Rua Sound co-founder Rob Flynn on the label’s explorations in jungle, drum & bass, grime, footwork and hip-hop

Rua Sound co-founder Rob Flynn on the label’s explorations in jungle, drum & bass, grime, footwork and hip-hop
A dirgy industrial racket that feels more like a sweaty headbutt than a dancefloor bop — but that’s all good
Cancel culture’s taken on a new meaning in the last few weeks, with your social and gig calendar full of blanks right up till the end of summer and beyond. Still, talk of album delays […]
Let’s see if we can get through a few lines without mentioning it. In between ambient playlists, Tiger King, hand-wash lyric memes, Zoom screenshots and a sadly forgotten historic Irish election, there’s also been a […]
Amid the spiralling pandemic anxiety and cabin fever over the last few weeks, there’s been an arms race to see who can adapt quickly to this shapeshifting new way of life in self-isolation. With gigs […]
Around 2016 there was a whiff of PR and journo hysteria off this London bunch, recalling the time everyone lost the plot about Fischerspooner during the electroclash years at the turn of the millennium. For […]
In an interview in 2017 just before the release of Mango x Mathman’s debut EP Wheel Up, MC Mango told me: “Grime music isn’t alien in Ireland anymore.” He’d been considering the growing acceptance of […]
With Geoff Barrow’s other band Portishead without an album since 2008 and with no immediate plans to tour properly, he’s once again on the road with BEAK>, for some sleek krautrock analogue electronics. Too many […]
“Are you scoping the future?” sings Wire’s Colin Newman in the first line of ‘Primed & Ready’ — the second single off the band’s upcoming 17th album Mind Hive. Dunno about you, but over their […]
Björk has called her latest live show her “most elaborate staged concert to date” and the most ambitious project she’s ever conceived — strong words from one of the most singular artists working in music. […]
Some bands carry on great things after the death of a singer — AC/DC and Mayhem for starters, but when that singer is Mark E Smith, one of the true singular visionaries of the last […]
When you hear that Laibach are releasing an EP called Party Songs, you’re pretty sure they’re not aiming for the kind of party that’ll be soundtracked by a cheeseball Spotify playlist. Your boss won’t be […]
The final track on The Vegan Leather’s debut album is called ‘Zeitgeist’ — but Poor Girls / Broken Boys is no trend-chasing scenester cash-in record. Unlike, say Two Door Cinema Club who traded in their polite […]
Detroit techno has always been urban music, from Juan Atkins’ deadpan technological reportage to Robert Hood’s Motor City minimalism. And when the smog gets too thick, Jeff Mills’ sci-fi and space science concepts offer a […]
I‘m not dissing the rest of the Wu-Tang Clan, but GZA is the only member who you could imagine boasting onstage about the number of books he saw with his own eyes in the Trinity […]