Cman's Sunday Lunch

This is my first time posting so bear with me. It's saturday afternoon, not sunday as the post would lead you to believe, i've missed my opportunity to cash my pay check which is a bummer and tonight is the last night of Kef. Now i'm not actually that disappointed it's shutting more upset that it costs a tenner to get in so i'll have to scrounge that together somehow. Rather than just posting some lame songs that mention food in the title, these 5 are fairly food dominated and all good songs so enjoy.

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1. DJ Format ft. Abdominal - Ill Culinary Behaviour

2. DJ Yoda ft. Biz Markie - Breakfast Cereal

3. DJ Z-Trip ft. Murs & Supernatural - Breakfast Club

4. Toddla T & Mr Versatile - Fill Up Ma Portion

5. Ugly Duckling - Meatshake

Didn't have time to put up some nice photos for the mix but whilst on the cereal ting, I remembered a collection from a year or two ago of twisted cereal boxes drawn and painted by some of the best animation artists out there. The list of artists includes people like Bill Wray, who's worked on Ren & Stimpy and Samurai Jack, Lou Romano, who did a lot of the art for The Incredibles and Craig McCracken, who is the creator of The Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.

In total there are 73 artists contributing to this project, which is eventually going to be bound into a book. I love how weird and gross and wrong these are. I thought the ones above were the absolute best/worst of the bunch, but there's several more under the cut, so be sure to check them out! Seeee man its C man.

Sunday Lunch with Isho - Part 2

I know it's Tuesday and lunch is late, but better late than never.

Isho's Main Course

Kwest Tha Madd Ladd - "Butta-Few-Co" (This Is My First Album)



Organized Konfusion - "Who Stole My Last Piece Of Chicken" (Organized Konfusion)

Dr Dre - "Deeez Nuuuts" (The Chronic)



UMC's - "Blue Cheese" (Fruits Of Nature) [Double Header]

Main Source - "Live At The Barbeque" (Breaking Atoms)


Wu-Tang Dessert with Ghostface Triple Glaze



Wu-Tang Clan - "C.R.E.A.M." (Enter The Wu-Tang)

Raekwon The Chef - "Fish & Chips" (The Vatican" Vol1)

Ghostface Killah - "Nutmeg" (Supreme Clientele)

Ghostface Killah - "R.A.G.U." (Fishscale) [Double header]

Ghostface Killah - "Strawberry" (Bulletproof Wallets)

...and one I forgot from last week



Sunday Lunch With Isho Pt. 1 - .zip file containing all tracks

Sunday Lunch With Isho Pt. 2 - .zip file containing all tracks

Lazy Life (Of No Fixed Identity)

Super Furry Animals - "Lazy Life (Of No Fixed Identity)" Hometown Unicorn 12"

Well, yet again, it's been nearly a week with no postage. I've no real excuses this time, except perhaps Burnout Paradise on the 360; that, and I am notoriously lazy. Sunday Lunch with Isho Pt. 2 will be coming very soon but it's taken a bit longer than expected. Kit must have been cooking it. Anyway, I'm going to dedicate this post to three wonderful ways to waste your time...

1. The Wire - Quite simply the best TV series ever made.

I'll let this description I lifted straight from TV.com break it down for you:

In chronicling a multi-generational family business dealing illegal drugs and the efforts of the Baltimore police to curb their trade, this series draws parallels between these organizations and the men and women on either side of the battle. The words of Gary W. Potter, Professor of Criminal Justice and Police Studies at Eastern Kentucky University, in writing about the savings and loan scandals of the 1980s, can also be used to illuminate some of the central premises of the show:

"There is precious little difference between those people who society designates as respectable and law abiding and those people society castigates as hoodlums and thugs. The world of corporate finance and corporate capital is as criminogenic and probably more criminogenic than any poverty-wracked slum neighborhood. The distinctions drawn between business, politics, and organized crime are at best artificial and in reality irrelevant. Rather than being dysfunctions, corporate crime, white-collar crime, organized crime, and political corruption are mainstays of American political-economic life."

In New York's Newsday, Diane Werts says: "Most TV crime series aspire to John Grisham's level. 'The Wire' aspires to Dostoevsky's."

Season One centers around a family of drug dealers and the innerworkings of their empire. It also follows the detectives who are trying to catch the high members of the empire.
Season Two steps away from the drug trade (while still mentioning characters from the previous season) to a case of dead prostitutes which turns into a look at the corruption surrounding the Port.
Season Three investigates politics and finishes the main stories that were left open in season one.
Season Four focuses on four middle school students and their journeys through the public school system and continues to address the politics of an inner-city and the issues of an election.
Season Five is about the media's role in Baltimore.

With a healthy balance of characters and plot driving the show, The Wire shouldn't be left on in the background. It demands and deserves your full attention. The music throughout isn't all that prominent, but it's damn good. There are two soundtracks out now, both released at the beginning of the year:

Five Blind Boys of Alabama - "Way Down In The Hole"
Blake Leyh - The Fall

"...And All The Pieces Matter: Five Years of Music From The Wire" features 35 tracks spanning the five seasons, including every important piece of music from the series, as well as dialogue from choice moments.

Rod Lee - "Dance My Pain Away"

The second one comprises of 11 B-more club tracks featured in the series. I haven't managed to get myself a copy of either yet, but I do fancy picking up the first one for the 60 page booklet. Because I'm a nerd like that.

2. Taiko No Tatsujin - Crazy Japanese Nintendo DS Drum Game

It's like Guitar Hero but way simpler and very Japanese. Just hit the drum in the centre of the touch screen in time with the symbols moving along the top screen. If you're feeling tech, you can go nuts with double stylus action. There's no Slayer but there's plenty of J-pop, anime music, western classical music, traditional Japanese festival music, and video game themes. Here's an example of what you can play...

What's not to like? There's a new one coming out soon too, I hope it has this on it too...

Thanks to Seiv for the heads up on that one.

3. Radio Skool with A'La Fu on SHMU 99.8FM - Monday nights at 8pm (GMT)

If you're lucky enough to live in the Aberdeen area, you can tune into this on the good old wireless. For the rest of you , the wonder of the internet will provide a means to listen to this live. Either that, or, you can listen to an archive of last weeks show. Every week Kenny picks a letter, and bases the music in the show round that, so expect a varied selection of styles and genres. For those of you who don't know, A La Fu has released numerous projects, including the Radio Skool series featuring among others; Maseo (De La Soul), Juice Aleem (New Flesh), Mike Ladd (!K7) and Infinite Livez (Big Dada). As well as all that, one of the Radio Skool mixes was a top five seller on New York's Turntable Lab alongside DJ Shadow and Coldcut.

Sunday Lunch with Isho - Part 1

Since Kit's been lagging from his duties yet again I'll bring you another installment of the Sunday Lunch series. This is the first of a two part selection of food related goods from our good friend Isho and as you can see he's included a Wu Tang special aperitif.

Isho's Main Course


Cannibal Ox - "Raspberry Fields" from The Cold Vein [2002]

Notorious B.I.G. - "What's Beef?" from Life After Death [1997]

KMD - "Peachfuzz" from Mr. Hood [1991]

De La Soul - "Pease Porridge" from De La Soul Is Dead [1991]

A Tribe Called Quest - "Ham & Eggs" from Peoples Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm [1990]



Wu Tang Dessert


GZA - "Liquid Swords" from Liquid Swords [1995]

Cappadonna - "Milk The Cow" from The Pillage [1998]

Method Man - "Biscuits" from Tical [1996]

Ghostface Killah - "Fish" from Ironman [1994]

Raekwon The Chef - "Ice Cream" from Only Built 4 Cuban Linx [1995]

Call off the search parties, I'm back

Buck 65 - "Food" from Square LP

Apologies to all for the lack of postage recently, this was due to me and the girlfriend going to see Buck 65 in Glasgow then on a wee holiday north to Orkney.

I went to check on the Earls Ltd. summer retreat but as you can see it's been a bit neglected (much like the blog).

There was nae internet where we were staying but the local music & game store in Kirkwall was holding it down with the latest video game action. As soon as I'm finished with Burnout Paradise I'm onto Horace Goes Skiing.

Some of you might have peeped this already from Isho's blog but here's the trailer for the new Guitar Hero: On Tour for the Nintendo DS. I don't know what tunes are on it but I don't care I'm sold and I want one now.




Finally here's the latest video from Jamie Lidell for "Little Bit Of Feel Good" out on the 14th of April. Some of you may recognise the vocal from the Remdog remix we featured a few weeks back. If any of you fancy a shot at remixing it here's the shpiel from Jamie himself:

"Alright. It's time to give me a sonic haircut folks. I give you my voice you give me a new body. I'm all yours. hell YEP.

Remix the naked vocal from Little Bit of Feel Good however you damn well want and I'll check the results and pick out the gold from the shit. The bad from the super bad...

In short I will chose the one I'm feeling is to be crowned the feel goodest.

...so...triple exclamation marks all round and let's hear it folks!!!

Power to the people and as they say on tele "make it work!"

Let the image be some inspiration

love Jim

Jamie Lidell - "Little Bit of Feel Good" Vocal to Remix
To enter:
Email your entries as MP3s or links to jamielidell@warprecords.com by 1st April... so get to it!

The Five Food Groups on Friday (tuesday)

So i committed my first and probably the most common bloggers sin, which is to say I'll do a weekly post and then let it slip. I did this remarkably quickly. I blame the considerable lack of interest in this post. A big Hurrah for the two people who downloaded the tracks! (i know who you are!) Anyway it's Tuesday now and here are the next five in the weekly? Five Food Groups + a bonus track for your pleasure from a Frito Lay commercial.

Purple Stew - Thurston Harris

Ice Cream Truck - Charizma & Peanut Butter Wolf

Soda Pop - Vine Malloy

Ice Cream Man - Clover

Sandwich Commandments - Michael Showalter


BONUS TRACK!
Frito Bandito Theme! - Frito Lay

Download all of them HERE

A/Deen Thugs Kill All Visiting Fans (apparently)

Just a wee belated thanks to John Rattray for giving The Earl Of Sandwich a big up in the the February issue of Sidewalk Magazine. He said that we were "definitely a damn good sandwich / juice bar" - his words not mine.

The eagle-eyed amongst you might have noticed that the photo above is from Alex Craig's fantastic "H'Min Bam" DVD; if you haven't seen it and you have even the remotest interest in skateboarding then I recommend you find a copy. The soundtrack is also exceptional and should be appearing on this blog sometime soon. In the meantime, here's a clip of John doing what he does best. Check out the manual about 2 minutes into the clip. Thanks to Alex Irvine for the photos.