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I'm a radio producer, photographer, digital producer and occasional music writer living in London. I'm currently producing shows for Gilles Peterson, both on BBC Radio 1 and for syndication. In my spare time I make my own music, as well as mess around with photography and film. I've set this blog up to both document the projects I work on at work and at home, as well as to have a place to post stuff I like. Holler!
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Discovered a way to satisfy my sneaker fetish AND save money… buy them for your 8 month old son… saved £70 and they look better in small sizes...
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Bill F****** Murray. Says it all really.
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Distal Worldwide Family Mixtape For Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide Show (Syndicated)
This has to be one of the more surreal and entertaining openers to the weekly guest mix, which Gilles has on his international show every week, in the 3 or 4 years that I’ve been making it. Distal out of Atlanta is featured on next week’s show, so tune into your local station (if they broadcast the Worldwide show!) or check out Giant Step in a few weeks to hear the whole show online. The mix is as good as the opener by the way!
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Gilles Peterson’s Final BBC Radio 1 Show
Tuesday night saw the end of an era, with Gilles’ final show on Radio 1 after 13 years on the station. There were wicked vibes down at the studio with the extended crew coming to celebrate into the night!
You can still listen back to the show via iPlayer for another couple days.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006wq8d
To top it off, earlier this week the show was the most listened to program across the entire BBC network, knocking The Archers off top spot for about a day. Big!
The new show kicks off Saturday, April 7th, 3-6pm on BBC 6Music.
Also, check Lefto’s video from the night…
ASAP ROCKY, CREATOR’S PROJECT - BROOKLYN
So it’s taken almost 6 months, but on a trip to New York last year I went to check Asap Rocky at Creator’s Project. The crowd was kinda dead and Asap was getting pissed, so I left before the end of the show.
But about 5 minutes later, it seems Asap had had enough too and jumped off stage, walked through the crowd, out the back and just kept going. He kept rapping throughout, despite being half way down the road, leaving a couple thousand people standing by an empty stage.
The original MIA video for ‘Bad Girls’ was really dope, and I remember wanting to know more about it from the first time I watched it. And thanks to ‘Better Never Than Late’ I came across this behind the scenes film by Vice’s music youtube channel Noisey on the making of the video, directed by Romain Gavras.
Tall Black Guy’s ‘Top 5 Samples’ Radio Feature
The Isley Brothers vs Roy Ayers vs Drake - Over
I spent the day on the sofa playing around on Ableton, and ended up with this bootleg. It samples The Isley Brother’s ‘Ohio’ from 1971, and Roy Ayer’s ‘2000 Black’ from 1975, both of which I came across through making Gilles Peterson’s final Brownswood Basement show on Radio 1, last week. And of course, I had to stick some Drake on there. Standard!
HERE’S VERSION 2!
This week’s Gilles Peterson Show is back on top of the BBC Radio 1 player chart. Always good to see! Shouts to Tall Black Guy who represented with his top 5 samples feature! I’m hoping to get the audio from that up in the next couple weeks, but you can check it here for the next 7 days!
Check out this video. It’s wicked. The Modeselektor boys discuss and visualize how they approach making a song, and describe the pressures and forces which influence their progress.
Nicely shot as well!
Worldwide Awards 2012 (Radio Feature)
Worldwide Awards 2012 Highlights Feature by Cushtilla_Radio on Mixcloud
Originally broadcast on Gilles Peterson’s BBC Radio 1 Show, Wednesday 25th January 2012.
Photos of BADBADNOTGOOD at Maida Vale Studios, London - Sunday 22nd January 2012.
On Sunday, off the back of 2 sold out shows in London, the BADBADNOTGOOD boys from Canada went into BBC Maida Vale studios to record 4 tracks for Gilles Peterson’s BBC Radio 1 Show. The session included their now infamous Odd Trio ‘Bastard/Lemonade’ Medley, a dope original composition entitled ‘DMZ’ and two striking James Blake covers of ‘CMYK’ and ‘Limit To Your Love’, and as I’ve not stuck anything on here for a while, I thought I’d stick up a couple pictures from the session.
You can check the Radio 1 show from last night, where Gilles played three of the tracks from the session HERE, in what was a packed studio with Alex BBNG, Thundercat, DJ Simbad and Matt all passing through.
More Awards for The Nightjar App
A few months back I produced The Nightjar iphone app alongside a number of talented individuals at Somethin Else and AMV BBDO.
Since then, it’s won a number of awards!
The BIMA Awards
The Lovie Awards
Gilles Peterson With Special Guest Thom Yorke on BBC Radio 1
Tonight Gilles and Thom reunite for another back-to-back words and music session. They touch on all kinds of topics over the 2 hours, from his collaborations with Burial and Four Tet, and his side-project with Flea from Red Hot Chilli Peppers, through to DJing at Low End Theory and forthcoming tour plans for Radiohead.
Thom drops a load of music from the new The King of Limbs Remix album, as well as an exclusive first play of a Jamie xx remix of Radiohead.
To whet your appetite, here’s a clip from the show, where Thom gives Gilles a literary recommendation.
The show goes out in it’s entirety, on Wednesday morning, 2-4am, on BBC Radio 1. You can listen here!
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Gilles Peterson - iPlayer Chart
It’s good to see this week’s All Winners Show is currently the most listened to show on Radio 1, and forth most listened to on the entire BBC Radio network!
RADIO 1 CHART
OVERALL BBC CHART
Cushtilla - Mentality2
First thing I’ve worked on in a while. Part influenced by Addison Groove, Pearson Sound and Egyptrixx, this track is a 128BPM portamento-filled roller with everything abit de-tuned and messed up.
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