June 20, 2014Jesus, talk about pulling out the big guns. This is probably the best dedicated remix plate I’ve ever come across, and not only in the names that’ve stepped in for the reworkings (out to the label, All Saints, for some of the best curation and pairings we’ve seen) but the sheer quality is just fantastic. The trumpeter Jon Hassell has…
June 18, 2014An absolutely fantastic release this, pairing a label that I feel I’ll come to love and an artist I need to dig deeper to find more from. Charles Hayward, as a founding member of This Heat, has boasted his own following and stamp on the experimental scene since the band’s inception int he seventies. After This Heat he continued to…
June 12, 2014Well hyped to be getting this, having waited pretty damn eagerly ever since the photocopied ‘forthcoming’ announcement that arrived in record box many weeks back. Since it’s inception in 2012 the NoCorner label has become one of my favourite imprints. Cassette only, buy-on-site releases that we always try and pick-up through RewindForward (RwdFwd) upon release, dropped in limited quantities and occasionally…
June 10, 2014So in case you haven’t noticed, we’re still playing a bit of catch-up, having been away from the platters for a week or two. It’s been a quality few days of music consumption however, with so much goodness having dropped last month and only just reaching our ears now. Tri Angle Records have really kicked things up a notch lately,…
June 9, 2014We don’t shout about Theo Parrish that much in this space. The Detroit legend gets plenty of hype on any release or mix bearing his name, and out of everyone buying his records there’s a load of people who can do better things with them than I could. That’s not to say we don’t appreciate the ones we do pick-up,…
June 7, 2014It’s been impossible to go past Itinerant Dubs across the last 12 months. Still a production name shrouded in mystery, we can only assume that the duo (taken from what little we do know) have been in the studio releasing for years. And now with constant quality plates coming under this moniker, the artists have set a new standard for…
June 2, 2014It was soon after she was announced as the first female artist on the Stones Throw roster that I encountered Georgia Anne Muldrow. Given a day to absorb the album before interviewing over the phone, I still remember clearly how much those early few listens of her music moved me. Calling friends, playing it to them down the phone, it…
May 20, 2014In addition to a split Record Store Day release this month, Alvarius B. managed to drop this absolute gem of a full length release. Coming to us on the Sun City Girls founded Abdudction label, it’s a limited to 400 pressing, and proved quite hard to track down, so you might want to pop off and buy it now before…
May 12, 2014Can’t believe we’ve not really featured Kink Gong before on these pages, especially as we’ve worked his ever growing catalogue on the NTS show at every excuse we get. Kink Gong is the project name of Frenchman Laurent Jeanneau, a field-recording musician based in southern China, the reasons of which will become evidently clear soon. Jeanneau specialises in recording and…
May 10, 2014Count myself very lucky to have gotten my hands on one of these tapes, as they absolutely flew out of Boomkat upon release. And not to make it a sore point for those that missed out, but this is probably the best £8 I’ve spent in a while. The Hate story goes back to a brief period between 2008-2009, and…