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Weekly Wrap Up #2

zooper.radio

Saturday, 28.01.06, 6-8 pm (CET)
Freak Camp Dupstep Pressure
live @ LOUD-FM
2Krazy, J-Trex, Danny Bwoy & MC Whylee
[followed after 8 pm by House, Electro & Breakbeat sets by:
elektroboter (electronicsat), Lao Wu (nju:fu), morten cargo & at ease (dnp), soulkings (jayroots|arrowgaines), swarm music]

Two hours of pure dubstep pressure by yours truly and the Freak Camp boys. The broadcast is part of Lao Wu’s Chinese New Year celebrations held at the MOKIK studio (Kastanienallee 24, Berlin). Tune in or drop by for some beats, noodles and chinese firecrackers. More info here.

zooper.news

Aspiring dubstep producers should definitely check out this project over at the dubstep forum. The message board crew will be releasing a mp3-compilation of tunes by unknown and up-and-coming producers and are still looking for submissions. The compilation will be selected and mixed by Rinse FM´s N-Type.

Add comment Januar 27th, 2006

Weekly Wrap Up #1

After contemplating for quite a while what I should do to keep the blog up to date and organized, I’ve decided to wrap up all grime/dubstep tings in a handy (virtual) box each week from now on. Expect reviews, event announcements, links to mixes, blog trackbacks and so on… Which of course doesn’t mean that I’ll stop writing individual post about these topics.

zooper.events

Two Three dubstep- and grime-related events to check out in Berlin this weekend:

Friday, 20.01.06
Dangerous Drums meets Beat It!
23:00 h – Watergate
Main Floor („Tech Funk“): Meat Katie (Lot 49, Kingsize, UK), Circuit Breaker (Viper Jive, Lot 49, Berlin), Fortsch (Watergate, Berlin)
Water Floor (Dubstep & Electro): DJ Pinch (Tectonic, Subtext, UK), Warlock (Rag and Bone, UK), DJ Vela (Dangerous Drums, Berlin), ED 2000 (Dangerous Drums, Berlin)

Saturday, 21.01.06
Revolution N°5
103 Club, Falckensteinstr., X-berg
Ras Kwame (BBC 1Xtra, London), MC Fumin (Fire Camp, London), MC Tor (London), San Gabriel (Live Demo, Berlin), Sick Girls (Berlin)

Saturday, 21.01.06
Antifa-Soli-Party
22:00 h – K9, Kinzigstr. 9, Friedrichshain
Dubstep/Grime: 2krazy & j-trex (Freakcamp), Katana (Dangerous Drums)
Drum’n’Bass: Bumper (Audiomassive), Randy Reger, Zirkulardynamik

zooper.news

Biggest news this week is that Plasticman has finally given in to the pressure of Richie Hawtin’s lawyers and decided to chance his name to… The Plastician. Read more about this and his move to BBC Radio 1 here or read this rather old (2003), but still interesting interview that touches on the name issue as well.

zooper.blogs

DJ /rupture unveils the origin of Slew Dem’s „Joyride“ beat and comes up with a very remarkable vocal version of Lady Saw on the original riddim. Check out another version of the riddim here!

zooper.radio

The first radio show of the week award goes to last weeks „Dubstep Wars“ special on Radio 1’s „Breezblock“. Mary Anne Hobbs had gathered some of dubstep’s most important figures in her studio who provided exclusive dj mixes (loaded with nuff dubs, trust me) and gave background information on the scene. A thread about the show can be found here, some nice photos there, and since the „listen again“ feature on the BBC has expired on Monday, I’ve posted a MP3-recording of the show here. (Just to let you know, mates: it’s a rip of the webstream (at 128 kbps) and not recorded from DAB!)

Add comment Januar 19th, 2006

Grime & Beyond

Cameo @ GRIMETIME – Foto: © Voco Me!

Grime geht ins Theater! Im Rahmen der Reihe „Beyond Belonging – Migration“ veranstalten die GRIMETIME-Macher im „Hebbel am Ufer (HAU)“ einen Showcase mit Resident-DJ Cameo und den MC s Purple (der auf der gerade erschienenen Mix-CD „Eye Of The Tiger Vol. 1“ gefeatured wird), L-Man (N Double A) und Rugrat (Musical Mob). Lokaler Support kommt u.a. von Jahcoozi (Kitty Yo), Quio (AGF/Undergound Essentials) und G-Serve (Twen FM/Underground Essentials). Hingehen!

Grime & Beyond/GRIMETIME London–Berlin

plus dj’s
G-SERVE (Twen FM/Underground Essentials)
GAUCHO (Broken Bootlegs)

Add comment Januar 5th, 2006