Skittles – Poor With £100 Trainers

Hotly anticipated on the Estate Recordings label, wordsmith Skittles returns with his second LP. The album features Skittles own productions alongside Chimpo, Dub Phizix and DRS alongside vocals from Mr Fox and Fallacy. A serious recipe for a long player. The album features cuts released previously as a taster such as ‘Tip-i-Cally’, ‘Boys In Blue’ and the monster ‘Dot2Dot’ as well as some fresh cuts like Robot Bodypop favourite, ‘Lying Here’. As Estate Recordings like to put it:

Imagine a piece of classical music, put it in a blender and add some reggae/ska to it, throw a load of broken instruments in the mix and a few proper cold rappers, sprinkle in some grime an a vinyl,add a bit of pop an pulse until smooth, an you will have nothing like what this album is.

Released on the 5th March in Manchester where you can catch the launch party at The Deaf Institute with a worldwide release following on the 12th March. Pick this album up. Don’t sleep.

Just Skank presents Kryptic Minds

Any fan of the Robot Bodypop show quickly realises this is a mouth-watering line-up for us. Alongside Kryptic Minds, Just Skank bring the mighty DJ Madd, Dub Phizix, Killawatt and the rising Compa. A serious line up staged at the Moho Live venue. Theres a second room featuring upcoming talent and the hosts for the night come in the form of Broke ‘n’ English wordsmith Strategy, GNI MC and Sin Seer. I hear Compa is going to be there selling whites of ‘Dem A Talk’ so be sure to get in early and corner him. Really looking forward to this one and it promises to be as diverse as it does upfront. Big up Just Skank for this

MAIN ROOM : Void Sound Sytem

► KRYPTIC MINDS
► DJ MADD
► DUB PHIZIX FT STRATEGY
► KILLAWATT
► COMPA
► DJ FRED
► LUCKSO
► JACK-IT

SECOND ROOM :

► DASH TOTALD
► MANUVA & RAASCLARKE
► FURIOUS JORGE
► TOMFOOLERY
► SNATCH
► SPATZ

HOSTED BY :

► STRATEGY
► GNI MC
► SIN SEER

http://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Manchester/Moho-Live/Just-Skank-Present-Kryptic-Minds–Dj-Madd–Dub-Phizix–Killawatt–Compa/11577868/

Dub Phizix & Skeptical ft. Strategy – Marka

Chances are if you’ve seen D-Bridge playing out recently you will have caught this deep number forthcoming on his Exit Records label and its arguably one of the tracks of the year. Absolutely storming. Production is held down by Mancunian soundboy Dub Phizix alongside Skeptical with Broke’N'English mic-man Strategy with a killer flow unlike anything you’ve heard in his previous work. It’s out on 19th December and all pre-orders of the vinyl version have already been snapped up! Check out the video filmed in and around Manchester and bag yourself a copy. On the flip is a track on a similar vibe named ‘Rags’. Incredible stuff.

http://www.exitrecords.co.uk/

Hit&Run presents Shogun Audio

Nights don’t get much better than this bill. Hit & Run is arguably the Norths greatest night keeping it tight and intimate on Mondays and now with the bigger events moving to Manchesters Ritz venue. Combined with Shogun Audio, this event sees Icicle, Rockwell, the mighty Break all playing alongside Manchesters Dub Phizix and Hit & Run head man Rich Reason. Hosts for the night are SP:MC, DRS & Strategy. Excited? You should be.

Hit&Run presents SHOGUN AUDIO @ The HMV Ritz, Mon 28th November

ICICLE

ROCKWELL (130-170bpm set)

BREAK

DUB PHIZIX

RICH REASON

Hosted by SP:MC, DRS and STRATEGY

Early Bird tickets are a mere £5, and there’s plenty of them (400). Normal priced tickets are £6.50…. it’ll be slightly more on the door.

http://www.skiddle.com/events/11550734/

Skittles – Dot2Dot

Following on from Broke’N'English’s recent Umbro bursary, their versatile imprint Estate Recordings is back in business. Luckily for you, us and any other fan of upfront music, their first release is Mancunian wordsmith Skittles newest cut. Out on the 7th November, Dot2Dot is already on Radio 1 rotation and gaining airplay from Mary Anne Hobbs amongst others. Put simply, its a banger and with the release featuring remixes from Zed Bias, Dub Phizix and Joe Kalius its as fresh as you can get. Beats and lyrics come as good as it gets. Essential listening.

One Guy Called Skittles