Monday, 5 January 2009
OK so the New Year is well and truly underway and your NYE hangovers and comedowns should hopefully be settling nicely on a sea of remorse and shame. As you rue your dubious actions over the festive season, why not take some time to have a gander at BUG's Pick Of The Week?
Get your lookin' balls wrapped around these lovely designs, all courtesy of HIGHRISE CLOTHING the local garms merchant run by your friendly local records merchant Chris of ROOTED RECORDS fame. Not only does the website have lots of tasty Tees to purchase, it also has a fairly indispensable blog attached to it which has loads of exclusive content including mixes from some of the Bristol dubstep cognoscenti (some of which BUG shamelessly purloined for over here too). Thank you Highrise!
Any local graf heads out there will have already clocked this mighty tome's release, a celebration of Bristol graffiti from the last 25 years. CHILDREN OF THE CAN contains some eye-popping street candy as well as a fascinating journey through the changing attitudes and fortunes of what is still a much misunderstood art form. Head over to HERE to grab yourself a copy.
Whilst we're on that tip, you could do a lot worse than to head over to Awkward's new blog Mega Mega Mega which contains some intriguing global wreckage and B-Boy antics as you would expect from one of Bristol's leading hip hop soldiers. Top stuff.
If you're still up for some club action despite the winter chill, credit crunch and general post-Xmas malaise, then BUG's recommendation for this weekend start with the formidable Season Five offering you a veritable sonic smorgasbord of up and coming Bristol dubstep talent, many of who have been featured on this here blog. Phaeleh and Hyetal you know will destroy this; but the remainder of the bill are hardly slouches when it comes to rocking a bassbin or two.
SEASONFIVE
10.01.09
10pm - Late. Saturday 10th January, The Tube, Bristol
Phaeleh Cool and Deadly // Urban Scrumping - Live
Superisk Sureskank // O.M.G.
Hyetal Formant Recordings // Seasonfive
Snugfelix and Furesshu Seasonfive
FREE B4 12AM // £2 AFTER
As for Friday get yourself up to Dojos for an all-night techno session for cheap as chips entry. Triptic was one of the stand-out nights in 2008 and the residents played an important part in shaping their direction, all of whom are quality DJs. Well worth a fiver we think.
TRIPTIC
11-7am@DOJOs, Park Row, Bristol
09.01.09
LMB
Dan Reilly
Sam Wilson
Mike Swift
£5/£4 NUS
If the weekend really can't come soon enough for you, then hit the bricks on Thursday for PENGUIN DANCE'S deranged offspring Naughty Little Brother. They've got the DMC champ JFB down for some scratchtastic action as well as dubstep DJ TIME and the Penguin massive, all for £3! Bargain!
NAUGHTY LITTLE BROTHER
08.01.09@ The Tube, Unity St. 10pm-late.
JFB (07 DMC champion/Battlejam)
TIME (Scratch badman)
DIY (Not a plummer)
SPREE AND RAM (Booze and biscuits)
£3 b4 11/ more after. Free biscuits
Saturday, 17 May 2008
There's been a wealth of amazing material coming through recently from various corners of Bristol so here's a lickle BUG round up of some of the best albums and mixtapes coming through at the moment.
CANOLA TENDERFOOT - "Winning Is For Losers"
No stranger to these pages, and this has been out since late last year, but it deserves another mention as it's such a beautiful album - everything about it is perfect, the atmosphere, the vocals, the production - don't sleep on this gem!
Buy via Malicious Damage Records
Buy via iTunes
KOAST - "The Koast Is Clear"
This one has been a long time coming, but well worth the wait...Bristol's Hip Hop heritage is strong and is enjoying a bit of a renaissance at the moment; one of the main MCs pushing things forward is KOAST. Simply put this is one of the best Hip Hop releases for a while, forget about local pride or bias...every single track on here in terms of beats and lyrics is pitch perfect - an incredible effort from an artist who has been paying his dues for a long time, surely his time is now.
Download via Chemical Records
B'TOL & JAGOS - "Something's What We've Done"
Another artist with a long pedigree in the game has also come good with their long-awaited release, B'Tol & Jagos again prove why Bristol has such a strong reputation in Hip Hop circles. A genuinely engaging album (which is getting rarer in this genre of music), the production is on point and both the subject matter and delivery is constantly impressive. A high benchmark set for others to follow!
AWKWARD - "Atomic Lock"
Absolutely without doubt one of the true figureheads of Bristol Hip Hop, Awkward has been deep in the business for many an year and is still standing tall, still hitting hard with jaw-dropping music. Here he drops latest offering "Atomic Lock" - a totally free download LP which is amazing quality from start to finish. You have zero excuse not to get on this - so click the link and get those beats!
Download it for free!
Another BUG favourite releases his debut effort and it's fundamentally some of the best dubstep you'll hear all year. A producer with a really unique sound, Phaeleh is going to be huge, it's just a matter of time. Bristol is so far ahead of the game in dubstep production it's not even in this century anymore.
Also keep an eye out for the release of the "Emancipation EP" from Grime's best young MC, BUGGSY. We'll let you know when that's dropping....should be soon!
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