December 11, 2010First up a massive thank you to everyone who came down last night and to Talking At Me for hosting ourselves with Illum Sphere for a memorable night of tunes at Notting Hill Arts Club. We’ll get the full run down up once we’ve recovered and flipped through Timmy K‘s shots. In the meantime, deep bass man DFRNT has given…
December 5, 2010I was recently able to put a name to a style, being turned on to Prop4g4nd4 aka Propaganda, who’s Picasso-esque inspiration is instantly recognisable from flyers and vectors over the last few years. To be fair, it’s a love or hate relationship with his designs, and his home page is a somewhat addictive source of unique imagery. Earlier this year…
December 3, 2010Jacked from our friends at Man Make Music who’s mailout put us on to it, Gimme 5 – Russia’s future music community – have thrown up a new mix for issue #27, and it’s a big one. Hessle Audio co-founder and don of a dj Ben UFO grabs the reins, and packs out 40 odd minutes of tune with some…
November 30, 2010Bringing the bass out West, Awkward Movements are pulling together the crew to take over a portion of Talking At Me, one of West London’s most consistently quality parties. Joined by a special guest Illum Sphere to help launch the event, this is going to be a heavy night not to be missed. Make sure you get down early doors…
November 29, 2010I’ve been rinsing the above Derrick May repress over the last 24 hours – Relics: A Transmat Compilation. The A-side, ‘MS-6’ was originally done under May’s Rhythim is Rhythim alias, circa 1987, and if possible stands out even more today than it did back then. It’s only been the last 12 months that I’ve become a massive ‘Shake’ Shakir fan…
November 28, 2010Just got word that ‘Hippie Hippie Shake‘ by Richard Neville is in the process of being turned in to a movie, so thought I’d get in there in case it all goes pear shape and ruins it for those who’ve not read it. Neville’s memoirs are not just another name dropped bio about the 60’s. As the editor of Oz…
November 25, 2010It’s been way too long since we’ve had the man known as Raynulds on decks, as he’s been busy holding it down on Innacity FM with his partner in crime Jambie as well as flying solo with Man Make Music crew. Dude keeps busy no doubt. Finally serving up new show for Awkward Movements Sessions on Samurai.fm, it’s been well…
November 24, 2010Just in case there’s a prize for the 1000th person to repost this I thought I’d share – Aphex Twin has been confirmed for Bloc 2011. There’s nothing cynical to add to this, as this festival is exactly what it looks like, with the line-up now reaching epic proportions. As bass music prepares to eat it’s own face in the…
November 20, 2010I’ve been spending a bit of time chatting to Lindsay Todd aka House Of Traps as well as Linkwood and Fudge Fingas, who together make up the core of Firecracker Recordings. It’s been done for a label feature that appearing with some of their artwork in the next Shook mag, which will dropping soon. We’ll be throwing up the unedited…
November 18, 2010It was early days working at Phonica when I first heard Marcellus Pittman. Not coming from a house background, Erase The Pain on the 12″ of the same name on Fit Records blew my mind in a new way. I remember on first listen I thought it hadn’t been mastered properly or something, not used to a Detroit sound that…