February 25, 2014Spooky industrial vibes come totally good; I love records like this. This was dropped sometime last year, not sure what prompted me to pick it up now, but it hasn’t left the area next to the decks for the few weeks since it arrived. Great Circles label boss Justin Gibbon is here releasing under the name Westov Temple, keeping in…
February 6, 2014Not news by any stretch of the imagination, but in the ongoing absence of a bootleg copy on wax I thought we’d shed a bit more light on this wicked drop from The Avalanches. Effectively known as ‘Stalking To A Stranger‘ it is in fact officially Hunters & Collectors – ‘Talking To A Stranger given a ‘Planets Collide’ remix, done…
February 4, 2014Coming in an addition of 50 only, our friends over at the FullFridge Music label have just dropped their first foray in to the cassette tape format, with a quality release. Based in the French Alps, the FullFridge crew have been on our radar for a while now, regularly dropping releases from an ever impressive roster and some crazy good…
February 2, 2014So here’s a surprising fact I just confirmed on Discogs; dropping officially this week, Thrusters is actually the debut LP from Nochexxx aka Dave Henson. In fact, prior to this there’s only three official 12″ releases and a handful of cassettes, them themselves released mostly through his CHXFX alias. The Cambridge associated producer had a history of label curation (check Tripel…
January 30, 2014Thought we’d group these plates together as they’ve brought about a similar reaction to me despite their vast differences in sound. Not sure why we’d expect anything less, but both Actress and Shackleton have offered up subtle changes in direction with their recent records, bringing me back to utter awe over the skill they put on display through their own…
January 27, 2014Been a while since we’ve been hyped over an amen-break based full length, and then comes this Lee Bannon on Ninja Tune, which has got us hooked like crack. Best known to date as a hip-hop producer, delivering beats to rappers such as Joey Bada$$, Bannon has stepped up a notch to produce this solo outing, more than a stones…
January 19, 2014Back in December Diagonal Recordings released a wicked 2LP debut from Death Comet Crew, though it was only about a week ago I finally got my hands on it. Been meaning to write about Ghost Among The Crew ever since, but in it’s wake we’ve been swallowed up by a few other releases from the NYC originated group, most recently this…
January 16, 2014Bit of an odd release this, and utterly fascinating. Jamie Stewart’s four-piece band Xiu Xiu have produced countless flashes of brilliance since Knife Play in 2002, but none as overly enjoyable as this full-length tribute to Nina Simone. The Nina Simone songbook is, for the best part, reduced to Tom Waits style funeral marches, home recordings accompanied by what sounds…
January 15, 2014Still catching up on last year’s releases for whatever reason, and proper surprised by how many bits passed us by until now, or, as is this case here, were purchased and sat in the “to-listen-to” pile for way too long. While January slowly gets back to the normal record schedules expect a few of these posts to surface as we…
January 10, 2014There’s not much better than when house music takes on a life of it’s own, and though others are entitled to disagree, Deepblak for me is a house music label, consistently churning out chin-stroke music that can equally move the floor. Along with Mathematics, it’s got to be one of the best curated wax labels around, defining it’s own distinct…