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Album Review: Echoes Of Zoo – ‘Collective Intelligence’: Stunning post-rock jazz with a world of influences.

Coming out of the bold Belgian jazz scene of the late twenty-tens, Echoes of Zoo seem determined to sustain the vital sonic energy from those days with their third album…

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Album Review: Dave Mech – Berlin Seite

The core idea behind “Berlin Seite” is old school: capture the raw, unfiltered energy of a live techno performance in a dark club night oozing of energy. Every track on the 10‑track…

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LP Compilation Review: Don Letts – The Rebel Dread @ Echo Beach

Echo Beach proudly presents: Don Letts – The Rebel Dread – legendary film and video director, disc jockey and musician. Don Letts, in his capacity as a selector (it’s not for…

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Track/Video : Experimental beats explorer I Am Fya previews her ‘Homeland’ album with the pounding power of ‘i2i’.

It’s seems like quite a while since we’ve had any recorded output from Manchester’s electronic experimentalist I Am Fya. Well over a year ago she delivered The Sun Will Kill…

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Album Review: Fluxion – Haze

Since his early days at Chain Reaction, K. Soublis (Fluxion) has carved his own unique style, combining elements of dub, ambient, techno, score, textural, and even jazz elements, all glued…

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Track: Madeleine teams up with dub legend Max Romeo, for persuasive new single Send The Praises Up

Madelaine’s new single Send The Praises Up, a collaboration with Jamaican reggae legend Max Romeo, is a soulful celebration of gratitude and resilience. Released on Jah Wheel Records, the track…

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EP Review: David Heine, Konstantin Kost – Freedom From Escape

Erich Fromm‘s “Escape from Freedom” was published 83 years ago. His assumption was that modern man, having freed himself from the shackles of the old days and living freely, longs…

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Preview: Asian Dub Foundation – 94-Now

Asian Dub Foundation celebrate 30 years with a collection of collaborations featuring Iggy Pop, Sinead O' Connor, Primal Scream and more

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Album Review : Champagne Dub – ‘Rainbow’ : Space-dub and cosmic grooves with a distinct kick.

There are ‘drummers’ and there are ‘more than drummers’. ‘Drummers’ play the drums very well as they move from gig to gig, band to band, session to session. ‘More than…

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Meet: Post Punk legend and all round nice guy – Jah Wobble

October 17, 2023

So, when I set up this interview with Jah Wobble (thanks to Ian Cheek PR), I was warned to keep any mention of football until the end, otherwise I’d never…

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