July 10, 2012About a month ago we visited Eat The Dream: Moroccan Reveries on the Awkward Movements NTS show (out to Kamikaze for the pick as always). Originally released on CD in 1996, Eat The Dream is a compilation of field recordings from Morocco, compiled and edited by Tucker Martine on his trip to Marrakech in 1994. Strangely enough, when it finally…
July 5, 2012Although we didn’t specifically go looking for it, I couldn’t help but be taken in by some of the street art in Timisoara. The Romanian city’s culture of music, art, clubs and vibes is something unique, and infinitely more special than what I’d been expecting. We’re fortunate to have a link to the city, with who:ratio based there, and he…
July 2, 2012Proper stoked to have dyLAB stepping up once more for Awk Mo Sessions. He was first with us about thirty shows ago, for #18 where he served up a load of his own bits and acid based gems we’d not heard, that ping-ponged all over the shop for a pretty crazy leftfield mix and selection. This time he’s revisited his…
July 1, 2012The one Scott Fraser blessed us with a floor destroying remix for the Bento 12″, his ‘Decompression Dub‘ putting the release on the radar of many of our favourite producers and DJs, rebuilding the version from the ground up with a 12 minute raw retouching. Even after the release however, the man for the large part remained a bit of…
June 29, 2012This probably isn’t as exciting to everyone as it should be, but it’s damn good news for the various lifelong members of the SNES appreciation society constantly coming out of the woodwork. The (one) problem with vintage gaming is that you can only get so far before you’re replaying the bottom of the barrel cartridges – you’re defined by the…
June 27, 2012Happening Thursday night, at the great Cafe 1001, our man Raynulds is holding it down as part of the B.O.M.B. night. Raynulds is a badman on decks, as you’ll already be aware if you catch his Sub.fm shows and Awkward Movements Sessions offerings (latest of which you can stream below), and if you’ve not seen him spin live I recommend…
June 26, 2012Someone who’s been on a lot of radars of recent is Darling Farah, who we first spotted on Civil Music back in 2010, when he was still 17 and based in the UAE. Two EPs last year, a killer remix for Kry Wolf digital release on Sounds Of Sumo, and even achieving the amazing feat of making James Blake sound…
June 22, 2012There’s been a ridiculous amount of good music of late – stupid amounts of quality house, techno and leftfield tunes have far outweighed the usual Nu-Rave crap that bombards us of a summer. We’re owing about a hundred charts and write ups of our favourites, but for the meantime wanted to share a chance purchase that’s blown my mind. Found…
June 20, 2012There’s no shame in our love for SpaceBass friends and family, who, along with Special Request and Lostbahnhof make up the holy trinity of vibes London nights. The collective’s manning the decks with Ben Morris (Big Poppa Love aka NOT the Australian breaks dude) and Semtek this Saturday at a venue where you can get pizza by the meter. It…
June 18, 2012Officially out today on physical and digital, we’re excited to be bringing the new 12″ from Semtek, backed with a remix from Scott Fraser. We’ve been hyped from the get-go about working with the Don’t Be Afraid boss whose productions, parties and DJ sets embody London’s underground electronic scene, done with a sound unique to him. Bento is a track…