Mind Spray

Sorry I haven't posted in a bit (busy, busy, busy), but heres a highly original idea for all you christmas bloggers- my albums of the year list!!

Some very good stuff didn't make my list, which shows what a quality year its been.

In no particular order:

I've never quite been sure about Beans. I've always liked him, but I never thought he quite had what it took. I'm as suprised as anyone that The B.Coming made my list, but its solid backbone and melancholy temprement made it one of the Rocs' best releases to date. Very dark, very soulful. Been bumping it for months now.

Choice Tracks: Feel It In The Air, Gotta Have It (feat. Peedi Peedi and Twista), Purple Rain (feat. Bun B), Flat Line (feat. Peedi Peedi)

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Mike Jones- Who Is Mike Jones?

Well, I hate MF Doom and don't have much time for Danger Mouse, but this, I like. I'm confused and starting to upset myself.

Choice Tracks: Sofa King, The Mask (feat. Ghostface Killah), Mincemeat

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Kano- Home Sweet Home

Sooo much character in this l.p. I like it for similar reasons to the Mitchells album, but this has much more of a commercial edge. He does the "cocky"-rap thing better than 9 out of 10 UK rappers. Geat pop music, insanely skillful writing. Feeling it.

Choice Tracks: Ps and Qs, Reload It, Nobody Don't Dance No More

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Memphis Bleek- 534

CRIMINALLY SLEPT ON!!! Damn, 1 classic single away from greatness. What if Bleek had got Feel It In The Air? All 534 lacks is the finishing knock-out pop-punch that The B.Coming had. The album is a slick, shiny affair, with 9th Wonder doing some of his best work on the panels to date. Go buy this, then you can be an arsehole next Summer when your mates realise they slept on something major. 

Choice Tracks: Dear Summer (feat. Jay Z), First, Last, Only (feat. M.O.P), Oh Baby (feat Young Gunz), Straight Path

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Lil Wayne- Tha Carter, Vol II

Hot Boyz were wack. Now weve got that out the way I can confirm that The Carter II picks up exactly where the first part finished off. Hard, hard core with more of a soul-beat feel, but still crazy aggresive. Feeling Wayne more than anyone right now. So very sick. Don't be ig'nant people, you will regret it.

Choice Tracks: Fly In, Fire Man, On the Block, Shooter

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Why Lout?- It's Been Time! The Official Mixtape

Yeah, thats right. What? What? What'cha say? Shut the fuck up.

Choice Tracks: Gather Round, My Oh My, Steves At It Again, 10,000 Mishaps. To be honest, it's all banging. You should run out and buy that ASAP. Serious. What'cha say? Eh? Shut the fuck up.

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Art Brut- Bang Bang Rock and Roll

Mates of mine, so I won't say too much except its brilliant. Germany knows. Say no more.

Choice Tracks: Formed a band, My little brother, Emily Kane, Moving to L.A

"Highly politcal and with intelligent sampling (from The Clash to London art-rockers Art Brut) this record is something the British Hip-Hop scene should and will be proud of."

Got a nice review from Glasswerk. Read the whole review at Glasswerks.co.uk.

November, 30 2005 at Plan-B

418 Brixton Road, London, SW7 7AY

For all the local Why Lout? loyalists, Marv the Marsh returns to Brixtons' Plan B. Possibly with a big name...

If you haven't already, check out Marv's new Myspace.

December, 31 2005 at The Buffalo Bar
259 Upper Street, London, N1 9EX

Marvin The Martian plays the LEGENDARY Artrocker New Year's Eve Party at the LEGENDARY Buffalo Bar. Headliners to be announced. Expect a party!!!!!

ALSO...

Marv now has a Myspace with a snippet of a new Jack Nimble produced track. Check that out.

Marv The Marsh Myspace

Order early at Suspect Packages

Hear a selection of tracks at Why Lout?'s Myspace

Why Lout?'s Marvin The Martian steps out on his own for the first time in 2 years on Thursday November 10th to support Art-Rock's up and coming VHS or Beta and The Research at The Elbow Rooms in Islington North London.

Should be a good one. Previously unheard tracks will be peformed in a new and exciting format.

November 7th Official Release!!!

Order early at Suspect Packages

Hear a selection of tracks at Why Lout?'s MySpace

‘It’s Been Time!!’ is Why Lout?’s second full length mixtape. The first ‘ ‘Cause It’s Time!’ ran the pirate airwaves and car stereos of South London last summer, it was so well received that it was ranked one of the ‘Top 10 Street Disciples’ (a top 10 of artist mixtapes) in Hip-Hop Connection Magazine the list including 50 Cent, Kanye West, DJ Premier, Saigon and Jadakiss. The core element of Why Lout? (Marvin The Martian, Jack Nimble and Pixel) took the brand on to create a more complete and focussed mixtape and enrolled long time collaborator, Producer Dego brown (who handled the majority of the C.D’s production) to complete the four man line-up. So in January 2005 Why Lout? started writing, producing and recording the C.D that they had always intended on filling. Four months into the mixtape Jack Nimble came across a sample that would achieve mainstream radio play across the world, see coverage in Artrocker and the NME (it was included “In the NME Stereo”) and would also see Why Lout? Perform to a packed KoKo (the Old Camden Palace). The sample was Art-Rock band Art Brut’s then single, a tribute to lead singer Eddie Argos’ first girlfriend ‘Emily Kane’. Why Lout? Jack produced a sharp, grimy and altogether confusing instrumental, to which Marvin The Martian wrote a follow-up to Eddie Argos’ twisted love story. Marvin’s a tale of a man obsessed with Emily Kane to the point of stalking. The song was made available as a free download on Artrocker.com and has since been hosted on several MP3 websites, it has to this date, been downloaded 30,000+ times. It was played on Phil Jupitus’ BBC 6Music show, John Kennedy’s XFM show and on radio shows as far as New Zealand, Canada, Australia and Germany. Why Lout?’s goal for ‘It’s Been Time!!’ was to portray a more politically aware, more soulful and more focussed independent sound then British Hip-Hop/ Grime Music has come to be known for. Whether it came from sampling Nouvelle Vague’s remake of the famous Clash song ‘Guns Of Brixton’ to make the ‘Guns Of Brixton Why Lout? Mix’ (Marvin The Martian has a solo ‘Guns Of Brixton’ to be released through a pioneering deal with Universal in 2006) and cover the rising gun crime in their home-town of Brixton. Or ‘Road Circles’ which features the tape’s only outside contributor Scarecrow (Also featured on ‘Cause It’s Time!’ hailing from Wilesden North London) who goes back to back with Pixel trying to explain (without justifying) the mentality of today’s common criminal. Why Lout? Attempt to be a mouthpiece of a generation, discussing and digesting the ills and positives of London life. Jack Nimble steps up to the mic for the first time in his career (having produced the whole of Why Lout?’s first mixtape) to tell the story of his friend Steve, the 19 year old self-destructive cocaine addict on ‘Steve’s At it Again’. It encompasses something that has been very important to Why Lout? In the production of this C.D; LONDON. Best exemplified by Pixel’s self-produced ‘Fire Of London’, in which Pixel attempts to define himself and his nature through his city’s buildings, people, pace and history. FOR MORE DETAILS CHECK ON WHY LOUT? (itsbeentime.blogspirit.com) AND (whylout.com). To interview or cover Why Lout? Please email info@whylout.com or phone Thomas on -0772 998 3679

Blogspirit got attacked last night, and as a result, I've lost a couple of months pictures, replaced by that ugly"red-cross-in-a-box" bullshit. I will NOT be replacing them as that is a long ting, a "lay-lay" if you will.

I'll try to get rid of those boxes when I can be flucked.

It's gonna be all over the place.

Check out some tracks from the mixtape at our new Why Lout? MySpace.

Good crop of people to support this year: Sway, Kano, Roots Manuva, Blak Twang, Lethal B, Semtex, Ras Kwame, Roll Deep and a bunch of prestidious others.

A vote for any of the aforementioned is a good look, but I'm backing Sway! 

Vote here!

The Mitchell Brothers

+ Why Lout?

+ Plan B 

@ The Garage, September 19th!

The "special guest" has now been confirmed as Plan B. Check out the Run The Road compilations for some good examples of his stuff (volume 2 has just been released) and check out "Kidz" for free download.

The Mitchell Brothers +
Why Lout? +
Plan B+

Why Lout? DJ's

@ The Garage
£8
08:00PM-01:00AM

(Nearest Tube: Highbury and Islington, Victoria Line)

For more info, click here!

Buy tickets in advance from Ticketweb.

Pix found a nice picture from the Tin Pan Alley Festival we did a few weeks back. See them all at Tinpanalleyfestival.com.

The Mitchell Brothers, Why Lout? + TBC @ The Garage

20-22 Highbury Corner, London N5 1RD

Buy your tickets in advance from TicketWeb (3rd event down)

Also, a brand-spanking new mailout from Tego:

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The mixtape ('It's been time!') is out next week. I PROMISE! I REALLY PROMISE! We're something like 6-8 working days away from it hitting the streets. It'll be in full circulation within the month! The artwork is crispy and beautiful.

To celebrate, Why Lout? Have a big show coming up!

Monday September 19th 2005.

The Mitchell Brothers +
Why Lout? +
TBC
@ The Garage
£8
08:00PM-01:00AM

The 'TBC' is a seriously exciting prospect! Hopefully that'll go through. It already is, but would become seriously one of the best nights of the year should that go through! If you haven't already, go and buy 'A Breath Of Fresh Attire' (The Mitchell Brothers' album) it's truly one of the best albums of the year!

SEE YOU AT THE GARAGE.

For updates and details on ht show and the mixtape go to the special Why Lout? blog... http://itsbeentime.blogspirit.com

 

Eddie:

I begin to feel unwell; we are playing with Darren from Hefner tonight (who I’m a big fan of) in front of loads of people so I put it down to nerves, as well as Keith, Vincent Vincent and the Villains and Why Lout? The Grime collective who did a version of ‘Emily Kane’ play, they are ace I want to join them nearly as much as Mike wants to join Vincent Vincent and the Villains.

Chris:

When I was a kiddo I spent a lot of Tuesday nights at what was the called the ‘Camden Palace’ in attendance at the regular club night, ‘Feet First’, cheap entry, cheap booze, band on at midnight and a good night had by all. So after seeing many, many acts here, I was looking forward to taking to the stage myself. Wow! I’d never seen it before, but the backstage area at Koko was incredible, a waiting room before going on stage and an entire suite upstairs with all sorts of facilities. We had a few guests with us tonight helping us fill a massive hour and a half set, Darren from Hefner and ‘Why Lout?’ who infamously created the Hip hop remix of ‘Emily Kane’, so the copious dressing rooms were buzzing with an odd mix of individuals.

Read the whole article at disordermagazine.com.

Both highly concept driven, I had previously chosen A Long Hot Summer as my favourite, but over the last few days I rediscovered Disposable Arts and ended up playing it 7 times in 36 hours. Ace is a REAL vetran, but spits every track like its his debut.

I've played it a few times now. It's pretty damn good. Overall its an improvement on "Movies...", but its not quite as complete as I would have hoped. He still misses that "everyman" track, but he gets very close. "Scenester" is superb, as is most of the album, but I feel it just falls short of the mark required to be a "big boy".

Fine, fine album none the less. Buy it, he deserves to get paid off of this one.

Scarey life-like androids are upon us!!

"We have found that people forget she is an android while interacting with her "- Prof Hiroshi Ishiguro

Read about it at BBC.co.uk.

I got a promo copy of the new Cage album last night (cheers Dego). I'm only listening to it for the 2nd time as I type this, but its making a really good impression on me. I'll say more when I've given it a few listens.

Guten Tag! Dublin Castle listing from the Bug Boys.

IVORY – Joy in abundance as the electro/grime star with huge pop appeal relights the blue touch paper of this here Castle we call Dublin………….

WHY LOUT? – Eloquence personified from the streets of Brixton…loading us up with a jackanory of hiphop inspiration and maybe pushing their new mixtape in your direction too. The hoods in the hood aint all hoods tha knows…..

THE UNQUIET PEACE– Perky Blur-ed out dance rock/jazzbo hiphop-trip hop bop plus soul outings and a smidge of Gil Scott Heron style narrative funk.

KID CAPTAIN – High on pork scratchings , these chappies knock out a sizzling and salty noise informed alterno rock.

Be there.

This is a great interview. Cage saying all the things I want to hear. Check it out at allhiphop.com.

For those that don't know, Movies for the Blind is criminally slept on. Classic in my opinion.

I've been trying to tell this story for about a month, and with Ben and Dego's permission, I will now do so.

Ben, Dego and myself were due at the studio one sunny Saturday, jumped on the 250 bus a trundled up Brixton Hill. We reached the point where Brixton becomes Streatham (just before Brixton Bus Garage, which for some reason is in the Streatham side, but anyhoo) when we noticed a local crack head, doing his beg thang.

We all knew this dude, he's a regular, so much so, we refer to him as "*****'s dad", you know, for jokes. For ease, we will call him Muller. Read on...

So, Ben says: "That guys got himself a fruit corner". For some reason, this alone was enough to get us chorteling.

"Oh no" Dego whispered under his breath, "Jack, I think he's putting the youghart on his head!" Cue explosive laughter from the three of us, proceeded by continued myrth as he then continued to rub the "fruit corner" portion into his bald cranium.

And so the bus continued along the road to the studio, us wiping the tears from our eyes, catching our breath and trying to compose ourselves. About 100 yards up the road, a 159 routemaster pulled out in front of us (the jump on/ jump off type they are currently phasing out. Boo, Hiss!). Clinging to the pole and striking a superman-esque pose, was Muller, proudly gliding into the horizon, yoghart flicking off his slick head and into the street while sipping a white lightning.

This had us on the floor. By this point, most of the upper deck of the bus getting in the on the act. The 159 stopped, and Muller stepped off the bus and took a sip of his cider. Still holding the pole, the 159 began to eek away. Muller, determined not to let the bus slip away with out him, began to chase the route master, still holding the pole and juggling his white lightning. After running 30-40 yards after the bus, still atached, he went for broke and tried to jump on the back of the bus. Needless to say, he missed. An explosion of strawberrys, plain yoghart and white lightning ensued as his face bounced off the pavement in front of us. Shit was HYSTERICAL!

We talked to him the other day. His face was a little fucked up, but he was cool. God, I wish you were there!

Sorry I haven't posted in a while, I've had a lot on, what with my city getting blown the fuck up on a near fortnightly basis. David Banner put it best: "I ain't NEVER scared!". (Actually, it was BoneCrusher, good looking out Tego!)

So, I live on the Stockwell/ Brixton border (as you may or may not know), but I feel like I've been living in Basra recently. On July 7th, when the initial bombs went off, Stockwell was sealed off within minutes of the confirmation. Bus' were searched, sniffer dogs deployed and vast amounts of police assigned to both the Brixton and Stockwell Mosques. BUT the media never reported the shenanigans in South London, obviously focusing on the atrosities elsewhere in the capital. SO when the tradgic shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes happened in Stockwell tube station, some of us were less suprised than others.

So, apparently, terror suspects were being monitored in the block of flats that Jean de Menezes was seen to exit that day.

BUT if you refer back to the intense police and security scrum that ensued in SW4 on 7/7, you start to ask questions. How much did the security services know? If the targets were deemed such a threat that Mr Menezes had to be shot 8 times, where are said Stockwell targets now? Did they have information directly linking the Stockwell surveilance to the bombings? Why was Stockwell cordened off on 7/7? Why didn't/ don't the media report what transpired in Stockwell on 7/7?

And despite the fact that the failed bombs (two weeks later) had a resemblense to the failed shoe bomber Richard Green, a one time Brixton resident, no South London connections are being made.

To further intrigue my South London therom, me and Dego got caught up in the Saturday bomb scare at Brixton tube station while attempting to get to the studio.

Anyway, arrests are being made in the Midlands today, so hopefuly my questions will be answered sooner rather than later.

Sorry if that was a bit gripey. Blame the weather.

(Sure enough, anti-terror raids were executed in Stockwell the night of writting. Maybe I wasn't the only one thinking it.)