March 28, 2018Bandcamp seems to have taken over as my primary source for musical expenditure as of late. Spurned on by a strange desire to dig out more local music it’s certainly been a satisfying turn in events away from online stores, even if it does feel like I’m reaching the tail-end of it for now. The Reverend Glock is the jungle…
March 11, 2018Young Echo have been taking us to new levels since Jabu and Killing Sound launched the No Corner label with a live cassette back in 2012. With close ties to the ever awesome RwdFwd store and Tape-Echo, the Bristol collective have since expanded in to an eleven piece embedded in to their city’s DIY scene, with the rest of the world constantly catching up.…
March 1, 2018It’s been a while since we stood in proper musique concrète territory but Transparencies 3″ CD from Ordeograph (one Andy Myers) has given us cause to unplug from the real world for a few hours and get lost in something left of the norm. Two and half hours of soundscapes converted from London field recordings presented in a cool package of artwork designed…
February 22, 2018Ash Tre Jenkins (sometimes AshTreJinkins or Ashtre Jenkins) has dropped two digital releases this week via his Bandcamp. The Compton native first came across our radar as Brown Irvin in 2015 with a limited run, two-track cassette of deep dubby techno released on Motion Ward. Killer tracks that stood out on the radio show at the time. Under Ash Tre Jenkins he released wax…
February 19, 2018Last week we spoke about Field Research: Malaysia – the beat tape from Malik Abdul-Rahmaan constructed from records and field recordings collected on a two week holiday to the Southeastern Asian country. It was music made with purpose from a specific set of restrictions, designed to capture an authentic sound, executed beautifully. Conversely, the Baker’s Dozen series from Fat Beats approaches…
February 10, 2018Straight head-nod territory here, going back to the middle of 2017 when Malik Abdul-Rahmann dropped Field Research: Malaysia on Paxico Records. There’s cause behind this release. Malik spent three weeks in Malaysia with his partner, dedicating time to record stores as well as picking up field recordings that he would later decide to flip. He’s not wrong in describing Malaysia as…
February 1, 2018Fucking finally…FINALLY! You’ve no idea how long I’ve waited for The Chats to come along. Under produced, raw, attitude filled, punk rock music that kills it live and thankfully has been totally overlooked by all radio. The Chats are a young three piece from Brisbane who’ve been playing together for under two years but already destroy a live set. They came…
January 4, 2018About three months after we started this I finally found some time New Years Eve morning to record the next instalment of All My Records. A quick calculation suggests that at sixteen to twenty records every three months it’ll take us about sixty years to get through all the shelves. We’ll try and pick up the pace a bit perhaps.…
December 28, 2017One of the most unnecessarily over-analysed LPs of 2017 was, luckily, also one of the best full length drops we heard all year. And as it’s almost the end of the year we thought we may as well add our rant to it. Colon Man was released on Demdike Stare’s DDS imprint late November, turning up in my postbox about two…
December 13, 2017The stunningly good Nyege Nyege Tapes label has been bringing us outer sounds from East Africa on cassette since Disco Vumbi launched them last year. And while I haven’t found any evidence contrary to or in favour of, I’d assume there’s a connection between the label and the Nyege Nyege Festival which had it’s third outing in Jinja, Uganda, earlier…