April 5, 2013Stoked to finally track down this documentary, first clocked on Kickstarter a few years back; the brilliant story about a unique and oft-forgotten hero John Fahey. The crew behind In Search Of Blind Joe Death: The Saga Of John Fahey have done an amazing job in telling a full story, keeping the larger impact of his work as an element…
March 31, 2013You got to love the way Nochexxx works. By the time everyone picked up on his beats releases he’d moved left of house and funky. When the heads caught up with him there (as a mexican skeleton bandit it should be noted) he’d already moved on to torturing his production gear in to unheard sounds and coming up with the…
March 25, 2013We were incredibly fortunate to catch the double-set Tuba Skinny live show across the weekend, the final night of a few months touring the country before they head back home to New Orleans. Undoubtedly one of the best shows I’ve ever seen, The Standard played host to an event more reminiscent of a giant open air street party, nothing but…
March 19, 2013Really digging this new plate from JTC. As the “acid-house” alias of one Tadd Mullinix aka Dabrye, the James T Cotton name has been even more consistent than his beats driven counterpart in producing quality records. Proof enough comes in the fact that this is the third JTC release of the year already, following on from a plate on the…
March 18, 2013A lot of people weighing in on this release, and after a quick listen I can see why. What on the outset looks like a specialist fan-boy project with a minimal audience, is actually a relatively accessible and interesting listen. The Conet Project (or The Conet Project: Recordings Of Shortwave Numbers Stations) has just been repackaged as a 5CD boxset,…
March 12, 2013If this is what the alternative sounds like then keep your clubs and bass music. Kidding, but the truth is I’ve been pretty deep in to this collection of one man’s music this last week. Only just learning about Cooper-Moore via a unique 7″ boxset, also released on CD, titled The Cedar Box Recordings, and have fortunately been converted to…
March 6, 2013Really digging this live set from Thorsen Soltau, recorded at the Golden Pudel Club in Hamburg last month. Minimal and spacey in areas, noisy and layered in others, the 30 minute set is made up of recorded lock grooves from 16, 33 and 45rpm records triggered and layered live. A proper interesting and great listen for live electronic fans. Thorsten’s…
March 4, 2013Even with the his productions being buy on site already, Trus’me has smacked this one out of the park. The double LP titled Treat Me Right is incredibly on point, old-school analogue vibes that go across the board on a level that only few can match. In 2007 the Working Nights LP became a standard, as did the follow-up LP…
February 24, 2013An amazing project from the authority that is Patrick Feaster, doing some forward thinking work that technology may allow, but is originated on ideas driven from a unique dedication to sound study. Bringing back words and sounds originally preserved as images, sourced from anywhere they still exist; 1890’s magazines to prints preserved in the Library Of Congress to more common…
February 18, 2013Creation through deprivation (or I guess ‘limitation’ if you want to put a nicer spin on it) turns out unpredictable results. No point composing a 1-bit orchestra or delivering an hour of solo bass if it sounds repetitive and annoying. Really like what the Animal Language label have done with this new EP though, and while they may not have…