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Grime meets Fish Uptown

I’m sceptical that this guy’s fish really is the best in town if its only a quid but he most definitely has the best sales tune (at least in Queen’s market, Upton Park). Listen. And Learn. Comon ladies Comon ladies 1 pound fish (X2) 1 pound fish comon have a look 1 pound fish heva …

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The Very Best ‘Yoshua Alikuti’

Our boys The Very Best return with a hammer of a video directed by Village Beat for the 1st single from their forthcoming new album, MTMTMTK, dropping this summer on Moshi Moshi/Cooperative Music. Esau & Johan take the part of Lil Wayne and his security except they’re in a Nairobi township have a goat which …

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Musicalia Vs Peligrosa

Catch me this Thursday with Texas’s finest tropical party kings, DJ Orion & King Louis from Peligrosa on their 1st European tour, along with Musicalia residents, Isa GT & Arcade. FREE ENTRY.FREE BBQ! Info here.

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Darq E Freaker Feat. Afrikan Boy & Jeb Loy Nichols – ‘Hard Times’

He’s been away for a little while supporting M.I.A. & doing his degree, but Afikan Boy is coming back hard. This is the new video for a new track he’s done with one of South London’s best kept secrets, producer Darq E Freaker (Soundcloud). Vocal sample is from country soul singer Jeb Loy Nichols who …

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A.J. Holmes & The Hackney Empire – Full 1st Album stream

Regular readers here will know we’re massive fans of The Hackney Empire, London’s premier East London soukous-pop band. Aside from their debut single that we released and epic live shows they’ve been busy in the studio completing their first album – 8 tracks or pure tropical sunshine energy. Collaborations come from Sierra Leonian High Life …

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JME – ’96 Fuckries’

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Wiley – Dem Na Kill Pon Sunday (Heatwave special)

Just when I thought 2011 had been a bit of an average year for bashment, The Heatwave drop this IMMENSE riddim with Wiley coming on like a grimey Tenor Saw. I don’t know where this one sprung from, at a guess Wiley’s collaboration on Showtime but its going to make my NYE. Big up The …

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Isa GT’s Navidades con Etoro 2011

Our homie Isa GT is one of the hardest working djs we know, playing across the world, directing videos, promoting nights and releasing music on Man Recordings. She has now launched her own label, Etoro records, and for the third release she has curated the first of an annual series of Christmas compilations. She says.. …

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Moroka ‘Bad Fun’

After the release of his debut EP on Pollinate, Hackney’s Moroka continues his onslaught of jacking South African house with a grimey London bass sound. This new jam has got to be my favourite yet sounding like DJ Cleo rinsing it out at Night Slugs. Moroka – Bad Fun

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Johan Hugo ‘Super Mom feat. Baloji’ & ‘Arab Spring’

Fresh back from playing Lake of Stars in Malawi with Esau, our boy Johan of The Very Best / We Don’t Belong in Pacha, Blasts you with a double barrel of always welcome output of pure music sunshine. Earlier this summer, inspired by the North African and Arabic uprisings, he laid down this dabke house …

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