Cosmin TRG/Martyn & Mike Slott
Sorry for the slight decrease in posts lately but sorting out university applications and graphic portfolio’s has seriously damaged my tired soul and made me incapable of doing anything else the last week. I also cut my finger on some glass. I almost died no joke (yes joke). Amidst all of this commotion in my […]
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Sunday’s Best Pt. X
With Ice Cube they ain’t no telling. He might have one cocked and loaded, ready to bust. We might do the Sunday’s Best. Then let’s do the Sunday’s Best. The first tune is an edit by Kingdom of Jim Jones’ “Cinderella“. Jim Jones (not that one) was the is one of the creators of The Diplomats, […]
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Interview: Doc Daneeka
Doc Daneeka rarely shows any compassion for others, is everything but helpful to the people he owes and ends up being effectively dead to everyone around him. Not the best state of affairs for Joseph Heller’s squadron physician. Mial Watkins, the producer who named himself after the troubled character, is luckily the anti-type of his namesake. […]
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Interview: Presk
The au fait up and coming producer from Dutch soil, Presk, also known as Pieter Willems, has releases coming up on Fourth Wave, the new Ramp sub label and Doc Daneeka’s label Ten Thousand Yen in the next few months. Presk’s music is striking; the keywords to his productions are full-toned, rhythmic, sub bass, soulful but above all […]
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Recommended: Rainbow Arabia – Without You (NGUZUNGUZU Mix)
At the very end of February, the Californian duo Rainbow Arabia is releasing their debut full length through Cologne imprint Kompakt. Putting stamps on music has never been a hobby of ours, but the inspiration they draw from world music as labeled ~ethnotronica~ by some of the genre adventurers, matches well with the ~tribal touch~ Nguzunguzu possesses. It is no secret that […]
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Thug House in the Building
I’ve been waiting for some new stuff from Dances With White Girls for a minute. His latest offering comes with the straight-to-the-point title of Get That Ass Up, and it’s straight up thug house. Spiralling sirens, brain-melting synths and aggressive claps, it’s like a violent ghetto vision of Marc Houle’s Bay of Figs. Lately he’s […]
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Hoooookid EP
Hyperdub may be renowned for its high quality output but they seriously upped their game with their first release of 2011. Like seriously upped. Now London based Morgan Zarate is defnitely no newcomer to the scene for those who haven’t heard of him. Long time member of electronic trio Spacek, producer for Ghostface Killah, Dizzee […]
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Download: Worthy – Big Perm (Femme En Fourrure Remix)
Regina Spektor once told us to wear flowers in our hair, when going to San Fransisco. The producer Worthy, who is from the same city Regina sang about, is now telling you to “shake that big perm“, as some kind of tech-house reply to Regina and Willow Smith. Worthy released his Big Perm EP through Discobelle Records about […]
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Sunday’s Best Pt. IX
“Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters,” Carson McCullers once wrote. Maybe I don’t have enough life experience but I prefer a bit of Allegro vivace con delicatezza and some Trina over a glass of Evan […]
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Klasse Got It Together
I first came across Luca Lozano and his imprint Klasse Recordings on their first release (KLS001 Luca Lozano & Sacha Robotti – Bartok) back in June of last year. But the music wasn’t the first thing that caught my attention, it was their cover design/logo. The cover consisted of just simple shapes in the form […]
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Villa Afterparty, Anyone?
House. Dubstep. Drum & Bass. Disco. Nu-Disco. Nu-Rave. Future Garage. Folkstep. French Electro-swing, Slovakian Hardstyle, Gypsy House, Crabcore and Post-apocalyptic BBQ Drumstep are but a smattering of often mind-bending categories plucked from today’s dance music genre tombola. ‘Belgian Disco’ doesn’t seem quite as specialised or exotic when stacked up against that rowdy lot, but underestimate […]
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Where Love is Not a Foreigner Concept
When I listen to this edit I imagine either sitting on a yacht in the pacific or else, at the other extreme, standing on a snowy plains in blinding sunlight. Bath-based Irishman Holmes Price is back on an 80s tip, taking Foreigner’s I Want To Know What Love Is and moulding and stretching it into […]
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