Brokenhomes Vs Bollywood

Im at the work place and just checked pon the Facebook and seen there is a new jam for all y'all to listen to on the soundcloud.

Brand new remix of a Bollywood track with probably the best track title you will hear this year

Show me your Jalwa - GreedyKid's Enlivening Body Gel Feat Guarana, ginger and Organic Bergamot

Show me your Jalwa - GreedyKid's Enlivening Body Gel Feat Guarana, ginger and Organic Bergamot by BrokenHomes V2.0

Dubplate Drama - Season 1, Episode 8 - A G.C.S.E in Japanese will give you cool titles

Side A1 - Imosheroy produced by Greedykid

Apparently, the title of this track is a Japanese word. Google cannot find it so that goes that story out the window. Dance music always has strange names. At the height of Greedykid's production there was tracks like this coming out once a week. Its hard to put this track in with much else. Heavy hiphop esq drums but programmed in a slowed down UK Garage style. Its not a reload track but it is a nice piece of music.



Side A2 - Shizuka produced by Greedykid

Shizuka is another Japanese word. This one is a bit more popular in the ol' search results. My fave result was this one here. Brokenhomes are keen fans of Anime, (Fist of The North Star) Shizuka sounds like Godzilla made out of Meccano rigged up to the national grid. The bass is like Zilla sweeping down and chewing up some buildings. Empty sparse production, plenty of room for you to fill the gaps with your mind or new skanks.



Side B1 - Allstars Instrumental produced by Ray Juss

Most of what needs to be said was done so here. Here was the popular instrumental version. A hiphop 'stroke' Garage jam built for MCs before they started thinking about making rap tracks.



Side B2 - Grimey Hip Hop produced by Greedykid

This was a beat Louis had that was never finished or was ever going to be finished. Its just one of those loop tracks. All it needs is a vocal and it turns into an instant classic (somewhere). The noise after 16 bars is actually made from phone tones. Maybe it could dial people?! 555-....

Dubplate Drama - Season 1, Episode 7 - Where it all began

Side A - Intro Vol 1 produced by Ray Juss

So this is where it all started. This was the very very first dubplate I ever cut and I will always remember it because of the day I cut it, a terrible terrorist act was happening across the pond. Music House was the most famous cutting shop in the world for a while. It was based in Holloway behind a Taxi mechanics. It all pretty much worked on a word of mouth basis. All I knew was, get there early or your going to have to wait ages. The day I went was 9/11. The 9/11. All that didn't really kick off until my plate was cut and I was on my way home.

Intro 1 was based on the popular soca beat garage tunes like Decoy. I wanted my own to carry that same sort of energy. Guess that's how you want to start a set. UK Garage times anyway. Unfortunately for me and me also being a bit of a shy boy, this dub was cut all on one channel. Makes it more collectable but not every good for playing out. I don't have to worry about that now with the advent of Serato.

The track also features the trademark speak and spell letters spelling out my name. Loads of other weird sounds knocking around in this as well. Think there are some Timbaland esq bird sounds too.



Side B - Baby produced by Ray Juss

Baby was a re working of a garage track at the time which was pretty easy to dissemble. This is how I learnt/got into the remixing side of music. I would take the existing parts of the track. Samples, vox, drum kit and re work it into my own style. When I listen back on this, I don't really like it but it was pretty popular at the time. Maybe I'm getting old! This track gets pretty frantic. Classic memory from this is when a DJ called Spin-e-b cut it and played it on Ice FM. My brother and I was dancing round the stereo on a Saturday afternoon!

Dubplate Drama - Season 1, Episode 6 - Re Work a (not so) Classic

Side A - Me Leave (Believe Me) Bootleg produced by Unknown

The original track was part of the 8 bar revolution that was kicking off in garage all started by this track. DJ EZ really got behind this track and it probably set DJ Wire up for the musical career he has now. This tune was being handed out by the guy at the cutting house. I didn't have anything to cut and on a whim decided to cut the bootleg because it sounded good out loud. I hardly played as I really like the original and DJ Faz mix.



Side B - Gotta Find A Way (Liberty X) remixed by Ray Juss

Up the road from me was a studio called 206, that was the number of the shop it was in. The guy who ran it managed to get hold of some Liberty X parts for a remix they wanted doing. As I was always round the studio, he gave me the acapella. Within a day of two I had made a 4x4 and 2 step remix. The 4x4 mix seems to be lost but I really liked the 2 step version I did and decided to cut it. The remix never got picked up but was fun process.