A daytime conversation via Facebook

Today, at work I got a message via Facebook via one of the random friends I have on my account. The opening line drew me straight in so, here is how it went down. Poor guy. Anyway, dont let him add you or anything.

Don Benjamin Morrison
hi sir, i am a banker in ghana and i have a business deal for you. hope you will coperate. thanks

Ray Juss
you want my bank details?
account number and sort code?

Don Benjamin Morrison
no
there is a dormant account that beers your second name and i need you to clear it for a percentage share

Ray Juss
wow, that is amazing. How much money is in the account?

Don Benjamin Morrison
there is 100,000 Ghana cedis and is about 70, 000 Euros.

Ray Juss
this is amazing, I will be able to feed my children and buy them shoes finally

Don Benjamin Morrison
well that is impressive

Ray Juss
Don, you have changed my life. How can I repay you?

Don Benjamin Morrison
u only need to send me any valid id card so i can procees u as the benefactor

Ray Juss
I will do that, first send me your account number and sort code as I would like to deposit some MONIES into your bank
to say thank you
for all your hard work
I will also need your address, to send you a card my children will make for you

Don Benjamin Morrison
that is not necessary now we are rather going to transact more better business

Ray Juss
but it is, my dead wife would like you to have the gift too. She died last year, this is why I have had much financial problems
she was addicted to doughnuts. Kripsy Kreme ones. It was a long a tough battle
please accept my gift Don.
I just need your account number and sort code

Don Benjamin Morrison
ooh sorry for ur wife

Ray Juss
I am crying
with tears of joy
and sadness
she would like to thank you from the grave
she will visit your house tonight

Don Benjamin Morrison
i dont think my account number is needednow

Ray Juss
as a ghost
send the details Don

Pause

Ray Juss
DO it
FOR MY DEAD WIFE
SHE WANTS THIS SO MUCH
FOR MY CHILDREN

Don Benjamin Morrison
as a ghost for what in my house

Ray Juss
she will not harm you
she comes in peace
she likes Fufu
please DON
send me your account number and sort code

Don Benjamin Morrison
ghost cant cant visit my house cos is protect by the blood of jesus

Ray Juss
She will come and thank you tonight
you will see Don
I must go
The spirits are calling me
Thank you for the gift of 70,000 euro

Don Benjamin Morrison
you better go and meet those spirit
cos am stronger than all of you

Ray Juss
bless you Don. You have much Fufu power.
Good bye

Update for Brokenhomes

So it is Monday at 2am, you will probably see that on your FB or on here but thought that would be a good way of starting things off. Things have been very busy with Off The Record on this site and that is a a good thing. Previously it was like a post a month of not much really. Now, there is so much content on here I am thinking of a redesign.

The real meat of this post is, essentially, I am a DJ. 'Promoting' is fun but its a bi product of wanting to DJ more. The whole catch 22/chicken and egg theory. So to try and put myself in more clubs and get a or more (delete where appropiate) bookings, I have made a mix CD. In fact, I am going to make a Mix CD every month. The (late) October one will be filling the streets soon and I better get to work on the November mix pretty sharpish.

Got me a nice laser monochrome printer with a spare toner and some of that paypal money to make real music for y'all. Internet is fun and all but if you didn't feel it, it didn't happen. So she says.

I better get to bed, zombie mode out here

Love x

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.

Iceland Stonebaked Pizza Range

So everyone likes pizza, well not everyone. Some people have gluten intolerance and some people, like myself, have lactose intolerance. BUT, cheese is my friend so no Usain Bolt trips to the toilet for me!

Anyway, back to the meat of the post and yes we are talking about some of the finest reformed meats I have ever tasted. Now, I have had a lot of reformed meat in my time, especially placed on top of some bread/pizza base, covered in tomato sauce and layered with cheese. The kid even worked on the pizza counter at ASDA for a minute and we ate good! But this range of pizzas that Iceland is running at the moment is TOTALLY EXCELLENT (Bill and Ted voice)

The Stonebaked range comes in the following flavours

Italian Style Speciale Pizza
Italian Style Garlic Chicken Pizza
Italian Style Barbecue Chicken Pizza
Italian Style Mediterranean Vegetable Pizza
Italian Style Sweet Chilli Chicken Pizza
Italian Style Spicy Double Pepperoni Pizza

I am glad to see they have removed the chicken tikka variety pizza from the range because that was GASH.

Yes, I have sampled each of the above pizzas and after much discussion with the voices, I would say that the Spicy Double Pepperoni Pizza is my favourite with the Sweet Chilli Chicken Pizza coming in second.

You are probably wondering if you haven't already taken a closer look at thttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifhe picture how much these retail for. Well to you, my frozen-food-oven-treat fanatics, ONE POUND AND FIFTY PENCE. That is correct, so you can get 2 for 3 shots and make a serious sandwich!

So get down to Iceland and check them out, if you are disappointed, then speak to Iceland. Like I give a shit!

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE RANGE!!!

Ray Juss

Whats Good? Whats Crackaling?

So I am sitting here at my half complete studio desk with a tepid cup of tea to my left, a screen with this and twitter open in front of me, and my TV and ever constant NAS (Network Attached Storage) crunching away downloading me TV shows.

Life at Brokenhomes towers has been pretty stagnant of late. I invested in a new desk to spur some creativity and I have had probably my most unfortunate ebay transaction of my life. Just cursed with bad luck. I mean, were my beats that bad that the powers that be are doing all they can to conspire against me so I cant finish this desk?!? Along with the incomplete desk is the stuff that doesn't have a home any more in the flat. CDs are piled up against the radiator, meaning Ill have to move the CDs if I want some of that British Gas goodness. Books are ontop of my fridge which does make thumbing through pages whilst making Earl Grey very tempting but I usually refrain from such activity. My turntables and records are in my bedroom on the floor. My bedroom is so not happy about this arrangement, so not happy. To accompany the staple bedroom furnishings of bed and wardrobe (no bedside table, too small for such comforts) is a lamp attached to the frame of the bed and my DAB radio on the window sill. Oh and the perpetual drying on clothes on the clothes horse that hasn't been taken down in 3 years.

SO back to where this is all going. Well the first day of sun today made me think about summer and DJing again. Does every year, more this year as I want it to be my outlet for my social activities. Since I stopped DJing on pirate radio I lost most of my friends who were into the music thing. We have grown up, doing other things and chasing other dreams. Like paying bills. Hopefully this DJ thing can get me out of The Palace and let me play some music to people. I am fully aware that my taste in music will probably annoy some people but people shouldn't hate on Rebecca Black. That's my jam right now!

The sibling is away on holiday at the moment and I have to work on his 400th PC so that he can be creative again. Also, I have been watching far to many videos on this Maschine program/hardware combo. If I find £400 behind my sofa I know Ill be heading to Digital Village.

Anyway, thought Id have a mini rant/post as I gotta keep this updated. Soon as the desk is done there should be the podcast on itunes for everyone to grab. There will also be CDs floating around and some stickers are in the pipeline so a couple things.

Keep safe everyone and don't smoke crack

<3

Ray Juss

Not really an update, just more proof that I/We are pretty lazy. :)

I got this rootmusic thing like 4 months ago, way before myspace renamed its self my_ (that is lame) and way before people started wetting themselves about deleting it. Ours is still up, its free, don't cost me anything!

But I have now updated the Brokenhomes facebook page with the bandpage details. Which means you can track all our activities in one place. Share it with your enemies. We need some haters!

Keep it grimey/funky/wonky and most of all WANKY.

Long time no post bitches...

Yeah its been a long time, I shouldnt have left you... without a dope beat to step to...

But anyways, not much actually has been happening in the Brokenhomes world. Louis' computer is about to breakdown and my fingers don't want to go near the MPC. Troubled times? Perhaps.

We keep it moving... so with that, here is a brand new experimental beat from the kid himself. Writing this in a 7/4 time signature it goes everywhere. 2 minutes to hear it.

When Bronze Turns Blue by BrokenHomes V2.0

We still <3 all y'all so love us back and I'll write more interesting stories

John Peel - Grime Show 2004 - Live on Radio 1

So grime has been around forever and I guess it will be for even more time but even back in 2004 it was making waves. The inspirational John Peel featured a live Grime segment on his show in 2004 with DJs Eastwood and DJ Krafty. It also featured the lyrical talents of MC Purple, GEE, IE and IQ.

Most of the music on this blog is connected to me and at the 51 minute mark of the set is the Pulse X refix that I made and sent out like wild fire. It was later re bootlegged and released as Pulse Xtra but ill write a story about that one day

DOWNLOAD FROM THIS LINK HERE.

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.



CHECKERS <<<<<<<<<< CLICK LINK

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 :)

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.

Dubplate Drama - Season 1, Episode 5 - Team Sports

Side A - B4 Its Ova produced by Ray Juss

This was another track I made on a Saturday afternoon. I had the parts of this knocking around for a while. The vocal came from an RnB acapella record someone had left round my house. Interested in finding it to see what it sounds like now. The other obvious sample of you ever followed UK Garage is the 'Wookie' Organ on top of the bass line. Later found out it was a stock sound from the Roland JV sound module. I spent a lot of time working the vocal chops into a whole new song. Works for me.



Side B1 - Slugger produced by Greedykid

Slugger is one of those tracks that if I ever lost it, I would be deeply upset. My ears dont really tollerate rubbish music and I try to stay impartial to all the music we have made. I wasnt one for cutting crap tunes. Hence the reason only a few other tracks make it into dubplate drama. But to think, this track was made by a 15 year old almost a decade ago is scary. The break downs, sparse drums, atmospheric element to the track. It could be early dubstep, it could be a branch of UK Garage. You could even get wanky and throw IDM at it. Whatever you want, Slugger (and its better never to cut remix Slugger Unleashed) will remain a Brokenhomes classic.



Side B2 - Who's Next? produced by Greedykid

You are probably aware of Benga's track 26 Bass lines. Where the tracks bass riff changes every 8 bars?? Well this was of the same ilk, but for MCs. The MCing element was just becoming prevalent in UK Garage with the likes of The Heartless Crew from North London, The Pay As You Go Crew from East and North West's very own BVC (Black Vinyl Crew). Every 16 bars, a new MC gets called in and given a different bass line. An almost hip hop/grime/garage track.

Dubplate Drama - Season 1, Episode 4 - The toy that spoke the future?

Side A - Intro Vol 2 produced by Ray Juss

Intro dub plates were made very very famous in garage by DJ EZ, this record alone could make 2000 people scream very loudly. As these stories are not in chronological order (obviously, this is vol 2) my second intro dub plate was much different from my first. The track spells out my DJ name at the time, which was Outraygeous. I sampled the letters from an actual Speak and Spell that a friend lent me. Some of those letter have been dropped from my name now. DJ names sound like super hero names to me so I tried to get one as close to day job name of a super hero.. Tony Starks, Clark Kent, Bruce Banner... you get my drift.
Intro 2 took a 4x4 route again and was more of a pumping track. If you listen really carefully you can hear a camera shutter sound inside the beat. Yeah, I had a lot of time on my hands back then. There was also an acapella of the spelling of my name at the end of the track which I used as a DJ tool now and again.



Side B - Impossible to Belive (sp) produced by Ray Juss

Impossible to Belive or Believe as its meant to be was probably a bit out there once again. Big tracks around this time was like Sweet Female Attitude - Flowers and soft 'girly garage' as it was known on the pirates. I, wasn't into that... at all. So, I made a track with the sound of someone walking alone and the sickest most droniest bass line I could find. I once played this at a pub and the bass was so loud from the track, the speaker stack fell over. Wobbly bass lines are all the rage now.

Creation date of this track? End of 2001 early 2002, maybe I could see the future?

Dubplate Drama - Season 1, Episode 3 - Like a 4x4 Truck

Side A - Roofer produced by Philosopha

This weeks episode is a single sided affair. The deal with cutting dubs at Music House (where this one was done) was if you paid your £25, you were paying for the actual plate so you could come back and get the other side cut when you needed to. I never got anything cut on the other side...

Before Louis came up with the name Greedykid, he was making tracks under the moniker Philosipha. I cannot for the life of me remember where this name came from but, it didn't stick.

This is a rare excursion into the 4x4 sound for Louis, heavily shuffled beats made once again on the decrepit laptop that is now languishing in the top shed under all of Mom's junk. This track got its first spin on Lush FM 107.6 when I had Laze Breaks hosting the show. I'm sure my brother told his friends whilst he was at school that his music was going to be played.
This one is tricky to mix because of the potential 'over shuffle' but still a classic in every way.

Dubplate Drama - Season 1, Episode 2 - Bring 'em in

Side A - Jeopardy produced by Greedykid

Louis/Greedykid/Brokenhomes V2.0 or whatever name he goes by now features for the first time here. He was about 14/15 when he made this track using an old laptop that was given to my mom by our family friend Tommy. The laptop was so old that it only had a 6GB hard drive. That's retro! When this track was only a few tracks coming out that used a distorted 808 as a bass line. Also the use of 'live' drums was just coming into the garage scene with the likes of DJ Zinc starting the whole 'breakbeat garage' sound and the Bingo Label. As you can tell from the start of this track, I've played it a good few times. One of my favourite Greedykid beats.



Side B1 - Slimey produced by V2G

Now Slimey was made by one of the best MCs out of North West London, Versa. Not only did Vers now how to command a dance, he was pretty nifty on the beats. We would spend hours making stuff on my MPC back in the day. He would bring round cassettes of samples we had found and we would create proto grime tracks. Its a shame that Serato and CDJs were not around back then. Slimey wasn't made at my studio but when Versa played me that track it was like..'I'm cutting that!' The drums bang, just a shame the bass line didn't hold up to well on the dubplate.



Side B2 - Musical produced by Ray Juss

Round this time there was a fad for beat less tracks. It all stemmed from the 'devils mix' of Eskimo by Wiley, where a strong riff could stand out and be a tool for the MCs to really go in on a track. My personal favourite was the creeper bass mix. A friend of mine had it on plate but only because the guy at the cutting house let him cut a copy. You see the person cutting the tunes would sometimes be left the CDs of 'masters' and it was down to him if he wanted to share them. More times, they would. The sample for Musical was picked up off a library music CD I picked up in my local cash converters. Its just a quick loop and I used it as a tool for switching between tracks. Its pretty effective.

Dubplate Drama - Season 1, Episode 1 - Sample Heavy

Side A - Perfect produced by Ray Juss

This track was a cut up of a few Todd Edwards tracks. At the time I was experimenting with the 4x4 side of garage and to be honest, stealing other peoples sounds and trying to make them my own. Perfect was something I was pretty proud of at the time and decided to cut it although it didn't really fit into the type of garage I was playing at the time. This track also featured on my only vinyl release, Rushgroove Vol 1. This dubplate version has an extra set of hi hats in it making it a kind of exclusive.



Side B - All Stars (Full Vocal Mix) produced by Ray Juss

Round the time of making this, there was a fashion for making multi drop tunes as made famous buy the Pay As You Go crew and DJ Slimzee. I wanted to have my own type but I used acapellas from records I had that would fit in the garage tempo. The beat was fashioned from a Lil Kim record that I heard out in Canada whilst on holiday and the spin back between each vocal was an idea of a friend of mine, Amish. He came round on the Saturday I was making it and from there it stuck. The instrumental version became quite famous getting plays on Choice FM from DJ Chrissy G. Oh and the 'outraygeous' vocal sample came from one of those Stephen Hawkins esq computer programs!

(Out)Ray Juss is the starter of great debates

Pretty good forum if you click here. A lot of the influential people of the music game comment and debate over there. I hit em up with the big ol' debate about those black discs made of wax/plastic.

Brokenhomes, not only good at making food disappear but well versed in igniting intelligent debate ;)

Christmas has come early (?) or Santa was late (?) (Like me)

Good things come to those who wait, or you see a banner on ebay and some company is giving away 500 business cards. That's what really happened.

I got 500 made up with email and web details printed on them, didn't put my number on because spam is so much easier to ignore than a couple of bored teenagers on a Sunday night. (We've all done a few prank calls in our time... aint we?)

If you get handed one, well done... if you find one... it will probably be on the floor of a chicken shop

*walks off singing* 'Juss gimme that 2 for 2...'