Gnarls Barkley "Mystery Man" (Music Video)

Q-Tip Album Signing @ Fatbeats (Video)

Q-Tip made an appearance at Fatbeats in New York yesterday to sign copies of his new album, "The Renaissance" which is in stores now.

Buy it. It's great.

Dizzee Rascal Interview on Newsnight (Video)

So Jeremy Paxman, best known for going after Politicians on Newsnight, (and also presenting University Challenge) had Dizzee Rascal as guest on last night's show...

Whilst he can be entertaining when he goes in (pause) on certain guests....He gets the gasface though for asking Dizzee Rascal "Do you consider yourself to be British?"

This interview's recently been slammed on Facebook, with a lot people saying that Dizzee was a poor representation of black people in the UK, and that the BBC should have either got Lewis Hamilton, Bashy (who would have been an interesting interview), or a back politician instead...Ironically enough, a black politician was next to him on screen....

Dizzee wasn't the most eloquent interviewee, but at least he gave an honest answer, rather than long, drawn out amibiguous replies that most politicians who are invited on the show tend to give...To say he's a poor role model is an injustice, considering he's a platinum-selling artist, has achieved a UK no. 1 without major label backing, and has also done his fair share of chairty work too....

Spotted over at Semtex's blog

DJ Cable's Weekly Mix #37

Yep yep, Weekly Mix #37 is now available for your listening pleasure!

Remember, that if you've missed out on any of them, you can grab them all here.

This week, I switched things up again, and threw together some Electro, House, Breakbeat, and Electroclash from the likes of The Rapture, MSTRKRFT & Does It Offend You, Yeah?

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Tracklisting:

01. Does It Offend You, Yeah? - Weird Science
02. The Rapture - House Of Jealous Lovers
03. Cut & Run - Song 3
04. Toni! Tony! Tone! - Feels Good (Breakdown Remix)
05. MSTRKRFT Feat. N.O.R.E. - Bounce (A-Trak Remix)
06. His Majesty Andre - NRG555

That A-Trak remix is too dope....

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DJ Cable x Rock The Dub "The Block Obama Mini Mix"

You may remember that I posted up Crooked I's "The Block Obama" mixtape a while back...

As it was all unmixed, Khal over at Rock The Dub presented me with the idea of putting something together to tie in with Barack Obama's campaign/win at the last night's US presidential election. We had been sitting on this for about a month, waiting for the right time to post it online....

I've thrown together the best tracks off the mixtape, added the usual cuts and juggles, and came up with nice little mini mix for your ears...

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Props to Uri for the visuals....

Got any thoughts? You can email myself, or Khal

Again, congratulations to Barack Obama for making history happen.

History Has Been Made....

Congratulations to Barack Obama, who has now become the new US Preseident.

"Alizé Remixed 2008" Tour Recap

So I finally got the pictures off my digital camera and uploaded them...Here's how the "Alizé Remixed 2008" Tour went down at Paper in London the other week...

If you haven't been to Paper (Café Royal) before, it's pretty swanky...and pretty expensive too! Luckily I wasn't really drinking that night, otherwise I could have easily spent a crazy amount (luckily there were drinks vouchers on standby!). However, the decor's pretty nice, as is the soundsystem....

So after arriving at 6pm(ish) for the soundchecks, I got to meet two of the other Remixed winners who were also spinning on the night - E Double D (the Birmingham heat winner) and DJ Stampeeder (the Leeds heat winner). We also got to chop it up with Grandmaster Flash as well before the event...





E Double D



DJ Stampeeder



One of the Jump Off dudes was down filming the event...If I remember correctly, it may make MTV Base...I'll keep you all updated.

Crowd shots:





Stampeeder smacked it with a Baltimore and Electro selection, whilst E Double D pulled out some sick old school R&B and Rare Groove joints....





Now, the original plan was for us three to spin for about 30 mins each in the 2nd room, with Flash coming on in the main room afterwards...As things had got slightly delayed during the night my set got moved to the main room, and was pushed back right until the end of the night after Flash had been on and done his thing - meaning I had the closing set of the tour....No pressure at all then....

As I had to spin for the last 45 minutes of the night, nearly every big tune had been played by the that point. I knew I couldn't go down the Hip Hop & Funk route, as Flash had smacked it with that. So I just decided to mash things up with a mixture of UK Garage (Maxwell D's "Serious" killed it!), House, New Jack Swing, R&B and some Hip Hop, finishing off with bit of Motown....It did the trick....



Overall, it was a great experience, and I met a lot of cool people too. Thanks to Alizé for putting on the event as well as the competition...Definitely one of my most memorable nights so far as a DJ.

Lastly, shouts to everyone from Uproar - Sam, Julian, Aron, Jag and Chelcie, Bluntwun who managed to pass through as well, E Double D, Stampeeder and also H20 who was in the building...

Oh, and last but not least....



In the words of Gollum, "my precious!" I'm gonna be saving these for Xmas & NYE....