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Album Review: Public Service Broadcasting – The Race for Space

The Race for Space is the much anticipated follow up to Public Service Broadcasting’s May 2013 debut ‘Inform – Educate – Entertain’, which reached number 21 in the UK Album Chart…

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EP: Motsa – Time

Viennese producer Motsa, aka Varerio Dittrich has been attracting the attention of many observers with his pulsating, bass led electronic music over the last year. He’s appeared at the Red…

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Album Review: Troyka – Ornithophobia

Ornithophobia is the third album from experimental jazz trio, Troyka. Following on from their last recording, Live at Cheltenham Jazz Festival, which showed they could adapt their wilful experimentalism to…

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Incoming: Dancing in Jaffa

Pierre Dulaine, four-time ballroom dancing world champion, is fulfilling a life-long dream when he takes his program, Dancing Classrooms, back to his city of birth, Jaffa. For generations, Jaffa has…

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Track: Nai Harvest – Sick on my Heart

Following in a (increasingly) long line of duo’s from the steel city, come singer/guitarist Ben Thompson and drummer Lew Currie, aka Nai Harvest. If you heard last years Buttercups single,…

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Album Review: Jonas Munk – Absorb Fabric Cascade

Jonas Munk has very few contemporaries exploring aural landscapes in quite the same way that he does. He seems to create musical canvases that are labyrinthine in scope; yet still…

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Not Forgotten: Crowded House – Woodface

The career arc of Crowded House through their initial phase was really rather odd. Over four albums they recorded some of the finest pop songs of the era, the first…

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Film Review: Coherence

All too often films fall into the nasty habit of replacing the need for a well-written and intelligent script with eye-popping visuals. However, there’s been many examples of mind-bending low…

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Blu-ray Review: The Killing + Killer’s Kiss

Stanley Kubrick is one of the greatest film directors of all time. He’s been widely acclaimed for his later post-Dr Strangelove work, including 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, A…

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Album Review: The Wave Pictures – Great Big Flamingo Burning Moon

With a name like Great Big Flamingo Burning Moon, you would expect The Wave Pictures’ incredible 14th studio album to be quite exuberant. But really, Great Big Flamingo Burning Moon…

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Album Review: Public Service Broadcasting – The Race for Space

EP: Motsa – Time

Album Review: Troyka – Ornithophobia

Incoming: Dancing in Jaffa

Track: Nai Harvest – Sick on my Heart

Album Review: Jonas Munk – Absorb Fabric Cascade

Not Forgotten: Crowded House – Woodface

Film Review: Coherence

Blu-ray Review: The Killing + Killer’s Kiss

Album Review: The Wave Pictures – Great Big Flamingo Burning Moon