Ms. Dynamite x Amplify Dot x Lady Leshurr x Lioness - “Neva Soft (RMX) - this song is so sick!
Stepping up to the mic with Dynamite for this special remix are Amplify Dot, who recently released her banger of a collaboration with Kano “Semantics” as well as her solid Born Ready mixtape; Birmingham repping Lady Leshurr who almost spits verses in bullet time on her take on Chris Brown’s “Look At Me Now”; and South London rhyme animal Lioness whose buzzworthy mixtape Roarness was released last week.
Massive fixation at a friend’s kitchen. This is how it looks like when there is no female room mate: Cinelli, Canyon, Focale44 etc all over the place.
Nice music video with LA fixie riding footage by Garfield Adams - “For My City” from the upcoming debut album release titled “1st Things First” which drops 11.11.11!
Beware of the spring gun.
More non-angolan Kuduro: Bamzigi from Kenya. See also tropicalbass.com.
Some vibes for the weekend: Scïwe Pwofassah - Qui veut danser kuduro. Kuduro from Alsace in France.
A new edition of Real Scenes is out with focus Berlin. After watching this it came quite clear to me why Berlin is always so behind when it comes to new music and genres: The club scene still looking back to 90 and Tresor days, and the major current problem is the amount of drink tourists.
My Moombahfunky Remix of Mohawks “The Champ”, written by H. Palmer and performed by The Mohawks.
Sign me I can sing
This and other lines like “my friends say I sound like <artist xy>” is what you find in a label’s inbox too often, and sometimes it comes with a link to a youtube video with some teenager singing a Michael Jackson song at in front of his desk or dancing to it in flip-flops. Included artist info? Zero. Link to artist website? None. Flyers of current shows? Njet.
Serious artists usually promote themself massively with the given countless options untill they are too big to handle it alone before they search for a label or agency. But thanks to inflation of star search shows many wanna-be artists think they have a right to get signed. This is the answer of a label - pretty much universal and cross-genre.
Detroit edition of the Resident Advisor series “Real Scenes”.
Quite simply, Detroit is a city of extremes, and its music reflects that. Detroit’s importance in the global electronic music scenes is often referred to in the past tense.
