September 2010
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NEW MOVES // ZOMBY
It’s been pretty quiet on the Zomby front over the past twelve months or so, the man of mystery putting little out since last year’s absolutely glorious Digital Flora 10” on Brainmath. Alongside ‘Tarantula’, his contribution to Hyperdub’s Five Years Of compilation, it pointed towards a gradual evolution of his sound, away from the sickly gloop of his self-titled EP and One Foot Ahead Of The...
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INTERVIEW // LHF // KEEPERS OF THE LIGHT
London’s shadowy LHF collective have fully caught my attention since Martin Clark brought them to the world’s wider attention earlier this year. Their series of >’Keepers Of The Light’< mixes and United Vibes show on Sub FM send piercing darts of pirate static skating across the surface of the internet, an unbroken stream of sound that subsumes the importance of...
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MIX // KOWTON
Jouem - Dyad [Just Another Beat] Szare - Unknown [Unreleased] Conforce - Stop Hold [Meanwhile] Goldwill - Blush [Wandering] 19.45.4.18.5.25.5.18 - All The Way Back [Horizontal Ground] Kowton - Untitled 19-6 [Unreleased] Kowton - Drunk on Sunday [Idle Hands] Szare - Indo Greek [Unreleased] Svreca - Obscur (Marcel Dettmann remix) [Semantica Records] D-Bridge - ZX81 (Shed remix) [Fat City...
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12"s YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED
8. Midland – Play The Game EP [Phonica]
Despite playing his collaborative 12” with Ramadanman to death earlier this year (the excellent Your Words Matter on Aus Music), I managed to let Midland’s debut release proper slip by when it emerged last month, which makes it a prime contender for addition to this series. It’s not very often that you come across a pitch-perfect synthesis of current...
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KASSEM MOSSE // WE SPEAK TO THOSE
I’ve written enough about a certain Mr. Mosse recently I know, but his output has been so ferociously consistent lately that it seems unjust to ignore his latest 12” release. Arriving as something of a curveball on Instra:mental’s Nonplus+ imprint (typically known for its forays into Autonomic-styled d’n’b and dubstep, though admittedly Actress’ excellent Machine & Voice EP was another...
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RAIME // RAIME EP
It’s been a little quiet round our ends for the last couple of weeks, which now means there’s a wellspring of great music to shout about. The first release on Kiran Sande’s Blackest Ever Black imprint seems an appropriate place to start. It fits the label’s title perfectly – Raime’s debut EP is an intense and claustrophobic experience, its beats shrouded in such dense fog that it often feels as...
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IT'S A LONDON TING // MARGINS MUSIC FILMS
Last week Dusk & Blackdown posted a number of videos used on their recent Margins Music tour. Directed by Jonathan Howells, they make for intense watching, flickering between blurred guest MCs, immediately recognisable London emblems – the video for unreleased funky cut ‘Dasaflex’ travels along the conduits of Harry Beck’s map – and anonymous street shots, thrown into shadow by harsh...
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FORTHCOMING // JAY WEED "PRISM"
Forthcoming on 502 Recordings
A label headed by master selector Oneman was always going to be pretty unstoppable. When the fair ship 502 was christened by the irrepressibly anthemic Night Hunter, most everybody with their eyes on the prize (quite understandably) lost their shit; who would have thought LFO wobble could sound this good in 2010? Not one to rest on his laurels, Oneman’s...
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VIDEO PREMIERE // AUTRE NE VEUT "WAKE UP"
We’ve made no secret of our love for Olde English Spelling Bee’s frazzled prince of soul Autre Ne Veut, and those feelings have only multiplied with the release of his self titled LP. Bringing the hysteria implicit in the best stylings of 80s electro pop to the forefront of his warped, over-emotional visions, ANV has drawn attention to a ghost in the machine far different from the...
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NEW THINGS // BROKEN20
The final months of 2010 see the sad dissolution of Thorsten Sideb0ard’s ever-brilliant Highpoint Lowlife label, who’ve been responsible for some of finest electronic transmissions to emerge over the last couple of years. 10-20’s small but formidable back catalogue has barely left my headphones since it first began to find its way into the world, all awash in grainy, pixilated fog, and the...
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FORTHCOMING // RAMADANMAN "BASS DRUMS"
Ramadanman - Bass Drums (Future Bass Exclusive) by Soul Jazz Records
From the same label that meticulously handpicked the best compilations in dubstep - for the uninitiated, that’ll be Steppa’s Delight and Box of Dub - comes Future Bass. This new selection acts with essentially the same modus operandi as the aforementioned, albeit this time pulling for the mini-scenes falling...
SUPERISK // FIND YOUR WAY
Bristol’s been a real hub for synth-based music lately, and its reappropriation of 8-bit and videogame samples, West Coast G-funk and eighties electropop has found a surprising conceptual middle ground with the US likes of James Ferraro, Daniel Lopatin, chopped ‘n’ screwed hip-hop and Chicago juke. But our city’s junglist history and soundsystem roots have given its music a far more direct...
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VIDEO // Outer Limits Recordings
VHS noisenik Sam Meringue’s been intriguing us for a while now. Whether he’s tapping into the infinite feedback loop of smouldering pop culture detritus or surfing the alien soundwaves for submerged, extraterrestrial Glam, the results are always as thrilling as they are hypnotic. Although his last weirdo transmission under his Outer Limits Recordings alias ploughed the fields...
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SHED // THE TRAVELLER
Ostgut Ton
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There’s not even a shred of bombast or lofty grandeur to René Pawlowitz’s quiet reinventions of techno; perhaps that’s what makes them so viscerally appealing. The genre has always restlessly pursued new horizons through experimentation and constant redesign, but it can still be nigh on impossible to recreate the purity of the dancefloor experience on...
FOREST SWORDS // RATTLING CAGE EP
Our love for everything Olde English Spelling Bee is fairly obvious now, even at this early stage in the game. The label’s coherent aesthetic tends to be convincing enough that when I came across Forest Swords’ music I presumed he’d surfaced, precociously fully formed, from the US’ lo-fi belt. He’s actually from somewhere near Liverpool. And there are certainly similarities between Mike Barnes’...
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FORTHCOMING // SLACKK "FIREFLIES"
Forthcoming on Numbers
Slick movements from Grime Tapes head honcho Slackk, a Liverpool born bass troubadour with the spirit of London burning within. The recipient of a hyperbole-laden showcasing from Fact Magazine earlier this year, Slackk’s dubs are split half and half between rowdy, syncopated Grime refixes and syrupy sweet deep house. Given my inclinations towards rough n ready...
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MIX // 2562 vs. A MADE UP SOUND
>Stream/Download “2562 Vs A Made Up Sound”<
Tracklist:
WNCL, “Mrs Fingers” (Quantec Remix) [WNCL] Instra:mental, “Rubba” [Swamp81] Martyn vs Mike Slott, “Untitled” [white*] T.Williams, “Chop & Screw” [Deep Teknologi Records] Cosmin TRG, “Bijoux” [white*] Breach, “Fatherless” [PTN] A Made Up Sound, “Rear Window” [Delsin] Skudge, “Overture” [Skudge] Will Saul & Mike...