Heroes of 2011: Number 17

This years '8bitch award' for making loads of great tracks and sharing the demos and the the process of making music with me goes to teaandcakerecords.

Many thanks again to Tim, Brotto, Bandshell, Brickwall Brigade, Planet Soap, Grillo, Railster, Bunny On Acid, FoolK and Matt The Good and to everyone who supported, blogged, tweeted, downloaded and played any or all of the eps. More is planned for 2012.

Newsround

Just a little round up of some stuff I've liked over the past month or so


First up Mixcloud


Blck

Thank Faç its Friday by Black Classical on Mixcloud

In-som-nia... by Black Classical on Mixcloud

RIP Gill Scott Heron by Black Classical on Mixcloud

And for Blck's other Gil Scott-Heron meets Sun Ra tribute mix http://t.co/s4HuMXu


Seja Heroi has also dropped a nice little mix from this week's show including a bit of a GSH tribute.

The Cannibalist Manifesto #007 - Black Bombs Blasting Out (RIP Gil Scott-Heron) by Space Invader Radio on Mixcloud

You can listen to these and more (including my stuff if you are mental) on Mixcloud's new Iphone app.


http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mixcloud/id401206431?mt=8&ls=1


One of my all time favourite magazines, Muzik, has put the entire contents up as pdfs so you can go and find out what Sasha was playing in '96. My kind of fun filled afternoon. 


http://www.muzikmagazine.co.uk/


Shook magazine has sadly ended it's print form but they are still putting up some quality stuff online including this recent mix by Bnjmn


http://www.shook.fm/content/2011/05/bnjmn/


who was also interviewed by German techno magazine de-bug


http://de-bug.de/mag/8295.html


Check Ben's mix of Mr Beatnick's forthcoming release on Don't Be Afraid



Mr Beatnick - Casio Romance (BNJMN remix) by factmag


Ben UFO's Boiler Room started a spin-off series of mixes kicking off with this belting mix of classic d'n'b of the mid '90s.


http://boilerroom.tv/nothing-new-001-ben-ufo-never-went-to-blue-note/


WrongTom has started a blog with some great tales and gems from the post punk / dub reggae scene: Skank Blog Bologna


http://skankblogbologna.wordpress.com/about/


Passionweiss blog ran a great piece on 30 classic hip hop demos (with links - there goes your afternoon)


http://passionweiss.com/2011/05/02/the-30-greatest-hip-hop-demos-now-in-zip-form/


Charlie Dark put up a great video of a brief history of his Run Dem Crew and old Attica Blues days. Can't wait for part 2.





Charlie also linked to these other videos recently, the first is pure poetry, the second is about homelessness from the perspective of the children.



DARK SIDE OF THE LENS from Astray Films on Vimeo.



Sofa Surfers from walshbros on Vimeo.


Ghostpoet + Koreless = WIN for me.


 
Ghostpoet - Survive It (Koreless Remix) by ghostpoet


This tweet from Bake of All caps has got me very excited at the prospect of finally being about to check his music on wax.


http://twitter.com/#!/BAKEGLA/status/76043138283741185


Blawan has dropped a classic here. Sampling Brandy might seem like an idea everyone is doing at the moment but this one really rises above the rest. One of my favourite tracks of the year already I think.


http://yourstru.ly/2011/06/02/mp3-blawan-i-wanna-be-down/


On Bandcamp there is some interesting stuff including some nice freebies.


Mo Kolours debut on One Handed Music 





Stac's remixes by Blue Daisy and Kidkanevil amongst others





Tommy Tempa







Sleeparchive







Zoom Lens including a new track by Svpreme Fiend





And did I mention Bandshell had a new ep on teaandcakerecords?

Bandshell on teaandcakerecords

This morning saw the release of our third ep from teaandcakerecords. This time it's some dark, brooding, deep, atmospheric dubstep from man of mystery Bandshell.


I say mystery because it is very hard to pin down and true facts about him. I have known him for about 18 months now and still don't know that much about him. I knew him by at least three different aliases before only recently finding out his real name. I know the area he lives which made me have doubts if I knew his race. I had a feeling I knew his age approximately although initially I thought he was older than he actually is.


However none of that seemed important to me. To me he was Bandshell, the guy with great beats, an encyclopedic knowledge of not only dubstep, grime, garage and techno but also obscure rock bands, always guaranteed to pull out a little gem you've never heard before or drop some new demo he's been working on just that day and sounds better than the majority of things you've heard that year. It's Bandshell and it's an honour to finally be able to share with a wider audience just a first small sample of some of his music.




Thanks on this project must go out to the early ustreamers Mr Beatnick, Bake / ALLCAPS, Bnjmn and Lukid for the initial meeting, to Svpreme Fiend for the words of wisdom and to Tim for being Mr Teaandcakerecords and letting me get away with a lot my own way on this one.

Bandshell Guest mix for Songs of Praise

Another old Songs Of Praise guest mix has appeared on Mixcloud this afternoon, this time Bandshell / Fauxhemian's mix from last October.

El-B vs Kelis - Get Along With You

El-B - Know What I'm Talking About

Zomby - Expert Tuition

Actress - Hazylude

Rammellzee & Disk - No Guts No Galaxy

Gza / The Genius - 4th Chamber

Group Home - Sacrifice

Devin The Dude - The Dude

Burial - Forgive

Fugazi - Turkish Disco

The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Vacuum Boots

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Bold  As  Love 

Bandshell - Guest Mix For Songs Of Praise by Bandshell on Mixcloud