Also: new tune up on the myspace.
Called 'Coldsore'. Synth attack. Actual Melodies n' that. Go
listen
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28.06.08
Holy mess.
I've unfortunately had to cancel the live date at Sluggin' on July 8th.
I am in Devon and got my dates wrong. Apologies if anyone was planing
to come. I saw i was on Time Out London too... but yeah. Its killed.
Also, Caught In The Crossfire wrote some nice things about me recently:
And i'm now
number 1 in their Buzz Chart, which is nice...
Props to Abjekt for doing me the favour, theres a lot of love going on
between me and those guys.
_
New ting:
MLR - 'Callouses''
_
Plus - I'm helming this months 3 Bar Fire Radio Show on Samurai.FM
under my 3BF ident, Wordmaster, dishing out some nice music from some
nice people with a few pearly gems thrown in.
Tis up now, go stream the dream
Track Listing:
1. Modey Lemon - The Bear Comes Back Down The Mountain (Birdman)
2. White Denim - Lets Talk About It (Full Time Hobby)
3. The Black Keys - I Got Mine (V2)
4. The Notwist - Where In The World (City Slang)
5. Portishead - The Rip (Go! Discs/Island)
6. Matmos - Mister Mouth (Matador)
7. Flying Lotus - GNG BNG (Warp)
8. Ratatat - Bird Priest (XL)
9. Joker - 80s (Kapsize)
10. The Bug - Freak Freak (Ninja Tune)
11. Roots Manuva - Buff Nuff (Big Dada)
12. Dan Friel - Appliances of Bremen (Important)
13. Dosh - Food Cycles (Anticon)
14. Micah P. Hinson - You Will Find Me (Full Time Hobby)
15. Born Ruffians - Barnacle Goose (Warp)
16. Weezer - Pork & Beans (DGC/Interscope)
17. Daedelus - Make It So [XXXchange Remix] (Ninja Tune)
Big news this week is that Duke
Spook's Ep 'Dead Weight' is out 3
Bar Fire Recordings this Monday.
In case you didn't know 3 Bar
Fire is a little project i'm involved in. It's an online
music magazine and a digital record label.
'Dead Weight' is our 2nd release:
...and its fucking heavy as shit.
In other news theres a new MPFREE up in the top right.
'Routine Reception' is another deviation... this time into mouth organ
and table percussion noodling. Listen to it and holler at me if you like
it.
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13.04.2008
Big up [dissident] & Breach.... hold tight Bristol.
Hype weekend full of Red Stripe, rum and bass music. Good to see so many
old faces. Props to Bagga for the transport like...
The full line up for the May Soundcrash at Cargo has been confirmed:
Plaid - DJ Set (Warp)
Memory 9
MLR
Snuff The Ablist w/ Friends
Moe Foe
Soundcrash DJs
Yeah... so
I'm starting to think i took this whole Gordon Bombay thing a bit too
far plus I realised that there is already a rapper using the alias and
that my hero worship could be better directed. I already named a
song after him, so thats the extent its gone to, stay tuned
for his short-term replacement...
Back from the studio with the Wif man today. Props. Muchos wampage. Didn't
get time for everything, including the 8 minute Bronchitis
opus, but a couple of bits came out better than expected.
Shibby. We're
talking nearly a full month since the last post. And since then I've been
all over... well Bristol and Amsterdam but still... at least i'm back
and i brought updates.
First up the new website skin. White is right. No racial supremacy intended.
White writing on the black board was making my eyes go line crazy after
staring for a while so i inverted the whole shebang.
Secondly, more music on the horizon. Shout to Wiffendour. He's granting
me some monitor time this coming Sunday and hopefully we'll be wamping
five or six new tracks to get that bass heavy bliss we liked so much last
time. Eyes peeled on the myspace for the fruits of his mouses labour.
And thirdly there's this:
There are other bands playing but i don't know who they are. I was told.
But i forget my own family's birthdays...
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26.02.2008
I was having a phone conversation with my good buddy Breach the other
day about how things just slow down some times, but today they sped back
up: I got booked for three gigs today...
and very pleased i am too.
check the dates section (below left) for all the deets... in the meantime
here's a quick flyer:
boff.
I also have a mix up on Samurai.FM under my 3 Bar Fire Wordmaster guise.
Its me for half an hour and then Dom Servini on the virtual flip. My segment
features an exclusive airing of 3 Bar Fire's latest signing Duke Spook
(big up Tone).
Click the pic to listen, tracklist below...
Wordmaster's Selection Tracklisting:
1. Intro
2. Crackle - Heavy Water (Slowfoot)
3. Vernon Elliot - Ivor The Engine Main Theme (Truck)
4. The Boggs - Fort (Tangled Up)
5. The Eels - Get UR Freak On (CDR)
6. Pinch - Airlock (Tectonic)
7. Miracle Fortress - Beach Baby (Rough Trade)
8. Rustie - Crooked (Stuff)
9. Lukid - The Now (Werk Discs)
10. Tujiko Noriko - Sun! (Emego)
11. Robert Logan - Lost Highway (Slowfoot) w/ Telephone Jim Jesus - Suicide
Wings (Anticon)
12. Duke Spook - Duul's Rage Against Jah (3BarFire)
13. Odd Nosdam - The Kill Tone [MLR Remix] (CDR)
Big up Joe, Ellie and all the assorted bods that came through.
Oh and dood who bit about the compilation: wheres my linkage bro?
haha.
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MLR EP001 - ON SALE
NOW!!!
My Left Retina
- Fever Ate My Fist EP
£5 including postage
"sounds nice!" - Pinch "fucking sweet mate, I like..." - Duke Spook "mad exciting" - Buddy Peace "imaginitive and good
sound design"
- Forsaken
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FREE SIDE PROJECT DOWNLOADS:
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Check me out
on Samurai.FM
(under my Wordmaster guise)
on
3 Bar Fire Radio
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PERSONAL
LOWDOWN:
"I
used to rap hard... or at least i wanted to show the world i could speak
as well as make beats. I made an album called 'Foreclosure'. I don't know
if it will ever come out, it was supposed to a while back... its 10 tracks
of guitar based alt hip hop that leans heavily on words as a crutch of
sorts.
Now i make mainly instrumental music to excite myself using a bunch of
soft synths i stole from flatmates and friends.
I still rap. But thats for me and my immeadiates mainly."
MLR - 02.02.08
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FORTHCOMING DATES:
27th August @ Market Place
THE LOVE OFF
BATTLE OF THE BALLADS DJ SET
FREE
7PM - 12AM
October @ Lakota
[dissident]
LAPTOP SET
10 QUID (probably)
???PM - ???AM
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REVIEWS:
CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE - "fearsome basslines"
BANDIDGE.COM - "stirring stuff"
ONE WEEK TO LIVE - "a paranoid backpacker
traipse"