July 27, 2017Akira has always been somewhat of the gift that keeps on giving. Released in 1988 I didn’t first see it until the mid-nineties as a feature, part of a regular anime season on network TV (shout outs to SBS), and when it returned a year later I had enough sense to tape it. One of the first anime’s I ever saw…
July 15, 2017The 8- and 16-bit games that soundtracked my 90’s youth have been going through a revival the last few years, with the likes of Koji Kondo and Hip Tanaka getting the long overdue status they deserve across a more mainstream audience. LP releases from Konami Kukeiha Club, an increase in 8-bit sampling and the brilliant Diggin’ In The Carts series…
June 23, 2017DJ Shadow continues to kill it with a new monthly residency on Los Angeles mainstay KCRW 89.9 FM. Giving us two-hours the first Saturday of each month, the Bay Area record digger, DJ and beat maker manages to not only live up to his legendary status but surpass any expectation even the hardest fan of Entroducing might’ve had. We’re three shows…
June 1, 2017Came across this shot of A Tribe Called Quest, which is ripe for over analysing. Every time I see images of Phife Dawg and Q-Tip together on stage I can’t help but clock the clashes in personal style that seem to resonate from their unique makeups and, most importantly, in parallel with their differing lyrical deliveries. You could talk for hours on…
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 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 3, 2017Lists of things to buy and check out are always good provided they come from the right people, and Jimmy Monsta Funk is still top of that list. He’s dropped some proper heat on us this year and we’re still sitting on about six hour of mixes comprising of wax from 2015 that’ll be up shortly. A lot of good…
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…
December 14, 2016Stored on libcom.org (“a resource for all people who wish to fight to improve their lives, their communities and their working conditions”) alongside such greats as Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman and Government In The Future by Noam Chomsky, we found this treasure worth shouting out. Published by Hooligan Press in London in 1987, Radio Is My Bomb: A…