Beastie Boys • Fight For Your Right Revisted

Big fan of the Beasties. Big fan of the new album Hot Sauce Commitee Part Two. Big fan of this support 30 minute film. The short features the likes of Elijah Wood, Danny McBride, Seth Rogen, Susan Sarandon the film sees the rappers revisit their classic 1987 video for '(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)'.

The band's Adam Yauch wrote and directed the film, which acts as a sequel to the events in the original video. A number of other actors and musicians make cameos in it, including Will Ferrell, Jack Black, Steve Buscemi, Shannyn Sossamon, Kirsten Dunst, Ted Danson, Chloe Sevigny and Orlando Bloom, as well as the actual Beasties.

Solid Steel Podcast's

My absolute favourite music podcasts are now available through SoundCloud. If you like eclectic music mixes you could do a hell of a lot worse than checking them out - stream or download below.

Highly recommended Ninja Tune audio bliss.

  Solid Steel Radio Shows by Ninja Tune & Big Dada

DJ Superix presents Ultimate, Ultimate, Ultimate!

Definitely worth checking out is another free mixtape download, this time from the UK's DJ Superix, a mixmeister I got into a few years back with the mighty Lost & Found Vol.1 rare 90's hip hop mix compilation.
This time it's all about the breaks and beats. Ultimate, Ultimate, Ultimate! can be downloaded as a zip file containing the 2 x CD's directly from the Southern Hospitality website here. Highly recommended if you like your skool's old.

‘Its back to the eighties again for this mix (1984-1987 to be specific) a really exciting time in hip-hop as the music was constantly evolving its sound. Put simply, these are some of my favourite records ever & in my opinion they still sound as  fresh to me today as the day they did when I first heard them. I hope you enjoy the mix as much as I did putting it together!’ – Superix

Break out the shelltoes and enjoy!

Girl Talk • All Day (free mash-up album download)

I heard the track 'Jump on the Stage' lunchtime on 6Music and decided to search for it online.

Turns out it's by a DJ outfit called Girl Talk who are offering an entire album as a free download.

Well worth the 155mb and should get most parties started :)

Download here and just add speakers.

Rolling Stones • Gimme Shelter

Forgotten how much I love this song until I saw the recent ad for Black Ops. From the album 'Let It Bleed' - which incidentally, features cover artwork photo of a cake baked by none other than Delia Smith.

Das EFX • They Want EFX

Beastie Boys - Root Down (Adverse Remix)

Beastie Boys - Root Down (Adverse Remix) by Adverse

How Music Works

Caught this on the BBC a few years back and was hooked. Essential viewing for anybody interested in musical theory and structures, these Howard Goodall documentaries also showcase how actually, music arrangement can be traced back and linked very closely to modern day variants. Below is part one of the melody episode but you'll find most of the series on YouTube.