sermon of the week: you are what you eat ft. ridiculous temperatures, kyle hall, dabrye, one of the most amazing plants in the world and dummy mag

I need warmer clothes. I need some heating in my bedroom and to do something about the bleeding windows. I need to freeze my arse off less = spend less time in a stationary position in cold places - I do a lot and I get very cold. bwoy I get cold. sometimes I feel like the chill goes past the bone marrow right into my soul.
I do fine, I get by. hey, I can take a lot. I've not been catching shit n getting ill - !!! - but the amount of energy I use on fighting cold is EXCESSIVE.

or maybe I just need to eat more and eat better and so, my dear extended fam, do you.

yep this is my preaching week I've been thinking up sermons, discussing issues with people and preaching so much this week I feel like I can go on forever. I've been thinking up sermons, discussing issues with people and preaching so much this week I feel like I need to press the off button stop the train of thought and shut up. shut the brain down before it overheats and explodes. where is the fucking off button. how come I don't have one? thanks mama nature. no, really, cheers.



I am good when it comes to choosing food - not excellent but ok, I like a lot of stuff that's really good for me, I eat raw food with almost every meal, my meals are predominantly green, lots of different kinds of salad spring onions herbs avocado you get the piture. but recently I've had very little time to eat and even less to shop, I'm not gonna say I've had little (around zero and this is an optimistic prediction rather than realistic estimation, I have good reasons for optimism. the main one - it's in my nature. yep it's a curse too but I'll live with it. I have done) money because money, frankly, is just not relevant (where I'm at. this is important) and I do have my priorities straight. time and concentration though are major issues. I know I have a problem with these that needs to be addressed. and I need to realise I can start addressing it now by eating more, better and more regular and resting a bit sometimes (not gonna happen is it. I will die soon. damn)



watch this. this is what I am talking about, you want to learn these things or be reminded of them trust me. take it with as much salt as you will but a lot of it is simply true.

oh and I have a new year's resolution: to start drinking cannabis juice. no joke. no it doesn't make you high, but it's, apparently, one of the biggest sources of everything good our bodies are missing though it was, for obvious reasons, not mentioned in this film. and - for reasons that should also be obvious - is banned. hemp. the most amazing plant in the world. we could have a lot of goodness easy and cheap (paper, clothes, list goes on) and waste way less things we are runing out of, if it was not against the interest of those the system we've created and are sustaining is protecting. easy cheap and healthy is not profitable as we count profit in money. ridiculous fucking species. I'm guessing it's not mentioned in the film, obviously I haven't (yet haha) watched all of it due to some ekhm.. issues with time/ADHD.

oh oh and you wanna listen to these dummy mug mixes, read them interviews and start following @DummyMag. they are awesome (mixes, interviews, dummy mag)


interview on dummymag

interview on dummymag


fuck I seriously need to do something about the temperaure in my bedroom this is getting ridiculous. another year another british winter..........I so promised myself this time last year none of this this time this year. booo

we don't follow no crowd

if you heard otherwise it's a tru lie

teebs

been thinking about teebs. been thinking about teebs since I first heard him play rough trade - first time I been to a rough trade instore  - with kutmah (ha! that's it! that's where I first heard and fell in love with Kutmah and never looked back! HA! been trying to work that out*). comes and goes but teebs is one of those recurring obsessions of mine. been thinking a lot about how he was the first to do what he does and how many have done since and how it pisses me off kinda. this tender beautiful shimmery sound that's so teebs and should just stay his because he gives it soul. collections 1 is such a beautiful record. and his art is just like his music. delicate, beautiful, powerful, deep and playful. I don't know what it is, some kind of energy something so good it shines through whatever. some people got it. teebs got it.

not buying this has been one of my biggest regrets. having wanted to buy it has been my prime example of why I do actually want to make (a little) money

***
rest in peace austin peralta


*) edjit: na not tru, I still don't no...

kiedy patrze na ciebie mowisz nie ma lekko!

HA! just realised I'd spent the entire day in the past! it was not (just) the DJ it was the day! bwoy I'm slow

not real. that's what's up

if everybody looked the same we'd get tired of looking at each other

tonight I realised I needed to look at people more. complete strangers I mean, just people around in the street in the club whatever. people I don't know. I have gotten so much into my people everybody else has become background noise. all white poeple look the same all black people look the same all girls look the same all guys look he same all people with blue eyes look the same all people with big noses look the same u get me. I don't know what it is I think my brain is taking shortcuts coz it's overloaded or somink but if I don't know someone (as in never spoken to them) it's likely I see them as a type. unless... hey... otherwise yeah...can be slightly embarassing plus is wrong


it's really funny how tonight's DJ (it's really funny trust me) took me back to the past and left me there. in a good good way.

that's what's up: tearing this motherfucker up

READ THIS

THEN THIS

there's more. slowly but surely but slowly is how things happen. painstainkingly. it may seem these little things don't change anything but they change big things I promise

the weekly suggestion is (after all): join in. when and where and how you want and can. be part of it. it all counts and ads up

Do you really wanna no about hard times ft suggestions of the week

[draft]
another broke thursday. seriously I just realised. what is it about thursdays??

woke up to the news of Austin Peralta being dead. 
I also woke up quite ill and in pain but had to get up and go where I had to go.


got hit by tongue in cheek racism and am struggling to hold respect for one of my favourite rappers. I imagine what he said was most likely some kind of an injoke, not the first one, some things he says make me cringe. joke or not an intelligent guy and conscious rapper got to be aware of what he puts out there outa context. but hey isn't racism ok when it's against white people? how many otherwise seemingly sane folks act like it is?

then I got hit by homophobia coming from young er..otherwise seemingly sane people. I've been exposed to that quite a lot lately and feel sorry for them but much more worried about the state of society. seeing young people being fed bullshit and unwilling to make up their own mind about things is upsetting. it's obvious someone's hurt them and is keeping on doing it, a lot of them seem to have zero understanding of what goes on past political/religious/social propaganda they are being fed, and very little understanding of what they are actually saying, no arguments either, just forcefully repeated slogans like I said it makes me sad as many of these kids obviously have good brains but have been conditioned into not using them.
 

I have never been indoctrinated, I never felt pressure from parents teachers priests peers to fit in, to follow a closed set of rules or beliefs to close my mind to shut out the outside world. or if I have I've managed to ignore it. I've never been fed haterid towards anyone. I'd been for the bigger part of my life lucky to not encounter many who had, I used to until fairly recently have zero such people among my friends or even aquaintances and every encounter with one used to shock me. it still shocks me but it's no longer rare.

as a result of all this and much more that's been happening this week my weekly suggestion is give up on humanity as it's broken beyond repair. 
 

ruled by human logic we sometimes confine ourselves to one plane of the universe

no it's not. the suggestion of the week is stop giving so much fuck. In a good way. I'm working on it. I am. I'll fail I no but I will get closer.

with that in mind and pain in body I gave up on the day half way thru and went to bed. I had a dream in which I was hanging out with Austin Peralta's two year old black son who didn't know his daddy was dead.

got up in the evening cooked dinner for and hanged out with brat n jordan and my day was miraculously saved. got introduced to an amazing person I will write about next time plus
saw some
awesome
pictures from a recent gig.

I hate being bipolar it's awesome

how can you not be bipolar in a bipolar world

Photos that bear witness to modern slavery

27 million people are enslaved today = double of slaves taken from africa during entire period of slave trade

I just found it again and watched it again so 'm posting it again. please watch it

I know nothing about this person or the organisation she talks about, but the things she phhotographs and talks about in this talk exist and I think you should know

Mark de Clive-Lowe - Get Started Remix EP

that's what's up

on repeat: ROAD KILL Vol. 3

the massively tallented hugely creative and all round fabulous HIT+RUN crew put out the final installment in the ROAD KILL compilation series and just like its two predecessors it's a killer. made up of 22 (or 25 if you dawnload it off bandcamp) unreleased tracks from 'the HIT+RUN global family' - and what a family! - it's a bag of treats and I feel like a kid that was just handed one. on repeat.



I hope they are coming back to Europe soon, I need me some nu HIT+RUN ts.

J Bizness - Giraffes (feat. The Black Opera)

too much G in one room: Mysdiggi & Rodney P say happy bday 1Xtra!

watch this

shit is beautiful

Kidsuke. roll on Friday

ok I am excited again. tho kinda in theory. so tired I know it but can't really feel it. just got my ticket to see kidsuke on friday. been beating myself about whether I should go or not and trying to make my mind up whether kidsuke the album is entirely my kinda shit while everything in me has been shouting: yes it is, go, u see them live u will never look back. I've been trying to see kidkanevil for a couple years now with no luck. every time somethings would come up. he's everywhere like kutmh and just like I've been somehow meant to see kutmah all the time  - thank you! - I have not been meant to see kidkanevil. I even won tickets to bloody doom last month and went to Peckham instead (a bit of a mistake. should have gone to helloskinny album launch... not gonna go there now, it's a subject for a separate post, and not a nice one either. I keep promising myself I will do more notsonice posts and failing - nice stuff just keeps droping all over the place like tropical rain. edjit: when i say notsonice i mean bussey building experience not helloskinny. helloskinny is I am sure as sick as the FREE DOWNLOAD! EP or sicker, I shall soon find out)

anyways since I've recently landed on the next level of my self tought 6th sense training course and started (be)living the idiotic concept that 'things happen for a reason', I am perfectly willing to accept that I'd not been meant to see the kid just so I can be blown away even more on Fridey. yep, high expectations, fuck the superpower, see what happens.

anyways anyways been beating myself while everything's been telling me go till I went to CDR @plasticpeople last Sunday saw the supporting act jeloaousguy and she blew my mind. one of those you watch someone and think 1. I could watch this everyday 2. I wanna be you.

been listening to this sick Tempo Clash teaser today and it finally became obvious I was going.



roll on Friday

that's what's up

(again)

(repetition is a queenofpoeticdevices and a coolestphenomenon)

too much G in one room: Robert Glasper interviews Jose James

watch this

now THIS


and if at any point you're in a position to see either (or in fact anyone mentioned in this video) live - go.

guess where I first saw Jose James.

London Jazz Festival: PSYLUS @ Queen Elizabeth Hall tonight

I'm gonna have to write (=unleash some prime hysteria) about Psylus sooner or later and given it's already later the sooner the better....They are playing London Jazz Fest tonight and I can remember only ever once being so excited before a gig (the coup last month, Boots being my all time hero) and I do get excited a lot nahmean? 

I love Psylus. I've been stalking them since I first discovered them playing jazz re:freshed - the BFBWJN in LDN dontchano - with Dahu Mumagi and have since seen them several times at Troy bar in Shoreditch where they had residency with Dahu for a couple of months earlier this year, at jazz re:freshed again and recently an Oxjam fundraiser in Dalston. Every single time the reaction of everyone present was strong. they are the kind of band that makes people who come to gigs to chat with their friends at the bar leave everything and go watch the gig with their mouths open. their music is not background music, it will snatch your attention and make you wonder where you've been all this time (just above a year)

Psylus is the melding of five progressive minds that together create realms of sound transcendent of genre. A dynamic exploration of textures and styles; Psylus finds its foundations from each members’ respective roots in Jazz, Hip Hop and Electronic Music, which serve as a platform for abstraction and musical evolution. 

when I first read this I thought it a bit pretentious and somehow empty of meaning. the more I know them and their music though the more I am inclined to just sign my name under this description. Psylus is a melding of five progressive very young and very different minds, backgrounds, interests and views and together, through music, they transcend all these as well as genres and create realms of sounds and textures entirely their own, the level of abstraction is just right to blow your mind. they are a small hurricane, getting momentum....er...yep. as we speak*. 

if something is missing in your life it is very likely that it's Psylus. unless you are miles away, dead or your life depends on being elsewhere come down to Queen Elisabeth Hall 6pm tonight to find out  and let them take you on a beautiful explosive journey. you will want to see them again I promise

 *toldja

on repeat: Kidkanevil - Good Morning, What's New (feat. Andreya Triana) [Capstone Re-Version]

Mark de Clive-Lowe - Get Started ft Omar (Full Crate Remix) and London gig

THIS!

remixed by Full Crate of 22tracks

the mighty Mark de Clive-Lowe is probably wrapping up his jazz re:freshed show at mau mau as we speak [JB]. it's been years since I didn't go to see Mark at jazz re:freshed, the by far best weekly jazz night on planet London. Notice how I didnt say 'Flake' - jazz re:freshed are from the other planet London. the good good one. the yes love city full of reliable people and respect. and so is Mark, among other planets, curently residing in LA. I remember the moment I found out freesoul sessions' 4th bday in Cargo was the last freesoul session and he was leaving this planet (duh moment of the week: I just realised, after I typed this! the associations my brain makes before letting me know!) for sunny California and feeling kinda desolate. my real adventure with music started with and my tastes were partly shaped by the scene he is a fundamental part of. my second memorable live show in London was Mark de Clive Lowe and the next two too. freesoul sessions were among the best things that had happened to me thus far and that finale is still in my top ten live gigs ever. my first memorable show was memorable for reasons other than music. like I said, my adventure with music started with Mark. and then dego and Kaidi Tatham. dego  is back in London, big time recording releasing DJing and soon hopefully performing live with Tatham, Mensah and Lord. Kaidi never left and I haven't missed a show I knew about in a couple of years and it doeasn't feel like Mark's that far away either, gracing London with two two-nite stands per year. my world has since shrunk a lot too (in a good way, meaning expanded immensly). Ima go Peckham tomoro nite, if my legs take me I will insist, and so should you unless you are at mau mau now in an abnormally high state of exhilaration. and perspiration. 

Rhetoric by MC Kadence ft. encoded flow

[some confusion with this post so I am reposting and deleting the one from last week that wasn't really there then reappeared. trying to do too many things at the same time. and succeeding innit]

artwork by Donald Ely

Georgia Anne Muldrow and dabrye? ahmean.. productionwise shit rarely gets gooder than this. both up there in the top ten producers of now far as I'm concerned. can't say I've been following MC Kadence through his career or had much idea till now what he'd been up to since two/three but two/three man. you either know that shit and are nodding vigorously/looking for it to play it right now happy I reminded you or you need to go know that shit right now. hey tho, this is not a post on dabrye. yall hold on tight for one and this time I mean it hehe.



still it's taken me a good few listens to decide what I thought about Rhetoric and add it to the list of best hip hop albums I've heard this year. the list is getting longer. life is good. we shall tear this motherfucker up. anyways like I said production wise it's a can't touch this.
MC Kadence's dense, intense flow yes please over dabrye's mindcrashing beat I know this. far as I'm concerned the two are made for each other. it took me longer to get my head round it when enveloped in funky soulful licks of Miss One's otherworldly productions with her angelic vocal accompaniaments, but somehow it works, for me anyway.

Kadence's is the type of verse you really have to really listen to (or read even) to decide whether you find it pseudo intellectual gibberish - some do - or relevant. I can see how it can feel overintellectualised and pretentious to some people, personally I can dig it. SomeOthaShip he's part of (which is creds enough) call him one thinking brother and a battle rhymer who takes the fight to the right place. he is and he does. this also one of  rare ocassions when I don't care about sense of humour too much, there's little space for it here, but then what he's overintelectually or otherwise rapping about is no laughing matter: we all know shit ain't right let's wake the fuck up get pissed off and go change it. amen to that

go listen to it, then again. then again. then buy it 

can a rapper be socio-philosophical and still affect yall is it possible? yezzir. MC Kadence can. he and Georgia Anne are affecting me

...as we speak

does anyone else think of Jack Bauer every time they say 'as we speak'?

Black Rascals. Blaze Theme Track. amen

this motherloving base line. nowordsstrongenough

I remember house

today I went on a search for great House I Like and Love. the kind that picks me up and carries me away and I think to myself 'yes! house is the queen of music'. and then I go on thinking that for a while and listening to it and feeling the love. Moodymann. Osunlade. Aquarius Heaven. Black Jazz Consortium.

I've been exposed to great House I Don't a lot lately, this week in partcular it feels. been catching myself thinking maybe I don't like house after all. I had in the past loved and then not loved things... bullshit. I only need to remember one of those names above - the list goes on obviously - think of one track! to know it's a matter of two different houses.  there are two kinds of dance music in general and house in particular (I don't mean subgenres I know and want to know very little about this). the first one is for your body, perfect if you like a workout to a steady rhythm or jus wanna think about something else than music and have it as background I guess, that's how I imagine it.  and then there's music for your mind&soul. for it's brightest and darkest corners. I don't necesarilly mean so called soulful house, oftentimes it's tribal, incorporates african caribbean latino or broken rhythms, sometimes it's quirky vocals, sometimes the message in a rant or a poem or a little melody, the base line! really can be anything as long as it is beautiful and intense in a mind-bending kinda way. whatever, just genius. of course that's all good music for ya (me) but today I went on a search for house. the sole mission of the day. apart from trying to arrange for a poster for this month's gig to be done which turned out to be an uneasy ride over a number of lil annoying hurdles - finally official: I be helping very talented young people I love spread their wings hehehe. anyways anyways house.
United Music Records
then went to see what Aquarius Heaven's been cooking recently. and here's what I discovered: 1. he had a gig in London las month and I motherfucking missed it. 2. he played a dopest fucking set and sang his brainfucking tunes live especially for me. and you and anyone willing to spare two hours of their time. it is so so worth it Ima do it afuckingain. excuse my french ye but I am a big fan here and have just been made a very happy big fan. you know the few people you can always count on? you thank whatever you think run dem tings for'em? I do. Brian Brewster one of 'em. GOOD nite!

Quiet Mighty Giants: Kassem Mosse

bring out your dead!

like i said befo

KRS-One & Mad Lion DISASTER KIT

do you know how to survive if a disaster strikes? kinda sorta begining to seem like its a matter of when rather than if so if you don't know you better go know. or let da Teacha teachya

Positive Flow - Flow Lines

Tokyo Dawn Records at their best. they tend to be at their best I've been a fan for a while but this album is something else. myprecious.  if tokyo dawn records had come to me and said 'hey we'll make a London record* for you what woud you like it to be?'  the initial impulse may well have been to put my hands together and whimper. Mark de Clive-Lowe, Dego, Afronaut, Tawiah, Kaidi Tatham, Jason Yarde, Richard Spaven, Ty, Shabaka Hutchins, Motet, MysDiggi I'd want all of them there and the list goes on but this potential initial reaction's not right. to want for a scene you love to remain small and tight. all these people seem to be on top of the world great collaborations as well as solo projects abound. so after shaking that off and thinking for a bit I might go why not have an album by a genius musician I don't but should know featuring some of the best souljazz vocals on planet London?  buy this album. buy it. shit doesn't get this beautiful every day.


I love Omar I've been trying to see him live for a long time now but I don't seem to be meant to. I almost saw him at least five times, last time when he did a play in a pub down the road not long ago but something else came up. I love Vanessa Freeman, I haven't seen her perform in a while but whenever I hear about a gig involving her I try to be there. she is one of the people I've gon up to and said 'I love you'. I do that ocassionally it's a bit embarassing but can't help it. I used to say, when we used to go to Freesoul Sessions if I had one wish I wanted to sing like Vanessa Freeman. I love Sharlene Hector.

*it is a very London record for me, though I don't know where positive flow or some of the collabrators reside or where it was made. a west london one too. west london is what first got me into music the way I am into music. via Stockwell. I'd lke to elaborate on this one day who knows