We've decided to throw a Zombie Invasion so get the gore and fake blood ready. Expect to hear some heavy Zombie afrobeat, electro, funk, hip hop and brain guzzling breaks!
The best dressed Zombie of the night will WIN A BOTTLE!!!
We'll also be playing an assortment of the best zombie films we can lay our hands on so VOTE NOW on the FB event page for your favourites to be screened!
TTY003 is getting very ready to hit the streets - Julio Bashmore' s anthem that is Footsteppin as the flip to Chazm - another ice-cold monster is available to pre-order here.
Also the ball has started rolling on our Super Ltd Edition Ten Thousand Yen Tee's... Only 30 made by the fine hand of: ambitionispitiful
And if that wasn't enough to keep the people of the world happy, the good folks over at FACT magazine have started a competition to win a copy of Julio's Test Press for the upcoming release..ultra rare - only a handful in existance and you could get one..
Click ont image for the jump. But be quick innit!
And if you're in Dubai tomoro night - 30th Sept 2010 then come down and shake your rump to the man that is JDilla in a Freshly Laced Dilla Special. Its gonna be sick..
Baduka / Bump - Double A side Purple 10" from Chesus x Diverse Concepts / C.R.S.T. is out on physical and digital through the Ten Thousand Yen store now.
It's at least a week in advance of all good record shops, so go grab yourselves a copy of these two heavy bass riddims from the current hotbed of Welsh production talent.
Both tracks have had Radio One support from Mary Anne Hobbes and Gilles Peterson as well as love from Greenmoney, Martyn, Oneman, Brackles, Seiji, Ben UFO and more.
The release is number two in a five part series of coloured 10" vinyl, strictly limited to 350 copies each. All vinyl are coloured and numbered, with hand screen-printed sleeves.
Each vinyl order includes a download code for instant MP3 / FLAC / WAV format.
Quotes:
Mary Anne Hobbes – "*Love* this..”
Ben Ufo –" This is wicked. Proper rowdy vibes. Tuff!"
Oneman - “Absolutely amazing, sick tunes both of them..Wicked release”
Jackmaster – “Massive Release!!!”
Shortstuff – “Woooiii...These bits are great!”
Fawaz Worldwide - “Real nice old skool sunshine vibes with a future edge.”
Warrior One – “Loving it”
TRG – “Both sides absolutely FIRE, loving Baduka!”
So its been a wicked few months since Freshly Laced was born.
We've had some awesome nights, sick music and incredible visuals and drawn folks from Ras Al Khiamah to Abu Dhabi in droves - getting their fix of the finest funk, afrobeat, brasilia and proper hiphop & being keen to build the scene and community with us.
The bboy workshops have been going strong at Shelter and we've had Web, Radio, Print and TV support for FL and its only gonna keep growing - bigups Andy @ DJ Mag, Mo and crew, Zahra Soar, Simone @ Discoballbreaker, Lubna and the CWrap crew, Pecha Kucha, Infusion & Time Out Massive, Analect and Nile Rhythmik (who even dropped a custom beat for us!!)
And if you haven't already copped it pickup the Spring Collection for the last time here:
Tracklisting:
1. Grand Wizard Theodore 'Can I Get A Soul Clap' 2. Bibio 'Jealous of Roses' 3. Oddisee 'I'm from PG' 4. Flying Lotus 'Astral Plane' 5. Ulysees 82 'Easy to Find, Hard to Lose' 6. Esther Phillips 'Disposable Society' 7. Dee Edwards 'Why Can't There Be Love' 8. Ghetto Brothers 'Got This Happy feeling' 9. Joe Quarterman & Free Soul 'This Girl Of Mine (She's Good)' 10. Fubura Sekibo 'Psychedelic Baby' 11. 14 Bis 'God Save The Queen' 12. Alice Russell 'Let Us Be Loving' (KidKanevil Remix) 13. El Michels Affair 'Walk On By' (short version) 14. Dimlite 'Rump Studies w/Ketepica' 15. Daniel Wang 'Free Lovin' 16. Ohmega Watts 'The Platypus Strut'
I'm about to leave for the summer so swing by Casa Latina in Ibis Al Barsha this Thursday to wave goodbye to a yeti.
Have no fear though - DJ Solo and DJ Lobito will be holding it down up until our Closing Party on August 5th.
Keep em peeled in September when Freshly Laced is gonna drop the next level on Dubai...
For a city with no legal alcohol or dancing - Kuwait City is pretty sick.
The first night we had there we got to check out some hush hush, little-promoted Rooftop Cinema Anime - catching Paprika up in the hot breeze.
I gotta say this blog was what hooked me up with a few juicey gems in Kuwait so bigups to the 2:48am fam for putting in the effort.
I've felt pretty graph deprived by the UAE's squeaky clean policy, it was cool to see some bits and pieces dotted around - and a decent lil skate park too..
The city's even got some MIB style camoflaged UFO's dotting about:
Wifey nearly turned reptilian in the Aquarium thingy:
yeti vs trex: orbs: astral travelling: they even had giant test tubes for giants to carry humans:
Kuwait has one of the dopest resteraunts I've been to: Slider Station - a burger bar, themed like a car workshop, serving really tasty mini burgers via the medium of a yo-sushi style conveyor belt.
Great staff (complete with mechanics jumpsuits), Awesome food, Sweet little vibe.
AND....
HIGHLIGHT of the TRIP....
They seem to still love the old school arcades over there.
I found this little gem upstairs in a Lulu centre.
The keen eyed and 80's children amongst you may recognise Yeti getting his youth back with a blast on Stryder:
...and wifey doing damage in whats gotta be the only Ninja / Dog partnership game in history - Shadow Dancer:
Both ultimate classics - and the "built for dwarves" factor of the machines only added to the fun.
All in all - worth a detox trip to search out the gems.
Loads of stuff on at the moment - i'll start with what's closest to home:
Launch night is Thursday May 6th, to promote it I gone done a mix:
trcklist:
tm juke & the jack baker trio - spread it on (feat. alice russel) the bamboos - my baby's cheating (i sure got the feeling) hector riviera - a chance for romance james brown - people get up and drive that funky soul googie rene combo - smokey joe's la la pearl dowdell - good things freda payne - unhooked generation willie bobo - evil ways (karriem riggins rmx) commodores - i feel sanctified sam irl - keep talking zerodb - samba do umbigo cela - i'm in love nicole willis and the soul investigators - if this aint love
