April 22, 2015Damn, this seems to have barely lasted a second, though some stores still seem to be waiting on initial stock from last month so you might be in luck. Been sitting on it since last month but finally got it on deck and was reminded again while Kyle Hall is modern poster boy for Detroit house music. And that’s probably…
April 19, 2015Available as a free download or cassette release, Semtek’s Don’t Be Afraid label have thrown up a new release from Eecee, titled Cosmic Trigger. Alias of Ian Lehman, who had a bumper 2014 with a handful of singles and EPs on wax under his Doubt moniker. Released across a few different labels, including DBA, all were stellar leftfield house joints…
April 17, 2015Immortalised in Babylon as a clash-winning dub, ‘Warrior Charge’ is possibly one of the best known and most-exposed rhythms in UK’s reggae history. Recorded by Aswad in 1981, the tune not only soundtracked the film, but years earlier had found success in both Britain and Jamaica, one of the first to do so. Despite it’s status and the genre’s history…
April 15, 2015For those that missed the live broadcast here’s the final part of Jimmy Monsta Funk’s mix series going out on Seance radio. Six-hours worth of sessions in total recorded in three blocks of single takes, and since split in to two-hour shows for broadcast. If you’ve not checked Part 1 yet, it’s worth starting with Part 1: https://awkmo.co/the-monsta-funk-sessions-on-seance-2/ And then…
April 11, 2015That space where electronic music crosses in to tough jazz beats is something that should be shouted about more often. It’s such a large space that’s still constantly explored, but not directly pushed forward. Maybe it’s the accepted diet of samplers such as Q-Tip, Madlib and Ras G turning it in to something new that the term loses relevance, or…
April 8, 2015For those that missed it going out live, last week’s Awkward Movements show on NTS is now up on archive, embedded below. This was too much fun this one, so many good tunes to choose from. The show opens with the phenomenal first taste from the Kamasi Washington album on Brainfeeder, and through Naturkunde Museum Ostkreuz, Shit & Shine and…
April 6, 2015Really gotten in to this plate the last few weeks, it seems to just keep popping up on the deck when I don’t know what I want to put on next. Creta Kano delivers the sixth release on the Happy Skull label, with a pretty straight-forward plate of blissful house, really well balanced throughout. Three cuts totalling seventeen minutes of…
April 2, 2015For those that missed the live broadcast here’s Part 2 of 3 of Jimmy Monsta Funk’s mix series going out on Seance radio. Six-hours worth of sessions in total recorded in three blocks of single takes, and since split in to two-hour shows for broadcast. If you’ve not checked Part 1 yet, it’s worth starting with: https://awkmo.co/the-monsta-funk-sessions-on-seance-2/ Still on theme…
March 29, 2015Last week’s show on NTS up now for archive, dope session from Paul Ackroyd aka Kamikaze. No mic breaks, just a wicked selection of tunes across the 120 minutes of airtime. We’ve both been battering the latest in the Muslimgauze reissues from Staalplaat, and pleased to say that Minaret Speaker gets another outing early on here. New bits from Follakzoid,…
March 26, 2015Footwork and grime. Fuck knows why, but this is where the head’s been for the last week or so, revisiting the pieces in the collection and turning out new bits as they come in. DJ Diamond’s Flight Muzik and Traxman’s first Da Mind Of Traxman are still the standard we hold the genre too, at least in regards to full…