May 20, 2019Five years on from the last instalment of the series comes Down 2 Earth Vol. 3 from Ras G. Not that it feels that long, as the sonic explorer that is Ras has dropped ten or so full length albums during that time. There was the 5 Chuckles collaborations with Koreatown Oddity, a cassette for his favourite vegan restaurant in…
June 28, 2017We’ve played a lot of Ras G over the years, rinsing him across the radio shows as each album dropped and constantly pulling out a forgotten 12″ or two as we shuffled out records. And with good reason too, as the SP don has been high on our radars since ‘Hummin’ in The Sun’ and Poo Bah records where he held it…
November 5, 2015The weekend’s Awkward Movements show on NTS was a two-hour tribute to the man Ras G. Beatsmith originator, dimensional traveller, afrofuturist, vegan raw ambassador – we’ll stop there as there’s to much ground to cover with this man’s description. Heavily influenced by the cosmic teachings of Sun Ra (just check the his samples for proof), Ras G’s forged his own…
August 8, 2013Absolutely love the vein that Ras G taps. The cosmic stylings that long ago evolved past beat tape phases in to loose free flowing composition just get better the more Ras releases, and this latest LP – Back On The Planet – is probably his finest offering to date. Not taking anything away from the split 7’s, beat tapes, free…
October 11, 2017Twelve years after he dropped the seminal Behind The Beat comes the follow up from Raph Rashid – Back To The Lab: Hip Hop Home Studios. In the early ’00s social media was just starting, youtube wasn’t yet a thing, and features in Scratch Mag and Wax Poetics were the only real ways for most of us to gain insight in…
April 8, 2016This doco has been doing the rounds for a while now – up on youtube, back down, then back up again – without ever drawing too much attention. We just finished watching for the third or fourth time so thought it was about time we shared it around. Rasta and The Ball is a documentary that was first broadcast in 1980,…
November 24, 2014Damn, this LP is really going to turn some heads. You know those releases that turn out to be game changers? The plates that swerve the way you start buying records, if only for a temporary time? I can recall a few; Blind Joe Death, Marcellus Pittman’s Erase The Pain 12″, The Heliocentrics, Rhythim is Rhythim and Ras G’s Ghetto…
May 2, 2014We’ve been sitting on this for more than a minute now, and well excited to have it finally dropping this week on a physical format. Kyoka is one of those immensely special artists who’s workings take us to the next level, the type of techno that goes from warehouse to industrial art on the same track, depending on which side…
July 22, 2013Had this on heavy-rotation over the last week or so, and it’s still blowing my mind like the first time I listened to it. As if running Raster-Noton wasn’t keeping Frank Bretschneider busy enough (not to mention on our favourite list of people), but he’s gone and dropped some electronic wizardry in the form of the Super.Trigger full-length. Despite an extensive catalogue…
July 1, 2012The one Scott Fraser blessed us with a floor destroying remix for the Bento 12″, his ‘Decompression Dub‘ putting the release on the radar of many of our favourite producers and DJs, rebuilding the version from the ground up with a 12 minute raw retouching. Even after the release however, the man for the large part remained a bit of…