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…
July 3, 2017While we’re in LA I thought it’d be worth putting up these portraits of some of the city’s top producers and DJs that first appeared in our inbox in 2009. Los Angeles was getting it’s proper hype at last, Daddy Kev’s Low End Theory was in full flight and Gaslamp Killer was known as an out there DJ, though yet to…
June 28, 2017We’ve played a lot of Ras G over the years, rinsing him across the radio shows as each album dropped and constantly pulling out a forgotten 12″ or two as we shuffled out records. And with good reason too, as the SP don has been high on our radars since ‘Hummin’ in The Sun’ and Poo Bah records where he held it…
June 27, 2017Out on Subtext this week is a stunning plate from Istanbul based Cevdet Erek, best known as an artist sound crafting installations, films and exhibitions and rarely repeating himself in the process. Last year he was part of the 20th Biennale of Sydney with a unique form of his best known work to date, the ever shifting Room of Rhythms – Long Distance…
June 23, 2017DJ Shadow continues to kill it with a new monthly residency on Los Angeles mainstay KCRW 89.9 FM. Giving us two-hours the first Saturday of each month, the Bay Area record digger, DJ and beat maker manages to not only live up to his legendary status but surpass any expectation even the hardest fan of Entroducing might’ve had. We’re three shows…
June 21, 2017Here I thought Rarefied was going to make a name for themselves bringing forth the spirit of deep established dubstep and high-demand edits. And while their fourth release (counting Stronger on the Rare Black offshoot) does throw up an opening cut in that vein, the imprint has unexpectedly turned us inside out by partnering it with unique tracks of meditative beats…
June 13, 2017Sad news here. Purveyors of the much-touted ‘Sir White’, ‘Bomukun’ and ‘AstroSugar’ constructions of late – Pocket Designs – are closing their doors after a decade of business. Pocket Designs has held it down as the local go-to place for t-shirts for some time now based on quality, and added to it by keeping their costs reasonable where other boutiques didn’t. Not…
June 6, 2017Jimmy Monsta Funk and Kamikaze (Paul Ackroyd) hooked up for a heavy session last weekend. Two of my favourite record collections that I ever had the chance of digging through belong to these two, with proper skills in selecting too. You know you’re in for madness when The Caretaker is only two tracks in front of Gravediggaz, Scientist is back-t0-back with…
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…