In Erol We Trust

For at least three years now the forums, blogs and brightly dressed kids-in-the-know have placed Erol Alkan on a ludicrously high pedestal. He is now an otherworldly being. A deity. But first and foremost he is a man of impeccable …

Destroying Disco…

Destroy Disco are a trio from Sydney whose skills primarily lay in DJing … until (less than) a year ago they decided to try their hands at a little producing. Well, it’s lucky they did. By now you’ll have heard …

Fake Blood’s Got it Twisted

There’s an unending stream of electro/hip hop mash-ups flooding the scene right now. Only recently have I truly come round to the hip hop acapella/electro mash-up. They always used to seem a little tacky; a little too DIY. However, I …

Squeeze Loveys Tight

Trevor Loveys is one of the few standout names in a scene increasingly flooded with wobbly bassline after wobbly bassline. Every new music genre, fad or craze encourages everyone to pick up their laptops, sythesizers and general weird bleepy machinery; …

A huge line-up at the TROUBLE VISION launch. Be There. Pelski will.

You may have been merely stumbling around in the mud at Bestival… or just strolling through the streets of london… or staring at the facing wall of a random urinal… only to be confronted with yet another Trouble …

Robin has not been outdone

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"You lift me up from… the world of falling…"

This post is in response to a mix I’m soon to post, that features this outstanding remix of Veto by Tomboy (AKA Tomas Barford). It was released way back in March (for a secnester bloggers that’s a decade ago) and …

Dance like it’s ’84! Or anytime in the 80′s for that matter…

I can’t get enough of those cheesy, soulful vocal samples right now: whether it’s the sunny crooning of Kidda, Curses’ chipmunk diva-house, Voodoo Chilli’s ‘Look What You’ve Done To Me’, Surkin’s uber-retro sampling or, of course, Armand Van Helden’s tasty …

Pelski’s ‘Current Favourite Artist ‘ poll results

A couple of weeks ago I asked ‘Who Is Your favourite artist right now?’

With 849 votes cast… Crookers is the winner with 375 votes – 44%.

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Crookers	375 (44%)
Fake Blood	196 (23%)
Proxy	144 (16%)
Foamo	73

A-Trak says ‘WHOA’

Hip Hop and electro go way back. The original genre of electro funk spawned from the pumping beats of all things ghettho – be it hip hop, detroit techno, ghettotech or breakbeat. The sythesis of the looped backing beats of …