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Category Archives: banger free zone
Max Cooper
Now, to begin: I wouldn’t say I’m a fan of minimal per se. It has its moments, sure, but a lot of the output that might well be considered the bread and butter of minimal tech has always left me feeling, well, bored as shit, really. Which I guess is what separates those genres you [...]
Black Cab
Melbourne duo Black Cab are on the road this week, and I’ll definitely be catching them this Friday at ol’ mate Oxford Arts Factory. Deep, droning shoe-gaze pop is the order of business here. I think the band put it best: “keyboards and found sounds loosely inspired by 1970’s East Germany – surveillance, fear, anxiety [...]
The Revenge
New remix pack from The Revenge of a Future Classic errr.. classic, Mario Basanov’s ‘Do You Remember’. Previously featured as the fourth and final fixture of Future Classic’s Apres series The Revenge dips in on this twice – once with a phaser-laden sunset-burner of an original mix, and then again in percussive collaboration as 6th [...]
TEED
The new video for ‘Garden’, featuring guest vocals from Lulu of ‘and the Lampshades‘ fame. Grab Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs‘ phenomenal new EP All In Two Sixty Dancehalls from Beatport -Mandu
STEEP
Alot of you seemed to like that Deadmau5/Benni Benassi mashup we streamed a few weeks ago. Like 700 of you or something retarded like that. Well here’s a download link: Deadmau5 vs Benni Benassi – The Reward Is Some Satisfying Chords (STEEP Bootleg) Go forth and headbang. More Steep bootleg love here. -Mandu
Dark Sky
My suggestion: don’t classify London three-piece Dark Sky under the heading of ‘Dubstep’, but rather under ‘Dubstep, because no-one’s really sure where else they should go’. An offshoot of London 2-step revivalists The Boogaloo Crew, Dark Sky find themselves kicking about in the hazy, electronica-laced outer boundaries of the dubstep canon. Their productions play to [...]
Fuck Buttons x Spaceman
As you could probably tell from this post, I had no end of love for Fuck Button’s ‘Tarot Sport’ last year, and even went so far as to crown it my Album of the Year to anyone who’d listen. And I’ll tell you something for nothing, sure it can be kinda tough to pin them [...]
So I’m Jo
Haven’t heard from these guys in a while… was starting to think they might have dropped off the radar, into damned realms of college-radio obscurity. Then in pops perhaps the best thing I’ve heard from them to date. Here it is, epically understated lo-fi electro with that gilded edging, aligned to catch and hold the [...]
Pure Ecstasy
A new single is prepped to casually waft its way from the neon-gilded chimneys of the Acephale A&R plant to your ears on March 23rd, this time featuring Austin-based dream rockers Pure Ecstasy. Conveniently, they live in Austin meaning they can go to SxSW, unlike myself who can barely afford to go to Safeway. 17/3 [...]
Zola Jesus
What do 19th century French author Émile Zola and all round good guy Jesus of Nazareth have in common? They both loved the shit out of pseudo-gothic, shoegaze fuelled, electronic lady balladry, that’s what!… I don’t think it was in any of the regular gospels, but when all the disciples left him alone at the [...]
Monarchy
Doing great things at the moment, recently featured on Record of the Day, no doubt heading onwards and upwards under the steadfast leadership of Mr J.C Penycakes and Co. Keep your ear out for more, more, more very soon. Fyfe Dangerfield – She Needs Me (Monarchy Remix) And while you’re at it, seriously grab a [...]
Beach House do Teen Dream
Sometimes these days I feel like the only time I swing through these pages is when I’m violently ditching something at you with the triumphant cry of ‘LOVE THIS LIKE I LOVE YOU’ (see Mob, Glitch and Buttons, Fuck). Which is part of the point of blogs I guess, but I do worry that you [...]
Fuck Buttons
Oh this is so good. This is so, so, so good. I’ll admit that I had wilfully avoided Fuck Buttons up to this point, partially due to the decidedly average name, and partially due to the fact that the entire idea of ‘noise’ as a genre makes me break out in hives. It’s kinda like [...]
Dr No’s Ethiopium
Is a bitching name for an album. It’s the latest offering from master hip-hop instrumentalist Oh No, brother of master hip-hop instrumentalist Madlib. Talented family. Oh No currently seems to be on a mission to put every other crate-digging hip-hop producer to shame by pumping out a sequence of tremendously niche but still wildly accessible [...]
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