Crooked Tongues Highlight Reel Feat The Shoreditch HeartBreakers

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Check out the high lights from the recent party down at The Queen of Hoxton. Ray Juss and Lazebreaks on mic featuring. Hi jacking partys and making girls show their bums before we play bashment. In the words of Footsie, 'its normal'

The Shoreditch Heartbreakers

What started out as a casual playing of some tunes, turned into one of the musical hi jackings of 2011!

The good people over at Protein let me come down and play some tunes on the last day of the Dante Fried Chicken x LDN Taco Shack pop up event. I have never seen food sell out so quick in all my life, it was like when the KFC in Bahamas ran out of chicken. Was crazy, I luckly got a taste of the excellent beef brisket and some biscuits and gravy. No camera so no snaps, would of needed taste-o-vision.
























After being thoroughly looked after by Teddy and Kat (THANKS!) I headed over to the Crooked Tounges party to see if I could blag my way in. But before that, here is a list of tracks I played at the pop up event

ARTIST - TITLE
oddisee - Frostbit
Tom Vek - If You Want
Dangerdoom - Bada Bing
Monopoly - Needs Deodorant
Hudson Mohawke - freek
Ben Westbeech - Bright Future
DJ Spinna - So Live
Action Bronson - Shiraz
Mobb Deep - Shook Ones
Up Hygh - Compatible
Gonjasufi - Ancestors
Exile - Your Summer Song (Remix) Feat. J. Mitchell
Stacy Epps - Floatin
Elaquent - D.A.N.C.E. - Slakah the Beatchild (Remix)
Samiyam - Nintendo CRUNCH
Detroit CYDI - Detroit CYDI - Yeah B*tch (Funstrumental Version)
TiRon x Half Amazin' - For Your Smile
Greg Enemy - Muggsy Bogues (Slam Dunk)
Lootpack - Crate Diggin'
Stro - Jacko
RJD2 - Murs Beat

Lazebreaks had joined the party. Friend of Brokenhomes, Pei Chi was in the place taking pics and managed to snag us some bands. We annoyed the bouncers and got told off but later on, he was well laughing at my cooking dance. Due to the free bar and me carrying around my laptop, Laze and I managed to snag a set downstairs for a couple hours. We will now be known at The Shoreditch Heartbreakers and WE WILL be gatecrashing your party. Thanks to Ben and the others at CT for letting us cause mayhem downstairs.

Here is a list of tracks we played and some choice pics, you can see all the pics by CLICKING RIGHT ON THIS TEXT FAM!

ARTIST - TITLE
devonwho - glow
devonwho - abrajam
Danger Doom - Perfect Hair II
The Mitchell Brothers Featuring Sway - Harvey Nicks
asher roth - amilli
Lil B - Charlie Sheen
Monopoly - Punch A Troll In The Neck
Busy - Ecleptic Armilla - Busy
OFWGKTA - Drop By Earl Sweatshirt
OFWGKTA - Blade By Earl Sweatshirt And
Daisuke Tanabe - Witch Hunt
Wiley - Bow E3
Musical Mobb - Pulse X
So Solid Crew - 21 Seconds (Side A)
Wiley - Eski-Boy
The Bug - Jah War (Loefah Remix)
The Mitchell Brothers Featuring Kano And The Streets - Routine Check (album version)
MellowHype - Hell Featuring Frank Ocean
Lil B - Ellen Degeneres
Monopoly - Needs Deodorant
B. Bravo - Computa Love
B.Lewis - Code(x)
Tony Matterhorn - Dutty Wine
Mr. Vegas - Heads High
Wayne smith - under mi sleng teng
Mavado - Weh Dem A Do
Max Romeo - Chase The Devil
Diplo Featuring Sandra Melody - Newsflash - Diplo Featuring Sandra Melody
Elephant Man - Elephant Man
Sean Paul - Infiltrate
Ginuwine - Pony
Hollowman & Dubz - 09 Freesyle - Gigz
Action Bronson - Shiraz
Jon Wayne - Dat Ass
Dibiase - WTF!!
Samiyam - Kitties
NAMELESS - Whats Goin Around
Baron Zen - Burn Rubber (Dam Funk Remix)

brokenhomes world wide

capture that, twice

painted pinky swag

Lazebreaks, original Shoreditch Heartbreaker

echo + brake

on that squeaky bum serato and cd time

When Brokenhomes play, have your gun fingers nice and high

Off The Record - The Story So Far

So, it has been a while since I have put fingers to keyboard to just put some stuff out there but probably was about time to update y'all on how things are going with Off The Record at Wax Jambu. Also, I want to try and stay awake for the Kahn fight which is another hour and a half away, (it is 1:23 right now, [weird time])

Off The Record is slowly gathering momentum which pleases me greatly and although I did feel some pressure at the start of this venture, I have been so amazed at peoples willingness to get involved and help out with what they can. There have been some hurdles, no doubt and there have been some challenges but that was the whole idea of the project.

On the 27th of July, 2011 it will be the sixth week of Off The Record and things are starting to fall into place and enhancements are being made all the time. Getting people involved is getting a bit more organised, that is just down to me and my organisational skills. The flyers have now landed, all 5000 of them and I will be distributing them across London's remaining record shops and other trendy places. The ustream is starting to pick up and will be looking into trying to make the view a little better for the people that log on across the world. I have added a page here on the blog, that links direct to the ustream and I will be adding more stuff to that page when I think about it a little more. But generally, the feedback has been very positive so far from teh excellent people behind Wax Jambu and the people I have spoke to and came down and played. I am very thankful to everyone involved, Thank you.

Some future enhancements to the night which I have thought about or have been discussed are

• Live mixes from the night with bar ambience in the back ground available to download
• Tracklistings from the mixes
• Interviews with the people that come down and play
• Change of the camera angle for the ustream
• DJs needing to dance more on camera ;)
• More themed nights, ie 7 inch only, soul night, ska night
• In house recordshop and swap shop for vinyls
• Recording some sets to cassette tape as limited editions
• Podcast/uploads

Those are some of the things, if you do have any ideas. Please contact me, I am not hard to find, email add is on the page and you can also leave a comment here.

Who knows how much of a monster (in all positive aspects) Off The Record will be? It doesnt have its own twitter or website, just running through here but then, its a vinyl only night. Gotta try and keep most of the old skool ethics alive! It has rekindled my energy and enthusiasm for DJing, buying records and gets me excited on a Wednesday. Have met some great people as well and chats about music and strange record covers is what I want to do on a Wednesday evening. Just hope there are some other people out there who want to also.

1 more hour until fight time!

Speak soon, Ray

Off The Record - Launch Night 22.06.11

Last week was the first in a series of events down at Wax Jambu featuring DJs that will be playing from vinyl only. A novelty in todays digital age with it all being CDs/MP3s and Serato, I thought I would try something a little different.



The previous weekend, I went and say my old dear and picked out some of the old vinyl to play. A mixed bag but mainly from the 70s to 90s. The bag was heavy, as expected. Those pirate radio days of taking 2 bags to radio were definitely a distant memory.



Tonight and every nights music would be going live to the world via Ustream, easy to set up and my trusty first netbook computer came out for the ride. Just need to work out the optimal webcam angle. That would be cool.



Set up for that was pretty straight forward and that, unfortunately, the left deck had seen better times and was kicking out a massive hum. It wasnt to noticeable but, I could hear it. After struggling with it for a while, Jimi, the owner and deck surgeon, took the turntable upstairs to see if he could repair it. We tired it a second time but no joy. So there was live on the floor (no Diplo) deck surgery. I went all 1970 listening party with one turntable. Gotta give thanks to the Motown albums!



Everything was a bit sensitive after the repair but we got it cracking. My good friend Laze Breaks came down to help out. This guy made the digital jump way before me and you can tell. Guy HATES records, but cannot deny the selection he brought down. Michelle from't Leeds was feeling the Jill Scott.

We had a good time and would like to say thanks to all the people that made it possible and came down. Much <3 y'all ready know. But we will keep it moving and will keep this updated as a kind of diary of the events.

Its been a long time - Brokenhomes do Miami (and eat alot of food)

So its been way over a month since my last post and I have a genuine reason for the laziness.



Pre tense.

Anyway, we the brothers Peakes, Brokenhomes were invited to a wedding on a cruise ship starting off in Miami. We knew it was going to be fun and if you is my friend on facebook y'all ready seen all the pics of the food and everything else that happened in Miami and on the cruise. This late write up is just on the musical slant as per usual.



So this is where we stayed in Downtown Miami. Our family was all up by the airport so we tried to stay somewhere in the middle. Mother of the Brothers Peakes was not to happy about us staying Downtown. She was probably correct, Downtown Miami aint the most exclusive place in the world compared to South Beach but it did its job. PLUS, it was opposite the best/worst takeaway I have ever been to.



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Well, that was our resting and eating sorted. (also must make a special mention to S & S Diner, check the reviews. Place was toppa top) As we were not in the party zone/main tourist area of Miami, we decided to have a little stroll over Venetian Causeway one day. That was a tough walk. Check the image for distances and directions.



Daytimes were not a musical affair, although we did listen to alot of Benny Sings



When we did venture over to South Beach for the party, the first night we ended up in this horrible place CAMEOS expensive and gash. What wound me up the most was the DJs girlfriends in the DJ box doing all them lame hand movements. Gash. The music was electro I think, it was the music that is pretty much the same. Build up, drop, electronic bass line, DJs girlfriend moves her hands. We lasted 30 minutes in this club. $20 very well wasted.

The second club we partied in was Mangos Tropical Cafe. We came to party with the Canadian girls (one was celebrating her birthday and was coming on the cruise). We got to the party real late as we were drinking 40s in the hotel room... WHAT?!? BROKENHOMES LIKES TO DRANK!



This club was much better, they played a good selection of rap/rnb and reggaeton (I hate reggaeton). South Beach clubbing is different to London clubbing, only because when we tried to do the cheesy 'ooo ooo' no-one followed up!

The rest of the trip was spent on the Cruise Ship, the thing was huge. Here is a pic of the map they hand out when you get on board. When you see it and then start walking around it you appreciate how much work goes into these floating hotels



We spent most of our late nights in the nightclub on board with a DJ that hated his life. He would play the same music eveeery night and not even mix. Just play solitaire on the other pc. Ah well.

He did make this jam the song of the holiday though



We would like to go cruising and Miami again so if there is anyone that would like to sponsor us, please get in touch :)

That Was...11th March 2010 Run down

Just getting round to doing this write up, has been a busy week-ish in the world of brokenhomes.

That Was... took place last Thursday at one of the best styled venues in NW London, The Gallery, Hendon. Location is probably lacking but you cannot fault the interior. Anyway, due to some unfortunate circumstances, Lazy Eye from the Black Vinyl Crew had to pull out. (we with you brother). I called the venue and let them know that I would like to start the event at 8pm. I got the all clear so got everything set.

On reaching the venue, I wrote out the guest list for the evening downstairs whilst having a cup of tea and going through the texts and emails from the week with names.

After all that was done, I popped upstairs to check the system. Technology seems to have something against me at the moment. The left deck had no slip mat and then on further examination, it was only pumping out the left channel. So to remedy this I made both decks play one channel and pumped the volume up. DJ Leisure brought a spare slip mat which was lucky and we sorted out the CD decks whilst no one was in the venue.

As it stared early it stayed empty for a while. My brother, Greedykid/Louis/brokenhomes v2.0 turned up. He wanted to have a quick clang/mix so I decided to let him take over. Turns out that he did the first set up until 9pm. His first ever play out. I stepped up from 9 and luckily as Louis and I were working from the same bag, he didn't play all the A-Sides. From the DJ box I could see the venue slowly filling up. It wasn't going to be a road block affair as I hardly promoted it. It was a Facebook and word of mouth thing only. By the end of my set, just after 10, we had hit maximum which was 60 people. Pretty good for a venue which is normally closed on a Thursday and just a local word of mouth promotion. I was told by the head doorman that a promoter came in and brought 3 people the last week. #epicfail.

Next DJ was Grumpy aka Steve James aka Solo G. He provided the soundtrack up until 11pm. DJ Leisure stepped up after going home to get more CDs! As he was playing CDs, he played last as he was going to be the loudest DJ of the night. After some unplugging and plugging back in we got the CDs working again. I don't know how they stopped working. It was a good plan as by 12 we had some people on the dance floor.

Feedback from the evening was it was a real good get together and people were asking me if I would do another one. I probably would but I think for that venue to be a success, there would have to be a compromise in my music integrity and I'm not sure if I could do that. We shall see, its a big moral question.

Big thanks to everyone who came through.

Brainfeeder March 10th 2010 Run down

As we got into the trilogy of Brainfeeder events, the location had moved from the Hearne Street car park to the old abattoir, Fabric nightclub. The line up (as you can see from the flyer) was pretty nuts. During the week I got an email telling me that the event had been fully sold out and with that they furnished me with the set times.



NOSAJ THING (LIVE)
21.00-21.30
TOKIMONSTA (LIVE)
21.30-22.00
DIMLITE (LIVE)
22.00-22.30
GASLAMP KILLER
22.30-23.15
DAEDELUS (LIVE)
23.15-00.00
FLYING LOTUS (LIVE)
00.00-01.00
J ROCC
01.00-02.00
DORIAN CONCEPT (LIVE)
02.00-02.30
MARTYN B2B KODE 9
02.30-CLOSE

There was a change up in set times as Tokimonsta was up first. We walked into the venue shouting, DRAPPPPPPPESSS and CLEAAAAARRRRRRRR from Tempa T's new track Next Hype. Toki was laying the beats down pretty thick. She grabbed the mic and asked everyone to come closer which was really sweet. Tokimonsta is less animated than the other live beat performers that I have seen but the power was all in the beats. Her set finished and the next live show was coming from Nosaj Thing on the other side of the stage. Now I am aware of this guys work but only through previews from Boomkat so I was pretty interested in hearing this guy get down. We were not disappointed. He moved from banger to banger with the fluid Flying Lotus esq body snap that comes with these type of digtal sludge music. His set was unfortunately interrupted buy a technical failure. Checking out his twitter, looks like his MPD had failed him. It was a brief rest bite and kicks and snares were banging through the meaty Fabric sound system in a matter of seconds. A lot of NEXT HYPESSS and CLEARRRRS were being let off from the BROKENHOMES boys.

Next up was the shy beat smith who goes by the name of Dimlite. He approached his equipment hooded up but not in an aggressive way. More to shield himself from the eyes of the crowd. He picked up headphones which is not normal for anyone from this scene and then sang on his first track. Dimlite's music isnt as hype as some of the other beat makers. The tempo is reduced but the bass... increased! This stuff can make you feel drunk. Its so wooozy but I really got into it. Gaslamp touched mic to heat up the set and Dimlite moved into his final tracks. It was only due to an incorrect button push that Dimlite's set ended. I think he had another few minutes left in him. He shied away from the crowd and thanked us.

Up on the Serato was The Mother Fucking Gas Lamp Killer! We were waiting on this set because he always brings the heat to the dance. We also wondered if he would play Unicron's Toothache and what our reaction would be. It was agreed that some girls would get punched in the face if it came on! He started off with some incidental music to clear our heads and slowly moved into the wobble-fest. I had never seen him so animated, he was running up and down the stage and doing some serious moshing. It was nuts, that energy just transferred into the crowd! He hit us with a VIP version of Chase and Status' Eastern Jam and some tune with Take me higher sample. It was madness. After the wobble fest he brought us into the rock and roll side of the set and then showcased his track with Warp records latest signing, Gonjasufi. He hit us with Cowboys and Indians of the album which is out now. The set came to a close after he went back to playing the beats, probably one of the most memorable DJ sets I will ever see.

Deadalus was ready to start on his custom light box playing all sorts of beats. Now its pretty hard to follow on from The GLK and for us boys it showed. Not that we didn't enjoy it but we knew what we wanted to hear and the constant teasing of tracks and multiple layers was a bit too much for our ears. He did sneak in a little bit of Red and Yellow toys and some other things I noticed but they never got a full play out.

This was all a pre cursor to the main man behind Brainfeeder, The Flying Lotus. Now the last time I saw him, I wasn't that interested. He played a lot of dubstepy stuff that I wasn't feeling and I had that 'play something we know' head on. FlyLo has made some certified classics in this scene. Tea Leaf Dancer, Orbit Brazil and Massage Situation to name but a few. BUT, we had to give him a chance tonight to unleash the new stuff and most of the crowd were here to see him. He didn't disappoint, most of the tunes we didn't know but they all banged. We did hear the faint synth sound of Mono/Polys - Red and Yellow Toys but he didn't let it fly. We just went nuts at the hint of it. He drew for a massage situation edit and everyone raised their hands for that.

Overall it was a great Brainfeeder. We only stayed for 30 mins of J.Rocc's set where he did the whole Sample/Dilla beat that he did when he was over with Madlib.

It would never touch the car park vibes but lets see if they all pop over again in the summer

SHANGOOLI

Genre @ Wax Jambu 6th March 2010

So after much emailings and harassing of people, I got put on to play some tracks. Wont go into how it all came about but will thank Bensamba and the people of Wax Jambu for having me. Was really good to be able to play music I liked.

The day didn't start to well as we lost at football 2-1, I took a nasty tackle which left my ankle quite purple but didn't really feel it until after the game. Because of football and my timing skills I was a tad late to get to the venue. Was greeted by Louis and Nathan and then shown the booth. (I have no camera on my old skool blackberry so it will have to be words for this report). This was going to be the first time I had ever used Serato outside of my house and I was pretty nervous about it. Technology has a habit of failing. I <3 computers but sometimes, you know..
Didn't help realising that my Serato laptop only has 256mb of Ram, Serato needs 1GB min. I went with the 'its worked before so why shouldn't it now?' ideal.

After much wire swapping and moving things around, I was ready to pick my first track. Some ladies in front of the booth were already dropping in requests. The first one of Candi Staton - You've got the love got batted away. Then in a weird coincidence or my skill of selecting, she asked for Last night a DJ saved my life... I had already lined it up on the deck. (ROOOOD BOY, TOP SELECTAAAAA). The laptop was on the other deck at this time, when I switched off in house music to go with my stuff it all stared going weird. As the track was playing it was dropping out and changing speed. I crapped it and drew for the emergency CDs from the bag, once the laptop was seated on the shelf, it all kinda levelled out. There was one other drop out and a loop that I set went crazzzy but its all teething problems with a new system.

Once all was up and running, I went in with the tracks. Was picking anything and everything from the 90-110 bpm range and just getting drunk with the crowd. One guy asked for some names of tracks so I helped him out. Also met some big Dilla fans and had a great chat about hip hop and beats. I also witnessed some of the craziest dancing I had ever seen.

My set finished just after 11 and Bensamba took over, first track - Bullion. The roof got a good slap when that dropped. He picked up the pace and took us through house, tropical vibes and even the garage staple God Made me Funky. By this time I was full of grape and doing some crazy shapes with the girls (shower rangers).

So hopefully I will be down at that venue again. And for those that are interested, below is the track listing from last night.

Ray Juss - Live @Genre
Wax Jambu - Angel, London
6th March 2010

Artist - Title
Indeep - Last Night A DJ Saved My Life (12" Mix)
Evelyn "Champagne" King - Love Come Down
Edwin Birdsong - Cola Bottle Baby
Phoenix - Listomania (Album Version)
Hall & Oates - Maneater
Ayah - Pusha Man (Original/ No Rap) - Ayah
Karriem Riggins - "12's in 8" - Karriem Riggins
Baron Zen - Burn Rubber (Dam Funk Remix)
Morgan feat. Steve Spacek - iiiiiii
Flying Lotus - Massage Situation
Dam Funk - Mirrors
DJ Spinna - Speed
Beem - Ducker
Bullion - You Still Believe In Dee
Bullion - Caroline, No
Heralds of Change feat. Olivier Daysoul - Bopgunn - Heralds of Change feat. Olivier Daysoul
Nino Moschella - Better Off
Tom Brock - There's Nothing In This World That Can Stop Me From Loving You
Jay-Z - Girls, Girls, Girls
El Michels Affair - Shimmy Shimmy Ya
DJ Spinna - Galactic Soul
Hudson Mohawke - Rising 5
Herlads of Change - Asswank
NUMBERS - Slugabed/La Roux - Numbers. #018 - LaRoux - In for the kill (Slugabed rekindle)
Roots Manuva - Witness Dub
Dam Funk - Killdat aka Killdatmuthafu*ka
Dizz1 - Here we go again
Dorian Concept - The Fucking Formula
Gum Drops, The - Coming Up For Air
Michael Jackson - Burn This Disco Out
Royksopp - Remind Me
Elmore Judd - You Said You Were Different
Ray Juss - Human Nature - Ray Juss Refix
Dorian Concept - Sandwich Terror - Dorian Concept
Ayro - Moving on - Ayro
4Hero - Hold It Down (Bugz In The Attics's Co-Operative Mix)
Amy Winehouse - In My Bed (Bugz In The Attic Vocal Mix)
Louis - Brokenhomes.co.uk - Colour
Bugz In The Attic - Happy Days
Jesse Rose - Pop Yer Porn
The Rapture - Whoo, Alright Yeah...Uh-Huh (People Don't Dance No More) - Claude Vonstroke Pantydropper Vocal Mix
Ben Westbeech - Hang Around (Karizma's Kaytronic Dub Mix)
Osunlade - Casablanca Soul
Shaun Escoffery - Space Rider
Mj Cole - Never Say Never (Original)
donaeo - party hard
Tuff Jam Todd Edwards - Xavier - Tumblin' Down (Tuff Jam)
Simian Mobile Disco - Audacity of huge
Marc Mac - Takes Over Me - Marc Mac
Basement Jaxx - Oh My Gosh (Bugz In The Attic Remix) - Basement Jaxx