May 2, 2015Still riding on the cassette tip, here’s a brilliant debut full length from Dublin based producer Baba aka Daragh Monaghan, coming to us from the Where To Now? camp. Pure class on this release, not just in the stunning design of the risographed sleeve that wraps the tape, but mostly in the delivery of the original ideas as a total…
April 29, 2015Been a while between posts, still need to get last week’s show up in fact, so these next few are likely to come fast and lean. Couldn’t put off shouting about this one any longer though, a brilliant cassette release from the one radiokoala. It was about a year ago when we first came across Analog Explorations, the self-released debut…
April 23, 2015It’s such a great feeling when a random punts on music pay off. Such is the case with 2 Late 4 Love, an incredibly dope cassette released late last year via Acid Waxa. The artist behind it is one Roy Of The Ravers, blessed with both an awesome artist name and an artist aesthetic made the release buy on site.…
April 22, 2015Damn, this seems to have barely lasted a second, though some stores still seem to be waiting on initial stock from last month so you might be in luck. Been sitting on it since last month but finally got it on deck and was reminded again while Kyle Hall is modern poster boy for Detroit house music. And that’s probably…
April 19, 2015Available as a free download or cassette release, Semtek’s Don’t Be Afraid label have thrown up a new release from Eecee, titled Cosmic Trigger. Alias of Ian Lehman, who had a bumper 2014 with a handful of singles and EPs on wax under his Doubt moniker. Released across a few different labels, including DBA, all were stellar leftfield house joints…
April 17, 2015Immortalised in Babylon as a clash-winning dub, ‘Warrior Charge’ is possibly one of the best known and most-exposed rhythms in UK’s reggae history. Recorded by Aswad in 1981, the tune not only soundtracked the film, but years earlier had found success in both Britain and Jamaica, one of the first to do so. Despite it’s status and the genre’s history…
April 11, 2015That space where electronic music crosses in to tough jazz beats is something that should be shouted about more often. It’s such a large space that’s still constantly explored, but not directly pushed forward. Maybe it’s the accepted diet of samplers such as Q-Tip, Madlib and Ras G turning it in to something new that the term loses relevance, or…
April 6, 2015Really gotten in to this plate the last few weeks, it seems to just keep popping up on the deck when I don’t know what I want to put on next. Creta Kano delivers the sixth release on the Happy Skull label, with a pretty straight-forward plate of blissful house, really well balanced throughout. Three cuts totalling seventeen minutes of…
March 26, 2015Footwork and grime. Fuck knows why, but this is where the head’s been for the last week or so, revisiting the pieces in the collection and turning out new bits as they come in. DJ Diamond’s Flight Muzik and Traxman’s first Da Mind Of Traxman are still the standard we hold the genre too, at least in regards to full…
March 23, 2015This is what reissue’s should be all about, exposing lost gems still relevant and inspiring. PAN have stepped up to the plate big time, reissuing and remastering a rare cassette mixtape from 1998 Brooklyn. Spectre is alias of the wonderfully named Skiz Fernando Jr. (begging the question why have an artist name at all?), originally a Brooklyn journalist who was…