August 28, 2013Ended up at this locale a couple of weeks in a row, and fast turning in to one of my favorite Sydney spots. Lazybones Lounge in Marrickville is proper vibes, mixing the resident house bands with rare record DJs and quality sound. You wouldn’t know what to expect coming up the stairs, but on all occasions we’ve been greeted by…
August 26, 2013Archive now up for last Monday’s Awkward Movements Show on NTS, stream or download below. Big ups Paul Ackroyd for this one, loads of heavy tunes that we’ve had on rotation as well as the usual mix of unknown tracks we’ve not come across. Next show’s going out from via NTS radio in about a weeks time, 2-4pm Monday the…
August 21, 2013Can two tracks be an EP? Probably not, but who really cares, as long as the music’s good, a sentiment that can also be applied to the amount of wordy coverage given to Helena Hauff recently. Appearing on Blackest Ever Black’s run Krokodilo Tapes cassette imprint, as well as her debut 12″ Actio Reacto on Werkdiscs, much hype around her production has…
August 20, 2013Hectic as always, I love what William Bennett does with the Cut Hands solo alias. The ideal blend between afro-rhythm and f**ked electronics never makes for anything but superb listening. And while I hate to unnecessarily raise expectations, the Madwoman 12″ recently released on Downwards is the top offering we’ve had from him to date. We first clocked Cut Hands…
August 18, 2013A couple of much-needed and pretty cool apps here, designed for the modern-day record community, linking us straight in to Discogs. Starting with the freebie, Crate Digger first appeared for download a bit over two years ago, built around and improved through the Discogs community and forum board needs. With the ability to pull through your publicly viewable Collection and Wantlist,…
August 14, 2013Proper rough rip this, coming from a battered VHS to begin with we have to assume, but timeless and important viewing none the less. Originally aired in 1981, Sound Business is a UK documentary focusing on Sir Coxsone and Lion Charge sound systems – a mixture of talking heads giving history, digging deeper in to doing what they do and giving…
August 12, 2013Last Monday’s Awkward Movements show on NTS was a proper mixed bag; pure vibes in the form of bass music from Itinerant Dubs, Gorgon Sound and Ipman & Killawatt right to the other end of the musical spectrum with art-house tape work from Noah Creshevsky (pictured above) and a cassette release from Gabor Lazar on Last Foundation. Enough drums and…
August 11, 2013Been more than a minute now since the Sahel Sounds release that properly moved us; Ali Ag Amoumine’s Takamba record was a discovery that almost sent me to the region it originated from (though to be fair I was in Morocco at the time anyway). Bringing out new instruments, rhythm patterns and an intensity that I’d not come across before, it was a semi-religious…
August 8, 2013Absolutely love the vein that Ras G taps. The cosmic stylings that long ago evolved past beat tape phases in to loose free flowing composition just get better the more Ras releases, and this latest LP – Back On The Planet – is probably his finest offering to date. Not taking anything away from the split 7’s, beat tapes, free…
August 5, 2013Another one for the London peeps; happening this Saturday night at the brilliant Studio Spaces venue in Shoreditch, Fred P aka Black Jazz Consortium is going to be creating pure vibes with records. Put on as one of the ever-good Make Me Loft Party events, who never did anything but an amazing party when we were in attendance, you know…