Firstly let us wish you a supastar happy Christmas. Hope you've all had a lovely, cosey, happy family day. Best wishes and love to you all.

Then we must touch on the sadness.

R.I.P. James Brown.

A man who has touched all our lives. A man who changed the face of music totally and completely. Seriously, music... good music would not sound as it does if James Brown had never been. Surely he was supposed to live forever... well his legacy, his back cat... he's given us enough to listen to for all our remaining days.

If anyone needs a rest it must be the Hardest Working Man in Showbusiness. We salute you. We thank you. We praise you... We'll miss you.

Peace out James Brown... Thank you.

Picked up the first record from The Tribunes today. Quality sounds and words in a jazz poetry stylie, wiith something to say. Worth checking.

And they've also provided music for a CD supporting a film called Injustice which from reading about looks like a very strong, important docufilm about unlawful killings in police custody...

Interview with Gil Scott Heron from the late 90s or sometime...

Say goodbye to your productivity.

Cannonball Adderley site.

Kanye West being a cock...

Count Bassd's site is very wicked. Good archive of stuff and links etc...

Very nice and good freebie mixtape from Soul Sociedad

Now actual real cheap vinyl... and cds. Ubiquity Records sale, $10 a thing!

Cheapo vinyl...

Sorry to be blatently rude here, but what the hey! Can this woman have any more differing opinions going on inside her head...

Wixked new video for Percee P with loads of bad footage of NY circ 1979.

Now you might need a bit of time for this lot... R Kelly - Trapped in the closet. A 12 part mini-series of videos based around a soap-opera story line (think Day's of our lives') sung/narrated by Mr Kelly. Very funny, stupid, odd, ridiculous... If you do nothing else, check the end of episode 9 and the start of 10... Who could that be hiding under the sink...?

For any of y'all thinking of getting a lil festive snow in your life. An interesting film about how Cocaine is made and another of how it's distributed...
Cheeky line of cement anyone?... Brought to you in a narco submarine.
All from this guy Matthew Bristow. Very interesting and good journalism... Big up.

And to continue my random anti-drugs rant... This story on the woes of swimming in Aligator infested waters... Actually I just like the line - "Police said it was unclear why he was in the water in the early hours, but he had admitted taking crack cocaine."

D'you remeber that Japanese Matrix ping popng thing... Well now it's baseball time.

Load of peps breaking down tracks Dilla made with them. Nice musings.

Radio Lazy podcast launched finally, but oh so very finely. Click the link to the left or the big fancy button over there... and get wit da program!

Sad film highlighting the very real (this time) problem of the probable death of vinyl

$280,000 Skate Ramp. Jus' a bit stupid, no?

Lesson 4 gone video now...

I a week of lots of cool ass shit, I now present the coolest ass shit. 3D rendered video of every skateboard trick. I thank you... (let it load, don't cllick the DI Interactive logo as I kept on doing).

Hai!!!

Cinematic Orchestra are previewing a track a day off of their new album... and all of them on Sunday. Sounds nice... nicer than the over complicated concept of daily track previews...

(upate: just been informed that this latest release I was on about... is about 1 or 2 years old. Cutting edge from Lazy as usual)

Yet another film about a giant Panda eating you and your mobile phone... yada yada yada. Takashi Murakami.

Three Little Jazz Pigs. Man cartoons were soo great back in the day.

For no reason, check out the Peacefrog Records site. Such a wicked wicked label!

Hip Hop Video special

Diamond D - Sally Gotta One Track Mind

Jungle Bros - Straight out the Jungle

Lord Finesse + - Actual Facts

Check out thhe next strong female vocalist to come forth... Rivkaa. Well worth checking and keeping an eye on for the future...

The Creator!

Do you find holidays too unproductive...Get inspired then.

Your computer is shit. Next level

Oh shit

Really nice mixtape freebie from one of the Turntablelab boys, Lloydski. Loads of great 80's synthtastic sounds... but good.

Wicked video of the history of the Amen break

Watch lots of TV programs on the internet (including all Simpsons!) http://tvlinks.voodeedoo.org, but not to be watched at work. Okay Duncan...

Wicked looking docu-film about someone's crazy idea to put on a Wu Tang reunion concert. Rock the Bells.

Big Lazy smiles and happyness going out to the Lazy Marseille connection, Jane, Bastien and Luca, who've jkust added to their ranks with lil baby Lucy. Lots of love...

And in honour let have a French Legend.

And an English Legend...

I didn't know Wax Poetics had a site* and with exclusive web content like an Alice Coltrane interview... nice.

*note, hope you don't come here for the cutting edge type shit

Lovely panorama photography from around the world, include Lazy bases Paris and Berlin...

Big, big up as everytime to the Theo the Parrish last night rockin' us all down Plastic People. Amazing as always...

Time to make Apples green...

BBig up Charlie Dark and A-Cyde of the Blacktronica massive for doing a kids party and workshop with style at the lovely De La Warr Pavillion. Watch out for possible more future kids/parents dos... all you with out kids people best get busy, 'cause otherwise you'll have your faced pressed against the glass looking at all the fun.

Just to prove that you will never own all the good breaks... A phat J-Rocc mixtape... What's with everyone doing mixtapes for shops...?

To add to the list of things I'm gonna get round to doing some time soon... Throwie Tags...

Video footage of the last Lazy

Big thanks to everyone who came down last Sunday for our last Lazy for a bit. It was a very nice send off and felt like Christmas... Which is always good.
Stay tuned here, to find out what we are going to do now...

Stones Throw Jukebox always throws up mad nice freeness. Check out the Chrome Children mix by PB Wolf... This is the next ish from MF DOO00oo, Madlib and Dilla and others... Also check out that Georgia Anne Muldrew ish...

Speaking of Madlib. Good to see that more freaky, stone head, mentalist hip hop producers are getting air on Cartoon Network..?!?

Life coaching from Mr.T. All good and a throughly nice man... but he's a bit anti the whole Lazy thing. Might have issues with him there.

Nice, fun hot air ballooning video.

All that time and effort involved in creating amazing drawings with an etch-a-sketch, yet all I can say is LOONEY!

Nice, fun hot air ballooning video. I want to do this...

How annoying would it be ifPuffy changed his name to your name... About £100,000 worth of annoying. Yo Diddy, why not change your name to Jnr.D.

I don't want this to become the Banksy appreciation society... But this is very good.

Check out Waajeed diggin' for beats in a lovely little shop just outside Detroit.

Wow, a kindred spirit. "I muck around as a DJ in my spare time, and realised that a lot of the techniques used in artificial intelligence could be used to automate what DJs do," says Cliff... Sorry, but if today's "computer scientists" are only just sussing out that beat mixing is easy and could be done by a computer, then I think my chances of lounging on Mars this lifetime are pretty scuppered...

The Empire have released a mkII to the At-At Walker, to blast that chump Skywalker away... Big up Tash.

Have uploaded all 6 sides of some the best mix tapes I ever bought. DJ Muro is a Japanese beat digger of world wide fame. He has a seriously deep, unknown record collection. About 8 years ago he put out these three tapes called King of Diggin' 1, 2 and 3. All three had excellent Burger King rip off art work. All three are 90 minutes of mad, rare, unheard of funk, soul and jazz classics... and the mixing is all done live... and is tight nd funky. This was way before all the "Dusty Fingers" comps and re-issue mania we are in now. These are just the work of a man on a mission to find every record that funks. He's since gone on to rule Japanese Hip Hop and release comilations for Stones Throw and Blue Note... but only available in Japan... So download this lot, it's easier.

BBE have just released a compliation put together by Muro and two others Kon & Amir. All tunes are bound to be wicked and unfindable. There's a nice You Tube video of Amir talking about beat digggin'. Check.

I know all y'all have been putting off getting a Credit Card as you find they don't represent the O.G in you enough. Finally someone is sorting this out. JT The Bigga Figga (?!) is inking up with MastaCard to help us out with our lack of debts.

Banky's home video of how to do something to help Paris Hilton sell more CDs.

And... if you can get a copy of this Benji B mix cd then do. Tis very amazing... Far too good to be just an instore giveaway.

Top mix of all the original tunes Dilla used to create his grand Donuts album, available fromAme's mySpace page. All the originals, in the order they appear on the Donuts album... and a link to a you tube vid of all the covers.

I think I'm probably the last to know about this... but let me share it with you anyway. Jarvis Cocker has got a good mySpace thing, with 1 very good track and one nice Icelandic folk tale.

Learn to walk the GhostFace walk... Good schoolin'. Could come in useful sometime...

And one for Acid here. Naima circ 1965. Class-sic.

And finally crisply recorded Ron Hardy mix from 1984...

Cheers Brownswooders for some of these...

I've finally hooked up this site to the blog world, thus making it nuff easy to update. Jus' wait to see the flood of dirge I shall unleash.

Like this. According to Sam the best website ever. Mulatu Space.

And oh oh (dances round like needs toilet)... New Theo Parrish releases AND label, coming soon.

"Sound Signature is proud to offer the first release from a new imprint showcasing the unique talents of Marcellus Pittman: Unirhythm."

Marcellus Pittman:
A. Come See
B. A Mix

AND two new Sound Signature releases.

A. The Rotating Assmbly Feat. Billy Lo - Seasons Of My Life
B. Green Pickles Feat. Billy Lo & Marcellus Pittman Feedback

and Theo Parrish - Children Of The Drum / I Be These Roots

Cheers Fatdog records for that knowledge.

Hello friends.

Hope you're all goood and well. Have done a big clean up and sort out update... and have a load of time off soon, so hope to do more.

Anyway in the meantime you get the summer edition of the Lazy Radio Show put together by myself. Some new bit's picked up in these hot months and some classic sounds.

Also below is a whole load of links to stuff I've been sent recently. If you've got a lunch hour or two, get through that lot...

Big up and big birthday shouts to Lazy David, who held a quality summer party last weekend up in his hot attic... Rumours are starting about one last party towards the end of August, will keep you posted.

Super lovely mixes. Very nicely done mixes, with very good tracklistings. Simple and beautiful.

New Lupe Fiasco... from the lovely Spine Mag.

Designer's mixtapes?!?. What do designers know about beats..?

Beat create. Watch a baad beat being made in jus' a few minutes.

Real reel II reel... really.

Q-bert doesn't know how to use a crossfader.

80's Videos... and loads of them.

Prince recordings. and loads of them.

History of West End records. The story of Disco's mother label.

Tigerstyle. Funky funky scratching.

Futura 2000 interview. He speaks!

Stevie Wonder jamming with the house band. Imagine no more

Jackson Pollock man. Don't just look at a blank screen... move your mouse around...

9/11 investigation video. Very detailed gathering and presenting of lots of dodgy 9/11 "facts". Interesting. Scarey. 80 minutes.