After months of organising we are proud to announce the dates/ venues and line-ups for the Community Skratch Tour 2010!

This years event will take in Ireland, UK, and Germany as we step things up for the third year in a row. The tour includes new music performances from your favourite CSG artists such as Jimmy Penguin, Deviant, & G.O.D… but also featuring performances from the one and only LORN all the way from the U.S for the Community Skratch BBQ, UK…. and exclusive album performances from Oslo Flow (Blam and Plato).

This year there will be Community Skratch BBQ’s in Berlin on Saturday 21st August and the usual finale in Brighton on August 28th.

Posters for all events will be online shortly, so please spread the word. Lets make it another amazing year!

[Originally posted 17/03/2010]

“As she came up the stairs she noticed the smell. Intoxicating. Like the rotting flesh of a unicorn. The midgets ran at her, playing their tiny instruments with fury as they circled her on the landing. Fall she did. Down, down, down she went. He cried aloud when he discovered the body and swore vengeance. But vengeance on whom? He kissed she on her now cold forehead, washed and dried the dishes and sipped a cup of tea.”

[click here to download Deviant & Naive Ted - Shatter A Shame EP]

[Originally posted 19/02/2010]
Those denizens of dementia are back., this time with a mix for the lovely folk at Monday Jazz, in preparation for the forthcoming “Shatter A Shame” EP on Alkalinear Recordings….

Deviant & Naive Ted – Puroresu – A Monday Jazz Mix – Click To Download

Tracklist for those that care about such things…..

01/ Ikebe Shakedown – The Prisoner
02/ Man – Prelude
03/ Yes – South Side Of The Sky
04/ Zygote – N/A
05/ Linton Kwesi Johnson – New Craas Massakah
06/ Pharoah Sanders – Japan
07/ Brian Eno – Over Fire Island
08/ Dimlite – Quiz Tears
09/ Moondog – Oboe Round
10/ Laurie Anderson – Sharkey’s Night
11/ Egil “Bop” Johansen – Palevise
12/ Zappa/Beefheart – Sam With The Showing Scalp Flat Top
13/ Deviant & Naive Ted – Beauty
14/ Telegraph Avenue – Sungaligali
15/ Bert Jansch – Fresh As A Sweet Sunday Morning (Excerpt)
16/ Vince Mack Mahon – The Amazing World Of Tweek, Ted & Keith

[Originally posted 28/11/2009]

Well, if you can show me anyone with a better balance of Mad-As-Owt and Musical Genius I will eat my arse. Deviant & Naive Ted releases a blinder on Alphabetset, but don’t take my word for it.

Read this review from  EIGHTBALL.IE

“Plug-ins, VSTs, MIDI-controllers, laptops.  All lovely little toys that make

 modern music-making a whole heap easier and cleaner, but it ain’t worth squat
 unless the person making the music has something important to say in the first
 place. Thus, it’s refreshing to see someone take the bumpier road towards composition
 these days, not content to let a computer do all the hard work.  Enter Deviant/Naive Ted,
 one of this soil’s truest veterans of all things turntable and scratch related, 
who drops his debut 7” this November on Dublin’s mighty Alphabet Set label. 
 Relying on a stack of obscure prog and jazz records, some battered turntables and 
a good ol’ fashioned warped imagination, Deviant may just have churned out the most 
interesting leftfield hiphop record this year. And that’s not restricted to Ireland.
 While current trends in the field have producers whacking off to their J-Dilla shrines 
and then banging out anonymous off-time beats, this release has intense dedication and 
individual eccentricity slapped all over it. A bit like the old tales told by the wandering 
blues-man, only strapped with a Vestax deck instead of a trusty ol’ six string. 
 There’s a definite message being put across, it’s just that its delivered through the 
cut-up samples and words of his heroes from yesterday and beyond.  This 200 word-limit
 review isn’t going to do it enough justice, but copping the wax and actually listening to it will.  
The bridge says it all.

“Look at the stillness…look at the quiet…look at the discipline…look at the BEAUTY.“

or see for yourself. Below is the video for Deviant -- “Shoes Not Not” taken from this 7″

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSVEOgOkDgg

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rwi56WB6fo

Back in August, 14 of the Community Skratch collective hit the roads of England over 6 days to perform at 5 venues across the length of the country.
As you can see from the video above the whole tour was an incredible success.

The Community Skratch Games Video is now available online in full thanks to the wonderful Skratchworx.