Art Bleek – Art Supplies
Art Bleek’s new album “Art Supplies” landed in the Phuturelabs mailbox recently and the producer’s previous output had led me to expect some top quality tech house. Those preconceptions were quickly smashed as the album filtered over the speakers and an initial disappointment was washed away. The album’s twelve tracks draw on funk, soul, jazz […]
Bakey Ustl – EP1
Firecracker sub label Unthank comes up with this monster first release by Bakey Ustl. The A side “A Tender Places” has weird house runs and a multitude of samples which sandwich a remarkable yet strange breakdown. This tune has all the right moves however and is being played out by some of the most cutting […]
Space Dimension Controller – Temporary Thrillz EP
Space Dimension Controller released a free album entitled “Unidentified Flying Oscillator” at the start of the year and it led to him being hyped as the biggest thing to come out of Belfast since George Best. It was full of funk and electro with even a hint of Jan Hammer in there. It had the […]
Machinedrum – Let It EP
Following on from the amazing “Many Faces” EP, Machinedrum is back bringing the funk and electro vibes with a strong hip hop backbone for his new “Let It” 12″. Throughout the record the tunes have tripping percussion with sharp vocals which have an almost auto tune vibrato edge. As well as the original mix we […]
Sunday Roast – Best of the Rest
With the autumn drawing in fast, its time to beef things up on both the tune and food front. Check out the tasty roast to chase away the chill and open the ears. There is so many quality beats around at the moment, its hard to fit them all in. We can but try with […]
Phuturelabs – Experiment 8 on Radio Magnetic
Once Cliff returned from overdosing on tapas and finding himself in the middle of social unrest in Barcelona, we made our way along to the Radio Magnetic studios to record the 8th installment in our Experiments series. As the winter nights are drawing in, we’ve donned the sweatbands and thrown in some techno to keep […]
Aeroplane – We Can’t Fly
Aeroplane came crashing onto the scene with some phenomenal remixes of the likes of Grace Jones and Sebastien Tellier and their eagerly awaited debut album finally lands on September 6th in the shape of “We Can’t Fly”. The lead single of the same name set the bar high with it’s barrel loads of funk and […]
Chromeo – Don’t Turn The Lights On (Noise Invaders dub)
While the Aeroplane remix of this newie from Chromeo has been floating around for a while and getting everyone hot under the collar, it’s the brilliant Noise Invaders dub that’s doing it for me. As it’s a dub mix you thankfully only get a snippet of the vocals and the rest of the track is […]
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 […]
