If you want your techno to sound like Ancient Methods trapped inside an oil drum, Talker has just the thing. The Chicago duo’s new EP is three tracks of heavy metal without the guitars or […]
Irish gigs round-up: August 11-17
CONVEXTION: Tengu, Dublin, tonight. Describing himself as “willingly anonymous”, Dallas producer Gerard Hanson works under two aliases and has been sporadically releasing since the mid-90s — fast-paced electro as E.R.P. and graceful sci-fi techno as Convextion. […]
Bending nostalgia all sides: OOBE – Amarcord
The first track on Amarcord sounds like witch-house chancers Salem nudge-winking the build-up of Robert Miles’ Children, and there’s a guitar solo straight out of Tangerine Dream’s 1980s playbook. Virtual-E might sound like a brain-clash on […]
For a crash course in house music history, Pump Up the Volume is a good place to start (2001)
The problem with dance music documentaries, history books and anthologies is that they date pretty quickly. New fads have writers like Simon Reynolds going back every few years to reshape their books with tacked-on chapters, […]
Lloyd Bradley’s Bass Culture is still the definitive history of reggae (2001)
As the late ska icon Prince Buster writes in the intro: “Jamaican music at last has the book it deserves”. I read Lloyd Bradley’s bulging history of reggae around 10 years ago and it’s one […]
MF Doom isn’t always worth the wait – new track Negus with Sean Price
There’s too much waiting around when you’re a fan of Supervillain rapper MF Doom. He hasn’t released a solo album since Born Like This in 2009, and his collaborations and sporadic releases haven’t touched the […]
No compromise: Remembering Suicide’s Alan Vega – a true one-off
It’s just over a year since Suicide frontman and co-founder Alan Vega passed away aged 78, and last night independent station Dublin Digital Radio broadcast a brilliant tribute to one of the most singular frontmen […]
