MLD + ATD x Twitter = NUMBER 1!
June 2, 2010 – 4:08 pm | No Comment

Yes I know, enough Akira The Don already, but stick with me, this is just a brief post in honour of Music Like Dirt’s walk on part in securing Hackneys favourite bleach blonde his first …

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STOP ME’s: Top 100 Tracks Of 2009
February 11, 2010 – 9:15 am | No Comment
STOP ME’s: Top 100 Tracks Of 2009

Ryan (StopMe): Okay so it’s mid February and at least a month late but I’ve finally finished my Top 100 Tracks Of 2009 (Read 2008, 2007, 2006 and 2005 here). I’ve not posted much here …

Inbox Blues Pt.2
February 8, 2010 – 1:46 pm | No Comment
Inbox Blues Pt.2

Yesterdays first attempt at breaking the back of my overflowing inbox went fairly well I thought… 450 emails read and errr 5 tracks posted!  It’s honestly not that I get sent a lot of terrible …

Inbox Blues Pt.1
February 6, 2010 – 2:35 pm | One Comment
Inbox Blues Pt.1

Ping… another email arrives and the count of unread messages ticks over the 1,000 mark.  You’ll never hear me complain about being sent music by either email or post but keeping on top of it, …

Top 200 tracks of 2009 (Music Like Dirt)
January 25, 2010 – 2:20 pm | 17 Comments
Top 200 tracks of 2009 (Music Like Dirt)

The Music Like Dirt top tracks of the year list returns for a fifth edition and once again falls short of being the most comprehensive, the most knowledgeable or the most bleedin’ edge. It is …

We didnt invent the remix…
December 22, 2009 – 11:44 pm | 4 Comments
We didnt invent the remix…

But neither did Puff Daddy, and as a music blogger (even one who’s been missing for a couple of months) my hard drive is stuffed to bursting with ‘versions‘.
For decades record companies have used remixes …

Scroobius Pip’s Spoken Word Furious Seven
October 8, 2009 – 1:37 pm | 4 Comments
Scroobius Pip’s Spoken Word Furious Seven

Currently hard at work on the follow up to the debut Le Sac vc. Pip album “Angles“, Scroobius Pip has taken time out to share some of his Spoken Word favourites.
Most of the seven are …

Kid Koala Presents The Slew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 2, 2009 – 8:18 pm | 4 Comments
Kid Koala Presents The Slew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That’s right 18 exclamation marks, a bakers dozen of Mr Timothy Westwood’s explosions and I still don’t feel I’m over-egging the excitement of discovering Kid Koala’s long awaited “The Slew” LP – A: exists and …

The Verb with Orbit, PolarBear and Thewlis
July 12, 2009 – 11:16 am | No Comment
The Verb with Orbit, PolarBear and Thewlis

Friday evening in the bowels of Broadcasting House and the 300 strong audience are calling out in unison as if the xmas panto had been transferred to the Radio Theatre.
“Ian, Its the last Verb of …

London bombings anniversary
July 7, 2009 – 2:13 pm | 9 Comments
London bombings anniversary

The multi talented Riz MC, rapper and star of one of 2009’s finest films “Shifty”, just posted a new video to “Sour Times“. The track seems appropriate on the 4th anniversary of the London suicide …