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Air bass city.

Basilika Saturday was (even by recent high standards) a bit of a classic.
It’s only a slight exaggeration to say that we ‘peaked’ for about four hours solid.
Usually with gigs of that nature, it’s about trying not to play all the tracks your really excited about too quickly, somehow saturday the monsters just kept on coming.
It […]

So I’ve unintentionally produced a (super) late entrant for August’s Prince Week.
Cutting a mixtape for a friend, this blend was one of those that came together by complete chance and sounded really catchy/post-worthy straight away.
I’m going through the mill at the moment, resulting in (amongst many other things) uber-writer’s block*. So, without further delay […]

“In the early years when I toured, I was never a tourist. I was always so focused on the show. I just wanted to tear it up and get out of town.” - Prince
This coming Friday will be the first time I’ve seen Prince live. I’ve now got an interminable five day countdown until the […]

So it’s been awhile.
The basilika update wasn’t meant to take quite so long, but sometimes you’ve got to leave things for time to give you a chance to realize their worth. Basilika started as a blog to accompany a night-three dudes playing great music in a rubbish bar in Angel. But time moves on, things […]

In a few years Elephant & Castle will probably be like Angel. Billions of pounds of regeneration money to create a chi-chi make-over for the most stubbornly ‘earthy’ parts of zone 1.

It’s therefore quite possible that future generations will have no idea about the significance of Roots Manuva giving his record the moniker ‘Walworth […]

Repect to Disco Jesus as that mix is heavy.
Just picked up A Taste of Honey - Boogie Ooogie Oogie today. its a monster of a track and heading straight to the top of my chart at the moment. Its got Mizell production and it cost me £1.99 for the 7″. its blinding.
I have my first […]

Our favourite musical evangelist Disco Jesus, has posted the final part of his epic mix trilogy -Autumn Blessings.
This mix is less eclectic than previous offerings, focusing instead on the period 1978-85 and featuring a deeply personal vision of underground disco with soul, jazz, rock, new wave and electro influences. 
It’s my favourite of the three and […]

After literally years of preparation the brand new firemusic tees are finally done!
The first batch of samples touched down at basilika HQ last night and they are looking supa-hot!!(see above).

In a few weeks we will have the first proper batch in and then you will be able to get your hands on some authentic exclusive […]

So Madlib last night was pretty rubbish.
Great producer-average rapper-really average drummer.
Highlight of the night was J-Rocc, who is without doubt one of the finest party hiphop djs
I ever seen. Great tunes, incredible technique and a really natural understanding of how to build the crowd and pretty much the only person on stage all night with […]