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Dubstep Reviews: Mystic Man & Eshamanjaro, Baobinga & ID
Couple of Dubstep reviews…
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Mystic Man & Eshamanjaro - In Heavy Weather - The Dubstep Remix EP [Fat! Records]On this four-track EP Fat! Records assign two up-coming producers (Reso and Hektagon) to take on UK hip-hop duo Mystic Man & Eshamanjaro’s In [...]
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Review: Sian Alice Group - 59:59
Sian Alice Group is the brainchild of multi-instrumentalists Rupert Clerveaux and Ben Crook, with the group’s über-talented line-up completed by Sian Ahern (vocals), Sasha Vine (piano, vocals, violin), Andy Ingle (guitars) and Douglas Hart (bass). The group’s debut album 59:59– a title matched by the record’s length in minutes and seconds– is a wonderfully intoxicating [...]
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Review: Lone - Cluster Dreams EP
Nottingham hip-hop producer Lone is– to use a well worn phrase– “on some other shit.” Better known as Matt Cutler, the former Kids in Tracksuits beatmaker has shed the confines of conventional hip-hop to focus on big beats, inspired analogue synth-play and other-worldly album concepts. Following on from August’s long player The Lemurian, Cluster Dreams [...]
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Review: Weenliz - Weenliz EP
Glasgow scuzz-troubadours Weenliz’ music has been described as “glitched up super fuzzy plinky plonks… as if rapeman had gone out and bought some stuff from maplins.” After checking their self-titled debut EP on independent blog/label Winning Sperm Party, I have to completely concur. Weenliz is eight tracks of sheer meat– a sporadic pile-up of raw [...]
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Pelican @ the Oran Mor, 14 Sep
Glasgow’s Oran Mor venue is bustling tonight, with a mixed breed of metal-hipsters turned out to witness mutli-polar Chicago riffsters Pelican on the UK leg of a European tour. Call it what you like: post-metal, stoner rock, they sure ‘aint easy to classify, and with no vocalist amongst the four-piece it’s a sound that doesn’t [...]
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Review: Pursuit Grooves - Wild Art Forestry
Brooklynite Pursuit Grooves’ Wild Art Forestry LP is a mixed bag of askew grooves, spacey synths and squelchy basslines, fused over fifteen instrumental tracks of MPC-driven electro hip-hop. The syncopated beats and tempered bass of cuts like ‘Limelight’ and ‘Too Much Time’ might not be out of place in Dilla’s musical kitchen, but the depth [...]
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Review: Nightmares on Wax - Thought So
DJ and producer George Evelyn– better known as the artist Nightmares on Wax– is a staple on Warp Records. A product of the British soundsystem movement of the 1980s Evelyn dropped one of Warp’s first releases– the dance-tinged A Word Of Science album– back in 1991, before going on to define the 90s trip-hop movement [...]
