Clarach Rave Tapes Vol 2 – LMajor
Clarach Rave Tapes 2 is mixed by one of my favourite DJs at the moment Mr LMajor (WNCL/Local Group/ Ritual Poison). Packed arses to elbows with searing Hardcore, Face-melting Breakbeat and Darksid...
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Ark Prose / Cadence EP
Cadence by Ark Prose Cadence EP is packed arses to elbows with sparse miserablist atmospherics and driving staccato rhythmic elements underpinning long string pads that that sound as though they wo...
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Tune of the day #125: Tribe 8 – Wrong Bathroom
I'll end this week of Punk and New-Wave stuff with something from a much later period. I first heard this track from Tribe 8's '96 'Snarkism' album via a mixtape from me old mate Gareth Postans, ... read more -
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Tune of the day #124: The Cure – A Forest
Growing up listening to John Peel whilst trying and failing to be as awesome as the older lads meant, among other things, a relatively early introduction to the Cure. As I'm concentrating on Post... read more -
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Tune of the day #123: Buzzcocks – Orgasm Addict
To my mind one of the greatest songs ever written, by one of the greatest bands ever, certainly my favourite punk band. Hearing Buzzcocks for the first time as a weeun (11 maybe) changed my whol... read more -
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Tune of the day #122: Vivien Goldman – Launderette
A beautiful dubby post punk breakup number from the year of my birth here. Sadly I don't own this one, and since Madlib sampled it, it's gone to 50 squids for a 7 on Discogs.... too rich for my blood... read more -
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Tune of the day #121: Dead Kennedys – Moon Over Marin
I could dig a little deeper and find some awesome unheard B-Side, but fuck that bollocks! There's nothing I like more than an accidental pop record and there's no better than this; powerful, illustra... read more -
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Ill Considered 6 – Ill Considered
Yet another incredible release from Ill Considered here. Recorded just over a year ago, Ill Considered 6 sees the group hone their improvisation and sound. !!WARNING!! --- Its about to get... read more -
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Tune of the day #120: Martha and the Muffins – Trance and Dance
This week I'm focusing on New Wave and Punk stuff. In that spirit, it would be criminal of me to forget this funky spiralling organ banger from Martha and the Muffins. Some tidy breaks in it for the ... read more -
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Tune of the day #119: James Chance & The Contortions – Contort Yourself
I fancy doing a week of non-darnce mostly Post-Punk and Punk numbers this week, for a bit of a change, so, let's kick this rainy, icy motherfucking week off with a bit of narsty avant-garde jazz punk... read more -
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Tune of the Day #118: Maze – Joy & Pain
Sunday Mate, still on the couch, spent the last fucking hour trying to reclaim a silkscreen, what a ballache! However, just like today's tune of the day where there's pain, there's joy too. Frankie ... read more -
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Ill Considered 6 – Ill Considered
Yet another incredible release from Ill Considered here. Recorded just over a year ago, Ill Considered 6 sees the group hone their improvisation and sound. !!WARNING!! --- Its about to get... read more -
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3 X 2 – Sonar’s Ghost X GMHA / Sector 12/12
3 X 2 by Sonar's Ghost X GMHA This charity EP on the ever brilliant Sector 12/12, sees Sonar’s Ghost go head to head with Greater Manchester Housing Authority in a funky face-off of epic prop... read more -
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Cat Therapist – Jobs
Jobs by Cat Therapist Brum stalwarts Futurepast Zine return with a sublime beat tape from Birmingham's own Cat Therapist. Comprising of 23 tracks of hazed out hip-hop productions and beat experimen... read more -
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Tape It! Some random thoughts on tapes
A while back I saw a post by someone, I can't remember who, asking ‘where the demise of digital sales (Spotify) and the rising price of vinyl leaves today's producer or DJ’, presumably deep in shi... read more -
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Cassettes / S&M / Ice
In 1990-91 my muthler worked in NAAFI (Navy Army Airforce Institute if memory serves). Every so often would come home with a new cassette tape for me. Knowing rap was my interest at the time (I had no... read more
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