house/techno
Album Review: Shit Robot – We got a Love
Out today on DFA records is the new, second album from Dublin’s Marcus Lambkin aka Shit Robot. Recorded in Germany and New York, the record features a whole load of guests, including LCD Soundsystem‘s Nancy Whang, Museum of Love and Luke Jenner from The Rapture, plus comedian Reggie Watts, hip-house hero Lidell Townsell and also …
See: Julio Bashmore Releases Video for Peppermint
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 …
Track: Mr Scruff – Render Me, plus new album news
It doesn’t seem like nearly six years since Mr. Scruff last released a studio album, but it is. It’s not so much that we’ve missed him, it’s just he seems such an omnipresent, especially in my house. His brilliant Trouser Jazz is still never far from my turntable (and his other albums, including his said …
Album Review: Nate Connelly – A dream about being lost
Since graduating from Leeds College of Music a decade ago, St. Annes born Nate Connolly has concentrated on writing and scoring film scores, totaling approaching a couple of dozen. But he does have a history with hard house, raves and drum and bass dating back to his teens. At first sound, it seems like one …
Album Review: Pompeya – Tropical Remixed
Following hot on the heels of their first US release, Tropical – an album that showed that pop/funk/disco/new wave (yes, really, all of those things) could convincingly be mashed together into dancefloor sized pieces and thrown out there all the way from Moscow, comes Tropical Remixed. It’s an album that does exactly what it says …
Exclusive: Benny Maths makes Valentines Mix for Backseat Mafia
On this, the prequel to the most romantic of days, we’ve managed to secure Sheffield (vinyl only) beatmaster Benny Maths, and tie him down to an exclusive mix. as we all arrive back from hushed visits to clothes/cards/tat emporiums, or Asda, so we need that perfect soundtrack for the given outcome of the day, whether …
Track: Boski – Give it Up
I don’t really feel like dancing this morning. In fact, to be perfectly fair I don’t feel like dancing most of the time, unless its been a really long night. But if anything were to get me out of my seat right now, it would be Boski’s ‘Give It Up’. The London DJ is beginning …
See: A Minor releases video for Thinking bout the things, plus release details
The weather is awful today. The wind is howling through the trees, my journey to work on the motorway was frankly awful as the lorries veered every time we got out into the open air as the wind hit them, and there are bins and clothes and buckets and whatever else all over the road …
Album Review: Debukas – I am Machinery
John Clark knows his stuff. Already creating a buzz with his three EP releases over on the 2020 vision label, he, under his moniker Debukas produces music that shows a deep understanding of the history of both techno and house music. His tunes might not fit neatly into those genres, but have elements of both, …
New Music: Pompeya – 90 (Fred Falke Remix), plus US tour dates
I’m in a good mood this morning and its due to 90 – a combined effort from Moscow’s Pompeya and remixed by French super-producer Fred Falke. The Russian band; Daniil Brod, Denis Agafonov, Sasha Lipskiy and Nairi Simonian, make this sort of disco infused indie rock, showered with harmonies and these synth lines that worm …