June 28, 2019Coinciding with the Windrush Day anniversaries taking place in London this month, Hero: Inspired By The Extraordinary Life & Times Of Mr. Ulric Cross kicked off a series of screenings in the city last weekend. As part of their tour the events come complete with a Q&A with director Francis-Anne Solomon and a rotating cast including actor Rudolph Walker and actress Pippa…
April 15, 2018Isn’t the internet great? It lets me keep track of guys I grew up with doing insanely cooler stuff than I am. Hugo Bighuggs was a mate of mine back in the day who I hadn’t heard from in over a decade until he randomly dropped in to one of my social media feeds a couple of weeks back. Known…
February 21, 2018An eight-minute film unleashed in 2016, Northbound is an under celebrated and overly beautiful piece of film making that you can’t not enjoy. As director Jørn Nyseth Ranum found out, frozen sand is a surprisingly perfect surface to skate on. And there’s something poetic about that when taken in to consideration that sand and water fundamentally work against skateboards generally.…
January 15, 2018Some friends recently put me on to the work of London based director Yoni Lappin, best known currently for the music videos he’s supplied for UK producer Mura Masa. Most likely you’ve seen his film making through the video for ‘Love$ick’ featuring A$AP Rocky, which you can check out below. Lappin, as you can see, is perfectly on point with the unfiltered…
July 27, 2017Akira has always been somewhat of the gift that keeps on giving. Released in 1988 I didn’t first see it until the mid-nineties as a feature, part of a regular anime season on network TV (shout outs to SBS), and when it returned a year later I had enough sense to tape it. One of the first anime’s I ever saw…
July 13, 2017As with many of our favourite improvisational and experimental artists, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe – more often credited as Robert Lowe and arguably better known for his work under the name Lichens – has evolved his art for decades across multiple disciplines. In recent years he’s been turning heads in the film medium, mostly as an accomplished multi-instrumentalist composer but…
July 11, 2017For those not on Compa’s mailing list you may have missed the upload of his mini-doc on cutting dubs at Dub Studio in Bristol. It’s a seven minute talking head of Dub Studio owner Henry Bainbridge (aka Henry Heatwave of The Heatwave fame) discussing the art form that is cutting records, with a bit of gear porn thrown in. Check…
June 5, 2017Dope live streaming project here with involvement from Massie aka Daojia of AWK005 ‘Riego Street’ fame. Last seen reviewing tunes while rolling around Glasgow, Truth-HZ is now hooking up with producers to stream and record a makeshift studio session with samples sent in from the viewing community live and before the show. Studio Session 1 went out just over a month ago with…
January 3, 2017Lists of things to buy and check out are always good provided they come from the right people, and Jimmy Monsta Funk is still top of that list. He’s dropped some proper heat on us this year and we’re still sitting on about six hour of mixes comprising of wax from 2015 that’ll be up shortly. A lot of good…
December 31, 2016Looking back at the records and tapes I shouted at last year and it’s pretty spooky how many artists and labels came back again. Maybe I’m getting old, not playing out as much and listening at home instead, or maybe it’s just the couple of big boxsets breaking the record budget, but the most noticeable shift was towards albums over…