November 6, 2014One cat or a group, either unknown studio fiend or a collective by the name of B-Ball Joints depending how you interpret the press release and various write-ups. Not that it really matters, as the important thing here is that it’s music to knock your skull about it or shake up a set, if it doesn’t destroy the club beforehand.…
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 16, 2014One of two releases here that we’ve picked up from Leaving Records this week that we’ve got to shout about. Matthew David’s label continues to kill it, single-handedly racking up our tape collection at a hefty rate with nothing but heat. Cakedog is a new release alias of Ahnnu; the LA based beatmaker responsible for World Music on Leaving and Battered Sphynx…
October 14, 2014Big drop from Lukid, his finest to date in my opinion. Crawlers comes to us on 12″ from Liberation Technologies, four-tracks of mutant techno that form a coherent and brain melting EP of new ideas and directions flawlessly built together. It’s been a while since we heard from Lukid, last releasing in 2012 with the full-length Lonely At The Top and…
October 9, 2014More brilliance from the great Kemper Norton here, released in a limited quantity as a double CD that collects not only the new album Loor but also a disc of unreleased bits, versions, rarities and the like. From what we understand, Kemper Norton is still the one chap, despite being described as the Kemper Norton Collective from various sources. The…
October 7, 2014You can’t go past the influence of Cabaret Voltaire on electronic music, and as such Richard H. Kirk, “the hardest working man in techno.” And while we’ve dived in and out of the group’s catalogue over the years – from the annoyance of the commercial Joy Division synths to the experimental pieces forerunning to industrial – Cabaret Voltaire has always…
September 26, 2014Love this, though were a few months late on it which lately means we practically missed it. Famous Moon King is the name of an unknown artist (at least unknown to general public and the label pushing the release) who’s gotten his music to us through Tesla Tapes. As the story goes, Paddy from Gnod turned up a CDR of…
September 24, 2014Charging through new bits of music and had to pull back to give this a shout-out. Coming in limited edition wax and download at the end of the month comes is this six-track LP from Austin Cesear, titled West Side. Austin Cesear debuted on on Public Information back in 2012, coming straight out with the much-loved Cruise Forever full-length, turning a…
September 15, 2014Considering how much we’ve been rinsing the likes of Dakim, D/P/I and Ras G on the NTS show, and the fact that they’ve released some of our favourite albums of the last two years, I was surprised to see this is the first time we’ve taken to writing up something on Matthew David’s Leaving Records label. To be fair, this…
September 10, 2014Stoked to have had this come across my plate, a wicked release we might’ve slept on had it not been flagged for attention by one of the extended Awkward Movements family for NTS. The trio of Beep! consists of Michael Coleman, Ospovat and tUnE-yArDs bassist Naytronix aka Nate Brenner, and they make spectacular music. Doom synths meet jazz with a…