Speaker, DJ, Author
I’m very happy to confirm that I’ll be back on the radio from early March, starting a new show on a brand new station, OX4 FM. I’ll be on Saturdays 6-8pm, with a show called The Sound Of Now – adventurous new music from across the genres, (NO garbage electro-pop!) with a few revivals thrown in. Right where I want to be! The station goes live on 27th February on 105.1 in Oxford, and everywhere else here.
This is honestly the best music I’ve heard in months, if not years. So, so good. This 16-track E.P (so actually more of an album,) from 23-year-old East London newcomer AL has her singing classily over a sublime selection of archive beats from the legendary J Dilla, and with strong rap cameos from Stutta, Mercston and Bruts . As its ‘laid back’ title suggests, it’s organic, neo-soul style the whole way. Absolutely cracking, and very highly recommended. You can get the official Bandcamp download here.
Why do only an increasingly small handful of artists ever seem to really ‘make it’ in the music game? What’s with all the never-ending covering of one eye in all the videos? Why the insistence on rappers having so many pseudonyms? And why is the robotic vocal programme Autotune still being mercilessly rolled out despite everyone you speak to saying they hate it?
In the first of a new series of podcasts for 2012, Mark Devlin talks to world famous author and public speaker David Icke about the agenda being employed in the music industry as one of many, many facets of the global control system. As more and more people awaken to new levels of human consciousness, the controllers are getting ever more desperate to suppress the movement. The music game – and particularly what passes for ‘hip hop’ and ‘R&B’ – is now a much-favoured method of subliminal manipulation.
With names such as Jay-Z, Lady Gaga and Britney Spears being specifically addressed, this will be controversial, and will doubtless upset a few. But the truth will always be the truth, and it’s time certain things were said.
Enjoy the ride.
I know I’m late on this, but just got my copy of former Bad Boy Records recording artist Mark Curry’s book ‘Dancing With The Devil: How Puff Burned The Bad Boys of Hip Hop’. It exposes the various fuckeries of Sean ‘P Diddy’ Combs, and looks at the ultimate fate of the various artists that have worked for him, from Craig Mack, (broke, drugs, obscurity), to Shyne (8 years in jail) to Biggie (dead.) Puffy is DARK! But cause and effect/ Karma is a bitch.
Wrapping up the year with the heaviest underground hip-hop and associated genres from the last three months – another oasis of musical creativity in an ocean of mainstream pap!
Just Buggin Quarter 4 2011 by Mark Devlin
MOKA ONLY & CHIEF: CRICKETS
EVIDENCE: THE EPILOGUE
MURS: EPIC SALUTATIONS
LARGE PROFESSOR: KEY TO THE CITY (MAD SCIENTIST REMIX)
ONYX: IF THE HOOD WAS MINE
KONCEPT & TRANSFORMER: HIGH
EVIDENCE, FASHAWN & JERREAU: AMSTERDAM
NIGO FEAT. RAKIM: ONCE UPON A RHYME IN JAPAN
STREET BEAT OF THE QUARTER: TORAE: THAT RAW
KURUPT FEAT. MURS & UNCLE CHUCC: THIS IS YOUR DAY
NATTY: JJ (DON’T GO)
HEATHER VICTORIA FEAT. HALO: WHAT I NEED
RAPSODY: FOR EVERYTHING
9TH WONDER FEAT. MARSHA AMBROSIUS: PEANUT BUTTER & JELLY
WRIGGLY SCOTT: BRAINCHILD
THE PROFORMS: GET READY
DTMD: MAKIN’ DOLLARS
MAGESTIK LEGEND FEAT. FES ROC & AUDIBLE DOCTOR: FEEL WHAT I FEEL
LORD FINESSE: YOU KNOW WHAT I’M ABOUT (REMIX)
SHOWBIZ & A:G: SHOW & A
BUMPY KNUCKLES: FAKE
HEAVY D & THE BOYS: DON’T CURSE (1991)
So now it’s a big happy birthday to Akilah – one year old today! Zaina got Stevie Wonder the other week, so this one’s dedicated to Akilah. (Altered Images were one of the great pop bands of the early 80s, and singer Clare Grogan was a real cutie!)
Why do only an increasingly small handful of artists ever seem to really ‘make it’ in the music game? What’s with all the never-ending covering of one eye in all the videos? Why the insistence on rappers having so many pseudonyms? And why is the robotic vocal programme Autotune still being mercilessly rolled out despite everyone you speak to saying they hate it?
In the first of a new series of podcasts for 2012, Mark Devlin talks to world famous author and public speaker David Icke about the agenda being employed in the music industry as one of many, many facets of the global control system. As more and more people awaken to new levels of human consciousness, the controllers are getting ever more desperate to suppress the movement. The music game – and particularly what passes for ‘hip hop’ and ‘R&B’ – is now a much-favoured method of subliminal manipulation.
With names such as Jay-Z, Lady Gaga and Britney Spears being specifically addressed, this will be controversial, and will doubtless upset a few. But the truth will always be the truth, and it’s time certain things were said.
Enjoy the ride.
Why do only an increasingly small handful of artists ever seem to really ‘make it’ in the music game? What’s with all the never-ending covering of one eye in all the videos? Why the insistence on rappers having so many pseudonyms? And why is the robotic vocal programme Autotune still being mercilessly rolled out despite everyone you speak to saying they hate it?
In the first of a new series of podcasts for 2012, Mark Devlin talks to world famous author and public speaker David Icke about the agenda being employed in the music industry as one of many, many facets of the global control system. As more and more people awaken to new levels of human consciousness, the controllers are getting ever more desperate to suppress the movement. The music game – and particularly what passes for ‘hip hop’ and ‘R&B’ – is now a much-favoured method of subliminal manipulation.
With names such as Jay-Z, Lady Gaga and Britney Spears being specifically addressed, this will be controversial, and will doubtless upset a few. But the truth will always be the truth, and it’s time certain things were said.
Enjoy the ride.
Friday 6th January
The Living Room, Milton Keynes
Saturday 7th January
Grand Union, Ravenscourt Park, London, W14
Friday 13th January
The Living Room, Milton Keynes
Saturday 14th January
The Earl, The Second Bridge, Bath
Thursday 19th January
The Living Room, Tower Bridge, London
Friday 20th January
The Living Room, Milton Keynes
Saturday 21st January
Duplex Club, Pristina, KOSOVO
Friday 27th January
The Living Room, Milton Keynes
Saturday 28th January
Grand Union, Ravenscourt Park, London, W14
Thursday 9th February
The Living Room, Tower Bridge, London
Friday 10th February
The Living Room, Milton Keynes
Saturday 11th February
The Earl, The Second Bridge, Bath
Friday 24th February
The Living Room, Milton Keynes
Saturday 25th February
The Living Room, Milton Keynes
