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A fair take on outer space. Featuring Foreign Beggars, produced by Benjamin Steamin’ Diggins and Truly Pheasant. Raw like steak tartare on a mission.
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Jul 10
Short Break
Bathtub Piracy is on a short break right now. Will be back after the summer. Mr.Diggins is working on a novel for Nijgh & van Ditmar and doing some extensive travelling in Asia. In case you’re wondering how that’s working out, read about it at Hard Hoofd (in dutch).
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Jun 10
This is Where
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By Benjamin Steamin’ Diggins
Time for some of that good ol’ summer lovin’. And as we all know, the summer is made for house music. Uhm… I mean: house music is made for the summer. Oh wait… What about Detroit? There are no summers in Detroit. Or are there? I’n not sure. There goes my theory. House music is confusing. No it’s not, actually… House music is simple, eazy, readymade like a piece of cheese. Or cake. I’m confused. I don’t really know anything about house music. I do know a thing or two about cake. Mm… Cake! My girlfriend likes cupcakes for breakfast. I like cheescake. See, I told you I know a thing or two about cake! I’m getting way off topic here. Enjoy the cake. I mean: enjoy the track. Play it in your car, or rock it on the tricycle. Or have it with some cake. In the park. Or at the beach. But if you go to the beach, don’t bring the cake. Everybody knows the beach is no place to enjoy cake.
Anyway.
This track goes out to my man Don Funghi, the platypus supreme. He also likes the summer. And cake. But that’s not relevant, because this track is not about cake at all.
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Jun 10
Benjamin Steamin’ Diggins live at Radio 6
Benjamin Steamin’ Diggins joined WeekendWinfried’s show on Radio 6, promoting the upcoming album. Unfortunately I didn’t make it, because I’m still somewhere in Asia. But they were really funky and all, also Winfried played some fine music in between.
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Jun 10
Statiegeld featuring Surya
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produced by Benjamin Diggins, vocals by Simon Amon and Surya.
Benny and I never really got the whole rappin’-in-dutch-thing to be honest, because it usually tends to get way too serious to our taste. However, when Surya dropped by in Tweed Prison, it was like a reunion, mainly because Benny, Surya and I went to the same school, but also because it all went like we’d been working together for years. Surya is a fierce battle cat (he can get kinda scary on the mic youknow), very funny freestyler, knows how to mock things (like himself) and works conceptually. Unfortunately these are rare qualities for an emcee. We did two tracks and should really do some more. The first track Uitstelgedrag ended up on the Tweed Prison Tapes and Surya’s first album (buy it here). The second one is called Statiegeld, and it’s finally available, right here, on this podcast, for free!
Uitstelgedrag:
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May 10
Back in ’56
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Enjoy it with some good weather, fresh snapper and plenty of psychedelics while you’re at it. I produced it years ago, back then when the weather was awful, I didn’t know how to cook snapper and psychedelics seemed much more promising. Illustration by Assa Ariyoshi.
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May 10
Tough Times for a Yid, Tough Times for a Chicken
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This song is a tribute to chicken, the most versatile kinda meat. The title refers to ‘The Yiddish Policemen’s Union’, a novel by Michael Chabon.
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May 10
Collage a Trois
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By Benjamin Steamin’ Diggins, obviously
This one goes out to Daniel Malkin and Brian de Hond, for they’ve had this track on repeat ever since we made it about, say… two years ago? Jazzcats might recognize we’ve built this track around a sample of Herbie Hancock’s ‘Trust Me’, one of my favorite tracks of all times.
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Apr 10
Nobody Play The Same featuring Nate Dizney
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featuring Nate Dizney! Benny, Simon and Nate wrote this one when I was in Spain, or some other sweet seafood type spot. When I came back, Benny and I remixed the hell out of it. A lovely, hyped-up mess.
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Apr 10
Flash Clash featuring FM Fiend
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‘We used to eat Raiders, but now we eat Twix!’ This is the first track in the ‘Tweed Prison Leftovas’ series. (un)finished tracks we’re giving out for free. Simon Amon and FM Fiend on the mic, Benjamin Diggins on the beats, it’s the Clean Kids Crew, Punk Mode!
