FOCUS

(shouts out to Nate Peracciny on the photography)

since we last spoke I've been fortunate to play alongside Drop The Lime, and my friends Lethal Weapon, Bones Jones/Loc, E-Mission, and Big Basha. it's been a crazy couple of weeks and I seriously am stoked for the next few to come.

(E-Mission wrecking it for Frosty Tone at DBGBs)

I've been brainstorming and sharing knowledge with a small group of heads about the next move I plan on taking with my career, and for my first venture I plan on throwing a networking event showcasing the work and accomplishments of my talented close friends.

we have a date, a spot, and our roster of artists/designers/organizations/musicians exhibiting on the night is near completion. all I can say for now is that CONNECT will be held on the 2nd April at the Lofts at 136 on N. Division in Buffalo... (more details to come)

massive shout out to MNM Presents on bringing the SUBSONIC TOUR to Buffalo. the tour featured brostep brothers in bass Antiserum, Downlink, and the masterful Excision (pictured above).

things kicked off without a hitch and before I knew it the Town Ballroom was packed with close to 700 scenester's sporting hot-topic band-tees, skeptical old heads (most likely stoned) nodding and sipping their drinks, colorful hipsters out 'cooling' each other, pilled out ravers clutching their water bottles, smelly hippies getting way too close for comfort, and of course the future of the scene with eyes gleaming and ears burning, taking notes.

all the while I was bugging out over how serious the 50,000 watts of sound the Rottun label mates we're toting around from city to city. one massive shout out goes to the Big Basha for reppin' Buffalo like a true soldier bringing the subbalicious sound he's known in Buffalo for pushing.

my last shout goes out to my crew who I was posted up for most of the night Swaggle Rock, Brotherbear, Arehouse, Stuntman, Beretta, the Malt Disney, Sun Glasses Mike, and ze HXLY Boys.

that's it for me tho, gotta skate.
we'll talk soon. #fth, all day.

oh yeah, relax... (shouts to Goldstein for this one, holdtight MGI.)

GIG UPDATES:

• FEB. 18th - Love of Music @ DBGB's (JFN Radio, BUF)
• FEB. 26TH - HARVARD BASS @ The Purple Monkey (QCC & Factory Nightlife, BUF)
• MAR. 5TH - 'New Rome' Record Release Party @ Dubland (Act Live, ROC)
  
• MAR. 10TH - Dubrevolution @ Noir (Roboroc, BUF)

A WILD MARIOBEE APPEARS!

YO BUFFALO! Here's what my DJing schedule is looking like for the next several weeks...

• JANUARY 28th - DROP THE LIME @ SOUNDLAB (MNM Presents)
  
• FEBRUARY 4th - @ DBGB's (Frosty Tone)
• FEBRUARY 18th - @ DBGB's (JFN)
  
• FEBRUARY 26th - HARVARD BASS @ TBA (QCC & Factory Nightlife)
  
• MARCH 10th - DUBREVOLUTION @ NOIR
  

Hope to see you out ;)

Also, The Guestlist radio show will begin broadcasting an hour earlier (8-10pm) starting tomorrow! (Jan. 26th) Don't worry, we're still every Wednesday on 91.3FM WBNY or WBNY.ORG.

its killa season so here's some inspiration you can use to start a riot...

peace.

I Don't Mean To Be Rude

I was conversing with my man Moheypori recently about the hype surrounding South African outfit, Die Antwoord, and to be honest I'm okay with what they're doing lol. I won't go into too much detail about what they do specifically or who they are (troll the net yourselves lol), but all you need to know is that they're backed by Mad Decent labelhead and superstar-DJ Diplo and that they're making it completely acceptable in society to be weird as fuck (no thanks to Bjork). But here's the thing, the image that the group is promoting is a closely related and often bastardized version of a newish sub-genre that's emerging from the ashes of the once Apartheid stricken country.

Spoek Mathambo is just one of those artists indirectly flying the flag for 'weird but still kinda cool' Africans giving Die Antwoord the canvas to just completely shit on. You won't hear me playing out Die Antwoord songs, but that's NOT because I don't like them, its because the charismatic Spoek reminds me of dark skinned David Bowie, only in instead of growing up in England he grew up in South Africa, listened to too many A Tribe Called Quest records, and practiced Prince dance moves in the mirror. Don't believe me? Check out the video below and witness his glory. (Oh and please check out his latest album entitled 'Mshini Wam,' which means 'bring me the machine gun,' in the Zulu language.)

We'll be in touch. Au revoir.

When I was a yout...

So its been about a month since the last post and all I can say is that shit was quite hectic during the holiday season! First and foremost I'd like to send a big up to errbody in this new year, and more importantly to my newly discovered Ophiuchus constellations (lol) for trolling for about 250 years, good looks.

Since we last met I've purchased a new phone (which means more original photos/videos), I've been chosen to support Drop the Lime when he stops through Buffalo next week (Jan 28th), and have been brainstorming endlessly on a new crew and events relative to Buffalo's urban culture. I've also been breaking bread with the fam because with the last year behind us it is clear that Buffalo's scene is quite healthy and is moving forward into the right directions.

(Shouts to Eric Kenyon on the photography work)

Friction last Friday (Jan 14th) was over the top with energy. Buffalocals Brotherbear, Mike Parker, Swaggle Rock, and Beta took to DBGB's and demanded the power they deserved from the crowd. Brotherbear's set was definitely the highlight of my night, not only did he show DBGB's what he was about, he solidified his status in the scene by throwing down some serious bass weight and got the crowd moving.

(Shouts to Eric Kenyon on the photography work)

Shouts out to the Mstrnate and Chief MC for joining me on the mic during Brotherbear's set. And as always big up the Queen City Cartel and DBGB's for another highly successful Friday night in Allentown.

On to more current events, MNM Presents brings you Eskmo tomorrow night (Jan. 22nd) and Drop the Lime next Friday (Jan. 28th) to Soundlab (downtown Buffalo). Two heavyweights that are well respected in each of their scenes are coming to Buffalo to see whats up in this cold neck of New York.

In more dubstep related news, the 'WTF IS BROSTEP TOUR' will be making its way to Buffalo at club Noir February 10th featuring Emer, Skrillz, with local support from KateRush and Beretta. 'The Subsonic Tour' will also make its way to February 7th featuring Excision, Downlink, Antiserum with local support from Big Basha at the Town Ballroom. The month of February is looking really big for shows in Buffalo and you can bet we'll be on the scene to document it all ;)

Well that's it for now, I do believe that this was a good first post of the year, (20 days later lol). I now leave you with this ill song I found whilst frolicking about the interwebs;

Shy FX feat. Kano, Donae'o, Roses Gabor - Raver

talk to yall soon, peace.

Silkie da Shocker

So about a week ago I went to see Silkie (Deep Medi) and XI in Toronto at The Basement. I hadn't been in Toronto for dubstep show in about 4 years prior to that, so to be out in The Great White North for the night was extra special ;)

Before Skydiver, Stuntman, and I got across the border we were instant suspects according to the Canadian Border Patrol. It was one thing for them to get suspicious about our intentions for going to Toronto and having us pull to the side, but to raid the car and search our CELL PHONES for god knows what, was a bit over the top. (I have a motorola razr for crying out loud!)

Meanwhile, on cloud 9, I tried to keep my composure as I was starting to come up on the scrumptious 'baked good' I'd consumed less than a half hour before. Nervous and cold we waited only a few minutes before they told us to 'have a nice day,' where we went merrily about our way.

When we got to The Basement we were greeted eagerly by the doorwomen who questioned if our troupe had come from Buffalo after checking our IDs, where we responded nonchalantly, 'yes.' The room was pretty dark with the only light being from behind the decks and the dancing green lasers mounted to the ceiling. Behind the decks stood a man about 5'6 with sporting a salt and peppered 50-esque doobie, it was XI.

XI crushed the dance with subbalicious rollers and dubplates from his own collection (according to the information I gathered from a rather satisfied Stunt). I was too amped after seeing XI and I knew Silkie was gonna mash it down so I put my all in once he stepped to the decks.

The bass was SO low that I could feel my jeans rattling against the hairs on my legs, (needless to say I had goodbumps during a few tunes), I was really impressed by what 40hz had put together. A couple rewinds, announcements for the next show, and a missing ID later, my left ear was killing me and my brownie buzz had wore off. The night was a success and I rested easy knowing that good dubstep still exists, only to wake up 10 the next morning for work :(

And that was last weekend.
(here's XI's guest mix on Mary Anne Hobbs Show BBC-Radio1.)

skeetin pon the airwaves

WAXMUSEUMRADIO.
FEATURING: SKEET SKEET

INTERVIEW & GUEST MIX

big up the goons

I'm going to keep this one fairly simple, 22tracks is my shit. They always come heavy with the top tunes of the moment and which ones are set to blow. Their dubstep/grime section never disappoints me and this is why I come to you now with some bassface flava.

seven - 'wait' (peep that Swizz Beatz sample!)

&
mensah - 'big up the goons'


Also, I also stumbled upon (not stumbleupon) this epic streetwear brand from the UK called 'PXL Clothing.' Dedicated to geeks, freaks, neeks, Facebook fiends, Bloggers, wiki-weirdos, the Twitteratti and YouTubers,' the brand's style has my full attention and I want it all! t(-_-t)


Follow them on twitter, check out their online shop/blog, and try not to get discouraged by the hefty shipping charges (£20 for internat'l). Hopefully someone in the States will stock PXL, but until then ask mommy or daddy for some extra dough for shipping this X-mas (lol).

I'm outtie tho, heading to Toronto for Silkie at The Basement tonight. (HOLLA!)

i've got the munchis

com tam bi trung (left) is probably one the best things since longsilog (right), but what I love about both is that even though they both come from different parts of Asia they still send my tastebuds into a frenzy.

same thing goes for music (it sends my tastebuds into a frenzy, lol). and tastiest tunes i've been obsessing over come from munchi, an artist from Rotterdam. through his diverse cultural background the kid has fused multiple genres into several new super genres that murder dancefloors on a global scale.


not too long ago munchi dropped the aptly tittled 'murda sound' on t&a records, and on top of all that hype dirty south joe made a 'munchi-mix' comprised of tunes that will familiarize y'all with this talented producer (right-click/save-as the photo on the right).

i'm super interested to see the success of this up and coming producer. his skills on remixing datsik's 'firepower' and reworking kelis' 'milkshake' into a 140+ bpm baltimore club-kuduro hybrid has shown me that he's got some tricks up the sleeve and is gonna be dropping some more serious bangers in the near future.

now that the right people are taking notice, aka mad decent and now t&a records, munchi will be frequenting your favorite music blogs very soon. much like the partysquad, i have much faith that munchi will not disappoint on the dancefloor and will be making much more solid tropical sub-bass focused music.

thats about it for me though, i'm on the hunt for a new(ish) desktop that'll run windows-xp to begin the next phase in my musical career, producing! :D

ps... here's a mix of mine from waxmuseumradio.com in the meantime, enjoy!

kick, punch, its all in the mind

I'm ready to kick some ass! After watching Scott Pilgrim vs The World on my birthday (11/11) with the homie ASwindu and crushing it with the QCC while celebrating a year of success, I feel like I can do anything, ha.

anyway since I'm in a good mood, here's some music that'll get you feeling awesome. some of that old boom bap ;) courtesy of 22tracks.

munoz

&
boonie mayfield


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