Sun 22 Jun – Atmosphere, Brother Ali

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Regular readers should know by now that I’m a fan of Atmosphere. They’re easily my favourite group, and my last.fm profile proves it. I’m also a fairly decent Brother Ali fan. I’ve pretty much bought anything and everything that Atmosphere have put out in the last 10 years or so and consequently got put onto Brother Ali quite a while ago too. I’ve also seen Atmosphere before (in 2002/03?) but Mr Dibbs was playing the Ant role so technically I suppose it wasn’t quite ‘Atmosphere’. Blah blah. What I’m trying to…

my top 50 as of today..

1 Atmosphere
2 Wu-Tang Clan
3 Sage Francis
4 Aesop Rock
5 Nas
6 Pharoahe Monch
7 Ras Kass
8 Killah Priest
9 Klashnekoff
10 Fun Lovin' Criminals
11 Brother Ali
11 Rage Against the Machine
13 The Game
14 Kanye West
15 El-P
16 Jay-Z
17 Sean Price
18 DJ Shadow
19 Manic Street Preachers
20 The Roots
21 Mos Def
22 Method Man
23 Chino XL
24 Blackalicious
25 Redman
26 Cobra Starship
27 Ghostface
28 Common
29 Immortal Technique
30 Heltah Skeltah
31 Mobb Deep
32 Raekwon
33 CunninLynguists
34 J-Live…

Sun 25 Nov – Kanye West, Common

Saw Kanye last night in Bournemouth on his 'Glow In The Dark' tour (shit name, nice execution (my eyes are still burning from the multitude of lights)), and lo', twas very good. If you've been watching my last.fm profile for the past week then you'll be aware of the fact that I've been listening to a lot of G.O.O.D. music lately (read: Kanye West & Common) but I was still pretty surprised at the end of a near two and a half hour set that he had so much material. Yeah, I…

my chart for the past week looks something like this:

• Mobb Deep
  'The Mobb Files' mixed by Scetch & Soundwave.. 30 tracks of (mostly) classic Mobb Deep from the last decade. i sometimes forget how much i like them and it takes a mix like this to jog the memory. essential stuff.
  


• Wu-Tang Clan
  this entry isn't strictly valid, in the sense that it wasn't Wu-Tang as a group that i was listening to.. specifically, it was 'A Wu-Tang Life NYC'. various newish tracks from various members.. the inclusion of the 'destruction of a guard…

featuring ozzy.

very odd

this means war!!