[My] dj mix of dub-pon-dub riddim excursions, all in a grime / dubstep friendly 140bpm format. In a way it presaged the remix album that’s forthcoming on Keysound, where I remixed the whole of the Blackdown and Dusk album and mixed it together.

Get The Grievous Angel Mix Here

Cashmere Agency Presents Mr. Grustle & Tha Russian’s Dubstep LA: Embrace The Renaissance Vol. 1 which is mixed by Plastician, features famed Dubstep producers Benga, 12th Planet and Caspa alongside Hip-Hop stars like Murs, Grouch and Eligh, Grand Puba, Ras Kass and Eve. It also features Snoop Dogg’s Chase & Status produced “Snoop Dogg Millionaire, ” Xzbit’s “So What” Featuring U-N-I, and Murs’ “Mad House,” which recently leaked to the web.

Get The Cashmere/Plastician Dubstep Mix Here

DJ AM Found Dead in New York.

The beloved mix master is heavily featured in the upcoming video game DJ Hero. DJ AM created 80+ exclusive mixes for the game and took the prototype for a spin. What did he mix? He told the L.A. Times:

“The first mix I played was Eminem and AC/DC, and it completely fit.”

He seemed pretty stoked about the versatility of the game, comparing it to his own style of mixing:

“No genre is sacred in this game, which is the bravest, most exciting, fun thing about it. That’s how I’ve always treated my deejaying. I will play anything. I go from the Jackson 5 to the Wu-Tang Clan to George Michael, and I make it work. … The major point is that you’re marrying two songs you wouldn’t think of—and it works.”

And make it work he would. The due was SI-I-I-I-ICK on the wheels of steel:

Not to mention, he’d already faced death and walked away when the lear jet he and Travis Barker were traveling in made a noise then crashed and burned!! [Check the wreckage right here]

More DJ AM Links:

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MINISTRY’S THE LAST DUBBER AVAILABLE SEPT. 15

Remix album of final Ministry release (The Last Sucker) coming

from Al Jourgensen’s 13th Planet Records

Aug. 4, 2009 (El Paso, Texas) – Ministry, arguably the most influential industrial band to date, punctuated the close of their 30 year recording career with 2007’s The Last Sucker. Now comes the remix album, The Last Dubber, an appropriately beguiling album that dabbles in both trance and metal.

The Last Sucker was greeted with a chorus of glowing reviews including Pitchfork proclaiming it “Ministry’s most exciting record since Psalm 69,” and Spin said Jourgensen “can still pile on the jackhammer beats and clever samples.” Following the album’s release Jourgensen and company embarked on the C U LaTour, which wrapped around the globe with sold out shows at each stop and is documented in the recently released Adios… Puta Madres DVD/CD.

The Last Dubber track listing is:

1. Let’s Go (La Fin Du Monde Mix)

2. Watch Yourself (The Clocks Strike Thirteen Mix)

3. Life is Good (Neuroplasticity Mix)

4. The Dick Song (Straight Outta Lincoln Mix)

5. The Last Sucker (Icke Mix)

6. No Glory (Sandpaper Condom Mix)

7. Death & Destruction (A Vote of Non-Confidence Mix)

8. Die In A Crash (Point of Impact Mix)

9. End Of Days Part 1 (One Less Sparrow Mix)

10. End Of Days Part 2 (Extreme Mayan Makeover Mix)

11. Let’s Go (Dawn of Oblivion Mix)

12. The Last Sucker (Hardware Revamp Mix)

All tracks remixed by Clayton Workbeck of RevCo with the exception of “Let’s Go (Dawn of Oblivion Mix)” by John Bechdel (Killing Joke, Ministry, False Icons) and “The Last Sucker (Hardware Revamp Mix)” by DJ Hardware….

The Last Dubber is the fourth in a series of remix records from Jourgensen’s 13th Planet Records. The previous albums being: Prong’s Power of Damn MiXXXer, RevCo’s Cocktail MiXXX, Ministry’s Rio Grande Dubya and RevCo’s Sex-O MiXXX-O (which is set for a Sept. 29 release).

via Ministry announces The Last Dubber – Ministry’s MySpace Blog .

Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc. from Chris Cairns on Vimeo.

This one’s for my dad.

Neurosonics Audiomedical Laboratory footage.

Visit www.neurosonicsaudiomedical.com for more info and credits.

Kingdom of the unreal but also a higher state of being, ultimately free of the limitations of the material world through the agency of science, technology, and imagination.

Killer Mike Interviews MC Lyte Part 1 from Urban News Network on Vimeo.

Hard to find a better role model for the ladies to learn from – then or now. BIG UP Killer Mike for being so direct and honest with Lyte about her positive influence. A tuff gyal like she is needed in this game now more than ever. Keep blazin MC Lyte!! Ya voice not too ruff, too gruff – I think it’s sexy…

Check it out:

Direct Link to “Three” on Penny-Ante website

DIY publishing house, Penny-Ante has compiled what will be their third anthology, dubbed a “Mag/Book” by readers, properly titled Three, which will hit streets September 15.

Three marks Penny-Ante’s largest issue yet, 320 pages (with no advertisements), with over 80 contributors ranging from New York-based artist TERENCE KOH to prolific lo-fi artist JAD FAIR (HALF JAPANESE) to garage’s godfather SEAN BONNIWELL (of 60s garage band, THE MUSIC MACHINE). A portion of book sales will be given to Chicago-based nonprofit ARTS OF LIFE, which provides art and music programs for adults with developmental disorders.

Compiling indie icons into one forum, Three’s pages feature personal art, photographs, and written submissions from the likes of Robert Pollard (GUIDED BY VOICES), Thurston Moore (SONIC YOUTH), UK’s garage god BILLY CHILDISH (Damaged Goods), New Zealand’s CHRIS KNOX (Tall Dwarfs, The Enemy, Toy Love, The Nothing), Roger Miller (MISSION OF BURMA), Martin Phillipps (THE CHILLS), Bettina Koster (from 80s German post-punk band, MALARIA!), Kill Rock Star’s riot grrrl Allison Wolfe (BRATMOBILE, PARTYLINE), influential acid-rocker Helios Creed (CHROME), Rob Roberge (of the significant art-punk band URINALS), 4-track forefather Martin Newell (CLEANERS FROM VENUS), Mick Farren (of the 60s proto-punk band THE DEVIANTS), psychedelic electronic artist Simeon Coxe of SILVER APPLES, artist Jill Emery (previously of HOLE, MAZZY STAR), New York photographer Mark C (of 80s no wave band LIVE SKULL), and many more.

Also featured:

JIM SMITH (union organizer by day, and owner of Los Angeles all-ages venue THE SMELL by night) interviews inspiring DIY force and singer/songwriter BILLY BRAGG.

Others interviewed: IAN MACKAYE (Dischord Records, Fugazi, Minor Threat), ROBERT POLLARD, John Whitson from label HOLY MOUNTAIN, music director @ WFMU: Brian Turner, George Parsons (head of DREAM MAGAZINE), Caleb Braaten: owner and operator of New York’s SACRED BONES RECORDS (BLANK DOGS, PINK NOISE, FACTUMS), New York-based artist MAYA HAYUK, Los Angeles-based performance/artist DAWN KASPER, and more.

Paired with such indie veterans are music leaders from today’s generation: Cassie Ramone (New York’s VIVIAN GIRLS), Joe DeNardo (GROWING – Social Registry), Matt Valentine (MV/EE – Ecstatic Peace Records & Tapes), John Dwyer (San Francisco’s THEE OH SEES), In The Red Records newcomers TV GHOST, Portland’s Honey Owens (VALET – Kranky), Phil Elverum (MICROPHONES, MT EERIE – K Records), Finland experimental rockers CIRCLE, Matt Maust (COLD WAR KIDS), Stephen McCarty (DEAD MEADOW – Matador Records), Sumi Ink Club (aka LUCKY DRAGONS), Wynne Greenwood (TRACY+THE PLASTICS), ROBEDOOR (Not Not Fun), ex-Phantom Limbs frontman Loto Ball (now of Chicago’s LOTO BALL SHOW), POCAHAUNTED (Not Not Fun), ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO (OLD TIME RELIJUN – K Records), Australia’s dark rockers NAKED ON THE VAGUE and much more.

Penny-Ante also “ups the ante” in the art and lit department in issue Three bringing in well-respected New York-based artists TERENCE KOH (Peres Projects), Ukranian American artist MAYA HAYUK, Swedish artist HANNA LIDEN, and MATHEW CERLETTY. From Chicago, Gregory Jacobsen (also from LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS), Los Angeles’ Julian Hoeber (Blum & Poe), Dawn Kasper (Circus Gallery), Jed Ochmanek and Portland’s Liz Haley.

Writers include the well-loved BETT WILLIAMS (Out Magazine, Flaunt Magazine, St. Martin’s Press), novelist and short story writer LARRY FONDATION (Fictional International, Harvard Business Review, Raw Dog Screaming Press), and ANDREW POGANY (poet and editor-in-chief at Flaunt Magazine) + many more.

COMPLIMENTARY CD INFO

FEATURES MUSIC BY:

JAD FAIR, ROBERT POLLARD, BILLY CHILDISH, CHRIS KNOX (THE NOTHING), ROGER MILLER, GROWING, BETTINA KOSTER, INT’L SHADES, NAKED ON THE VAGUE, ROBEDOOR, LUCKY DRAGONS, LOTO BALL SHOW, TV GHOST, PHIL ELVERUM, ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO, WARMER MILKS and ADAM PAYNE.

PLUS:

– Unreleased track from CROCK, the brand new music project from Book #2 contributor Sam Coomes (QUASI) & Spencer Seim of HELLA.
– Music from artist Maya Hayuk’s project with Andrew Deutsch, OPEN ARMS
– An unreleased track from PHIL ELVERUM paying tribute to OLD TIME RELIJUN
– An unreleased track from Book #2 contributors and guest editors to Three, THE MOON UPSTAIRS
– From the archives, a previously unreleased track from THE CHILLS, “Find Your Own Way Home”

PREORDERS FOR THREE AVAILABLE NOW: http://www.penny-ante.net (and will ship as early as August 15th). Three is a limited edition (2000) squarebound soft cover BOOK that will ship with a complimentary CD featuring music by contributors (Robert Pollard, The Chills, Billy Childish, Jad Fair, Chris Knox + more), plus a rather large poster for a wall’s enjoyment.

DIRECT LINK: http://www.penny-ante.net/three.html

Police (CCN) interrogated Ballentine, then charged him with the murder of Ricardo Johnson aka “Ricky Trouper” (not Trooper the soundclash deejay), plus conspiracy to murder and illegal possession of a firearm. Members of the MITask Force are still looking for the 2 other men Ballentine allegedly conspired with.

In 1999, Ballentine was charged with unlawful firearm possession and spent a year in jail.

Ninjaman is notorious for gun-related dancehall and soundclash tunes like “Murda Dem” and “My Weapon” but in the last few years he’s presented himself as The Preacher. According to his my$pace bio:

In 1997, Ninjaman re-invented himself as a born-again Christian under the name Brother Desmond, and enjoyed a brief stint as a Gospel Dancehall performer, before returning to his ragga Dancehall roots.

Dressed in white from head to toe, he told fans that he had put down the guns in order to promote peace under the One Umbrella Movement. BIG words coming from one of the most lethal sound killers Jamaica has ever produced! Ninjaman’s words once had the power to shut down competing soundsystems with tunes like:

“Permit to bury and a license to kill” (Permit To Bury)
“Nobody Buss Gun Like Me”

And lines like these from “Bad Man”:

What ya think all my guns are for?
.45 in control just to explode on a bwoy soul
Times changing, things rearranging, more guns bussing
More man dying from back in the days of pure mass murdering….

Of course, being the baddest of the bad man inna dance doesn’t mean a deejay carries the violence out into the streets. Ninjaman can kill a sound with ease (and mad mad mad mad style), but only as long as Desmond Ballentine stays outta trouble!

As a MAJOR fan of Ninjaman, I’m hoping he’s innocent. But, if he winds up in The Tower, I’ll probably ask the lovely and talented DJ Ripley if she can hook us up with an interview or visiting pass. She’s inna di area now, “conducting dissertation research into Jamaican creative musical practice as it applies (or doesn’t apply) to copyright law” as 1 friend succinctly described it… This gal rules on so many levels, yuh dun know! I think she worked with the prison directly last year, or hopes to this year. I’ll ask her for more info, but in the meantime, read more here:

DJ Ripley blogs about sampling, copyright, intellectual rights, reggae, jungle, breakcore and more