It’s always exciting to enter a new phase in your life – be it starting a new instrument; applying to universities; moving to the other side of the world; or, in my case, receiving the opportunity to write articles about music, art, and literature for a highly respected site on the net. Discovering new music, […]
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Now my younger brother has always been the more musically talented one in the family. He plays like a million instruments whilst I just like to play with synths (not a dickhead) and dabble at at the piano. Now we often bounce back and recommend different music to each other, and he recently showed me […]
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It is a self evident truth that everybody loves receiving high quality music for FREE! This truth appears to be the driving force behind Glasgow blog turned record label Phuturelabs who just dropped their first release today! Their first offering is a two track EP from Edinburgh producer Wira titled “Vloeitjes” (rolling papers to me and […]
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Mellow Orange probably have one of the most fitting names out there for their music collective. Whatever they put out seems to always have a soothing little charm to it that makes you want to close your eyes and get instantly transported to a tranquil beach during an orange sunset, where living in sheer utopia […]
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Its been out for a couple of weeks as an exclusive on Beatport but NT89’s and Saviles Plug EP has finally hit the shores of all major online outlets for your personal consumption and having been my most wanted EP for quite a while now, it’s safe to say my new favourite Italians (sorry Crookers, […]
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Top Billin assume I don’t know much about Russia. Hey, Top Billin, listen up. I think you’re dope but don’t underestimate your following, I know for a fact that the Russian Federation is the largest country in the world. “S dnem rozhdeniya” means happy birthday in Russian. They have twelve seas in its territory. Half of […]
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Don’t you find it annoying when an artist with normal words for a name get so big that the actual meaning of the word is forgotten and all you associate with that word is the artist? I’ve literally forgotten what Justice even means. When someone shouts Danger, all I’m going to think of is that […]
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So I think I’ve pretty much only just recovered from partying last weekend to likes of Fake Blood, A-trak, Redlight, Mele, Herve, Sinden, Katy B and many more at the Count and Sinden album launch and I now feel fit to bless all you readers with some more music. First up is a recent remix […]
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Slowly but surely, I am starting to get over my irrational fear for remix albums. Perhaps it’s that remix album phase that a lot of indie bands went through around 2007 that scarred me (Yes Bloc Party, I am looking at you), or maybe it’s a slight anxiousness somewhere that my favourite albums are about […]
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I didn’t think anything could top beating Newspaper Suduko on the ‘fiendish’ setting today but a new release from Steve Starks, on Tittsworth and Ayres label T & A records, was definitely enough to challenge it! Steve Starks, who also makes up the Nouveau Richie Crew with Nacey and Gavin Holland, is somewhat of a legend […]
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Friedrichshain-based label Stil Vor Talent has been an output for des gennes comme Format: B (who released Vivian Wheeler on SVT), Sascha Braemer and Luetzenkirchen. And although I’m familiar with some a little amount of releases on this label, I never realized the entity of this collective until a kind stranger at night gave me […]
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Hypes will always be hypes. Take any hype and you will have dozens of people vomiting all over it. Welcome to the digital age where everyones voice is heard. A place where love is rare and where embitterment, words of disapproval and close vigilance prevail. But you know what, I’m not against freedom of speech at all […]
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