March 29, 2011Probably the best radio news since her final guests on BBC were announced… via Mary Anne Hobbs I broadcast my first ever radio show for Xfm… it was simply the most exciting thing I had ever done, and it changed my life forever. 20 years ago, we were broadcasting for just 4 weeks each year with temporary Licences, on…
March 27, 2011The techno dons keep swinging by. By all accounts the first night of the new club night from Ben Simms and Kirk Degiorgio was a massive success, and this time around they’re bringing out Underground Resistance associate and Detroit flag bearer DJ Rolando headlining over at East Village on the 15th of April. via Machine London Following the massive success of…
March 25, 2011I wasn’t sure where I stood on these when I first stumbled onto them (about two years too late I might add, them being a part of the 2009 collection) but after staring for a minute or so I realised there was something dope about the skateboard deck / Miles Davis Quintet crossover. Skate brand Western Edition have always made…
March 19, 2011UPDATE: Due to popular demand and mass media loving their work, the Underbelly exhibition has been extended until the 22nd of May. It will also be open late Thursday 5th of May as part Time Out First Thursday. Get down. Opening this Friday, 25th of March, not a lot’s known about Underbelly, the collaborative installation between Chairman Kato and…
March 17, 2011If you were born after 1980 and before ’87 you need one of these in your life… via Blaze Europe Fully portable hand held console with 20 Classic Sega Megadrive games built in With SD Card expansion slot! * 20 built in Sega Megadrive games including: Sonic & Knuckles, Shinobi, Golden Axe, Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle, Alien Storm,…
March 8, 2011All round music don Throwing Snow is playing alongside a pretty heavy crew over at Notting Hill Arts Club this Friday. Their monthly bass night, Talking At Me – consistently held down with style by Rita Maia and Coby1 – has put together their finest lineup to date (present company excluded 🙂 ) to be headlined by Ben Westbeech (aka…
March 2, 2011Closing off his series charting the course between jazz and techno, Jimmy Monsta Funk brings us his final batch of 5 selections of that embody these two genres working off each other. Having started Part 1 which with Techno After Jazz, followed by the second installment looking at Jazz Before Techno, he’s now ending us with the appropriately titled Time…
February 28, 2011I’ve got ‘stampers clamp’ this morning. Stampers clamp is the fictional medical term I am using to describe a minor pain on the outside edge of your hand running from the top of your pinky to where your wrist begins, which comes about from leaning on a stamping pad to try and get the last bit of ink out of…
February 26, 2011My recent quest to find out more about the art work on the 2008 Data Bwoy sleeve took me back the roots of the label that released it – Eat Concrete – and label boss Pete Concrete who gave me the name Svante Danielsson to run with. From what I can see he’s a games designer out of Sweden, though…
February 22, 2011First up, gotta say mad props to Zolton and crew at Lost at E Minor for their weekly mailouts – of which this particular browser item was included. Especially if you’re in to art and design get on the mailing list as they properly dig up bits and pieces that are not only amazing and need sharing but also you…