The Boy Who Cried Woolfy
Going in completely the opposite direction of my more up beat post with Klever, a majorly wet morning followed by a sky completely covered with Cirrocumulus Clouds in Brighton has seen my mood somewhat relaxed and complaisant and I’d like to thank Woolfy’s new EP for this and I want to thank him a lot. […]
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Cory Blaine On Mixpak
The world of dance music can sometimes be incredibly po-faced when you consider that really its whole purpose is to help people lose their shit and have a good time. Thats why its great when you find a song that just embraces joie de vivre, and makes you smile the kind of smile you get […]
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Pump it Up Rmx
Ooooh, so it’s Thursday and I’m prepping tracks to play tomorrow night. I’m part of a collective in Dublin that plays loungey disco housey type stuff, and we love our 80s synth-pop and hacienda-era tunes. And just tonight Jon Averill, one of my favourite DJs, nay, people, and purveyor of the Shock World Service brand, […]
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Brey Claptrap
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 […]
Read moreTruancy Volume 18: Manaré
It is Manaré’s 19th birthday! And although it doesn’t make sense for the birthday boy himself to be the one handing out gifts, the Parisian does it anyway because he keeps it real. Alas, to celebrate his birthday, here’s Truancy Volume 18: Manaré! The first Truancy Volume ever was a gem of a Truancy volume, […]
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Remixes & Blues Pt. II
You feel that? It must be love, yeah. It feels like a whole lot of love for Jacques Greene, the skilled 21 y.o. Canadian producer that popped up earlier this year, and has two forthcoming releases planned to come out on LuckyMe (preview) and Night Slugs (12″ featuring Optimum). Expressing his love for The-Dream to Dazed […]
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Sunday’s Best Pt. VI
Happy Sunday’s Best, everyone! Unfortunately I won’t post the direct link to this Sunday’s Best track since it’s technically illegal, streaming will do! This track produced by our boy Swizz Beats, Roman’s Revenge, has dope 808’s drums and a filmic touch with strings and choirs and all that jazz. It It took me a while […]
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This Is How We D.O.O. It
A trait of the cyclical nature of this beast we often refer to as ‘music’ that rules you and I with an iron fist is this – a song, genre or artist that at one point was at the bleeding-edge of a new sound , pushing boundaries and setting our hearts ablaze from the first […]
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Got the Munchies
Every so often you stumble across an artist so interesting that it reminds you why music is such a beautiful thing. Not surprisingly, I’m about to tell you about one. T&A (Tittsworth and Ayres for those that don’t know…) have a long history of putting out good music, but they have just excelled themselves with […]
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My House, Your House, Our House
For whatever reason, there is a particular sort of house that I think of as being “real” house. “Housey house” I sometimes label it in my libraries. Stupid, maybe, house is a big church that holds a lot of different sounds and styles. But for me, the kind of house that is deep, soulful, musical… […]
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Turntable Lab
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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Do the Skanky
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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