November 9, 2017Take a bow Paul Ackroyd and co, as Dead Albatross season comes to an end with a winner announced (two weeks back…yes we’re incredibly late in posting, we’ve been busy) on what can only be described as some epic live radio. The Dead Albatross Music Prize 2017 topped all previous efforts with a crazy haul of dedicated artist mixes, album features…
October 28, 2017In honour of #LP4080 by Strange U making the nomination list for Dead Albatross 2017, the men like Kamikaze and Jimmy Monsta Funk connected once more on a session last week, this time around exploring Sci-Fi influenced hip-hop. In case you missed there last hookup you can revisit here: https://awkmo.co/jmf-vs-kk-sessions-56/ As well as Strange U and Ras G featuring throughout, this time around they’re…
October 26, 2017Billy J. Burke (left above) has always been a bit of a hero of mine. He was the first guy I knew with a bedroom studio, complete with super expensive mixing console, drum kit and some of the most hammered bass guitars you’ll ever find. It was at Billy’s place that I first picked up a drum machine and a belt…
October 19, 2017We’d be remiss for not shouting at the latest Seekersinternational (SKRS aka Seekers aka Seekers International) project, a thirty-six minute tape which sees them mixing up mid-nineties classic Prince Blimey in it’s entirety that needs to be heard. Back in 1996 Red Snapper debuted on Warp with a full length that helped bring ‘acid jazz’ (back when it was a tern…
October 11, 2017Twelve years after he dropped the seminal Behind The Beat comes the follow up from Raph Rashid – Back To The Lab: Hip Hop Home Studios. In the early ’00s social media was just starting, youtube wasn’t yet a thing, and features in Scratch Mag and Wax Poetics were the only real ways for most of us to gain insight in…
October 3, 2017The final part of Jimmy Monsta Funk’s 2016 series – proper house, proper floor vibes proper deck skills. Digging through his vinyl purchases of last year Monsta Funk has put together a series of mixes to wrap it all together, broken off in to 80 minute sessions going straight from wax to mixer to recorder. This is part 4 of…
September 30, 2017Kieron aka Charity Queen has been missing from radio – and our general radar (with the exception of the occasional 3rd party ‘Hello’ delivered via Paul) – for the last six years. In fact, I daresay Charity Queen presents A Chronology of Electroacoustic and Electronic Music was one of the last recordings he threw up before the self-imposed hibernation. It’s…
September 28, 2017I don’t really know why things like this excite me as much as they do. Hip-hop’s big business and in the digital age where data is power I shouldn’t really be surprised or overly impressed when someone applies a formulaic model to it. But I am, and as such have dedicated countless hours to over analysis of moments in music…
September 23, 2017And here we are at Part 3 of 4 of ‘You Asked For It’ – Jimmy Monsta Funk playing wax selected exclusively from his record purchases of 2016. If you missed the first installments you can catch up below. Well worth doing as each part throws up a totally different slant on how the year played out release wise, from…
September 19, 2017Saw Dibiase tweeting about Mutant Academy the other day, and given how on-point his curation tends to be I made myself some time to check it out. End result, I haven’t been this excited about rap movements since Dr. Yen Lo dropped in 2015. Oh wait up, when was the first 5 Chuckles album? Anyway…it’s been a while. Mutant Academy is…