March 24, 2015About a month back just over six hours worth of tunes from 2014 landed in my inbox, courtesy of Jimmy Monsta Funk. Big things here, done wax only in three individual takes, recorded live the whole way. And while JMF usually draws on one of the best collections we know of, he’s isolated these to bits purchased purely through 2014.…
March 23, 2015This is what reissue’s should be all about, exposing lost gems still relevant and inspiring. PAN have stepped up to the plate big time, reissuing and remastering a rare cassette mixtape from 1998 Brooklyn. Spectre is alias of the wonderfully named Skiz Fernando Jr. (begging the question why have an artist name at all?), originally a Brooklyn journalist who was…
March 22, 2015Proper oddness this, that happens to bang very hard. Chowing through a pile of faceless techno the other day and it was in fact this leftfield slab of hip-hop that really stuck out from the day’s virtual wanderings of our inbox. I know we concentrate on physical mostly but here we’ve got a digital only release, the first drop on…
March 21, 2015While we’ll happily sit here and argue the virtues of live analogue editing and dub mixing to tape for days to come, we’ll do so not forgetting that the majority of our favourite new tunes continue to come to us chopped and spliced from a laptop. Most will try to emulate the old styles of manipulating tracks live, and a…
March 18, 2015Been chewing through a lot of documentaries lately, and the Billy Corben directed Limelight (on club owner Peter Gatien) inspired me to reach for this one again. Glad I did, as this must’ve shot well over my head the first time. Directed by Tamra Davis, close friend of the subject, Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child captures the spirit of a time…
March 12, 2015From Oregon to Berlin, this Bnjmn (can’t be bothered doing capitals the whole time) and Best Available Technology (BAT) collaboration is stupidly good. Not sure what we expected from it, probably something sparse but danceable for the club, but De/Re-Constructions as a whole is just one total trip in to abstract spaces, loosely guided with beats and synths. For the most…
March 11, 2015It seems we’re all about radio at the moment, but it’s been an epic couple of weeks of it to be fair. It’s officially 2015 when you get three months in and that’s depressing, meaning we turn to selectors even more to pick up the mood. With that said, in this case it was turning to ourselves for Awkward Movements…
March 7, 2015Bwah, big session this. For those that missed it, last Thursday saw Bristol heavyweights Kahn and Neek guesting on Slimzee’s regular slot on NTS, Slimzos Sessions. Despite ten year’s out of the radio game with an ASBO ban from broadcasting, Slimzee’s gotta be one of the best on the airwaves. He’s a name for heads in London after holding it…
March 4, 2015Wicked show this. In addition to sharing duties across our NTS, Kamikaze aka Paul Ackroyd manages to hold down a brilliant slot on Reel Rebels. The online station, inspired by and taking it’s name from the late great John Peel, is a diversely stimulating collection of radio and personalities always worth randomly tuning in to. For Paul, it’s the side…
February 27, 2015Hold tight, we’ve got a bomb of mixes and radio shows coming through in the next week or so. I’ve seen something epic drop in from Jimmy Monsta Funk – six hours worth of wax in fact, more on that later. For now we’ve got one of two shows coming from Paul Ackroyd aka Kamikaze this week, archive from the…