nada:brahma top tracks of 2010
Merry Christmas people!
I’ve got a round up of what I consider to be the top tracks of 2010 (in no particular order). So enough of the chit chat from me and on with the show.
Aeroplane Dope & D-Skillz featuring Raggo Blunt – Pinky Finger (Piyush Bhatnagar Remix)
Akala – Yours and My Children
Anuj Rastogi (Omnesia) – The Dark Knight – Why So Serious (Indian DubStep Remix)
Aref Durvesh + Xfile (xfile remix) – Cloudsurfing dubrub remix
Awake (karsh kale’s morning remix)
Bandish Projekt – Brown Skin Beauty (Liquid Stranger Remix)
Barbouze – Otto Matic Rumble Mix
Bass Flo – Mount Everest
Bonita Applebum – Why Can’t Love
Clare Maguire – Ain’t Nobody (breakage remix)
Daft Punk – Derezzed (from TRON: Legacy)
Dimm Summer – Rubstep – slow burn mix
Engine-Earz Experiment (Feat. Lena Cullen) – Reach You
FILMI – Technicolor
Gaudi – Bad Boy Bass (Piyush Bhatnagar Remix)
Jalebee Cartel – Mirrors (Breed Remix)
Karsh Kale & Midival Punditz – Girl Fight (Enter the Dragon)
Kaya Project – When Only Sand Remains (Tripswitch Remix)
Lal Meri – Lal Meri (Bombay Dub Orchestra Remix)
Mirko Kosmos – Light Warrior
My Pet Dragon – Flow (Karsh Kale’s Way Of The Dragon Mix)
Phaeleh – Afterglow (feat. Soundmouse)
Rita Morar & Steve Carty – Rain (Piyush Bhatnagar Remix)
Shaa’ir & Func – Every time You’re Around
Shammi Pithia – The Seeker
Sub Swara – Bend You
Sukh Knight – Gabba Wasp
The Nasha Experience – REDZONE
Bob Marley – Waiting in Vain (Susheela Raman and Karsh Kale Version)
Amal Lad – Once Upon a Time in London
2011 Favourited already:
Generation Bass Presents Transnational Dubstep Compilation
GIG ALERT! – The Akala Doublethink Tour
An exclusive to nada:brahma, bringing you a hot gig alert – The Akala Doublethink Tour
Akala, a MOBO Award-winning British hip hop artist, dubbed as the KRS One of the UK. In November he takes hiphop back from the corporate world and wages war on the mediocre rap industry with his diverse combination of influences including trance, folk, punk and soul.
The tour marks the release of his latest LP – DOUBLE THINK which is inspired by Orwell’s “1984”, Huxley’s “Brave New World” and Zamyatin’s “We”.
If you want a thought provoking, intellectually stimulating night of lyrical poetry then this is definitely the gig for you!
nada:brahma is proud to be working with the Akala team so if you too have been inspired and charged up – you can join the AKALA Street Team by dropping my friend Raghav Bhatt an email asking for more information at raghav.illastate@gmail.com
Akala‘s new single ‘Yours & My Children’ video is out – and will be available to buy as of 18th October 2010. Its a fabulous track, so next you’re listening to the radio call up the radio stations with requests for this song!! 🙂
All the dates and venues are on the flyer below including sites you can visit to find out more information:
ticketweb.co.uk | akalamusic.com | seetickets.com
Doublethink: Interview with Akala
An interview with the MOBO Award-winning hip-hop artist, Akala, whose latest album, Doublethink, is inspired by Orwell’s 1984, Zamyatin’s We and Huxley’s Brave New World. Akala talks to Orwell Prize administrator, Gavin Freeguard, about Orwell, Doublethink, language, Shakespeare, and the politics of hip-hop.
Interview recorded at the Southbank Centre on 5th August 2010.
http://www.theorwellprize.co.uk/the-award/works/doublethink-interview-with-akala.aspx
Interview with Akala – Part 1
Interview with Akala – Part 2
Interview with Akala – Part 3
Interview with Akala – Part 4
http://www.akalamusic.com/
http://www.hiphopshakespeare.com/site/
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Two highlight tracks on his album:
Akala – Find No Enemy
Akala – Yours And My Children – (single out 12Oct10)
akala – making a difference
When I discovered Electronica, my Hip Hop, R’n’b, Rap collected started to fade out, then I realized that there wasn’t much mean or depth in what I was listening to.
Subjects like guns, drugs, hoes and sex being talked about, having a negative impact on society. We already live in a messed up world, and a powerful tool such as music can have a massive impact in changing the mindset of a person either into something inspiring or destructive.
Earlier this year I aired my views on my Facebook status on the matter. My friend Raghav Bhatt then pastes a link on to my wall … “Check this guy out, he’s different” … I thought … “Yeah right” … but how wrong was I! …
I was introduced to an artist who has been dubbed as the KRS One of UK. Akala, a MOBO Award-winning British rap and hip hop artist from the Kentish Town, London is what I believe is missing in the Hip Hop world today. Touching on topics of race, class, sexism, history, war, hip-hop culture and what it is to live in a world one knows to be inherently unequal, yet rounds it all off not with accusations or anger but inward self-analysis.
Listening to Akala you get the feeling he is not just great at stringing words together to make it sound good but he understands different philosophies and has the ability to repackage it to make it accessible to the wider audience. Indeed, Akala’s refusal and inability to conform to prevailing stereotypes means that his records are largely ignored by the sections of the media that speak authentically of the “urban experience” … not surprising as now a days it feels as if we are being dumbed down by what we see, read and hear through different medium.
Shakespeare
Akala (the name meaning “immovable”) is a teacher himself. He set up the Hip Hop Shakespeare Company which is supported by the BBC and was opened by Sir Ian McKellan – this project is Akala’s brainchild – going to various cities in the UK trying to get the ‘troubled’ youth into reading and learning via performing Shakespeare plays.
More recently the latest album from MOBO Award-winner is Doublethink is inspired by Orwell’s “1984”, Huxley’s “Brave New World” and Zamyatin’s “We”.
Here are a couple of facts about Akala:
- He used to play football for Wimbledon and West Ham,
- Got straight A’s and A*’s at GCSE,
- His sister is Ms Dynamite,
- He is a vegan,
- Founded his own record label company which he is on called ‘Illastate Records’
Really looking forward to more from Akala … this is was I love, making a difference in the world rather than just making it go around. Nuff respect!
Akala – official website
The Hip Hop Shakespeare Company
<next post will feature a four part interview on his latest album>
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