October 9, 2018Episode 6 of All My Records sees up start in Detroit kicking things off with more Dilla who seems to be turning up almost every show before we start on the first of few Flying Lotus plates. The remix joints from LA EP 2×3 and LA EP 3×3 featuring flips from Ras G and harpist Rebekah Raff respectively – appear first followed later in the show by the Pattern+Grid EP, all on Warp Records.
September 22, 2018All My Records Episode 5 – the show where we play my record collection. This show saw us go through Remy LBO’s debut LP Component, an Illum Sphere 12″ on Tectonic from 2011, the wonderful Johnny Trunk’s Scrap Book LP, the ever good Mr. Chop aka Coz Littler and his debut full length on the underrated Jazz&Milk Recordings, James Pants, that Dam-Funk 12″ plate on Stones Throw that announced him to the world, a collaboration between Shawn Lee’s Ping Pong Orchestra and Nino Moschella remixed by Mark Pritchard (which I have no recollection about), the legendary and sole One Self LP Children Of Possibility and finally closing it off with a white / test pressing of the instrumental edition of DJ Mitsu The Beats’ sophomore LP from 2009 A Word To The Wise.
July 11, 2018Well this is exciting: some ten months after our first outing we’ve’ reached the end of ‘shelf 1’ (as measured in the traditional Ikea Expedit unit of measurement). Hazar! We’ve learned that 1 shelf holds about 74 records, and it takes us around 4 shows to get through a shelf, meaning we’ll need around 271 shows to get through the whole…
April 25, 2018Close to eight months since Episode 1 kicked off and almost five months since the New Years Eve session of Episode 2 was recorded I present Episode 3 of All My Records. Horrible title, please send through any suggestions for a new one. Shelf one is still throwing up loads of great hip-hop. More Tres Records drops with 12’s from Giant Panda and…
January 4, 2018About three months after we started this I finally found some time New Years Eve morning to record the next instalment of All My Records. A quick calculation suggests that at sixteen to twenty records every three months it’ll take us about sixty years to get through all the shelves. We’ll try and pick up the pace a bit perhaps.…
September 17, 2017Having moved about 4000 records to a third house in three years I’m getting ready to concede that there is a possibility that my wife and parents are right, I’m never going to listen to them all again. And that’s sad, because although I’d consider myself equal parts collector and selector, records are meant to be played. Like a lot…
October 9, 2019Jimmy Monsta Funk and Kamikaze aka Paul Ackroyd got together a few weekends ago for what turned out to be four hours worth of killer tune selection. It’s been over two years since these guys got together to play records, stoked to present JMF vs KK for 2019, split across two parts. I stand by my comments that Paul and…
October 15, 2018Rhythms, Jazz and Politics has been my go to instrumental beat-tape since John Robinson dropped it on us back in August. Straying away from obvious uses of samples, the ability to deconstruct a track and reinvent it while keeping it’s original feeling in tact is something that separates the generic sounding from the classics. Rhythms… is straight classic. It’s beats that still send shivers downy our back, that we love and miss, and you can’t help but be drawn to comparisons of the work on Midnight Marauders.