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Omnidisc Records has had a history of releasing exciting techno, house, and acid tracks that blend time and space in the dead of night for those of us that like to spend weekends in the dark corners of an illegal rave. With that in mind, their latest release Trouble Tonight,

It’s here. It’s finally here. When our miserable climate forced snow and sleet upon us in early May, it felt like Britain’s spring would never arrive, let alone its summer. But now the sun is shining, the birds are singing, the flora is in bloom, and overweight men are walking

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.” Like everything Nina Kraviz does musically, the

Psychic Lovers by DINNER At first I thought Psychic Lovers was like marmite. Some people, I predicted, would like its distinctive potency, while others would spit it out immediately and start gagging. Then I realised something. I know where I stand on marmite (I like it) but I can’t decide

This month, Ghostly International serves up the latest offering from Detroit-based Shigeto, in the form of a 6 track EP entitled ‘Intermission’. Ghostly is known for its lucid taste in the realms of all things electronic, putting out records under the self-described and purposefully meaningless ‘avant-pop’ banner; notable label pals

On hearing the word ‘Yabba‘, most will be reminded of the name of that black market Thai drug that translates literally to ‘Madness‘. Well, Battles new track ‘The Yabba‘ is similar, both in name and in nature. The band’s first track in four years, The Yabba is seven minutes of

Here in Europe we are lucky to have such a vibrant underground music scene: London, Berlin, Lyon… the list goes on. The American techno scene, on the other hand, can often be over looked; it’s not all fuzzy EDM – excuse the embarrassing acronym. DVS1’s Hush Label splintered off into

I have a theory that I like to call the flimsiness of the long-distance rocker. Basically, what happens is that the artistic decline of a band (if not necessarily the commercial one) coincides directly with the moment at which at least one of its members relocates to a different place

‘Halo’ is taken from Mugwump’s hugely anticipated and now critically acclaimed album ‘Unspell‘, which for want of a more complex term, went down a treat. He’s had 25 year long career as a producer, DJ and leader of the Belgian club scene and now Geoffroy Dewandeler is still making a

Messrs. Pseudo and Nym are agreed that, if this release is going to receive stars, they are going to be really big stars. Not the sort that are going supernova, mind, but more the sort that are slowly cooling into lumps of iron. And Monsieur Pseudo thinks that there must

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