October 29th, 2010

This Week In Twitter

A roundup of this week’s choice twitter posts from Mixpak artists, remixers and extended family.

HeavyFeetHeavyFeet: Hold tight the man like @toddlat for giving the @dreskull remix of Are You Dumb? a blast on R1 at the weekend.


L-Vis 1990L-Vis 1990: GIRL UNIT – WUT >> OUT TODAY @NIGHTSLUGS >> http://boomkat.com/vinyl/344021-girl-unit-wut


MixpakMixpak: @scrapMerloJonez The Look At Me single is coming out next Tuesday on @Mixpak http://bit.ly/cm3TD9


Warrior OneWarrior One: OUT NOW!! King Pigeon EP feat @Serocee http://www.junodownload.com/products/king-pigeon-ep/1650902-02/


SmutleeSmutlee: big up @davenada @mixpak & @tobiashuber got the internet hyped for this 1 http://soundcloud.com/smutlee/majic-moombahton-smutlee-edit


Natalie StormNatalie Storm: RT @bigblackbarry: wonder if dem ready fi di Wiley/Natalie storm combination?


October 29th, 2010

Club Infinity With NGUZUNGUZU Tonight!

Club Infinity NGUZUNGUZU

New York, don’t forget to RSVP for $5 admission! And while you’re at it, show some support for the new NGUZUNGUZU EP!!

October 29th, 2010

Candy Shop Hits The Street

After what seems like an eternity of waiting, DJ Pantha’s nasty UK Funky and Bassline hybrid is being released to merk the street this coming Monday. Pantha’s been tearing down the raves with ‘Candy Shops’ warping steel drums, nagging little bass pulses and scattershot toasting, so props to 1xtra’s DJ Q for signing up this banger and getting it off dubplate and into circulation. This is just another in a growing line of ultra tight production flooding out from the UK Midlands—London take note when Pantha spells it out “When you was sleeping… I said I was creeping…”


DJ Pantha – Candy Shop excerpt

October 28th, 2010

Warrior One on Soccer AM!

So not only is Warrior One’s ‘Lord of Bashy’ perfect for the dancefloor, turns out it’s also perfect as the soundtrack to silky soccer skills. Who knew Soccer AM (only the stalwart of UK football television) had such good taste in music? EAT MY GOAL!!

October 27th, 2010

Pen And Pixel

Lil Scrappy Look At Me Cover Art

Last week we mentioned that Pen and Pixel did the artwork for the new Lil Scrappy single and even if that name didn’t ring a bell, it’s likely you’re already a fan of their work. Plainly speaking, Pen and Pixel is a Houston based graphic design firm that is responsible for some of the craziest, best record covers of all time. In the late 90s, they were designing covers an incredible number of Southern rappers and labels, including Master P, Lil Wayne, No Limit Records and Cash Money Records. It’s not really a stretch to say they provided the visual aesthetic for bling-era Southern rap and that their influence is still very visible in the mixtape cover and rap record cover game today. A Mixpak all time favorite has to be this Big Bear Doin Thangs cover.

For more classics, check out Complex Magazine’s list of The 25 Most Ridiculous Pen & Pixel Album Covers of All Time and then watch this video of Louis Theroux visiting the Pen and Pixel studios to see where the magic happens.