Dekmantel, the Amsterdam-based events company, record label and artist agency, is celebrating its first five years with a series of releases from its roster of family and friends. With tracks from acts who’ve released on the label and played at the group’s parties, it promises to be an intriguing collection of house and techno goodies. […]
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Sometimes mystery is a good thing. Irish producer Faws has appeared online with little fanfare, even less background information, and a gorgeous five-track EP that sets the benchmark high for other new acts this year. The Antonym EP landed with little fanfare on Christmas Eve, but it is just starting to pick up momentum right […]
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“No one had a bad dream, it was all very good”. So ends the title track on the “Rooted” EP from newcomer Locked Groove, with eleven words that sum up the dark yet uplifting theme threaded through the latest release on Hotflush Recordings. After a magnificent year that saw stellar releases from Sigha, George Fitzgerald, Joy O […]
Read morePhoto by Ryan Walter Wagner Babe Rainbow, aka Cameron Reed, the man behind one of our favourite EPs of the year in the form of “Endless Path“, has been drip-feeding us with mind-bending music over the last few summers. We caught up with the Vancouver native and Warp artist when he was in Dublin playing […]
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“It cannot be understood, only experienced.” These words are spoken in “The Ballad Of Martyn Bootyspoon”, which features on #blessed Sinjin Hawke’s “The Lights EP” on Pelican Fly. It’s an awesome EP, eight tracks of booming bass and ethereal horns. These same words can be said of the three collaborations that Sinjin has kindly given […]
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Young Dro Carey has been making quite a name for himself this year. Following a release for Templar Sound and then one for Hum + Buzz, not to mention the hot-off-the-presses (and decidedly chirpy, by his standards) remix for patten, the Sydney producer has returned to Templar Sound for the “Night Raid EP”. Opener “Scanline […]
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Fatima Al Qadiri has already released one mind-expanding EP this year, “WARN-U” under the Ayshay guise on Tri-Angle Records. Now releasing on the excellent new UNO imprint (barely seven months old and already responsible for stellar releases from Jacques Greene, Eddie Mars and CFCF), Al Qadiri is delivering us a “Genre Specific Xperience”. Opener “Hip […]
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Every now and then searching for new music across different online stores leads to something unexpected. Despite its place among this week’s new releases on Turntable Lab, the “Steel Whirl/Empire Builder” Digi-12 from Boreal Network was originally released on Moodgadget in 2009. My bad for not hearing it sooner. “Steel Whirl” is a gorgeous number […]
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Like the stunning LV/Message To Bears/Zaki Ibrahim collaboration, the 2nd Drop released DjRUM‘s “Mountains” EP was spread across two 12″s while the narrative arc of the four tracks worked best when played consecutively. “Undercoat” kicks off with some atmospheric sound effects, before leading to a rattling bassline under a repeated chopped-up vocal line pleading “I’m not […]
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We wrote about Left Blank back in May when they put out their first release, Vessel’s “Nylon Sunset EP”. Now they’re back with a split release/collaboration from Lorca and Visionist. There’s not much out there about either, as each lets their music do the talking. Lorca recently dropped a freebie remix of Zero 7’s “Home”, from […]
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If you’d told me about a hot young Irish hip-hop producer a decade ago, I’d probably have laughed at you. I can definitely remember laughing when I heard wannabe rappers on radio using American accents and then talking in their normal Dublin accents in interviews in about 2002. But times have changed. Liverpool-based Portadown native […]
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It’s quite unusual to hear a dance track off with on-beat strings and muffled voices, but Mr Beatnick isn’t your average producer. Ostensibly a UK hip-hop producer, his latest EP, ‘Synthetes’, takes him into the world of slow-mo disco house. The title track of the release, which dropped on vinyl last month and digital this […]
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