Quazar This Is MusicSeven Stars 1997 On that very particular day within a month that perfectly mirrors the month within a year, it seemed only natural to return to a certain oddball house 12" that's always held a special place in my heart. I can still remember the first time I heard it, downloaded from … Continue reading Quazar – This Is Music

Polly said today, she'd find another way... tomorrow. Time is tight, tasks and projects coming down with a quickness. Posts less frequent, but underneath the surface the wheels are turning. Building out the framework, piece by piece in the remains of the day, while the mass production loop just rolls out into the perpetuity. Sometimes … Continue reading Polyesterday

Manu Dibango: Superfly ambassador of the funky Soul Makossa Belonging to the continuum of storied ambassadors of African music alongside the likes of Babatunde Olatunji, Hugh Masekela and Fela Kuti, saxophonist Hugh Masekela was one of the original leading lights of the continent to break out into the wider world of pop music. Making a … Continue reading Manu Dibango

Various Artists 2nd EditionLanguage 1996 If we're going aerodynamic, what better way to begin than with this 12" promo that bubbled up from Tony Thorpe's Language imprint way back in 1996? Its four tracks preceded the Miscellaneous: The 2nd compilation, a label round-up that followed on the heels of the previous year's first entry in … Continue reading Various Artists – 2nd Edition EP

You are the computer. Synths scream like engines in overdrive, fast-forward and rewind. Speedway Theme From Fastlane Part 2 — or deeper still Blade Runner Main Titles — shades of Endless Season in slow motion. Tighten up and strip it down, down to the absolute essentials. Streamlined schematics for the future, rebuilt from the underground up... the prog era … Continue reading Endless Season

Algiers There Is No YearMatador 2020 Without a doubt, Algiers are the most exciting rock band I've heard in well over a decade. Truth be told, their first three albums are so tight and perfectly-formed that I could've picked any one of them as February's Tile Of The Month (they're a bit like Massive Attack … Continue reading Algiers – There Is No Year

Shadez Of Colour presents Allied Heights: DJ Slye In The MixInterplanetary Transmissions 2002 Now what we're gonna do right now is go back... way back. Rewind your mind back to fall 2002: Futureform had just parted ways, with Snakes venturing into the wide open trance-states of the high desert and Slye back to the city … Continue reading Allied Heights

The year of the album I'd already been working on this little list for awhile now, the concept swirling around in the back of my mind for years (much like the Metal Beat 15 had been). In fact, I was originally planning to post this last weekend, but various real world concerns only pushed it … Continue reading 1988

Don of the Haunted Dancehall Crushed to hear of Andrew Weatherall's passing. I've got Glenn Street Assault Squad playing right now, and the rest of his music will surely be on repeat for the foreseeable future (in truth, like it already has been for decades now). From Two Lone Swordsmen to The Sabres Of Paradise, … Continue reading Andrew Weatherall

Motion 004: Infoworld Motion 004 happens at the axis of electronics and rhythm. Taking its name from Juan Atkins' key track in the transition from the Model 500 eighties to the Infiniti nineties, this mix draws its inspiration from the lost highway sound of Infoworld (Magic Juan's R-Theme?). Conceived just as the heaviest rainstorm of … Continue reading Motion 004