Push the Bottin
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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Sunday’s Best Pt. V
“Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.” I’m unashamedly trying to put another Irishman on the map here, Dublin-based DJ/producer/promoter/renaissance man Frankie Grimes. Yes, that’s his real name, yet unlike his unfortunate namesake in The Simpsons, everything seems to be going his way right now. The young student of History is a resident in […]
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Broke One, Don’t Fix It
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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Jamie XX Remixes Nosaj Thing
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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Baobinga, Mensah & DVA Anyone?
Collaborations are great aren’t they? Great minds coming together, sharing skills and ideas, all contributing into making one final amazing outcome. I often have trouble sleeping at night at the thought of dream collaborations. Just imagine if in some off shoot parallel universe Obama and Lincoln are jamming in some garage, making some crazy acid […]
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Witness the Sickness
Emerging on to the UK Bass scene, Justin Reid-Simms aka Whole Sick has held down residencies at some of the Midlands best parties; Fresh out of Death, Dollop, Bigger Than Barry, not to mention Tomb Crew’s longstanding monthly party My City Is For Pimps. He’s also a resident at Southend’s Kool Kids Klub, which is […]
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Five Lovely Tracks by Glass Actor
For a precise duration of seven minutes I panicked when someone linked me up to the Soundcloud of Glass Actor without giving me any names – looking him up didn’t give me any accommodating results either, so I consulted my last resort (Twitter) and found out that the man behind this project is the one and only Greg from Acid […]
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Chicago Town Classics
I had a weird time the one summer I spent in Chicago. I couldn’t get proper work so I had to do a lot of manual labour and ended up so tired that I wouldn’t go out proper, I’d just drink Ice House or going to the worst clubs imaginable that were only full of […]
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No Class – Tape
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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Close Encounters of the N*E*R*D Kind
If you haven’t tempted yourself into giving a listen to the leaks of N*E*R*D’s new album Nothing yet, you’re either straight up lying or have an incredibly strong subconscious telling you to resist the urge to do so anyway. I’ll admit that will power isn’t exactly my middle name and have been giving the album […]
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Wheel Me Out “Biazzaro Eurotica”
It’s Halloween this week, so everyone’s in the mood for spooky dark music that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. Resident Advisor were quick off the mark with an exceptional podcast from Alan Howarth, frequent collaborator with John carpenter on the soundtracks for the latter’s films. It’s a gorgeously chilling […]
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Interview: Altered Natives
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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