Blackdown

In a follow up to my Geiom interview , I have a specially commissioned "influences" mix by Geiom to share. With his album "Is...

Local gang member getting arrested One of the most frustrating aspcects of the debate around urban Britain's young gang/gun crime...

I don't normally post YouTube links but this video of Goodz is too much. One take, lit from above: he makes this any-beat sound like it...

On Thursday night I headed down to Metadub at Plastic People. The lineup was ridiculous: Appleblim DJ set, Shackleton live, The Bug ft Ri...

Yep, it's true, Dusk and I have been booked again for FWD>>. I'm well chuffed. I didn't blog about playing FWD>>...

Martyn Originally uploaded by Blackdown The penultimate Pitchfork column of the year featuring JME, Skepta, funky house, Burial, Unto...

The Bits ft Trim out now as an MP3 on Bleep/Road .

Blackdown: Hey Geiom, so lets’ start at the top: when did you start producing? Geiom: Its been a while now - A friend and myself financed m...

Time in Thailand meant space. Room to read. Choked by multiple channels digital media, my book reading has suffered in the last few years. O...

Rinse @ Cargo Thurs 1st Nov: ya dun know the club space. Featuring Boy Betta Know, Jammer, Ghetto, Spyro, Skream, Scratcha and JJ, Jelly ...

I recently spent two weeks on holiday in Thailand. Time away from a PC, a mobile, the internet, newspapers, four email accounts and three ty...

All this week British Hindu’s have been celebrating the festival of Navratri . It ends this Saturday. Wikipedia outlines the proceedings: Th...

What some people have said about LDN004: "Unsettling and beautifully off-key Shaolin grime." Kode9, Hyperdub “Talking of the mo...

My PinchFork column this month features Lewi White, Ghetto, Peverelist, Burial, Guido, Quarta 330 oh and some guy called Pinch. Check a...

It’s been a busy few months on the music front, between one thing and another but recently it occurred to me that a common idea kept app...

Blackdown: So Trim , here we are in your ends, the Isle of Dogs , just standing on a wall. To start with, how did the Soulfood mixtape serie...

In an era of full on digital submersion, you've gotta commend people willing to swim against the tide. Woofah mag , is a real, in pri...

Pitchfork column time ft. Skepta, Dysfunktion, LV and The Bug.

I’ve loved Forward>> like no other club, since its inception six years ago. I’d been badgering El-B to start a night so I can’t lie, l...