RIP Gil Scott Heron

The world really lost a true innovator and great artist last Friday.

Jehst's new material.

So today I was fortunate enough to have seen Jehst and Micall Parknsun perform live by them with their DJ Jazz T in a small shop on North Hill in Plymouth.

The three of them had played a show in Penzance last night and had originally intended just to stop off to visit all the Top Billin crew here as they passed through Plymouth today en route to the next show up in Yorkshire but instead a mini show was set up to give all us all in Plymouth a chance to hear some new material.

This took place in a clothes store called Dappa Me (also serves coffee, food and alcoholic drinks etc. and does have live djs in store regularly) with an audience of about 15 people including me.

Now at this point I had intended to upload a rough recording of a couple tracks I took. However the sound quality is really rough as hell and there also will be a full from the desk recording being broadcast on http://urbankings.fm/ pretty soon.

So really all I can say is...

It was fucking great, Jehst and Micall were both on point live and this new material is sounding incredible.The focus was on previewing tracks from Jehst's new album entitled "The Dragon Of An Average Family" and from what they played it sounds like it will be exactly what any Jehst fans would be hoping to hear from him both lyrically and beat wise.

He started off the set with "Starting Over" which recently stirred up some debate on the internet when fake videos of him working as a postman had surfaced before the full video was released. The other tracks he performed from the album brought back both some of his more abstract sounds with vivid imagery based lyrics and also some more straight up heavy hip hop sounds too before polishing the show off with a track from Micall Parknsun and a freestyle from the both of them.

So, if you couple this performance with the tracks appearing on youtube and the preview clips on suspect packages and I think that I can safely say that Jehst is back again and all of you should watch out for this new record (there's even another track on it where he samples prog rock legends Yes again...)

Check some preview clips (which annoyingly I can't get to work so you gotta just copy and paste, sorry)...

http://www.suspect-packages.com/misc/preview.php?type=mp3&f=/assets/albums/mp3_preview/jehst_-_killer_instinct.mp3

http://www.suspect-packages.com/misc/preview.php?type=mp3&f=/assets/albums/mp3_preview/jehst_-_zombies.mp3

http://www.suspect-packages.com/misc/preview.php?type=mp3&f=/assets/albums/mp3_preview/jehst_-_thinking_crazy.mp3

http://www.suspect-packages.com/misc/preview.php?type=mp3&f=/assets/albums/mp3_preview/jehst_-_starting_over.mp3

http://www.suspect-packages.com/misc/preview.php?type=mp3&f=/assets/albums/mp3_preview/jehst_-_the_illest.mp3

http://www.suspect-packages.com/misc/preview.php?type=mp3&f=/assets/albums/mp3_preview/jehst_-_sounds_like_money.mp3

http://www.suspect-packages.com/misc/preview.php?type=mp3&f=/assets/albums/mp3_preview/jehst_-_back_to_the_drawing_board.mp3

http://www.suspect-packages.com/misc/preview.php?type=mp3&f=/assets/albums/mp3_preview/jehst_-_tears_in_the_rain.mp3

and check the youtube



Jehst also announced during an interview after the show that he shall be performing with a live band for his show at outlook festival in September and Micall Parknsun shall be releasing a new album entitled "Me, Myself and Akai" in the relatively near future.

Micall himself said on the subject of the record that he had a number of tracks finished and that the lyrical content shall be on a much deeper level of thought than on his previous releases. He claimed that it's not just going to be all "I'm a rapper, I smoke weed and also have kids" like he feels his previous material largely was and that it was also going to be entirely produced by him (in his kitchen too apparently...)

I can't sleep

So I'm listening to this instead. Hope you enjoy

J-Zone Is One Of The Most Underrated Hip Hop Producers.

I know a lot of people know his shit already but honestly I think he's one of the all time greats as far as hip hop producers go.

Not really much I can say to back this up so just have a listen to these intrumentals.

Godfrey Ho filmed scenes with white actors and pasted them into unfinished hong kong movies

and ninjas did have the word ninja written on their heads.

The Deep End Of Devon

A new mix from dj and head honcho of Exeter's Deep End night Mystery. This is a great mix consisting entirely of music by Devon based producers (most of which being from Exeter in fact) spanning a number of styles and genres including UK Funky, Garage, Dubstep and Grime.

This really is a testament to some of the musical talent south west has to offer and I'm posting it for this reason entirely (I'm not being some nob who's just spamming their mate's music).

Mystery - The Deep End of Devon by MysteryDubstep

Tracklisting:

1. Pulsar - Watershed (Dub)
2. Illogik - About Now (Dub)
3. Corticyte - Transistor Rhythm (Dub)
4. Dutty Dan - Irie Badbwoy (Dub)
5. Corticyte - Havana (Dub)
6. Bridge & MTD - Old Testement (Dub)
7. Corticyte - Holographic Principle (Dub)
8. Corticyte - Instance (Dub)
9. Systemik - Subscript (Dub)
10. Bridge - Reflekt (Corticyte Remix) (NE RecordS)
11. Pulsar - Honesty (Dub)
12. Corticyte - Serotonin (Dub)
13. Systemik - By myself without you (Dub)
14. Salt Uh feat. Levi French - Beauty & the bass (forthcoming 1st Bass Records)
15. Pulsar - Signs of life (Dub)
16. Illogik - Prophecy (Dub)
17. Dutty Dan - Bombs over Gaza (Dub)
18. Illogik - Liberty (Tease) (Crazy Rabbit Recordings)
19. Illogik - Shake Dat (Dub)
20. Dutty Dan - That Somebody (Dub)
21. Illogik - Glock (Dub)
22. Ollie 303 - Army of Ghosts (Dub)
23. Systemik - Warriors (Dub)
24. Bridge - Secret Assasin (Genoc1de Remix) (NE RecordS)
25. You Let Them Catch Up - Targets (Dub)
26. You let them catch up - Groke (Dub)
27. Pulsar - Dredstep (Tease) (Dub)
28. Magic Mash - Daddy Long Legs (Veri Lo Digital UK)
29. Ollie 303 - Guerilla Warfare (Dub)
30. Illogik - Alone (Dub)
31. Bridge Tri Hard (Dub)
32. Illogik & Nutkaze - Axis (Crazy Rabbit)
33. Dephicit - Concrete jungle (Dub)
34. If/Then - DJ Murderer (Dub)
35. Fissure Price - Lusus Naturae (Dub)
36. Dephicit - Extraction (Dub)
37. Pulsar - Mind Control (Dub)
38. Dutty Dan - Raw (feat LG & Reeps) (Dub)
39. Pulsar - Branded (Dub)
40. Bad Signs Productions - Are you mental? (Dub)
41. First Aid & Pulsar - Transformer Van (Dub)
42. Salt Uh - Saltstep (Dub)
43. MIK (Pulsar remix) - Duppy & Leave (Dub)
44. Rogue State & Dutty Dan - Killer Peking Duck (R8 Records Dub)
45. Fissure Price - Truffle Shuffle (Crazy Rabbit)
46. Dutty Dan - Boomshrine (Dub)
47. Pulsar - Fuck Robocop (Corticyte Remix) (Dub)
48. Dutty Dan - Happy Skank (R8 Records)
49. Vermin - Boombox (Dub)
50. You Let them catch up - Meiso (Dub)
51. Dephicit - Sequence (Dub)

If you're from the south west yourself the next Deep End night is going to be a special one in Rougemont in Exeter with Antisocial Entertainment's Jay 5ive and G Double headlining.

Here's a link to some info about that.

http://www.southwestunderground.net/events/index/events_schedule/467/

You listen to Fela Kuti right?

If so, enjoy this

If not, what the fuck are you doing?

Here's an hour of live footage