July 27, 2017Akira has always been somewhat of the gift that keeps on giving. Released in 1988 I didn’t first see it until the mid-nineties as a feature, part of a regular anime season on network TV (shout outs to SBS), and when it returned a year later I had enough sense to tape it. One of the first anime’s I ever saw…
July 21, 2017Killer drop from Berlin label Kashual Plastik here, continuing to put quality over quantity with just their fourth wax release in as many years. It’s a a path trodden by the likes of Firecracker in their early release days, and one that tends to pay dividends when you’re looking back on a near perfect catalogue as some do. A Weird…
July 15, 2017The 8- and 16-bit games that soundtracked my 90’s youth have been going through a revival the last few years, with the likes of Koji Kondo and Hip Tanaka getting the long overdue status they deserve across a more mainstream audience. LP releases from Konami Kukeiha Club, an increase in 8-bit sampling and the brilliant Diggin’ In The Carts series…
July 13, 2017As with many of our favourite improvisational and experimental artists, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe – more often credited as Robert Lowe and arguably better known for his work under the name Lichens – has evolved his art for decades across multiple disciplines. In recent years he’s been turning heads in the film medium, mostly as an accomplished multi-instrumentalist composer but…
June 28, 2017We’ve played a lot of Ras G over the years, rinsing him across the radio shows as each album dropped and constantly pulling out a forgotten 12″ or two as we shuffled out records. And with good reason too, as the SP don has been high on our radars since ‘Hummin’ in The Sun’ and Poo Bah records where he held it…
June 27, 2017Out on Subtext this week is a stunning plate from Istanbul based Cevdet Erek, best known as an artist sound crafting installations, films and exhibitions and rarely repeating himself in the process. Last year he was part of the 20th Biennale of Sydney with a unique form of his best known work to date, the ever shifting Room of Rhythms – Long Distance…
June 21, 2017Here I thought Rarefied was going to make a name for themselves bringing forth the spirit of deep established dubstep and high-demand edits. And while their fourth release (counting Stronger on the Rare Black offshoot) does throw up an opening cut in that vein, the imprint has unexpectedly turned us inside out by partnering it with unique tracks of meditative beats…
May 31, 2017Feel like this one might’ve slipped under the radar given that it was initially pushed out as a free wax giveaway from Discrepant. Don’t be fooled by label boss Gonzo’s generosity here, as this isn’t a bonus throwaway. This is a 45 – stamped with ‘Visions of Congo‘ across the sleeve – of two stand out cuts. It’s a proper trip…
February 26, 2017Is King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard a thing everywhere yet? Either the more popular kids have got another one right (happens every so often) or with us finishing up the NTS show I’m slowly pulling my head out of a sink hole of unmastered experimental chin-stroked recordings from unnamed brooding synth heads. Either way I’ve been lost in…
February 19, 2017Every year I swear off tapes, and this year, with the increasing trend for cassette releases to be shoved very high inside their label / curators colon that you can’t play them in your machine without flinging shit throughout it (look at the £16 45 minute Raime mix for reference – you know none of the artists are getting paid for…