Robert Dietz – Common EP
Robert Dietz’s first release of 2013 saw him produce a five track EP on German-based label Running Back. Eponymous opener ‘Common’ is a stand out, its tight bassline dropping into the rolling percussion and leading …
Moloko – Sing it back (Herbert’s Tasteful Dub)
Bumpy, oddball remix of Moloko’s ‘Sing It Back’ that works a chinking machine rhythm. Released in 1998 but sounding every bit the modern classic.…
FCL – Holding Our Nick
It is hard not to at least make mention of FCL’s last release ‘It’s You’ – a limited 12” which quickly gave rise to inflated Discogs prices and trading of online vinyl rips. It was …
Pelski’s ‘ten tracks’ for Dance Till You’re Dead
One of our favourite blogs, the long-running, Texas-based Dance Till You’re Dead, asked me to contribute the second installment of their new ‘ten tracks’ feature (the first in the series came from Huntleys & Palmers bossman Andrew Thomson).
I’ve …
HNNY – Mys / Kela
Young up-and-coming Stockholm producer HNNY has lived up to the hype with his first release on Let’s Play House. The EP kicks off with a soothing, harmonic vocal, warming up for the ensuing groove. ‘Mys’ …
Mix Of The Week: Studio Barnhus
Our Mix Of The Week goes to Swedish label Studio Barnhus whose three hour set at Space, Ibiza, earlier this summer is chocka block with banging, brittle electronic textures – be it the Detroit snares of Paranoid London, the groove-laden …
Murphy Jax – We and the Machines
A freebie from Chicago house producer Murphy Jax – best known for 2010′s catchy vocal hit ‘It’s The Music’. Here he offers sturdy analogue house and keeps things purely instrumental. The tough machine drum-programming sounds at once old school (with …
Smith N’ Hack – To Our Disco Friends
Released in 2007, this is the oft overlooked B-side to Smith N’ Hack’s chugging remix of ’Moving Like A Train’ by Herbert. It’s an offkilter piece of strutting, guitar-flecked disco.…
Crystal & S. Koshi – Break The Dawn / From Red To Violet
Beats In Space is an online radio show that has wormed its way into the collective psyche thanks in no small part to the charisma and loveable enthusiasm of its host and creator Tim Sweeney. …
Delorean speak out after kidnapping ordeal
Spanish dance band Delorean were recent victims of ‘virtual kidnapping’ in Mexico City, where they were held captive for 30 hours and subjected to psychological torture.
Whilst on tour in Mexico City, the group were taken hostage by kidnappers, alleged …
