Liquid Liquid – Optimo
Another weekend and yet another music festival comes upon the Labs collective. This time a Sunday all day number beckons in the shape of the Electric Frog Festival. Looking at the line up, one act sticks out as having the ability to deliver the Friday classic…..Liquid Liquid. Liquid Liquid were formed in the post-punk underground [...]
Ill Blu – Bellion/ Dragon Pop EP
The much anticipated new release from Ill Blu has hit the streets out now on the ever quality Hyperdub imprint. The double A side provides congo driven afro beat rhythms on “Dragon Pop” while “Bellion” is on the funkier side on the street and more orientated to the dance floor. Pick this up not at [...]
Jeff Mills – Live on John Peel Show May 2002
Jeff Mills is coming to Glasgow. Although this is not unusual, what make this visit special is that he is hear to celebrate 18 years of Rubadub records by playing in the world famous Subclub. Jeff is far more used to playing larger venues and festivals these days, so the chance to see him rip [...]
Redinho – Bare Blips EP
After much delay, the acclaimed Redinho EP “Bare Blips” is about to storm a sound system near you. The latest release from the ever quality Numbers label is jam packed with basement beats, club bangers and leftfield melodies amongst the eight tracks on offer. Its difficult not to beam a smile while listening. We have [...]
Space Ranger – Superstring EP
After the success of the “Star Wash EP” which we covered here, Space Ranger bring along more new boogie weapons from their interstellar playground. This should hopefully fend of the space sickness of waiting for the release of their debut album due out in October 2010. On top of the quality original tracks we have [...]
Machine Drum – Many Faces EP
We are so glad that Machinedrum and the LuckyMe collective have teamed up to bring us the Many Faces EP. Jam packed with early electronic production values this EP fronts up with quaking bass and acid tinges while squeezing in Hip Hop and dubby beats. There is still room however to fit in more melodic [...]
Sunday Roast – Best of the Rest
One for the veggies this week with a tasty nut roast to help keep the animals safe for another week. With work continuing on the forthcoming Phuturelabs label launch we revisit some old friends for this weeks selection. First up we have Jimmy Edgar. With the delayed release of his album XXX just round the [...]
L-Vis 1990 – Forever You EP
Night Slugs are back with another quality release proving once again that they are one of the hottest new labels around. On post rave duty for the “Forever You” EP is L-Vis 1990. The dirty house beats of “Do you Remember” are sharp and hypnotic. Title track “Forever You” cuts more towards post dubstep and [...]
Greg Wilson – Live @ T in the Park 2010
We are all just starting to recover from our excursion to T in the Park and getting round to finally brushing off the mud. The great news is that Sir Greg Wilson has once again come up with the goods and made his early afternoon set from the Slam tent on Saturday available from stream [...]
Massive Attack – Unfinished Sympathy
Formed out of the Wild Bunch in Bristol in the late 80′s Massive Attack have lasted the pace more than most electronic acts formed at that time. With six albums under their belts with various line ups they are masters of the blissed out trip hop sound that came to life during the inception of [...]
