FRONTLINES((
‘Hardcore / Lisa’ with the next artist
from the States. Closer to home,
Sonix, Aquasky’s own imprint, is
ready to drop their fourth release late
in June with a relick project of ‘Lords
Of Motion’ including a Tech Itch
remix. And the word is Aquasky will
be producing an album for Botchit &
Scarper before Christmas.
Ibiza Records, 3rd Party and Limited
E have joined to pool their best of the
best from the last few years for a
series of EPs. The first arrives mid
June and features ‘Champion of
Champions’ and ‘Let’s Go’ from
Potential Bad Boy. Future retro EPs
are to include ‘The Seed’, ‘Screwface’
and ‘Can You Feel The Rush’. 3
Lion Records is being backed by
Ibiza to build an imprint that fuses
modern production with an older
skool reggae and soul feel. Dark Art
Killer is responsible for the debut
sound, ‘Evil Intention’ featuring vocals
from Tremma.
After the classic UK hip hop brought
together on ‘Wordlab’, it’s time for
‘Wordlab 2: The Next Chapter’ again
on Wordplay. Highlights include Phi
Life’s remix of ‘Ya Don’t See The
Signs’ and new gems from Ty &
Shortee Blitz, Plus One & Killa Kela
as well as Estelle running a track all
for herself. The first single is to be
Blak Twang & Seannie T’s mix of Karl
Hinds’ ‘Don Gramma’ arriving late in
July. The whole package becomes
available around the same time.
Slum Village have narrowly avoided
being hit for royalties after unknow-
ingly sampling Daft Punk on new 12”
‘Raise It Up’. Rather than collecting
though, Daft Punk asked Slum
Village to remix their ‘Aerodynamic’.
Hopefully it will get a general release
but a new album is due from Slum
Village in September in any case.
Canada based DJ ESB is mixing
down a compilation of Canadian and
international drum & bass from the
likes of Dune, Subtitles, Precision,
Petrol, Timeless and Certificate 18.
Aiming for an August/September
release, the Urbnet CD is available
from the urban entertainment site
www.urbnet.com
Villains fans should be aware Vicious
Circle release their LP, ‘Bagged Out’
late in July.
Kosheen, originally signed to Moksha,
have been licensed over to Arista
DAY IN THE CITY
BMG. The group are keen for their
Day In The City makes use of London town on July 9 to highlight the skate and film talent bubbling in the UK. The 13 entrants must
completed LP, ‘Resist’ to be distrib-
produce a three minute skate video, using a minimum of five classic London skate spots from a selection of 20. These include
uted globally, using Arista’s global
notorious spots such as the South Bank, Rom Park, Marble Arch, St Pauls, Victoria benches and the PlayStation Park. Each director
channels, as quickly as possible.
is paired with a skater for the day and having shot a mix of Street and Transition styles, the directors then have one week in which to
edit the most original section of British skateboard cinematography. Two separate awards go to the Best Director and the Best Skater.
An electronic compilation with
attitude, ‘No More Rock and Roll’ is
Day In The City have drawn together an expert panel of judges to decide on the winners from both skate and cinematic backgrounds:
out now on Make Some Noise / Geoff Rowley, Frank Stephens, onedotzero, John Robinson, Gavin Brocquet (production designer for Star Wars 1 & 2) and Matt
Spiky. Features tracks come from Davies. All 13 videos will be cover-mounted only on skateshop copies of Sidewalk magazine, along with various incidentals shot by
Bomb 20 and 2nd Gen, both of whom the organisers and hung together with an Attica Blues soundtrack. Although the very first in the series, events organiser Phil has
you can catch on the live UK tour of diverse hopes for future contests, “I want to do something similar with snowboarding, ‘A Week In The Mountains’. But then surfing
the same name over the summer. or BMXing too... there are a lot of possibilities.”
KNOWLEDGE 11
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