March 22, 2015Proper oddness this, that happens to bang very hard. Chowing through a pile of faceless techno the other day and it was in fact this leftfield slab of hip-hop that really stuck out from the day’s virtual wanderings of our inbox. I know we concentrate on physical mostly but here we’ve got a digital only release, the first drop on…
March 21, 2015While we’ll happily sit here and argue the virtues of live analogue editing and dub mixing to tape for days to come, we’ll do so not forgetting that the majority of our favourite new tunes continue to come to us chopped and spliced from a laptop. Most will try to emulate the old styles of manipulating tracks live, and a…
March 12, 2015From Oregon to Berlin, this Bnjmn (can’t be bothered doing capitals the whole time) and Best Available Technology (BAT) collaboration is stupidly good. Not sure what we expected from it, probably something sparse but danceable for the club, but De/Re-Constructions as a whole is just one total trip in to abstract spaces, loosely guided with beats and synths. For the most…
February 25, 2015Not the first time we’ve shouted about Reel Torque in these pages. The catalogue’s been an interesting one with a partially mixed split from Chris Menist and Awkward Corners, a few studio mixes from the likes of Delroy Edwards and Slackk’s incredible grime mix; and then my personal favourite which is the raw live recordings, the style of which Hieroglyphic…
February 3, 2015Yes man! New Lion Charge! Been waiting for a new drop from the label for time, feels like a while since the D-Operation Drop release, and it’s proven to be well worth the wait. Two sides of wax only, heavy, heavy, dub from Egoless here, taking us back to a proper sound system aesthetic. Lion Charge has been crazy good…
February 1, 2015I think I like this record. I mean, I’m listening to it a lot, so that must be right, right? The thing is, is that Burial (who was ‘unmasked’ as Will Bevan last year) has a stunning track record with tunes, even if it takes a while to find the right moment to become obsessed with them. Burial is awesome.…
January 27, 2015Surprised to see some of these kicking around Boomkat still, and recommend grabbing one as soon as possible if you’ve not already. Released on Slip Discs late last year, TCR serves up five cuts of twisted floor music for a wicked cassette release. Sandwiched between two remixes of Micachu and Tirzah tracks ‘Go’ and ‘I’m Not Dancing’ are the three…
January 24, 2015Launching sometime in 2013, Demdike Stare’s Testpressing series was a revelatory smack in the face with the first few drops, and consistently good ever since. Shaking off their reputation as experimental hauntological soundscape creators (which we loved incidentally), the duo of Sean Canty and Miles Whittaker grabbed the club sound of London by the balls and injected in a new…
January 19, 2015Very cool 7″ drop here on the Boomarm Nation label, who continue to throw up new sounds of the highest quality with every release. In fact, between them and the PDXINDUB camp I’m starting to wonder what they’re putting in the water in Portland, and if we can get some over here. Coming off the back of a big year…
January 12, 2015Finally that month of the year where we start to catch-up on the pile of records we ordered before the holidays, digging in to those plates that got slept on for a few weeks. No better place to start than with Moon Wiring Club aka Ian Hodgson, and the thus far underrated masterpiece that is Leporine Pleasure Gardens. That’s right,…