John Carpenter mix-tape (2013)

Another mix I have been working on. A little tribute to the musical works of the great John Carpenter. I have been a fan of his since I first saw Escape From New York at the age of 11 and its iconic opening theme that stuck in head. Below is a mix I put together featuring my personal favourite moments from a variety of the masters best films. Feel free to download and share.



On another note, Mediashite has deleted my account thus deleting the entire content of this blog and the past 5 years of posts. At the moment I'm not really sure what will happen to the blog but while I look at new hosting sites, if there is anything you want re-upping then drop me a line.

Gonnamaketheponyhop Mixtape (2012)

I recently did a hip hop mix just for fun and as a chance to mess around with some new editing software. It's just short of an hours worth of  beats from Onyx, NWA, Big Juss, Dead Prez and loads more. I thought I might share it here with you. Feel free to download and share around all you want.

Ike & Tina Turner - Funkier Than A Mosquito's Tweeter (2002)

Keep this short. You really can't do justice with words to the quality, creative output of a violent, corrosive and sexy married couple like Ike & Tina. In the immensely slim chance I ever have kids, they are going to be named Ike and Tina I reckon.
This album is one of my favourites. A compilation of a ton of the rockin' 70's stuff the pair blasted out. A whole load of classics and covers. Seriously, this version of "Whole Lotta Love" is hands down the sexiest Zep ever sounded.

 

Ike & Tina Turner - Funkier Than A Mosquito's Tweeter

Sho'nuff Playlist Vol.1

In our continuing adventures to make us seem cool, myself and my partner in crime Macky have been waving our Djing skills in the face of anyone that will listen. Having talked about it for some time we have recently had a few excursions into this field. Seeing as playing in the fastest band isn't going to make me famous, maybe I might have a bit of luck with this attempt.
Anyway..we have got this night called Sho'nuff ( I will reward anyone who knows the reference). here is one of the play lists we have been using. Nothing righteously heavy, we have got away with Iron Monkey and Sleep once or twice, but its mostly the sort of stuff we would be listening to at home to make us seem cool. This is what we have been spinning.....

James Horner - Commando Main Theme
Prizzy Prizzy Please - New Shoes
Tina Turner - Acid Queen
Company Flow - End To End Burners
Prince - Trust
The Fucking Champs - Policenauts
Notorious B.I.G. - Hypnotise
Akira OST - Kaneda
Stevie Wonder - Upset Stomach
Doug E Fresh - The Show
Bad Brains - Sacred Love
Goblin - Tenebre
Vanity - 7th Heaven
The Stooges - Down on The Street
Steely Dan - Night by Night
Drunks With Guns - Wonderful Subdivisons

Sho'nuff Playlist .1

In/Humanity - Violent Resignation: The Great American Teenage Suicide Rebellion 1992 - 98 (2000)

After quite a bit of hip hop on my previous posts lets have something noisier shall we. Because, like they claim in Empire Records "thats why teenagers are angry these days! Metal and rap.".
Noisy is the best way to describe 90's power violence legends In/Humanity. Bearing from South Carolina and existing for a quite spectacular 6 or so years they put out albums, 7"'s and quite a few compilation appearances. The reason why they are legends? Having a sense of fucking humour and the intelligence and skill to inject there music with it. I'm not talking about stupid jokes and over the top attempts to be whacky ( 90's Fat Wreck anyone?) it was more a humour of pointing and laughing at others, in jokes that only they got. That is why In/Humanity rule hard. Schreeching, chaotic, snarling, discordant anti-social hardcore. This below is the discography CD that came out back in 2000. Its not everything they ever recorded but gives you a great idea and good place to start in getting your head around this awesome band.

In/Humanity - Violent Resignation: The Great American Teenage Suicide Rebellion 1992 - 98

The vocalist, Chris, went onto front the also pretty sweet Guyana Punch Line and is also responsible for my most favourite ideology Smashism.

Various - The Bitter Days Ahead (2004)

I got thinking the other day about gig attitudes nowadays and the impact that only a few years of Myspace, Internet access and the like has had on live music. Not to wax lyrical about such matters as I am using the Internet to spread my word here, maybe just because this compilation CD reminds me of lots of all-dayers and gigs that we played years ago. And it is a perfect reminder to me personally of all the fun of playing those gigs. It was put out by Ghost City Records in London. Run by a really nice guy called Jack who used to live with our good friend Seedi. I don't think the label exists anymore really. He put out a couple of really good 7"'s and this comp. The track listing says it all really. Narcosis had played with all of these bands pretty much at some gig or another across the country somewhere back then. Most of them are not with us anymore, some are, some got shit. but that's the way it goes. It just reminds me of some really good, fun times spending all day in some pub down south listening to these bands and hanging out with friends.

Track Listing

1. Abandon Ship
2. Dead By Dawn
3. The Legacy
4. November Coming Fire
5. Trencher
6. The Deathskulls
7. Awoken
8. Injury Time
9. The Process
10. Voorhees
11. The Nothing
12. Patient Zero
13. Shank
14. Burning The Prospect
15. Army Of Flying Robots
16. The Break In
17. Ninebar
18. Night And The City of Broken Promises
19. Shackle Me Not
20. Broken Oath
21. Narcosis
22. On Thin Ice
23. Among The Missing
24. The Horror
25. Boxed In
26. The Sex Maniacs
27. Jinn
28. Break It Up
29. The Permanent
30. Wives Of Seth

V/A - The Bitter Days Ahead Comp

Its still a really sweet comp, and if your lucky you can still pick up the various releases these tracks came from across a few different distros.