Hateful Head Helen aka Sweet Pussy Pauline aka Candy J It was a member of 808 State who once summarised women’s contribution to House music as ‘just tinkly pianos and wailing slags’ (I think specifically he was talking -see notes here?- about the sample-heavy Italian House of the late 80s, but generalise not lest ye be…
We are pleased to announce the arrival of the fruits of our first foray into production. Mars Vol. 1 is a double A-side consisting of Futur, a chuggy, downtempo homage to Boccaccio Beat and a certain smoke-filled railway arch in Brixton, and Postremo, a percussion-laden jacker served with a pinch of Acid. Both tracks are…
I love me some Long Island Electrical Systems Record label (L. I. E. S for short) at the moment. I meant to write about it before Christmas when Ron Morelli was playing Phonica’s party at the Drop with past guest of ours ED DMX. But I didn’t. So here it is now. As you…
Photo: Dancehall: The Rise of Jamaican Dancehall Culture: The Story of Jamaican Dancehall Culture I am by no means an expert on Reggae or it’s many derivatives, but it’s something which a year or so ago I made a conscious decision to learn more about. What I do know is that I’ve been up since…
Cheers to Benji Semtek for bringing this nugget to our attention… Gerd Janson has put together this mix compiling a taste of the Nu-Groove output of two of my favourite producers, Rehji & Ronnie Burrell, forthcoming on Rush Hour. Awesome stuff. The Burrell Brothers Nu Groove mix by Gerd Janson by rushhourrecords Available as a mixed…
Dalston party collective Back To Back are thwarting age-old tradition this coming Friday by supplying lovers of throbbing dance music with lashings of nothing but good luck, with a vinyl-only takeover of their two-tiered shakedown of Dalston Superstore. We’ll be taking care of proceedings upstairs from 9 until 2 with the three of us squeezed into…
We ran a competition on our facebook page to give away a Legendary Children t-shirt when we reached 606 likes (we also ran one at 303 and there’ll be another at 707), in order to choose a winner fair and square (and at random) we thought best thing to do was print off everyone’s names,…
All images are from The Starck Project facebook page. Yesterday I was listening to Dominatrix ‘Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight’ which reminded me a) what a good tune it was, b) I need those shoes with the spikes on the back that appear in the first 5 seconds of the video and c) that I had read somewhere…
