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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
‘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...
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...
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,...
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...
Who else but the Awesome Tapes From Africa is now re-distributing this funkified, lo-fi production, an amazing find made by AFTA label founder Brian Shimkovitz back in 2002. Originally released in Ghana in 1994, the tape and its unique Afrodisco aesthetic went more or less unheard of for a rough 21 years.
Running a rougher regime, straight from the raucous ranks of East London, come UK grime crew Newham Generals, alias Footsie and D Double E. The duo, notoriously signed to Dizzee Rascal’s Dirtee Stank imprint, is still going strong, representing all that grime culture was and is. While the genre today has seemingly faded into oblivion,...
Sunny Sunday mornings call for a breakfast show full of laid-back vintage grooves brought to you by Ringgo alias MNDSGN, his compadres and an apple. Watch them get together in their Los Angeles-based crib to play some easy vibes, hazy jams and explorative grooves in leisurely manner, sure to kick your day off with the...
