March 2, 2012We’ve been staying tight on this release, but couldn’t resist giving Juno Plus a peak in ahead of the Riego Street 12″ release date. And whilst keeping this close to our chest, we’ve got digital 320s available for radio or coverage, so get in touch if you want to get a hold of them early. via Juno Plus Fledgling London…
February 20, 2012A long overdue doco looking at the electronic side of Chicago music from the last two and a half decades. Brilliantly done, From Jack To Juke: 25 Years of Ghetto House starts with The Warehouse (where else?) and Frankie Knuckles going through Trax Records up to Ghetto-house in it’s current state as Juke music. By swerving the “kids on corners…
January 31, 2012Pretty incredible move here from Stones Throw in my opinion, making their entire catalogue – present and future – to be available to download for a subscription fee of $10 (US) a month. If there’s one label I’ll continue to check religiously it’s the LA based, Peanut Butter Wolf run Stones Throw Records; who’re constantly years ahead of the game,…
January 20, 2012We’re very sad to hear about the passing of a true legend of music, jazz vocalist Etta James. Throughout her career Etta’s style was transcendent of genres, it was in fact my father who was heavily country music and rock n roll loving that introduced me to her. As an instantly recognisable singer Etta’s style was her own, never imitated…
January 16, 2012I should pre-empt this by letting you know that only 250 copies have been made of Issue 1 – beg, borrow and steal if you have to but this is some print you want to own. A few months back we posted on Analog Love, a photo exhibition documenting the Bristol underground scene, accompanied by an amazingly unique zine of…
January 4, 2012As it was delicately put “I smell an art student”… …but that doesn’t entirely take away from the loss of one of our favorite labels, that just in the last 12 months has been getting the credit it deserves. Sandwell District became ‘buy on sight’ records followed by ‘purchase-entire-back-catalogue.’ Still calling each other c**ts and discussing broken shoulders from bar…
January 2, 2012As usual top charts of 2011 all came in different formats, with some taking more liberties than others in cramming as many records, news events ad whatever else they could in. Also most people have chosen not to rank their releases (thanks Jimmy Monsta Funk who started the trend last year and now everyone’s tried it on) I’ve preserved them…
December 31, 2011You’d think having seen through an EP with Chairman Kato we’d be somewhat used to his creative outbursts or random activities that seem to make slightly more sense inside his head than in the real world. You’d be wrong. Only he could make a New Years Day broadcast called ‘Live From The K-Hole’ seem so depressingly appealing. The fact that…
December 22, 2011via Jimmy Monsta Funk Yesterday I heard news of the untimely passing of Nilesh Patel (aka Nilz at The Exchange) and felt compelled to write something down in his honour. To inveterate records collectors like my extended crew and I, Nilz was a legend without compare. He worked as a mastering engineer at The Exchange after completing college in 1989…
December 21, 2011The crew at monome dropped through an email saying that there were some models of the gs64 and gs128 available to ship straight away – and whilst I’m not technically minded or making enough to be able to buy one, it did get me back on their site which I used to obsess over. On it was a very cool…