March 21, 2017Do yourself a favor and take two hours to David Rodigan and Gilles Peterson in session. Broadcast on Worldwide.fm last week, it’s yet another session that Gilles and crew (shouts to Thris Tian) have delivered for the platform cementing the station as one of the best channels out there. It’s impossible to say people don’t care about radio anymore with…
January 26, 2017Jimmy Monsta Funk never stops blowing us away. Last year’s live sets, rave year tributes (1991) and insane levels of record appreciation across the board showed why he remains as our favourite DJ. We’ve been sitting on this for way too long, and will or won’t be adding to it to complete the track lists on the last three sections…
January 24, 2017The weekend’s Awkward Movements show on NTS was dope. As always, and despite doing a show Christmas Eve, I totally underestimated the pure quality of music that gets released December / January, and unfortunately for many, slips through the cracks. And this was a shot at redemption. The People Skills LP on Blackest Ever Black was one such release. Dropped in December…
January 13, 2017If you locked in to Awkward Movements on NTS last weekend you would’ve caught Paul Ackroyd aka Kamikaze giving tribute to the artist’s death toll of 2016. You can’t fit it all in a two-hour show however, with the original being over four hours covering 43 artists. Paul’s words and tribute show below. 2016 was not kind to the music…
January 6, 2017Here’s the Christmas Eve NTS show from you’re good friends at Awkward Movements. I’m not sure why I’ve started by labeling it with Christmas Eve, as there’s no mention of the holidays in it, nor end of year lists (seriously, some of these end of year shows started December 1st before some of the best tracks came out) – just…
December 22, 2016What? It’s almost holidays, we’re allowed to archive late. Awkward Movements on NTS from earlier in the month here, with full track list below. Starting with 20 minutes drone it was longcore from the start, which is the name generally given to tracks we like but are shelved till end of the year because they’re too long. Both of the recent…
December 15, 2016Well happy to have discovered Radio Garden (Radio.Garden) today, a web app that connects you to radio all over the world. An international research project from Transnational Radio Encounters, directed by Golo Föllmer at Martin-Luther University Halle in collaboration with other universities across Europe, it’s a simple concept brought together by great design and intentions. The interface lets you scroll across…
November 30, 2016John Zorn (pictured above from 1993) is like the honey badger of composition, the dude ain’t scared of shit. He will literally take on everything to find the sound he wants. Hundreds of albums, featuring his composition, playing and producing have graced us since the early seventies, and he’s still finding new genres to explore. 49 Acts of Unspeakable Depravity in…
November 14, 2016Last weekend we had the pleasure of handing the Awkward Movements Show on NTS over to Jimmy Monsta Funk. Drawing from his own record collection he put together two hours worth of tunes released in 1991 The first 80 minutes are pure UK independent record labels too with the last 40 mixing in US, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy and Canada, still…
November 6, 2016So first thing’s first, and it’s good news. James Leyland Kirby, the man behind musical projects of The Caretaker and V/Vm (pictured above) to name but two, does not in fact have early onset dementia as we mentioned in the show. It is in fact the character of The Caretaker who he has given the disease to, which will be…