When it comes to electronic music, Bristol’s history stands taller than most. Think back to the reggae/hip-hop soundsystems sound of Smith & Mighty and Full Cycle’s drum & bass legacy, right through to today’s bass/ house innovation from Julio Bashmore, Eats Everything et al. Born and bred in the city, Jody Wisternoff’s 25-year musical journey [...]
Human Woman – Human Woman
Forging a fantastic fusion of modern electronic pop, Human Woman are the new signing on Hamburg’s HFN Records. Originally hailing from Iceland, the band consists of Gisli Galdur Thorgeirsson of prolific Icelandic band Trabant, and producer Jón Atli Helgason aka Sexy Lazer. Now after the launch of their debut single, ‘Delusional‘, with its sensual, indie-dance [...]
Oxia – Tides of Mind
Almost eight years after the release of “24 Heures” (on Goodlife), Oxia, pioneer of the French Techno scene, is back in 2012 with a surprising new LP entitled “Tides of Mind“. Deep, melodic, soulful and irresistibly groovy! For “Tides of Mind”, Oxia put aside the trendy electronic patterns and to move back to his earliest “Black Music” influences. [...]
Dave Aju – Heirlooms
After a string of successful collaborations and remixes – including an ace on one of ours, Nicolas Jaar‘s ‘Space Is Only Noise’, we are delighted to present Dave Aju’s sophomore album, Heirlooms. It’s always exciting to hear new music from Mr. Aju, as he consistently offers a fresh approach to the usual dance music formulas [...]
Marc Miroir – Hitting Home
‘Hitting Home’ is a dream come true. In the life of Marc Miroir who is on tour every weekend and every holiday of the year, ‘Home’ gets an extra meaning. It is in front of the crowded dance-floors he is at home. Here he knows best what buttons to push. Like he does in the [...]
Call Me Kat – When the River Turns Black
Where The River Turns Black is the first international album by Copenhagen Resident and Musician Katrine Ottosen aka Call me Kat. Call Me Kat are adorably intense and mesmerizing songs, an enchanting melancholic, almost translucent drift into this sonic world best described as alternative pop, music that gives spoken word of the ever-expanding Danish music [...]
Lovelock – Burning Feeling
With releases on Kompakt, Permanent Vacation, Eskimo and K7, Steve Moore aka Zombi, aka Gianni Rossi, and now Lovelock is a man whose sound is truly beginning to permeate the ether wherever we go. Lovelock is big 80´s production, infected discoid power pop, the kind of which would fit perfectly into the neon lit backdrop [...]
Charlie Daniels Band – Live at Rockpalast
Charlie was born in 1936 in North Carolina, which he left for Nashville, Tennessee, at the end of the 1960s. There he worked as a session musician and played on several Bob Dylan albums and some recordings by Leonhard Cohen. In 1970 he released his debut solo album, entitled Charlie Daniels. His first Charlie Daniels [...]
Flask Fiktion – Flask Fiktion
An unspectacular grey strip of bookmakers, fast food joints and run-down boozers in South London may not be the healthiest nor most salubrious place for three young men to congregate assiduously in a windowless room for the best part of two years. Indeed, under such circumstances imaginations may begin to run wildly out of sync [...]
Kasper Bjorke – Fool
“Fool”, the “tongue in cheek” self-ironic entitled third album, is another tour de force in Kasper Bjorke’s signature production style – this time wrapped up as a concept album to be released internationally on Fool’s day April 1, 2012 (locally 6th April). The versatile Copenhagen producer and DJ follows up on his successful sophomore solo album from 2010 “Standing [...]
Kris Menace – Electric Horizon
This spring Kris Menace releases his long awaited second album, called “Electric Horizon“, on Compuphonic, following up his 2009 released 3CD album “Idiosyncrasies”, that had been sold out within a few weeks only after its release. “Electric Horizon” is proof that Kris Menace is one of the true inventors of nu-disco sound, updating the “Discopolis” [...]
Shifted – Crossed Paths
Shifted’s ‘Crossed Paths’ is a record which pushes the formal possibilities of techno. ‘Crossed Paths’ is the first full-length work to be released on Luke Slater’s Mote-Evolver label and the scope of the album format takes Shifted’s vision to the next level. Shifted furthers his exploration into ominous resonances which he began in 2011 on [...]
Joe Jackson – Live at Rockpalast
There are very few documents on film that present rock artists at the zenith of their career and even fewer that cast a light on the beginning. For the album “I’m The Man” he posed as a black market peddler and kept singing tunes of anger and revenge, this time added by wonderful ballads like [...]
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