Jim F, Author at Backseat Mafia

See: Hooton Tennis Club reveal video to Kathleen Sat on the arm of her favourite chair, plus tour dates

We’ve written about Chester/Ellesmere Port quartet Hooton Tennis Club before, and they’re certainly a band on an upward curve. Named after (suprisingly enough) a Tennis Club in nearby Little Sutton,…

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Album Review: Other Lives – Rituals

There’s no doubt there’s something to Stillwater, Oklahoma trio Other Lives, just ask endorsees Radiohead and Bon Iver, and Rituals, the bands third album, certainly has plenty of moments where…

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Track: Jean Tonique feat. Dirty Radio – What you wanna do

Taken from the forthcoming Partyfine labels 2nd compilation is a new track, titled ‘What you wanna do’, from Paris DJ/Producer Jean Tonique. Making his mark remixing the likes of Lana…

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Track: Kelpe – Doubles of Everything

Kel McKeown, under his Kelpe guise, has been creating a place for himself at the forefront of UK experimental electronic underground for the last twelve years. Following on from his…

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Track: L/F/D/M releases the minimal bleepy acid of Heavy Clouds, from forthcoming EP Psychopaths Eating Jelly

Following on from a slew of brilliant releases, including EPs for Optimo Trax and Clandestine Traxx and an album for Kompakt’s Ecstatic imprint as well as a couple of EPs…

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Premiere: Flunk – Queen of Underground (Drive Remix)

Oslo quartet Flunk, aka Anja Øyen Vister, Jo Bakke, Ulf Nygaard, Erik Ruud, have always had an eye for a remix, and ten years into their musical adventures they’re about…

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Track: Willis Earl Beal releases the hazy beauty of Flying So Low

“People had all these ideas about what I was supposed to be,” he says. “I had only ever wanted to make lullabies.” So says Willis Earl Beal, a man who…

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New Music: Anwai – Move Along

Atmospheric Swedish duo Anwai, aka Mons Lorenzen and Amadeus Rudolfsson, took the decision to lock themselves in a studio (presumably allowing themselves comfort and food/sleep breaks, but you never know…

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Track: XYPO – Attracted (Free Download)

Latvian born, London residing DJ and producer XYPO, aka Janis Dzenis is back with a new track, Attracted, available to grab for free, gratis, if you like your house music…

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Track: Eliza and the Bear – Love Don’t Play Fair, plus Headline Tour dates

Those Eliza and the Bear people have been busy. After releasing a handful of delightful synth pop tracks, the band have been on tour most recently with Twin Atlantic, having…

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