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I’ve just stood in the extreme cold and watched my son, seemingly unbothered by the wind and temperature, play football. I’m between naps on the sofa, and badly in need of some energy. Cue my email bleeping with the very thing. It’s Drake’s lean, mean attitude driven machine of a single of the same name, …

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 Bull Music Academy’s Bass Camp, had a track on the front of Mixmag, and done remixes for Sasha’s Last Night on Earth label. Now he’s …

Dalston Kingsland, half-eight on a dreary Thursday night, the capital greasily covered with filthy spring rain. This is not at all in keeping with the spirit of the record we’re here to receive, not at all.  Fortunately The Fruitful Earth couldn’t give a flying fuck what it’s like outside. The Servant Jazz Quarters stage is …

Sometimes it does what it says on the tin – but elsewhere track sequencing and the mix mean that this album ultimately frustrates. Joan Wasser is not alone as an artist whose first shot at a full-length remains their best some years later. “Real Life” is an excellent LP and still easily bosses “To Survive” …

I’ve just been playing hide and seek with my little boy. If it weren’t for his constant giggling I’d get worried sometimes, as he seems to be able to think a little left of centre. Not for him behind the curtains or under the table – he managed to wedge himself behind the door of …

Comfortable in each other’s company and confident in the development of their music, on the cusp of releasing their next single, this three-piece are enjoying the way things are going. “It all makes sense” they tell Nick Pett. The Clore Ballroom is a calm hollow in the middle of the Royal Festival Hall building, cheerfully …

Who’s got the key to your heart? So say’s Danish singer Fallulah (a.k.a. Maria Apetri) quite insistently in her new song, Dragons. W’ve met her before (not actually you understand, but in terms of her music) Name-checked by just about everyone as one of the ones to watch, we first caught up with her when …

Some people have to change names, for lots of reasons. I had an English teacher that changed her name from Miss Pratt to, actually I can’t remember,  but she was still known as Miss Pratt to everyone. Making your way in the music and film world is always rather a treacherous path, but one made …

The Orb are very reminiscent of a time in my life when, it is fair to say, I did a lot of chillin’. I was a research student but, unlike most of my peers, used to get up very early and get my work done by lunchtime. I would then spend long afternoons listening to …