Win tickets for Rinse FM @ The Arches feat Zinc, Plastician and P-Money – Saturday 18th February
We’ve teamed up with the Arches to giveaway two pairs of tickets to London’s foremost grime and dubstep station Rinse FM’s first ever nationwide tour night in Glasgow on Saturday 18th February. Appearing on the night will be jungle legend turned crack house hero DJ Zinc alongside Plastician, P-Money, Brackles and more. For a chance [...]
Randomer – Scruff Box / Get Yourself Together
From his brilliant early releases on Med School and Alphacut through to later work for Soul Jazz and then his recent brilliant “Real Talk” for Numbers, Randomer has consistently impressed with quality beats across a varied tempo range. Hemlock are the latest label to welcome him on board and he delivers two of his strongest [...]
Minnie Riperton – Adventures in Paradise
Every Saturday we take a look at some quality funk, soul and disco here at the Labs. Wether it be old or new, we’re digging it and feel the need to share. This week it’s Minnie Riperton with the brilliant “Adventures in Paradise”. Known to most for her 1975 single “Lovin You”, she was one [...]
Renaat’s R&S Records Classics Mix
R&S was originally founded way back in 1984 and continues to this day to release exciting new electronica. While their back catalogue is absolutely packed with anthems, Radio Scorpio invited label founder Renaat Vandepapeliere to put together a mix of his favourites from the label’s ’90s output. Fire it up below and take in the [...]
Krystal Klear, Broke One & Ghosts On Tape – You Said You Loved Me – free download
The Red Bull Music Academy brings together the world’s finest new musical talent and gets them together tith industry types to learn more about the business. Its influence reaches far and wide and this track gives a taster of the talent that goes through its doors every year. Krystal Klear, Broke One and Ghosts On [...]
Phil Weeks – Raw Instrumental
With 2011′s brilliant “Love Affair” album behind him, Phil Weeks has been busy working on the follow up, entitled “Raw Instrumental”. Once again it’s Weeks’ with his beloved MPC cutting up samples on the fly and creating some truly wonderful house music. The album has a real live feel and at times feels like a [...]
Fau & Deam – Life Act EP
US label Dubporn have been impressing of late and the recent Imaginary Friend and Innana releases showed a label with an ear for new talent. The latest to join their roster are Fau & Deam, a new name but one that’s sure to be making it’s mark in 2012. Across the EP’s six tracks, elements [...]
Profisee & Starkey – Hold Up EP
Edinburgh’s Profisee has a history of quality beats with the Scotland Yard Emcees, The Great Ezcape and guest vocal work for the likes of Neil Landstrumm and Hexstatic. He also delivered a brilliant EP in the shape of “Logan’s Run” for our Phuturelabs label. 2012 however is the year where he stands at the forefront [...]
Lazy Sundays: William Basinski – Variations : A Movement In Chrome Primitive
I usually don’t hold much trust in music recommendation sites but one producer I discovered a few years ago thanks to Last.FM’s “you like this dude, you might like this dude” system was the brilliant William Baskinski. A quick dive into his discography unveiled a collection of quality modern classical music, left of centre electronica [...]
Bjork – Human Behaviour (Underworld Mix)
Bjork’s 1993 “Debut” album was a lovely piece of left of centre pop music and the tracks fell into the hands of some of the best producers in electronic music for remix work. While these mostly popped up on the vinyl releases of the singles, One Little Indian kindly put out a CD compilation entitled [...]
