December 18, 2018With no other catalog to speak of, no bandcamp presence, and his affiliated label Zigoku-Record having this cassette as their only release I’m restricted in what I can share about Masaki on the Mic. Masaki’s social media is littered with flyers, a few live shots and records, all of which I enjoy, but as I have no knowledge of the Japanese…
December 4, 2018The brutal realisation that I’d probably never play most of my record collection again before I die prompted me to start doing All My Records. As the name suggests this is is me playing all my records by order of filing: left to right, top to bottom, in the order they’re currently sitting. Single deck show, one off and one…
November 26, 2018Jimmy Monsta Funk’s international crew recently called him up to do a mix for episode 19 of their podcast series. The aptly titled Jimmy Monsta Funk on a Detroit Trip from Nightflight Radio is 39 cuts of wax in just over 100 minutes. Proper house delivered, as always from JMF, with just two turntables and a crate full of wax. Full track list…
November 18, 2018To celebrate PAN turning 10 years old Kamikaze aka Paul Ackroyd has put together a 3h+ radio journey and a decent read below taking us through their first decade. In the style of his dedicated sessions to Muslimgauze, Ras G or the Olympics, he went on all out with research and delivers a sonic exploration that needs to be heard in full…
October 31, 2018The brutal realisation that I’d probably never play most of my record collection again before I died prompted me to start doing All My Records. As the name suggests this is is me playing all my records by order of filing: left to right, top to bottom, in the order they’re currently sitting. Single deck show, one off and one…
October 15, 2018Rhythms, Jazz and Politics has been my go to instrumental beat-tape since John Robinson dropped it on us back in August. Straying away from obvious uses of samples, the ability to deconstruct a track and reinvent it while keeping it’s original feeling in tact is something that separates the generic sounding from the classics. Rhythms… is straight classic. It’s beats that still send shivers downy our back, that we love and miss, and you can’t help but be drawn to comparisons of the work on Midnight Marauders.
October 9, 2018Episode 6 of All My Records sees up start in Detroit kicking things off with more Dilla who seems to be turning up almost every show before we start on the first of few Flying Lotus plates. The remix joints from LA EP 2×3 and LA EP 3×3 featuring flips from Ras G and harpist Rebekah Raff respectively – appear first followed later in the show by the Pattern+Grid EP, all on Warp Records.
October 2, 2018Tune in for new cassette drops from Los Siquicos Litoralenos and SeekersInternational; new vinyl repress business from Momo Wandel Soumah, Monopoly Star Searches and Miecio Askanasy; compilation goodness from Sebastian Pynesco & Orchestre Black Santiago and Bobby Deemo; singles from The Scorpios, Prostitutes, Vril and DJ Koze; Muslimgauze from the vaults; and crackin albums from Bamba Pana, Prophet, Detroit Swindle, Roska, Galcher Lustwerk, Ross From Friends, and Marquis Hawkes.
September 22, 2018All My Records Episode 5 – the show where we play my record collection. This show saw us go through Remy LBO’s debut LP Component, an Illum Sphere 12″ on Tectonic from 2011, the wonderful Johnny Trunk’s Scrap Book LP, the ever good Mr. Chop aka Coz Littler and his debut full length on the underrated Jazz&Milk Recordings, James Pants, that Dam-Funk 12″ plate on Stones Throw that announced him to the world, a collaboration between Shawn Lee’s Ping Pong Orchestra and Nino Moschella remixed by Mark Pritchard (which I have no recollection about), the legendary and sole One Self LP Children Of Possibility and finally closing it off with a white / test pressing of the instrumental edition of DJ Mitsu The Beats’ sophomore LP from 2009 A Word To The Wise.
September 9, 2018Let’s get the obvious over first: these are some of the best looking tapes to drop in to our collection. And with Seekersinternational Black Mazda Soundclash, ewonee’s ’73 and Bless Vol. 2 coming to us this year that’s saying something. Stencilled with a SP-303 and SP-404 on to the cassette – for Jazzilator and Ol’ Dirty Kung Fu respectively – it’s…