Everyone knows three is the magic number. With that in mind, three DJ's have linked forces to bring you a new night of noises, with a simple concept. Three tracks back-to-back from one prolific artist, then on to the next one, all night long.
DJs Shepdog, BobaFatt & Mo Fingaz will be spinning the sickest selection of Hip Hop, Soul, Reggae, Funk, Disco, House and beyond - no style will be left untouched, except that the style will remain three.
Threedom is a road seldom travelled by the multitude. We're taking it there.
Friday 2nd December. 11pm-3am
Bedroom Bar, 62 Rivington Street, Shoreditch, London. EC2A 3AY
Beautiful Hook.. Clean Guitar.... STOOPID Drums!.. Common Sense back at his best. Rapping hard. Sweet, Produced by No I.D, is the second track from the new album. Definitely looking forward to this....The cover is cool, a lil 'watch the thronish' but hey it is what it is...
The album 'The Dreamer / The Believer' drops on the Tuesday 20th December in stores.
You can pre - order the album HERE
Back in 1998, Mos Def and Talib Kweli got together to release one of the classics.... The underground rap album Mos Def And Talib Kweli Are Black Star. Since then, you know the coo... Both Def (With recent name change to Yasiin) & Kweli have gone on to bigger and better things but always left us poised for a return.....That is rumored to come true in 2012; Kweli and Mos are reportedly working on a new record inspired by Aretha Franklin. On Black Friday, they released a new single, the Madlib-produced “Fix Up.” And today, there’s another one out there on the internet: “You Already Knew,” produced by Madlib’s baby bro Oh No. Listen Up... They both dope.......
Fresh from I Keeps It 100's dope series, 21 Questions, the chocolate boy wonder takes his turn to answer, while falling asleep / being a lil' blunted / having a bit of a cold...
The Electric's new video is action packed adventure around the globe. Directed and Edited by Pugs Atomz. DJ Vadim kicks things off with heavy Electro synths followed by Scratcha DVA's uptempo remix. While Pugs takes you into the sights and sounds of The Electric Life. Sabira Jade brings it home with a killer hook.
Taken from the The Electric "Overloaded" EP Purchase HERE
We all know about Black Milk. Man make some beats yo. His new offering comes alongside rapper Danny Brown. This shit is fat. the beats are heavy and the raps are tight... Love new music...
This is some smooth shit. Emerging from a 'new era' of where remaking the 'hits' in a band like format is king, incredibly, this beat features NO SAMPLES ... all of the sounds you hear were replayed/reprogrammed masterfully by K-Def. This version appears on K-Def's upcoming "NIGHT SHIFT" project which will be available in December 2011 on VINYL, CD, CASSETTE & MP3 on Redefinition Records.
When it's grey as you leave the house in the morning & greyer on your return at night, you know what time of year it is! Something our mates over the pond call 'The Holidays' but for us Brits, trapped under a tupperware sky barely lit with crappy council Christmas lights, it's those few glorious festive months that come like a sister to summer. That magical time when it's ok to eat & drink big & listen to big tunes with your big crew getting your big swerve on, all in the face of illogical social norms like 'work', 'time' or 'weekdays'. Ah, Nov/Dec/Jan... Heres Episode 14 for ya'll. U can catch The Nextmen at the Good Times NYE – 31st December 2011 @ Battersea Arts Centre, London. More information & tickets
Digga Please? and Size Doesn't Matter present... XMAS THROWDOWN - 7"s all night long
Ding dong merrily on high...and a yo ho ho. It's Xmas time y'all, so it's time for a throwdown of epic proportions. 2 of London's finest 45s-only crews take it uptown for a battle of EAST vs WEST on the turntables. The beef has been simmering for years, with both crews claiming to be "London's Best 7" Night", so it's time to take it to the streets - who will take the crown??
with DJs...
SHEPDOG / KOMBINE / MATMAN /MALACHI / LEEROY
vs
SI KURRAGE / MR SHIVER / DJ THOR / MASTOMIC / DEMENTIA
and don't forget: HIP HOP FANCY DRESS!
Dust off your Kangols, Sergio Tacchinis, Colorados, Gazelles, Bubblegooses and Cazals, cos we're taking it back to the block party. Rock a chain, tip that cap to the side, but most of all MAKE IT FRESH
A different post today. As some of you may know we are massive d&B fans here. We both grew up on it just as much as anything else. Main Squeeze are friends with the crew over at Hospital Records. We recently hosted Room Three at their monster Brixton Acameny sell out gig which was a wicked night... The label is home to artists such as High Contrast, London Elektricity, Danny Byrd, Netsky, Logistics, Nu:Tone,Cyantific & MC Wrec but also releases tracks from a whole host of other artists across the D+B genre. Check the video above as Tom Chambers documents the rise and fame of the now household and seminal D&B label. Props to Chris, Tony, Josh, Ricky and all the team at Hospital HQ...
Loudmouth Melvin returns with a wicked taster of whats in store for the coming months. Treating 'Barry White - I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little Bit More, Baby'... It was always gonna be nice... We loved 'Summer Breeze' here at Main Squeeze last year and it was on repeat for a hot minute..
Mad looking forward to new material from this guy..
‘Me And Mr Jones’ was the only track on ‘Back To Black’ where Winehouse expressed her snotty, ‘Frank’-era sense of humour. The tale of her and rapper Nas’ friendship was told and years later, 'Mr Jones' returns the favour with an appearance on ‘Like Smoke’.
This song features on the 'Lioness : HiddenTreasures' Album that is released on 5th Dec 2011. Unfortunately we only have a low bit rate for the time being due to the tag ridden versions circulating. However we will update as we find higher quality.
Here's the first installment of DJ Shepdog's monthly Nice Up! radio show on Space Invader Radio. The dawg drops loads of new flava, including new releases on Nice Up! You also get to hear his subtle northern tones pon the talky talky.... Check it
Dont forget to hit up the Nice Up! blog HERE for mad treats...
Chiddy Bang have been on the heater for a while now. This comes after their 'Stylo' Remix for Gorillaz. They drop their new offering 'Ray Charles'. Sampling the great man himself this bumps loud and is a hit on the dancefloor. The story goes like this ' “One of the brothers says - He got so high he fell asleep in the studio. WI looked over and he reminded me of Ray Charles, probably because I was high, too. I started freestyling about him and we laid it down right there.”
OK. This is Family Business. Introducing Hannah Collins, A singer/songwriter/producer/rudegirl from our hometown. Bath. South West England. She today, on the 11.11.11, a once in a century moment, drops her debut album 'Different Light'. Hannah has been a singer since I can remember. She was an honorary member of The Heavy for the first spell of their adventure, and toured the US with them, a member of the TC Live show along with TC and MC Jakes, as well as an active session vocalist for a number of people in the music industry. This for Hannah spells the end of a long year of writing, singing and producing her own material... from scratch. No samples. (Props). The sound is sweet and soulful alongside deep and dark. The album takes influence from a large group of genres and to its detriment is a great mix of instrumental and vocal. The production is crisp and clear and it's a pleasure to hear a complete project...
Erykah Badu needs little introduction. Her seminal works like 'Baduizm' and the 'New AmErykah' series have successively upped the ante in terms of what can be done within the soul spectrum. Erykah fuses cosmic b-girl bravado with the forward-thinking sounds of producers like the Soulquarians, Madlib, and more recently, Academy grad Flying Lotus, to create a sonically varied body of work – selling millions of albums in the process. She also heads up her own record label, Control FreaQ, and has even been caught on the ones and twos recently, under her moniker DJ Lo Down Loretta Brown. Watch her tell the story to Eothen 'Egon' Alapatt at the Red Bull Music Academy 2011 in Madrid. The sonstress talks about her big break and her influences through the late J Dilla...
Heavy D was the first signing to seminal Hip Hop label, Uptown Records, back in 1987, releasing a bunch of commercially successful albums such as 'Big Tyme' and 'Living Large'.
Hailing from Jamaica, he moved to Money Earnin' Mount Vernon, New York as a child.
Dubbed the overweight lover, he was one of the first rappers to credibly incorporate Reggae and R&B (in the early New Jack Swing years) into his music, Hev even had a UK No 1 with 'Now That We Found Love' featuring Aaron Hall.
Heavy D & The Boyz tragically lost one of their dancers, Trouble T. Roy, in 1990. Their follow up album 'Peaceful Journey' was dedicated to him, as was the Pete Rock & CL Smooth track 'They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)'.
Hev's DJ, Eddie F, is also famously cited as the person to give Pete, Hev's cousin, his first break, by giving him his first sampler.
Hev's legacy ran deep musically, collaborating with Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, B.B. King, Supercat, Frankie Paul, Daddy Freddy, Buju Banton, Soul For Real, Guy, drafting in rappers Kool G Rap, Grand Puba, Q Tip and Big Daddy Kane for his anti-profanity track 'Don't Curse', and appearing in Biggie's 'One More Chance' video, as well as being name dropped in 'Juicy', amongst other things.
In addition to this, he had numerous acting roles in everything from sitcoms 'A Different World' & 'Fresh Prince Of Bel Air', and movies as diverse as 'The Cider House Rules', 'Step Up', 'New Jersey Drive' and a cameo in Eddie Murphy movie 'Tower Heist' this year.
He made his first live TV music performance for 15 years on last months BET Awards and was due to drop his 9th album, 'Love Opus', this year.
Dwight Arrington Myers (May 24th 1967 - November 8th 2011)
LAARD HAVE MERCY! There is is some serious sets on here. These guys have a dope archive of stuff recorded for download. Book mark this shit immediately.
Don't call it a comeback. One of the UK's finest beat makers, Mr Lewis Parker, with some brand new heat. This is the official video taken from the forthcoming Dusty Vinyl / King Underground LP 'The Glass Ceiling'...
