The Sun Will Be Shining When We’re Finally Free
As I watched The Drums calmly take the stage a couple of weeks back in Amsterdam, I felt a certain feeling of déjavu tingle my senses. With neatly buttoned up shirts, impecably matched simple get-ups and a font to match their drumkit that vaguely reminds me of HediSlimane.com, it felt like Dior Homme had been […]
Read moreTruancy Volume 4: Qoso
It wouldn’t hit you like a thunderbolt when I tell you that Paris-based DJ and producer Qoso is one of the most exciting and captivating artists out there at the moment. You have known this for a long time already. Qoso has been on the move since we spoke to him. After some excellent remixes […]
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Sous Les Pavés, La Plage!
Three out of four readers of this interview must have disco-moshed to the music the Age of Consent band members put out not too many years ago. They are two out of four men who wrote you the hymns about lovers of others, three-dimensional sex shows and Chinese martial arts, that needled your inner ADHD […]
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Number Four is the Number that Runs Through This Music
I spent a good part of those four hours waiting around in the library on a computer looking up any new music I could find, only to discover a producer from Ghent, Belgium called Ultravid. To be the honest having the same name as a big online movie website doesn’t do the artist any favours […]
Read moreI Think I’m Hyper Enough As It Is
It’s always an easeful thought when Sound Pellegrino releases a new track. The original idea for the upcoming Teki Latex‘s new release was to have Mowgli and Zombie Disco Squad’s Nat Self both produce a rap song and get them to remix each other’s. The project took a complete unexpected turn and Teki decided to abort […]
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Interview: These New Puritans
The adept British quartet These New Puritans released their second album Hidden at the beginning of this year, and it is an album that uprightly interchanges between theatrical caprice and a grimy accent of sounds. The characteristic air of this album is much more symphonious and grander than their debut album Beat Pyramid: the sophomore album has […]
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The Long Walk Home
Originally, I had intended to finish this post at five in the morning on Saturday, after a night out of seeing Edinburgh-born producer Hostage to fit in more about what I was going to write. Alas, the alcohol consumption was too much and I passed away in to dream land… Everyone looks forward to a good night […]
Read moreOne Tiny, Tiny Move is All I Need
I discovered Arthur Russell last week. Let me rephrase that, I discovered how songs should be made last week. The act of making good pop songs is surprisingly hard to realise. At least, I have found it to be so. Arguably the greatest pop songs ever made were written by Lennon and McCartney. One only […]
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The Life & Death of Disco Music II
If you found the biggest disco fan in the world – a 60-something year old homosexual, African American New Yorker who spent almost every night of the early seventies at clubs like Haven, The Loft or The Gallery – someone who was there, who doesn’t just enjoy the music but was a part of the […]
Read moreTruancy Volume 3: Melé
My first post for Truants sees me under a bit of pressure. Instead of easing myself in slowly I decided to grab the bull by the horns and start off with a bit of impact. With already two Truancy Mixtapes under the belt from French wonder kid RiotKid and NT89 the third in the series […]
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Truancy Volume 2: NT89
The time has come for us to proudly introduce you to a brand new TRUANCY VOLUME! Italian-born producer Nima Tahmasebi has earned himself quite a few titles such as the studio assistant of the Bloody Beetroots and Lazy Ants, but is best known for his work as NT89. For those of you who have mysteriously missed out […]
Read moreYou Know I and I is Dynamite
It’s my pleasure to knock down the first weekly item of the blog. It has been baptized and named IMMY DI DANCEHALL. As the name implies, this column will be me, Immy, covering everything that has to do with dancehall culture. I’ll try to touch grounds with the history of dancehall, particularly the progress of the […]
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