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The 405 Records Club // Sajama Cut

by Ben Mainwaring

The 405 Records Club follows Ben from Lazy Acre Records as he pontificates on random things and then presents a new free mp3 every fortnight. Sajama Cut and Record Store Day It's been difficult to go anywhere on the blogosphere this week without seeing any mention of Record Store Day and without wanting to be labelled as one of the crowd thatâs exactly what I want to talk about today. As something of a âcomic relief for the music shopâ, held on a yearly basis to try an... (continued) [read more]

The 405 Records Club // Cat Matador

by Ben Mainwaring

The 405 Records Club follows Ben from Lazy Acre Records as he pontificates on random things and then presents a new free mp3 every week. So I finally took the plunge. After months of sneaking sly glances and a lot of internet based "in private" browsing,Â I've finally succumbed to my fetish and bought an ipad. The fact that I bought an ipad the week ipad2 hits the shelves is not mere coincidence. Indeed its exactly the bargain-ously priced offer that finally broke my will and s... (continued) [read more]

The 405 Records Club // Uno MÃ¸ller

by Ben Mainwaring

The 405 Records Club follows Ben from Lazy Acre Records as he pontificates on random things and then presents a new free mp3 every week. I donât know if you have seen it yet but Jamie Oliver seems to have hung up his apron for a short while and headed out to try and turn around the educational shortcomings of some of the nations kids. "These kids have no GCSE's!" he cries, "No-ones here for us" bleat the kids. "Your fat!" claimed a clearly pissed off David Starkey to one jump... (continued) [read more]

The 405 Records Club // Lucy Swann

by Ben Mainwaring

Well what a week its been. Royal wedding plans, Governments are toppling, we nearly lose to the Dutch at cricket, Radiohead broke the music industry again (or did they?!) and yet almost none of this entered my little bubble until about Wednesday this week, having spent most of the previous seven days ice skating my way around downtown Oslo for the annual by:Larm Festival. I donât want to ramble here about this now (A full review and some videos, tracks, photos, Spotify lists etc... (continued) [read more]

Lucy Swann // My Life In Records

by Ben Mainwaring

Having moved to Norway aged 9, Lucy Swann this week returns to the UK as a flagship act to represent Oslo based festival Ãya , who have packaged her and Team Me (a band who I have professed my love for at least a thousand times in the last week) together and sent them to England to let those not in the know, get a flavour ofÂ exactlyÂ how immense theÂ Norwegian music scene is right now.Â Having long maintained that you can tell far more about a person from their record collection... (continued) [read more]

The 405 Records Club // Sin Fang

by Ben Mainwaring

This article started out in a slightly different form a year or so back but on reading this article a week or so ago it struck me that actually now is as pertinent a time as ever to talk about it. The article Iâve just linked to is news of the earth shattering news that starting now major labels are going to be making tracks available on iTunes et al at the same time as they're being played on the radio!. I saw Trevor Nelson on the BBC Breakfast news a few days back talking abo... (continued) [read more]

The 405 Records Club // Smile

by Ben Mainwaring

The 405 Records Club - Smile (or how I learned to stop worrying and love festival hipsters. or not) I'm making a lot of plans this week. Some personal, some work, some label, lots of lists and tick boxes and flowcharts. Its all rather organised for me and means that for once, one of my new years resolutions has made it past new years night unscathed. The main focus of a lot of these endless lists right now is the impending by:larm festival over in Oslo next month where all hell... (continued) [read more]