Mr Scruff
News: Mr Scruff kicks off DJ Kicks’ 25th anniversary (plus club dates)
DJ Kicks has been Berlin label K7!’s long-enduring (and endearing) compilation of guest mixes spanning back to its inaugural offering back in 1995. On that occasion, Belgian producer C.J Bolland brought together a collection of artists from a soon-to-peak electronica genre. Throughout the 25 years since that release, DJ Kicks has had curators across the …
News: Tramlines Announces New Acts
Summer is coming. It won’t be long until we can sit outside in beer gardens with our favourite tipple. And you know what else goes hand in hand with the summer? Festivals! Sheffield is blessed with one of the most interesting in the summer line up. In past years we have boasted hugely eclectic line-up, …
New Music: Mr Scruff – Render Me Remixes
Out now on the Ninja Tune label, premium purveyors of quality beats, comes a trio of reworks of Render Me, taken from Mr Scruff’s latest long player Friendly Bacteria, itself only recently released. It features funky Detroit producer Dez Andrés (Slum Village / Mahogani Music / La Vida); Royalty & AD Bourke; and Mr. Scruff …
Album Review: Mr. Scruff – Friendly Bacteria
When I was in the cubs, the leader – I think they were called Arkala or something in those days, happened upon the notion that by making me the leader of a group of them, giving me the responsibility, making me a Sixer I think it was, that would give me the maturity, make me …
Track: Mr Scruff – Render Me, plus new album news
It doesn’t seem like nearly six years since Mr. Scruff last released a studio album, but it is. It’s not so much that we’ve missed him, it’s just he seems such an omnipresent, especially in my house. His brilliant Trouser Jazz is still never far from my turntable (and his other albums, including his said …