Mumdance + Drums of Death = Mums of Death
Looks like VICE is givin props to a former employee. Nowt wrong with that, especially when the ex employee in question is Mumdance and his current collab with Drums of Death called Mums of Death. [Video: Mums of Death - Golden Axe] In case you’re wondering, this video was created by this dude called Scattle...
PARIAH – NYE Mix
Pariah‘s done an excellent NYE mix for VICE, and VICE wanted me to let ya’ll know about it. To be honest I don’t expect VICE to latch onto this new wave of UK garage but there you go. If you havent already, check out the track Prism from Pariah’s Safehouses EP. [Video: Pariah - Prism]...
Submerse
Cheshire based DJ/Producer Submerse strikes me as something completely unique from the current breed of future/garage revival DJs. Further digging around reveals that he has a love for J-pop (Japanese Pop) but not in a strange way – he’s managed to combine elements of J-pop, bass and garage into a totally new pioneering genre: J-Garage....
Youthless
Wow. Youthless jumped up at me with their brand of raucous, articulate, garage pop. It’s just two guys – a bass, a drumkit and the occassional synth – correct me if I’m wrong. Very minimal set up. Its effortlessly dancey and so loud. Golden Age reminds me of Holiday For Strings amped-up, but then an...
Hiatus
The first thing that struck me about Hiatus was the deeply moving music, he calls it “cinematic electronica”. Cinematic for a reason – it evokes nostalgia for the listener, like a past life realised in a moment of epiphany. The second thing that interests me is his heritage: here is a London native, a DJ,...
Mikix The Cat – The Key (Kingdom Remix)
Yum yum, get some of this! Probably one of the best garage / house remixes you’ll hear this year. Parisian, Mikix The Cat released The Key via Abracada back in July, and this persona of his is more geared towards house, touches of old school rave and UK Garage. Mikix The Cat also has another...
Girls Names / Brilliant Colors Split 7″
Anything Tough Love throws at me, I’ll post quickly. Tough Love has grown to be one of my favorite labels, always hits, no misses. If you havent caught on yet, it aint too late. These time them guys threw me a split 7″ preview between Belfast’s Girls Names and Brilliant Colors from San Fran. While...
In Photos: Modulate Leeds, 19th Oct, Wire Club
After spending 7 hours dj-ing for the launch party at Bird’s Yard, my attendance at Modulate looked like it was gonna be short. I was fucking wiped out by the end of the session. The music at Modulate though, kept me goin. Residents Jamie Grind and Louis Saville opened the night, Hackman‘s set was seriously...
SteadyGuy Soft Launch @ Valley Of The Dolls
Yesterday I went to the soft launch of my mates’ clothing label, Steady Guy at Valley Of The Dolls. They’ve done a pop-up store within a shop in the Light. They’ve also brought in Jamie Grind and Louis Saville from Modulate Leeds to do a bit of in store DJ-ing. The objective was to test...
Sentel
Yeah I took a week off. Came back to this. Sentel are two young kids out of Krakow in Poland making noise that is the amalgamation of house, dubstep and garage and old school rave, it is what we would call post-dubstep but won’t. Therefore it is just simply called “bass”. The Polish scene is...
Brute Chorus
Another day another good band. Brute Chorus from Londontown just dropped into my radar with their new single Heaven coming out in September 6th. A misleadingly bleak song disguised in an upbeat tempo. Hardly any guitars in the song – just bare, raw drums and the bass going up and down. Meaty. These guys really...
Modulate Leeds
Ok, we’ve got some big news here people. Fellow Leeds kids, Jamie Grind and Louis Saville have teamed up together to do a new clubnight in Leeds. It’s called Modulate and I feel they deserve a bit of a big up. Christ knows we need summat new in the city other than shit commercial house....
