I have to admit that I have been mesmerised by the latest Tortoise album, “Beacons of Ancestorship” (their sixth). Its their first release in five years and it goes off like a bomb. At heart an indie outfit the band cross genres with reckless abandon, from Jazz to Rock, Punk to Hip Hop, Dub [...]
The Cat Empire are from Melbourne Australia and this year they are bringing a bit of summer sun to Europe. This band has been around for about ten years and have released four albums so far.
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photo by Matthias H. Risse
Disrupt hails from Leipzig Germany and is a music project of the producer Jan Gleichmar. Jan runs a netlabel called Jahtari that specializes in electronically made dub and reggae music, which he calls “digital laptop reggae”. Disrupt puts out 8bit digital dub bass monsters. I particularly like the aptly titled “Bomb” [...]
Today in Amsterdam it is Koninginnedag, the celebration of the Queens birthday and its going to be a massive party. There is lots happening today, though much of it will be very bland techno and house music. Our pick for the day is to get some Jah love with Amsterdam’s Rastafari dub poets the King [...]
We’ve mentioned these guys when they came through town last year. They are back and what’s more they have a new album that was released just last week. Its a dub reworking of The Beatles’ classic 1967 Sgt. Pepper album.
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Photo by Georgina Cook
We very much enjoyed the DJ set by Kode 9 with the Spaceape on the microphone in the Trouw last month. (you can read about it here.) These guys are back again this month playing in the Bimhuis. This time they will be doing a live set so it should be quite [...]
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On Friday night we rocked to ghetto vibes down in the basement of Trouw. The gig was moved downstairs as the main room was not yet certified to be able to handle such a bass heavy night without scaring the neighbors. For the start of the night Juha and Cinnaman were rolling out the bleeps [...]
Harmonic 313
Harmonic 313 is the latest project from Mark Pritchard. Mark has had many electronic music projects over the years including the Global Communication, Jedi Knights, Link, Reload and Troubleman. I’ve seen him DJ a few times under the guise of various projects and I had the pleasure of seeing him and Tom Middleton playing [...]
Photo by Georgina Cook
With the voice of the Spaceape that comes from the heart of darkness and together with the pitch-black minimal sound scape of Kode9 these guys bring the post apocalypse sound of the urban future. They are on Hyperdub records, who also brought us Burial. Hyperdub was named dubstep label of the year [...]