That’s right. Summer is starting to feel like it’s almost here. So, we thought we’d take the opportunity to play some fine deep-fried music for y’all to listen to as you drink your Kool-Aid on the porch, roll up some haze, and watch the world go by.

We’ve called this special little session “Soul Food”. - Expect to hear rare funk cuts, classic hip hop, and smoked out soul music. Live from 8pm Wednesday at www.bluntbeats.com/radio. This should be a most enjoyable evening of quality sounds, courtesy of your family-pack sized Blunt Beats resident DJs. We guarantee you’ll get all your required muscial vitamins and carbohydrates in one sitting.

Remember to keep the stakes at a friendly level in the dice game…we don’t want no trouble on the block!!

Soul Food by blunt beats - live this Wednesday from 8pm. - And, of course, don’t forget you’ll be able to download the entire show for 7 days from Thursday. Nice. Stick that one in yer boombox, homie!

i first saw Battles about 18 months ago supporting Prefuse 73 at Scala.
When Battles first came on stage the audience were gobsmacked. Im sure no one had ever heard anything like this before, there was 3 guitarists & a Drummer with laptops, keyboards and other toys at their use. It must have been like seeing Capitan Beefheart or Sun Ra back in the day.

This time the audience knew what they were letting themselves in for. The start of the night was a bit of a let down, the first act on seemed like a poor version of the fantastic Keiran Hebdon & Steve Reid, with a person on digital oddments & a poor drummer. The music playing in between the acts was supplied by Four-Tet aka Keiran Hebdon, what can i say, great tunes.

Battles came on to a rapturous applause. When they played their last single Atlas, the crowd just erupted. They rattled of tunes from their latest Album Mirrored which went down really well with the crowd, toes tappin, shoulder twitchin head bangin, body movin, great stuff. If you like your music a bit unusual try the avant-garde tones of Battles.

OK all you Flickr heads, we now have a ‘We’re listening to Blunt Beats‘ group. A place for peeps who listen to Blunt Beats Radio (BBR).

If you use Flickr join up and post pics of you enjoying the Blunt vibes in weird and wonderful locations around the world - be it at home rocking out to a live stream or maybe on your iPod/walkman listening back to a BBR recording in the great outdoors. Continue reading…