December 18, 2014On a more positive note than what you’re about to read, we highly recommend you checking out Michael Chandler’s documentary Stay Sailing, which is a brilliant piece of film making on pirate radio: https://awkmo.co/stay-sailing-pirate-radio-documentary Got sent this in response to the quality DJ Slimzee mini-doc we posted last week. Jimmy Monsta Funk was quick on response as always, sharing the downside…
December 11, 2014Unless you were there it’s hard to convey the influence and importance of Koolism to the Australian music scene. Between the late ’90s and early 2000’s it was the first time that a lot of us heard a non-US or British accent on a rap. And it wasn’t just as a starting point: throughout their career Koolism remained homegrown and…
December 8, 2014For fifteen years the Sydney monorail was an under-appreciated piece of the urban landscape. Not as noticeable or iconic as say the Opera House or Harbour Bridge, but still an appreciated piece of landscape like the mountains in Switzerland or sand dunes in Morocco. The monorail was never talked about it as a key feature, and it may not have…
November 13, 2014We posted about the wonderful techno record ‘B-Ball Joints‘ last week, which, somewhat obviously, made me reflect slightly on my own court soundtrack. We do actually have one, and it’s three albums, put in one playlist, chronologically playing start to finish and is roughly the length of a night-time session under streetlights. For all the weird and wonderful music we…
November 10, 2014And we have a winner! The Dead Albatross Music Prize crowned it’s second ever champion last week, with Paul Ackroyd aka Kamikaze announcing results across a three-hour show on Reel Rebels. Gutted that the bickering and squabbling over who should and shouldn’t have made the shortlist is over for another year, but well stoked at the caliber of contestants that…
October 31, 2014For those that may’ve missed the October issue of DJ Mag we wanted to pull up and highlight the ‘Top Ten’ feature from one of our favourite selectors in London. Everything is Everything is the alias belonging to one Neal Birnie, the DJ and collector who you may know as the cat behind the counter at Sounds Of The Universe with…
October 22, 2014Almost didn’t make it through this, but I’m proper glad I did. A damn interesting book here, especially once you get past the background and first two chapters and in to the full-action of being part of the the urban exploration community around the world. Travelling shotgun around the world with the writer, this will make you want to go…
October 19, 2014With Illmatic cemented as one of the greatest of all time, as you’d expect there’s been a decent amount of hype around the release of this documentary, Nas: Time Is Illmatic. And while we’re still waiting on our copy to drop so we can watch for ourselves, early reports are pretty positive, with a bit of interesting feedback stating Nas’ brother,…
October 2, 2014Heavy viewing this, that left me torn on opinion and blessed with the gift of hindsight. Quite intrusive thoughts come from this brilliant documentary, that left us proper shook, and obsessively contemplating other paths that the lives of friends and ourselves might’ve gone. To be honest, throughout the entire viewing it was on of two extremes; either waves of disappointment…
August 27, 2014In my limited experiences of sound system gatherings and street festivals, there was nothing I loved more than Notting Hill Carnival. It was on the calendar from January – you had to get down early for Jah Shaka, Aba Shanti and Channel One or there was no hope of getting near. The after-parties were nearly always quality, capping off a…