Update

Going to be updating the blog again in the near future, sorry for the lack of interaction in the last while, got few thing in the inbox that I will be posting about, will hopefully have everything up by the end of the week.

Scotty

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Feel free to drop me any tracks you would wish to be considered for posting, it can be any style and from anywhere, hope to hear from you guys soon.

KiD-A aka Scotty

BreakThru Radio Blogger of the Week part II

Due to my own stupidity and being exceptionally busy I missed my deadline for handing in stuff twice so will be at a future date that I will be the Blogger of the Week.

Here's the next installment of some musical discussion for you all.

Having sat and watched 'kidulthood' and also 'adulthood' within the last 24 hours i'm going to have a wee discussion about Grime, Bassline and generally anything featured in the films which I enjoyed, to start with 'kidulthood'.

Running through the OST in order, the first track that I come to which stands out is the song 'Stay Positive' by 'The Streets', what a song can't say enough to praise it and you've probably all heard it before at some point, if not check it out.

The next song which grabbed me was an outstanding track by 'The Angel' listening back to it now makes me think of 'Burial' again its such a good song which slipped under my radar till I went back and watched the film again and said woah what is that song.

The final song which seems to be haunting me right now is the song entitled 'All Things To All Men' by 'The Cinematic Orchestra' featuring 'Roots Manuva' this seriously is a beautiful piece of music, it encapsulates the moments of feeling down and out perfectly.

The rest of the soundtrack is pretty amazing also if you like your UK Hip-Hop and Grime with songs by 'Wiley', 'SWAY', 'Plan-B' and 'Klashnekoff'.

Now for 'adulthood', along the same lines lets run through the OST logically, the first song which for some reason grabbed me instatly was 'End In The Streets' by 'Plan B', what a song, literally from the off you are faced with a heavy heavy bass beat then a screeching synth line and a wobbly bassline. Plan-B is on great form as per usual with a great Rap through the whole song.

I don't really know why the next one stands out much to me, 'Bars Of Truth' by 'NoLay' reminds of some really old school Hip-Hop and Rap from America and has some of the best raps from a woman who has a unique style and voice which will definitely not be everyone's cup of tea but personally I really like it.

I only picked three songs from 'kidulthood' but i'm gonna go with more for 'adulthood', the next song by a relatively unknown artist called 'Kerry-Anne Leatham' is a beautiful acoustic track, she really has one of the most beautifully honest and painful voices I have heard in a song, similairties to 'Kate Nash' when she writes her slower songs but a nicer voice. This song should have got alot more exposure than it did.

Finally the last individual song I want to talk about is a song called 'Reach' by an artist called 'Skrein' I had never heard of this artist but will definitely be keeping tabs on future developments in this young mans career. Combination of great electronic piano, electric guitar melody which catches you straight away and a looped almost Breakbeat drum beatmake this a very listenable song and the lyrics cast a good personal experience about whats being talked about.

In terms of films I personally prefer 'kidulthood' but this is a music discussion and I really don't know which one I prefer, each has great songs, and represent the trend in music that was going on when the films came out, the 'adulthood' soundtrack is probably slightly easier to listen through, but I really cannot decide between the two the best thing I could recommend would be to listen yourself and then let me know.

Much Love
KiD-A

BreakThru Radio Blogger of the Week

I am BreakThru Radio's Blogger of the Week! for the week beginning 26th of January.


If you go to BreakThru Radio's "Articles" section, you can find my daily featured posts for the week.


BTR is an Internet radio station that focuses on independent music. It has strong listenership in over a dozen countries, and they have over a million listeners a day. Head on over to BreakThru Radio to discover the best independent and unsigned artists from around the world.


Check out BTR's "Live from Pianos, NYC" series where they air live recordings of shows at the venue.


Check back for more details.


Special thanks to Isaac from BTR.


Will post up all the blogs for the week here also.


Scotty

Happy New Years

Heya pimps and pimpettes, Happy New Year to you all, hope 2009 is good to you.

Not really got much to say today except a quick chat about a label in Latvia called 'Elpa', really cannot say enough about the quality of the records that this label is putting out, they are an electronic music label aimed at the ambient electronic side of the musical spectrum but all class themselves as downtempo and IDM so they cover all bases of everything I personally love, the artists list is exceptionally strong would highly recommend anyone who Elpa pick up to be listened to, the list includes

Pink Logik
recoveryUnit and
TUTTY

These are my three personal favorites from Elpa.

Pink Logik is a Bristol based producer who is very similar to the likes of Autechre, Boards Of Canada with hints of various electronic influences notable in several songs, check out his LP sampler on his MySpace for an idea of what he's all about, has released records on Elpa, KultureShift and TerrainFlight. Check him out and give him support.

Next is recoveryUnit, who is based in Glasgow, and produces a more uptempo style more similar to Luke Vibert and Air without the Acid Tinged Jazz sounds of Vibert, but still retains the same quality, use of piano is excellent and could possibly be the best remix i've heard so far of 'reckoner' by Radiohead, the use of the Thom Yorke vocal running through a heavy compression is excellent, giving a very haunting sound. Please support this artist as I really believe there is a very bright future in this genre of music.

Last but not least we have TUTTY, i'm going to find this very hard to write mainly due to the fact that very little can actually be found out about, TUTTY. What I can tell you is that he is from Moscow, his name is Sergey Kulikov and he produces a very distinct style of music which verges on being unlistenable. I would describe TUTTY more as a Soundscape rather than Music, that is not a criticism and is very much a compliment. He uses sounds to create an aura and paints a picture with his sound. Has released on Gonglabel, Elpa and Chitamioq imprints.

Please support all these artists individually and also the label Elpa. I believe they have a bright future ahead and can't say enough about the standard of artists that they sign.

Scotty

Merry Christmas

Hello peeps, hope you all had a lovely Christmas and Santa was good to you all, son of a butch only left me coal for the second year running, think it might be because I keep getting drunk on Christmas Eve.

I really haven't been up to much just chilling out back at home after got exams out of the way a couple weeks ago. Anywho enough about what i've been doing and on to what i've missed the last couple of weeks.

I have now got Torq and i'm trying to learn it slowly but surely getting there so much better than having a stupid MIDI controller, I feel vinyl under my fingers again and its never felt better.

Music wise i've not really been listening to anything new, listening to alot of Dubstep still and i've started to increase my collection of Dubstep songs. I've got a couple here for you.

First off we have a producer from Manchester who goes by the name of Zed Bias, the tracks he's putting out just now are somewhere between Dub and Afro-Beat/Jazz, would be like putting Mr Scruff into a room with Benga and letting them merge into something beautiful. Check them out here => Zed Bias.
I've included a song thats remixed by C-Code who is also a very good up and coming artist in his own right.


Zed Bias - Boomerang (C-Code Remix)


Secondly we have a classic from Benga and Coki with Geeneus on the remix. This song is simply sublime, very downtempo with great kind of afro carribean drum track with lots of cow bell and samba feel, to match the melody that gets stuck in your head for weeks. Heard the original dropped live by Benga himself and think the floor moved. Cracking tune from an excellent producer and great remix.


Benga & Coki - Night(Geeneus Remix)


Here's the link to Benga's MySpace => Benga.

Please support all the artists blogged by purchasing their material.

Much love as always and a Happy New Year to you all.
Scotty aka KiD-A

New MySpace

New MySpace for the production side of things is now online at www.myspace.com/projektmkultra please check this out and this is where I shall be posting all songs in future. Sorry for the short and sweet post but just thought i'd point you in the direction of the new MySpace.

KiD-A