Links

Friends, associates, people doing interesting things, things to raise your spirits in your hour of need / hour of lunch. Enjoy the selection. Chris

 

Music

www.rappersiknow.com

Want about 300 incredible new hip hop records with fantastic artwork for free? Go here and spend your day downloading.

www.fromdabricks.com

Great blog site with a speciality for exploring hip hop sample credits and good interviews with some of the genre's unsung heroes.

www.honeyee.com

Entertaining Japanese magazine site with an interesting selection of guest blogs ranging from Eric Clapton to Kaws.

www.thescrapbook.info

Clean looking blog with wide ranging coverage on everything notable happening in the worlds of music, art, fashion and more besides.

www.rawfusionrec.com

You know how Swedish people take something that most people take for granted like furniture design and do it better than everybody else? Well, they've got a record label and a club night that's better than everybody else's too.

www.bbemusic.com

Best record label right now? Could just be.

www.ubiquityrecords.com

Second best record label? We could go on for a while doing this. I'll stop here.

www.stonesthrow.com

Peanut Butter Wolf's maverick label - keeping the world's hip hop, funk and jazz buying public happy with prolific releases and enough free bits and bobs to keep the cheapskates on side.

www.ninjatune.net/solidsteel/

Pioneering web radio from Ninja Tunes' DJ Food & DK. Check the archive of guest mixes for a who's who of eclectic DJs and selectors (and me).

www.differentdrummer.co.uk

Brilliantly designed site from the label that was kind enough to put out our LP out 6 years ago. Visit their forum for good natured banter about football and, if you're lucky, music.

www.nu-skratch.com

Site of UK film maker P Kalsi, director of the excellent 'King Of The Beats' and 'The Men And Their Music', including a selection of clips from past and current projects.

www.11154.net

Great site brought to you by Japan's favourite dusty fingered selector, DJ Muro. Not to be confused with djmuro.com which is the site of some guy in the states who apparently plays "trance. and R&B".

www.the-breaks.com

This site isn't going to win any design awards any time soon, but if, like me, you enjoy looking at enormous alphabetical lists of funk records and the people they have been sampled by then this site is for you.

www.fifthfloorproductions.com

Danny Delta and Jass Kickmouth get busy on the beats. Check out their latest excellent beatscape here.

www.soulbrew.com

Good friends of mine with excellent taste in all things soulful. Also a good place to see embarrassing pictures of people in varying states of distress at their annual boat party.

www.thedoctorsorders.com

Soulbrew's hip hop off shoot. Event info from the good Doctor and a Q&A section featuring some of your favourite DJs (and me).

www.dailydiggers.blogspot.com

The diggers take it back to the good old days with some in depth analysis of hip hop from the 80s, breaks, beats and beyond.

 

 

Art / Design

www.graphotism.com

The bible of UK 'street' art.

www.fwmj.com

Great designer and apparently a good friend of almost every artist making credible hip hop records at the moment.

www.beat13.co.uk

Beautiful art and design from Moseley's finest.

www.scrawlcollective.co.uk

London based agency representing a hefty proportion of the UK 'street' artists and illustrators that are worth their salt.

www.schudio.co.uk

The 3D technician himself. Some time designer of Substance flyers and a true aerosol art maverick. Seeing is believing.

www.capsule.org.uk

Do your eyes and ears need a challenge? Visit these wonderful people promoting everything from the world of music and art that is left of the middle.

www.welikeourjob.com

Providers of Substance's live club visuals and designers of this site!

 

Other

www.crookedtongues.com

Look at sneakers, read about sneakers, buy sneakers, obsess about sneakers.

www.theonion.com

Generally speaking, satire isn't American comedy's strong point. That's why Friends is on TV 'like' a thousand times a day. These guys did OK.

www.tvgohome.com

Funny site which also happens to be the birth place of Nathan Barley. Having this website make me a little bit like him which is probably why I find it funny.

www.myspace.com

Display your popularity to complete strangers and be pestered by American guitar bands and terrible rappers in whom you have no interest.