Life, Music (The Deeper the underground the better), DJ'ing in whatever form it comes, going out, staying in, Football: sport, long distant scenic bike rides, going to see live music/ Dj sets, My mates, Books, Collecting Cd's, Films, world cinema, University, Japan, tibet and Asia, Africa and Brazil, Fashion, travelling, Watermelons, people, getting to know new people but mostly getting to know people you already think you know, girls, turntables, reading, writing, generally fucking around, trying not to be a geek
Music
All things ninja: Amon Tobin, bonobo (Barakas), the cinematic orchestra, funki porcini, coldcut, Mr Scruff (is a hero), fog, Sixtoo (That canadian can sure put a beat together), homelife, 9lazy9, DJ Food (Strictly Kev), DJ kentaro, Blockhead, kid koala, fink, jaga jazzist, wagon christ, ammon contact, animals on wheels, chocolate weasel, hexstatic, One Self, Vadim, YPPAH!!, pest, herbaliser... NINJA TUNES basically. Any interesting/ decent shit from the genres of... Hip Hop, Breaks, Break Beat, Soul, FUNK FUNK FUNK, Blues, Drum and Bass, Electronics, acoustics, Down-tempo, jazz, acid jazz, Dub, Dubstep (dubstep is the shit!) Reggae, pysch-rock, ambient and Electronica, particularly: Danny Breaks, Mark Pritchard (harmonic 313, troubleman, global communication),Tom Middleton (Amba, Global Communication), DJ Shadow, J5, Howie B, The Whole TRU THOUGHTS label; Quantic and the orchestra, diesler, Nostagia 77 & the octet (Songs for my Funeral is a gem), Robert Luis, TM Juke, alice Russell, flevans etcetcetcetc, Dr Rubberfunk, Domu, Gilberto Gil, Bebel gilberto, plaid, J Live, Bugz in the attic, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Gotan Project Badmarsh and shri, LAFunk Mob, Old School Nemo, DJ Cam (That french hip hop rocks man), Wajeed, tableek, genre, the artec, The Bug, Boom Bip, Fila Brazilla, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Irvine Weldon, marvyn Gaye, Maynard Ferguson, rare earth, cutis mayfield, clarence carter, the chi-lites, John Coltrane, Rotary Connection, The Crusaders, Eddie Harris, Quincy Jones, Rare Earth, sly and family stone (and psych rock), Alice Coltrane, Bajka, fontella bass, Gil Scott Heron... anything with soul that isnt modern day RNB bollocks, BLACK GRASS are fricken sick, Catskillz: Bushy, pepe delux, sonorous star, capsule, hardKandy, husky rescue, Aldo Vanucci, Nobody, Nylon Rhythm machine, Feature cast. etc talib kweli; & Hi-Tek (Reflection Eternal), common, mos def, Big L, people under the stairs, giant panda, tres, ugly duckling, plastic little, the quannum contingency, lyrics born, Gift of gab, Blackalicious, latyrx etc., DJ Medhi, The ragga twins are jokes, DMZ, Loefah, vex'd, Kode9, Threnody, skream! and the dubstep scene in general, The mad professor is a hero, King Tubby, Lee Scratch Perry, Bob Marley, black uhuru, Iration Steppas, sly and robbie, Starnger Cole, desmond dekker, the skatalites, don Drummond, toots and the maytals, The Doctors, The techniques, anything on trojan, plus many many dub reggae, ska (50's 60's) and rocksteady legends. Ohmega Whatts & Lightheaded, Leftfield, Rooty toot manuva, big dada Records, TY, the rammelzee, juice aleem, part 2, fallacy, Spank rock (Yoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyo), Rodders P, London Posse, Mr. Hibbs and freight corp, Taskforce are wicked, as are the nextmen, Jack Baker Trio, The Evil Sun, Jehst, digitek, black twang, phi life cypher, diversion tactics, cappo, Dirty Diggers, RUP, simpson... zebra traffic records and uk hip hop on the whole, former Grand Central Records: Fingathing, Mark Rae, Rae & Christian, Veba, Boca 45 etc, UNKLE, king seven, Karminsky Orchestra, the herbaliser (NINJA)are the shit, Kyoto Jazz Massive, DJ Krush, tipper, nightmares on wax, Howie B is a hero, old skool hip hop: Krs, big daddy, ultramanetic mcs, de la soul, tribe called Quest, public enemy, steinski, grandwizard theodore, melle mel, kool herc, pharcyde, eric b and rakim, sugarhill etc etc etc. New skool hip hop: Def Jux, company flow, aesop rock, cool calm pete, mr lif, cLOUDEAD and most definetely DJ Signify (Incredible beat maker), edan, Blu Rum 13, dj format, RJD2, Motion Man (I AM THE TERROIST!!) mf doom (Victor Vaughn, metalfingers, etc etc etc), madvillian, Madlib, peanut butter wolf & Charisma, anything on stones throw recordings, MED (medaphor), percee P, DJ Premier and gangstarr, Hieroglyphics and Del tha funkee Homosapien, EL-P, J-Dilla (RIP), J-Rocc, the roots (the best live act ive ever witnessed), cage, silent poets, Dr Octagon and kool keith and dan the automators many monikers, Guru (Jazzmatazz) Cut Chemist, Oh-No, Only Child, yarah bravo, q-continuum, prefuse 73, Diverse, anti-pop consortium, the list truly does go on and on and on. In terms of dance; big fan of drum and bass, LTJ Bukem, Marcus Intalex, MIST (Ical), calibre, alix perez, Furney, Klute, Spectra:soul, instra:mantal, survival, d.Bridge, Sabre, Zero T, Logistics, Tayla, commix, red eyes, specific, makoto, random movement, amaning, london elektricity, lynx, whizz & Daze, switch, autumn, icicle, Bcee & Lomax, Donnie Dubson, Bachelors of science, Zyon Base, Insight, Atlantic connection, CLS & Wax, paradox, Blu mar ten, marky, Bungle, Break, Breakage, Amit, electrosoul system, all of shogun, Fokuz, commercial suicide, Good Looking, creative source, Horizons, etc etc etc. Generally the moodier, darker and more amphemic the better (Put some horns in there, and a flute, maybe even a cello. Break beat, mainly before shit electro house fucked up the genre ie. Splitloop, plump djs (pre-2006), evil nine, adam freeland, krafty kuts (and A-Skillz for that matter), The freesylers, james Lavelle (UNKLE), Motion Force, dylan rhymes, meat katie, my mate jamie's (DJ Foo) tantalising mash ups etc. House: Nick Warren, dave seaman, danny tenaglia, deadmau5, john digweed, alex smoke, slam, marc O-toole, radioactive man, audion, tim wright, vitalic, nic fancuilli, james holden, carl craig, james zabiela, lavelle, mandy, booka shade, riton, Hipp-E, layo and bushwacka, ben watt, steve Bug, two armidillos, gui boratto, 16bit lolitas, sander klienenberg and quite abit of house music and whatever forms in comes (except funky... noone should like that). From the "Alternative" scene im diggin; radiohead and thom yorke, jimi hendrix, death in vegas, the music, bowie, The Beatles (white Album and there after), Ian Brown, velvet underground, the bees, the beta band, the aliens, sufjan Stevens, four tet, ADEM (Fridge), Juana Molina, junior boys, james yorkston; and the athletes, psapp and alot of but not all domino records, booka shade are tantalising, daft punk, groove armada, LCD soundsystem, daedelus (Ninja), Fat Freddies drop (Rude!), Easy Star Allstars (Jokers), pop levi & couter records, pre-80's dylan, blur (13, Think Tank), the gorillaz, Tom Vek, Tunng, Coco Rosie, Bjork, Lou Rhodes and lamb, Victor Malloy, Nick Drake, Manitoa/ caribou, Calexico, The arcade fire, Beth Orton, do make say think, silver mt zion, godspeed..., Explosions in the sky (however i do think the majority of the avant-garde scene is a load of over-pretentious bull shit...), sparklehorse, Sigur Ros, Brian Eno, massive atack, elbow, kid 606, FSOL, aphex twin, warp Records, LFO, Faultline (colder Closer!! there second is...well... meh!!), Plaid, boards of canada, Autechre, jackson and his computer band etc, squarepusher, luke vibert (Wagon Christ, Plug) and most things on planet Mu, and anything down right beautiful/ hurrendous from the electronica scene. Basically im bored; if its quality and different, im probably down with it.
P.S. Check out GLITCH, SAMMY B-SIDE & SLEEP GONZALEZ in my friend list!!!!
Amorres Perros, shogun assasin, city of god, akira, Fargo, withnail and I, The big lebowski, Barton fink is fucking ay, fear and loathing, where the buffalo roam, kill bill II, Young Frankenstein, requiem for a dream, the deer hunter, once upon a time in america, taxi driver (Bobby De niro is a hero), chris cunningham (His short movies), short movies in general, the audition, old boy, the ring (the original, fuck the american remake), LOTR, alien(s), crouching tiger:hidden dragon, batman Begins, Batman and batman returns, the godfather trilogy, Donnie Brasco, Pulp Fiction, A life Aquatic, Broken Flowers, Lost in Translation (Bill Murray is also a hero), anything by Tim Burton, Stanley Kubrick, wes anderson, The Coen Brothers, (Most) Quentin Tarentino, Mel Brookes and for the most part Terry Gilliam (Circa Twelve Monkeys, Brazil, Fear and loathing). I am also into Japanese Animee such as; spirited away (Miyazaki), ghost in the shell, and most other manja and studio gibli film!!
Television
I dont really care for tv too much, unless its sky sports news, Match of the day, the simpsons, modern toss, mighty boosh or a documentary about flying octopuses (by David Attenborough naturally). The rest is just brainwashing in action.
Books
Give me any book i will read it. Also Cereal packets are pretty interesting you know!
Heroes
My Grandfather, The perfect example to any human being.
These guys...
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hellew chappy. just popping by to spread the love: nu:tone's forthcoming stuff on his page - me thinks you will like them! they sound especially good as these speakers actually come with a 'bass' setting ha ha ha. mwah xxxx
Stopping by to wish you a happy birthday, hope whatever you get up to you have a great day. Feel free to visit Coologik. Com and get some free underground music downloads on us.
was just curious as to where you went thought id left ya round scream somewhere...as, to be honest i dont remember a bloody thing! got a bit messy near end. courtesy of the jack and jills!
Enjoy brum bum chum
think im havin a pre-b'day sesh over this wknd so try and keep it vacant klaarta
