Its very unusual these days for someone to make their name from DJing first before trying their hand at music-making. Unusual, but not impossbile, as Stopmakingme is proving. Well known for his residency at legendary London nightclub Fabric, he now brings us his debut EP “Wrapped In Plastic”, set to drop on November 22nd. If […]
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Future vision: If at all Electro Love should flop, the likes of Ryan Leslie, RedOne and Danja run out on Cassie and the girl is left productionless in her endeavours, I would highly recommend her to turn to the club scene for talent that knows how to put her lovely voice to good use. One […]
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I never really thought i’d write a blog post about an online shop, but there you go. I really love Turntable Lab. They send out great newsletters – 12 for Tuesday and the Friday Clothing Report – always packed with cool shit that they sell. The reason I’m talking about them is they’ve just issued […]
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With Night Slugs winning best label of the month on Resident Advisor and Girl Unit’s Wut destroying clubs world wide, I think we can safely say that Future Garage/Dubstep is taking over at the moment and I for one am super excited to see where the genre takes us in 2011. One artist who should […]
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Perseo Records is the newborn baby-sister of disco haven Italians Do It Better (Glass Candy, Martin Vogel, Chromatics). One thing quite unusual about Perseo is that they release nothing but re-edits. No originals, no remixes. This would mean the re-edits have to be of certain quality to keep the label running. And guess what? They […]
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Whether we like it or not – for the record, I don’t – summer is fast becoming a distant dream, the skies are darkening and the icy depths of winter beckon. Fortunately for us, now is the winter of our disco tent (sorry, sorry…). Just as an Italian police officer needs his Ray Bans and […]
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever: this remix of Nosaj Thing’s Fog by Jamie XX is, following this reasoning, everlasting bliss. A combination of two of my favourite producers at the moment; there’s nothing in this world that would make me any happier at the moment! Nosaj Thing has remixed The XX’s Islands […]
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Goodness gracious, Kansas City! Perhaps we all should have realised earlier that the American Midwest sticks out like a sore thumb as a prime candidate for number one breeding ground of turgid punk rock? Separated from the white water scenes of L.A, Boston, New York and Seattle, it’s inhabitants seem to have congealed together a […]
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Altered Natives, aka Danny Native, aka Danny Yorke, is a name that has been bubbling away on the dance music scene for a while. Making a drum heavy mix of broken beats, house and hip hop, in 2009 he released the massive “Rass Out”, which crossed genre boundaries to end up on Ministry UK Funky […]
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“In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a different sound recording of a song.” – That’s what Wikipedia tells us about sampling. Sampled songs are all around us these days. I don’t know the exact figures but I’m pretty […]
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“A Sunday well-spent brings a week of content.” Sunday, my oh my, how quickly you have returned to us. I’m not exactly sure if a hangover Sunday counts as a day well-spent though. In case it’s not, here’s another edition of Sunday’s Best to balance out the laziness and get you pumped on some of […]
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It’s only been a week or two since I last posted but it seems like so long ago. So it’s only fair I right I talk about someone really special and whose musical output is just as special. Well there is only one artist that I can think of who can fit the bill. Percee […]
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