June 7, 2013Out of people and things that need greater recognition, Pali Meursault’s Offset LP is in my current top ten. The sound artist / theorist is a comparatively young authority in the modern world of musique concrete, known as much for his sonic offerings and collaborative video project as his installations, solo work and published written pieces. Offset perfectly captures the sounds…
June 4, 2013Damn – some proper raw techno arriving on this 12″, right up our alley. Keeping it all anonymous, only giving us ‘Blacknecks‘ to go on, the wax only release and launch of an imprint is a new project from two UK garage producers; yet unnamed, but assuming it’s not Shanks & Bigfoot. Always got room for floor destroy techno, and…
June 1, 2013Originally thought this might’ve originally been a bit of low-level promo type thing for something forthcoming; not everyday Kassem Mosse drops a full release on cassette after all. As it turns out, the cassette version of The Siege Of Troy is a proper quality drop, a damn good album on it’s own accord. Done under an alias of the same…
May 27, 2013Due to drop next month, and getting plenty more hype along the way, comes an openly collaborative effort between Moritz Von Oswald and Juan Atkins. Coming out on Tresor across 3×12″, this one’s been doing the digital promo rounds pretty heavily, popping up everyone’s radio show including our last Awkward Movements on NTS. Not sure what we expected from such…
May 22, 2013One for the Berlin crew, the Raimo run Lampuka Records are hosting their 1st birthday bashment at The Gallery Room, ZMF, this Saturday; and it’s set to be hype. Stellar lineup consisting of the label released friends and family including Free Care (Nick) from Phonica, Tomas Rubeck (who launched it all with LAMPUKA001) and Iori as some of the highlights.…
May 21, 2013Went down to 107 Projects for a screening of this documentary over the weekend, highly recommend checking it out. Thought we’d covered most of the techno doco’s out there, but happy to report Paris / Berlin – 20 Years Of Underground Techno offers something different. Not nearly as polished as the great High Tech Soul: The Creation of Techno Music,the ’96…
May 20, 2013Archive from last week’s Awkward Movements show on NTS went up over the weekend, which you can stream or download below, complete with full track list. Editions Mego featured heavily with bits from Evol, Ensemble Skalectric and CoH. A recent rediscovery from T++ has been a personal highlight of late, the new Laurel Halo and something from the Juan Atkins…
May 16, 2013Great release this, albeit a bit shorter than I expected the run time to be. Out on I Had An Accident in super limited C10 cassette form, Marina Stewart gives two sides of ‘Les Horreur’s Indescripitable‘ – cut and paste experimental electronics that leave us wanting more and hunting down the rest of her works. Evidently started in 1986, the…
May 15, 2013Armon Brazile aka Aybee first entered our sphere of consciousness after he flexed the cosmic house muscles on the 11:11 EP a few years back. Released on his own Deepblak label, that plate was uncharted territory for us at the time and opened up new possibilities from the deeper side of the genre. Later that year, under his beats-based alias…
May 13, 2013Definitely the top non-musical regular happening in my books is Hand Baked Arcade. Whether a pub, bowling alley, cinema, any other venue for any sort of occasion in addition to their regular night Button Bash, the chaps behind Hand Baked always supplied a quality event. As a pop-up arcade, HBA supply a never-ending supply of vintage gaming consoles, rare platforms…