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Album Review : Benjamin Herman – ‘The Tokyo Sessions’ : A high energy trip to Japan with the Dutch jazz legend and his dynamic band.

Much celebrated Dutch alto-saxophonist, Benjamin Herman, sounds like the right kind of music obsessive. Not the drill-down, detail driven, relentless refiner of his craft but a musician who restlessly seeks…

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Album Review: Mauskovic Dance Band – ‘Bukaroo Bank’: an urgent post punk dub directive from Amsterdam.

Those Mauskovic Dance Band boys are back, back with Bongo Joe Records and back with another fine slice of snappy syncopation. The mischievous Amsterdam four piece, Nico, Donnie, Marnix and…

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New Track/Video: Global beatniks Mauskovic Dance Band present pumping single ‘Face’ from soon-come album ‘Bukaroo Bank’

Amsterdam’s leftfield space disco troubadours Mauskovic Dance Band are getting busy. With their new album ‘Bukaroo Bank’ due 28th October via Bongo Joe, it’s time for a second snapshot to…

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New Track/Video: Dutch space-funksters Mauskovic Dance Band preview new album ‘Bukaroo Bank’ with its spikey title track.

It’s hard to pin down Mauskovic Dance Band. The mischievous Amsterdam four piece, Nicola, Donnie, Marnix and Mano Mauskovic, may playfully take the same surname to preserve some mystique but…

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Live Review: Puma Blue / Lucy Lu & Uma / Harvey Dweller / Chartreuse – Amsterdam, Bristol, London

Jacob Allen better known as Puma Blue is currently on his North American and EU/UK tour. Backseat Mafia’s Cath Dupuy caught Allen at his Amsterdam, Bristol and London gigs. Lucy…

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Track: Weval announce new EP “Changed for the Better” out 12 Nov via Technicolour: Lead single out now

Critically-acclaimed Amsterdam synth duo Weval (aka Harm Coolen and Merijn Scholte Albers) have arrived on Ninja Tune’s Technicolour imprint with news of forthcoming 4-track EP Changed For The Better. Having…

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Track: Tora release feel-good new single and video for ‘Call on Me’

Byron Bay electronic, chillwave 4-piece Tora have just released their smoothly-layered new single Call On Me. The ambient track follows on from Why Won’t You Wait and When Will I…

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EP Review: Rex – Rex

The filthy, dirty, squawling guitars in ‘Punk por Buleria’, the closing track to Dutch band Rex‘s eponymous EP, epitomises why this band is so special and rare. ‘Rex’ (the EP)…

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Track: Rex – Palaces

Amsterdam-based trio Rex have released an epic single ‘Palaces’ which has about it an exciting studied pose and swagger, and a video that captures this band’s cool presence. Singer Jonathan…

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Track: Minimal Compact – Statik Dancing

Influential Dutch post-punks Minimal Compact have announced a new album – ‘Creation is Perfect’, is being released via October 25gh via the bands own Minimal Compact label. It contains new…

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