Dom Search and Brad Baloo - aka The Nextmen - are United Kingdom DJs and producers with a trail of mixes, albums and podcasts encompassing club music from many genres, all steeped in a large dose of Hip Hop. Their Podcast regularly troubles the top 5 of the iTunes Music Podcast chart. Production and writing duties undertaken for artists such as Plan B, Wilkinson, Paolo Nutini, Anne Marie, Kiko Bun and many more...

UPDATE: We were inundated with entries for Remix Against The Machine and fell by the way slide in getting them online. So we've decided to start a group to help catch up. 

http://soundcloud.com/groups/remix-against-the-machine 

REMEMBER: John Cage - (Cage Against The Machine version) still available to buy, help get it to xmas No. 1 and support charity. Head to the Facebook page now  X

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There is a popular misconception that Cage's 4'33" is 'silence'. It's not. It's the sound of the place you are in at that time. We have therefore asked some of the best remixers in the world to submit their own versions of 4'33", in other words, the sound of where they are and what they are doing at that time. Herve tidies up his studio, Alex Metric walks to work, Adam F goes to a club, I'm told Aeroplane may be having a shower, all for 4 minutes and 33 seconds. 
So go to it, give us a four minute thirty three second audio snapshot of your life. Record it on your phone, your Mac, PC, recorder, dictaphone, walkperson, whatever and share it here. Bring smiles, warmth and awareness to our cause. Thank you for being part of it :) 

Eddy Temple Morris


Damian Robert Nesta Marley, also known around the world as “Junior Gong” and more recently as “Gongzilla” was born in 1978 to parents Bob Marley and Cindy Breakspeare, Miss World 1976.  As a young adult, he developed a passion and a gift to speak for those who cannot always speak for themselves. A self-proclaimed ‘Spiritual Revolutionary’, Damian has worked assiduously to carve his own niche in music history and to add a new perspective to the Marley legacy for the 21st century. 

At the age of 13, Damian began performing in a group called “The Shepherds” which comprised of Shiah Coore (son of Third World guitarist Cat Coore) and currently a member of his band, and Yashema Beth McGreggor, daughter of reggae singers Freddie Mcgreggor and Judy Mowatt and then began touring with his brothers, Stephen, Ky-mani, Julian and Ziggy. 

By 1996, Damian had already made his stamp as a different kind of Marley when he released his first solo album “Mr. Marley”, a heavily dancehall-influenced album produced by his brother Stephen Marley.  His second album “Halfway Tree” was released in 2001 by a major record label and showcased Damian’s unique gift for blending dancehall, reggae and hip-hop styles.  This album won Damian much recognition and remained on the Billboard Top Reggae Album Charts for 158 weeks and earned him his first Grammy for Best Reggae Album in 2002. 
While honored by this recognition by the global music fraternity, Damian continued to work in the studio, laying the groundwork for the tracks that would become his highly anticipated album, “Welcome To Jamrock”. The lyrics in this album presented Marley as a true spiritual revolutionary, as he used his talent to evoke a spiritual change while trying to enforce a better way of thinking.  He is described as “rhyming with the conviction of a street preacher with the intellect of a university economist”.  

Damian’s hit single “Welcome to Jamrock” was listed as one of the Top 100 Songs of the Decade by Rolling Stone, and at the 2006 Grammy Awards, he won Best Reggae Album and Best Urban/Alternative Performance for Welcome to Jamrock. Damian is the only Jamaican reggae artist in history to win two Grammy Awards on the same night. He is also the only reggae artist to win in the Best Urban/Alternative Performance category at the Grammy Awards. The New York Times called Welcome to Jamrock the “best reggae song of the decade.” 
Welcome to Jamrock led the pathway to Damian’s critically acclaimed collaboration with Nas for 2010’s much lauded album “Distant Relatives” – a project which explored the relationships between reggae, hip-hop and Africa. The album title refers not only to the bond between the artists, but the connection to their African ancestry, which inspired the album both musically and lyrically. USA Today referred to the album as a “potent and often provocative collaboration” and by Rolling Stone as “an Afrocentric winner.” The album debuted at Number 5 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart and Number 1 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, Rap Albums and Reggae Albums charts, with Billboard heralding the album as “a dynamic hybrid.”    

The Distant Relatives Tour kicked off in 2011 and saw Damian traveling and performing for thousands of fans all over the world, including South America, Europe, The United Kingdom, The Caribbean and North America.  

Damian continued to cross musical boundaries in 2012, as he went on to partner with Skrillex for their groundbreaking track “Make It Bun Dem”, which Rolling Stone called “a monster mash up of dubstep and dancehall” and has led to several remixes of the original version.  Damian recently released two other singles; “Set Up Shop” and  “Affairs of the Heart” which both received widespread airplay. 

Damian continues to tour with his band all over the world as a way of entertaining and healing as he continues to spread the message for those whose voices cannot be heard. He is working with his brothers Stephen and Julian under their Ghetto Youths International Label, to discover, develop and sign gifted artistes by applying their musical talent and vast experience to create new and different styles of music.  

Damian is currently in the studio working on his upcoming solo album.

'Good Fortune' is dedicated to understanding, practicing, and maintaining a Stoic outlook towards life.

Word + Sound = Power

“Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man” - JFK

Music with a message holds such a powerful force these days. DJs, MCs and producers are held in such high regard and are idolized, in parts, by many of their fans that sometimes these artists forget that they hold a very unique card in their pack. Word + Sound = Power

With the current age of technology and the levels of social communications media available and with the degree of separation ever decreasing, now is the perfect time to use music as a vehicle for revolution, not revolution of arms and violence but revolution of the hearts, minds, ideas and ideals.

Music can be used as an educational medium, highlighting many of the world’s injustices and contradictions; also, through lyrics, and positive songs, music can enlighten as well as inspire; this makes music a very powerful entity.

Music is also the one true common language; it can touch every nationality and has no boundaries, it is a unifying force like none other in the world, it is for this reason that it should be used with the greatest purpose.

There are many examples of artists who have devoted their whole ethos and career to the furtherment of good positive music, it is just that the majority now need to follow and need to realize the full potential power it has to be used to make a change for the better.

Positive Lyrics + Good Music = Audio Revolution

Music is a mission, not a competition! 1

STEP:ONE
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The odd one out from the Legendary Tribe Of Munt - Bangs out Booty Bass,  Beats & Breaks, an irrefutable  musical connoisseur with his fingers snugly wedged in each and every musical pie.

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GMT has a successful career outside of music but mixing tunes and making music has always been his passion, in his spare time he has mixed  a variety of dance music styles on the UK Underground free party scene for over 18 years, playing some of the biggest squat party venues in London and outdoor parties across England and parts of Europe, mostly with the Tribe of Munt but also on other well established sound systems, active from the late 90's up to today.
Musical inspirations are basically anything with a fat beat, mainly breaks, hip hop, disco, funk, jungle, D&B, big beat house, Techno - well anything really
If you listen to any mixtapes then please like, share or download.

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