WOEBOT

What with the issue of download ethics blowing up left right and centre (for the umpteenth time) I mopped the sweat from my brow when it transpired that my Noir Desire 2Step mix, which I've only been offering as a CD to mates, contains a tune by Luke's friend Lee of the Anything Can Happen blog who I've had a pint with in the past. Begging a copy of the mix Lee said:

"You've got one of my tracks on your mix! Big up for the inclusion. I did that track with Recki B (the other young offenda) and a guy called Lingo who was a mate of ours and a DJ on Passion 91.8. CKP came on a DAT tape from Ramsey (although I did meet CKP a couple of times, thoroughly nice chap)."

I'd scooped the track up on the basis of this review by Tim Finney at Dissensus:

"Young Offendaz - Flava: There's this idea that goes about that in the year before grime coalesced 2-step got really tired or conservative or uninteresting. I don't have a sufficiently encyclopaedic knowledge of the scene to confirm or deny this categorically but in late 2001/2002 I did hear heaps and heaps of tunes that I loved, lots of them with a really warped and druggy vibe. My favourite was Babu Stormz's "Electricity", which came out around the same time as "I Luv U" and which I've never heard since, but this track from late 2001 is a handy substitute: rough and riffy, with these disconcerting eastern twangs and the James Brown tic from the Think break, cut-up female vox and a slightly unhinged dancehall DJ whose chatter phases in and out, stereopanning unnervingly."

Lee was chuffed with Tim's description:

"Is Tim F Tim Finney? If so it's also great to have a lovely description of the track from him."

The Ardkore Continuum coming straight back at ya via Australia, lands on your lap.