Click Clack Super Remix Feat. Pixel, Envy & Little Man

GOD DAMN! Akira just posted the remix to 'Click Clack'. Everybody went in! Good lord! Download by right clicking HERE. Go to Akira's site to pick up Accapellas and Instrumentals.

Akira The Don Feat. Little Man, Pixel & Envy- 'Click Clack Remix' [Right Click Save As]

The video that dropped yesterday for the original Feat. Pixel

Skinnyman- Smoking Ban [VIDEO]

Haha! My boy Skinnyman knew he needed to put visuals to 'Smoking Ban'. I'm telling you every night on the 'Back To Bizznezz' tour Skinny could have gone out, done 'Smoking Ban', left and still won fans, that bassline rattles clubs. Glasgow in particular went NUTS for 'Smoking Ban'. Now we need that second album Skinny. Shouts to my boy Nasser in the video too. God damn we had some good nights on that tour...Skinnyman more than me but still.

Jacked from Semtex...again. Word to mother on that Body Oder shit too. When you go into soundcheck venues smell like the night before. Far from a f*cking happy look.

Daytona & Cipha Sounds Present: A Tribe Called Fresh

Online theme mixtape day continues with Cipha Sounds and his new artist Daytona's new mixtape 'A Tribe Called Fresh' which if I'm not mistaken, is a collection of Tribe Called Quest covers done by Daytona and a few of his friends. I heard that 'Lyrics To Go' track with Joell Ortiz and Kardinal Official (underrated) a few weeks back and I liked it a lot plus as I've mentioned on this site before; Cipha Sounds is a legend over here.

Cipha Sounds & Daytona Presents: A Tribe Called Fresh Mixtape [Sendspace]

Internet video for 'Lyrics To Go' Feat. Joell Ortiz & Kardinal Official.


More news on internet specific themed mixtapes on Monday.

Wale- Mixtape About Nothing [Zip]

This is the new online exclusive mixtape by American Washington D.C artist Wale (I believe it's pronounced "Wha-Lay"). I'm still not sure about the guy but he's signed to Mark Ronson so his production game is going to be on point and he's got a little British edge. He's also got co-signs from the likes of Jay-Z and Bun-B. Any rapper who's pictured with Lindsay Lohan before their mixtape drops is going to seem a little suspect to me though. Maybe this tape can make me a fan, he did okay on The Roots album, not amazing, but decent enough.

Wale- Mixtape About Nothing [Zip]

An online theme mixtape. What a clever idea ;).

Ryder Part 2

I love this record. 'Elephant In The Sand' is an all time great mixtape.

Nigel Tufnell: "Duncan built Stone Henge"

New Spinal Tap clips filmed for National Geographic. Nigel Tufnell discusses the building of Stone Henge, I'm inclined to agree with him but then I'm just as confused as he is.

Jacked from NME.com

Click Clack Video

Akira The Don ft Pixel - Click Clack Blam from akdonovan on Vimeo.
You aint really that dark you just read Spawn!

That One Time Clip

I am tapping my nose right now.

Cut his hamstring!

This should probably be my screensaver.

Excalibah session on Pyro Radio NEXT WEEK!!!

As I mentioned a couple of weeks back I'm passing by the legendary DJ Excalibah's Pyro Radio show tonight. I'm going to be handing over some new records, I'm going to be debuting some new material and I'm generally going to tear it down. I'm taking Pixel down to the station to help me out, it's going to be a large amount.

I just got off the phone with Ex, Pyro are doing studio work today so we've pushed back the session to next week. You now have fair warning, make sure you tune in.

Check out the show live from 8PM Next Monday (03.05.08) only on PyroRadio.com

Is Tha Carter III really going to suck?

You may have seen blogs covering 'Tha Carter III Snippets' this weekend but a lot of them are one file and they don't have much info. Semtex has got everything in there in Zshare files with details. Hmmmm. In 2004 I was banging 'Tha Carter' very hard...no moho. He was just starting to change opinions among the hardcore, Tego was into the South on another level at the time so he was bringing a load of crazy shit around us that didn't stick, Wayne pretty much became all of our favourite rappers (Jay-Z was retired) by the time 'Tha Carter II' came out though. The beats weren't as dark as they were on the first album but it had genuine hits. 'Tha Carter II' stayed on my phone for like a year. He killed the remixes and the freestyles for a solid year or so before I started to get worried, in my opinion, save for 'Gossip' and a few freestyles here and there Wayne has sucked for over a year now. I know 'Lollipop' wasn't for me and I know it's number 1 in the States but that's not the same Wayne as 'I Miss My Dawgs', that's somebody else. He was basically worthless on 'Barry Bonds' and 'Hello Brooklyn', he flopped when he came over here, made himself look pretty silly and honestly these snippets aren't filling me with much excitement. It seems like Jay-Z and Lil Wayne are going to do a Jay-Z and Biggie by only ever collaborating on slightly subpar production. Saying that; Jay's track on the last T.I album had a dodgy beat as did his track on the last Beanie Sigel album.

What do you think? Can Wayne pull it out of the fire?

R.I.P Camu Tao

I just found out that Camu Tao died. He was battling cancer apparently. I honestly didn't know. You find out about my secret underground side now; Camu Tao used to do a lot of work with my second favourite white rapper Cage. They made the above album together 'Nighthawks' he was really nice. I did wonder why it was that he'd fallen off the face of the earth after beating the shit out of Copywrite (not one of my favourite white rappers) a couple of years back and I guess now we know.

HipHopDX.com reports

R.I.P Camu Tao

Vepl- With Absolute Minimix Vol.2 Feat. That One Time Lillica Libertine Remix

I was just sent this mix on French blog Vepl.fr. It's heat. I'm on it which is why I listened to it to begin with but I advise you do too. Something about French music, it always sounds like they're having fun. Perhaps not so much for this stink weather.

Traklisting...

1.Raw Man - Wargame
2.MSTRKRFT - Vuvuvu
3.Crookers - Magic Bus
4.Marvin - That One Time (Lillica Libertine Remix)
5.Dusty Kid - The Cat (Crookers Remix)
6.Nrotb - Take me upp!
7.Ocelot - Lo sforzo (Sirhan Texas Trash Remix)
8.Switches - Every Second Counts (Ocelot Remix)
9.Turntablerocker - No Melody (Malente Remix)
10.The Loose Cannons - Whyd4ml (Stupid Fresh Remix)
11.Giko - Asshole (Facteur Remix)
12.Barney - Oh Please
13.Alex Gopher - Belmondo (The Subs Remix)
14.Dragonette - Take It Like A Man (Felix Cartal Remix)
15.Harvard Bass - Stitches
16.Crookers - Lollypop
17.Young MC - Bust A Move (Don Rimini Remix)
18.Nixon - Ass
19.Goose - Nike Original Run
20.Mika - Lollipop (Yuksek extended Remix)
21.Moby - I Love To Move In Here (Crookers Bass In Here Remix)

Vepl- With Absolute Minimix Vol.2 [Mediafire]

The Streets new album = Done

Mike Skinner has just announced on his blog that his 4th album is officially complete which is a great look. It's a pretty interesting blog because he talks about something I've been dealing with the last few weeks. I finished 'Devil In The Distance' in September 2007. It was fully mixed and completed in February and it's coming out July 28th. Ever since the day I went back to Brixton from Bristol in September last year I have been planning my next album. I couldn't imagine my first album going any better, all live synths, no samples, a 100% honest account of my life thus far, I consider my album to be perfect. But it was made at that time and since then I've been experimenting with some shit in my head that is so far removed from 'Devil In The Distance' that I sometimes confuse myself (see 'Boyspot'). In March I started to act on these thoughts. Me and Jack have been in the studio whenever we've had a spare minute recording, mixing and writing. Just today I recorded a song called 'Step 2 Skank' which is for all intents and purposes; a Dancehall record. At three of my gigs this year I've played a record me and Jack made with a third party called 'Charge Me (She's Bad)' which is about a prostitute (it's a story. It goes deep). I have a lot of faith in both of these records but they could never have been on 'DITD'. With my first album I spent a lifetime planning, I spent two months writing, I spent six weeks recording and there wasn't much room to say "Fuck it" which I like. But I've only this week started to think "Am I working on my second album?" I think I might be. I'd told myself it was an E.P so I didn't have to commit to it all the way, but the songs are clocking up and they've got a pretty consistent sound (dark, electronic, conceptual). Mike Skinner says his next album is already in his head and that it's way darker than the record he's just finished. I thought it was an interesting parallel, also when he says that he has to live 12 months ahead of his fans, it's weird, when we did Hartlepool a couple of weeks back I didn't do any of the songs from my album and I hardly noticed. Of course that was bad of me because I instantly regretted not adding 'Superhero', 'Get By (Be Good)' and 'That One Time' to the set but it's strange how what I might consider an old record is not an old record and what I consider a new record I recorded the week I debut.

Also, 'That Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living' is a fucking great album.

While I'm on the subject of my weekend in the studio, I put together two new freestyles for my mixtape (sooner than you think) and an exclusive freestyle for Excalibah's next mixtape in the already classic line 'UK Dubstate'.