A potential cast of thousands....however at the core, you will find
Aki Nawaz directing traffic. He spends much time giving verbal annoyance to some, telling how it is for those in the margins. More concerned with politics than the music, but music is where he has chosen to use his politics. He seems to be told more often that not, to go back where he came from! So he must be doing something right! Has decided to call the album All is War. Since the release of the last album, There Shall be Love, it´s been nothing but war....everywhere we looked, up top, down south, over to the east, and the west, all blood, guts, lies and hence war.
Shamil Khan, vocalizing capoeria Kashmiri type kinda guy....has spit some lyrics that are gonna get his ass chucked out of the country if he ain´t careful, and he doesn´t seem too bothered about that prospect either. This former front man for the Kaliphs...(yes, they did have a deal with the devil wearing a Pete Waterman mask) has tried his best to seek a calmer path, but come on, with the politics of today and yesterday being forcefed down your throat like you was on hungerstrike, what can you do? When you are a rapper, you come up with some of the best lyrics in your career, lay em down, and look forward to dropping them live where ever possible!
Dave Watts aka DJ WattsRiot....hasn´t been seen since he got the fuck outta the Dodge last year...occasionaly sends an email or a wav.file to Aki. He said he would surface for live shows centered around the album....but apart from that, nothing at the moment. Apparently growing tomatoes, lettuce and onions in his new back yard somewhere off the coast of West Africa.
Lloyd Sparkes....Man of Original Length and Strength....has written some hard hitting lyrics regarding the situation in The Sudan, due to come up for air around the time of album release.
More news on the ever expanding list of band members to come....
Review: "Don Goliath's "Bagstep EP" (DDR030) is one of those innovative EPs showcasing how versatile Dubstep can get. The unique idea of creating Dubstep versions of celctic (Irish as well as Scottish) folk classics for all you drunkards longing to sing along was Don Goliath's motto when producing this madness. The concept is as simple as effective: he picked 4 of your grandpa's favourites such as "Old Skibbereen", "Scotland the Brave", "Drunken Sailor" and "Amazing Grace" having the melody played by a definitly non-sober Bagpipe section and then layering it with lofi mid range wobbleism - we therefor call it Bagstep. Overall production quality is high grade with that intense sub focus so you can blow-dry your hair right in front of the bass bins. Now let's get into the tunes: "Skibbereen Bagstep" is one of the melancolic minor tunes expressing Irish history as it is. It is an unmixable 3/4 waltz beat at unusual 154bpm, well dancebal though when one moves to the triplets. "Bagstep the brave" should be one of the sickest rebuilds of the Scottish national anthem making it Mel Gibson's signature tune if he had one. "Drunken Bagstep" is a Glitchfest version of the sailors anthem capable of getting you uberdrunk by listening alone, Arrrr! "Amazing Bagstep" is as religious as it gets making it a tune that'll certainly safe xamounts of lost souls. Enjoying the dancefloor got even easier now: drink out the bar, make your skirt fly and sing along to these (future) classics! Some will hate this release and some will love it, there barely is anything in between. All Dubstep Division crew salutes the latter as our fellow beerheadz! cheeeeeerz!"
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SUIN CHE says: "To reach down to the roots and to exhaust the variations. This is the nature of music." I think, the roots of music are much more colourful than the individual.
Que onda fun-da-mental gracias por ser parte de mi red de amigos, te invito a los siguientes eventos que tendremos aqui en Mexico DF, esperando que podamos vernos, viva el rock yeahh!!! Pasa al myspace y checa la convocatoria!!!! www.rockstagelive.com rockstagemexico@hotmail.com O al tel 43296527
This Friday our film To Gaza With Love is being screened at the excellent Portobello Film Festival, as part of a whole night of Palestinian Films,
The evening starts at 6pm, and is totally free
The event is at very trendy Westbourne Studios
Address 242 Acklam Road. London. W10 5YG.
The easiest way to get to the Studios is from Westbourne Park Station on the Hammersmith and City line. Buses 23, 28, 31 and 328 stop either outside or very near the station. Buses 18, 36 and 7 are fairly close.
From the station turn right and then right again past the pub. You will need to walk through the Tavistock Crescent paved area for about two minutes. In front of you will be The Mother Black Cap pub. To the right of the pub you will see a pedestrian and cycle bridge. Cross the bridge. turn right and Westbourne Studios will be in front of you.
Hope you can all make it, it is going to be a very fantastic and inspiring night.
NEW BOOK OUT NOW: Chthonic - Prose & Theory by Vadge Moore
"Vadge Moore is an American author and musician that has spent a lifetime testing the boundaries of good and evil. He toured and recorded with the infamous sleaze-punk institution The Dwarves, apocalyptic rock group Neither-Neither World, and his own nihilist-noise unit Chthonic Force. He has written for the early nineties occult journal Primal Chaos, the esoteric magazine Dagobert's Revenge, and the controversial web 'zine Synthesis. Recently Vadge has taken up an aphoristic-prose style of writing that best expresses his iniquitous and sinister insights into the mind of Man. Chthonic: Prose & Theory is just that; prose wedded to theory that scrutinizes the human, all too human, Monster that is Man." "Chthonic: Prose & Theory" is a collection of perverse and violent prose wedded to his own brand of occult esoterica. Peer into the mind of one of America's greatest living libertines.
Hey D! Things are really good here, thanks. Got my first solo show up in Brighton, running til mid Sept. with your portrait taking pride of place! Takin some of your music along to a local radio station on Sunday to talk about the show, the charities I'm hoping to support with it, and all the inspiration my 'subjects' have given me over the years, so big up yaself and thanks for the news about the Urkult program - that's is really cool! :)
Check out Aki's new film. . . it is really very good!
'To Gaza With Love', presented by Yvonne Ridley and directed by Aki Nawaz, it is screening in London and Ireland in September, with more dates to be announced very soon.
And if you can help to get it shown somewhere cool, please get in touch.
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