September 25, 2015Boomarm Nation come strong again with a good looking and even better sounding 7″ from Portland based producer E3, backed with an El Mahdy Jr. remix that’s as dope as you’d expect. There seems to be a really nice scene in Portland at present, built around Boomarm Nation, PDXINDUB, ZamZam Sounds and associates. Through releases on the latter two we’ve often…
September 18, 2015…and on the evening of nominations, Murdoc Niccals did speak unto to the Mercury crowd, and thusly said “Mercury award? Sounds a bit heavy, man! Y’know sorta like carrying a dead albatross round your neck for eternity” and the Dead Albatross was born… Yep, our favourite time of year again, Dead Albatross Music Prize 2015 is just around the corner. Stoked…
September 16, 2015Finally got this on the deck after it dropped a few weeks back, making it the first Rwina Records plate that’s worked it’s way in to my collection strangely enough. I also slept on Anti-G’s debut LP on Planet Mu a few years back, though for the life of me can’t remember why – definitely have to revisit that one…
September 14, 2015Not sure when this became a thing, but the end result is surprisingly dope; far more than just novelty in our eyes. 8-bit Famicom versions of some of the most uniquely styled music ever created. The wonderful recordings of Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band covered more experimental ground than any of their contemporaries at the time, and most other…
August 27, 2015It’s about time we shouted at El Mahdy Jr. properly on these pages. The Algerian born producer dropped his debut LP The Spirit Of Fucked Up Places on Boomarm Nation back in 2013, and properly fucked us up with it. Hell, we liked it so much we bought it on cassette as well as vinyl. With three plates on three different labels…
August 12, 2015Very cool this, encompassing that early computer archive vibe that made Ben Zimmerman’s The Baltika Years such an incredible collection to get lost in. This time around we’ve got an insight in to the early workings of Max Tundra aka Ben Jacobs, with a compilation of tracks recorded during his childhood on a Commodore Amiga 500 and Acorn BBC Micro…
August 7, 2015Pre-Cert Home Entertainment sub-label Dead-Cert Home Entertainment has produced some incredible reissues since it’s inception in 2012. In fact, all three imprints that Andy Votel has a hand in – Finders Keepers, Pre-Cert and Dead-Cert – seem to set the standard for quality and reproduction of mostly unheard or under-appreciated music. Take a look in your collection and you’ll likely…
August 4, 2015Coming off the back of his own LP – Always Offended and Never Ashamed – which christened the label, and a cassette from Karl O’Connor that no one really heard, Kerridge aka Samuel Kerridge brings the third release on his Contort imprint to us in the form of a devastating 7″ called Sonic Instruments Of War. Kerridge has mostly worked with…
July 30, 2015Many times I’ve unsuccessfully tried to deconstruct music tastes. It always comes down to simple gut feeling, but it doesn’t stop me occasionally attempting to work out what elements of a recording appeal to me, and is there any consistency behind it. Whenever there’s new music on the decks – not just another release from our buy-on-site labels and artists,…
July 25, 2015Although we came to it well late, almost six months after it’s 2014 release date, Bébites has been one of our fondest discoveries of recent memory. The cassette was the first release on the Pygmy Animals label and introduced us to the wonderful musical world of Ramzi aka Phoebe Guillemot, Canadian based producer with an amazing knack for compacting mind-blowing…