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Roots Manuva Cover Wins Prize!
Art Vinyl announces the winner of Best Art Vinyl 2008 with the Fleet Foxes' self titled album taking first place, Roots Manuva's 'Slime & Reason' coming second and Coldplay's 'Viva La Vida' third with over 3,000 people casting their vote. From Jan 5th the Best Art Vinyl 2008 winners will be featured in exhibitions at Rough Trade East, London, Snap Galleries inBirmingham, Fishmarket Gallery in Northampton and the Perfect Pad Gallery in Norwich. All of the designs will be displayed in the Play & Display Flip Frame.Woo! for Roots Manuva, Big Dada and Oscar & Ewan.
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Bug's Bash
Last year Ninja released The Bug's "London Zoo" album and its done well in the end of year polls. So much so that we thought you'd appreciate a list of them all so far and a link to the album incase you missed it first time round. Also in very exciting news the now legendary club night BASH is back this friday @ Plastic People, London. The Bug, Loefah and Morgan Zarate (spacek) will be the residents with special guests (past ones have been Jerry Dammers, Roots Manuva and Ari Up (The Slits). It will run 2nd Friday of every month,£6 11pm to 4am. Expect Dub to Dilla, Bashment to Bass. The Wire - No.1Observer Music Monthly - No.11Quietus Website - No.1Guardian - No.19Fact - No.16Mojo - No.9Hip Hop Connection - No.22Pitchfork - "Poison Dart" in top 100 songs of 2008Mixmag - No.12DJ Mag - No.12Plan B - One of 20 Albums Of The YearClash - No.10Popmatters - No5 In Albums of Year - No.5 in Best of British. No.2 in ElectronicCMU - An Album of the YearTotal Music Magazine - No.2 Ragged Worlds Website - No.31Metacritic - No.2 Album of yearDJ - Poison Dart one of 5 singles of yearMixmag - Ganja 42nd Best single of yearClash - Poison Dart - 6th best single of year
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Ninja Tune, Big Dada and Counter Records in 2009
Ninja Tune, Big Dada & Counter Records present a heavy heavy year of brand new acts and brilliant albums....!Ninja Tune starts the year with the monstrous Qemists and their heavy mix ofbeats, drum & bass, dancehall etc - their album Join The Q is out on Feb 2nd and features Wiley, Mike Patton, Jenna G, MC Navigator and others. A complete change of pace in March with The Long Lost's beautiful debut album sees Daedelus and Laura Darlington trade tunes and songs of obsessive love and skewed light. Yppah's second album is sounding amazing and should be out in May. And Fink has steamed in with another great set of nearly finished tunes which we plan to release before summer. Other Ninja treats coming are a singles and 'bonus bait' material from Mr Scruff, an EP of searing electronics from Shuttle - a new act straight outta Boston. PLUS a host of Bonobo goodness: Live DVD, remix 10" and a killer new album in summer.After slaying us all with Mr Manuva's album last year Big Dada come with a stunning array of new acts and albums. First the oh-so-now Diplo collection is out on 26th January, including an exclusive re-rub of MIA's Grammy-nominated "Paper Planes,". Xrabit + DMG$' "Hello World" is a dayglo mash-up of Dalston and Texas, a kind of "Three Feet High & Rising" for the nu-rave generation (out March). Two Fingers sees Amon Tobin, Doubleclick and Sway combine for some seriously dark hip hop business at the end of the same month. Already declared "the next big thing" (Time Out), Thunderheist kick off April with their freewheeling, clubbed up first album (if you haven't seen their performance outside Cargo back in December yet, then watch it here. May sees Speech Debelle come out with possibly the most significant UK hip hop debut since "Brand New Second Hand". And if all that wasn't enough, we also hope to bring you a brand new Infesticons album before summer really hurts you.Counter Records will be presenting new artists also firstly with Spokes a Manchester band making glacial guitar music gilded with threads of folk and pop - we'll be re-issuing their 6 track album 'People Like People Like You' and then eagerly awaiting new album being recorded in Northumberland as soon as it thaws. Late Spring will see the launch of Michael Johnson's new Ape School project with which the Daedelus collaborator fills your head with angst songs, big orchestral themes, distorted guitars and strange dreams, hmmm.... Counter are also re-issuing the first two Death Set EPs together with a free bandana and The Heavy are recording their second album right now so expect more heavy voodoo soul sooooooon.
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XRABIT DMG$ - First European Dates
Cmon cmon cmon - like Obama and alcoholic popsicles, XRABIT + DMG$ combine in inspiring and intoxicating ways. Late January sees the two Texan MCs touch down in London, hook up with Dalston-based XRABIT and fling themselves into a series of shows (London, Paris Berlin) that will leave onlookers weak-kneed and screaming with joy. It's a long time since hip hop has managed to sound so carefree, so avant garde and yet so pop. You can be there at the start (the dates below) or at the end (the O2 Arena in two years time) but you will be there. Follow the yellow brick road.Thursday 29th JanuaryYoyo @ Notting Hill Arts ClubFriday 6th FebruaryGet Familiar @ Fabric
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Solid Steel radio show - Boom Monk Ben & Coldcut - New Gear!
Welcome to Solid Steel in 2009, now in association with Serato It's a new year and we are also pleased to announce new Solid Steel members who we'll be introducing over the next few weeks. We start with Boom Monk Ben, one of our most prolific guest contributors, whose quality mixes have now earned him a place on the Solid Steel team. His mix this week (2nd January) highlights some of last years big club tunes from Fake Blood, Kid Cudi and DJ Mujava and classics from Dead Prez, Jay Z and SL2. Coldcut, the originators of the show, take care of the second hour with Cornelious, Flying Lotus and Benga. New Year – New Gear!
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