Chronicles, Downloads, Releases

Chronicles: Rich Boy’s ‘Bigger Than The Mayor’

Chronicles is a returning item that delves into rap/hip-hop mixtapes from the past and pulls out some forgotten treasures that still remain relevant. Released back in 2008, “Bigger Than The Mayor” was originally supposed to generate hype to lead into Rich Boy’s sophomore album. Three years later and that album is still nowhere in sight. This […]

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Preview: Untold – Bachelor’s Delight / Little Things Like That

One of Clone’s sublabels, the Clone Basement Series imprint that has been running since late 2009, has always been a sterling retreat for good music. The start of the series administered us house and techno tracks in the main, produced by the likes of Mike Dehnert, Conforce and 2562’s moniker A Made Up Sound. Over the […]

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Recommended: Tanner Ross & Soul Clap – Shady Shores EP

Tanner Ross, New Jersey DJ and producer (who is also known as T-Rex or Prince Of E-funkdom), and mercurial Bostonian DJ duo Soul Clap, comprising of Charles Levine and Eli Goldstein (known individually as Cynce and Elyte) have teamed up to produce “Shady Shore“, an astonishing 6 track EP out now on Wolf+Lamb. The fittingly […]

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Review: left_blank 002

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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Review: SertOne – The View From Above

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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Review: Pigon – Sunrise Industry

Not many labels can be said to be still so influential and maintain a degree of relevancy after almost 10 years of releasing numerous records and albums as much as Dial. Whilst other similar labels have fallen apart around them, German label Dial Records have kept their head in the air as one of the […]

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Review: JTRP – Hypnotise EP

We recently got our hands on the hotly-anticipated sophomore release from German production duo JTRP, whose beginning-of-2011 debut EP on still stands as one of the year’s best releases. The duo, consisting of Robophil and Jorge Takei, is known for fusing together tenebrous dubstep atmospheres with stark techno-fueled rhythms and ominous melodies. Hypnotise, set for […]

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Review: Throwing Snow & Py – Wallow

Young British producer Throwing Snow (born Ross Tones) has captured our attention time and time again over the past year with his imaginative creations that deconstruct house, dubstep and garage with a focus on fractured textures and rich atmospheres. On his new Wallow EP, available next Monday on Super Recordings, the producer teams up with […]

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Review: Mr Beatnick – Synthetes

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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Review: xxxy – You Gotta Do You

With an output more akin to a trickle than a stream, xxxy can be a frustrating producer to follow. Instead of bending under the pressure to release four track EPs backed with a slew of remixes, he opts for the less is more approach, dropping streamlined releases that simultaneously satisfy the craving but intensify the […]

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Review: Morning Factory – Fantasy Check

After a crazy bunch of days of co-hosting a night in Amsterdam with Audio Culture, it only felt fitting that we introduce some up and coming Dutch talent today. After the amazing success of Maya Jane Coles on the house scene, it seems like hotly tipped Dutch duo Morning Factory are set to follow in […]

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Review: Chaos In The CBD – The Moving Image

Not even 10 years ago, the idea of a production duo from New Zealand occupying an important spot in the dance community alongside artists from Europe and the US would have been laughable. But as we all know, the exponential gains in technology in recent years have rendered geographical boundaries all but obsolete when it […]

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