Concrete and Clay

Ingredients: 50 grammes of cob nuts (either seasonal or removed from a bar of Ritter Sport chocolate), 2 knobs of butter, 2 cloves garlic, Concrete and Clay classic toast, chopped parsley to garnish.

Method: using a pestle and mortar, blend the nuts, butter and garlic to a smooth paste. Spread on grilled toast and garnish with a sprinkling of parsley. Enjoy with a glass of chilled sweet aperitif wine such as Coteaux de Layon from the Loire. If not, Dandilion and Burdock goes well.

Concrete and Clay debut mp3 from Butter Flow, rainy day hip hop and streetlight sax...

butter_flow_-_china_town.mp3
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This is not a magazine.

Part 1. End of summer.

The end of summer makes me happy as fruit and veg is in abundence. However, the return to school and work after the holidays makes less sense as we all know how frustrating it can be to see the mercury hit 80 degrees on the 21st September. As an unemployed person I am able to enjoy such pleasures and have empathy with my urban comrades. I will take these opportunities to note down the diminishing essence of rural life and try to rekindle it in a diary form-a bit like Vivaldi did with the Four Seasons.

Big up to the boys behind blackhistory4schools.com which has been featured in today's edition of the Guardian newspaper: Critics Choice and Webwatch. There should be more meejah coverage coming soon in the Times Educational Supplement, with a possible feature in the Guardian. Watch this space.

Concrete and Clay debut mp3 from Japanese solo artist Kama Aina, taken from his fifth album Club Kama Aina, out 6th Novemeber on Rumraket.

kama_aina_-_hotaru.mp3
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myspace.com/clubkamaaina

This weekend is Open House weekend in London, with over 500 normally closed doors flung well and truly open for the nosey, rambling, be-anoracked, idle or otherwise unoccupied. It's a great opportunity to see parts of the city you'd never normally get a sniff of, particularly in the east end - most of the amazing buildings are either fully booked or hugely oversubscribed but there's still some gems worth poking around for.

Check Open House London for a map of buildings.

90% of people on airliners have got new haircuts
89% of London cab drivers are psychotic
85% of whistled melodies are infectious
83% of sound is muffled in a room where a tap is running
82% of arcades have statues in the window

100% of these stats are true

Special bonus Top 20 mp3 downloads for August now online.

I miss those big black boxes of swallowing coins

a shit-ridden joystick the colour of gum

the 20p lifestyle of coinops and robbers

player up, never let me down