Yes friends! We’ve reached the end of the year already, and we hope its been as good for you as it has for us! Some amazing acts have joined us each month to celebrate life, liberty (creative at least!) and live musical experimentation, and as those of you who have joined us will know, we’ve been treated to everything from deep afro jazz and space funk to raw West African drum calls and roots reggae music. We’d like to take this opportunity to thank all who have performed and attended….your support means a LOT!

For our last session of 2010, we’re taking a swerve from the usual format and instead inviting the fine souls behind London’s BOGLEWALTZ parties to share the turntables and microphone for our end of year party. Famous for bringing the house-party spirit to warehouses and tropical gardens across London town, GUYNAMITE, ANALOG JONES & D.ABLO deal with everything everything from deep synth funk to hype global crunk with a particularly nice line in 90s New Jack ( a guilty pleasure of mine!). Oh, did I mention they’re the very same crew (well two of them at least) that are behind the TWIN CITIES project?

It’s gonna be nice, so wrap up warm & join us…

If you didn’t already know, London is currently being shaken by a new-wave afro explosion. Dele Sosimi, Afrospot, The Soothsayers, Eric Soul….the list goes on.

Not afraid to step beyond the borders of Afro-Funk, Yaaba Funk are one of the more interesting shards of the aforementioned afro bomb. If you know Heads High, you should know Yaaba Funk from a heavy NYE basement session we collaborated on in East’ London’s ‘Life‘ venue (word to Kato!). if you don’t yet know Yaaba, you’re in for a treat. Peep the sample stream below, check the video and if you like what you hear, head over to SHOOK to investigate the interview I recently did with them…

….and the event? Deep South runnings courtesy of Jamie Renton and his Chilli Fried machine…