SOME FUN FACTS ABOUT FLOODWATCH’S TWINLIGHTS DUB I don’t normally assemble and sequence 80-minute mixes but Twinlights Dub was originally meant to be split into two halves of a 90-minute Maxell for my car, so I actually had to trim and truncate it a bit to get it down to somewhat manageable, if still bloated, […]

It occurred to me about halfway into The Book of David the other day that, De La Soul excepted, there isn’t another name in hip hop that has enjoyed a longer sustained loyalty for me than DJ Quik. I can still remember that autumn afternoon in seventh grade when my friend Erick handed me a […]

Floodwatch can’t drive no jive 55. One of my own personal genre tags goes something like, “early AM winter driving music” and for years I’ve made notes of records, regardless of the season, that fall under this umbrella. Past candidates have included the first few Autechre releases, Tangerine Dream’s Phaedra (1974), Laika’s Sounds of the […]

Kanye West’s pretzels are making Floodwatch thirsty. As anyone with a pulse and an Internet connection will tell you, we are in the midst of the Yeezyocalypse. Today is the dawn of Armageddon and already My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy has received more critical fellating than any record since Kid A dropped a decade ago. […]

Floodwatch is applewood-smoked and nitrate-free. For the mid-‘90s electronic music enthusiast, a release from Yorkshire-based Pork Recordings was guaranteed to have the following two characteristics: a dependably high level of quality and a frustrating inability to be acquired easily and cheaply–at least here in the States. For the unfamiliar, Pork issued slightly over a hundred […]

Floodwatch chin-strokes to the thinking man’s thinking man’s music. Amon Tobin’s Supermodified changed my life. Ok, not really. It didn’t enter my listening sphere at a particularly sensitive or transitional time in my young adulthood. It didn’t bring about a sea change in my tastes or revolutionize the way I interpret and process sound. I […]