July 20, 2015New session work here from Jackie O-Motherfucker, and it’s motherfucking great. With their consistently inconsistent output of some thirty-odd releases since their inception in 1995, the group’s experimental and freeform nature seems to extend past their music in to group membership, with some forty-odd ex-players that have Jackie O’Motherfucker some place on their music resume. Founding member Tom Greenwood remains…
July 7, 2015A record so damn good that despite the hype we wanted to weigh in on quickly; finally released on wax comes occasional collaborators Kieren Hebden aka Four Tet and Steve Reid taking on seminal Detroit techno in stunning style. The two cover ‘Strings Of Life’, creating it’s most out-there, and in someways it’s most faithful, versioning in one hit. Recorded…
June 30, 2015Still heavily stuck in this footwork vibe, and with RP Boo dropping one of the genres finest LPs to date this week – Fingers, Bank Pads and Shoe Prints on Planet Mu – it seemed like a good time to revisit this. In 2012 famed underground photo and video kings Tim & Barry traveled to Chicago and created the authorative documentary…
June 26, 2015Been going deep in to this all week, a thirty-one track compilation from Ben Zimmerman collecting his recordings from ’92 to 2002, composed – painstakingly one can imagine – on a Tandy DeskMate computer. I’m new to the work of Zimmerman, though digging through his bandcamp page I can’t imagine why. A few EPS are present but mostly it’s individual…
June 15, 2015Despite the record store acclaim it received I can’t help but feel like this one really went under the radar for a lot of cats. Inspired by a collection of 78’s, Roll The Dice member (and Swede) Peder Mannerfelt has replayed his own of versions 1930’s Congolese field-recordings, presenting the results in an incredible full length CD. As far as…
June 12, 2015New LP of Moritz von Oswald Trio branded jazz just dropped, which is good news for all us chinstrokers who smoked too much in high-school and always fancied themselves getting in to red wine one day. And as sarcastic as that sounds, we are actually genuinely stoked to be playing this. Moritz von Oswald needs little introduction. Underneath his guidance,…
June 6, 2015Stoked to be welcoming back experimental hip-hop to our ears, with an amazing record that we’ve been visiting and revisiting for the last week, Days With Dr. Yen Lo. Dr. Yen Lo is now not only the psychopathic hypnotist from The Manchurian Candidate but also the collaborative name of Brooklyn rapper Ka and New York native producer Preservation, who’ve just dropped…
May 19, 2015Jesus…this is big. An outstanding cassette release from the somewhat mysterious Cerberus Future Technologies label, credited to Montauk Boys. Earlier press releases suggest we’re dealing with a Manchester operation, with the label being christened earlier this year with two mixed cassettes of originals from a few different names, Frequency Adjustments volumes 1 & 2. Whatever the story here there’s no disputing…
May 15, 2015In the short time since it’s inception last year, /Aught has fast become one of my favourite new labels. Consistently outstanding lo-fi house presented on sharp looking clear cassette in a poly bag, selling out way too fast for me to have the whole collection to date, Aught have a distinct sound they want to push out, and they do…
May 7, 2015Big collaboration here between the master of digidub Tapes and Wareika Hill Sounds, the Jamaican musicians who really impressed with the No More War 10″ on Honest Jon’s last year. Pulling down on some proper soul-touching dub vibes, we’ve got the spiritual A-side versioned with echoing drums one the flip, actually one of the best dubs we’ve heard of modern…