Wax Poetics - Issue 31

The October/November issue of the only music publication worth buying, Wax Poetics, is now on sale. Wax Poetics Issue 31 has blues/soul legend Shuggie Otis on one side of the cover and mysterious masked emcee MF DOOM on the other.

The Shuggies Otis article looks into his rise to stardom followed by his descent from the spotlight. In his own words “I was into experimenting, leaving mistakes in because they sounded good, all that kind of stuff. I was into experimenting with sound. They don’t allow that on records now.” A multi-instrumentalist, Shuggie learnt to play guitar, piano, organ, bass and drums - but WaxPo gives us the opportunity to delve deeper into the life of someone that has remained slightly left of the limelight for a lot of his career.

mp3: Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information

WaxPo also takes a moment or two to take a peak behind the mask of MF DOOM. A cult figure amongst the modern hip-hop fraternity, a few mouse clicks and you’ll know Daniel Dumile is an emcee that was born in Britain before moving to America, was part of the hip-hop group KMD and isn’t seen anywhere public without the famed mask. Alas it’s not too often, apart from within his cyphers, that we get to hear more straight from the horses mouth - so def worth checking.

mp3: MF DOOM - Vomit

Also included in Issue 31 are articles on; Disco demon Patrick Adams, Daptone funk crew The Menahan Street Band, dope DJ J.Rocc and also an interview with soulful producer/emcee Count Bass D. Not to mention a whole load of other superb content. It was no exaggeration when I stated that Wax Poetics is THE only music publication worth buying - everything else pales in comparison. So do yourself a huge favour and grab this whilst you can, cos it’s well known for disappearing off the shelves with extreme velocity!

PODCAST: Jus Like Music Volume 27

Volume 27 of the Jus Like Music Podcast is out now! A whopper 19 tracks on this volume of the podcast, including; fresh Madlib, J Dilla’s bro Illa J, some Juba Dance remixes, classic (and never released) Resident Alien produced by Prince Paul, some Scruff and a slightly different Squarepusher track from his new album Just A Souvenir.

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Volume 27 tracklisting:

1. Madlib - Anthenagin’ (?)
2. Count Bass D - Sunshine
3. People Under The Stairs - Gamin’ On Ya
4. SP - Wreckless
5. Illa J - R U Listenin
6. Harmonic 313 - Solve It
7. 2tall - Ritual
8. Juba Dance - Favorite Words (Flesh O.N.E. remix)
9. Count Bass D - Welcome To The Spot
10. Resident Alien - Horrorscope
11. Eliphino - Break Up
12. Juba Dance - Cachaça (Sicker Man thin remix)
13. Talvin Singh - OK
14. J.A.M - Roys Scat
15. Mr. Scruff - Hold On
16. Quantic - Cuidad Del Swing (Version)
17. Stacy Epps - Floatin
18. The Love Bugz - Guadalupe
19. Squarepusher - Yes Sequitur

I cant get enough of that track Gamin’ On Ya from Fun DMC, the brand new People Under The Stairs LP. They’ve gone all out with the video game samples on this track, but the gimmicks are left at the door, cos it’s an absolute banger with patented PUTS tight production! Fun DMC is out now on Gold Dust Records.

mp3: People Under The Stairs - Gamin’ On Ya

VIDEO: Rup - Something That You Like

Brand new video from the UK’s best kept lyrical secret, Rup. The track is called Something That You Like featuring Naim and it’s a little sneak peak of what to expect when Rup’s next LP drops (hopefully) around December time on Hear Today Records. I cant wait for that!

Rup first hit my radar with his appearance on TM Juke’s track Wilderness Kids from the LP Maps From The Wilderness back in 2003. Then in 2006 Rup’s debut LP, Rup On Zebra, was released on Zebra Traffic and it included his signature intelligent and conscious cyphers, as heard on tracks like Step…

mp3: Rup - Step

So open up your ears and clean out your eyes cos Rup’s gonna aurally abuse you in the nicest possible way, some time around December or there abouts - stay tuned!

DMC World DJ Championships 2008

The other night saw the finals of the DMC World DJ Championships 2008 at IndigO2 in London. I’ll cut straight to the chase…

BATTLE FOR WORLD SUPREMACY RESULTS

1st: Switch (UK)
2nd: DJ Nelson (France)

WORLD TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS

1st: Kireek (Japan) - 37 points
2nd: Traumateam (France) - 27 points
3rd: Intellivision (Italy) - 11 points
4th: Bionic Stylus Crew (UK) - 9 points
5th: Goldfinger Crew (Spain) - 6 points
6th: Angry Exs (USA) - 5 points
7th: Interplay (Germany) - 4 points
8th: Supa (Portugal) - 3 points

WORLD DJ CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS

1st: DJ Fly (France) - 41 points
2nd: DJ Slyce (USA) - 28 points
3rd: DJ Co-Ma (Japan) - 17 points
4th: DJ Skully (UK) - 8 points
5th: DJ Final (Norway) - 6 points
6th: DJ Shub (Canada) - 4 points

So big congrats goes out to the winners; Switch, Kireek and DJ Fly. France has provided team champions before, but was nice to see them cop the individual title and DJ Fly took it by a long shot in the end. More details are available at the DMC World website. Anyway, check some classic DMC action…

mp3: DJ Craze - 1998 World DMC Set

mp3: A-Trak - 1997 World DMC Set

DJ Vadim Diagnosed With Cancer

Yarah Bravo reports via her MySpace page that her husband, DJ Vadim, has been diagnosed with a rare form of eye cancer known as Ocular Melanoma / Choroidal Melanoma. This is terrible news and my thoughts go out to both Yarah and Vadim.

There is no easy way of sharing this with you…
so i’ll just go ahead and do it.

Vadim has been diagnosed with Cancer!!!
(If you would like to know more about it, please google it.
As i do not want to delve into it here.
The name is: Ocular Melanoma / choroidal melanoma and
it is a very rare type of cancer)

This has obviously been a shock for all of us.

mp3: DJ Vadim - It’s On

So many times has he had my back and lifted me up when i was down!
And i wish now that we can all do the same for him!

All i am asking from you, is to create a proactive boomerang
….WORLD WIDE and please pray for him! Help him heal!!

Send him all your energy and love, and think intensely about him
surviving, recovering and coming back stronger!!!

Musically he has many more shows to rock, many more albums to finnish.
And so many more adventures to go on…the world needs him!!

Fuck….. i need him!!!

Please take your time out to light him a candle and think
about him in the most positive colorful light….starting NOW!!!
Shower him wit LOVE!!!! Telepathically, spiritually, verbally…in which ever way!!!

Cause we have the power to do so!!

Quotes taken from Yarah’s MySpace journal.

This is truly sad. I’m aware that he went in for surgery in London on Friday and I sincerely hope he recovers both fully and quickly. DJ Vadim was there when I first got into turntablism and he is still here now - the guy is an absolute legend and deserves to fight another day.

Get well soon Vad.