October 17, 2015We love our books, exhibitions and collections of all kind, but sometimes one photo and some captivating words is more than enough to put you in the space. Legendary London music photographer Dennis Morris did exactly that this week regarding the above shot of the Admiral Ken Sound System. Arguably best known for his published an exhibited works photographing The…
October 16, 2015One for the digital diggers here; someone’s just brought our attention to the Qatar Digital Library, and the thousand or so hours of material they’ve uploaded for free access via Soundcloud. Qatar Digital Library (QDL) is an ever-growing resource featuring the cultural and historical heritage of the Gulf and wider region freely available online for the first time. Part of…
October 6, 2015This might just be my favourite scripted film ever. It’s definitely cracked the top 5, sitting alongside Hackers, Tron, Scott Pilgrim vs The World and the original Star Wars trilogy (this counts as one), which should tell you what sort of ride you’re in for with Turbokid. Set in an apocalyptic future, and shot like eighties classic, you have to…
October 5, 2015Across the last three years of us doing Awkward Movements on NTS we’ve rinsed a lot of work from Bryn Jones aka Muslimgauze. And pretty much every single week during that time there’s been talk around doing the Muslimgauze tribute show, a documentary of sorts to share some of our favourite records and why Jones’ music remains a cornerstone of…
October 2, 2015So while we’re still waiting to hear the new full length from Russell Haswell on Diagonal (it’s in a pile of awesome shit at the moment) it’s worth shouting about this limited 12″ that dropped on Editions Mego recently. Limited to 300 copies it’s a fitting tribute to the famed EMS Studios in Sweden where the track was written and…
September 30, 2015It’s all about Dead Albatross this time of year, so get ready to see a few releases from the last 12 months thrown up on these pages as we live with what may be regarded an unusually high number of full lengths LPs (twenty five in all) of various preference levels for over a month. And sometimes those various levels…
September 28, 2015Records for days at the moment, too much goodness to cover properly. Licking Mirrors on Cerberus Future Technologies, Battles on Warp, Jamal Moss as Hieroglyphic Being and I.B.M.,Russell Haswell reaching back and new Oneohtrix Point Never are a few of the names that’ve delivered mind-blowing full lengths recently. But one thing we’re proper hyped out is the new Laurel Halo.…
September 25, 2015Boomarm Nation come strong again with a good looking and even better sounding 7″ from Portland based producer E3, backed with an El Mahdy Jr. remix that’s as dope as you’d expect. There seems to be a really nice scene in Portland at present, built around Boomarm Nation, PDXINDUB, ZamZam Sounds and associates. Through releases on the latter two we’ve often…
September 22, 2015The unplanned shows are often the best, and with chronic jet lag and a heap of good records the weekends Awkward Movements show for NTS turned out to be a new favourite for time. Probably didn’t hype up the new Beatrice Dillon (pictured above) plate on Where To Now? enough given it sat at the top of the show, but…
September 18, 2015…and on the evening of nominations, Murdoc Niccals did speak unto to the Mercury crowd, and thusly said “Mercury award? Sounds a bit heavy, man! Y’know sorta like carrying a dead albatross round your neck for eternity” and the Dead Albatross was born… Yep, our favourite time of year again, Dead Albatross Music Prize 2015 is just around the corner. Stoked…