Talking your way to the top

 
Who thought the South Bank centre would be ones to get down with it? It being the freestyle oral workouts of modern one man bands, beatboxing. They’ve hired beatboxer meister Shlomo as their new artist in residence, after seeing the multi-talented motormouth combine beatboxing through a loop sampler, beatboxing and drumming simultaneously. He’s set to [...]

Bid Dada’s 10th Birthday Comp

Ninja Tunes hip hop imprint Big Dada celebrates its 10th birthday on October 15th by releasing a 2 CD comp followed by a DVD entitled Well Deep: Ten Years of Big Dada Recordings… Here’s the tracklisting:
CD one
1. ‘Movement’ – Roots Manuva (pictured)
2. ‘The Tale’ (Radio Edit) – TY
3. ‘Night Night Theme’ – Infesticons
4. ‘Colossal Insight’ [...]

Foy’s Marvellous Noise

Part of the reason for going completely off the radar yesterday was that we attended this geezers gig in the Slaughtered Lamb Farringdon. I’ve known of Foy Vance for a couple of years now but seeing him play for the first time in around a year was an absolutely joy. Walking the tightrope between whisky [...]