October 2011
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September 2011
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garage ustream session
To celebrate September’s anomalous heatwave, Skipple and I played some garage. Check the recording here.
March 2011
6 posts
Smiley Culture Hosting Channel 4 show Clubmix
Jukenglework
The rhythm connection between Jungle and Juke / Footwork can be measured at one hundred and sixty beats per minute. Well above the heart rate pound and dancefloor regulating ‘one forty’ bpm at half time. Some variation is accepted but less common. They are also both hectic and full of full on percussive clatter. There is also the space between; which can be euphoric or just brutally...
Smiley Culture RIP
I’m very sad to hear the news about the passing of legendary UK MC / deejay Smiley Culture. Especially in the reported circumstances, currently the subject of an IPCC investigation.
It’s important to remember how culturally significant he was. The first black British street voice to have a chart hit. He made it possible for authentic British voices with real conscious narratives to...
promotional demonstrator of music technologies
“The primary purpose of this music data assembly is to demonstrate the latest musical developments I’m involved with in addition to other musical workers. So in summary, it is a promotional demonstrator of music technologies.”
Heinrich Mueller explores the zwischenwelt for Resident Advisor. mp3
September 2010
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Terror Danjah: Undeniable (Hyperdub HDB007)
Terror Danjah has always stood out from his peers. His track Poltergeist encapsulated everything that was great about grime back in 2004. It was raw, kinetic and odd. It was the sound of grime maturing from post garage mutation into a genre in its own right. It was music clearly made on its own terms and it was, to lazily use this album’s title, undeniable.
Grime, more recently, has become...
August 2010
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No Jokin Jus' Jukin' Footwurkin' No Workin'
My little juke and footwurk ustream session. None of my face.
June 2010
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RIP RAMM:ELL:ZEE
“We failed what could have been “Our” culture. I went to the Puck Building (Guernsey’s Auction) in June of the year 2000 and offered my services. Everyone who was anyone in this “sub culture” had works for sale. No one sold, except for a few. I felt that the “culture” died right there. There was too much “mannerism ” not enough “burner”!!! Our futurism! We should have only stuck to doing...
May 2010
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@davequam badman
@davequam is running one of my favourite blogs right now. It’s After the End of the World doesn’t have a particularly well defined remit, and it’s great for it, but you’ll find posts about noisenik Kevin Drumm alongside posts exploring music from variously scattered global diasporas.
His blog has lead me to joining Dutch social networking sites just to get in touch with...
February 2010
2 posts
Kuedo: Dream Sequence EP
My review of Kuedo’s Dream Sequence EP is up on FACT. Below is a well put together unofficial video of the track.
November 2009
1 post
Marcus Nasty: Rinse 10
My review of Marcus Nasty’s largely disappointing Rinse mix on Fact Magazine
Expect more from me on Fact soon, as well as more FNL posts.
September 2009
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Ikonika: synth conductor
Planet Mu’s recent exemplary form continues with a release from Hyperdub synth conductor Ikonika.
I always imagine Ikonika’s music as a soundtrack to one of Phillip K Dick’s tales detailing future-now, social-psychotropic collapses; a paranoid / schizoid take on the real. And these Planet Mu tracks Smuck and We Could Be Ikons are just that.
Ikonika’s melodies always sit at odds with their...
July 2009
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Chase me baby!
The wind up and release pop RnB slam of AM to PM has always been a pure rush for me and for that alone Milian holds weight here. 8 years on from that track and a torrent of largely forgettable singles later, Milian has shapeshifted into an omnipotent neomythical beast. On Chameleon, produced by The Dream, she lists her prowess, not unlike any next RnB artist’s narcissistic self bigging up,...
March 2009
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Dubbage: An Interview with Tippa from Circle
Recently you might have heard the term ‘Dubbage’ being bandied about on London pirate radio station Rinse FM, mainly stemming from the shows of the Circle camp, Gumbo and others. In March 09 the term seems to be gaining considerable momentum and is being referenced on forums, mainly in the form of the question ‘what is Dubbage?’ Ever curious about genre mutations, I was keen to find out more...
January 2009
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Ode to Headphones
There’s something majestic about the total immediate connection with the music headphones give you. Contrasted with the pure submersion provided by a stack of amped up speakers, it is of course a very different thing. A closed, rather than open, listening experience. Totally antisocial. It’s just you and your tracks; their acoustics juggling the air between your ears and phones....