Phuturelabs – Experiment 5 on Radio Magnetic
With a stomach full of bbq’d food and a head full of World Cup fever, we headed along to the Radio Magnetic studios to record the fifth in our experiment series. The first of the summer shows proved a handful with a whole host of technical disasters. Undeterred, we eventually triumphed, getting the better of [...]
Ital Tek – Midnight Colour
Ital Tek’s brilliant 2008 debut album “Cyclical” was one of the year’s finest and combined dark IDM with dancefloor friendly dubstep perfectly, it’s follow up – “Midnight Colour’ landed a couple of weeks ago and it’s in the same vein but with a slightly lower tempo and even more atmosphere. From the Moroder style bass [...]
The Future Sound of London – Cascade
Earlier this week we covered the new FSOL album “Environments 3″ and it got me thinking about my favourite tracks of theirs. So for today’s classic I’ve picked probably my favourite track from their mammoth back catalogue. “Cascade” was the first single from their amazing “Lifeforms” album and it just totally blew me away with [...]
The Future Sound of London – Environments 3
FSOL are without doubt, legends in the realm of electronic music and in my opinion, the finest producers to ever put hand to keyboard. In the past few years they’ve been releasing quite a lot of material from their archives (the 5CD “From The Archives” collection is a must have) sprinkled with the odd piece [...]
Friday Classics – Aphex Twin & Leftfield
The Labs crew are on a road trip this weekend to the Rockness Festival on the banks of Loch Ness, home of the famous monster! So we thought we would give you a taste of two classics from the line up this year. First up we have the musical genius Richard D. James aka Aphex [...]
Phuturelabs – Experiment 4 on Radio Magnetic
With the summer breeze in our sails, we headed along to the Radio Magnetic studios to record the next installment of our Experiment series. The tunage is a fine selection of techno, house, dubstep and electronica with a side dish of ambience and IDM. There’s also a couple of tasters for this weekend’s RockNess festival [...]
Phenoplastic – Liquid Condition – free download
Back in March, Kieran ran a feature on Phenoplastic’s debut album and he did a wee interview with him, the album in question “Presented In Colour” was a brilliant package of top quality IDM and electronica, wearing it’s influences on it’s sleeve but shaking free of them throughout and walking it’s own path. May 2010 [...]
Ibunshi – Statis Fields – free download
Australian producer Ibunshi has been impressing me for a long time with his brilliant, intricate and moody brand of IDM/electronica and deep drum n bass. He’s kindly given us this slice of lush ambience to give away and if you’re a fan of the likes of FSOL and Boards of Canada then this is for [...]
Ghost Bike – You Don’t Exist – free download
We get many, many demo’s at the labs to listen to and a few weeks ago one came along that really turned our heads. Ghost Bike is an unsigned artist based is Israel who is looking to release his latest work in May. Currently without a label we thought we would try and give him [...]
Phenoplastic – Presented In Colour – free download
If you’re a fan of Aphex Twin or Boards of Canada, or just a fan of quality IDM electronica, then you should really give Phenoplastic‘s recent release “Presented In Colour” a listen. Hailing from the “dear green place” of Glasgow, Phenoplastic (aka Paul Harrison) is an upcoming musician producing music that is, on the one [...]
