November 10, 2015

Various Artists (Raz Mesinai) – ‘How To Kill A Boombox (Underground Cassette Productions 1989-92)’ LP [Silo Rumor]

Raw machine music is like crack to me. Something about off kilter beats on programmed kit sounds under-produced and recorded on to something shitty makes me really dig some records. The more beats and the fewer synths the better. Released on Silo Rumor and credited as a compilation of various producers, How To Kill A Boombox (Underground Cassette Productions 1989-92) is…

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November 5, 2015

Awkward Movements on NTS – 31.10.15 (The Ras G Special)

The weekend’s Awkward Movements show on NTS was a two-hour tribute to the man Ras G. Beatsmith originator, dimensional traveller, afrofuturist, vegan raw ambassador – we’ll stop there as there’s to much ground to cover with this man’s description. Heavily influenced by the cosmic teachings of Sun Ra (just check the his samples for proof), Ras G’s forged his own…

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November 4, 2015

‘Running Riots and the Days After’ by Homer Sykes

While we’re on the photo book tip it’s worth shouting at the latest Cafe Royal Books publication that we got sent from crew in London. Running Riots and the Days After is a photo zine collecting work from well known independent photographer Homer Sykes, based around riots in the UK / EIRE. Focussing on events in the late ’70s to early ’80s…

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November 3, 2015

Open Mic Vol. 2 by Ewen Spencer

It’s ten years since Ewen Spencer’s Open Mic Vol. 1, the photographic collection documenting grime’s early years in the nineties to the ’00s of the book’s release. Even a decade on it’s not hard to note what a revelation the book was, especially for those outside of London. Ten years ago youtube was just being founded, Facebook was barely a…

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November 2, 2015

The Dead Albatross Music Prize 2015: Results

The Dead Albatross season has once again come and gone, with Annabel (lee) being crowned the winner of 2015 for By The Sea…(And Other Solitary Places). And while we await the traditional winner’s circle photo there’s no reason not to grab a rewind of the finale in which Paul Ackroyd aka Kamikaze played all albums in contention and counted down…

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October 31, 2015

Vinyl Lounge – BYO Records To The NFSA

The National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) in Australia is one of my favourite institutions. Archiving, preserving and curating the country’s visual and audio history, often far from the beaten track of what you’d expect to find, there’s a genuine love of archive from everyone I’ve come across there, which really comes through in what they do. Most importantly is…

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October 29, 2015

Ai Weiwei: Without Fear Or Favour (BBC 2010)

Is Ai Weiwei ever not on? With his level of exposure and following across the internet it’s hard to imagine a cooling off time where his presence isn’t constantly felt in the background. But between requests for Lego and the hype in London over his new show spanning the last two decades, at the moment he seems particularly important. This…

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October 28, 2015

Defenders Of Style – ‘The Death Of Meaning’ CD [Self Release]

Now that votes are in for Dead Albatross 2015, I don’t mind saying that Defenders Of Style were very near the top of my ballot. Their release The Death Of Meaning would’ve in fact topped it if it was just based on new musical discoveries from the voting process, as this was the best new discovery to come out of Dead Albatross…

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October 21, 2015

Awkward Movements on NTS – 17.10.15

The weekend’s Awkward Movements show on NTS, now up on archive with stream and full track list below. Apologies as always for the delay on getting this up, currently about as sick as I’ve ever been. Well, actually, since year 8, where I was in bed for three weeks straight. Really got in to professional wrestling for that three week…

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