“Sounds and scenes are cyclical, as much a re-action as an action, and so the further the colour intensifies the more interesting an absence of light feels fresh again.” Blackdown, July 2012 The London based duo Dusk + Blackdown have long been a touchstone for evolution in London/UK-based electronic music with their label Keysound Recordings and […]

It’s not easy for an artist to shake the genre chains strung around him or her, especially when the genre in question was born directly out of his or her music. So far Toro y Moi has been able to distance himself from the chillwave tagline and construct what a majority of people would liken […]

As one third of blog/label/collective Transmission Collective, Wolf Cub has been making waves as of late by working within the throwback style of house music that appears to be all the rage at the moment. As much as we’d like to disparage such a blatantly self-serving trend, artists like Wolf Cub, Bicep and Ejeca are […]

With the fast pace of the internet music-sphere, and with so many artists teetering on the cusp of recognition, it’s really great to actually witness talent rise through the never-ending, ever-reaching crowd of music-makers. That’s not to say that Garry McCartney, also known as Ejeca, is in anyway a complete new-comer. He teamed up with his fellow […]

After being introduced to the world with a collaboration with Ramadanman, Midland might have felt a certain pressure releasing his first solo outing “Play The Game” back in 2010. In a similar vein, Bristol based producer Borai may have felt an equal amount of pressure in releasing his first solo work after three collaborations with fellow […]

In a recent interview with FACT Lee Gamble elaborated on the underlying theory behind his celebrated record Diversions 1994-1996: “You know sometimes when you go to bed in the morning after a rave and you can ‘hear’ music in your head? Most of the time it’s a fragment or a rhythm or a phrase. Often you aren’t […]

Last year was a pretty big year for Andre Crom and his label OFF Recordings, which saw itself become the 8th “Most charted label of 2012” and Andre Crom the 40th “Most-charted artists of 2012“ on Resident Advisor. Consistently churning out some quality deep house productions with iconic vocals, the label isn’t bringing anything groundbreaking to […]