June 28, 2019Coinciding with the Windrush Day anniversaries taking place in London this month, Hero: Inspired By The Extraordinary Life & Times Of Mr. Ulric Cross kicked off a series of screenings in the city last weekend. As part of their tour the events come complete with a Q&A with director Francis-Anne Solomon and a rotating cast including actor Rudolph Walker and actress Pippa…
November 18, 2018To celebrate PAN turning 10 years old Kamikaze aka Paul Ackroyd has put together a 3h+ radio journey and a decent read below taking us through their first decade. In the style of his dedicated sessions to Muslimgauze, Ras G or the Olympics, he went on all out with research and delivers a sonic exploration that needs to be heard in full…
July 3, 2018The rumors are true: I’m going through some shizz with my record collection at present. It might be a result of having to move some 5000 plates multiple times in the last few years, the sheer crappiness of storage solutions for 45s, or even that most record stores seem unable to pack records to prevent damage during overseas travel, but…
January 4, 2018About three months after we started this I finally found some time New Years Eve morning to record the next instalment of All My Records. A quick calculation suggests that at sixteen to twenty records every three months it’ll take us about sixty years to get through all the shelves. We’ll try and pick up the pace a bit perhaps.…
December 28, 2017One of the most unnecessarily over-analysed LPs of 2017 was, luckily, also one of the best full length drops we heard all year. And as it’s almost the end of the year we thought we may as well add our rant to it. Colon Man was released on Demdike Stare’s DDS imprint late November, turning up in my postbox about two…
November 9, 2017Take a bow Paul Ackroyd and co, as Dead Albatross season comes to an end with a winner announced (two weeks back…yes we’re incredibly late in posting, we’ve been busy) on what can only be described as some epic live radio. The Dead Albatross Music Prize 2017 topped all previous efforts with a crazy haul of dedicated artist mixes, album features…
October 26, 2017Billy J. Burke (left above) has always been a bit of a hero of mine. He was the first guy I knew with a bedroom studio, complete with super expensive mixing console, drum kit and some of the most hammered bass guitars you’ll ever find. It was at Billy’s place that I first picked up a drum machine and a belt…
September 28, 2017I don’t really know why things like this excite me as much as they do. Hip-hop’s big business and in the digital age where data is power I shouldn’t really be surprised or overly impressed when someone applies a formulaic model to it. But I am, and as such have dedicated countless hours to over analysis of moments in music…
September 17, 2017Having moved about 4000 records to a third house in three years I’m getting ready to concede that there is a possibility that my wife and parents are right, I’m never going to listen to them all again. And that’s sad, because although I’d consider myself equal parts collector and selector, records are meant to be played. Like a lot…
September 8, 2017Hazar! The Dead Albatross Music Prize has officially rolled around for 2017! The season for the award show launched on Wednesday night with Paul Ackroyd aka Kamikaze announcing this year’s shortlist inside a three-hour special on Reel Rebels Radio. For the uninitiated the Dead Albatross Music Prize was kicked off by Paul in 2013 to recognise the best records to…