Electronic music old and new
Much like his former 4hero partner Dego, Marc Mac has been steadily ploughing his own personal furrow through post-broken-beat music, from the politicised hip hop of his sample-driven ‘beats & knowledge’ mixtapes to the organic Detroit-inspired techno of his long-running Nu Era project. This year’s Fourth Kind album is a hard-to-pigeonhole blend of tight live… Continue reading 18 for 2018, #11: Fourth Kind
So here's something I've been meaning to do for a long time - a mix of tracks on Headspace and Emoticon, the labels I ran with Raeph Powell from 1996-2006. Since the whole operation kind of predates the internet as we now know it - none of this stuff is available digitally, and probably never… Continue reading Headspace & Emoticon Retrospective
I could probably start a whole new sub-blog about the early days of broken beat/West London, but for now here’s one of the first jams to really blow me away from that scene. Seiji, like Domu and Nubian Mindz, had a background making drum & bass for Reinforced, but once he broke free of the… Continue reading Seiji – Silver Blossom
Nothin' But Magic 