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3rd May

  • Champion - Prince Jammy/Hydra

    Champion - Prince Jammy/Hydra

    by Al Kennedy

    The last couple of years have been big for Champion. Having emerged from the underground as one of the brightest lights in the nascent, now hybridised UK Funky/Grime club scene, unleashing killer jams like 'Crystal Meth' on Butterz, along with releases on Roska's Kicks & Snares label, the forming of his own highly promising Formula Records imprint, the securing of a contract with Shy FX's Digital Soundboy and a high profile collaboration with Terror Danjah for Hyperdub. [read more]

25th May

  • Madegg – Teach [EP]

    Madegg – Teach [EP]

    by Joe Taylor

    That Kyoto beatmaker Kazumichi Komatsu is only 19 is food for thought enough. That some of the tracks on Teach were produced almost three years ago boggles the mind. For the maturity of composition that runs through his sixth (sixth!) EP as Madegg suggests the input of one much more advanced in years. [read more]

18th May

  • Portasound - The Second Renaissance [EP]

    Portasound - The Second Renaissance [EP]

    by Daniel Gill

    If there ever was a movie made of animated kids series Ulysses 31, Portasound would be the band perfect for the soundtrack. For those who know it, the imagery and sounds should rush back to you. And you should now have a feeling as to what kind of music Portasound make. For those of you who have never heard of Ulysses 31, it's a fantasy/sci-fi kids show from the 90's. [read more]

24th April

  • Tortoise - Lonesome Sound

    Tortoise - Lonesome Sound

    by David Zammitt

    Tortoise don't lend themselves easily to categorisation. They rose out of the fertile Chicago jazz scene of the early 90s, but since their debut almost eighteen years ago they have hopped from genre to genre, underpinned by a jazz sensibility that drove them to strike out in unexpected directions, but producing music that could hardly be considered alongside even the most avant garde of the genre, 1998's TNT excepted. [read more]

26th February

  • Yalls – Fantasy

    Yalls – Fantasy

    by Daniel Gill

    It's hard to put a stamp on which music Dan Casey, aka Yalls, makes. When I saw the artist name and read that he makes funky electro, without hearing any of the EP, I immediately thought of the Swiss dance duo Yello... [read more]

17th February

  • Olympians - The Great Gatsby

    Olympians - The Great Gatsby

    by Wil Cook

    The Great Gatsby starts in much the same way as earlier single Foreign Language, a glitchy keyboard drone begins aching through your speakers, but a lot has changed for Olympians since that release. From playing a show with an orchestra, to stripping down for acoustic shows and performing good and loud all over the country with Tubelord. The hard work appears to be paying off, because when you sit and listen to The Great Gatsby, you hear a much more refined and confident band. [read more]

28th October

17th July

  • Catherine Demo Impressions - Hardly Following The Flock

    Catherine Demo Impressions - Hardly Following The Flock

    by D.S Wadeson

    Atlus is a legendary publisher/developer given to totally tongue-in-cheek press releases full of self-reflexive nods to the industry (such as their faux-announcing all future Atlus games would be announced through the ESRB) and generally taking it upon themselves to deliver gaming mana from Japan to the RPG starved multitudes of the western world. [read more]

13th April

  • Brigitte Aphrodite - I Dream Myself Awake

    Brigitte Aphrodite - I Dream Myself Awake

    by Matthew Grundy

    If you've been at a Kate Nash show lately, there's a good chance you've seen Brigitte Aphrodite, and frankly you'd remember her. Comfortably nestled in the cleavage of music and comedy, she rules a world of her own creation: part Ziggy Stardust, part Victoria Wood. Brigitte has acted as tour support for Nash over the last couple of months, and by all accounts has been bowling over unsuspecting audiences left, right and centre. 'I Dream Myself Awake' is her debut single on Kate Nash's new H... [read more]

9th April

  • My First Tooth - Sleet and Snow

    My First Tooth - Sleet and Snow

    by Joe Baldwin

    Sleet & Snow lifts My First Tooth up to the well deserved level that many Folk-Pop artists spend a life time aspiring to achieve. The calm, mellow sound of Sleet and Snow from the Northampton locals, makes you want to pull a stem of ripening wheat from a field and rest it between your lips while leaning back in a hay stuffed wheel barrow watching the sun set gently below a late summer horizon. Although perhaps a touch too wistful and whimsical to make this a nugget that every music fan tri... [read more]

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