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 [...]
Four Tet – Locked
Four Tet’s forthcoming FabricLive59 mix has been picking up a fair bit of play around the Labs and one of the stand out tracks is this newie from Mr Hebden himself. Set for release on his own Text imprint in Sept it’s a lovely chunk of melancholy goodness with light guitar strums floating alongside spacey [...]
Lazy Sundays: Portishead’s Essential Mix from 1995
Portishead’s debut album “Dummy” is without doubt one of the finest albums ever released and this BBC Essential Mix from 1995 is a bit of a lost gem. Packed with goodies from the band themselves alongside classics from James Brown, Gangstarr, Depth Charge and more, it’s perfect Sunday tuneage. Download or stream below and why [...]
Fall takes on Nick Cave, Nina Simone and more
Admittedly, I’ve become a little numb to emails received via Soundcloud. One in particular caught my attention this week though and came from Glasgow producer Fall. The track submission in question was a moody downtempo rework of a Nick Cave soundtrack work and captured my imagination immediately and caused me to dig a little deeper. [...]
Lazy Sundays: ASC – Music For Pictures – free downloads
ASC has a reputation for top quality electronica and while a lot of his work hovers around the 170 BPM mark, he’s also responsible for a huge amount of quality downtempo and IDM work (also under his Intex Systems alias). The folk at Liquid Cinema signed him up for an album of soundtrack work and [...]
Peace – Hungry EP – free download
Glasgow Dj and producer Peace has been keeping himself busy with his Naive nights around town and his first production outing has landed in the shape of the “Hungry EP”. The first two tracks blend early Shadow style sampling and spoken word elements with moody atmospherics and simple but effective drums before the beautiful “Coda” [...]
Lazy Sundays: Prommer & Barck – Alex And The Grizzly
Alex Barck and Christian Prommer have impressive back catalogues individually with Barck being a member of Jazzanova and SonarKollektiv while Prommer is a member of Fauna Flash and picked up a German music industry award recently for his work on DJ Hell’s album “Teufelswerk”. Together the duo are more than simply the sum of their [...]
Ghostpoet – Survive It (Koreless Remix)
As we delve further into 2011, one name that keeps popping up again and again is Koreless. The young Welshman (now residing in Glasgow) has impressed hugely this year and looks to be one of the names on everyone’s lips come the end of year lists. This astoundingly good remix of Ghostpoet’s “Survive It” will [...]
Photek – Slow Burn – free download
From the intricately chopped breaks of “Ni Ten Ichi Ryu” to later work in the house field with Robert Owens, the work of Photek is highly revered in the world of electronic music. Some of his early unreleased material is still discussed on message boards around the world and although his material in the latter [...]
