Colourbox Lorita Grahame Baby I Love You So 4AD 1986 When I think of records that came out of nowhere as a complete bolt for the blue, any number of iconoclastic tiles spring to mind; records like Model 500's NIght Drive, 4 Hero's Combat Dancin', Tricky's Aftermath, and so on and so on. Yet if … Continue reading Colourbox – Baby I Love You So

Bandulu map the cosmos The gang who metamorphosed into a group,1 purveyors of dubbed-out techno come creeping out the caves, mystics in the firelight like Altered States. Deep space b-boys on the Black Ark tip. Percussion rolling through High Rise Heaven dub sway in the rainstorm, clouds creep like blanket cross the sky and a … Continue reading Bandulu

Stranger than dub And so we cross the threshold Into The 90's, where the aftershocks of dubbed out post punk were continuing to live large. This was the context through which I linked up with the music in the first place, working my way back from the nascent sounds of trip hop's bricolage and the … Continue reading Terminal Vibration VI (Imperial Slates)

The machines are in full effect ...and on and on and on. And so we've reached the halfway point in the Terminal Vibration saga, concluding the core eighties segment of the trip. The second half will trace these many pathways into the nineties and beyond, through electronic music, hip hop and finally through the machine … Continue reading Terminal Vibes

> A slight diversion into dub presented by DJ Slye and starring a cast of thousands. Now that we've reached this point in the whole Terminal Vibration trip — the mid-point to be exact — and what with all the talk of Jah Wobble and bass pressure and dread, well, it got me thinking about the original dub masters … Continue reading Dubstyle!