Digging Deep: Tenderlonious

As you’ll have seen from our recent review of Henry Wu’s Negotiate EP, the tight-knit Peckham-based collective drawn together under the banner of 22a Records have really been catching our fancy of late. Musically speaking their sultry organicity is becoming … Read More

State of Play: Auntie Flo & Esa, Wbeeza, The Traxxmen and Mister Saturday Night are our tips for this month’s House edition.

Highlife World Series: Cuba

First up, we’ve the first in Auntie Flo & Esa‘s latest project Highlife World Series – a collaborative snapshot of sound from various places of interest around the world. HIGHLIFE01 is the culmination of a handful of studio … Read More

UE.24: Chet Matuto

Every so often you stumble across a track that has you scrambling for an ID on contact. That track for me a few weeks ago was Zurich-based Chet Matuto‘s ‘Mund Rethink’ (via Lek‘s consistently quality podcast series) – cinematic 170 … Read More

Matthew Styles picks some heavy hitters ahead of Hideout

Having appeared on a slew of high-profile labels in recent years including Gerd Janson’s Running Back, Tamed Musiq and Ostgut Ton, English-born Berlin resident Matthew Styles draws influence from a melting pot of sound both in his productions and in … Read More

!K7 To Reissue Kruder & Dorfmeister’s ‘K&D Sessions’ on 5 LP Set

The mother of all reissues in 2015 – !K7 Records are set to re-release Kruder & Dorfmeister‘s seminal K&D Sessions in April nearly twenty years after its original release. A sumptuous 5xLP 180g package truly worthy of the source material and it’s … Read More

Preview: Erol Alkan – Sub Conscious (Kamera Remix)

Here’s some fresh new music to help kick-start your weekend: new Phantasy signing Kamera on the remix for Erol Alkan‘s FabricLive.77 show-stopper ‘Sub Conscious’. This is some introduction to the Phantasy family indeed – if this sound carries into Kamera’s … Read More

Five Essentials: The Boo | ClekClekBoom

ClekClekBoom is fast becoming the premier exponent of finely-crafted Parisien techno, a sound that replaces the somewhat erstwhile French House’s playful bravado for a more rugged, subterranean feel in 2015. Adrien Creuse aka. The Boo has been co-running ClekClekBoom since 2011 with … Read More

Free Download: Levon Vincent – Self Titled LP

An early contender for album of the year and one of the most startling free giveaways of recent times on par with In Rainbows‘ ‘honesty box’. It’s not just the quality of content that stands out here – Levon’s cinematic … Read More

Repress Roundup #3

For Disco Only – Six

Quirky, wavey, all those lovely adjectives to describe this beast of a record from Mehmet Aslan that first saw the light of day early last year. The A side is a shuffling edit of this … Read More

State of Play – February: House

Let’s dive straight in eh?

On a personal crusade to unearth all those rare grooves you’re never likely to find tucked away underneath the ladies jeans’ rack at your local charity shop is everyone’s favourite distributor Rush Hour Music. Their … Read More