Solid Steel Radio Shows are weekly mixes released by Ninja Tune music masters : Hextatic, Coldcut, Mr Scruff, Mr Nice, Strictly Kev, Dj Food, DK, etc etc. They mix, mash up, and play around with anything: hip hop, funk, electro, 80s, afro funk, dubstep, whatever. Those mixes are all brilliant and you'll get 45 hours of them on the soundcloud player below. How amazing is that! Ninja Tune spread its priceless music knowledge for free on Souncloud, and all the playlist are available on Solid Steel website
Max Tannone continues his streak of awesome mash-up albums with his newest release, Mos Dub. At the title suggests, this is a mash-up of the work of Mos Def with reggae and dub songs. Like his previous mash up project, Jaydiohead, Max Tannone’sMos Dub doesn’t sound like a mash-up, and I mean that in the best possible way. It’s as if the original songs were created for the purpose of putting together this album. Each song is seamless.
Check out Mos Dub website, some other mixtapes are also available. Thanks Max!
DJ Iber is back! This time as the gentler half of Das Kollektiv, a newly formed duo of Croatian production wannabes that just released their vision of Overproof Soundsystem's 2002 hit Watch What You Put Inna Rizla. Check it out and send them love if you like it!
Calamarfarci Records 3 gathers the best Ragga Jungle tunes my ragga junglist friends and I could find. Selection has been though but here you are...15 songs around 180 bpm with ragga-reggae melodies, and about 80 minutes of great music. Download it here, and spread the link around.
The Ragga Jungle style is credited with engaging the black community within the Jungle scene, and contributed to the 'bad boy' or 'rude boy' subculture within the UK. Ragga Jungle's popularity waned significantly since 1995 in the UK. Ragga Jungle is now a niche sound, with a small number of labels releasing music that can be categorised in this manner. Prominent producers of this new-school sound are continuing to build bridges, often re-voicing classic reggae singers to produce new works for exclusive use (as "Dubplates") and retail sale as 12" vinyl singles and downloadable mp3's.
Calamarfarci Records 3 - Ragga Jungle - Tracklist
1. DJ Rahmanee - Bun di Chalice (6:39)
2. Top Cat - A Friend In Need (Panik & M Rode Remix) (5:43)
Calamarfarci Records, second release available fordownload! Musica Mestiza gathers upbeat ska, alternative rock, reggae, and latino festive music in general. Born in the 90s with Mano Negra, the scene is very lively in Catalunia (Che Sudaka, La Kinky Beat, Dusminget), Italy (Roy Paci, Jovanotti, Figli Di Madre Ignota), France (Sergent Garcia, Spook & the Guay) and South America (Un Kuartito, La China). This is the fiesta music you'll need for your summer barbecues and car rides to the beach.
If you want to dig, I suggest you to take a look at Radio Chango and Rebelsounds Blogspot, then take a flight to Barcelona and party at Canibal Sound System nights, on wednesdays atSala Apolo .
Calamarfarci Records 2 - Musica Mestiza - Tracklist
1. Jovanotti - El ombilico del mundo (4:33)
2. Dusminguet - Mi arte (3:34)
3. Roy Paci - Yettaboom (3:34)
4. La Kinky Beat - Pirata Capitan (2:30)
5. Sargento Garcia - Amor pa mi (4:26)
6. Fermín Muguruza - Plastic Turkey (3:19)
7. Un Kuartito - Don Goyo (3:51)
8. Sargento Garcia - Acabar mal (4:49)
9. Figli Di Madre Ignota - L'ultima Notte A Brooklin (4:09)
10. Mala Vita - Nema Problema (2:33)
11. Son De Nadie - Rosas (3:42)
12. Spook and The Guay - Cyaan Stop (4:54)
13. Che Sudaka - A Decir (2:31)
14. Papashanty Sound System - La Raza (4:35)
15. Terrakota - É Verdade ? (5:25)
16. La Kinky Beat - Give Me (2:32)
17. Pirat's Sound Sistema - Poc a poc (4:15)
18. La China - Natural (3:00)
19. P18 - La Verdolaga (2:50)
