Texan based label Warm Communications is now in it's tenth year, and with releases from the likes of ASC, FD and Seba under their belt, there are no signs of them stopping anytime soon.  The latest single from Fracture brings two very different tunes to the table. Soulful Lately ft Ella Jones on the A side, sets you up for the summer and Tunnel Track on the flip follows up with some more raw vibes.  

Warm021 drops today on vinyl and digital.  You can grab it on the Warm Surus store here ....  

Having just spent the last two months locked in a computer cluster with nothing but an 8,000 word dissertation analysing east German monuments for company, it is understandable that I have spent about a third of that time on the great bastion of time consumption that is, YouTube.  Over the last eight weeks I've seen lorries falling into canyons, asian women dancing on butter, and lots of videos about Berlin.  

 

One of my favourite topics on Youtube is girls doing rapping. I don't know if it's me but I seem to be seeing a lot more female rappers of late. It's kind of annoying since nearly everyone I know is a fucking rapper, all they do is watch rappers, talk about rapping or rap.  So I thought, to pass the time now my University life is over and I'm lost in a sea of having no direction in life, I would write a list of eight mad rappers with vaginas. 

 

Not all of them are sick at rapping, but as one industry lord told me a few weeks ago.  People don't buy records for the music, they buy records because they are buying into the character.  All of these women aren't the sickest rappers, but they have balls (ironically) and they are sick characters, except Kreayshawn.  

 

 

Mad Woman Rapper #1 - Nicki Minaj

Now before you get carried away, I know she's done those shit tunes with Rihanna and Drake and she tries to do that english accent all the time, but Nicki Minaj is sick.  Obviously she has assets, which everyone appreciates, but the reason I rate Minaj is for her mad tunes. Her releases tend to go in this sort of pattern; 1 Corny Pop Release, 1 fucking mad release, 1 corny pop release, 1 fucking mad release.  The tunes which fall in between the corny pop ones are the ones to watch out for.  Stupid Hoe is one of those tunes thats so bad it's fucking sick.  You know like when you eat Lidl Pot Noodles.  I understand those people that appreciate that repeatedly saying Stupid Hoe isn't very intelligent, but at the end of the day they didn't think of that.  I don't understand why something has to be difficult to be sick. 

 

 

 

Mad Woman Rapper # 2 - Azealia Banks 

Harlem 'rapper' Azealia Banks, why is she sick? She flips stereotypical gangster rap on it's head and it seems to be shocking. Plus she can sing and she can shout.  What's not to like.  She's definitely on a different vibe to Nicki Minaj though.  

 

 

Mad Woman Rapper #3 - Yolande Vi$$er

One half of mental south african group Die Antwoord who are sick just because they are committed to being completely insane. They are created characters, which were designed to take the piss out of pop music, but in the end ironically turned out to  be a commercial success.   Yolande's  weirdly attractive and the south african accent and the bits which slip into Afrikaans make her sound different to everything else. 

 

 

Mad Woman Rapper #4 - Kraeyshawn 

Unfortunately I just don't get Kraeyshawn yet. She's falling just short of the cool side of the fence for me.  And her friend in that video looks like someones mum dressing up as some sort of freak rapper's mate. Maybe it is Kreayshawn's mum?  

 

 

Mad Woman Rapper #5 - Iggy Azeaia 

I had never ever heard the word Azealia in my life and then all of a sudden two women appear with Azealia in their name. I wonder who started first. I can't be bothered to google it though. Iggy's style is still quite confusing, she certainly plays with the rap stereotype by replacing the video girls with herself, which surely must deconstruct some sort of feminist criticism of rap videos. Iggy shows that women just like dancing around in their bikinis and they don't just do it for multi millionaire guys. 

 

Mad Women Rapper #6 - Lana Del Rey 

Lana Del Rey isn't really a rapper, at all, but she shows that if she fancies it she can definitely spit sexy bars.  This collab with ASAP Rocky is coming out on his album later this year. 

 

 

Mad Women Rapper #7 - M.I.A

I always think M.I.A is a bit like the sort of student / posh sort of person you find in the uni library, but with a record deal. Although I don't think she is that posh and it's unfair to not like her just because of her gap year hippie values.   Not so much into rapping either, but she's still mad. 

 

 

Mad Women Rapper #8 - Lady Leshurr

Lady Leshurr makes it into this list purely for her recent collaboration with the Orb. MEOW MEOW MEOW. 

 

Thursday 3^rd May

 

UP! w/ Virus Syndicate at The Attic

 

Friday 4^th May

 

Metropolis & Tribal Sessions present Carl Cox & David Rodigan MBE at Sankeys

 

Saturday 5^th May

 

Selective Hearing w/ Objekt & Akkord (world debut) at Joshua Brooks

 

Sunday 6^th May

 

Fat City 20 Years BBQ at Kro Bar

 

PICK OF THE WEEK: It seems to get this every month but Selective Hearing do it once again, securing the world debut of Akkord is something not to be missed!

 

Monday 7^th May

 

Hit & Run w/ English Frank, Blizzard & more at Factory

 

Thursday 10^th May

 

Heavy Rain w/ Mickey Pearce at Joshua Brooks

 

Friday 11^th May

 

Just Skank 2^nd Birthday w/ Mala, Mungo’s Hifi, Phaelah & more at Moho Live

 

PICK OF THE WEEK: Mikey Pearce is a good shout but the HUGE line up for Just Skank’s 2^nd Birthday just can’t be ignored – big things from the Just Skank guys as they go from strength to strength!

 

Monday 14^th May

 

Hit & Run w/ Dub Phizix MARKA million at Factory251

 

Wednesday 16^th May

 

FutureEverything Opening Party w/ Deadbeat & Andy Stott at Islington Mill

 

Thursday 17^th May

 

Tri-Angle FutureEverything showcase at Islington Mill

 

Friday 18^th May

 

Urban Junglist w/ Nicky Blackmarket at Dry Live

Alt+J, Money & No Ceremony at Quay House

FutureEverything: DJ Cheeba at Islington Mill

Project13 presents DjRUM & Stickman at Joshua Brooks

 

Saturday 19^th May

 

Amon Tobin presents ISAM at Manchester Academy

Selective Hearing & iDiOSYNC: FutureEverything closing party w/ Marcel Dettman, Levon Vincent, Faulty DL & more at Manchester Academys

Consortium presents Night Slugs at Sound Control

Swing Ting w/ Marcus Nasty at Soup Kitchen

 

PICK OF THE WEEK: Massive FutureEverything night on the 19th , make sure you catch Amon Tobin’s massive live show and the equally epic afterparty from Selective Hearing and iDiOSYNC.

 

Thursday 24^th May

 

Everything’s Irie w/ Royal T, PYC DJs, Douglas Quaid & more at Joshua Brooks

 

Friday 25^th May

 

Sabotage006 w/ Logan D & Pleasure at Dry Live

Soul:ution w/ Fabio, Seba & more at Band on the Wall

Ghosts of Garage at Moho Live

 

Saturday 26^th May

 

Punx Inna Jungle at Antwerp Mansion

 

PICK OF THE WEEK: I’m gonna shout new kids on the block Everything’s Irie here with a nice selection of local talent backed up by Rinse FM’s Royal T

 

Thursday 31^st May

 

iDiOSYNC w/ Mario Basanov at Joshua Brooks

 

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One of our best friends Zara Khalique has launched her newest project this week. We've spoken to her a number of times since Example started. She started a clothing label called Dream Factory when she was under 18, and then more recently launched Keep It Bright (Example Article), which involved encouraging people to 'Keep It Bright' wherever possible by being thankful, mindful and content with what they do have in life.  

Her new project 'Someone's Everything' takes a lot of the ideas from Keep it Bright. By being aware that everybody in the world is special to somebody else people should be able to think more about their actions and before hurting someone else, perhaps take a moment to imagine what you would feel if that person was someone close to you. 

She's got big plans for the project and you can find out the full information over on the Someone's Everything' website.

 

The OKasional Cafe takes over redundant & unused buildings, turning them (for the brief time of their occupation) into meeting places & music venues, centres of collectivism for environmentalists & anarchists; often becoming after-hours drinking establishments. Not strictly squatting as people don’t intend to live in the properties only occupy for a few weeks, their intention to make something both transient & useful, OKaisional Cafes have sprung up all over Manchester in recent years.

Most recently the Game Cock (ex-) pub in Hulme became an OK Cafe (25^thFeb - 18^thMar 2012). One former site, an empty auction house on Charles St. behind the BBC, has been demolished but the very first recycled & reappropriated OK-Rave I remember attending (until the next day!) was in the then-empty Temperance Movement buildings (of all things!) on Oxford Road, in the heart of University campus & where Kro Bar now proudly stands resident

The weekend before court cases against protesters arrested at ‘Reclaim The Streets’ A57 demonstration were due to commence, the OKasional Cafe took over Manchester’s most iconic venue in order to raise cash for their defence 

Situationist theorist Ivan Chtcheglov had once proclaimed (since there would be no sleep, no resting place, just an endless drift through modern life) that: “the hacienda must be built."

In 1982 New Orders' manager the late great Rob Gretton did just that. Taking over the shell of a former yacht salesroom in a dead part of city centre the club. Forever tied to Factory Records bands, but also MCRs early Electro scene, proving pivotal & seminal in equal measure. Then the Hacienda was central to the explosion of Ecstasy, House music, Madchester & all the inspired fall-out of Rave culture ever since

Chief-constable James 'Gods Cop' Anderton wanted it closed. In June 1997, 15 years after it was first ‘built’ by Ben Kelly, the Hacienda pulled down its shutters for the last time amid feuding criminal gangs & £500,000 financial problems. People tore at its carcass for memorabilia

G.R.Moores Construction & Crosby Homes wanted it redeveloped as soon as possible. OKasional Cafe thought otherwise

A break-in occurs days prior. Electricity on & sound-system installed, all quietly done. Bill-posters & word of mouth catch the curiosity of a local clubbers & soon local police attention too. A thousand revellers turn up to the derelict Whitworth St. venue following a hastily-produced flyposter campaign. Mancs mainly, incensed by recently unveiled plans to demolish this iconic building and, like so much of inner-city Manchester, turn it into lucrative high-rent yuppie flats. Many seasoned clubbers saw this as a cut-diamond opportunity to express their disgust & have at least one last party where it all started

http://radicalmanchester.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/okasional-cafes/

Security shutters came down soon after midnight in an attempt to thwart entry by the police. This left about 500 people inside the club & 500 ravers stuck outside on Whitworth St. West. 70 officers + 20 from the Tactical Aid Unit (that’s Riot Squad to me & you) were forced back from the entrance by a shower of projectiles and (allegedly) covered in urine from the Hacienda offices above

All of a sudden the shutters flew up again & the crowd surged forward. Mounted police beat back the unsuccessful & once again shutters came down. Homemade rope ladders were lowered to the street to try to allow others to get inside. This, however, allowed police to move into the crowd ‘for their own safety’. 21 arrests were made in the ensuing chaos

By 2.30 a.m. with every entrance / exit blocked, Whitworth St. West cordoned off to prevent a much larger crowd accumulating, but still the party raged on unchallenged. A stalemate was set where police & party-goers were now trapped both inside & outside the club

Just before 8 a.m. Sunday, OKasional Cafe agreed to vacate the property voluntarily provided that there were no more arrests. Those who were already arrested, at both events, would face charges of Violent & Public Disorder

It goes to show that peaceful protesters do not like having the plug pulled under the auspices of Public Safety; that Criminal Justice Bill statutes are draconian & used for political purpose; that communities don’t like having their green spaces turned over to developers when they already have to live by motorways; that Manchester’s mad-for-it ravers don’t like having their heritage given away & sold off to profit wealthy out-of-towners

No-one likes being told what to do. No-one likes being told what they must put up with; what has to be done in their best interests; when, where & how they must object if they object, or even what time they should all go home to bed!

Scoop Nisker (1960’s San Francisco radio DJ) used to sign-off his KSAN-FM show with these words:

“And.., if you don’t like the news... Go out & make some of your own”