After a year of giving up on life I’ve finally finished GTA IV and all the story packs – The Ballad of Gay Tony and The Lost and Damned. Characters like Niko Bellic, Luis Lopez, Little Jacob and Gay Tony have provided me with SO SO SO SO much fun.

I didn’t play games for a least a decade before I got GTA IV and to be honest I don’t really have much desire to play anything else. Maybe it’s the drug deals, the twitter pastiche, Porsches, and the coked up Brits dancing to a Paul Oakenfold piss take. It’s just a big lol.

Anyway, the game has some of the best music ever. Here are my favourite three tracks. I had to ditch Buju Banton, Cerrone, Marley Marl, DJ Khaled, Liquid Liquid and Fleetwood Mac.

Machine – There But For The Grace Of God

Skatt Brothers – Walk The Night

Hello – New York Groove

Two weeks ago I was mainly listening to these tunes.

Natalie Storm – Look Pon Me
Boy 8 Bit – City Under Siege
Saeed Younan – Backroom Honey
Venom & Damage feat Ibrahim – Sweat It Out (house mix)
Harry Benson – Kudzu
Alex Wizz – Drummin’ (Louis Benedetti Drumminpella)
Venom & Damage feat Original Scars – Keep On Movin’
OMG Girlz – Ain’t Nobody Thinking Bout You

DJ VENOM – DECEMBER 2009 MINIMIX

Fun times.

Shit it’s all blowing up like crazy over the past few weeks. Big DJs going crazy over Deeper, remixes, vocalists and talk of vinyl and digital releases.  Tomorrow we’re recording vocals with Tribal Man.

You can download our exclusive mix for The Fader here

1. Bok Bok – OMG (Venom & Damage remix) – 00.00
2. DJ Gregory – Con Alegria – 02.23
3. Doc Daneeka – Drums in the deep – 06.00
4. Venom & Damage – Deeper – 7.55
5. NB Funky – Frequency – 10.48
6. Jeremih- Birthday sex (Venom & Damage remix) – 12.29
7. BKP – Boomting – 16.42
8. Shystie – Pull up (Ill Blu remix) – 18.08
9. Venom & Damage – Since you told me – 19.35
10. Doc Daneeka – Deadly rhythm – 21.30
11. Unknown – The endz refit – 22.58
12. Venom & Damage – Birds island – 23.40
13. Seany B – Stompa – 24.37
14. Ill Blu – Heartbreaker – 26.25
15. Earth, Wind & Fire – Brazilian interlude (Venom & Damage remix) – 28.20
16. Stush – We nun run – 29.45
17. Inner City – Good life (Damage remix) – 33.07
18. Venom & Damage – Return of the bass – 35.00
19. Damage – Expensive tastes – 36.55
20. Venom & Damage – Jack me till I scream – 38.27
21. Detroit In Effect – R U married (Venom & Damage remix) – 40.15
22. Maxwell D – Ultimate warrior (4×4 remix) 42.45
23. Sticky – Jumeirah – 44.17
24. Blue Pearl – Naked in the rain (Sidechains remix) – 45.25
25. Get Fresh Girls – I seen your boyfriend (Venom & Damage remix) – 46.20
26. Chateu Lateuf – Run da track (Venom & Damage remix) – 48.08

VENOM & DAMAGE – MAXIMUM CARNAGE II

I only did this blog because Picnic Land started hers. It might not be as good but more people read mine – so there!

Here are some of my favourite tracks from the first few months.

C-BANK – I WON’T STOP LOVING YOU

MANTRONIX – WHO IS IT (FREESTYLE DUB)

AMG – BITCH BETTA HAVE MY MONEY

CAROL JIANI – TOUCH AND GO LOVER

DIE – R U MARRIED?

MICHAEL KNIGHT – KNIGHT RYDER

And just who can forget this?????

This is perfect.

TIM DOG – FUCK COMPTON

I went to a night called Aint It Black the other week at the surprisingly good but terribly named Favela Chic, and saw a DJ team called Yo Mamma! play a Baltimore style set. It was fun.

Forgive my ignorance but I know nothing about Baltimore anymore – I can’t keep abreast of everything! It all sounds the same to me – either a modern hip hop hit or a dance classic cut up percussively in Ableton with a Sing sing or Think break underneath. I try not to analyse things too much because it stops me enjoying myself and makes me old and cynical sounding.

This is my favourite ever Baltimore style track that wasn’t made in Baltimore.

EMYND – HANGIN ON

BTW New material from Venom and Damage is coming soon.

I found this 12″ during my holiday to South Beach Miami between visiting the fabulous Wolfsonian Design Museum and not so fabulous World Erotic Art Museum. BTW take a look at some of the exhibits at both.

Man Parrish, the “electro funky white boy” and pioneer of electronic music, made a track with Paul Parker, the creator of my favourite jogging track – Right on target.

PAUL PARKER – ONE LOOK (WAS ENOUGH)

The collaboration reads better than it sounds – right?

Better than both J’s Pizza on West End Lane and J Date is J-Zone’s Ign’ant mixtape from 2003. This mish mash of domestic volence, robbery and sexism gives me a hard on.

I got it in 2003 and it’s taken this long to get my head round it. Both Rory P and Michael O’N will love this – it could be the best mixtape ever. It’s full of gangsta tales about purse snatching, splitting bums, crack dealing and keeping dead skeezers in freezer all mixed up perfectly for the kids – it’s deep. Happy valentines.

1 ICE-T – WARNING
2 CB4 – INTRO
3 EAZY-E – STILL TALKIN’
4 POISON CLAN – LOW LIFE COOKIE MOTHERFUCKAS
5 THE DOGS – DOOKIE SHOOT
6 SUGA FREE – I’D RATHER GIVE U MY BITCH
7 MASTER P – DOPE MAN’S COMMERCIAL
8 MASTER P – PSYCHO RHYMES
9 MASTER P – OOH SHIT
10 UGK – I’M SO BAD
11 BIG L – DANGER ZONE
12 TOO MUCH TROUBLE – INVASION OF THE PURSE SNATCHERS
13 PROJECT PAT – GORILLA PIMP
14 LUKE FEATURING NOTORIOUS B.I.G. – BUST A NUT
15 WILLIE D FEATURING CHOICE – I NEED SOME PUSSY
16 TOO MUCH TROUBLE – IF U AIN’T SUCKIN’
17 POISON CLAN – UZI GETS HOT
18 POISON CLAN – BAD INFLUENCE
19 DISCO RICK FEATURING THE DOGS – SUCK THAT DICK
20 EAZY-E – SORRY LOUIE
21 TOO SHORT FEATURING FREDDIE B – GAME
22 RON C – MO HOES
23 X-RAIDED – EVERY SINGLE BITCH
24 CONVICTS – WHOOP HER ASS
25 TWEEDY BIRDLOC – NO MUTHA FUCKIN’ ROLE MODELS JACKIN’ FOR TRANSPO
26 TOO MUCH TROUBLE – OUTRO – PISS ON HIS DEAD HEAD
27 GO-RILLA PIMP – PIMP OLYMPICS

J-ZONE – IGN’ANT

I found this really worn picture disc in Miami. YouTube says “zadora is very sexy and cupid girl.” I agree.

PIA ZADORA – LET’S DANCE TONIGHT

I don’t think Left Lane had much to fear from Paul Lekakis but…

LEFT LANE – BAM BAM BAM (I CAME HERE TO JAM)

I’m too busy basking in Miami to give a damn about bass music but DJ Damage isn’t so lucky – he’s still in London. You can catch him playing music and dubstep (puke) at Z-Shed.  Night Slugs and Real Gold are doing great parties on this night too but this has Damage so it’s the best..

I’ve posted this video before but it’s so good I’m doing it again. This time here’s the mp3 too although Tracy performs it far better in the film than on record.

CHRIS “THE GLOVE” TAYLOR FT ICE T – RECKLESS

I don’t know much about The Glove but seems pretty amazing. Here he is with Egyptian Lover, who is also wearing a glove, teaching you suckers how to DJ.

This track takes 40 seconds to start but when it does it’s worth it. I wish I had it on vinyl because I can imagine it would sound so sweet with the pitch wacked up played fast.

Ed DMX once rapped it to me a few winters back at a 7 Year Glitch night. He went ‘my first taste of Miami bass came when I was on tour in ‘84′ – totally wrong.

STETSASONIC – MIAMI BASS

We’ve been working hard – really hard. Our new soon to be finished mix features  13 of our own productions and remixes which range in tempo and style from heavy breathing ‘83 electro to electrohouse bangers and dubstep wobblers. There’s only two tracks not by us on the mix. One by L Vis 1990 and another by AC Slater. Here’s an unmastered preview/demo of one of ours and it’s a bootleg of Detroit In Effect that sounds a bit like Deekline IMO. What do you think?

VENOM & DAMAGE – R U MARRIED