Ifan Dafydd – Treehouse / To Me
Ifan Dafydd looks likely to force his way to the front of a busy pack following a couple of rather huge bootleg remixes last year and dj support from the likes of Gilles Peterson, Jamie XX and Sinden and this hugely impressive 12″ on Push and Run. His smokey garage tinged beats have rightly been [...]
Lazy Sundays: Howie B – Turn The Dark Off
Glasgow born producer Howie B has a list of production credits that place him behind the desk for some of the world’s biggest acts. His finest moment for me however was debut album “Turn The Dark Off”. Howie B – Fizzy In My Mouth / Your Mouth It’s a brilliant piece of work that managed [...]
Seth – Cloud Gazing
Originally formed as a sub label to Skint Records, Under 5′s took on a life of it’s own and had some quality releases from the likes of Si Begg and Treva Whateva in the late 90s/early 2000s. Taking a more experimental route than Skint, the output managed to shake off any genre restrictions and wandered [...]
Lazy Sundays: King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Honest Words EP
The duo follow up their phenomenal “Diamond Mine” album with another EP of quality chilled tuneage.
Lazy Sundays: Techno Dads’ Hardcore Chillout mix
The Techno Dads blog is here to help us make the adjustment into old age where looking after kids takes priority over attemping to look after ourselves after weekends spent mashed in front of speakers. Alongside the posts about classic techno and house there’s also some rather nice mixes entitled “Dad Casts”.The latest in the [...]
Saturday Snacks #24
Today’s snack sees me veer away from the sugary variety and get my chilli cracker on. Get some of these on the munch while you take in today’s tuneage. Kicking things off we’ve got this lovely slo mo house number courtesy of spanish producer Space Duke. Time to love (Space Duke edit) by Space Duke [...]
Lazy Sundays: Dadavistic Orchestra
While we’ve been getting busy getting all enthusiastic about the new techno material from The Black Dog, it seems this collaborative project sneaked under the radar. The six sides of the hexagon that is the Dadavistic Orchestra comsists of the three members of the Dog alongside three members of influential electronica pioneers the Psychick Warriors [...]
Saturday Snacks #22
Another Saturday another particularly fine snack. We’re wandering into the worlds of crisps with the mighty Transform-A-Snack. In particular the saucy bbq flavour. Get yourself a couple of bags on the go and get these tunes down your neck too.. H.O.S.H. have stuck this cheeky little bootleg out via his Soundcloud. Its a funky number [...]
Lazy Sundays: AIM – Cold Water Music
A recent car journey with a friend at work revealed that we shared a mutual love for Grand Central Records. This sent me back to the catalogue to listen to some of the classic albums contained within and Aim’s amazing debut album always stuck out as one of the highlights. From the beautiful hook and [...]
Gwen Stefani – Luxurious (Lapalux’s Bootleg Remix) – free download
To be honest we’ve been looking for an excuse to post a picture of Gwen Stefani for ages and our chance finally arrived when this brilliant Lapalux bootleg popped up. While we’re not familiar with the original, this rework is lovely downtempo fare from the Essex producer and sees Stefani’s vocal dipped in a big [...]
