Back in the game.. After a short hiatus we're back with a vengeance. Returning with a rumble & a bang & a slap before the cuddle. Not a Nextmen experimental nufolk surf hop sample pack, but a brand spanking new Podcast! Huzzah! We're thinking of making them monthly again. Thoughts? If our Macrobiotic diets, tantric Yoga retreats and Tofu smoking workshops allow us enough free time in our schedules. Stay chisel humanoids.

We don't do Podcasts as frequently any more. Dom has changed his name to Shirley and is living in the Leicestershire countryside on a small vegan Turnip farm. Brad has joined a Simply Red tribute act. Basically we've moved on humans..

However, just for old time's sake we thought we'd rustle up a little something for you to enjoy over the Easter break.. This one features music made (mostly) by other humans. Enjoy it and please be nice to each other. Peace.

Boom krackalak. Nope, not the sound of a poor Rosser's collarbone being crushed in the sweeping carnage of the Cornwall sea, it's that special sound of you clicking download & play, rinse & repeat & repeat & repeat to the new Nextmen podcast! Snap. This hour long linger into partyland is a little love from above to remind you the January dry-out is over & left you quite foxy detoxy! So put on your dancing pants, wrap your shower curtain around your neck like a cape & start the count down to Summer lovin' (less than 4 months!) with some stone cold classics. I don't know much about art, but I know what I like & I like this! Yes yes y'all. Hooray!!!!

The festival season isn't quite over. We're sneaking one last one in and making a return to the west country for Brisfest on the 22nd September so make sure you join us there if you can. Until then podcast number twenty-seven is here and it's jam packed with fresh tunes for you to absorb during these increasingly chilly evenings. There's a distinct hiphop feel to this cast and we've included tracks from acts you should get to know like Chance The Rapper, Danny Brown and Lunar C, so let them show off their wares for you here, while Exco Levi and Mato demostrate how reggae is done. Until next time...

This Podcast does not contain any Kendrick Lamar, Big Sean or related guff. It does however contain some good tunes. Stick it on at a BBQ or while you're ironing your Giraffe costume. Expect to hear the sounds of KingTubby, Jus Now, C2C and Wilkinson amongst others. Do not expect to hear incredibly average battle raps.. Enjoy humans. Hit us up on Twitter @bradbaloo @domsearchmusic @thenextmen

Hello sunny people - bring on the great thaw!! Sum-maaaa!! The super dry kicks, the big ass boompity bass, the salty sweat of a sliding lick & the tickle & slap of a double clap. Rinse & repeat please. This little mix is as sweet as the ice cold glass of rose I'll have in hand by end of business (or someone will be crushed in my mind vice...). Turn on & up & out. Track listing below. Hit us up on Instagram @bradbaloo or @domnextmen.

Humans! We're back! Australia and New Zealand swallowed us whole, thrown back with a mouthful of James Boag's, Montieth's, a flat white and a side of avocado - seriously, does everything need a side of avocado? Shows were crushed, if riding a little high in the Celsius, but the lovely crowds at every session kept glueing us back together again. Although 'Melburn' lived up to its moniker with a 47 degree day that made us more than a little 'Hot For Teacher'… Big up to Fuzzy and Elastic for making the tour happen. Then, with the taste of pan-Australasian deliciousness still in our mouths (with a side of avo), we hit a mini tour of The Alps. It was cold. New shoes were purchased. Nice people were collected. Small dark spaces were filled with hip hop, drum'n'bass and standard grill blocking brashness. Big up to DJ Danz and Taking The Piste for looking after us. So… we thought it was about time to hit you with some heaters. Something to listen to while you both hibernate and plan the most awesome February of your entire lives - the month when you refocus, re-psych, plan your attempt at serious world domination and prepare for Spring as only continuous waxing on and off can. February will be epic. As is this podcast. It features bangers from Joey Bada$$, Kendrick Lamar, Shadow Child, The Upbeats, Heavyfeet and Danny Byrd Feat. Roni Size etc etc et al. Let us be the soundtrack to the best possible you. This year is going to be a big one for us. I'm starting a small dry cleaning/cake pop business in Neasden and Dom is changing his name to Lesley-Ann and will only speak to people if they first present him with a snow globe. Happy 2013! Hit us up with some lovely wares on Instagram at both @BradBaloo and @DomNextmen. Bo!

Humans. Don't blame us. We've been busy. Dom has been working on a musical theatre production of Thundercats set to tour small theatres in Latvia and I've been in Fiji working at a Donkey sanctuary.

Missed us? Well, we're back. And we've bought a Podcast with us. There are some songs on it. We hope you enjoy it. It features bangers from Shadow Child, The XX, Breakage, TNGHT, Baauer and more.

We're off again now. See you in 2013, and please remember to be nice to your friends and family. Season's greetings!

I (@BradBaloo) am hung over. Completely hung over. It's hard to write podcast blurbs when you're hung over. It has to be said that there is a certain amount of professional negligence that occurs under the guise of a 'hospitality rider', which is ostensibly your employer providing you with endless iced buckets of glorious boozy booze while you carry out your job. Oh black mother I suckle at your teat...

I like to do five things when I'm hung over, including the following:

1. Wrap myself in a superking size duvet & perfect my human burrito impression.

2. Declare my entire house a 'pants only party zone' - the only caveat to which is in desperate times this can become a 'full body grey cashmere track suit with a half pint of Hagen Daas as an extension of my own hand coupled with occasional stints of crouching in the corner weeping uncontrollably party zone'.

3. Listen to Radio 4 while obsessively perusing restaurant's/better human's food porn on Instagram (big up @djmofingaz, @sophindulgent & @movidamelbourne) for possible inclusions in my imaginary dream dinner that I will be sharing later with Tupac, Einstein & George Best.

4. Play non-stop XBox - which I tweet is me mastering Virtua Fighter 5/Sonic Generations listening to the Nas back catalogue but I'm really 3 Quest levels deep in Bejewelled 3 - damn you Butterflies! - with the original B3 soundtrack intact as intended.

5. See how much taurine the human body can ingest before bringing on the involuntary face twitches, hand crab rolls & non-stop one-way discussions about nazi alien 9/11 weather-related disaster conspiracies while watching a minimum of 4 hours of US government test footage of military robot dogs on YouTube (they can't be kicked over!).

I plan on doing all of the above today. Welcome to my pain cave, may I bludgeon you.

We are a nation of many things – amazing music, beautiful countryside, relative anonymity, delicious produce, generous sized drinking vessels, pretty immediate access to art/kicks/other culture – but what we're not is a nation able to remain clothed when the sun presents itself. Thankfully we're not going release a 2013 naked calendar, instead we've cooked up a new Podcast.. With bangers from Nas, Oddisee, Maya Jane Coles and Jess Mills this should be more fun than looking at our naked mutant bodies. Phew!