Sunday 28 June 2009

Tracklist 25/06/2009

Sorry for the delay.

Phaeleh - Virus
Chris Carter - Siren
JHZ - Azures
Uncouth Youth - Catcher in the Rye
Search n Destroy - Food Chain
Future Funk Squad - Mothership
Vent - Bear Crunk
Klone - Bud Pets
Bassnectar - Bomb the Blocks
Quasimoto - Bullyshit
Laidback - Manhattan
Jazzsteppa - Taylor Rain
Dub Terror - Shinobi Warrior ft. Echo Banks
Cheshire Cat - Panic ft. Edward Nixon
Radikal Guru - Kingston Town Remix
Sharps - The Stag - My Little Pony
Tipper - End of Makebelieve
Waveform - What's that sound
Tipper - Exact
Ed Solo and School of Thought - Babylon Breaks
Tipper - Pins and Needles
Dirty Diggers - Let's get high (instrumental)
Public Enemy - Shut em down (instrumental)
Erik B and Rakeem - Paid in full
Mad Villain - All caps
Nyabingi - Cannibal Run
High Contrast - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Humanoid - Tibetan Mist
Dj Zinc -
St Cal - Little Man
Aries - Herbsmoke
Marc Adamo - Sublow Spazm
Spoonbill - How it goes
Metaphor - Beez in the Birds
Skeetaz - Fo (Limbertimbre Mix)
Dopamine - Flapjack
Si Begg - Jetlag and Tinnitus Part 1 (Crystal Distortion Remix)
Dan Mangan - Little Snitch
Si Begg - Horsney Slap (Hoods up remix)
alphadrive - the chain

Friday 26 June 2009

Reeps1 UK Beatbox Champion!

http://www.vauxhallbeatboxchamps.co.uk/

many of you will have seen Reeps killing it at Secret Wars in Brum.. he has been crowned UK Beatbox Champion of 2009.. massive propz from The Beat Suite..

Smah Bro'z Smash Vegas!


Word people, get down to the Hippodrome on sat27th June to support Brum breaking crew Smash Bro'z, they've gained a place to compete in the finals of the World Hip Hop Dance Championships in Las Vegas this July! Massive propz for that.. But as we know flying to vegas isn't all that cheap so they need help in getting there.. check this flyer for details of their latest fundraiser..

This crew have serious talent and they will be the first Brum crew to represent at such an event.. You may have seen them before at the Yard Bird or at Creature in the Rainbow Warehouse..

Thursday 25 June 2009

Yesterday's show

Hello people!

Also, I need to mention that we had a bit of a power failure around halfway through the show, so if you're listening back, please don't be scared by about 15 seconds of silence.

The link to the show can be found on the right.
The tracklist will be up tomorrow around the evening time, when we're both actually home.


Peace

Tuesday 23 June 2009

Forwards!

Hello everyone!

Today was a very busy day for us, but we have achieved much!

First off, we made a little promo video in our overgrown back garden with our good friend Fredrick, who came to chill with us during the shoot. This is just a little mock up we did, but we'll whack a better quality one filmed in the studio soon.



We've also added some links to pages you should definitely check out. You can find these on the right, just below the Listen Again section. This section is obviously going to expand largely as we go on, so this is just a little taster for you.

Also, notice the little post box beneath that. Feel free to use it as much as you like. Do make sure you submit your name, as unless you're a registered Blogspot user, it will come up as 'annonymus' and how will we shout you out then?

There's also a few photos by Skeleton.

Looking forward to hearing from you on this week's Beat Suite, where we will provide you with some fresh tunage (Skeleton's been digging quite a lot this week), a feature on the Rainbow and generally lots of chatter and recent news.


Peace!

Monday 22 June 2009

Rhubarb In Session 4th July @ The Hare and Hounds



Get down to support your local radiostation and skank it up to some fresh beats from the dub selectors

Swordfish Records



Yes people check the Rainbow Summer Street Fest: Skeleton & Royal representing Secret Wars!

Save the Rainbow

As we and many other Rhubarb Radio presenters have mentioned before, The Rainbow in Digbeth is facing some serious issues.

To put a long story short - one person has been complaining about supposed noise disturbance and the Environmental Protection Unit has put in a Noise Abatement Order on the Raibow, despite its long struggle to reach a sane compromise.

You can find all the details on the Facebook Group

On Friday, Kent Davis, landlord of the Rainbow gave a speech at the Rainbow commenting this situation. The whole story, including fragments of the speech and interviews will be featured on The Beat Suite this Wednesday night, 00.00-02.00.
It is not only us that have been supporting the case, a number of Rhubarb Radio presenters have got involved (however there is no official station-wide opinion on the matter as of yet) as well as about 20.000 other people (see the Facebook group).

The Beat Suite was at the Rainbow, covering the event, and you can find the recordings of the speech + interviews with supporters (including Brian Travers of UB40) below:

The Speech

Interview with Brian Travers from UB40
Interview 2
Interview 3
Interview 4
Interview 5
Interview 6

More info on the topic can be found here , here (some videos) and here as well as here. There's some more by the BBC and BRMB.

To be honest, pretty much everyone is talking about it and literally thousands of people agree that the situation is all a bit insane.

Let us know what you think about the issue and we'll air your opinions on this week's Beat Suite.

Fight the power!

Facebook

Hello people, we also have a facebook group, to complete our digital beat suite needs... word up!

http://tinyurl.com/mng4st

Sunday 21 June 2009

Twitter

To our great joy it has been discovered that the Twitter username 'thebeatsuite' is actually free. So if you're a Twitterer (?) please follow us for regular updates about the shows and what's coming up.

www.twitter.com/thebeatsuite

Spread the word people!

Hello world

Hello and welcome to the Beat Suite Blog. Today we have been working on our internet presence and we are just setting up a few more things. Our Twitter should be up any moment now and it'll hopefully be twitter.com/beatsuite. Let's hope nobody beats us to it (excuse the pun).

This blog will be the centre of all things Beat Suite alongside the show of course. You will find our tracklists, links to the shows, media such as interviews and videos as well as stuff related with Rhubarb Radio.com and its variety of programming.

Right, enough blogging for now, time to finish off the last touches.

peace

Thursday 18 June 2009

Beat Suite Tracklist 18/06/2009

/This post is intentionally dated before the set-up of this blog/

JAZZSTEPPA big swing sound
MARCUS INTALEX
DEF INC loaded with dynamite
MASTER BLASTER AND AQUASKY masta blasta
ROOMMATE AND THE BASSIST rock it tonight
RESO smash yer face in
TOM ENCORE mostly harmful
PHAELEH isolate
AEROPLANE DOPE bushweed culture
TIMONKEY game over
R KIDZ AND NOISE easy
TIPPER pringleguts
BUCKFUNK 3000
2 SINNERS circles
FREQ NASTY move back
DIGITAL PIMP electric drive by
VIBESQUAD punchingbag
SPOONBIL bunkerfunk
ROOTS MANUVA dreamy days dub
PROPER FILTHY NAUGHTY flow
PUBLIC ENEMY shut em down
DEREK B bad young brotha
FOREIGN BEGGERS where did the sun go
RJD2 ghostrider
AQUASKY AND FORMAT legs ft blu rum
NOON vision
J5 quality control
RJD2 final frontier
INDIAN ROPE MAN 66 meter
PHAELEH low
ALPHADRIVE shuffledub
ALPHADRIVE the chain
BASS NECTAR not in our name
DEF INC phats admirer
RHYTHM DIVISION filter force
R KIDZ AND NOISE silence
SI BEGG are you a big boy dj?
SUBSTEP INFRABASS the unstoppable
SUBSTANCJA foulplay remix
PROBE ONE
WAYWARD SOUL pmt
ASH bonkers

Friday 12 June 2009

Beat Suite Tracklist 11/06/2009

/This post is intentionally dated before the set-up of this blog/


RESO onsen
LOEFAH
TIPPER
DOLHASZ dub thing
RENNIE PILGRIM paranoia
BACKDRAFT nicotine
SUBTRONIC VS BURNS suburban picnic
FUTURE FUNK SQUAD lost in time
PHAELEH lounge
VIBESQUAD bass travel
TIPPER squiggle
SPOONBILL mangle boogie bangle
JOEY NEGRO SUNBURST BAND man of war
DUBBYMAN funkstart
FUNK ALLIANCE dynamite
SON OF RAW dennis ferrer
YEAHFUNK calagard 13
MAD SKILLS bboy document
J5 concrete schoolyard
LUKE VIBERT hipalong hop
LUKE VIBERT fly hawai
JOHNNY CLARKE none shall escape the judgement
MATUMBI law of the land
NITTY GRITTY run down the world
CHARLIE CHAPLIN entertainer
COTTI N KINGPIN let go mi shirt
AQUASKY everybody get down?
IITONE crush
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE desperado
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE switch on
ALIX PEREZ the revolution
COMMIX roots train
BASSBIN TWINS woppa
JEALOUS marcel
TY you want more
BEASTIE BOYS intergalactic
NAS lifes a bitch

Friday 5 June 2009

Beat Suite Tracklist 04/06/2009

/This post is intentionally dated before the set-up of this blog/

JAZZSTEPPA taylor rain
TAKOMO you ought to be dead
UPTOWN CONNECTION from the future
2 SINNERS mr jingles
SI BEGG hard like funk
SON OF THE ELECTRIC GHOST your creator knows your name ep
ROB SPARX white label
JAZZSTEPPA big swing sound
MARCUS INTALEX after 7
BACKDRAFT decoy
METAPHOR beez in the birds
KLONE metamorphosis
HEYOKA crimit
SPOONBILL woodenspoon
SPOONBILL sunny side up
SPOONBILL tiptoe loudly
SPOONBILL friradel
LAYERZ spit wod part 1
BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS wreak'd
ROOTS MANUVA tears
DR RUBBERFUNK chaser prt 3
SAHARA ALL STARS take your soul
JERU THE DAMAGA you can't stop the prophet
FAT FREDDYS DROP wild wind
SPOONBILL how it goes
THE METHOD fat hair
BRAINTAX FT JEHST riviera hustle
DJ ZINC no diggidy
SCIENTIFIC reincarnation dub
BREAKAGE stone heart
SQUARE N DIRTY
BUSDRIVER happyness
AQUASKY AND MASTA BLASTA masta blasta
PROPER FILTHY NAUGHTY stitch up
SI BEGG we are not a rock band
SON OF THE ELECRIC GHOST your creator knows your name ep
SI BEGG pete fucking tong
TOM ENCORE mostly harmful