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ALBUM REVIEW: Bolomite Jr. – ‘Cold Feet’: classical meets experimental in tectonic layering

BEN CALHOUN has been quietly working away for a while now, leading a double life as a construction worker-cum-experimental musician having begun using Digital Audio Workstations as a creative tool way…

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Live Review: Fantastic Negrito – Live at The Downtown Theatre (livestream) – 23.1.2021

by Lara Eidi. January 24 ,2021 “Have you lost your mind yet ? To get free tonight..” Picture this : Richie Havens walks into a bar, Lead Belly playing some…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Aaron Cupples – ‘Island Of The Hungry Ghosts’ original soundtrack: a sonic film in itself

There's always that caveat with a soundtrack that this is music in service to another artform. But Island Of The Hungry Ghosts is a sonic film in itself. It wholly lets the soul of the island through and onto your record deck. If you're a fan of labels like Touch, Kranky, this is so a record for you.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Richard von der Schulenberg – ‘Moods And Dances’: a fun, exotique library music trip

Moods And Dances is the sort of album you cheekily slip onto the deck at a very groovy soiree at about, ooh, midnight, to bring some bizarre and spacey dimensions to proceedings and during which at least two of your friends turn to you and say with a bewildered grin: "Wow, what is this?"

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Track: Ungraven – Onwards She Rides To A Certain Death

UK label Blackbow Records are set to release a new split LP of pure heaviness from Belfast based, sludge-juggernauts Slomatics alongside the blistering and crushing sounds of Ungraven. With 3…

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Album Review: Anna B Savage – ‘A Common Turn’

If, for Anna B Savage fans, it has felt like a long wait for this, her debut album, that’s because it has been. The question is, has it been worth…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Disco Zombies – ‘South London Stinks’: a punk story retold by Optic Nerve

Loud, fast and forgotten: DIY punk nuggets are unearthed in this vinyl compilation spanning The Disco Zombies’ career

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EXCLUSIVE: BACKSEAT MAFIA TAKEOVER MIX: JAMIE FIELDING

Ahead of the release of his Mind 3 EP, out at the end of the week (29th Jan) producer Jamie Fielding is the next name to step up and make…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Tamar Aphek – ‘All Bets Are Off’: superb opening salvo from Tel Aviv power trio

Tamar Aphek takes the power trio thing and moves it forward into new psych-blues-rock territories with elegance and so much fire. She also might just be the best new noisy guitar stylist since Joey Santiago and John Dwyer. She's potent and has a voice of real elegance, and sonic firepower, and tunes, and the future is very, very bloody bright indeed

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IFFR 2021 Preview

The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has firmly established itself as one of the most exciting and ambitious dates in the European festival calendar. Now in its 50th incarnation, it…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Bolomite Jr. – ‘Cold Feet’: classical meets experimental in tectonic layering

Live Review: Fantastic Negrito – Live at The Downtown Theatre (livestream) – 23.1.2021

ALBUM REVIEW: Aaron Cupples – ‘Island Of The Hungry Ghosts’ original soundtrack: a sonic film in itself

ALBUM REVIEW: Richard von der Schulenberg – ‘Moods And Dances’: a fun, exotique library music trip

Track: Ungraven – Onwards She Rides To A Certain Death

Album Review: Anna B Savage – ‘A Common Turn’

ALBUM REVIEW: Disco Zombies – ‘South London Stinks’: a punk story retold by Optic Nerve

EXCLUSIVE: BACKSEAT MAFIA TAKEOVER MIX: JAMIE FIELDING

ALBUM REVIEW: Tamar Aphek – ‘All Bets Are Off’: superb opening salvo from Tel Aviv power trio

IFFR 2021 Preview