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Little Barrie return to the UK in May for a series of live dates and the release of their new single Pay To Join, out on May 7th on Genuine.
Following their fourth consecutive UK number 1 album, the double Grammy Award winning Push The Button, The Chemical Brothers return with their sixth long player, set for release on June 19th 2007. We Are The Night is The Chemical Brothers finest record yet, twelve tracks of psychedelic warehouse party acid music, euphorically melodic and as uncompromising as their retina scorching live shows. (more…)
Coldcut have always been fascinated with the fusion of sound and vision and so the idea of them curating a DVD version of Sound Mirrors (their stunning and critically acclaimed album) is a fitting one. In collaboration with freelance music video commissioner Vez they set about taking the medium of the music video out of the realm of MTV and the cheesy promo, instead making the work a purely artistic expression of the music.
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With the origins of their sound owing to the synthesizer music of the 1970s such as Jean-Michel Jarre, Vangelis and Francis Lai coupled with the likes of Pink Floyd, and Tangerine Dream, French music duo Air are due to release Pocket Symphony on March 5th. (more…)
On Saturday, 14th October, Funkdub celebrated its 2nd birthday. It was always going to be difficult to surpass the previous Funkdub Live events at Telfords Warehouse, but by securing one of the UK’s hottest bands, Little Barrie, the night comfortably made it into the pantheon of Deva legend.
”They say you get as long as you need to make your first album, but the second one you get a year!” jokes Lucas McFadden a.k.a Cut Chemist. As a well as a heavy international touring schedule, Cut Chemist spent months recording hundreds of songs before choosing the final twelve for his debut album “The Audience’s Listening” released August 2006 on Warner Records. (more…)
Finnish producer Janne Hatula is the creator of two separate and unique- yet inexorably linked- musical styles. For each of these he goes under an independent pseudonym: Fanu and FanuSamurai. Your alter-ego allusions are all there: Jekyll and Hyde, Bruce Banner and The Hulk; Saturday night and Sunday morning, take your pick- it all applies. (more…)
Let’s just say it right at the start. In “Sound Mirrors” Coldcut have made the best album of their long and illustrious career. It’s not something you can state lightly, but there you are.
Whenever one is in the frame of mind which insists on only one genre of music to absorb, it’s a given than absolutely nothing else will do. You know the scenario: you’ve had a couple of tunes burning into your mind all day, and promise yourself that as soon as you get back from work/pub/church/jail that you will find a selection of whatever your particular aural tipple may be, and dive in.
Skalpel review by Tommo
The fact that he’s mates with Mr Scruff is very much in evidence on Treva Whateva’s debut album. It is a hotchpotch of styles, beats and breaks which all rolls along quite nicely and seems to grow into itself as you proceed through the different tracks. REVIEW BY SHIKIBU… (more…)
