October 19, 2014With Illmatic cemented as one of the greatest of all time, as you’d expect there’s been a decent amount of hype around the release of this documentary, Nas: Time Is Illmatic. And while we’re still waiting on our copy to drop so we can watch for ourselves, early reports are pretty positive, with a bit of interesting feedback stating Nas’ brother,…
October 17, 2014While we’re waiting for last week’s NTS show to get archived we wanted to share this session from Paul Ackroyd aka Kamikaze on Reel Rebels last week. Joined by producer Astor aka Mark Harwood, the two of them spend the time playing each other records and fascinatingly pulling apart the creative recording process, from an artist, curator and publishing house…
October 16, 2014One of two releases here that we’ve picked up from Leaving Records this week that we’ve got to shout about. Matthew David’s label continues to kill it, single-handedly racking up our tape collection at a hefty rate with nothing but heat. Cakedog is a new release alias of Ahnnu; the LA based beatmaker responsible for World Music on Leaving and Battered Sphynx…
October 14, 2014Big drop from Lukid, his finest to date in my opinion. Crawlers comes to us on 12″ from Liberation Technologies, four-tracks of mutant techno that form a coherent and brain melting EP of new ideas and directions flawlessly built together. It’s been a while since we heard from Lukid, last releasing in 2012 with the full-length Lonely At The Top and…
October 13, 2014Had a bitch of a time tracking this one down, such was it’s popularity that the first two editions of 150 flew out. Out to the photographer behind the project – Brian David Stevens – as well as the publisher / distributor Cafe Royal Books for helping me track down the handful of remaining copies, and of course Awkward Movements crew…
October 9, 2014More brilliance from the great Kemper Norton here, released in a limited quantity as a double CD that collects not only the new album Loor but also a disc of unreleased bits, versions, rarities and the like. From what we understand, Kemper Norton is still the one chap, despite being described as the Kemper Norton Collective from various sources. The…
October 7, 2014You can’t go past the influence of Cabaret Voltaire on electronic music, and as such Richard H. Kirk, “the hardest working man in techno.” And while we’ve dived in and out of the group’s catalogue over the years – from the annoyance of the commercial Joy Division synths to the experimental pieces forerunning to industrial – Cabaret Voltaire has always…
October 2, 2014Heavy viewing this, that left me torn on opinion and blessed with the gift of hindsight. Quite intrusive thoughts come from this brilliant documentary, that left us proper shook, and obsessively contemplating other paths that the lives of friends and ourselves might’ve gone. To be honest, throughout the entire viewing it was on of two extremes; either waves of disappointment…
September 30, 2014Out to Paul for a wicked show in the lead-up to the The Dead Albatross Music Prize for 2014. Stream the full 25 album shortlist spectacular below, and as always get in touch for download link. Catch y’all in a fortnight, yours truly will be manning decks. This time round on Awkward Movements, we run through The Dead Albatross Music Prize shortlist…
September 26, 2014Love this, though were a few months late on it which lately means we practically missed it. Famous Moon King is the name of an unknown artist (at least unknown to general public and the label pushing the release) who’s gotten his music to us through Tesla Tapes. As the story goes, Paddy from Gnod turned up a CDR of…