http://www.bigdada.com main news feed from big dada en webmaster@ninjatune.net M.Sayyid aka Sayyid Air of the mighty APC is not a man to sit round twiddling his thumbs. He is, we believe, a doer as well as a thinker. So we're pleased to introduce you to his new site, electricarms.com. This is the home to his virtual mixtape tour, which is, in effect, a mixtape spread out across a virtual hip hop nation combined with a little webby animation which suggests that the influence of Mr Ben on late '90s underground hip hop should not be underestimated. What really matters, though, is that the music is amazing and that he will 'reaching' new towns every few days (and hence giving away more music). The highlight so far is the utterly awesome, 80s-referencing "Advance Human" in the Philly section. Ch-ch-ch-check. N-n-now. It's been a long wait over the chilly post-Xmas weeks we know, but we're very pleased to announce a warm sunny breeze of a Big Dada Podcast. Hosted by a noticeably perky A La Fu, this installment comes all the way from Australia, which half of our artists seem to have the sense to visit over January. Well, Roots Manuva anyway. He's on the cast, and so is the ever brilliant Wayne Lotek, the producer behind, most recently, Speech Debelle's Mercury Prize winning album. There's also a highly unexpected appearance from a Ninja Tune new man, and loads of great music from The Infesticons, Offshore, Juice Aleem, Jammer and many more. 'Av it.iTunesMP3 Xrabit has been a busy bunny and returns this month as one half of production duo BBQ. Their mixtape is coming soon and to celebrate they are giving away "Booty Call," a brand new track featuring Spoek Mathambo & Damaged Good$. You can download both the original and instrumental here or here. Enjoy! Mike Ladd returns with the third and final part of his epic Infesticons trilogy, a clarion call against obscurity, indifference and apathy. Some fights are worth fighting and even battles that are lost are worth remembering. In this spirit, for 'Bedford Park' Ladd has put together a series of “Anthems” and the first fanfare is sounded by 'Kick Anthem'. 'Bedford Park' is released on Big Dada on 12th April and a free download of 'Kick Anthem' is available now. As those in the know will know, Infinite Livez is an extraordinarily talented artist as well as a musician. He even studied at the Chelsea College of Art, which is proper like. The proof is in the painting though, his prints are all 50 x 70 cm, 3 colour screenprints, on 250gsm paper in editions of 30. They're all signed and numbered by Infinite. We like them so much that both Roots Manuva and own our dear founder have bought them already. Snap one up quick. Roots Manuva chatted with Miranda Sawyer in Brixton on this week's Culture Show. Watch it on the BBC iPlayer now, his interview is at 33mins40 and his performance at 57mins. Our man Mr Manuva, recently back from a tour of Oz, is launching a new clurb night this month. Taking place at interesting new Shoreditch place the Book Club Bar, "Go Bananas" is the latest Banana Klan mayhem-magnet. Hosted by Roots with ample assistance from the Banana Skins Bashment Ensemble, the man promises "live dub mutation and heavy poetry" and his special guest for the opening night is none other than reggae legend ("No No No...") Dawn Penn.DJS: Roots Manuva, MK (Kiss)& bPm (Soul Jazz / Brownswood)LIVE: Dawn Penn MUSIC POLICY: Mutant bashment, ragga, hip hop, disco dub, electro ghetto & jazz crunkDOOR: £7TIME: 9pm – 2amThe Book Club Bar, 100 Leonard Street, EC2A 4RH. The folk at energy drink maker and music sponsor extraordinaire, Red Bull, have put together an online radio station. APC went and did their inimitable thing last year, and the glorious hour long audio is all yours to hear here.