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…
December 22, 2016What? It’s almost holidays, we’re allowed to archive late. Awkward Movements on NTS from earlier in the month here, with full track list below. Starting with 20 minutes drone it was longcore from the start, which is the name generally given to tracks we like but are shelved till end of the year because they’re too long. Both of the recent…
December 16, 2016For those who might not be tuned in to Mt. Druitt News on Facebook you may’ve missed them posting this battle between a graffiti writer and the council worker responsible for this particular patch of building maintenance. Start on the top left hand corner then scroll along the gallery. ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]
December 15, 2016Well happy to have discovered Radio Garden (Radio.Garden) today, a web app that connects you to radio all over the world. An international research project from Transnational Radio Encounters, directed by Golo Föllmer at Martin-Luther University Halle in collaboration with other universities across Europe, it’s a simple concept brought together by great design and intentions. The interface lets you scroll across…
December 14, 2016Stored on libcom.org (“a resource for all people who wish to fight to improve their lives, their communities and their working conditions”) alongside such greats as Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman and Government In The Future by Noam Chomsky, we found this treasure worth shouting out. Published by Hooligan Press in London in 1987, Radio Is My Bomb: A…
December 11, 2016Brand New Noise aka BrandNewNoise is the online shop for handmade music gadgets from Richard Uphill, shipped from his workshop in Brooklyn, NY. You’ve got a love anyone that’s turned a home hobby in to a full time business, and when the product’s are this good it’s even more exciting. Uphill’s original offering was a simple voice recorded in a…
November 30, 2016John Zorn (pictured above from 1993) is like the honey badger of composition, the dude ain’t scared of shit. He will literally take on everything to find the sound he wants. Hundreds of albums, featuring his composition, playing and producing have graced us since the early seventies, and he’s still finding new genres to explore. 49 Acts of Unspeakable Depravity in…
November 14, 2016Last weekend we had the pleasure of handing the Awkward Movements Show on NTS over to Jimmy Monsta Funk. Drawing from his own record collection he put together two hours worth of tunes released in 1991 The first 80 minutes are pure UK independent record labels too with the last 40 mixing in US, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy and Canada, still…
November 6, 2016So first thing’s first, and it’s good news. James Leyland Kirby, the man behind musical projects of The Caretaker and V/Vm (pictured above) to name but two, does not in fact have early onset dementia as we mentioned in the show. It is in fact the character of The Caretaker who he has given the disease to, which will be…