August 30, 2014What an incredible record. We haven’t had anything with such sheer excitement and jump-up intensity come across our plates since the funk days of old, and certainly can’t remember a live vocalist that threw-down as hard as this. Frantic drum patterns and hectic and raw vocal workings, recorded in the early ’90s evidently, just make this an absolutely beautiful record…
August 27, 2014In my limited experiences of sound system gatherings and street festivals, there was nothing I loved more than Notting Hill Carnival. It was on the calendar from January – you had to get down early for Jah Shaka, Aba Shanti and Channel One or there was no hope of getting near. The after-parties were nearly always quality, capping off a…
August 25, 2014If you’ve been in London for a minute you know about the Undercroft. The area underneath Southbank Centre is home to the cities finest boarders and BMX riders, known worldwide to skaters and credited with being the birthplace of British skateboarding. And as for the Southbank Centre itself, the level of inside and outside events, film, theatre, art and music…
August 21, 2014More good news for the week with the analogue master Dave Henson aka Nochexxx aka CHXFX unexpectedly dropping a super-limited, single-plate, double long-player on to us. Six-months on from Thrusters – his incredible debut full-length as Nochexxx – Henson revises the ever-good CHXFX alias, releasing on wax under it for the first time. As one of the modern-day analog masters,…
August 19, 2014Out to everyone who locked in last week for the Awkward Movements show on NTS. Full track list below with streamed archive, as always get in touch for the downloadable version. Lee Gamble, Mark Pritchard, Anthony Naples and Euclid kicked things off early before we went more exotic with Greg Fox’s music based on his own heartbeat. We busted out the…
August 18, 2014Out to Tall Black Guy, one of the cats keeping us interested in the art of chopping for beats and 16-pad sampler mastery. We first spotted Tall Black Guy (TBG) aka Terrel Wallace as a Detroit based contributor on Spencer Graham’s ‘One Hour Piece’ installation, having been lucky to hook one of the three cassettes created for it. Digging a…
August 14, 2014Strange that we’ve not shouted out Anthony Naples more, especially as the young New York producer has delivered some cracking plates right up our alley, often talked about over deck sessions. I’ve happened to catch the guy live as well, spinning records on a few occasions in London, walking away well-impressed with selections both times. After a few months off…
August 12, 2014Call it content marketing or whatever you’d like, but I really enjoyed the first two short five minute films from Bose. Part three should be dropping any day now, closing off the collection, so if you’ve not seen these ones yet it’s worth catching up on. I’ve always loved Japan and the fact that you can find a scene for…
August 10, 2014Big record this, with the two of our favourite artists, who happen to be the flagship producers for one of our most loved labels, coming together for a tribute of sorts to the compositional style of Miles Davis. While most Deepblak plates are buy on site, it’s label-boss Aybee who constantly surprises us with new sounds and directions. His Worlds LP last year was up…
August 6, 2014Big show from Paul Ackroyd aka Kamikaze last week for Awkward Movements on NTS. Archive’s now gone up, and posted below for stream along with full track listing underneath it. As always, get in touch for download link. Loads of cuts we hadn’t heard yet, including a welcome introduction Shabazz Palaces (pictured above), appearing twice in the two-hour session with cuts…