CARBON 6th BIRTHDAY @ CONCORDE 2 CLUB BRIGHTON - SAT 20th MARCH

Probably up there in the best 3 DnB events in the country, the Brighton based clubnight Carbon celebrates its 6th Birthday this weekend, with a move to a bigger venue for this one off event, and featuring a hench line-up to mark the occasion - See you people down there - I'll be rocking up alongside hellraising paddy Zero T for some mish-mash style tag team.

REQUIEM FOR DETROIT

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A city designed for 3 million, reduced to accommodate 800,000 following the collapse of its motor industry; Julien Temple explores the current state of America's most abandoned major metropolis... This flick is amazing, a truly insightful timeline of events filled with amazing shots of urban decay, and some great eccentric types thrown in the mix too..... Sorry to anyone out of the U.K, its iplayer only :-(

FREE SABRE TRACKS COURTESY OF K-MAG + REMIX COMPETITION

Head over to K-MAG online to peep more details of an exclusive track give-away and remix competition... the long and short of of it is that the track 'One Hundred Teeth' can be found for free on thier sounclound page, and on the release date of my LP entitled 'A Wandering Journal' , (Monday 29th March) Knowledge and myself will be making the multitrack stems available for you lot to go crazy with..... Its not just a lark in the park, the winner walks away with £1k worths of Addict clothing AND a soundcloud pro account for a full year !

Remix it, dont remix it.... the choice is yours, but ither way cop a listen (and a download) from the link below.... enjoy !



SABRE - ONE HUNDRED TEETH - KMAG REMIX COMP by knowledge

SUPRA FINALLY RELEASE SOME 2010 SNEAKS

Since last years deluge of colour ways and styles; most of which were seriously ugly looking, Supra finally get back to their core and drop some fresh Vaidars and Muskas

The pick of the bunch :

ORISUES' LITTLE GLIMPSE INTO SPRING SUMMER/SUMMER 2010

A sneak into the Monochrome lookbook for 2010, fresh from the Orisue loudspeaker..

LP PREVIEWS UPLOADED TO YOUTUBE CHANNEL & CRITICAL MUSIC WEBSITE

Audio previews of my forthcoming LP entitled 'A Wandering Journal' are now floating about online at various spots....so..... fancy a listen ?

Head over to www.criticalmusic.com/awanderingjournal OR www.youtube.com/awanderingjournal to hear the more audio, but in the meantime, check these out :

DOUBLE GOOSE

750 euros worth of hearty winter fare...presenting the "double goose" jacket.... Cant imagine these sit good on fatboys though, need to see myself 20lbs lighter (and £500 richer) if theres any hope of slipping one of these into my wardrobe

CRITICAL MUSIC PODCAST VOL. VI presented by SABRE

"......With the Sabre album looming we thought it was about time he did a special podcast mix for us, previewing some choice cuts from the longplayer as well as freshness from the best of the scene sit back and enjoy this beats masterclass...... "

- TRACKLISTING -

01/ Mixmaster Doc - Cancelation Dub [Dub]

02/ Sabre & Alix Perez - Javelin [Critical]

03/ Dub Phizix - Handmade [Dub]

04/ Sabre - Marvel [Critical]

05/ Alix Perez - The Observer [Dub]

06/ Hybris - The Cleaner [Critical]

07/ Jose James - Warriors / Rockwell Remix [Brownswood]

08/ Ena - Slip Into Ur Mind [Dub]

09/ Sabre - Follow Polaris [Critical]

10/ Kryptic Minds - Wondering Why [Osiris Music]

11/ Icicle - Xylophobia [Dub]

12/ Sabre - The Gazette [Critical]

13/ Jack Sparrow - Torment [Tectonic]

14/ Sabre - Levelling out pt.2 [Critical]

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HUF S.F DROP SOME ESSENTIALS

Skatewear boutique turned manufacturer HUF SF layout their season of simple styles and vasrious fresh collabs with other fashion houses and ... Here's a taster

THE OFFICIAL 'A WANDERING JOURNAL" LP IS NOW ONLINE

If you want to get an insight into the narrative that forms the basis to this LP's concept, head over to www.awanderingjournal.com. The photography you'll find is the visual storyboard to the album, taken by myself whilst on a escapade of my own on the other side of the planet.

Farrage Barrage

Nigel Farrage is a dick. A babbling ideologue struggling to articulate his politics. For most of us I assume that's an unsurprising characteristic given his consistently obnoxious public persona, none the less, over two million Brits put an 'x' in the box for his lot during the European elections, and I think the reason is that UKIP have been successful at projecting themselves as the 'thinking-mans' nationalist party; supposedly approaching European politics from a clinical, legislative perspective ....

What a pointlessly bitter rant. I gotta think a lot of those 2 million voters must have finally got the message that this party is locked into the same xenophobic timewarp that UKIPs' less palatable competitors are trapped in. These people were never a moderate version of the BNP...

Gotta give it to Nigel on the lyrics though... Low-grade bank clerk ? Such a shit playground cuss its actually quite funny.

MEDIUM @ PLASTIC PEOPLE / 24TH FEB 2010

One of Londons most progressive promoters; the Medium crew return to celebrate their 3rd Birthday with a champion sound lineup including yours truelly, back in Plastic People for my 3rd encounter with gang.

ITS NO JOKE UP IN HERE. SERIOUS MUSIC FOR PENSIVE MINDS - ATTEND AND BEAR WITNESS !

BILAL SALAAM CLAPS HIS HANDS

Came across Bilal at the start of January when I heard the accappella of "lights out" on some generic neo-soul e-radio station... frustratingly I can't find "lights out" anywhere, I did however cop his LP "Blah - Time between awake and asleep" from itunes and it aint half bad, bar some tracks with ropey out of pitch singing... the title track "Blah" is the strongest cut on there, although 'Modern day slavery' is up there, pity the lyrics are so bitter...

KNOW A SPOT WHERE I CAN GET HOLD OF LIGHTS OUT ? HIT ME UP !!

HOOD SHIT : SHADRACK AND THE MANDEM

Nobody seems to know who this trio are, and whether they are infact from SW-Bang, but this is seriously on point. Authenically hyperactive, super sharp street satire. Someone get on the blower to E4 and tell them the next great hype has arrived.....

GOAPELE GOES GOTHAM CITY

I've a serious soft spot for her 2001 debut entitled 'Even Closer' , it was charismatic, the vocal tones where undeniably distinctive - nobody else could've made that LP.... but as time has gone by I gotta wonder where this chick his heading ? No doubt, she's still got the voice but "Milk and Honey" , my reintroduction to her after a few years lapse in concentration is kinda homogenous.... bit of a post-electro identity crisis happening I think, I preferred the hippy chick - Dodgy fitting BoHo blouses and all....

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Sabre talks Vino (Chapter 1)

Came across some great wine in the last week. Have a look about online , either can be found for about £15. First Up...

- MONTES ALPHA 2002 SYRAH -

Sabre says : "Spicy shit"

- KANONKOP 2003 PINOTAGE -

Sabre says : "Get involved"

The Death of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh

You have to wonder what kind of professional assassin gets caught on dozens of CCTV cameras tailing their suspect and then leaves their mugshot in an airport immigration database to be disseminated across the global media.... were these people just shockingly slack or is the plan here to flaunt the audacity of whichever gang they work for ?

I keep hearing that Mossad have form on when it comes to identity theft, and they don't really have any honour when it comes to adhering to promises not to exploit the identities of allied nations, so in light of such ethical ambiguity; why are our government trying to rebrand the headline into "our passports aren't as safeguarded as we thought" when the really what we all wanna is why "our allies aren't as honourable as they claim" ?

On a lighter note - the faces of the assassins are priceless, Its like looking at the casting notes from a Wes Anderson flick. Quirky doesn't even begin to describe it. I particularly like the way they've been grouped into lines by which ever newspaper nicked the photo from....

Top line - Basement Nerds: Talking serial numbers
Middle batch - The Neural Three : Executive controllers
Lower tier - The Enforcers : Kosher ninjas

John le Carre would be proud.......

EASTBOUND AND DOWN

Man this shit is funny as fuck.... the story of a once celebrated, cocky baseball fatboy who through spiralling narcissism , ends up burning one too many bridges. Will Pherrel & Adam McKay are behind the scenes pulling strings, and main actor Danny McBride plays a blinding redneck.... actually I only just clocked where I know him from, last October on a Qatar airlines flight my entertainment options were Arabic Top Gear, or some ropey sounding pre-teen comedy called land of the Lost were McBride plays pretty much the same character.... I'm ashamed to say I thought it was kinda decent...

Anyways I'm hearing FX have signed it up for UK TV... I very much recommend

QUOTE OF DAY (KENNY POWERS 2009) :

'Why give a 100 percent when 35 will still get you paaaaaaid and laaaaaaaaid'

NIKE NSW VARSITY JACKETS

Being honest most of their clothes are waste, ACG is not what it was back in the 90's - Nike SB is cool but over-repped and over-branded... This NSW range aint much better but god damn they've cooked up a dream with these varsites. Had a feel in the shop, built like a volvo...

SABRE - "A WANDERING JOURNAL" LP

Around about Christmas time 2008 I got into a conversation with Kasra from Critical Music about the prospects of writing an LP for him. I was watching my peers; peeps like Zero T, Perez and Survival, and their plans to release their debut and thought to myself perhaps the time is right ? Are the terms right ? Because I'm a fussy, nerdy kind guy. People know I'm a bordeline control freak, and does Kasra have the patience for my demands ?

One year (and a bit) later, I'm going to try and answer those questions in music and art, and leave you people to decide.....

With that, I present to you, the 'A Wandering Journal' LP. A conceptual project combining photography, narrative interludes and experimental electronica into a digital storybook...

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- A Wandering Journal -

CD1

1. Day One

2. The Intrepid

3. Quarters feat. Noisia & Icicle

4. Day Four

5. A Wandering Journal

6. Escapade

7. Follow Polaris

8. Day Eight

9. Peril

10. Ash

11. Marvel

12. Levelling Out Pt. 1 feat. Maxwell Golden

13. Have It Your Way feat. Alix Perez

14. Day Fourteen

15. Havens Verge

CD2

1. Peril (Club mix)

2. Marvel (Club mix)

3. Quarters feat. Noisia & Icicle (Club mix)

4. The Intrepid (Club mix)

5. Javelin feat. Alix Perez

6. A Wandering Journal (Rockwell Club mix)

7. Curious

8. Levelling Out Pt. 2

9. Follow Polaris (Club mix)

10. Have It Your Way feat. Alix Perez (Club mix)

3×12 Version

1. Peril (Club mix)

2. Quarters feat. Noisia & Icicle (Club mix)

3. The Intrepid (Club mix)

4. Javelin feat. Alix Perez

5. A Wandering Journal (Rockwell Club mix)

6. Follow Polaris (Club mix)

Release date: 29th March 2010.

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