The Prices Of Vices Around The World – $20 Test

Short video that shows just how much you can fuel your vice if you had $20 in various different countries round the world.

I’m just off to plan my next holiday…

Free Download: Joe Ford – Bring The Bass

Joe Ford has gathered a heap of critical acclaim over the last couple of years with his distinct neuro-funk drum and bass sound. More recently he’s been taking his assorted arsenal of basses and mixing it up a bit, most notably with this cheeky freebie, a mid tempo neuro-hop number, released in celebration of the ‘Neurohop’ Facebook page reaching 2000 likes.

► Download: http://bit.ly/NRHP_001_JoeFord

► ARTIST LINKS
▪ Facebook: Facebook.com/Joefordmusic
▪ Soundcloud: Soundcloud.com/FordDnb

► LABEL LINKS
▪ Facebook: Facebook.com/Neurohop
▪ SoundCloud: SoundCloud.com/Neurohop
▪ YouTube: YouTube.com/Neurohop

Carousel – New club night launching this weekend.

Carousel is a brand spanking new club night brought to you by members of the teams behind the likes of top underground London based event promoters Wonderland and Elysian Project, as well as multi award winning SE London festival LeeFest.

“A new festival night, taking you on a journey into a twisted fairground…

Step through the turnstile and leave the world you know behind. Our Ringmasters will keep you bouncing to the early hours with an astonishing blend of high quality music from all spectrums of the musical fountain whilst Sideshows providing a unique blend of circus, cabaret, theatre, games and art spread across the entire venue…even in those places you would never think to look!

Entertainment and surprises hide around every corner…”

Taking a unique approach to club nights, Carousel aims to provide a base to bring together elements of other established club nights and promoters, performance and  mix them up, add a sprinkling of the magic, and present it as a event that is more of an indoor festival of music, arts and performance than your standard run of the mill rave up.

For its debut event, Carousel has drafted in a host of seasoned veterans to provide a truly diverse and unique blend of entertainment: Wonderland, famous for their amazing London club night,  Liquid Records, A record label specialising in trance, techno, electro and breaks, Glitch.FM, a live-broadcast Internet radio station specialising in ‘glitchy’ music, hosts of the Meteor stage at Glade Festival last year, and Gypsy Disco, Brighton based party purveyors bringing Balkan rhythms and and caravan loads of fun.

Alongside these four collectives, the Carousel organisers have hunted out some of the finest up and coming performers and artists around, with performances from the likes of Rubbish Sideshow – The Chicken Cabaret, Chivaree Circus, Caricatures by Shindy Reeh, the Wonderland Bakery, nipple tassel workshops from Charlie Bear, Live art and hidden installations around the whole venue, and a whole bunch more to be discovered on the night.

Hosted at the secret central London location yet to announced, and tickets are priced at £10 in advance, £15 on the door.

This event has got some serious pedigree involved here, all of the organisations involved have a glut of experience in throwing the best parties going, including an eclectic line-up of home grown talent ranging from acoustic so this promises to really be one to remember.

For a taste of the musicality of the event, check out some of the promo mixes flying about below:

Check out Carousel on:

Facebook | Twitter  | Facebook Event Page

Buy tickets from the Wonderland ticket link, and £3 goes straight to the Wonder Years CE Charity!:

http://www.theticketsellers.co.uk/tickets/carousel/10026104/?ref=p5796-wonderland

Irvine Welsh’s ‘Filth’ makes the big screen.

It’s no big secret that I’m a huge fan of Irvine Welsh‘s work (author of Trainspotting), and having read pretty much all of his novels, I would say that apart from the obvious choice of Trainspotting, Filth would probably be one of my favourites.

Published in 1998, Filth was the third novel from the always provocative Welsh. The book tells the story of misanthropic, bi-polar anti-hero Bruce Robertson, a police officer with a spiralling coke and drink problem, who manipulates, drinks, snorts and shags his way to promotion.

Irvine Welsh has always managed to divide opinion, cause controversy and shock readers, and as the title hints at, there’s plenty in this storyline to make the faint hearted squirm with discomfort from start to finish.

Brought to the big screen by Scottish filmmaker Jon S. Baird, directed from his own script adapted from Welsh’s novel, and starring a host of British actors, With James McAvoy in the leading role, Imogen Poots, Jamie Bell, Jim Broadbent, Eddie Marsan, Joanne Froggett and Pollyanna McIntosh.Welsh himself has praised the film, saying even he was blown away.

In Cinemas October 4th 2013.

Director Danny Boyle has also recently confirmed he is working on a sequel to

the cult classic Trainspotting, based on Welsh’s follow-up novel Porno.

Pomrad – Pomslap

Well the sun came out today at long fucking last.

And this tune uploaded by Inspector Dubplate today seems to fit the mood perfectly, absolute piles of fresh summer funk on this track, check it:

Out now on Earnest Endeavours Records.

Um Bongo Adventures.

Regular listeners to the podcast may well have heard our wishful musings of the return of 90′s childhood favourite Um Bongo, well on my Facebook newsfeed last night I witnessed the following statement:

“Hello!

Look what we have launched into Tesco. Um Bongo is back and in Big cartons for Big Um Bongo fans. And its on promotion at £1 this month”

After sharing it on the Sly Fox’s wall, I get a message back:

“Joe, I’m picking u up in 20 minutes and were going tesco”

My next dentist bill has just reached 3 figures.

How animals eat their food.

More wisdom from the world of YouTube, just in case anyone was wondering how  cows, alligators, lizards, T-Rexs, whales, groundhogs and more ate, wonder no more.

Jumpy the Extreme Dog

This dog has got some serious skills, and is considerably better on a skateboard than me. Meet ‘Jumpy’. Rumour is that he also did the editing on this video.

 

 

 

 

LeeFest – Kickstarter

Our good friends over at LeeFest, an amazing independent music festival in South East London,  have been working hard behind the scenes over this winter,  deciding on how to take the festival to the next level. They faced a conundrum; keep the festival completely independent, or head into the murky depths of corporate sponsorship…

After much deliberation and after listening to their fans, the team decided to try a new way of financing the expansion of this multi-award winning grass roots festival: Kickstarter.

Kickstarter is a platform for projects to drum up funding, if people like a project, they can pledge money to make it to happen, from incentivised by a ‘rewards’ system from the project. (Pledging money to LeeFest’s can get dinner with Lee, limited edition merchandise, and become part of the ‘Campfire Cabinet’, a sort of board of directors amongst others) The minimum pledge starts at £1, and the more you pledge, the better the rewards are. Funding on Kickstarter is all-or-nothing – projects must reach their funding goals to receive any money. All-or-nothing funding might seem scary, but it’s amazingly effective in creating momentum and rallying people around an idea.

LeeFest have set a goal of £50,000, enough to expand the festival to a 5000 person capacity, at which point the project should become independently financially sustainable. This money will go on things like finding a new local venue, paying artists and promotion.

The ultimate aim is to create something rather unique in the festival world, making their fans willing to pledge money into their Kickstarter fund stakeholders in the event, by way of invitation to discuss the festivals directions for the year ahead at an a AGM, as well as access to an online portal where votes will be taken on important decisions.

In the space of 4 days they have already managed to raise nearly £7,000, so if you’re feeling generous, and want to get involved in the creative decision making of this amazing festival, then head over the the LeeFest Kickstarter page here:

Leefest Kickstarter page

J.Ravens 10 minute mini-mix

As featured on episode 012 of the Brass Taxx podcasts (Check the side bar on the left to hear the podcast), here is a ten minute mini-mix from yours truly.

Starting out with glitch hop and switching up into electro about half way through, this mix showcases some of my favourite tracks at the moment.

Catch me at playing similar stuff at Wonderland’s Never Never Land this Saturday the 30th March at Cruicifix Lane, London Bridge: www.facebook.com/events/426526620751010

Tracklist:
Gold Top – Cross The Trax
Skope – Razor Beam
Mord Fustang – Champloo
The McMash Clan – Shere Khan
Fresh Prince of Koan Sound Mashup
Reso – Check 1,2
Mako, Makism, Candyland – All You Gotta Do
Koan Sound – Eastern Thug
Dizzee Rascal – Fix Up Look Sharp (Acapella)
Skrillex – Bug Hunt (Noisia Remix)
Black & Blunt – iBelieve
Gemini – Freedom
Gemini – Second Law
Alex Mind – Demand It
DANK – Blow Me (FTampa Remix)