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 [...]
Boohgaloo Zoo – Testify EP
Boohgaloo Zoo are K’bonus and U-Gene, two veterans of the Belgian and Dutch music scenes respectively. After meeting at the 10 Days Off festival in Ghent the duo started sending each other beats and tracks and soon enough a full album was in the making. “Testify” is the second single taken from the stunning self-titled [...]
Mweslee – Eurocarne EP
In the middle of what is being touted as the best Sonar festival yet, Spanish act Mweslee released his new EP “Eurocarne”. This monster is a cocktail of driving funk synth, stuttering beats with soul on tap. I’ve picked out the tune “Nova Olimpia” which delivers right on point. Pick this Nod Navigators release up [...]
The Herbaliser – Herbal Tonic minimix – free download
You can’t really beat a bit of Herbaliser funk – and June 29th sees Ninja Tune unleash “Herbal Tonic” – a best of album of sorts. Featuring a selection of top quality beats that span The Herbaliser’s 15 year career, every track’s a winner. To give you a wee taster they’ve kindly given us this [...]
Jimmy Edgar – Hot, Raw, Sex – free download
What is Jimmy Edgar all about? Synth, funk, 80′s electronica, its all in there!!! One thing is for sure his new album is going to blow up dance floors when its gets its release on the 21st June on !K7. We have a free download thanks to XLR8R which gives you a taste of things [...]
Esteban Carracas – Price of a Pint Recordings – Podcast 1
Glasgow house label Price of a Pint Recordings was established in Summer 2009 primarily to release the output of Glasgow based producer and Dj Esteban Carracas. The mysterious Esteban originally hails from LA and came to our slightly less sunny shores in 1989 bringing with him a love of hip hop. He then discovered the [...]
Esteban Carracas - Price of a Pint Recordings - Podcast 1 [75:46m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadFloating Points – My Plastic People Mix
In demand artist and producer Floating Points appears to have tunes in most of the best mixes around at the moment. We thought we would flip it about by bringing you a mix he did in support of threatened East London clubbing mecca Plastic People. The Eglo records man gives us further examples of just [...]
Tosca – Pony (No Hassle Versions)
Continuing their tradition of putting out most of their work for remix, Tosca AKA Richard Dorfmeister and Rupert Huber release their 2009 album “No Hassle” into the wild and allow a bunch of remixers to get their dirty hands on it. From Smith & Mudd’s loungey funk remix of “Springer” through to Spirit Catcher’s chunky [...]
Deee-Lite – Groove is in the Heart
DJ Dimitri rolled into town last weekend and it got me thinking about this classic tune from 1990. “Groove is in the Heart” by Deee-Lite was a dance floor smash across the globe. With elements of funk, soul, house and disco it captured young and old alike. Sampling artists such as Herbie Hancock and Vernon [...]
Fudge Fingas – PN 08 sampler
Nice little sampler of the new Fudge Fingas EP due out in March on Prime Numbers.
