Slowed Down Paranoid Funk
When it comes to pushing musical boundaries Delroy Edwards is as real as they come because, quite frankly, he doesn't seem to care about, what you or anyone else thinks. If you can't feel what he's feeding you, then you're free to go eat somewhere else. But if you're willing to try, to listen and...
Mild High Club
Already runner-up for band name of the year in my book, Stones Throw’s Mild High Club is set to release its debut LP “Timeline” on September 18th. Alexander Brettin, former singer and guitarist of the Chicago-based Soft Candy unit, having previously recorded/performed with musically like-minded creative artists such as Ariel Pink, “I Like To Stay...
The Genevan Heathen Presents: G-Funk Anthology
Have you ever wondered how everything seems to be connected? How in life, as long as you keep moving, things around you will move along with you, mirroring your momentum and creating an indelible chain of personal events? It never seizes to amaze me how one thing will lead to the next, how one idea...
Dego & Kaidi Return
Yes, these two cats are still very much alive and jamming, which is exciting news to anyone familiar with the broken beat-pioneering output of UK heavyweights Bugz In The Attic and 4hero. True forces of musical nature in their own right, Dennis “Dego” McFarlane (4hero/2000Black) and Kaidi “Kat” Tatham (Agent K/Bugz In the Attic/2000Black) pair...
Far Out Indeed
Brooklyn-based futuristic funk outfit King Mono, alias producers Little Shalimar and Jerry Wilms, just aired the new music video to “Far Out”, a track off their latest album Bump In The Night and all I can say is, well it’s so far out! The visuals feature clips from the 1956 sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet, but...
Know About It
Time to kick off the summer season in style, head outside and spread those good vibes, letting people know, what there is to know about it. Now if you didn’t know, Manchester has a blossoming Hiphop scene, headlined by class acts such as The Mouse Outfit as well as high-octane wordsmiths the likes of Mad...
Enter the Wu
Taiwan/South London product Henry Wu is straight trailblazing at the moment, pushing forth a pair of brilliantly soulful and skillfully tightknit releases on Alexander Nut’s Eglo Records related Ho Tep imprint as well as on Berlin-based Odd Socks Records respectively. Both releases feature a fine selection of keys-driven, melodic house gems and beats with a...
Blameful Isles
While preparing a recent post on Heidelberg’s Radio Juicy imprint and browsing through their superb selections, I came upon “The Soft Weed Factor” mix by Blameful Isles, which struck me quite simply as different: distinct yet familiar, rooted in a jazz-drenched souliverse of crisp rhythms and melodic bliss, here were sounds most definitely worth exploring....
The Lake Radio
‘Can there be a sound, if there is no one to hear it?’ Originally launched in August 2014, The Lake Radio is a freeform non-profit online radio station from Copenhagen, curating and streaming cutting-edge sounds in all their ambient glory. “The Lake started with a metaphor because we had this gigantic pool of music, which...
Night Walkin’
Day in day out many of us live for the night, hoping it will bring the unexpected pleasures we love so dearly, accompanied by those tunes that take us away and keep us stepping. Surfacing at the tail end of 2011, Glasgow duo MermaidS have done just that, releasing a slew of quality House and...
Island of Murko
Slovenian producer Žiga Murko first popped onto my radar with a brilliant pair of Hiphop releases, alias the Green Room and most recently the Purple Room. So I dug a little deeper and let’s just say, there’s more where that came from: A musician first and formemost, Murko is enviably adept at composition and arrangement,...
The Juice Bar
Straight from the juicy green hills of Heidelberg comes this fruitful imprint, peddling the freshest produce from Germany’s burgeoning underground Hiphop scene. Officially clouding the airwaves since 2012 Radio Juicy was initially launched as a weekly radio show, but with the support of like-minded Urban Waves Records, quickly evolved into a top-notch record label, releasing...