Fray – the video

So as you may know by now, Orifice Vulgatron from Foreign Beggars hit the studio with D-Code and me and turned in this surprising, disgusting and frankly frightening vocal performance for a track called “Fray”. It’s got Elio D’Anna Jr and Mukesh Ravji on guitar with Pravvy Prav on backing vocals too.

You can grab it on our album “Phasmatis In Machina” and it’ll be the next single + wicked remixes from some amazing talent out soon.

The video, long in the lab, is finally ready. I really, really hope you dig:

Director – Shaft Uddin
DOP – Kwami
Post Production – Kooch Chung
Art Direction – Kunal Anand
Make up – Becky Perkins
Producer – Nerm
Featuring: Jenna G, Huw Stephens, DJ Kayper + Nathan “Flutebox” Lee

Cast: Nina Hunjan, Elio D’Anna Jr, Pravvy Prav, Silent Source, D-Code, Nerm, Bambooclart, Kunal Anand, Roshani Hewa, Ravneet Dhanjal, Natascha Nanji, Nellie Hamid, Matilde Ramos Pinto, Reju Sharma, Rupa Bhatti, Kam Bagri Dhanjal, Ed Nattrass, Amrita Singh, Lesh Thapar

And here’s how it got made, thanks to Laura Taflinger:

Speaking of Foreign Beggars, check their latest (and much better than ours) video for No Hold Barred with Noisia, remixed by Excision on the EP “Beggatron Remixed Part 1“:

And make sure you vote for them at the Urban Music Awards

Nerm and D-Code vs Orifice Vulgatron (Foreign Beggars) – Fray (NSG REMIX)

OUCH!

More news on the Fray remixes/video/release soon. R.A.R.E. tomorrow!

Something for the weekend?

I’ve had a ton of requests about where you can listen to the Radio 1 show D-Code and I did last week now that it’s not on iPlayer anymore, so I thought I’d stick it on Mixcloud for your listening pleasure. Click the pics to stream:

>>>Part 1                                               >>>Part 2

Also some gentle, kind soul has uploaded the whole thing for you to download and keep, here.

July’s mix/podcast is up next.

And R.A.R.E next week

Radio 1 :: R.A.R.E

D-Code and I just came home (well our own homes, we don’t live together or anything) from doing 2 hours on Radio One, standing in for Nihal.

We’re both overwhelmed by the messages, love and support you all gave. Thanks so much. You can hear the show for the next 7 days here.

More fun stuff beckons. August 12th is going to be massive:

Feel free to come down to East Village and say “Hi”! You can grab advance tickets here

June Mix/Podcast (okay okay I know it’s a little late)

My June mix is a few days late. But hark! What is this? A special 2-4-1 offer, no less!
For radio-heads, you can hear my mix with me talking all over it, and for the pure music lover, you have the mix untainted by my voice. Click on the pictures for the streams.

►►►Nerm Mix/Podcast June 2010 :: Summer Ghosts

01 The Beatles – Tomorrow Never Knows (Apple/EMI)
02 Le Castle Vania – Nobody Gets Out Alive! (Noisia Remix) (Always Ever/So Sweet)
03 Zinc – Nexx (Zinc Music)
04 Jack Beats – Out Of Body (Cheap Thrills)
05 MIA – XXXO (SBTRKT Remix)
06 Jahcoozi – Barefoot Wanderer (Object Object & Raw Milk Remix) (Bpitch Control)
07 Foreign Beggars – No Holds Barred (Goth Trad Remix) (Dented)
08 Plan B – Prayin’ (Breakage’s Bad Week Remix)
09 Magnetic Man – MAD (Columbia)
10 Foreign Beggars vs Chasing Shadows – Typhoon (Never Say Die/Dented)
11 Massive Attack – Risingson (Bassnectar Bootleg) (Dub)
12 Ges-e & Nuphlo – Mousetrap 2 (Nasha Records)
13 Culture Shock – Bad Red (Ram Records)
14 Joe Syntax – Transducer (Dub)
15 B-Complex – Beautiful Lies VIP (Hospital)
16 Xilent – Twice (Tongue Flap)
17 Amoss – We All Grow (Dub)
18 Kava Kava – Clarity (B-Complex Remix) (Chocolate Fire Guard)
19 Magnetic Man – I Need Air (Digital Soundboy Remix) (Columbia)
20 Ketz – Black Orchid (Dub)
21 Undersound – All Seeing (Dub)
22 Dexcell – Lounge (Dub)
23 Bulb – Cruelty Support (Dub)
24 Blu Mar Ten – Overwhelm (Seba Remix) (Blu Mar Ten)
25 Talvin Singh – Butterfly (Bastido Cartel Remix) (Dub)

►►►Download Mix ►►►Download Podcast

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►►►Things for your diary:

Sat 10th July – The Kominas + me DJing, The Hoxton Underbelly, Shoreditch
Sat 16th July – The Kominas, Riz MC and me on a Q&A panel, Latitude Festival
Fri 23rd July – I’ll be DJing at 2 Essex Road, N1 (Randomly I used to live there 8 years ago)
Tue 27th July – Me & D-Code back on Radio 1 – Tuesday night, midnight til 2am

The Kominas :: London :: Saturday 10th July

The Kominas are on target to shake up Shoreditch this Saturday night with a spanking gig at The Hoxton Underbelly. I’m going to be DJing after too. They’re on stage at 10.30pm sharp.

It’s £8 to get in but if you head over to the Facebook event page you can get on their special guest list for £6 as long as you come before 9.30pm.

See you there! If you can’t make it, here’s their latest EP for you to bounce around at home to.

May :: Homeward Bound Mix + Shhhh! + Vibe Bar

►►► On Thursday 27th May we have something absolutely massive planned. We’re taken over upstairs at Shoreditch’s home of bass, East Village, stuck a stage in and smuggled two huge international star guests.

These amazing secret guests join me, D-Code and Audio Dakoos on the decks from 10pm – 3am. The guests are on a midnight.

It’s free before 11pm and £5 after.
The place is quite intimate so I’d honestly suggest guaranteeing entry by getting an advance ticket for £4

►►► Also, on Bank Holiday Monday 31st May, we’re helping Cobra Beer throw an all day party at Vibe Bar featuring Arun Ghosh, Bobby Friction, Audio Dakoos and Aziz. And it’s free. Which bring us neatly to the mix…

You know those wicked nights that are so good that before you know it you’re heading home and the sun’s up. You’re smiling, satisfied and hazy. This mix is for then. Some brand new tunes, dubplates, proto-dubstep and classics to help you when you’re homeward bound.

►►► Nerm Mix :: May 2010 :: Homeward Bound

00 Four Lions
01 Sunday Girl vs Diplo – Four Floors (Polydor)
02 Jahcoozi – Barefoot Dub (Bpitch Control)
03 Engine Earz – Reach You feat Lena Cullen (Engine Earz)
04 Rita Morar & Steve ‘Fingerz’ Carty – Rain (Piyush Remix)
05 Nero – Innocence (More Than A Lot)
06 501 – Echo In My Head (Not Safe For Work)
07 Metallica – Seek & Destroy (Bassnectar Remixxx)
08 Sharmaji – Twist It Left (Sub Swara)
09 V.I.V.E.K – Motherland (Deep Medi)
10 Leftfield – Snake Blood (Sony)
11 Talvin Singh – Dubla (Island)
12 Fun-Da-Mental – The Last Gospel (Pressure Drop Beatbox Remix) (Nation)
13 Barbarix – Daiquiri Dusk
14 Calibre – Tenopause (Deep Medi)
15 Nasha Experience – Matix (Nasha)
16 Jolly Mukherjee w/ Madras Cinematic Orchestra – Jayjanthi (Kingsuk Biswas Remix) (Palm Pictures)
17 Midival Punditz – Tonic (Piyush Remix) (Six Degrees)
18 Stephen Marley – Traffic Jam (Dhruva Remix) (Sub Swara)
19 Long Range – One More (Long Range)
20 Quest – Smooth Skin (Deep Medi)
21 Riz MC – Hundreds and Thousands
22 Booka Shade – Outskirts (Get Physical)

Click the little down arrow on the player below to cut out and keep your very own copy of this mix for ever.

Laters

It’s been a mad, crazy few months. So many massive things have happened, some good, some bad, but all with impact. There have been so many emotional things popping off all at once that it really feel like there’s some sort of endgame at play. A closing of a chapter.

We’re about to start the next one but before that I think I need a breather. I’m off to Cuba for a month to unplug and disconnect. There’s so much planned for when I get back but for now, I’m out of here.

I’m sorry there’s no mix for April -  I had one planned but we’ve just run out of time with the awesome but hectic last few days. I hope I can make it up to you when I get back in mid-May.

Thanks for your patience, support and love. As I said, it’s been an insane time but all the brilliant messages I’ve had have really heartened me.

Roll on the next chapter.

NB: I should have realised watching “Scarface” on repeat is probably not the best prep for Cuba…

March Mix :: DOA

March’s mix was done for big phat music website Dogs On Acid following on from our interview. It is a little late, I’m sorry.

It was done with Electro East in mind and features a few tracks that you’ll find on other mixes I’ve done. I though, “ah, what the hell” because some of DOA readers may not have heard them before.

Download it on DOA

01 Subfocus – Spalsh (Ram)
02 Ges-E & Shandy – Dil Se (Nasha)
03 Ant Miles & Moving Fusion – Mass Hysteria (Liftin Spirits)
04 Shiva Soundsystem – Mumbai Cells ft Buzz Singh (Shiva Soundsystem)
05 D-Code & Chan1 – Glitterstep (Shiva Soundsystem)
06 Silent Source & D-Code – Babylon (Final)
07 The Nasha Experience – Dayam feat Swati Natekar (Nasha)
08 AR Rahman – Mumbai Theme (Bandish Projekt Remix) (Dub)
09 Randomer – Seeing Angels Redux (Dub)
10 Ketz – Kali Mataha (Dub)
11 Nuphlo – Disciple (Nasha)
12 REDS & Randomer – Standoff (Dub)
13 NotioN & Hobzee – Hidden Life (Celcius)
14 Spectrasoul – Guardian (Metalheadz)
15 Randomer – Appetite (Med School)
16 Midival Punditz – Tonic (Nucleya Mix) (Six Degrees)
17 Nuphlo – Treasure Beyond Measure (Nasha)
18 Blu Mar Ten – If I Could Tell You (Blu Mar Ten)
19 Commix – Midas Touch (Soul:R)
20 Shiva Soundsystem – Mumbai Cells (V.I.V.E.K  R.E.M.I.X) (Shiva Soundsystem)
21 Linden – Frogdarts (Nerve)
22 Marginal – Style Is A Cage (DubKraft)
23 Subterra & Dekko – Bonsai Run (Dub)
24 D-Code & Chan1 – Erotica (Shiva Soundsystem)
25 D-Code & Chan1 – The Rebirth (Shiva Soundsystem)
26 Sparfuunk & D-Code – The Apocalypse (Terrafunk)
27 Silent Source & D-Code vs Shaa’ir & Func – Finger Puppets (Shiva Soundsystem)

Return To Bass

Tomorrow night’s assault on East London’s  clubland is gearing up. It’s also a knees up to celebrate the final Electro East and we’re giving a free CD to the first 50 lovely people in the club.

Here’s how it’s gonna to go down:

2200 – 2330 – Soldgie
2330 – 0030 – Subterra & Dekko (Frequency Records – Alternative Set)
0030 – 0130 – Nerm
0130 – 0230 – D-Code
0230 – 0300 – V.I.V.E.K (Deep Medi Set)

Here’s where the club is and the Facebook event page.

Come and say hi. It’s free to get in by the way.