It's Saturday. My heads still hurts. Too much bass? Or never enough? Atmosphere was electric in Twisted Pepper last night. Just to give you a flavour.. No Warrior Queen with The Bug but as you can hear Flow Dan was in full effect. If you like this try: A birthday present: Waxy Cocktail mix The Bug & Warrior Queen [...]
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Ninja Tune just sent word of the upcoming new album from The Bug! I'm so excited! I've been posting about the singles for almost a year now and we finally have a tracklist and everything today. The album is called London Zoo and will be released on Ninja Tune on 7 July in the UK. The Bug creates blazing toxic dancehall riddims and London Zoo features some of the hottest ragga vocalists in t...
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One more treat to paint the weekend red - Kode 9 (who played a W-I-I-I-I-C-K-E-D set in SF last night!!!) made an exclusive mix of tunes off The Bug's yet-unreleased new LP, London Zoo. You can download and listen to it for free from FADER Mag anytime you like:The Bug - London Zoo mixed by Kode 9 Kode 9 is a total sweetheart. You may recall he also gave us the exclusive preview of the then-un...
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Ninjatune just announced the next single off The Bug's forthcoming new album, London Zoo: "Angry" featuring Tippa Irie on the A-side with "Ganja" featuring Flowdan on the B-side. The 12" vinyl and the digital download both drop June 16th. Whoever writes the press releases for Ninjatune does such a smashing job, it leaves me with nothing to add. So, without further ado:Kevin Martin AKA The Bug...
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London Zoo, the latest missive from London's Kevin Martin, a.k.a. The Bug, is heavy enough to be one of those peak statements, an album that feels like the logical culmination of the notorious producer's 20-year career. That's quite something, considering Martin's participation in projects like Techno Animal, God, Ice, and more recently Razor X Productions. The scope of this album, however, cha...
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It's true! The Bug will hit the Bay Area next week for 2 very special performances in support of his brand new album London Zoo. First up a FREE show at Amoeba Records on Haight Street - Monday Sept. 22 at 6pm. Then, on the following Saturday (Sept. 27) they'll both be at Surya Dub in SF. And the icing on the cupcake is Maga Bo will also perform at Surya Dub on the same night! Surya Dub is ...
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The Bug has a "Poison Dart" that he's aiming at future dub massives. The noise-dub producer recently signed to Ninja Tune for the release of his new album, due sometime next year. Ninja Tune must be pretty excited about The Bug's new music, because they just released a wicked video for his latest, "Poison Dart" featuring UK/Jamaican chatter Warrior Queen, and pressed two EPs for it, each with...
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That's right, I'm putting my own spin on the new MOG theme Toxic Tuesday because I'm not a big fan of posting music I don't like. Plus, I'm a HUGE fan of what they call Toxic Dancehall.I 1st heard the phrase Toxic Dancehall as a description for The Bug's music, somewhere around the time he was working with Rootsman (2001? maybe). I'm not sure what the proper definition of Toxic Dancehall is,...
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Now this is a heavy hit of some serious Reggae experimentation brought to you by The Bug. The Bug is Kevin Martin (aka Techno Animal). This has to be one of the hard hittinest sonic bong hits I've heard in a long time. This album pulls no punches whatsoever. It's like grime mixed with dancehall. It's distorted techstep mixed with dub mixed with some terrifying MC's from hell. I like it. ...
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For those Bug fans who haven't heard the new album yet, here are some of the tunes from London Zoo for you to hear:You probably remember the video for "Poison Dart" featuring Warrior Queen. It's been out for awhile and I gushed about it for ages. I love this vid: The Bug & Killa P & Flowdan - "Skeng":Yumm, I also love Flowdan's voice... The Bug - "Angry" ft Tippa Irie:Fierce! Another one of m...
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A few of ragga and dancehall's most prolific powerhouses have teamed up with the urban dub/hip hop/electronic music label Metatronix to create a bumpin album of hybrid remixes. Dominated by the vocal talents of Anthony B, Sizzla and Capleton over furious music production by The Bug, High Priest, DMX Krew, Eliot Lip and more, this album is going to be bumpin trunks in urban neighborhoods worldw...
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Ninja Tune organized another fantastic weekend of special moments for the Montreal area! On September 28th, they will have their Ninja Tune Clockout monthly with Ninja Tune artists from the UK vs. Ninja Tune MTL plus "exceedingly special guests!" That's all they are revealing at this time, but we could make a safe guess based on the following two days of festivities:Saturday, September 29th w...
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There is an amazing interview with the musician known as The Bug over on the french DubStep website. Kevin Martin (The Bug) talks about everything - how he first got involved in music, his time spent working with Justin Broadrick (Napalm Death, Jesu) as Techno Animal, his brief stint with Warner Brothers, and a whole lot more that has led up to him being a brilliant pioneering musician that bl...
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Last week I mentioned that Ninja Tune and Big Dada would present an event curated by Mary Anne Hobbs in London on the 7th of July. I received more info about this event, so I want to share them with folks who will be in the London area that week. Ms. Hobbs states that her desire for the lineup she has chosen is, "To bring together dark exotic underground textures of sound from the UK and inte...
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Reggae Friday returns after a very long hiatus to discuss one of the best records of 2008. The Bug also known as Kevin Martin is a UK-based producer, musician and journalist. He has been making music for two decades. His work spans multiple genres from industrial to hip hop to dub and dubstep. It is his work with dubstep that brings him here to Reggae Friday. His work with Anti-Pop Consortium...
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