Recommended: Kevin Eames – The Eddie Willers EP
Last December after letting loose a few cheeky demos on his Soundcloud Kevin Eames released a free collaborative LP, “Bricks”, with one of Canada’s best-kept secrets Prison Garde. The result of multiple jam sessions in their studio, they produced an album of unfiltered, no frills house music complete with sharp basslines and classic drum machines. […]
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Interview: Kowton
Although Joe Cowton’s alias Kowton might seem like an arbitrary name at first, the name of his own label Pale Fire borrows the title of a Nabokov novel which in turn looks to Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens. “The moon’s an arrant thief / And her pale fire she snatches from the sun” is a line […]
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Stream: Mickey Pearce – Tempted / Softly Softly EP
This new Mickey Pearce is giving us feelings. Serious feelings. Mainly the kind that give you night terrors, that you’re not too keen on sharing with your therapist because there must be a limit to how much they can stomach. Both “Softly Softly” and “Tempted” are frankly terrifying. The Artist formerly Known As Shortstuff has […]
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Sunday’s Best Pt. XIX
We’ve decided that we want to die and be reincarnated as this song, but we’ve listened to it so many times that we’ve probably imparted a good portion of our souls into it already. We’re not particularly interested in the Pet Shop Boys – who is? – but we’ve got a lot of time for […]
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Recommended: Markus Suckut – M EP
Lucy’s Stroboscopic Artefacts has put us on to a lot of new music since its establishment in 2009. From the sounds of Xhin, Go Hiyama and Dadub to Lucy’s own productions, the label is unparalleled in releasing some of the finest techno records from the deeper side of the spectrum. Whilst often reaching points of […]
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Three-Peat: Vol. III
Three-Peat is our feature spanning genres and labels to bring you three select releases from the past that still deserve your attention. 1. Octo Octa – Oh Love The past year has certainly been a good one for Brooklyn’s Michael Morrison, aka 100% Silk mainstay Octo Octa. A largely unknown producer prior to the release of […]
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Recommended: Dynooo – De Vlindermes
Dynooo is an enigmatic figure in the Belgian beat music underground. His Twitter features a stream of rather incoherent information and his Tumblr shows numerous low-resolution snapshots of, well, things. He preaches triviality: while others use social networks to promote themselves, Dynooo occupies these structures ad absurdum. Moreover, with the excess of pointless tweets and washed out […]
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Recommended: Teengirl Fantasy – Motif EP
R&S just keep them coming. The latest signing to one of our favourite labels is the New York duo Nick Weiss and Logan Takahashi, who go by the moniker Teengirl Fantasy. These two gentlemen are making techno and house with an analogue approach and a nonconformist mentality, and when we say that they’ve caught our attention, we […]
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Interview: Rivet
Rivet stands on the inside looking out. Adam Rivet’s debut release, “Inside Looking Out”, was published by Naked Index, a sub-label of London label Frozen Border a label known for their high levels of obscurity. Naked Index, like Frozen Border, follows in the course of its predecessors obscurity. We ourselves might not have found the link […]
Read moreTruancy Volume 48: Anthony Naples
New York resident and new kid on the block Anthony Naples made quite a stir earlier this year with his debut release on Mister Saturday Night, “Mad Disrespect”. The record, made up of his first finished tracks, is exactly what we would expect from a New York house record; it’s sexy, made for the dancefloor, […]
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Recommended: Fudge Fingas – Amaranthine Labyrinth EP
What do you get when you cross a pet cat named Fudge and Larry Heard? That, my friends, would be the work of Edinburgh based producer Gavin Sutherland who is also known by his alias Fudge Fingas. Having played the keyboard for the likes of Carl Craig and Plastic Avengers in his early years, the man […]
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Recommended: BD1982 – Iron Trees EP
BD1982 has always been in a league of his own, channeling diverse and disparate musical influences through a left-field creative filter to produce a finished product that is simultaneously exploratory yet cohesive, boundary-pushing but with a familiar feel. The producer, born Brian Durr, co-runs Japanese label Diskotopia – which has been behind incredible releases from […]
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