Hector Bizerk / Solareye - Tonight

Going to See Hector Bizerk with Solareye (Stanley Odd) in support tonight in Bloc. Free. Starts 9pm. Dig it. Solareye's new single, available as a free download from Stanley Odd's bandcamp. Support some local music.

Loki - Omnilash

You need this in your lives.

We got a sneak preview of this in the studio a few months back, but here's the finished version. Lyrically dense and with a sickening flow, the instrumental just makes it even more sick.

New Big Tajj

Glasgow's boombox juggernaut and bastion of Scottish hip-hop, Big Tajj delivers more conscious, intelligent rhymes and shit-hot hooks, along with a cluster of awesome scottish talent. Sacrifice ft Mandeep Sethi is a big favourite, with it's distorted flutes backing sharp flows on the subjects of imperialism, colonialism and identity. Just give it a spin, and support your friendly local MC.

I used to live next to The Philadelphia

Those were the fucking days.
Fat fucking days, sure, but days, you know?

Chemical Poets - Twenty Tentacle from Chemical Poets on Vimeo.

The Chemical Poets doing that voodoo that they do so well. Fuck yes with bells on.

More Stanley Odd

Awesome...

Neil Kulkarni Hip-Hop column.

Some people who read this blog will be too young to recognise the words "Melody Maker", but if you happened to read that paper in the 90's, and had any kind of interest in hip-hop, you should recognise the name Neil Kulkarni. He's still writing, about all different kinds of music, but he does a specifically hip-hop based column now for the Quietus. His new one is worth checking out, if only for the particularly fine rant at the beginning about mainstream hip-hop. But read further on and you'll find lots of names on the current underground scene worth checking out - Joell Ortiz, Willie The Kid, Nottz, Gunshot and loads more.

http://thequietus.com/articles/05156-hip-hop-state-of-the-art-report-end-of-play-2010-2

Baba Brinkman - Live tonight

Baba Brinkmann Live Tonight! On the other side of the country, or 40 minutes train journey, depending how you look at it. I'd forgotten how good this guy is. Having made his name at the Edinburgh festival with The Rap Canterbury Tales, he's gone on to found a record label, tour incessantly, and create rap versions of Gilgamesh, Beowulf, and most recently, The Origin of the Species.
Tonight, he plays live in Henry's Bar Cellar, 8pm-1am. A mere £4/5, with support from Chemical Poets and Dizraeli.

Here's a few videos of recent performances...

Countdown to FUCKNO: Part 8, Dr. Nojoke ft Kid Ritalin

Dr. Nojoke Ft. Kid Ritalin - Sublimacy

Dr. nojoke's been given a fair bit of schpiel on this blog before (here, here and here), and Kid Ritalin is of course a major part of Team Little Rock. Sublimacy was born of a shared fascination with minimalism, experimental music, post-modernism and apocalyptic concepts - a dark construction of growling bass, metallic clanks and sparce rimshots backing scattershot flows. Straddling dubstep, clickno, hip-hop and spoken word, it's a complex and twisted peice of art.
Dr nojoke is a godhead of the creative commons / netlabel scene, having released on bleepsequence, Leporelo, Tropic and more, as well as curating the Unoiki experimental platform. His live and DJ sets can be accessed through the links, though we highly recommend the Techno For Food live set from earlier this year.
Dr.Nojoke - Techno for Food live set 2010 by Dr.Nojoke
Kid Ritalin appears on Black Lantern Music very soon and has two EPs due on Little Rock very shortly.

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