Wow, I had a blasting weekend. It started with playing together with Danny Scrilla and Ron Foto in Cologne on Friday. And that was already a mad party. On Saturday, we were all recovering and seriously hanging over in some middle eastern food place, when DJ Beware called and offered me to fill in for him on his gig in Bielefeld, because he was having some serious pain in his back. So me and Danny also played in Bielefeld on Saturday and had a another mad night full of lazers!
Speaking of DJ Beware: This time it’s the truth and nothing but the truth: I will fire off some exclusive Bayern Funky tunes by Danny and some of my own new remixes on Beware’s FM4 Unlimited show on Austria’s number one radio station today between 02:00 and 03:00 PM CET. Tune in on www.fm4.at!
By the way, this week’s Tim Turbo Thursday is, as always, full of entrepreneurial energy and latent looping lazer bass. You’ll like it!
01 Major Lazer - Pon De Floor (Danny Scrillas Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation Remix)
02 Asher Roth - I Love College (Uncredited Mad Decent Dubstep Remix)
03 Secret Agent Gel Ft Coppa - Crew
04 Dre Skull - I Want You (Bok Bok Remix)
05 Don Rimini - Karaté
06 Toddla T Ft T Willy & Mr Vesatile - No Kip
07 The Qemists Ft Wiley - Dem Na Like Me (A1 Bassline Remix)
08 N.A.S.A. - Money (The Count Of Monte Cristal ‘Dungeon’ Remix)
09 Shake Aletti - The Way He Does (Toddla T Remix)
10 Scottie B & King Tutt - African Chant (Top Billin Remix)
11 Drop the Lime - Tabac Theme
12 Douster - Ladinian
13 Jamtech Foundation - Obeah
14 Busy Signal Ft Chi Ching - I Just Wanna Fuck (DJayCee B-More Blend)
Tonight at 11pm CET, the “Massive” radio show (WDR, Germany) will feature an interview with Diplo (Major Lazer, Mad Decent). You can either listen to it live or check the stream which will be available for one week. Host Uh-Young Kim kindly provided us with some snippets of the talk upfront:
Diplo on Jamaican artists´ attitude towards “weird” beats
Reggae and Dancehall artistes have been popular product testimonials on the Jamaican market for quite a while. The latest examples are Serani, Chino and D´Angel representing for Coke Zero (via Dancehall-Mobi).
However - as the official summer time has started in the US and Europe - Jamaican music and Jamaican artistes start to play an important role in these markets as well: In the US, Ini Kamoze´s hit song “Here Comes The Hotstepper” has been featured in a new television commercial for the 2009 Buick LaCrosse (via Dancehall-Mobi). And in Europe (more exactly in Germany), candy company Kinder has hired Shaggy to appear in their latest commercial for a chocolate bar called “Maxi King”. See the - slightly amusing - clip above.
Got any more examples for Jamaican artistes in US/European adverts?
A banner on The Afflicted Yard site officially announces a new series by The Rickards Bros. - watch out for the latest updates on the project on this blog. What will “The Last Don” be about? All I can tell you right now is that it is “dealing with the life and business of a Jamaica music executive”. Who that is? Make your guess.
Labash put the link to this video under one of our last week´s posts. As I really like the look of the trailer, I was wondering if anybody has more information on the project. Will this be a music video for Jusa Dementor? Will it be a documentary? Please enlighten me.
“Yo how soon unno aguh get in more shirts dat did sell off?”
“I wish u could create some new shirts, most of the collection has been sold out long long ago.”
That´s just the two latest emails regarding seen.´s T-shirt line we´ve received from readers of this blog in the last days. And I guess some people who haven´t gotten in touch with us might be interested in the answers as well.
First of all: we´re not going to get in any of the sold out shirts you currently see in the shop. Ever. We promised our early customers limited editions and that´s what they got. No reprints. Second: there will be new seen. shirts in the course of this year. Gabe´s almost finished with designing the new collection which will consist of eight shirts and we´re going to get them into production in July.
In order to wetten your appetite, I´m going to give you the working titles of those shirts: “Life Sweet”, “Overcome”, “Mans of Mans”, “Rape”, “Super Mad Cobra”, “The First Cut”, “A Mind” and “Bombs to Basslines”. I can´t give you final release date though as I don´t want to disappoint anybody in case we have to delay the release for whatever reason.
In the meantime, we´re having a blow-out sale for all of the few remaining products from former collections. That means you can e.g. catch the Bounty Killer shirt and the Loyalty Over Royalty shirt for 19,90.- EUR only! In addition, all Shook magazines and Woofah magazines are available for 3,90. EUR! And yes, we do ship anywhere in the world.
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