June 1, 2015Been debating whether or not I should be weighing in on this, especially since the instigator in this case is the normally on-point Vice. If Snowden, the NSA and Anonymous remain on the outer fringes of your consciousness, then The Hacker Wars, in my opinion, is one of the most important films you can watch. And the reason for that…
January 13, 2015This has probably been rinsed to death by now but I dig this project so much had to get it up here. Plus Nick Kyrgios is currently in the fight of a lifetime, so no sport fan in Australia is going to bed anytime soon. Taking the elements that made up those beautiful jazz LP sleeves of the fiftes and…
January 2, 2015Mad delay getting this up here, tradition does dictate first of the New Year but what can we say…it’s been a crazy series of events lately. Simply put, 2014 was freaking awesome. So much good music, new labels and strange directions for wax and cassette labels that kept us interested for the full twelve months, if consistently broke at the…
December 23, 2014Christmas is cool and all, but sometimes around this time of year it really is best to start looking forward to things that will bring you joy as well as those around you, especially if it’s something that you missed out on getting under the tree last year. I’m pretty sure that my wife, parents, siblings etc. aren’t on the…
December 8, 2014For fifteen years the Sydney monorail was an under-appreciated piece of the urban landscape. Not as noticeable or iconic as say the Opera House or Harbour Bridge, but still an appreciated piece of landscape like the mountains in Switzerland or sand dunes in Morocco. The monorail was never talked about it as a key feature, and it may not have…
December 3, 2014Free records, what?! Dubkasm? Fucking crazy. If I’m reading this right then the good folk over at RwdFwd are giving out 100 copies of a system shattering record from their online store tonight. And yes I realise that posting this may cost me my own copy, but everyone involved here is down for spreading the message, so who are we…
December 2, 2014Been a while since we heard from Timmy K aka Phomandark on the photographic tip, but it was well worth the wait. With camera in hand he headed down to shoot Afrika Bambaataa and crew on their ’40 Years of Hip-Hop’ tour, double billed as the ‘41st Anniversary of Zulu Nation‘. From djembe drummers opening the affair through a load…
November 13, 2014We posted about the wonderful techno record ‘B-Ball Joints‘ last week, which, somewhat obviously, made me reflect slightly on my own court soundtrack. We do actually have one, and it’s three albums, put in one playlist, chronologically playing start to finish and is roughly the length of a night-time session under streetlights. For all the weird and wonderful music we…
October 31, 2014For those that may’ve missed the October issue of DJ Mag we wanted to pull up and highlight the ‘Top Ten’ feature from one of our favourite selectors in London. Everything is Everything is the alias belonging to one Neal Birnie, the DJ and collector who you may know as the cat behind the counter at Sounds Of The Universe with…
October 28, 2014At 70 years of age, Jamaican-born Notting Hill-raised photographer Charlie Phillips has carved a life to date as one of the key documentarians of black-culture around the world. Emigrating with his family to West London in the fifties, from a young age Phillips was photographing life in the area, during the time of West Indian migration to London. Self-taught on…