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Back In the Day:

Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers - Wu-Tang Clan
Entroducing - DJ Shadow
Daily Operation - Gang Starr

Today:

Black on Both Sides - Mos Def
Fear of a Black Planet - Public Enemy
AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted - Ice Cube

Back To the Future:

Mecca and the Soul Brother - Pete Rock and CL Smooth
Dr. Octagonecologyst - Dr. Octaogn
6 Feet Deep - Gravediggaz

Bass Bringing Zombies...

The new four-song EP from Toxic Taboo is now available for download. Toxic Taboo is a collaboration between Black Saturn, DJ Restless and FluiD.

You can download the EP here -

http://rapidshare.com/files/295716190/Toxic_Taboo_ep_2009.rar

http://www.myspace.com/toxictaboo

EGGBLOOD Podcast by The Egg plant

Aye Aye People

The Egg plant have recentley completed the latest in the Alrealon Music podcast series for your listening pleasure. Hope you enjoy it.

Here's the info/link etc from Alrealon Music - http://alrealon.co.uk/podcast.html

Thanks and Respect to them.

Hope you Enjoy it...Peace.T E p>>>

http://www.myspace.com/theeggplanet

New EP from Toxic Taboo

Coming October 31st... The new EP from Toxic Taboo. Toxic Taboo is DJ Restless aka Finger Painted Death, Black Saturn and FluiD. We've been working together for the past year and are now readying our first release, an as yet untitled EP.

http://www.myspace.com/toxictaboo

'Metalman Speaks' on BBC 6 Music

Tom Robinson of Music 6 on the BBC is playing 'Metalman Speaks', from 'Cosmic Sorcery' . His radio progam 'Introducing - Fresh On The Net', can be heard Sunday and Monday mornings.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/tom_robinsons_introducing/

http://www.myspace.com/bbc6music

Metalman Speaks - the video

From our new EP, 'Cosmic Sorcery', Metalman Speaks - the video. Conceived, assembled and created by Black Saturn.

http://www.archive.org/details/CosmicSorcery

'Cosmic Sorcery' reviewed by Daddy Tank

Black Saturn vs subduxtion – Cosmic Sorcery EP

subduxtion writes futuristic electro / hip-hop and Black Saturn writes spacey meta-rap. They have worked together on other projects previously, including a full length album 'Ancient Kingdom' (Alrealon Music) and an EP on 'Future Noise' (BRAINSODOMY). This release is quite different in tone from the 'Future Noise' EP (which was darker and more sci-fi) having an almost pop feel with tinges of 8-bit lo-fi sensibility. It is also a concept EP, telling the story of “Metalman - the first afro-alchemist”, but don't hold your breath on that front though because I'm damned if I can discern any kind of story from whats going on. The beats are sparse but motive, giving plenty of room for the occasional synth stab and melodic flourish, but minimal seems to be the order of the day. This, in combination with the slightly retro feel of the production, has given the music a very original but slightly odd feel which is enhanced by restrained approach to vocals taken by Black Saturn, a talented rapper who is obviously influenced by the likes of Beans, Kool Keith et al. He has a nasal, high pitched delivery which is distinctive and unexpectedly appealing and also has a fondness for polysyllabic vocabulary which is frowned on in conventional rap but is one of the best features of so called “genius rap”. However, it feels like his vocals have taken second place to the music for this EP, and in my opinion there is almost too little going on at times.I enjoyed this EP but it seems to lack a little weight in some way. I really like “Metalman Speaks” and “Recluse” but the other tracks didn't leave too much of an impression . There is nothing I can point to specifically but the tracks fail to impress themselves on me as immediately as, say, tracks like 'My New Spacesuit' on the 'Future Noise' EP.

On the positive side, this duo are creating a strong and unique identity for themselves with neither artist resorting to tried and tested cliché. This kind of experimentation will give rise to unpredictable results, but it will also be a lot more likely to get them noticed in the morass of music on the internet.

To make your own decision go to - http://www.archive.org/details/CosmicSorcery to download the EP for free.

Finally, I am happy to report that 'Metalman Speaks' will be played on BBC Radio 6 in the near future so it looks like they might already have won the first battle, if not the war.

http://sittingnow.co.uk/

Essential Reading

'There's A Riot Going On: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars and the Rise and Fall of the 60's' - Peter Doggett

http://www.amazon.com/Theres-Riot-Going-Revolutionaries-Stars/dp/1847671934/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1248620980&sr=8-1

'Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright and the Future of the Future' - Cory Doctorow

http://www.amazon.com/Content-Selected-Technology-Creativity-Copyright/dp/1892391813/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1248620846&sr=8-6

'The Five Percenters: Islam, Hip Hop and The Gods of New York' - Michael Muhammad Knight

http://www.amazon.com/Five-Percenters-Islam-Hip-Hop-Gods/dp/1851686150/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1248620725&sr=8-2

New Playlist from Black Saturn

Checkout Black Saturn's playlist @ Alrealon Music. Saturn lists some of his favorite websites - unusual musical instruments, dub, hip-hop and social issues, the history of recorded music and vintage cassette recorders.

Check the knowledge, repsect the science...

http://alrealon.co.uk/playlists.html

Black Saturn's, 'mAyy dAyy' podcast

A new episode of Alrealon Music's artists podcast series is online!

Black Saturn offers up 30 min. of noise/experimental/hip-hop.

You can download the podcast here -

http://www.alrealon.co.uk/podcast/Alrealon_pc05_MAYDAY_BlackSaturn.mp3