Today is Matt Shea’s birthday. He is now old enough to rent an orchestra.  Reading over reviews and write-ups of the Cinematic Orchestra’s Every Day, it’s litle wonder the album didn’t prove more popular. Phrases worryingly similar to ‘musical saviours’ and ‘album of the year’ were bandied about, and yet it remains a remarkably undiscovered […]
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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 […]
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Question: what do you do when your record label turns 20 just as the style of music you’ve pioneered enters its renaissance? Answer: you throw a party, preferably a big one. That’s just what seminal “abstract Hip-Hop” label Ninja Tune is doing with their massive Ninja Tune XX box set, a whopping 6 CD collection […]
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Let it not be said that The Bug doesn’t wring every bit of life out of his productions. Going on 3 years since London Zoo, the riddims on that album are still paying dividends, probably because none of Kevin Martin’s aggro-minded Dubstep followers have been able to surpass the blend of darkness, anger and rudebwoy […]
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Black Sands and Bonobos April 27, 2010
During the four year-break between Bonobo albums, a seismic shift occurred in the world of bass music. Dubstep went from a minor blip bubbling up from the bongs of London to a widespread virus infecting beat music. As recent efforts from bass veterans Breakage and Autechcre displayed, it’s almost impossible not to note the impact […]
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