Going Diggin?

Sparkii, Cuba and Madflow rockin live over the MPC1000 @ Home Cookin'

Sparkii on the MPC1000

Shouts to Feva, Sparkii, Flow, Pritt, Mushroom, Timber, Kewba and Home Cookin' for a great night last night, if you missed it you really did miss a treat with Sparkii playing some dope beats straight out of his 1000 with Kewba and Flow freestyling over the top. I'm off diggin for a bit so will miss the next two radio shows but I'll be back in e-f-f-e-c-t with more treats asap, I'll report back after my travels...

Seems a good time to post Oxygen's long awaited single with Gensu Dean, DJ Ragz and the Daily Diggers Kid Dynomite, out on a limited 7" real soon, you have been warned!

Souls Of Mischief UK Tour

Sparkii Ski at the Yadbird in Brum tonight (see belows post) but Souls Of Mischief are on tour promoting their new record with Prince Paul, I'll miss the Brum gig unfortunately but seen them and supported them a few times before and they always rock it.
dates and press blurb...

SOULS OF MISCHIEF x CARHARTT

SOULS OF MISCHIEF ANNOUNCE UK & EUROPEAN TOUR AND CARHARTT LIMITED EDITION BOX SET

TOUR DATES

12^th March – The Well [Leeds]

13^th March – The Good Bits [Dublin]

13^th March – Cru [Dublin] – instore

14^th March – Jazz CafÈ [London]

15^th March – Carhartt store [Neal St – London] – signing

16^th March – Banquet Records [Kingstone] - signing

16^th March – Peel [Kingston / Surrey]

17^th March – White Rabbit [Plymouth]

18^th March – Po Na Na [Norwich]

19^th March – Rainbow [Birmingham]

20^th March – Club 2k [Penzance]

23rd March – Carhartt store [Amsterdam]

24th March – Carhartt store [Cologne]

In celebration of the long awaited release of Montezuma’s Revenge, Souls of Mischief have teamed up with Carhartt, official sponsors of their first extensive tour in the UK & Europe for many years, to produce an exclusive box set available on a highly limited basis.

This special product will include a copy of the brand new album, a special SOM / Carhartt designed collabo shirt, SOM / Carhartt sew on patches, stickers and more.

This rare deluxe edition of the album will be launched at the Carhartt store [Neal Street – London] on the 15^th March 2010, where SOM will also be appearing for a meet & greet signing session of this fantastic new release as part of their official series of dates.

MI 08-03-2010 & Sparkii Ski @ Home Cookin' This Friday

Main Ingredient Radio Show
Mon Nights 12-2am New Style Radio,
98.7FM (West Midlands) / Sensei FM 08-03-2010
DOWNLOAD HERE

Sparkii Ski is at the Yardbird this Friday for Home Cookin' info below,

here's last nights show

Waxolutionists - Steel Remains
Souls Of Mischief - Proper Aim
House Shoes - The Makings
Ghostface - Mighty Healthy Ras Beats Remix
Nutrageous feat Royal Flush & Mic Geronimo - This Is My Hood
Basic Vocab - What They Want
Classified feat Maestro Fresh Wes, Moka Only - Quit While Your Ahead
Freestyle Professors - Dat Grit Dat Grime
Strong Arm Steady - Best Of Times
The Roots - How I Got Over
Cappo - Psychological Warfare
Kil Ripkin - Mind Free
Ty - Emotions
Shafiq Husayn - Cheeba J.Rocc Remix
Bug 20 Winks
MC Mello - Mello Gone Crazy

Fri 12th of March 2010 @ The Yardbird

Facebook Info
Home Cookin is proud to present the Breakfest opening party hosted by UK Hip-Hop legend SPARKII SKI and local hero Mad Flow.

WHO IS SPARKII SKI??

For those of you who don't know, Sparkii is a true veteran and pioneer of the UK Hip Hop scene.
A mentor to London Posse, he did production duties on their classic Gangster Chronicles album and also master-minded the Modern Day Jazz Story album with Courtney Pine and DJ Pogo.
From rapping with MC Melo, to remixing Blade and producing and programming for everyone from Monie Love to Beverley Knight, commisions from English National Opera, soundtracks and lectures; Sparkii has done it all.
He is also one of the prime movers behind the international King Of The Beats production competition.

Breakfest kicks off the next day and the party gets started with a bang at the yardbird on Friday night.

SPARKII SKI
Birmingham beat-boxer and mc MAD FLOW
Dope London mc KEWBA
SPECIAL GUEST MCS TBC
INTERNATIONAL AND LOCAL B_BOYS AND DANCERS

1:Sky chief-Rugged Solutions/Holland
2:Bboy Kido- Funky dope Manouvers
3:Reckless Lee-Soul Mavs/UK
4:Lady Boi-Floor Riderz/UK
5:Jesky-STO crew/China
6:Kolobok-Eastside Bboys ukraine
7:Bboy Keyz-Original South Kingz/France
8:Bboy Maiko-Soulripperz

Breakfest's DJ MUSHROOM
DJ TIMBER

Usual Home Cookin niceness from DJ FEVA
OPEN MIC SESSION

All for £3

Gift Of Gab (Blackalicious) Live Tonight @ The Rainbow

Last minute but this is going to be incredible, I shouldn't have to tell you how good Gift of Gab is, just buy a ticket and be very impressed

Line-up

GIFT OF GAB - http://www.myspace.com/theofficialgiftofgab
RICTA - http://www.myspace.com/therealricta
DJ MYLZ

TICKETS £10 ADV FROM THIS LINK:
http://www.seetickets.com/s.asp?a=gift+of+gab&p=6839
OR THIS LINK:
https://www.theticketsellers.co.uk/buy_tickets/events/?id=10009901

Chopped Shadez of Barman

Yeah Chopped Herring is back in effect with the final installment of the Bushwick series and what a way to go out (not like a sucka!) The previous 2 EP's by Dysfunkshunal Familee Civilised Savages (94) and Mixed Emotions (96) are both essential purchases but the last EP is 5 unreleased Shadez Of Brooklyn tracks and the classic Change track, all produced by Da Beatminerz...From the horses mouth "5 never-released tracks from the 1996/7 sessions plus the classic underground cut 'Change'. Production by Mr Walt, Evil Dee and Rich Blak for Da Beatminerz Productions. One of the most in-demand never released Indy projects of the 90's. Includes the super dope track 'Everyday Livin'' which only ever appeared on the Evil Dee Mixtape 1 and never on wax until NOW.

Tracklisting:

A1 Now A Dayz
A2 Pandemonium
A3 The Square
B1 Everyday Living
B2 Nowhere To Run
B3 Change



Peep some snippets (includes drops from special guest star and Random Hip Hop-collector extraordinaire Stephen Hawking):

ONLY 300 copies pressed...and never to be repressed....


THIS FIRST 25 BUYERS WILL RECEIVE A £5 DISCOUNT ON ANY ONE OF THE NEXT 3 LIMITED RELEASES DROPPING ON CHOPPED HERRING SOON!!!!


We'll inform you at each stage of the pressing and we hope to have this one shipped by mid April, hopefully sooner if we have some luck on our side (for once!!).

Any questions CLICK HERE or email: info@choppedherringrecords.com

Worth having a snoop round the site, theres a few Paul Barman test presses left and some more 3SS video's since I last blogged bout it bout it

Change cut up by DJ Premier on the New York Reality Check 101 album

Show Still Got That Heat

SHOWBIZ PLAYING BEATS! W/ DJ PREMIER from A/V PRENEURS on Vimeo.