November 21, 2013We get hype with expectation whenever our sought out labels announce releases with our favourite artists. Just like this one, the Semtek run Don’t Be Afraid imprint have announced a record from Farah (formerly known as Darling Farah) officially out next month. Last year saw the release of Body, Farah’s full length masterpiece that was a stand-out for 2012. His…
November 19, 2013Yep, we’re throwing up enough radio to soundtrack your week. With Timmy K bringing us back to Awkward Movements Sessions earlier in the week, we’ve now got the archive up from last Monday’s Awkward Movements Show on NTS. Paul Ackroyd aka Kamikaze dropping wax from some of our top labels and producers, recorded across two hours, proper heat the whole…
November 18, 2013Proper stoked to see this, though feel like I missed out having not been there while it was live. The one Chairman Kato recently stepped up his installation CV by exhibiting ‘Purgatory Live‘ at the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&;A) in London. One of the world’s top design and art museums, their Friday Late series has been making the most of their incredible…
November 17, 2013Epic return to Awkward Movements Sessions with Timmy K opening up the house and disco box for a 75 minute live mix. The man who’s served up some of our favourite drum n bass mixes also serves up our favourite photography, and it was having shot Detroit’s finest with 3 Chairs at Fire last month that sent him back in…
November 15, 2013First spotted sharing the Split cassette release with Russell Haswell back in April, Gábor Lázár is set to release his debut full length this month on the ever-good Presto?! label. ILS sees Lázár continue the algorithmic electronic experiments that captivated us on Split extended out to a CD release dropping sometime in November. Via his label Last Foundation Lázár has…
November 12, 2013Recently I went through a massive refile of records, and as well as pulling out forgotten plates and classics that needed rescuing it also increased my anger levels at cash wasted on hype releases. To be brutally honest, Hospital Productions caused the majority of this self-deprecating temper change. The discovery that so much of their vinyl catalogue that I own…
November 11, 2013While we don’t normally step out on download releases, such is the obsession and how far this one surprised us, we thought we’d weigh in. Japan based Foodman has, in a relatively short-space of time, become on of my favourite artists. We first spotted him on wicked cassette from Digitalis titled 「IROIRO」 – a twenty-six track affair of addictive 8-bit…
November 9, 2013The inaugural Dead Albatross Music Prize came to it’s apex last week with a three-hour radio special hosted by Paul Ackroyd aka Kamikaze on his second radio home Reel Rebels. You can relive it below, as he showcases the panel’s selection of the twenty best albums from British and Irish artists released in the last 12 months, dropping in a…
November 7, 2013Exotic Pylon as a label has got to be one of the best curated collections of music out there. No idea how Johnny Mugwump does it but he’s constantly turning out the best in experimental music on an assortment of formats. Here’s one release on the label that I’ve been rinsing even more than usual. Canonbury is better known as…
November 5, 2013Big plate from Dubkasm here, released on their own Sufferah’s Choice label in a nice 10″ format. Mixed by the legendary Aba-Shanti, it’s the level of pure dub-bass vibes that you’d expect to be hearing from both camps, with Ras Addis featuring on vocals for the title track ‘Jah Bible.’ ‘Jah Bible’ as a completed track is almost an epic…