DJ Charles is in the House! The iPod returneth, weird having to create a new directory and dragging everything in and charging it via Firewire, but it's cool. A sort of generation 2 chunky old-skool cool.
Not sure it's been treat well since John pointed out it was leaking a brown rusty susbtance...err...what has he done to it?

Gerald (the iRiver) won't be back for another 2 weeks at least. Sigh. But at least I have big iVor 1 & little iVor to keep me company too.

"Hey Mr DJ or Miss...isn't it time you turned 33 and a third into one Revolutionary 69?"

We hit the hi-tech groove with Elektric Cowboy, team 9 and several excerpts from Audioshrapnel's great Last Bastard long mix...with DJ farty interuptions from the great Wayne Butane and that cnut Frenchbloke, and a new Kleptones track you won't find on the new album, and some ol' Anarchy in the UK with V for Vendetta.

Apologies for another long show, but since the original was over 100minutes (!) I think I've done well to edit it down...

Cliquez vous here, mate (78mins, 46mins): http://www.mutantpop.net/go.php?url=151

• Wayne Butane - Country Doctor (start excerpt - from 'Wayne Butane Sucks Bigtime' , go on buy it here!)
• team 9 - crazy times
• Audioshrapnel - Last Bastard Set - (excerpt 1 - full tracklisting here) including Pilchard's Clapstero, Divide & Kreate's Whitney/Jet mash and Aggro1/Sam Flanagans Don't Cha Beat It
• PWEI - Hit the Hitech Groove
• Elektric Cowboy - Paris Head
• Kleptones - Eyesight Killer (from EP2)
• Audioshrapnel - Last Bastard Set (excerpt 2 - full tracklisting here)
  
• Ukrainians - Anarchy in the UKraine
• Simon Ritchie - Anarchy in the UK (from Squeezebox Schizophrenia, as heard on the WOBcast)
• Wayne Butane - Country Doctor (excerpt from 'Wayne Butane Sucks Bigtime')
• Anarchy / V for Vendetta related Police State rant
• Frenchbloke - Dave and Jeff Talking to DJ Frenchbloke (from FB's myspace)
• cnut - talking to the DJ
• Fall - High Tension Lines
• Audioshrapnel - Last Bastard Set (excerpt 3 - full tracklisting here) including the Klaxons great cover of 'The Bouncer' available on their Myspace
• No I'm not John Peel!
• DJ Earlybird - Serge Gainsbourg vs Elvis vs Dolly Parton
• Wayne Butane - Unusual Sounds (end excerpt from 'Wayne Butane Sucks Bigtime')

Finally they've released it after a teaser campaign of EPs (what you mean you weren't on the mailing list? More fool you!) the Kleptones have released their new double LP '24 Hours'.

I'm downloading now via the torrent on my mega-poor 512K line so youse with shiny fancy posho 8 trillian Megabit lines can you download and seed that? Ta! And wave to me from your Bentleys as you swoosh by...

Recommended from the EPs that are also here are: Eyesight Killer - samples Wesley Willis, Adamski and some rock blues dude of whom I'm too young and have no flares to have intimate knowledge of, Uptight Jet - melding of Jet and Stevie Wonder (I wonder what Stevie sees in them?), Jeepster Riddim - Marc Bolan in collision with dancehall riddims rather than a tree, I Want Jah Back - if Michael had grown up in Kingston, Jamaica rather than Indiana,

Been reviewed over at Podfly and got 9/10 and some very nice words about my and my podcast...

*blush*

*looks at floor*

thanks!

Interesting comments about doing it full-time (they are not the first to say that, I'll deal with it if it ever happens but it's not the reason I do the podcast to raise an 'industry profile' it's because I want to share great music and unknown talents to a larger audience) and that I had been doing this show for years before - well I have been doing this show now for years, but no previous experience before that, bar messing around with tape recorders as a kid...which everyone does, doesn't they?

P.S. reason for no iTunes feed is that they won't let me into their directory, I signed up over a year ago and wasn't allowed in. I either offend their copyright sensibilities or they don't like the show. More fool them.

Just seen the Beyond Beatboxing as part of Ether 2006 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall - where Faith SFX blew everyone away even though he was the first one one, he performed with Purple the grime rapper (alos on Urban Classic) and a very good singer and was amazing. Also performing was Foreign Beggars - very good, initially very US-hiphop based but when they did 'London style' and raised the tempo and did ragga/fast style rapping it was jaw dropping, and did some great acapellas. And Schlomo - beatboxing with a loop FX pedal and a drumkit was pretty good, boring with the drumkit even though he was doing some african rhythms but the drum and bass and rave beatboxing was amazing and went down well.

The only one that went down not so well (with me anyway, or didn't get the whoops and involvement like the others) was the headliner, Kila Kela and his band - he came over like the Justin Timberlake of beatboxing (ooh cap! black vest! pecs! screaming girls who weren't allowed to dance at the front! - QEH are a bit weird about that, although I've seen moshing there before now...) and after all the impressive beatboxing, especially Faith SFX, it came over as not as good or as innovative...they did some limp r 'n'b numbers and MC Chips (yeah exactly) talked down to the audience after all that earlier demonstration and education in beatboxing, we don't need another demonstration ("1 po-tata! 2 po-tata!" err okay) of what they are doing; or call outs to each of the 'crew' every 5 minutes (yeah we got the names first time); while they do staged posing and mime skits to the beatboxing across the stage. I didn't get the 'keeping it real' street stance like the grime artists who were on earlier...

Don't get me wrong, I think Kila Kela is talented as a beatboxer, but against the younger likes of Faith SFX or even Schlomo or the rapping skills of Foreign Beggars he needs a better crew or better songs to show off his talents - and yes even maybe a few better party tricks...?

Tempted to goto the Championships though after than this, it's a good skill and really entertaining, especially with live singers and rappers along to it or creating whole tracks as Shlomo was. It's a really cool creative artform, and it seems like people are trying to push things forward, yes even Kila Kela.