May 21, 2013Went down to 107 Projects for a screening of this documentary over the weekend, highly recommend checking it out. Thought we’d covered most of the techno doco’s out there, but happy to report Paris / Berlin – 20 Years Of Underground Techno offers something different. Not nearly as polished as the great High Tech Soul: The Creation of Techno Music,the ’96…
May 13, 2013Definitely the top non-musical regular happening in my books is Hand Baked Arcade. Whether a pub, bowling alley, cinema, any other venue for any sort of occasion in addition to their regular night Button Bash, the chaps behind Hand Baked always supplied a quality event. As a pop-up arcade, HBA supply a never-ending supply of vintage gaming consoles, rare platforms…
May 9, 2013As a quarter of DMZ along with Digital Mystikz and Sgt. Pokes, Loefah is one cat who needs no introduction. Big in the scene since early days, the man has contributed more to the musical landscapes pre- and post- dubstep booms then most of his contemporaries will in a lifetime. Looking back it turns out the “Goat Stare” platter was…
April 27, 2013One for the London heads, falling across next weekend’s Bank Holiday celebrations comes the launch party for Steffi’s Panorama Bar 05 mix CD, officially dropping middle of May on Ostgut Ton. Our friends over at Broken n Uneven and Electric Minds are stepping up to give the cause a proper christening in London with their usual quality party stakes at…
April 17, 2013Came across this video the other day and needed to share it; KiNK live in session for Bulgarian online station Radio Binar. KiNK aka Strahil Velchev brought a collection of his synths, effects units, sequencing tools and beat machines – mostly MFB in fact, full gear list below – in to the studio, setting up a temporary performance space for…
April 15, 2013For the London based among you make sure you get down to this next week, headlined by the incredible Nad Spiro, stage name of experimental composer and performer Rosa Arruti out of Barcelona. Rosa’s joined by some proper talent in the form of two-piece Static Memories, Cloudier Skies and raga-drone-psyche specialists Raagnagrok. We’ve been big fans of the Nad Spiro…
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…
April 4, 2013As expected, Electric Minds / Broken & Uneven smashed it again, going large by all accounts for the Ostgut Ton x 50 Weapons party that happened across the weekend. Big ups everyone involved putting it on. Got to agree with the following email from the man in the pits on the night: …not much to say apart from these guys…
March 2, 2013Saddened to hear the news of Ajax, who passed away last week in Melbourne. If you happen to be coming up in Sydney in the early 2000s then you definitely crossed paths with Adrian Thomas aka DJ Ajax, and the man was always a gent. Breaks ruled the scene, and Ajax pushed it in to new directions, giving that dirty-electro…
February 20, 2013Probably the best lineup we’ve seen for a festival in a while, and it’s happening in Adelaide next month, with Unsound Festival bringing the Krakow originated string of events to Australia for the first time. Taking over a portion of the Adelaide Festival from March 14th to 16th, Unsound are giving us performances from OPN, Tim Hecker, Actress, Hype Williams,…