January 2012
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Anthony Shakir MRSK Luke Abbott Gold Panda Norm...
Walking through North London at 2pm on a weekday is an experience I haven’t had for quite a while.
First, it’s about hustle. People in a rush, going nowhere in particular. The selling of cheap phones. The drug seeking and drug peddling. The picking up of fags in the middle of the road. The charity-workers in slick bibs. The prams, jostling for space on the bus. The noise of old cars....
Kevin McPhee and Gerry Read DEMOLITION MAN
Due to my countdown of 2011, I had neither the time nor the space to write about these two tracks which were released on vinyl late last year.
McPhee and Read are probably my two favourite producers of the moment, and are already honing in on distinctive sounds. McPhee, who did two wicked mixes last year (futureproofin’ and sonic router) has this sluggish hi-hat noise, a dirty bass drum,...
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Gilles Peterson / Machinedrum / Everett James
So after the countdown of 2011, we move swiftly into 2012. Little has visibly changed. Nestle are still ripping consumers off by removing a tube from their Smarties multi-pack but charging the same price. The government are still pissing me off. I am still over-sleeping, late for my government-related work. Boiled eggs still taste great.
But before I indulge myself in some great new music to mark...
Top Track of Twenty Eleven - Regal Safari remix...
1 Sun Glitters – Too Much To Lose (Regal Safari Remix)
ATTENTION YOU LADIES AND GENTLEFOLK!
After three weeks of counting down our top ten tracks of Twenty-Eleven, we have a winner! And to our surprise as well as quite possibly yours, that winner is not only a remix, but a free download: step forward Regal Safari and Sun Glitters…
I first got hold of this on xlr8r back in September. It...
2 Albert Swarm - Familialities
2 Albert Swarm – Familialities
As regular readers of the blog will have guessed, I spent the later summer months of 2011 in Berlin. According to people I met, I had managed to miss the more disappointing weather, and was lucky to be basking in the brilliant, warm sunshine of August and September. I, obviously, argued that I had brought the weather along for the wonderful ride I would end...
3 Blawan Getting Me Down
3 Blawan – Getting Me Down
Blawan’s beats are usually unmistakable. From his remix work on Beastie Respond’s ‘Syncopy’, to his ‘What You Do With What You Have’ release and input in side-project Karenn, the young producer creates a sound akin to slamming a brick wrapped in a duvet. The speeds vary, the dynamics change, but that wonderful thud remains.
That is, however, apart from...
