January 2010
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DIBIASE & P.U.D.G.E // LOS ANGELES 1/10
All City Audio/Buy Dublin might be an unlikely home-away-from-home for LA, but All City are doing their damnedest to rep the beats capital hard. What could be a stronger love-in than a series of ten 10”s showcasing twenty of LA’s mad scientist beatsmakers? You might have become aware of All City after last years awesome 7x7 series (they clearly love their square numbers) which...
Jan 31st
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DVA // NATTY/GANJA
Hyperdub Audio/Buy Will Hyperdub ever let up?  Even with my most cherished of labels I like to give a new 12 a spin or two to see if I should add another £6 to my exponentially increasing weekly haul. Hyperdub’s quite different though: I can confidently say I’d buy any new Hyperdub completely blind. Of course their ubiquitity in mixes and radio shows months and months before...
Jan 30th
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HARMONIMIX // A MILLI/BILLS BILLS BILLS
Audio/Buy White Label Having been rinsed by a who’s who of the best UK bass DJs over the last month, the mysterious Harmonimix moniker (spoilers: it’s James Blake) drops a cheeky white label of freaky RnB refits. Its odd to think I’d be heaping praise on a remix of A Milli in 2010 (or, well, ever to be honest- the original’s pretty unfuckwithable), but this...
Jan 29th
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LOOPS HAUNT // IMPACT OMNIHAMMER
Black Acre In the increasingly bloated scene of postdillawonkyglitchhopLAglasgow beat bullshit, strong releases are becoming a rare and cherished commodity. For every consistent producer there seems to be 10 talentless fuckers who’ve switched off the quantise and smeared dots all over beatgrids without rhyme or reason. Its all part of a disappointing trend of uninspired people desiring...
Jan 28th
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MARTYN // REMIXES 01/02
3024 A particular highlight of Martyn’s Fabric 50 was Zomby’s rave horns cutting through the traditionally po-faced mix series with a “B-B-B-B-BADBOI” and yet still unjarringly sharing the same space as Levon Vincent and Ben Klock: no mean feat. Continuing the tightrope walk between rawkus rudeness and crystalline fragility, Zomby’s remix of Hear Me comes...
Jan 27th
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ALWAYS EVERYTHING JANUARY MIX
i have a nasty habit of getting a bit too precise with things; its basically led to me not recording or releasing any music for well over a year now, and not recording a mix in god knows how long- which is perhaps more damning considering the relative ease versus composing and recording. on top of that, the only mixes i’ve *ever* uploaded have been to promote a terrible, cartoonish electro...
Jan 24th
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Night Slugs
this is a piece for epigram, out in a week Having run for just shy of two years, L-Vis 1990, Manara and Bok Bok’s Night Slugs clubnight has charted the cutting edge of bass-heavy gutter music with admirable consistency. With an ethos that stays true to club music’s function as floor filling party music as well as continually highlighting innovation and experimentation, Night Slugs...
Jan 17th
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THE YEAR AHEAD IN BASS
this is a piece i did for epigram, out this week: The most exciting prospect for this year has to be the transformation of Dress 2 Sweat, Wireblock and Stuff Records into Numbers, a new label to partner with its Glaswegian clubnight namesake. Over the years all three have done their utmost to break now established beatmakers Rustie and Hudson Mohawke as well as release all manner of righteous...
Jan 11th
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SHORTSTUFF & HYETAL // DON'T SLEEP
release date: 18/01/10 punchdrunk records hyetal brings the fire with minimal beat patterns and hypercoloured synth work, whilst some ear pleasing sub bass punches punctuate the rainbow infused garage template shortstuff’s crew have spent the last year twisting out of recognition. unfortunately a limp non starter on the flip lurches along to nowhere in particular on a dull as hell...
Jan 4th
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GARY WAR // HORRIBLES PARADE
2009 sacred bones records a compatriot of lo-fi mischief makers ariel pink and john maus, gary war treads much the same path: bizarre, hauntological synth pop that evokes a strange, woozy loneliness. coming on like the radioactive spectres of eighties pop rising from warped bargain bin LPs forever abandoned, every element is wrapped in a gurgling, irradiated layer of abstractness. that’s...
Jan 3rd
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THESE NEW PURITANS // WE WANT WAR
release date 11/01/10 domino around two years ago, Jack Barnett described These New Puritans next move: “dancehall meets Steve Reich”. in the context of Beat Pyramid and their ridiculous fashion-focused career prior, you’d be forgiven for dismissing it as one of those bullshit, NME tagline pandering soundbites- file under contrived exoticism, file under forced name...
Jan 1st
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TWO THOUSAND NINE -> TWENTY TEN
ten albums from 09 micachu & the shapes - jewelry tonstartssbandht - an when/dick nights 2562 - unbalance gentle friendly - ride slow jeans wilder - antiques nite jewel - good evening broadcast & the focus group - investigate witch cults matias aguayo - ay ay ay raekwon - only built for cuban lynx II leyland kirby - sadly, the future is no longer what it was twenty singles...
Jan 1st