tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-357175712011-09-23T15:56:11.399ZHip-Hop - Yorkshire, UK, WorldwideAnaloguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271737605309181240noreply@blogger.comBlogger279125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35717571.post-29477145201546546692010-08-13T20:57:00.003Z2010-08-13T21:15:45.050Z2010-08-13T21:15:45.050Z

So yeah, it's been a long while. I am clearly not really on it with the blogging.In somewhat-out-of-date CD release news, "Burning Down The Guest House" (featuring my good self) is out and Certified Banger has shown some love. There's a link to a free download on there as well.Otherwise though, the reason I've dipped back on to Blogspot is related to a conversation I just had with Leeds

Analoguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271737605309181240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35717571.post-46117382689244879332010-06-13T21:10:00.005Z2010-06-16T19:45:04.447Z2010-06-16T19:45:04.447Z

Less than two weeks now until the EP launch night for MC Guest House's solo project, away from regular crew Blessed House. Cuts on the album are entirely by yours truly (DJ Analogue) and production is predominantly by Seizure (Burning Studios) with one track by Pro P.The launch show at the Elbow Room, Leeds will feature G. House, myself, Seizure and vocalist Tash Williams, with some other

Analoguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271737605309181240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35717571.post-37018648274801736322010-06-13T20:57:00.002Z2010-06-13T21:05:31.334Z2010-06-13T21:05:31.334Z

Further West Yorks grimy grittiness from the Defenders of Style camp, this time with the focus firmly on Slac B AKA Jack Danz, a primary beatmaker for the crew and one of the four MCs who make up DS. Matter and (fellow Defender...) Prys from Verbal Contact also feature.It's available for free download here.I'm only about halfway through the release so far - Jack put the link up on Facebook

Analoguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271737605309181240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35717571.post-6104192383237752982010-06-03T21:32:00.008Z2011-08-07T13:10:35.621Z2011-08-07T13:10:35.621Z

So anyway...As some of you may be aware, there's a relaunch in the offing for Traffic Magazine, with a brand spanking new website design, etc. However, to get to the promised land, one does have to spend a bit of time out in the desert (metaphorically speaking).Which is to say, over the summer Traffic magazine will not be online and we will not be working on any new written content. As of the

Analoguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271737605309181240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35717571.post-87960520286593411972010-06-03T20:47:00.003Z2010-06-03T21:10:43.531Z2010-06-03T21:10:43.531Z

Evening allI've been on a photo shoot this afternoon in Golden Acre Park in the glorious sunshine... most enjoyable music-related thing I've done in ages. Thanks to my main man with the Traffic magazine crew Ben Sage for exercising his skills behind a camera as well as he does the whole mic thing (Golden Mic, what up?).The pictures are going to be used to promote an EP I've been involved with,

Analoguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271737605309181240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35717571.post-35428383931384345672010-05-17T22:54:00.002Z2010-05-17T22:58:44.311Z2010-05-17T22:58:44.311Z

Late night posting here... I should really be asleep by now. Work in the morning and all that jazz.However, before I get some zeds, I will take a second to mention that Huddersfield-based soul-rap (etc) band Extra Curricular - who I recently interviewed for Traffic Magazine - have a rather flash new website up here.Check it out.

Analoguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271737605309181240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35717571.post-15794443509898926362010-05-11T20:22:00.003Z2010-05-11T20:27:37.641Z2010-05-11T20:27:37.641Z

A nice little mixtape here from Yorkshire heads Illas & Heritage - loads of underground US stuff with a few UK bits from MCs within their extended crew (Jack Flash & the Groundwurq boys). It's on free download so I can't see any sensible reason for not getting a copy lodged in your MP3 player ASAP.

Analoguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271737605309181240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35717571.post-82338130094186911612010-05-10T22:36:00.004Z2010-05-10T22:50:34.244Z2010-05-10T22:50:34.244Z

Another quick(ish) post.Thanks to Snafu for having me, Guest House and Jay/ Seizure from Burning Studios on the last ever How We Do show to go out on Leeds Student Radio, which was on between 6 and 7pm last night.I gather that the show will be continuing on Radio Frequency, a local unlicensed ("pirate") station currently putting in a crucial bid to gain a legal broadcast licence. You can check

Analoguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271737605309181240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35717571.post-31285246061086458392010-05-10T22:22:00.003Z2010-05-10T22:35:22.023Z2010-05-10T22:35:22.023Z

It's late and I have work in the morning. However, certain things require blogging about.This Saturday was the Golden Mic final in Leeds. Hotly anticipated is not the word... every MC I've run into in the last couple of weeks has talked about nothing else.I haven't got time to review it in great detail but suffice to say I thought the order of results was spot on.The well-deserved winner was

Analoguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271737605309181240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35717571.post-82676844527918512592010-05-06T17:31:00.002Z2010-05-06T17:36:53.766Z2010-05-06T17:36:53.766Z

...plus a kind of mini live review also featuring The Mouse Outfit.It's all right here.Loads of good photos as well - thanks as ever to Ben Sage for those. Don't forget to check him out this Saturday at the Golden Mic final.

Analoguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271737605309181240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35717571.post-11249045501186118202010-05-05T17:45:00.002Z2010-05-05T17:48:39.173Z2010-05-05T17:48:39.173Z

An amusing little beat-jacking thing here from Chima Anya.I'm (slowly) starting to see what Aidan sees in the guy.

Analoguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271737605309181240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35717571.post-76434952580653979882010-05-02T18:06:00.001Z2010-05-02T18:08:06.476Z2010-05-02T18:08:06.476Z

Okay one more thing... you'll thank me for this one:

Analoguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271737605309181240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35717571.post-50646238307674206012010-05-02T16:51:00.002Z2010-05-02T17:04:30.174Z2010-05-02T17:04:30.174Z

Final post of the day and yep, as per the overly lengthy title to this post, I'll be on Leeds Student Radio next weekend to promote the forthcoming solo EP by Guest House of Blessed House, "Burning Down The Guest House".The majority of the production on this epic release is by Seizure from Burning Studios and I feature doing scratches on three of the five tracks.All three of us will be in the

Analoguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271737605309181240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35717571.post-19393466110070509652010-05-02T16:24:00.003Z2010-05-02T16:51:27.069Z2010-05-02T16:51:27.069Z

Another quick'un...I interviewed up-and-coming Huddersfield Hip-Hop/ Soul band Extra Curricular at their Leeds gig on 17th April.I've been a bit slack writing it up over the last couple of weeks but I'm going to try and get it nailed today. There should hopefully be an interview plus some words on the live set (including an appearance by Manchester breaks band Mouse Outfit) up at TrafficMag.Org

Analoguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271737605309181240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35717571.post-12417106598810747572010-05-02T16:06:00.003Z2010-05-02T16:24:14.313Z2010-05-02T16:24:14.313Z

Easy allThe first here in a quick series of update posts after a couple of weeks off from the blogging...Ben Echo, who is down with Fresh Jive crew and plays regularly at the Elbow Room in Leeds, has been putting together a few mixes recently. You can check most of these out on his Soundcloud account.My favourite is definitely the "Mini Megamix" he's put together using various well-known Hip-Hop

Analoguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271737605309181240noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35717571.post-59853770965054884022010-04-20T19:04:00.008Z2010-04-25T16:19:22.049Z2010-04-25T16:19:22.049Z

So barely have I finished posting a link to Guru's latest mixtape (well, less than 48 hours anyway...) when my newsfeed on Facebook starts to fill up with shouts out to the dearly departed.I had vaguely heard that he was unwell but hadn't really followed up on it - to be absolutely honest I've always been a much bigger fan of DJ Premier than of his former lead MC - but this certainly represents

Analoguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271737605309181240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35717571.post-20012987404152955462010-04-19T18:28:00.005Z2010-04-19T18:47:38.531Z2010-04-19T18:47:38.531Z

For those who missed it, myself and producer Seizure of Burning Studios ripped it up big-time at Get Down! last Wednesday. I did a bit of DJing early on, then we went into a prepared 30-minute joint set and later on, by popular demand, we pulled together an impromptu up-tempo session with Seizure playing some breaks tunes and me cutting it up in a thoroughly full-on fashion.All in all, it was

Analoguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271737605309181240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35717571.post-64893909589863207392010-04-18T17:08:00.003Z2010-04-18T17:19:18.411Z2010-04-18T17:19:18.411Z

I've got a couple of proper updates coming up but in the meantime I thought I might as well post up a link to the latest installment of Gang Starr frontman Guru's long-ongoing Jazzmatazz project, a mixtape entitled "The Timebomb: Back To The Future".It's not in any way particularly groundbreaking, being based I think largely around reinterpretations of classic tracks and breaks, plus some new

Analoguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271737605309181240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35717571.post-37684890188755420952010-04-15T22:47:00.002Z2010-04-15T23:12:14.446Z2010-04-15T23:12:14.446Z

I've just been checking out the video for the B-side of one of the better singles from the latter part of the original Rawkus Records "Golden Era" in 2002. The track is "Imagine" by Skillz, which was released on the flip of the "Suzy Q" 12".Given the nature of the narrative to this track, I'm going to strongly advise anyone who hasn't heard it before to listen to the track first and I'll then

Analoguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271737605309181240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35717571.post-44100371803969622132010-04-12T21:18:00.003Z2010-04-12T21:25:07.170Z2010-04-12T21:25:07.170Z

I can't believe I haven't blogged this until now!Following on from my set a couple of weeks back, I'll be returning to Northern Monkey this Wednesday (14th April) for a seriously dope live performance with electronic producer Seizure of Burning Studios.Seizure is responsible for all the beats on Guest House's forthcoming CD which I have ended up doing all the cuts for. However we've also decided

Analoguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271737605309181240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35717571.post-58186759149112262422010-04-11T15:13:00.004Z2010-04-11T16:11:25.383Z2010-04-11T16:11:25.383Z

Last night was the second round of the Golden Mic Challenge in Leeds.On my way down, I stopped briefly at the Elbow Room to check out The Heaviside, whose EP I reviewed recently here. The small part of their set which I did catch was promising but I would say not yet as fully realised as they will hopefully become in future. In particularly, I think the (relatively) unusual task of matching

Analoguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271737605309181240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35717571.post-61713966654970403042010-03-28T20:50:00.002Z2010-03-28T21:10:00.026Z2010-03-28T21:10:00.026Z

It's been a hectic last week or so, so this is really just a quick post to tie off some loose ends and mention some things that need mentioning.Firstly and foremostly, I have a new mix up on the Sturban Clothing website. It features a whole range of Hip-Hop, Funk, Soul and Drum & Bass all chopped, scratched and blended together in the usual style. I'm personally really pleased with it so do

Analoguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271737605309181240noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35717571.post-43995741064863826552010-03-19T16:03:00.003Z2010-03-19T16:08:35.293Z2010-03-19T16:08:35.293Z

Aidan of Certified Banger has an interesting interview with ex-Lowlife spitter Mystro here.He has also done us another review for Traffic magazine, following up his previous words on Ty's "Emotions" single with some analysis of the whole album "Special Kind Of Fool". You can find it right here.

Analoguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271737605309181240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35717571.post-3572196682575975332010-03-14T16:09:00.004Z2010-03-14T21:42:55.418Z2010-03-14T21:42:55.418Z

One final, very important thing before I stop blogging for the day.I previously mentioned new Leeds-based night "Get Down!" and that I might have a DJ set coming up there.This has now been confirmed for March 24th. It will be a mixed Hip-Hop/ Soul set - entry is free and there are cheap drinks on offer. More details are available here.Please come down and check it out if you're free on the

Analoguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271737605309181240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35717571.post-52732317679427866882010-03-14T14:52:00.005Z2010-03-14T15:38:36.884Z2010-03-14T15:38:36.884Z

Having knocked out a couple of short posts already today, I thought I'd better also do a more general wrap-up piece to catch myself up on the happenings this week.First of all, Gift of Gab hit Mine at Leeds University on Tuesday night to play a set for Fresh Jive. Gab's set featured as much of the old tongue-twisting, fast-flowing business as one might expect and was entertaining enough, if a

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