October 19, 2012For those London based there’s an incredible lineup on next weekend, happening at an East London secret location. It’s happening as part of The Hydra series from promoters Broken & Uneven, with Bleep stepping up for curation collaboration duties and using the occasion to launch their new label, a forthcoming 12″ done with Give Up Art and Shaun Bloodworth. It’s…
October 17, 2012We’ve been fan boy obsessed with the output of Ghedalia Tazartes since Paul Ackroyd introduced him into the NTS show a year or so back. The further you dig the more rewarding the experience of Tazartes is, as the sound-artist / loop master’s work sounds like no one else and he rarely repeats himself. As the story goes, in 1974…
October 15, 2012Andrew Maxam invited me down to FBi Radio studios for a live session last Friday, and as unprofessional as it may have sounded (I’ll never laugh on air again, I promise) it was a load of fun. FBi Radio was where it all started for me, originally producing radio and editing interviews then hosting and programming a weekly two hours…
October 13, 2012Odd how everything dope in Sydney seems to be happening at the Opera House since we’ve been back. Iconic structure with amazing sound, but something still seems prematurely wrong about our new favourite venue for leftfield ideals and electronic movements being something you can buy a snow-globe model of. Come November we’re headed back there for Graphic 2012. Billed as…
October 9, 2012The Ron Morelli run Long Island Electrical System aka L.I.E.S. has got to be the most consistently dope label out there at the moment. We’ve spoken about them here loads, and been rinsing out the releases on NTS, but with every record they still surprise us with the quality of tracks, usually accompanied with a mind-bending video of VHS haze.…
October 8, 2012Out to all who locked for last Monday’s show, ’twas fun. Despite the presence of new Will Dutta, Loscil, OPN and Kassel Jaeger we still leaned pretty heavy on some of the leftfied techno and house bits. New plate from Alex Cortex was a definite highlight as was the cut taken from the LP release of The Eccentronic Research Council.…
October 6, 2012Chances are you’ve already seen the new Danny Brown video that Toyota branded with their Scion AV tag a few months ago. Incredibly dope track, and the video just makes it even better, which in turn is made by the casting of Dante Hoagland as the younger version of the rapper. This was originally going to be a list of…
October 3, 2012To be honest we generally avoid talking about Kickstarter projects. There’s so much up there worthy of funding if it doesn’t bankrupt you it’ll depress you. That said, we can’t avoid giving support to this documentary that we feel will be an essential record of an oft-overlooked area of “Music 101”. This came through to us via Jimmy Monsta Funk,…
October 2, 2012Proper stunning EP this, from a name that we’ve not shouted out before, released on a label that we definitely don’t check enough. Analogue techno that can make us reminisce to 90s computer games and futurism movies is a form of perfection. It doesn’t hurt that all three tracks on Raw are solid floor-destroyers too. This is actually a standard…
October 1, 2012A proper day of extremes. Jason Silva reminding me of the positives of psychadelics making me outraged at the laws surrounding them, followed by a rewatch of a documentary which disturbingly which makes me want to advocate against anything illicit. Groupies dropped into cinemas in 1970. The documentary from Ron Dorfman and Peter Nevard exists as a constant stream of…