Rooted Records, Bristol

record shops are great, let's have a day to celebrate them!

2009-03-23T13:25:00.004Z

Well it's been a bit quiet on this 'ere blog for a while but we are back to let you know that we are taking part in International Record Store Day for the second year running. Last year was a great success and lots of fun, this year looks to be the same. We'll be hosting DJ's instore and drinking some beer, we might even cook some chicken up for you again. Look out for further details closer to the time. For now all you need to know is that it takes place on Saturday 18th April.

Highrise Clothing

2008-08-28T19:41:00.010+01:00

Be sure to check out www.highriseclothing.com for a great range of music related T-Shirts.

They are an independent clothing label with a huge love for music. Based in Bristol, they are not about following fashions or trends. Their philosophy is simple: 'Good designs on the highest quality t-shirts'. We like.

2008-04-16T14:36:00.005+01:00

Saturday 19th April is National Record Store day in the USA - Rooted has gone GLOBAL to celebrate this special day and will be dishing up free Beer and Chicken from 2pm, with all purchases over £20.00 Pimp Pimp Pimp

We believe it is right to celebrate the role that record stores play in the cultural life of local communities, especially here in Bristol now that we have very few! Record shops are an international community and platform where music has an outlet and an opportunity to grow over the long term, in a way that sincerely connects with community and culture.

In the Shop all afternoon will be King Tubbys Box from Downbeat Melody Soundsystem playing the Essential selections - sets from Peverelist; Puffin Jack & Steve Rice

Into the City

2007-05-13T21:52:00.000+01:00

Highroad - Cosies, Bristol, Sat 12th May

2007-05-08T23:41:00.000+01:00

Wedge Sub FM 27th Feb 2007 feat Peverelist

2007-02-28T22:48:00.000Z

Wedge very kindly invited me to play on his weekly Sub FM radio show. The archive of the whole show can be found here.

Instructions: Right click, choose "Save Target As" and save the mix to your computer.

Wedge's show is weekly on a Tuesday at 10pm GMT. Special guests feature most weeks so lock in. Nuff respect to Wedge and the Sub FM crew everytime.

Shackleton takes the roof down at rooted....literally.

2007-02-14T13:48:00.000Z

Thanks to Shackleton for coming down and playing & Steve Rice for providing the sound.

Punch Drunk # 2 Out now

2007-02-05T20:58:00.000Z

Check out sound clips
here.

Special mention to Kode 9, Pinch, Appleblim, Headhunter and all the Brizzle town and international crew who've supported this one.

Xenz 'For the Love' Exhibition 2/2/07 - 2/3/07

2007-02-02T10:22:00.000Z

"these paintings are about love and desire they are about beauty and the beast inspired by chinoisery and also the work of Claude Monet. I see a similarity bnetween a stylish graffiti tag and the chinese brush works and watercolurs. My work hardly shows what many see as graffiti allthough i work in exactly the same way using a spraycan with speed and skill allthough here im trying to bottle a whirlwhind or box an explosion just like when we fall in love."

Opening night Friday 2nd Feb 6pm -9pm
Showing from 2nd Feb - 2nd March

Workshop Store
1-2 Perry Road
Bristol

www.fotolog.com/xnz
www.xenz.org
www.myspace.com/xnz

Rupert Murdoch made me do it.

2007-01-31T22:53:00.000Z

I avoided it for so long, but it's inevitability crept up on me.

Punch Drunk Records myspace can be found
here.

Feel free to leave some abuse.

Skull Disco roadshow hits Brizzle town

2007-01-27T19:14:00.000Z

Skull Disco's Shackleton will be hitting Bristol on 10th Feb for an instore performance at Rooted at approximately 6pm. For those that can't make the show, Highroad present an evening at Cosies Wine Bar featuring Shackleton, Rob Smith from Bristol legends Smith & Mighty (forebears to the Bristol dubstep and indeed jungle scenes) and this town's hardest working dubstep duo, Bubonic & Kymatik later that evening.

It's a big year ahead for Sam Shackleton and his partner in crime, Appleblim. Feverish anticipation is already building for the awesome Skull Disco # 6 12" and an remix of epic proportions of Shack's 'Blood on my Hands' by a certain Mr Villalobos. Come down and check out the exclusive dubplate selection. You are all in for a treat. Unmissable!

A lesson in dub

2007-01-22T14:11:00.000Z

Jammy at the controls.

"Sound effects and echo inparticular are used A LOT!!!!"

Track : King Jammy 'Jailhouse Rock'

Out to Appleblim.

Clipz 'Download' Video

2007-01-18T20:20:00.000Z

Bristol d'n'b Mr nice guy Clipz's new single is flying high. For the raving massive.

Wicked Bristol produced video - Out to the dubplate crew!
(Don't watch the banana intro....)

Gotta love this one :

A late Christmas present for the old timers...

2007-01-16T22:25:00.000Z

Dug out of the Peverelist archives over the festive period.

Heartless on Mission FM way back in September 1998.

Grab it while you still can...

Living Inside The Speaker - the trailer

2007-01-16T22:16:00.000Z

I can't believe it's taken me this long to blog this, but here it is. More full DVD copies will be available on the online shop later this week.

Big up Madboy & Spermchaser everytime!

Out to the Bristol mahoosive........

Bass Clef Live instore at Rooted 11/06

2007-01-15T19:13:00.000Z

E8's Bass Clef playing live instore at Rooted back in November 2006 as part of his UK tour to promote the stunning album 'A Smile Is A Curve That Straightens Most Things'

Apologies...

2006-10-30T14:30:00.000Z

Have not had the time to keep this blog up to date of late due to other projects, it will be back though at some point!

2006-08-06T09:19:00.000+01:00

Gwarn Luca........

Drop The Lime 'E Lock'

This summer, it's all about....

2006-07-23T14:40:00.000+01:00

This Sunday!

2006-06-15T13:29:00.000+01:00

Roots & Culture.....

2006-06-08T08:53:00.000+01:00

May : Weather ain't great, but the music is!

2006-05-25T17:33:00.000+01:00

Deep!!!

2006-05-17T19:34:00.000+01:00

Special mention for TC, Jakes and the D Style crew, 'Deep' is finally out. Rinsed by Radio 1 this has got to be one of the biggest D'n'B tracks to come out of Bristol for a long time. The D Style label is going from strength to strength backed by the hugely successful d'n'b weekly event Run at Native in Bristol. More info at www.dubrecordings.com and www.dstyle.co.uk

Look out for the TC album later in the year!

Rooted T-Shirts now available online!

2006-04-25T16:49:00.000+01:00

Front and back prints beautifully modelled by Chris Rooted. Hoodies and Girls Tee's coming soon.......

Spring is here....

2006-04-23T15:52:00.000+01:00

2006 is really hotting up now as a slew of quality releases begin to hit the streets.

The ridiculously exciting prospect of the return of the mighty Dump Valve imprint is upon us. After a long break, Geeneus’s legendary label is back with some mouth watering releases. First up is Wiley with his long awaited ‘Avenger’ rhythm, already a hit on the pirates with big support from The Plastician. To follow soon after is the Geeneus remix of Wonder’s ‘What’, another underground classic. I’ve got my fingers crossed that Wonder’s ‘Undertaker’ track may be in the pipeline for later in the year….

The third release in the Skull Disco series is now out and can’t be recommended highly enough. Shackleton’s ‘Blood on my Hand’ is immense. Other new releases more than worthy of note are Kode 9’s ‘9 Samurai’, Luke Envoy’s ‘Honour Kill’, Atki2’s ‘Guilty Pleasures’ EP featuring the Pinch remix of the title track and the timely repress of the immense Tempa Allstars Vol 2 from Tempa for those who didn’t grab it first time around.

2006 is living up to it’s high expections with some more massive releases soon to drop. Digital Mystikz ‘Ancient Memories’ on DMZ and the Mystikz double 12” release on Soul Jazz (oldies but goodies – ‘Conference’, ‘Misty Winter’, ‘Walk with Jah’ & ‘Earth Run A Red’, all bonafide DMZ classics in their own right.). The Burial album will be dropping on Hypadub in mid May, as will the Amit LP on Klute’s Commercial Suicide (the best d’n’b album to come out in years, trust me!) Blackdown's new EP on his own Keysound label featuring a remix from Burial and Bristol’s own Headhunter debuts on Ascension records with '7th Curse' too!

Also very imminent is the first part of the Tectonic label album. A 4 x 10” series of cutting edge dubstep from some of the scenes biggest names. Tectonic taking it to the next level!!! The first 10” due out in June features Skream’s ‘Bahl Fwd’ and Distance’s ‘Tempatation’, whilst part two will be DQ1’s ‘Wear the Crown’ and Mk1’s ‘Slang’. Two more 10”s will follow leading to a CD project. You heard it here first.