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GETME! SEPTEMBER 18TH

We return after a short break to a new very special venue, WEST.

R.S.V.P is essential :

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LIXO : XXV MX MIX

Track listing :

1. Space Dimension Controller - Title Sequence
2. Ramadanman - Tempest
3. Pariah - Prism
4. Venom and Damage - Deeper
5. Doc Daneeka - Hold On
6. Midland - Play The Game
7. Svpreme Fiend - Killer
8. PVT - Community
9. Kingdom - Fogs
10. L Vis 1990 - Into The Stars
11. Katy B - Katy On A Mission (Roska remix)
12. Mr Mageeka - Different Lekstrix
13. Bambounga - Nappy Head
14. French Fries - Senta (Bambounga remix)
15. Daniel Haaksman - Hands Up
16. Roska - Play Gamez
17. Kingdom - Bust Broke
18. Jessie Ware and SBTRKT - Nervous
19. Joe - Level Crossing
20. Space Dimension Controller - Galactic Effector
21. Redlight - MDMA
22. Ramadanman - Glut
23. Simbad - Soul Fever (Karizma’s K2 Dub)

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LIXO AT SO SPECIAL

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RANKS LONDON

GETME! contributor Daniel David Freeman has launched his new dancehall inspired tees under the Ranks London label. BUY HERE.

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NAME ME SOMEONE THAT IS NOT A PARASITE 5

Goblin are best known for essentially being the house band for Dario Argento’s better films. Goblin married dark ambient and atmospheric swathes with elements of prog and krautrock to brew up a truly menacing stew that suited Argento’s work perfectly. Goblin and Argento’s most successful collaborations are probably Profondo Rosso (1975) and the truly transcendentally amazing Suspiria (1977). Their soundtrack to Zombi (aka Dawn Of The Dead, 1978) aint too shabby either. As well as their soundtrack work Goblin cut straight up records too including the excellent Roller from 1976. This track is taken from the final Argento/Goblin collaboration, 2000’s Non Ho Sonno. The band’s legacy lives on with the occasional reunion show and via Goblin-accolytes Zombi whose entire output has basically been total Goblin-worship.

“Associated Dead” - Goblin

JAMES KNIGHT

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RIDDIM DRIVEN - MESHACH DANIEL FALCONER ROBERTS

SQUARE DANCE RIDDIM

Today I woke up feeling less of a man then ever before. Almost paralytic with self-pity and disgust, I managed to pull myself out of bed for examination. My pride looked as if it had taken a battering from an aggravated Tyson and all self-belief had long since disappeared. I tried to wash the shame off in the shower but each centilitre of warm water that touched my body felt like a gallon of hot shame. The reason why is unimportant, but it is a notable low - a feeling I imagine to be paralleled by all those involved in the Square Dance Riddim. There are definitely more troughs than peaks in Dancehall but this is something unforgivable, a mockery from within of something too easily mockable. This is a riddim to be listened to and instantly forgotten.

Vybz Kartel - Cocky Long

Reagon - Head Start

Polish - Wet Wet

Ninja Kid - Gal A Beg

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THOMAS PRATT : PHOTO BLOG 1

CRETE VEHICLES

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“LIKE” US ON FACE BOOK

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JET LETTS AND LIXO AT CARNIVAL AFTER PARTY

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GETME! / ALIBI / MARCH

Found film.

ACTS ON THE NIGHT:

RIKO DAN (ROLL DEEP)
JAMIE XX
JET LETTS
LIXO
PWBC
JOE OI YOU!

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LIXO AT TYPICALLY TROPICAL

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WET WOMAN

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EXTRA STOUT SOUNDSYSTEM

Catch GETME! djs at this year’s Notting Hill Carnival, more info soon.

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NAME ME SOMEONE THAT IS NOT A PARASITE 5

I am going to break with my self imposed method of track selection this week purely because I have been out of the country for a bit and while I was away I became obsessed with listening and re-listening to a single track. That hasn’t happened to me in a long time so I thought I would share the track in question with you.

It is a song that I am sure many of you may well be familiar with. It is from Fairport Convention’s 1969 LP Liege & Lief, an album that I (and I am sure quite literally millions of other people) have enjoyed for many years. I am not sure what made me pull the album out again but after my first re-listen in a good while I couldn’t stop playing “Tam Lin” which is the penultimate track on side two (if you are listening to the album on vinyl).

The story of Liege & Lief has been told countless times and I won’t bore you all with the details but for those who aren’t aware in a nutshell it represents Fairport’s highwater mark in terms of their output, it practically single-handedly created the template for ‘English’ folk-rock and it almost never happened at all. In May 1969 Fairport’s van crashed on the M1 as the band travelled back south after a show in Birmingham. The accident claimed the life of drummer Martin Lamble and Richard Thompson’s girlfriend Jeannie Franklyn. It looked like the band was over but after decamping to an old English country house near Winchester and recruiting new drummer Dave Mattacks and Dave Swarbrick on fiddle they set about making what Richard Thompson would describe as an English response to The Band’s Music From Big Pink. Where The Band looked to Appalchian mountain ballads, bluegrass and American roots music for inspiration Fairport delved into the arcane world of the great ancient British ballads and traditional folk songs, a heritage far older, odder, mythical and strange than their US contemporaries source material.

“Tam Lin” perfectly encapsulates Fairport’s pioneering ability to re-interpret a legendary ballad (the first appearance of which was recorded in 1549) and set the whole shebang to a unique electric accompaniment. The lyrics concern a man entrapped by a curse laid upon him by a fairy queen in a forest in Scotland called Catterhaugh (that exists in real life) who can only be rescued by his true love. It’s all a bit confusing to be honest but this might help explain the narrative a little.

The centrepiece of the track is Sandy Denny’s vocal. Soon after Liege & Lief was completed Denny left Fairport first forming a short lived band called Fotheringay before recording four solo albums and briefly returning to Fairport before her tragically premature death from a brain haemorrhage caused by falling down the stairs of her parents home in Cornwall in 1978. She left behind a voice which defined early Fairport and would arguably go on to define English folk like no other female vocalist before or since.

Fairport Convention - Tam Lin

JAMES KNIGHT

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NICK JENSEN : SECTION SELECTION

3 of the most epic backside noseblunt slides ever done!

NICK JENSEN

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