Track: Dr. Meaker – Dirt & Soul + exclusive Interview
Dr. Meaker are a Bristol based eight piece band, live instruments, samples, studio electronics and big voices create some heavy underground drum and bass covered in liquid deep soul. ‘Dirt & Soul’ is their debut album and it’s going to turn some heads. Already getting the crowds going at Glastonbury, Bestival, Boomtown Fair, Snowbombing, Isle Of Wight festival and …
Album Review: Various Artists – Chris Sullivan presents The Wag – 4CD remastered
David Bowie, Keith Richards and Joe Strummer were just a few of the big names to frequent Londons Hotspot club of the 80’s ‘The WAG’, a ‘haven for misfits’ that would attract such a following it would fill the floors seven nights a week with its various themed nights. Over the years The Wag would host a multitude …
Compilation – On-U Sound presents: Sherwood At The Controls Volume 2: 1985 – 1990
Okey dokey, Adrian Sherwood is back with the follow up to the first Sherwood at the controls this time hitting from ’85 to ’90. Electro, Industrial, Noise, Hip-Hop, Afrobeat and Dub. This time up we get five unreleased tracks plus four tracks previously only available on vinyl, sleeve notes and the usual goodies, so lets have a stroll …
Album Review: Thylacine – Transsiberian
A concept album composed over a 5,000 mile journey between Moscow and Vladivostok, Artist William Rezé (Thylacine) sampled sounds along the way and blended them over music he created from the confines of a tiny cabin along the Trans-Siberian Railway. His Travels took him through nearly 6,000 miles of landscapes resulting in a piece of work that reflects his discovery …
Track: Beth Orton – Kidsticks
One of my favourite ways of discovering music is with no prior knowledge of the artist and all the usual promo bumf that comes with it. I first fell in love with Beth Orton’s music when I picked up ‘Trailer Park on CD for a pound from a Notting Hill record shop as it had …
EP: Simon Shackleton – Piece of Me
Simon Shackleton, the artist formally known as ‘Elite Force’ is back with his first album in over a decade. This time we see him taking on a more soulful and lyrical venture, pushing his sound further than just his renowned bass heavy dancefloor orientated Electronica. With a career spanning more than 25 years and his music being …
Album Review: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – Twisted Nerve
In 1968 a British psychological horror film called ‘Twisted Nerve’ starring Hywel Bennett, Hayley Mills and Billie Whitelaw was released. Although now long forgotten, only to be referenced now and again by film critics of the obscure, it does have one positive, the soundtrack. Regarded as one of on’s finest works it was plucked from obscurity …
Track: Niagara – Hyperocean
Hyperocean is the third album from the Turin-based duo Niagara which consists of David Tomat and Gabriele Ottino. With each album having a concept, Hyperocean takes one of the bands early influences that has inspired them from the start of their careers, water……nup I also have no idea what this means either, so let’s dive …
Track: Natalie McCool – Fortress + Gigs
Being hailed as “one of the finest emerging songwriters around” Natalie McCool is set to release her new single on the 22nd of April (Tri-Tone), Layered vocals open over steady beats that march on to join a smooth bass line as the track builds to a wonderful crescendo that ends abruptly with a short melancholy distant piano. …
New Music – Kowton – Utility
London-based producer Kowton releases his debut longplayer on the 15th (April) and if your into a bit of stripped down techno with an abstract edge, read on….Joe Cowton is the man behind Kowton and he’s no newcomer, having built a healthy back catalogue you can expect a well honed sound for his first LP. Kowton’s work has been …