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    Peterson meets Rodigan - A History of Reggae and more....

    Kicks off in an hour, but here's a teaser.... http://goo.gl/0TQKR Last week David Rodigan came in to chat with Gilles Peterson, and over a couple hours they discussed various topics including the history of Reggae and the effect of the digital revolution on the genre, as well as David’s early...
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    Gilles Peterson co-host with XL Recordings' Richard Russell

    Gilles Peterson is on air for the next 2 hours, joined by XL Recordings label-boss Richard Russell, discussing early UK Hip Hop and Rave all the way through to current XL artists such as Odd Future's Tyler The Creator, The xx to name a few. They also talk about Young Turks and the forthcoming...
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    Homophobia in dancehall/reggae culture.

    In speaking to my sister about this, I remembered there was also some call and response involving 'Burning Babylon'. Just made me chuckle. Perhaps my interpretation of Babylon is inaccurate, but essentially much of the crowd were chanting to the downfall off their own society! Mugs...
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    Homophobia in dancehall/reggae culture.

    Yeah, I know what you mean, as I too have been a hiphop fan for 15 years, but when it is live, and face to face, it somehow seems a lot more real, offensive, and dangerous. And my instinct to fight against it is much stronger. Standing there last night without saying anything would have felt...
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    Homophobia in dancehall/reggae culture.

    I was in East London this evening, for a friend's birthday. He decided to go to an event which combined various world music groups, touching on klezmer and reggae/dancehall. Now, I'm not generally into this venue, because there tends to be quite a wank/hippy crowd, which i find irritating...
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    self-taught designer offering questionable 'skills' for free

    I've just been thinking I could do with a logo... I currently produce under the name Cushtilla, and have started a bandcamp site.... And a logo for the banner would be awesome as it's quite bare at the moment. Holler if you'd be interested in doing it, and I can try to give you more of a...
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    Road Rap

    I've not read this entire thread, but I work on Charlie Sloth's Hiphop Mixshow, and since I've been working on the show, the sickest performer we've had on Fire In The Booth has to be Mic Righteous. I know he's more conscious than what people might call Road Rap, but he goes in haaaaard...
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    Scuba/Hotflush on 1Xtra Dubstep Take Over...

    I produced a show with Scuba which went out on BBC Radio 1Xtra last week featuring: Joy Orbison Boddika George Fitzgerald Sepalcure Mount Kimbie Live set by Pangaea at Outlook Festival and of course Scuba himself in the mix. It's dope so check it on iplayer if you want to support.... Every...
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    hip hop '10

    despite being derivative, its a banger..... BLACK MILK - DEADLY MEDLEY
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    what you currently enjoying ?

    Loving this tune from Gangcolours... Chance Meeting. http://youllsoonknow.us/post/867894400/gangcolours-chance-meeting And he is giving it away for DL as well.
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    Skream's new vid

    Is it acceptable to make nu-school breaks in 2010 and call it dubstep? Apparently it is...
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    Renting space in east London for a recording studio

    i've been looking into this with 2 other guys as well without too much luck. We had kinda hoped to find somethin around stoke newington as we all live around there... Is there any more room in the spot you've found? if so, would you mind hitting me up with deets? PM or whatever... :cool:
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    Can i follow you on soundcloud?

    www.soundcloud.com/cushtilla various bits on there... dubsteppy/beatsy type stuff...
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    Digital & Interactive Media... Where do you see it going?

    A somewhat open-ended question, but I'm curious to see where you guys think things are going on tinternet, in gaming, music, entertainment n everything digital. I think there is a lot of potential in augmented reality on the new smart phones and would love to see how the technology can be...
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    Music Documentaries

    it's going out on Radio 1, July 12 at 9 i think. I work for a production company, that got it commissioned, and then I got asked to make it. In the past all my ideas for docs have been too specialist/london-centric apparently! But, I reckon I'll try pitching some more stuff, as it was a good...
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