December 29, 2019Following on from Paul and myself’s offerings, Jimmy Monsta Funk gives us a stellar selection from his own stacks of wax, closing off Rollin’ With The 9s strong. Beginning in 1929 he manages to go across jazz, pop, funk, electronic, house and pirate radio. I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, the dude is crazy deep with records.…
December 28, 2019If you missed yesterday’s post here’s where we’re at: end of year lists are dumb. Kamikaze, Monsta Funk and myself are instead using the bandwidth to pull records from previous decades ends. Hence Rollin’ With The 9s was born. This was originally going to be one mix tied together but given the fact that the mixes are designed to be…
December 27, 2019Instead of giving you yet another yearly roundup (let’s face it, no one cares about these except record stores pushing old stock, and most of them went out first week of December somehow) we’ve taken the end of 2019 as a chance to re-examine the final year of previous decades as well. Rollin’ With The 9s gives Kamikaze, Jimmy Monsta…
March 20, 2020So much new music coming through to us right now. Off the back of Rollin’ With The 9s Paul Ackroyd aka Kamikaze brought a new concept to the table: The Equinox. This is Part 1 (in what will hopefully flower as another mini-series), his stunning contribution to the instant of time when the plane (extended indefinitely in all directions) of…
April 28, 2019120+ records (and one digital track), two turntables and six hours of mixing recorded live over four sessions from Jimmy Monsta Funk: this is 2018 All Over Again. As far as things to look forward to throughout the year the yearly wrap-up of tracks from JMF is certainly up there and he’s served it up beautifully once again. An eclectic…
February 19, 2018Last week we spoke about Field Research: Malaysia – the beat tape from Malik Abdul-Rahmaan constructed from records and field recordings collected on a two week holiday to the Southeastern Asian country. It was music made with purpose from a specific set of restrictions, designed to capture an authentic sound, executed beautifully. Conversely, the Baker’s Dozen series from Fat Beats approaches…
July 11, 2015Meant to share this when the series first concluded, but totally spaced on it until earlier this week, and thought I’d get it up now for anyone that missed it as it happen. Diggin’ In The Carts is the brilliant documentary series about Japanese video game music from 8-bit to 32, covering roughly the period of Japan’s music output up until…
October 1, 2012A proper day of extremes. Jason Silva reminding me of the positives of psychadelics making me outraged at the laws surrounding them, followed by a rewatch of a documentary which disturbingly which makes me want to advocate against anything illicit. Groupies dropped into cinemas in 1970. The documentary from Ron Dorfman and Peter Nevard exists as a constant stream of…
April 5, 2012Officially out today, arriving in all good physical and digital stores this week, we’re excited to bring the debut plate from Daojia. Released on vinyl and digital 2/4/12, the Riego Street package comes not only with his own redubbed version of his tune as ‘Riego Street Dub’, but the flip comes correct with the legendary Detroit underground collective Scan 7…
December 18, 2011A conversation on South America the other night made me pull this out and be reminded of my love for it, and more importantly the impact this film had in opening my ears to Latin jazz in a new context (thanks Claude and Gio!). The below was originally done for Shook about two years ago, but having just revisited the…