TALES FROM THE FLIPSIDE - THE IDEAL CHRISTMAS PRESENT FOR DJs

Mark Devlin's debut book 'Tales From The Flipside' is an ideal Christmas present for any DJ, aspiring DJ, anyone who works in the music biz, or anyone who's ever been the slightest bit curious about just what it is that DJs do. No-one's ever broken it down like this before!

Order your copy from Authorhouse.

Or from Amazon.

OC: 'MY WORLD' (1997)

"I snatch a star from the sky, spark up a la with it. You stand astounded wondering how I did it". Just one of many lines that set this keynote gem from OC's 1997 album 'Jewelz' apart from the average run-of-the-mill filler. With OC himself fresh from the celebrated Diggin' In The Crates crew, (with then very-much-alive DITC colleague Big L cropping up on the album's 'Dangerous',) and DJ Premier on the beats, this marked a magical collaboration between and MC and producer both at the peak of their game. Just a shame there was no official video.

2010 BANGERS

MD's 2010 Bangers are here! All the biggest club tracks of the year across four mixes. Check the R&B and Hip Hop episodes for all the big commercial smashes. For a more heavy excursion, meanwhile, the Reggae Dancehall and UK Grime/ Funky mixes will give you some hard-hitting flaves.

Download and enjoy.


2010 BANGERS R&B MIX

TREY SONGZ Featuring USHER: I INVENTED SEX
CIARA Featuring LUDACRIS: RIDE
KERI HILSON: TURN MY SWAG ON
CHRIS BROWN Featuring KANYE WEST & FABOLOUS: DEUCES (REMIX)
USHER Featuring NICKI MINAJ: LITTLE FREAK
TREY SONGZ Featuring NICKI MINAJ: BOTTOMS UP
NICKI MINAJ: YOUR LOVE
RIHANNA: RUDE BOY
LIL WAYNE/ YOUNG MONEY: BEDROCK
KERI HILSON: PRETTY GIRL ROCK
CEE LO GREEN: FORGET YOU
LUDACRIS: HOW LOW
RIHANNA Featuring YOUNG JEEZY: HARD
DIDDY DIRTY MONEY Featuring TINCHY STRYDER: HELLO GOOD MORNING
CHIMA ANYA: HELLO GOOD MORNING (DIDDY DISS)
TIMBALAND Featuring JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE: CARRY OUT
ESTELLE Featuring KARDINALL OFFISHALL: FREAK


2010 BANGERS HIP HOP MIX

RICK ROSS: BMF
SKEPTA: BMF FREESTYLE
CHIMA ANYA: I LOVE RAP
J COLE: WHO DAT
LLOYD BANKS ET AL: START IT UP
LLOYD BANKS Featuring JUELZ SANTANA: BIMA BENZ OR BENTLEY
DRAKE Featuring SWIZZ BEATS: FANCY
LIL WAYNE Featuring DRAKE: RIGHT ABOVE IT
DEVLIN: RUNAWAY
DRAKE: FIND YOUR LOVE
FAR EAST MOVEMENT Featuring 50 CENT: LIKE A G6
DJ KHALED Featuring LUDACRIS: ALL I DO IS WIN
CHERRI V: OVER
DRAKE: OVER
DEAD PREZ: OVER
KANYE WEST Featuring RICK ROSS & NICKI MINAJ: MONSTER
KANYE WEST: POWER
KANYE WEST Featuring SWIZZ BEATS: POWER REMIX


2010 BANGERS REGGAE DANCEHALL MIX

GAPPY RANKS: PUT THE STEREO ON
TOK: CHAMPION
GYPTIAN Featuring NICKI MINAJ: HOLD YUH
SEAN PAUL: WINE IT
ALISON HINDS Featuring SHAGGY: CAN'T LET MY LUV GO
GAPPY RANKS: STINKIN' RICH
VYBZ CARTEL: CLARKS
VYBZ CARTEL Featuring BILLY BLUE & PLUS GIVENS: CLARKS REMIX
MR VEGAS: I AM BLESSED
GYPTIAN: HOLD YUH (SOCA REFIX)
AIDONIA: BUBBLE & TURN
VYBZ CARTEL Featuring GAZA SLIM: LIKE A JOCKEY
MAJOR LAZER: PON DE FLOOR (REFIX)


2010 BANGERS UK FUNKY/ GRIME MIX

PRINCESS NYAH: BUTTERFLIES
KATIE PEARL: BREAKAWAY
SASHA BROWN: ATTRACTION
SWINDLE Featuring NADIA SULLIMAN: NO MORE
MELEKA: MISS ME (PALEFACE REMIX)
PLATINUM: FIRE IN MY EYES
RUSH THE DJ: IF YOU LIKE THE FUNKY
JP TRONIK: JUNGLE SKANK
MR M: DASH DOWN
STORM: WHO'S THAT LIGHTEE?
SKEPTA: BAD BOY
CHERRI V: PASS OUT
TINIE TEMPAH: PASS OUT
CAPLETON: PASS OUT MEDLEY
TINIE TEMPAH: FRISKY

TALES FROM THE FLIPSIDE - THE IDEAL CHRISTMAS PRESENT FOR DJs

Mark Devlin's debut book 'Tales From The Flipside' is an ideal Christmas present for any DJ, aspiring DJ, anyone who works in the music biz, or anyone who's ever been the slightest bit curious about just what it is that DJs do. No-one's ever broken it down like this before!

Order your copy from Authorhouse.

Or from Amazon.

2010 BANGERS

MD's 2010 Bangers are here! All the biggest club tracks of the year across four mixes. Check the R&B and Hip Hop episodes for all the big commercial smashes. For a more heavy excursion, meanwhile, the Reggae Dancehall and UK Grime/ Funky mixes will give you some hard-hitting flaves.

Download and enjoy.


2010 BANGERS R&B MIX

TREY SONGZ Featuring USHER: I INVENTED SEX
CIARA Featuring LUDACRIS: RIDE
KERI HILSON: TURN MY SWAG ON
CHRIS BROWN Featuring KANYE WEST & FABOLOUS: DEUCES (REMIX)
USHER Featuring NICKI MINAJ: LITTLE FREAK
TREY SONGZ Featuring NICKI MINAJ: BOTTOMS UP
NICKI MINAJ: YOUR LOVE
RIHANNA: RUDE BOY
LIL WAYNE/ YOUNG MONEY: BEDROCK
KERI HILSON: PRETTY GIRL ROCK
CEE LO GREEN: FORGET YOU
LUDACRIS: HOW LOW
RIHANNA Featuring YOUNG JEEZY: HARD
DIDDY DIRTY MONEY Featuring TINCHY STRYDER: HELLO GOOD MORNING
CHIMA ANYA: HELLO GOOD MORNING (DIDDY DISS)
TIMBALAND Featuring JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE: CARRY OUT
ESTELLE Featuring KARDINALL OFFISHALL: FREAK


2010 BANGERS HIP HOP MIX

RICK ROSS: BMF
SKEPTA: BMF FREESTYLE
CHIMA ANYA: I LOVE RAP
J COLE: WHO DAT
LLOYD BANKS ET AL: START IT UP
LLOYD BANKS Featuring JUELZ SANTANA: BIMA BENZ OR BENTLEY
DRAKE Featuring SWIZZ BEATS: FANCY
LIL WAYNE Featuring DRAKE: RIGHT ABOVE IT
DEVLIN: RUNAWAY
DRAKE: FIND YOUR LOVE
FAR EAST MOVEMENT Featuring 50 CENT: LIKE A G6
DJ KHALED Featuring LUDACRIS: ALL I DO IS WIN
CHERRI V: OVER
DRAKE: OVER
DEAD PREZ: OVER
KANYE WEST Featuring RICK ROSS & NICKI MINAJ: MONSTER
KANYE WEST: POWER
KANYE WEST Featuring SWIZZ BEATS: POWER REMIX


2010 BANGERS REGGAE DANCEHALL MIX

GAPPY RANKS: PUT THE STEREO ON
TOK: CHAMPION
GYPTIAN Featuring NICKI MINAJ: HOLD YUH
SEAN PAUL: WINE IT
ALISON HINDS Featuring SHAGGY: CAN'T LET MY LUV GO
GAPPY RANKS: STINKIN' RICH
VYBZ CARTEL: CLARKS
VYBZ CARTEL Featuring BILLY BLUE & PLUS GIVENS: CLARKS REMIX
MR VEGAS: I AM BLESSED
GYPTIAN: HOLD YUH (SOCA REFIX)
AIDONIA: BUBBLE & TURN
VYBZ CARTEL Featuring GAZA SLIM: LIKE A JOCKEY
MAJOR LAZER: PON DE FLOOR (REFIX)


2010 BANGERS UK FUNKY/ GRIME MIX

PRINCESS NYAH: BUTTERFLIES
KATIE PEARL: BREAKAWAY
SASHA BROWN: ATTRACTION
SWINDLE Featuring NADIA SULLIMAN: NO MORE
MELEKA: MISS ME (PALEFACE REMIX)
PLATINUM: FIRE IN MY EYES
RUSH THE DJ: IF YOU LIKE THE FUNKY
JP TRONIK: JUNGLE SKANK
MR M: DASH DOWN
STORM: WHO'S THAT LIGHTEE?
SKEPTA: BAD BOY
CHERRI V: PASS OUT
TINIE TEMPAH: PASS OUT
CAPLETON: PASS OUT MEDLEY
TINIE TEMPAH: FRISKY

BLUNTED TO REALITY

The light bulb's on and something's starting to happen
It's tough to comprehend when your belief system shatters
The world's not like we thought it was Reality's not what it seems
What we've been conditioned to perceive It's like a dream
But the world is waking up People are actually starting to notice
And understand that everyone alive's a part of this whole process
Politicians don't run the world, bankers do
The situation's obvious but we never think it through
The BBC, CNN all the daily papers
Just propaganda tools for the real decision-makers
The presidents, prime ministers and chancellors are puppets
And Obama's no different, people Some say the biggest muppet
They keep up the illusion that we're free and play their role
Spouting what they're told to say as the teleprompter rolls
The New World Order, bankers enslave and rape us
But it's Jordan's tits and Rooney 's fee that makes the front page of the papers

(Ever noticed how everything about society is structured in favour of the corporations, and never the individual? People say 'that's just the way it is' But when 99 per cent of the human race are being controlled and enslaved by the one per cent, it's time for that 99 per cent to change 'the way it is' Tax Just think about that We all meekly pay it because 'thats just the way it is' But tax is nothing short of legalised robbery How the hell did we ever fall for that?)

The biggest scam inflicted on humanity is money
It rules our lives, but it doesn't even exist It's kinda funny
You'd have to laugh, it's kinda tragic Figures appear on a screen by magic
And your bank gives you a loan As you become another drone
But there's no money in their coffers, so it's illusory what they offer
Imaginary credit Nice work if you can get it
And so the debt goes down the line, with more and more applied
And when the rent gets late, because of what the banks create
They just create more credit And the public never get it
You're not supposed to win You're only supposed to lose
And doze and snooze And doze and snooze

(If all the money lining the pockets of the soulless devils pulling the strings of this world stage day in day out were re-distributed fairly throughout the world, and if governments issued money directly rather than being slaves to these same cartels of private bankers masquerading behind the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England, poverty, starvation and squalour could be completely eradicated
Still, don't worry about it The X Factor's on and, OMG, what is Cheryl wearing??!)

The elephant's in the room and it's shocking what your mind edits
What's been right in front of our eyes our whole lives, but we still don't get it
It's not like the subtle reminders aren't everywhere you look
You got to hand it to the masons, man, they've got their game on lock
Why the depictions of the occult aimed at kids in films from Disney?
Why's a Babylonian goddess featured on the Statue of "Liberty"?
Far too many all-seeing-eyes in the videos of Rihanna
Jay's a puppet too, an Illuminati tool like Lady GaGa
When rastas talk of Babylon, you've got to question what they mean
Because it's more significant than a locked-down mind can glean
The land between two rivers is what we call Iraq today
And it's from here that the plan for world control began to play
But the evidence and artifacts are being destroyed forever
While the cover story tells you that it's all a War on Terror
The Church of Babylon upped its roots and set up shop in Rome
Renamed itself the Catholic Church and drove its doctrines home
Christianity and Islam followed, manipulated mentalities
To keep the masses frightened, meek and blunted to reality
The most effective way to control the masses? Feed them fear of Hell
And that we're all just sheep And edit whatever else you tell
But if the truth's too inconvenient and guys like me are nutters
Hey, just keep the blinkers on and batten down the shutters

(Does anyone ever stop for a second to question the insanity of war? Let's break it down - you don't agree with me and I don't agree with you, so let's kill each other That'll make everything OK again The wholesale slaughter of human life - whether in the armed forces or not - is tolerated on a daily basis because 'war is peace' Funny thing though Notice how it's never the sons of presidents and government ministers who go out to get their limbs blown off on the frontline Wonder why?)

OK, children Gather round and get your bedtime story
With Saddam Hussein as the big bad wolf while the US basks in glory
Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, Henri Paul was drunk
September 11th was planned from a cave and McVeigh was just some punk
President Bush got voted in all good and fair and square
He's really just a regular kind of guy like Tony Blair
Yeah, I know I've lost my mind I've lost the fucking plot
That's OK You don't have to listen You can be happy with your lot
I just saw some stuff on MTV Hot girls and champs on tap
Now, who needs harsh reality when you can fill your mind with that?
lol

You never get the truth in all the lies the media hands to us
But connect the dots, and it's clear that's nothing's random or by accident
Speed cameras, chips in pets, unfettered immigration
Electromagnetic soups from phones and micro radiation
Doctors paid by Big Pharma to dish out all those pills
If swine flu doesn't get you, damn sure the vaccine will
The zeitgeist's changing rapidly and the elites are getting primed
To dish out everything they got, cos they're running out of time
To keep us in a five-sense state, and oblivious to truth
Of who we really are and what we're on our way back to
The awakening is happening, the process is underway
And a higher level of all of us chose to be living here today
To be a part of bringing in the process of mutation
The system can't go on if we change the frequency of vibration
It's time to face the facts that we're actually the last generation
That stands a chance of stopping the move towards a global nation
George Orwell's 1984 is what's waiting for our families
Unless we refuse to co-operate with this agenda of insanity
The few control the many only because we've let it happen
Remove the base from the pyramid and the whole damn structure's flattened

It's on

MD'S CLUB DATES, DECEMBER '10/ JANUARY '11

Tuesday 7th December
The Vineyard, Islington, London

Wednesday 8th December
TBC @
Berlin, GERMANY

Friday 10th December
The Living Room, Milton Keynes

Saturday 11th December
The Living Room, Nottingham

Friday 17th December
Cape, London EC2

Saturday 18th December
The Living Room, Oxford

Thursday 23rd December
THE OLD SKOOL RnB ACADEMY @
Bar OC, Devizes

Friday 24th December
CHRISTMAS EVE @
The Living Room, Oxford

Friday 31st December
NEW YEAR'S EVE @
Bank Restaurant & Bar, St. James', London

Friday 7th January
Mirage, Aylesbury

Saturday 8th January
The Living Room, Oxford

Saturday 15th January
The Living Room, Milton Keynes

Thursday 20th January
Cafe Ceol, Bangor, NORTHERN IRELAND

Friday 21st January
FABULOUSO @
Mono, Belfast, NORTHERN IRELAND

Saturday 22nd January
THE VAULTS @
The Second Bridge, Bath

Saturday 29th January
Mirage, Aylesbury, (with Soul City Ibiza's DJ Mister I)

BEENIE MAN'S 'SILENT VIOLENCE' BLOWS UP THE BLOCK PARTY'S 150TH EVENT

Beenie Man's track on the Joyride riddim drives after-hours clubbers crazy at The Block Party's 150th jam, The Wheelhouse, Windermere in The Lake District. It's a best-kept secret!

GREAT TOPICAL SATIRE THAT'S RIGHT ON THE BUTTON

THE BLOCK PARTY 150TH EVENT, THIS THURSDAY

Had some great times at the Block Parties over the years, and looking forward to smashing it again on Thursday. People down South are always sceptical about how a party in the Lake District can be heavy. Let's keep it a best kept secret!