Compilation
Review: Asian Dub Foundation celebrate 30 years with a consummate compilation
Asian Dub Foundation are celebrating their 30th anniversary, and to mark this they have released a compilation of some of their finest collaborations from across their 3 decade storyline. They’re a genre to themselves. Their rhythms and bass lines, rooted in their south Asian heritage means that there has been very little to compare their …
News: Cherry Red Release Definitive CD Boxset Of Shoegaze Legends Chapterhouse
With the ever-increasing number of Gen Zs, discovering new music through Social Media platforms like Tik Tok, the timing perhaps could not be better for a definitive box set on shoegaze legends, Chapterhouse. Spotify has already seen an increase inthe interest in luminaries such as My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Slowdive and Swervedriver on the platform, …
Album Review: Difficult Art And Music – bivouac of the avant-garde: an engrossing record of today’s experimental and electronic scene.
In advance of another year of boundary pushing projects, specialist label Difficult Art And Music (DAMM) have just released ‘bivouac of the avant-garde’, their expansive survey of the contemporary experimental fringe. Previously available in digital instalments, the entire collection has now been assembled in a quintessential triple cassette box-set and, as usual with DAMM, the …
Album Review : Síntesis Moderna – An Alternative Vision Of Argentinean Music 1980-1990 : a ‘must have’ compilation.
Knowledgeable compilers, significant context and cracking music – these are the key components of a ‘must-have’ rather than ‘may be’ collection. Fresh onto those discerning record store racks, Síntesis Moderna: An Alternative Vision Of Argentinean Music 1980-1990 (available on Soundway Records) ticks off all these criteria without any squabbling: diligently curated by people in the …
New Track/video: More bumping 80’s funk: Soundway preview ground-breaking Argentinian electro compilation ‘Sintesis Moderna’ with single ’Como Son Los Retratos’.
A few weeks back those flawless global beat curators at Soundway Records announced the 21st October release of their next ‘must have’ artefact ‘Síntesis Moderna: An Alternative Vision Of Argentinian Music 1980-1990‘. Meticulously put together by Argentinian DJ/ producers Ric Piccolo and Ariel Harari, a pair of tireless crate diggers turning the spotlight on their …
New Track/video: Soundway announce landmark compilation of 80’s Argentinian electro-pop, ‘Sintesis Moderna’, with stomping single ‘A Ver, A Ver’.
Things are getting mighty crowded in the global beats compilation racks at the moment. Every week seems to bring on another collection of lost gems, quirky genres, tantilising back stories or classy kitsch and here’s one more that might tempt you. Except Síntesis Moderna: An Alternative Vision Of Argentinian Music 1980-1990, set for release via …
ALBUM REVIEW: Various artists – ‘Ambient Layers’: a state of the art, 20-track journey on 7K!
Ambient Layers is quite a trip through the current state of the blissful/emotive sonic arts. There’s so much to burrow into here, experience deeply. Set it on repeat and let it guide you through a whole, amniotic diurnal cycle. It’s really very great.
ALBUM REVIEW: Various Artists – Selva Selects: Thunder Claps: a year in Quantic’s superb new imprint
Selva Selects: Thunder Claps wins big in touching on so many tangents in the world of music, da funk, da disco, Latin, electro: it’s so eclectic, but it all works because Quantic is like a dowsing rod for a great tune. He’s the constant, the overseer, the constant thread, and this compilation is the absolute mustard. Year-end podium position tackle.
ALBUM REVIEW: Various Artists – ‘Long Division: New Addition Vol.2’: ten of the Wakefield fest’s best
WAKEFIELD’S Long Division Festival – now that’s a lovely little (and these days, really not so little) event in the West Yorkshire musical calendar. It was founded back in 2011 by the fanzine Rhubarb Bomb; festival director Dean Freeman cashed in his NHS pension to fund a happening that celebrated the pool of musical talent …
ALBUM REVIEW: Cherry Red Reggae Reissues: Hot Shots Of Reggae: Doctor Bird Compilation
Cherry Red Reggae Reissues November 2017 By Leggy Mountbatten Hot Shots Of Reggae Doctor Bird Compilation Following from September`s No More Heartaches and What Am I To Do, Doctor Bird/Cherry Red reissue the classic compilation Hot Shots Of Reggae. Following the great Jamaican sound system operators, Leslie Kong became one of the emerging talents …