Bad Vibes is a collection of colourful, tinplate toy butterflies, whose hinges creak and fly wheels wind down erratically. [Release page] A member of the genial-sounding […]
Tag: Hip-Hop
Beatmakin Troopa :: If You Fall You Fly (Triangle Productions)
Making use of all sorts of found sounds with varying degrees of processing applied to build an intricate sonic backdrop for the cool beats and […]
Mad EP and Shadow Huntaz :: Nightmare Scenario EP (Acroplane)
Nightmare Scenario delivers sharp hard hitting vocal attacks coupled with some really low and dirty beats. It’s slow and dark with a fair bit of […]
LUND QUARTET :: Sense of space
ABOUT a year ago I was pointed in the direction of a band that a friend thought I would like. A young jazz outfit here […]
Suck Susan :: No Head In The Helmet (UVG212 / Daddy Tank)
Sliced into fragments of minutes, Suck Susan manages to somehow elaborate on form and function, offering a maze of definitive, decomposed fractures that yield a […]
Maduro :: Catching Bullets (Octofoil)
No matter how disparate this might sound, everything is held together through the theme of carnival-esque gypsy sounds and samples from turn-of-the-century phonographs. [Release page] […]
Chinese Man :: Remix with the Sun (Chinese Man)
Chinese Man is a French trio at its core that prioritizes dub, ragga and hip-hop, but that’s just the box out of which they burst. […]
BROKEN20 :: 3View
These three releases (10-20’s Magnet Marsh, Isodyne’s Dreams Torn From The Sky and Nanorhythm’s Beyond the Green Wall) show Broken20’s faculties very much intact in […]