Dollars To Pounds: Nothing Serious, Just Buggin’
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Brixton is one of the few places in London where you can still just about believe the punk/reggae love-in actually once happened. If Brixton virgins still look aghast when having to run the gauntlet of skunk dealers, used travelcard-hawkers and general loonies after they’re coughed out at the end of the Victoria line, while at the same time die-hard Brixton lefties grumble about gentrification, then the truth is probably somewhere in between—as evidenced by a few pints on Saturday evening in South London’s finest pub, the Effra Hall Tavern, where old Jamaican dudes mingle happily with students, hipsters, wideboys, rudeboys and mostly just super laidback ordinary folk. Brixton may not have the art-slum cachet of Hackney or Peckham, and it didn’t even invent dubstep even although its musical history suggests it should have (that honour goes to Croydon, the new frontier, five miles south). But Brixton is the chrysalis in which Kevin Martin—one-time industrial jazz-noise provocateur with GOD and Techno Animal —metamorphisised into The Bug
Exclusive Freeload: The Bug’s London Zoo Album Preview (Mixed by Kode9)
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If you’re a fan of dancehall (we are) or dubstep (we can be persuaded), or all things bass (who isn’t?) two guys who should’ve been on your radar a long time ago are The Bug and Kode9 from London. The Bug (pictured left above) has a new album coming out called London Zoo with guest shots by everyone from Tippa Irie to Warrior Queen, and we just got this exclusive preview of it mixed by Kode9 hisbadself. Expect a lot of strange vacuum and blip noises as both of these guys seem to wish they were DJs on Mir or something. London Zoo is out on July 29th on Ninjatune, so enjoy this until then.
Download: The Bug’s London Zoo Album Preview (Mixed by Kode9)
