Voguing and The House Ballroom Scene of New York 1976-96 (Soul Jazz Records)
A highly stylized dance initially developed in New York’s ballrooms during the 1960s, Voguing enjoyed a renaissance with the city’s gay black and Hispanic crowd at the beginning of the 1990s. Until now, treatment of Voguing has largely been confined to the 1990 documentary Paris Is Burning or more widely through Madonna’s ‘Vogue’ released in...
Spicelab – A Day On Our Planet
Oliver Lieb is responsible for an enormous amount of extremely high quality techno/trance, and his Spicelab album A Day On Our Planet, is up there as one of his best and most ingenious. Released in 1994, a year even before his groundbreaking Rendezvous In Outer Space, this second Spicelab album A Day On Our Planet sounds...
The RAH Band Re-edited
The RAH Band were a studio group put together by the English producer Richard Anthony Hewson. Now 67 years old, Hewson drew dubious inspiration from his initials and formed the band in 1977, putting together and releasing singles comprising a mixture of collaborative live performance and rudimentary electronic synthesis and drum programming. One of those...
Thundercat – The Golden Age of the Apocalypse
Just when you thought the Brainfeeder camp was becoming the benchmark for what many a blogger likes to refer to as “Glitch Hop” and “Wonky”, the label headed by Steven Ellison (better known as Flying Lotus) took a couple of unforeseen left turns and released a string of albums that presented the powerhouse label in...
Arthur Russell – The World Of Arthur Russell
This essential collection of Russell’s most potent productions is as comprehensive an introduction to his work as you’re likely to find. Intelligent and immaculately produced, this is demanding dance music which, like Russell himself, blurred the boundaries between the avant-garde and the Downtown New York club scene of the eighties. On the one hand, Russell...
Mina May – Everything Was Beautiful And Nothing Hurt
If the Beach Boys come back to musical earth as a robot super roadster, the name for that car tearing up the coast will likely be called a Mina May. Sure, there are 60′s surf rock elements to this record, that is, until the guitars come up against a wall of electric organs and complex...
Deaf Center – Pale Ravine
While there really isn’t a perfect album since it just depends on the mood your in, it’s very difficult to find a time or place I don’t love listening to Deaf Center’s 2005 release Pale Ravine. The ‘Modern Classical’ term gets thrown around a lot these days. Pale Ravine deserves it’s own genre, it’s that...
Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
These are the sounds to listen to whilst wading through high grass on an unexpectedly sunny day. These are the warm lagoons we long for after a harsh winter. The auditory beauty of Merriweather Post Pavilion arrived on the scene in January of 2009, when Animal Collective released its eighth (and most recent) studio album....
Leftfield – Rhythm and Stealth
The end of the 20th century brought us the second and final album of one of the underdogs of electronic music; Leftfield´s Rhythm and Stealth is raw, precise and impressively advanced for its time. Leftfield were Paul Daley (formerly A Man called Adam and Brand New Heavies) and Neil Barnes. After the 1995 multi-platinum debut...
Björk’s Biophilia
One of the most innovative and anticipated releases of the year, Björk’s seventh studio album is an epic multimedia adventure and the Icelandic artist’s most ambitious project to date. Binding music, nature and technology together with her own unique brand of eccentric and joyous electronica, Biophilia is the work of an artist at the height...
“Everybody Sweat” by Duke Slammer: Funky and on Vinyl!
Duke Slammer has just burst on to the scene with his huge package (chichi) of funky synth goodies for all cultured listeners and DJ’s out there who like to broaden their horizons. Officially released on November 14th these nu-funk monsterjams have been on heavy rotation as promos all over Europe with rave reviews from all...
Goldie – The Jungle “Big” Brother
The trouble kid, the urban legend, the godfather of jungle and its art.
A short time travel through Goldie “Timeless” album, its surroundings and its relevance.
