Slicknfresh.co.uk are proud to announce the launch of our guest mix slot, which we plan to run for some time to come.

Kicking off the festivities is non other than the one and only dark garage legend, El-B, treating our ears to the latest and freshest cuts from the Ghost camp.

2010 looks set to be a big year for El-B, with his re-emergence from his recent musical slumber causing quite a stir with the new and old faces of the dubstep world. In April, Ghost will release the 'Nu-Levels' album, featuring exclusive tracks from the likes of J Da Flex, Skream, MRK-1, Zed Bias, and Heny G - but what has really been causing a stir is the rumours of an El-B vs Burial collaboration, a mouth watering prospect to say the least!

Preceding that he has the 'Lets Get Greazy' 12" out soon with J Da Flex, as well as the 'Dirty' E.P dropping late Feb/early March on Night Audio. You can keep up to date with the latest new over at El-B's MySpace

Link inside!

=> Read more!

MAC [So Solid] - Funky Fresh

So Solid Crew founding member MAC (Thug of the Family) is back for 2010 with his new single "Funky Fresh". On road for less then 2 weeks the track has already began to pick up heat, its definitely one for the skankers!

Hear it inside!

=> Read more!

Imploded Records stepped onto the UK Garage scene in a bold fashion earlier in 2009. Their release “Ain’t No Stopping Us 09” grabbed the attention of avid UKG listeners, of course being a bang up to date 2-step fix of the Luck and Neat ladies anthem.

With their forthcoming 2-stepper featuring Ed James “Get Em Off” confirms everything that Imploded are about. It’s a bold attempt to prevent the traditional 2 step sound from falling into the chasm of no return. Here at Slick n Fresh, we love it and hope they continue to bring such heat to the table.

Read more, and download a FREE track inside

=> Read more!

UK Garage is a small world. Small enough that it's likely you'll be able to chat to your favourite producer over email or MSN without much trouble (not exactly akin to other more widespread genres).

There's also the Slick n Fresh Forum which receives visits from some of the scene's biggest remaining producers. It's patrons can sometimes make magic happen; and in the case of today that's exactly how it went when one of our members contacted Scott Tonic.

Scott now mainly producers with former 50% of Tuff Jam, Mr Matt Jam Lamont, under several guises across a few dance genres. Scott can also fly solo when he wants to and is even known to put out an album or two himself. This was the case back in 2007 when ST put out Unreleased Project Vol 1.

UPV1 was an MP3 release you could only get at the time from Scott directly in exchange for a few English pennies. Well guess what baby birds? He said right here YOU CAN HAVE IT FOR FREE.

The album is where we first saw Scott's 2-step smash Headlock, alongside 11 other well produced diverse beats.

Check it out - courtesy of your friendly neighbourhood SnF.

Download link inside...

=> Read more!

London producer Footsteps - responsible for heavyweight UK Funky track "Tell Me" - returns with music from a new female talent (also from London): Anonymous.

Audio clip and review inside....

=> Read more!

Free UK Garage vinyls will be flying their way out to the 3 lucky winners drawn out of a hat for the latest competition courtesy of DnRVinyl.co.uk.

DJ Johnny S, Finesse & DJ Nav will all pick themselves up a copy of the Jeremy Sylvester EP - Volume 2 completely gratis.

Thanks to everyone that entered and of course a super special thank you to the guys at DnRVinyl.co.uk for once again supplying lucky SnF readers with free vinyl.

If you missed out this time around you can still purchase a copy direct from DnRVinyl.co.uk.

With rumours of more exclusive vinyl packages on the way from DnR, watch this space.

UK Garage vinyl is something that is thin on the ground at the moment.

One outfit still firmly representing UKG plastic is our friends at DnRVinyl.co.uk.

DnR have recently managed to get several UK Garage legends (including Todd "The God" Edwards) to put out new plastic or repress old classics. This includes recent gems from i! Records, Groove Chronicles and - more importantly - Jeremy Sylvester.

Read more about Jeremy Sylvester's latest classic EP, hear the track and find out how YOU can win a copy inside

=> Read more!

Congratulations to MR KG, Sunny Gally, DJ Johnny S, DJ Phonetix and Matthew Alden who were our lucky forum users chosen at random to win a copy of Delinquent's Early Anthems EP.

The Early Anthems EP is a collection of Delinquent's greatest UK garage from the past few years, housing Like A Feather, Playin' Around, Naked ft Kele Le Roc and Muthafunka betwixt their grooves.

This EP is still available exclusively at DnRVinyl.co.uk. If you don't have these tunes in your collection it's advised you head over there now!

Our friends at DnRVinyl.co.uk got in touch to tell us they've just got in some exclusive plastic from Spoilt Rotten Records.

The new school UK Garage label has pressed up an EP with 4 Delinquent classics. Entitled The early anthems EP, it features 4 of Deliquents biggest tunes - Like a feather, Naked, Playing Around & bassline warper Muthafunka.

Now DnR have always been nice to visitors of SnF, This time round they've offered up 5 copies to winners chosen out of a hat.

To enter, all you have to do is register to our brand new forum and post something before 11.59PM, Monday 19th January 2009.

Winners will be chosen at random.

• Listen to a clip of the Early Anthems EP and buy a copy @ DnRVinyl.co.uk

We here at Slick n Fresh love a good fright. As it's Hallowe'en and to help get everyone in the mood we thought we'd share a frightenly good service to freak your friends out.

The 'Scare a Mortal Portal' lets you send people a terrifying personal video message and it's an absolute hoot.

Our friends at the Portal are also offering SnFers the chance to win a copy of Darren Shan's new book Death's Shadow, and Dark Sector for the Xbox 360.

Find out more about the portal and how to win inside...

=> Read more!