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https://soundcloud.com/passionweiss/passion-of-the-weiss-presents-full-grainz-the-best-of-dj-mustard-mixed-by-son-raw

This mix from Kahn is on heavy rotation at the moment. More dub maybe than what you are looking for but good vibes none the less. https://soundcloud.com/outlookfestival/outlook-mix-series-8-kahn

The man remains an idiot. It is not entirely clear what he is giving up in this supposed u-turn, because it was never entirely clear what his proposals involved in the first place. The EBacc was a vague, ill-conceived suggestion for legislation, and all that has happened is that it has been...

I've been thinking about this a lot recently as this is the first year in a while were a lot of my time has been spent listening to whole albums, rather than mostly individual tracks or EPs or mixes. The two that I keep coming back to are LHF - Keepers Of The Light and Cooly G - Playin' Me. I...

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/08/the_nature_of_the_grift.html American, but relevant.

Sorry also to answer your question baboon: The BTEC is available at a range of levels from Key Stage 4 (i.e. GCSE-age kids), through to a higher education level. There are BTEC courses worth 2 and 4 GCSEs, and within that, depending on the tier of the qualification, that is supposed to be...

One thing I would say is that although courses like BTECs are often (rightly) derided for their ridiculous 'GCSE-equivalency', that does not make them worthless in themselves. My mum is a science teacher in a state comp. Her school is in a very deprived ward and as a result they have a...

This new plan to scrap GCSEs and introduce the EBacc as some kind of replacement seems like one more in a series of ill-thought out policies to emerge on Gove's watch. In June we find out in the papers that the government plans to scrap GCSEs and bring back something like O-levels and CSEs...

So, this isn't a conversation I find myself having with people any more... How true this has proven to be. I think my overriding feeling about the period when everyone was talking about the death of grime is that what actually died was a dream that many people around the scene had of what...

I can definitely hear how those two LPs sound a bit dated. I think it's more a matter of them sounding so very unlike anything else when they were released, whereas now they no longer have the shock of the new. At the same time I think that he has absolutely succeeded in advancing his sound on...

I meet people all the time who would be well into that.

Thank you guys. Very much appreciated.

House got burgled recently so I'm trying to slowly rebuild the (thankfully relatively small) part of my digital music collection that I didn't have backed up. Having a nightmare tracking down a lot of free mixes I'd downloaded over the years though. In 2009 United Vibes posted a series of...

Soda water is the mixer you're thinking of. If you're going to use a white rum my suggestions would be Appleton or Traveller's. That new Lamb's white rum is also decent. I'd avoid regular Bacardi because I find it has a harshness that can be masked by a very sweet mixer (coke or pineapple...

Pomegranate (fizzy, in the bottle) and guanabana (still, in the carton, poured over ice) do it for me. Unfortunately mango and passion fruit seem to be by far the most widely sold flavours. Lychee is a balance of delicious and widely-available, so I end up drinking a lot of that.