September 10, 2013Finally got around to picking up a proper copy of this collaboration which dropped in June. Giuseppe Ielasi and Andrew Pekler remain two of our favourite artists on the experimental tip, both featuring with heavy rotation on our NTS show. Ielasi has been a prolific composer and an explorer of the music created from minimal contrasts. His relationship with music…
September 2, 2013Maybe we’ll get off the tape tip soon, especially with so much quality wax dropping in these last few weeks, but needed to write up this one which is a stunning live release. A 60 minute recording from The Boats‘ first live performance in half-a-decade, and I can’t picture having enjoyed it as much on any other format. The duo…
August 21, 2013Can two tracks be an EP? Probably not, but who really cares, as long as the music’s good, a sentiment that can also be applied to the amount of wordy coverage given to Helena Hauff recently. Appearing on Blackest Ever Black’s run Krokodilo Tapes cassette imprint, as well as her debut 12″ Actio Reacto on Werkdiscs, much hype around her production has…
August 20, 2013Hectic as always, I love what William Bennett does with the Cut Hands solo alias. The ideal blend between afro-rhythm and f**ked electronics never makes for anything but superb listening. And while I hate to unnecessarily raise expectations, the Madwoman 12″ recently released on Downwards is the top offering we’ve had from him to date. We first clocked Cut Hands…
August 18, 2013A couple of much-needed and pretty cool apps here, designed for the modern-day record community, linking us straight in to Discogs. Starting with the freebie, Crate Digger first appeared for download a bit over two years ago, built around and improved through the Discogs community and forum board needs. With the ability to pull through your publicly viewable Collection and Wantlist,…
August 11, 2013Been more than a minute now since the Sahel Sounds release that properly moved us; Ali Ag Amoumine’s Takamba record was a discovery that almost sent me to the region it originated from (though to be fair I was in Morocco at the time anyway). Bringing out new instruments, rhythm patterns and an intensity that I’d not come across before, it was a semi-religious…
August 8, 2013Absolutely love the vein that Ras G taps. The cosmic stylings that long ago evolved past beat tape phases in to loose free flowing composition just get better the more Ras releases, and this latest LP – Back On The Planet – is probably his finest offering to date. Not taking anything away from the split 7’s, beat tapes, free…
August 3, 2013F**king hell this is heavy. As the soundsystem title of Kahn & Neek, anything baring the Gorgon Sound name is something we need to pay attention to. For the third Peng Sound release the label has pulled out and pressed up four tracks straight from the Gorgon Sound dub box, creating a monster of an EP. Mastered via tape, cut…
July 30, 2013Way late on this, but this is the type of release we love; especially when the record in question is a history lesson and yet still sounds relevant. Don’t get me wrong, I never want to be that guy in the record store purely buying reissues once every few months, but as I learn more about electronic music the second…
July 24, 2013The chaps at Rewind Forward have been killing it since opening up their specialist online store a year or so ago. It was through the second No Corner release – the Kahn & Neek – Gorgon Grime cassette – that I started ordering cassettes and the odd t-shirt and wax off of them, never disappointed by the selection they’ve got in…