In it’s first year, Musica is a smaller scale festival at Darling Harbour’s Tumbalong Park with a really cool line up. Maybe a little to cool to draw a massive festival crowd, it was a refreshingly, easy going, dickhead free day of good music. Rather than fighting crowds of sweaty muscle bound boofheads, dividing your time between 7 stages of the same old acts, Musica was just one stage of smaller amazing new artists. Perfect sunny weather for enjoying the likes of SBTRKT, Lunice, Ghostpoet, Baths, Electic Wire Hustle, Mitzi, Bon Chat Bon Rat, Tiger & Woods and Simon Caldwell. Brilliant day. Let’s hope it becomes a regular fixture in the festival calendar.
Listen: SBTRKT – Nervous ft Jessie Ware from Nervous EP
Listen: SBTRKT – Something Goes Right ft Sampha from SBTRKT
Listen: Lunice – The Name Dunnit ft Troy Dunnit from Stacker Upper EP
London producer, SBTRKT’s self-titled album is my favourite record of this year. We were lucky enough to chat to him ahead of his Australia tour. Also master of the baked goods DJ Ability swings passed the studio with some tasty custard tarts and equally scrumptious dancehall bass. It is our bass special. A little less rappy and more electronicy than usual.
Playlist
Yasmin Ft. Ms. Dynamite – Light Up The World (prod. Shy Fx)
SBTRKT – Right Thing To Do ft Jessie Ware
The Xx – Crystalised (Dark Sky Remix)
Sticky – Booo! (Dubaholics Numb Dub Mix) [Ft. Ms. Dynamite]
Fish Go Deep – The Cure & the Cause (Featuring Tracey K)
Mz Bratt – Selecta (Greenmoney Remix)
SABO – Ay Loco (Pitbull Remix)
Foreign Beggars – Keepin Da Line Fat (feat Graziella – DJ Troubl mix)
Aaron Jerome – Late Night Mission (feat. Yungun)
Shirley Ellis – The Clapping Song
Katylist – The Clapping Song ft Coin Locker Kid
Ghostpoet – Cash & Carry Me Home (feat. Kano)
Vybz Kartel – Half On A Baby (Moska Remix)
NB Funky – Rhythm Box
Seiji and Da Phonz – Rumpus
Moska – Bax
Mary J Blige – Family Affair (Hugo Frederick Remix)
Brenmar – Waiting On
Africa Hitech – Blen Remix
Jessie Ware – Strangest Feeling SBTRKT Interview Pt 1
SBTRKT – Hold On ft Sampha SBTRKT Interview Pt 2
SBTRKT – Wildfire ft Yukimi of Little Dragon & Drake (Remix)
Shaggy & Leftside – Jump Up Around DJ ABILITY MIX
TCC – Telephone
Dreadsquad ft Lady Chan – Money Nah Dem Good
Warrior One ft Serocee – Bullring Ting
Buraka Som Sistema – Yah
Tomb Crew – Watch This
Leisure Allstars – Friday Night (Dr Dohecahedron Mix)
Tommy McCook – Heatwave
Barrington Levy – Glock (Mishka Blend)
Sola Rosa – I’ve Tried Ways
Listen: SBTRKT – Right Thing To Do ft Jessie Ware from SBTRKT
Listen: Aaron Jerome – Late Night Mission ft Yungun from Time To Rearrange
Don’t want this blog to be too flyer heavy, but I am just too proud of my shitty artwork. Proud as a lion you might say. Umm.. yeah… Sydney crew… here is a little taste of what you can expect at Ching-a-lings if you come down on Sunday.
Murs is one of my favourite rappers, and also a really swell guy. I had him on the show years ago when I was doing late nights, and he was still Def Juxing it. I ended up freestyling with him on air, and he dissed every gangsta rapper in the industry by name. Talking about who he would like to fight one on one. If only Scott Burns didn’t steal, then lose that recording. These are pics from his more recent visit, and some new music from him. Make sure you cop Murs & Ski Beatz: Love & Rockets Vol. 1 (The Transformation)
Oh you know the house band for the Jimmy Fallon show, they can actually write music and they aren’t terrible. They are releasing their 10 millionth album December 3. It is called Undun . It is a concept album. Giving us an existential retelling of the short life of Redford Stevens. Here is the first new song to surface.
Dubstep seems to be going the same way as Drum N Bass. Losing all it’s soul and warmth in favour of being the biggest most over the top bass drop competition. Even so, occasionally tracks like this one surface getting me all nostalgic about my favourite jungle chunes.
I really had to stop myself from singing along to this. Ahead of the Player Haters Ball on this Saturday at Good God, Joyride gives us a little taste of what you can expect from his set. With just an acoustic guitar and his voice, he gives us a superb rendition of Frank Ocean’s ‘Novacane’. It is a rather raw recording from the show, I just added a bit compression in garage band. Hopefully the quality is okay.
Equal totally punked me. You’ll have to listen to find out what I am talking about. Equal is a DJ you will find playing all over New York in a range of very different settings. He hits us with a bumping mix of new hip hop. It is stoopid fresh.
Also everybody’s favourite crooning DJ/Producer guy, Joyride joins us in the studio. He gives us a little teaser of what to expect from his set at the Player Haters Ball this Saturday at Good God. His cover of ‘Novacane’ by Frank Ocean is well worth the bandwidth necessary to hear it.
I think we are going to start printing t-shirts that say ‘Rick Ross blocked me on Twitter”.
Playlist:
Allure ft. Tone & AZ – Head over Heels (Trackmaster Remix)
Mary J Blige – Mary Jane (All Nite Long) ft LL Cool J (Remix)
Marvin Gaye – Sexual Healing
Drake Ft. T.I. & Swizz Beatz – Fancy
Rick Ross ft Barry White – Even Deeper
R. Kelly – Real Talk (M-Phazes Remix) f. Stricklin
Cam’ron – Oh Boy
Cassie – Radio featuring Fabolous
Common – Blue Sky
Gap Band – Yearning for your love
Nas – Life Is A Bitch
Katalyst – Day Into Night (Featuring Stephanie McKay)
R. Kelly – I’m A Flirt ft T.I. & T-Pain Joyride Interview
Joyride and The Accidents – This Is It Joyride plays Frank Ocean’s Novacane Live
Joyride and The Accidents – Stumbling
Talib Kweli – Hot Thing (J Star Remix) DJ Equal Mix
Jay-Z and Kanye West – Ni**as in Paris
Uncle Murder – Warning
Drake – Headlines
Lil Wayne – Gucci Gucci
Gucci Mane feat. Busta Rhymes – Murder
Raekwon feat. The Game – Rock n Roll
DJ Kayslay feat Busta Rhymes – 60 Second Assassins
Monica feat Rick Ross – Anything
Meek Mill – Middle of the Summer
Red Cafe feat Ryan Leslie, Rick Ross – Fly Together
Big Sean – Dance ft Nicki Minaj (Remix)
Sky High – Look At Me
This Sunday at Ching-a-lings is totally going to be like this. Naiki San, myself and a random cat floating through Shinjuku in a flying saucer shooting lasers out of our eyes. As a little teaser, I thought I would post one of my favourite Naiki mixes from the show. This is a G-Funk vs P-Funk selection from back in 2008. Sorry about my over excited yelling on the mic.