There’s no denying that Scuba’s “Personality” was a milestone not only for the man himself, but also for Hotflush Recordings. In a way it completed the label’s transformation from fringe dubstep label to purveyors of techno, garage influenced house and everything in between. Keeping in line with their recent output they’ve enlisted Recondite, whose “On […]
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“Idoru” is the title of both the latest Jon Convex EP and a book released in 1996 by science fiction writer William Gibson. Gibson’s novel describes a man, Rez, who wants to marry an artificial intelligence pop idol, Rei, who runs on a composite database consisting of information about all pop idols. Convex’s EP has […]
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We love to blame music platforms for enthusing a dangerously fast-spinning carousel of hype and short-lived careers by the use of the cyberspace and its social networks. One thing we shouldn’t forget is that we’re part of a special era as the music industry is changing right in front of our eyes. We live in […]
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If the necessity of record shops is lost on you, then let this be testament to why they are still around in 2012. Thanks to some digging and a strange watercolour pelican on the label we discovered Shawn O’Sullivan’s “Free Flight” on W.T. Records. It was released in January and just reached our ears this […]
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One of the main figureheads in British techno, Tony Surgeon, has produced a large catalog of great music throughout the years. That catalog includes one album using his own name in collaboration with Andrew Read, 6 EPs with Regis as British Murder Boys, and seven albums and large number of singles and remixes as Surgeon. Many consider “Balance”, […]
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Eli Escobar is a staple in the New York house scene and over the last few years he’s quietly released records on Wurst, Plant Music, Money Studies Records, and Dither Down. His tracks always check the three boxes of creativity, being dancefloor orientated and being approachable; anyone who works within dance music knows checking two […]
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Supporters who spend their money on music often find themselves explaining to others why they buy music. We know very well that we can spend our whole lives listening to a lot of good music without ever having to pay for any of it. We sometimes do have to ask ourselves why we really buy […]
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Courtship, Patric Fallon’s playful side-project for writing sluggish, lo-fi pop music, has been unusually silent over the last six months and in a digital world where people move from project to project at an unholy rate this may have led some to believe it had reached its end. Thankfully this is not true, Fallon is planning to give […]
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We wish it was possible to package up whatever it is about California that’s been steady bringing out some of our favourite American music as of late. If any San Franciscans or Los Angeles natives want to let us in on what makes certain West Coast members of the Friends of Friends or WeDidIt crews […]
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“Sunday my off day, I ball all day, smoke all day and then stuntin’, all the Truants boys and girls gotta get up off the corner” – Gucci Mane. Another rest day and another couple of musical affairs we’d like to open to your view and hearing. How to simply describe the artist behind the first […]
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As one of the driving forces behind Hemlock Recordings, Untold has steadily spent the past few years working on the firm expansion of an undeviatingly prolific label, which has yet to see even an ounce of decline in its immeasurably strong roster and output. This April saw the homecoming of Jack Dunning to his own […]
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Last December after letting loose a few cheeky demos on his Soundcloud Kevin Eames released a free collaborative LP, “Bricks”, with one of Canada’s best-kept secrets Prison Garde. The result of multiple jam sessions in their studio, they produced an album of unfiltered, no frills house music complete with sharp basslines and classic drum machines. […]
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