Congas, Fruit Loops and Donuts

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February: Pelski Highly Recommends Chart

Remember to pick up these tracks from beatport, juno or my new favourite boomkat, where you can preview whole tracks.

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SMD Can Dance

The Italo-dance of DJ Hell’s latest ‘U Can Dance’ feautures Bryan Ferry on the vocals. The two met in 2006 when DJ Hell visited Ferry’s West London Studio. The original is interesting – however the remix package is doubly as …

Free CTM Compilation Download

For the 11th edition of Club Transmediale, Berlin’s quirky festival for music and related visual arts, De:Bug and zero inch are giving away the official audio compilation as a free download exclusively from zero-inch.com between January 15 and February 7, …

Budding it in ’97

Back in 1997 DJ Sneak simply couldn’t nail the sample on his latest tracks – the loop wasn’t working; it sounded awkward and jarring. So he reached for his trusty bag of weed and, supposedly, instantly smoothed the track out. …

Makin’ straight A’s

Amsterdam’s Homework have turned away from the overcooked electro-filth sound, and aligned themselves more closely to to the kooky, minimal house of new hipster royalty Deadfish and Sound Pellegrino. If that sounds cynical to you, don’t fear: judging …

Where the Submarines Go

The driving forces behind the French underground, have brought forth a new addition to the deep house agenda, and are giving YCCMP an exclusive head ups with their sounds. Those who guard the deepest of the deep, have brought a …

Housey Mngo

What with everyone going a bit Joy Orbison mad – next month sees ‘The Shrew’ EP add to his increasingly consistent and captivating line of productions (check it out here) – I thought I’d post a couple of surprisingly …

Future Garage?

Garage has been undergoing a bit of a revival of late – transferring the skippy percussion of 2-step to the dubstep and funky formulas. Some are calling it ‘future garage’ or ‘post-garage’, others ‘space garage’. I’ve been calling it dubstep-2-step …

Budding it in ’97