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Big guest this month: Trevor Walker, one of the best deejays in Ottawa history (at least) and an influence on all of us. Expect him to bless the basement with a set of Trevor classics plus shit you never get to hear him play at the Merc. RECOMMENDED.

p.s. Upstairs returns. Adam can't make it any more, so it looks like Zattar and Nemo are filling in. No waiting outside!

here

Wasalu Jaco over Still Tippin'. Great concept, great flow

Lupe Fiasco - Switch (MP3)

Roadsworth taking over the streets of Mount Real

w/ live performances (!) planned for summer

more. . .

Dizzee over the big dubstep tune of the moment, live on KISS London, cannot get this out my head. Skream is producer of the tune in question, "Midnight Request Line - interview here.

Dizzee Rascal - Skream Request Line freestyle (MP3)

This Friday, before I head to Timekode I'm opening a show at the Avant Garde. Ben Gunning is a good dude who mixes up blued-eye soul vox, clean-ish modern soul production and an overall indie-rock dude aesthetic. The next step for a guy who used to play in Sloan-label Montrealers the Local Rabbits. Check:

Friday, Jan 27 - Ottawa
Ben Gunning
with Mantler and Pho
Avant-Garde Bar
135 Besserer Street

Ben Gunning MP3: Oh Rebel

Mantler MP3: Stronger Than Action Allows

Beat head opinion is big on Disco D's Ski Mask Way-style track. The drum rolls, the perfectly placed drop-outs, the little one-offs. V v nice.

I know the Brazilians have to rhyme in English for mass appeal, but you've got to let them spit a few bars in their native tongue, let them shine! Second language emceeing is so stilted always. . .

Cabal, Mr. Bomba & P live in the studio (34 mb .mov)

Chris Lighty of Violator Management fame and many eras of hip hop has a blog here.

Take with a grain of salt because Lighty is still very much in the industry. He's still got a lot of self-interest and can't go off and tell the best stories like Combat Jack. . .

John Akpata (prod. Pho) - Wearing You (MP3)

Something loop-y and low-key I made for my friend John Akpata this summer. Been watching him do this live for long time and watching the young females melt, so it was a pleasure to put something underneath. . .

buy Akpata's LP Kerheb

I'm sad to report that Spankrock is sick with pneumonia in the hospital in NY. Tonight's performance in Ottawa is cancelled and I expect tomorrow's in Toronto will be too. We're as disappointed as you.

If you bought advance tix, refunds are available where you bought them. If you bought your tix at Disorganised last week, get your refund at Organised Sound at 591A Bank Street.

We're gonna see about doing up this show again in the future. . .

Spankrock
Cosmo Baker
Pase Rock

Three people you will have heard of in twelve months but maybe haven't heard of yet. See you tomorrow for a very special show in the city of Ottawa. Take Wednesday off!

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tuesday, january 10th, 2006

dose, disorganised, and barrymore's present:

THE XXXPLOSIVE DJ TOUR

featuring the legendary players:

COSMO BAKER (the rub, new york city)
PASE ROCK (five deez/scribble, brooklyn)
SPANKROCK (big dada/ninja tune, baltimore)

with your hosts:

THE DISORGANISED CREW (disorganised)

what do you get when you combine 2 different djs from 2 different cities and rap music's newest and nastiest mc? what you get is XXXPLOSIVE. the XXXPLOSIVE DJ TOUR features 2 of america's most highly skilled party rocking djs: COSMO BAKER of new york's famous THE RUB collective and DJ PASE ROCK of the critically acclaimed FIVE DEEZ and SCRIBBLE jam along with baltimore's cool disco mc SPANKROCK. these three like-minded individuals linked up in brooklyn and philly and ever since have been setting dancefloors on fire with their ability to rock any kind of crowd with any kind of music.

the XXXPLOSIVE DJ TOUR features PASE and COSMO dropping their signature blends and wild scratching as they take the dancers on a journey from the roots of hip-hop to the newest club bangers to the sexiest of booty shaking music out there. fresh off the M.I.A. north american tour, bmore's newest ambassador SPANKROCK will mc alongside p & c and will also perform songs from his upcoming album on BIG DADA/NINJA TUNE entitled "yoyoyoyoyoyo".

...and lest we forget your party hosts, THE DISORGANISED CREW. BOOTH, CHAM, & PHO will do what they do best - lay down the hottest jams and get the place rowdier than ever before resulting in the blowing of the roof off the joint.

XXXPLOSIVE: wear what you want, just be prepared to sweat.

date: tuesday, january 10th, 2006
venue: BARRYMORE'S MUSIC HALL
admission: $10 advance, $12 door
doors: 8pm
19+ w/ ID

advance tickets available now @ organised sound!

My SHIT right now is Ghislain Poirier's remix of Lady Sov's "Fiddle With The Volume". Ghis flips the reggaeton drums different, proper dancehall bass and the sick little synth line that keeps coming back.

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Massive Attack vs. TV on the Radio

LP due in the far off future. . . and I know there's only two of them left, but that was the golden age right there.

Respect to all who reached, Lanna and I had a couple hiccups in our bit but it was something special to hear a warehouse full of people we didn't know shouting "Bonjay!" Whattup to all the new friends we made and respect to Chris and Lin for killing it, a great way to do NYE.

Next up: Spankrock next week and edit: BOSTON AND NYC in February. . .