14.08.08

Tell your moms yo...





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26.07.08

This is the event you've been waiting for all of your life. Dont Front.

MLR vs. The Last Skeptik in a Battle of The Ballads

An Early Valentines Special

Weds 27th August @ Marketplace
FREE ENTRY



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19.07.08

I just got blogged:



and you know what? I feel good about it.

Theres more to the post, so to finish off the read go here:
http://thesonicminefeild.blogspot.com/2008/07/my-left-retina-fever-ate-my-fist-ep.html



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.

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New ting:



MLR - 'Callouses''

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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)

http://samurai.fm/3barfire

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27.05.08

They're in.

The first batch of the Fever Ate My Fist EP have arrived.

Exclusive artwork courtesy of Ben Challenor.

Hella limited // Hand Numbered // 5.00 GBP including postage via paypal.


Today is a happy day!

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24.05.08

A word to the wise: Anti Festi has been made FREE for all to attend!

Rain will never stop play.

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New shit:


MLR - 'Odin'

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20.05.08

Shouts to those who reached Cargo for Soundcrash on the 10th. Double shout if you were actually INSIDE the venue when i played...

New Ting: ANTI FESTI



This Sunday... All day. Then it's off to Fabric for Dublime.

In other happy news:
The tracklist for the 'Fever Ate My Fist EP' has been finalised.

1. Chocolate Lime Dub
2. Fever Ate My Fist
3. Gordon Bombay
4. November
5. Last Kiss (Neck Tied)
6. Self Tongue
7. Bronchitis

Artwork and Purchase link coming real soon.

Hella Limited//Hand Numbered//Don't sleep.

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06.05.2008



Email me for 6 quid concessions

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19.04.2008

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

Saturday May 10th.

Check it out, on facebook and ting:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=11793983790

Attendance is manditory.

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30.03.2008

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.





Head over to the myspace to check in.


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26.03.2008


Just got these sent to me... snazzy photographs from the recent Cargo gig, taken and delivered by the lovely and very kind Sarah Ginn.



Check her out here, she's got mad lens skills...

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23.03.2008

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)

www.3barfire.com


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25.02.2008

Forgive the slackness on my part. This has been up on the myspace for a few days now. Smashed the system at the Vibe Bar gig with this one:


Self Tongue




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"

RESIDENT ADVISOR - "gibberish samples"

DJ MAGAZINE:



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LINKS:


2600 RECORDINGS
3 BAR FIRE
ANTICON
BEARDED MAGAZINE
BULLY RECORDS
DEF JUX
DUKE SPOOK
DUSTY CRATES RADIO

ENDEMIK
GALAPAGOS 4
THE LAST SKEPTIK
LEX
NINJA TUNE
PETER PRINCIPLE
REBEL BASS
ROCK-A-ROLLA
RUFFHOUSING
SLOWFOOT
SPARO
SOUNDCRASH
SOUTHERN

STRANGE FAMOUS
STUFF RECORDS
TECTONIC
WARP
WERK DISCS
YES BOSS MUSIC

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CONTACT:

As always you can get at me through the myspace here and if I know you personally, you dunn know the Facebook

and yeah i've also got one of those fan pages:
search it out

or you can email me

just don't say i didn't give you options...