Aidan Hanratty

Like Riccardo, I’m not the biggest fan of Christmas. Several factors have contributed to my Scrooged-out nature, but  that’s kind of neither here nor there. No matter your stance on Christmas, God, religion, it seems that O Holy Night is a festive favourite that can’t be beat. Röyksopp have been blessing their fans with tracks […]

I don’t really know any Turkish music, except maybe Tarkan and that creepy song about Facebook, so it’s pretty cool to learn that there are (young) Turks out there making nice glitchy downtempo electronica. Fuji Kureta, comprised of vocalist Deniz Öztürk and composer Sahin Kureta, formed two years ago in Istanbul.I found them by way […]

I’ve just come across this album filled with a bunch  of remixes of NickNack’s Dearly Departed. The original album came out a couple of months ago and, as DJ Ayres put it, “I would put this album in the same category as DJ Shadow – Endtroducing and RJD2 – Dead Ringer“. The remix album continues […]

I’ve been completely stumped when it comes to new music lately so I’m really glad this just landed in my inbox tonight. Fresh from Nightshifters comes Talk‘s Holy Mountain. It’s taking me back to that nightmare-dance-music trend I mentioned in my first post as a Truant, with its dark and angry synths and terrifying collusion […]

Ooooh, so it’s Thursday and I’m prepping tracks to play tomorrow night. I’m part of a collective in Dublin that plays loungey disco housey type stuff, and we love our 80s synth-pop and hacienda-era tunes. And just tonight Jon Averill, one of my favourite DJs, nay, people, and purveyor of the Shock World Service brand, […]

I had a weird time the one summer I spent in Chicago. I couldn’t get proper work so I had to do a lot of manual labour and ended up so tired that I wouldn’t go out proper, I’d just drink Ice House or going to the worst clubs imaginable that were only full of […]

It’s Halloween this week, so everyone’s in the mood for spooky dark music that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. Resident Advisor were quick off the mark with an exceptional podcast from Alan Howarth, frequent collaborator with John carpenter on the soundtracks for the latter’s films. It’s a gorgeously chilling […]

Mmmmmmmm. I know I posted a Ciara track just the other day, but, not to be repetitive or anything, it’s getting colder and we need some smooth tunes to keep things hot indoors late at night. It’s nine years now since Aaliyah passed on, and right now I’m going through this weird obsessive post-Aaliyah revisionist […]