr Snowman - Gutter
Noah D - Serious (VIP)
Rusko - Woo Boost
Rude Kid - Winter
Skream - Blunt
Breakage - Together
Plastician - The Clouds
Joker - Digidesign
Noah D - That Hardcore Tune
Emalkay - When I Look At You
Doctor P - Sweet Shop
Crissy Criss - Don't Be Scared
Joker - Tron
Joker - Tron (VIP)
Wafa - Grime
Trolley Snatcha - The Future
Chase & Status - Madhouse
12th Planet & Plastician - Untitled

**Old School Grime Segment**
Musical Mob - Pulse X
DJ Oddz - Pulse Dis
DJ Oddz - Strung Up 2
Geeneus - Midnight (VIP)
Alias - Gladiator
Alias - Fight Club
Wiley - New Era
Terror Danjah - Nitecrawler 2
Scratchy - Shangooli
Scratchy - Shut Your Mouth
Skepta - Dead
Plastician - Still Tippin Remix
Ruff Sqwad - Misty Cold

Little Jinder - Youthblood (12th Planet & Flinch Remix)
Breakage feat. Newham Generals - Hard
Instra:Mental - No Future (Skream Remix)
Doctor - Tek Your Time
Joker & Ginz - Re-up
Chromeo - Night By Night (Skream Remix)

Grime Lovers

www.tmagicworld.com