May 27, 2018Stoked to be presenting a new series of mixes from Jimmy Monsta Funk. In what seems to be an annual occurrence (check Mo Last Year and You Asked For It for 2015 and 2016 respectively) JMF has handed down his 2017 wrap-up split across four mixes. This is the year in records – a selection of tracks that are all releases, re-releases…
May 20, 2018Coming in at the eleventh hour to get the word spread, the great Kamikaze aka Paul Ackroyd has been shortlisted for the Mixcloud Online Radio Awards (MORA). Nominated under the Eclectic category for the Best Online Music Show you can hit the link below to vote and get Kamikaze to the next stage. Wildy eclectic selections, music from every corner…
April 25, 2018Close to eight months since Episode 1 kicked off and almost five months since the New Years Eve session of Episode 2 was recorded I present Episode 3 of All My Records. Horrible title, please send through any suggestions for a new one. Shelf one is still throwing up loads of great hip-hop. More Tres Records drops with 12’s from Giant Panda and…
April 15, 2018Isn’t the internet great? It lets me keep track of guys I grew up with doing insanely cooler stuff than I am. Hugo Bighuggs was a mate of mine back in the day who I hadn’t heard from in over a decade until he randomly dropped in to one of my social media feeds a couple of weeks back. Known…
March 28, 2018Bandcamp seems to have taken over as my primary source for musical expenditure as of late. Spurned on by a strange desire to dig out more local music it’s certainly been a satisfying turn in events away from online stores, even if it does feel like I’m reaching the tail-end of it for now. The Reverend Glock is the jungle…
March 11, 2018Young Echo have been taking us to new levels since Jabu and Killing Sound launched the No Corner label with a live cassette back in 2012. With close ties to the ever awesome RwdFwd store and Tape-Echo, the Bristol collective have since expanded in to an eleven piece embedded in to their city’s DIY scene, with the rest of the world constantly catching up.…
March 1, 2018It’s been a while since we stood in proper musique concrète territory but Transparencies 3″ CD from Ordeograph (one Andy Myers) has given us cause to unplug from the real world for a few hours and get lost in something left of the norm. Two and half hours of soundscapes converted from London field recordings presented in a cool package of artwork designed…
February 22, 2018Ash Tre Jenkins (sometimes AshTreJinkins or Ashtre Jenkins) has dropped two digital releases this week via his Bandcamp. The Compton native first came across our radar as Brown Irvin in 2015 with a limited run, two-track cassette of deep dubby techno released on Motion Ward. Killer tracks that stood out on the radio show at the time. Under Ash Tre Jenkins he released wax…
February 21, 2018An eight-minute film unleashed in 2016, Northbound is an under celebrated and overly beautiful piece of film making that you can’t not enjoy. As director Jørn Nyseth Ranum found out, frozen sand is a surprisingly perfect surface to skate on. And there’s something poetic about that when taken in to consideration that sand and water fundamentally work against skateboards generally.…
February 19, 2018Last week we spoke about Field Research: Malaysia – the beat tape from Malik Abdul-Rahmaan constructed from records and field recordings collected on a two week holiday to the Southeastern Asian country. It was music made with purpose from a specific set of restrictions, designed to capture an authentic sound, executed beautifully. Conversely, the Baker’s Dozen series from Fat Beats approaches…