I feel like people have been waiting for Numbers to come back with something drastic after their recent bout of relative radio silence. And aside from ‘Stinger’, that bombastic rush of hyper glossy ‘Chariots of Fire’ esque meta-production from Redinho, …
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This piece was originally intended for use on the fabric website to help promote the Idle Hands takeover of Room Three on Friday 12th April where both Kowton and The Kelly Twins (SR Mix #34) are performing. Naturally, owing to …
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As staunch supporters of the Scandinavian, computerized funk led skweee movement, we hold the output of Eero Johannes in a pretty high regard around these parts. His self-titled debut album on the ever eclectic Planet Mu label may have been …
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“I heard this artist for the first time on Dusk & Blackdown’s Keysound radio show on Rinse FM” – how many times have you heard someone say (or write) something along those lines recently? Reading Rory Gibb’s ever excellent Hyperspecific …
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The news that No Hats No Hoods were to release a 22-track CD of classic Ruff Sqwad instrumentals almost seemed like a prospect too good to be true. Sonically on another planet but seemingly lost to the history books, Ruff …
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Anyone who’s followed the 3 years + of writing on this site knows that we like to find people to invest in. After diving headlong into the internet for so long sent our collective attention deficit into overdrive, we placed …
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Ben Thomas has enough aliases to make a schizophrenic jealous and yet he manages to keep them all suck-free. More impressively, he knows the best time to let a namesake rest while he engages another. Jackhigh (with Teebs) carved a …
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The internet woke up to a couple of new record labels this morning; something that is always of constant interest considering the fabled failing of the wider industry. The Quietus announced the inception of the Quietus Phonographic Corporation with news …
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There’s something in the music on Maxmillion Dunbar’s House of Woo album that’s very easy to love. Honing his collection of (sometimes disjointed) raw and dancefloor tracks down to 13 nuggets of exploratory house and techno, it’s probably his way …
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Write about what you know. It’s probably the one rule I’ve tried to live by and encourage in the other contributors to Sonic Router over the four or so years we’ve been doing this. It’s not like we’re taking the …
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That old adage that experimental electronic hip hop sounds like a drum kit falling down the stairs really rings true with the latest transmission from Dutch producer, Jameszoo. ‘The Clumtwins’, the first drop from his new Jheronimous EP for Rwina …
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Reading John Doran’s latest MENK column for VICE Magazine really made me think. Not so much the intelligent stuff he wrote about his experiences in the 80s and the generally accepted outlook that as a society we make better music …
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After the boom of pitch perfect, cleaner than clean house-music-with-heavy-bass deflated and subsided, fuzz and decay are two tools that seem to have crept into a lot of producer’s arsenals more and more. And whilst it’s important to acknowledge the …
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An unmissable evening’s entertainment in a tiny capacity basement in Stoke Newington from two of the internet’s most deservedly hyped labels, Opal Tapes and Public Information featuring three former SR mixers: Wanda Group (SR Mix #109), Nochexxx (SR Mix #97) …
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A meeting of two titanic hip hop minds, JJ DOOM exists as an album collaboration between the underground hero, DOOM and accomplished producer, Jneiro Jarel. Called Key To The Kuffs the LP was released last year on LEX Records to …
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I don’t know why but jazz breakdowns are becoming more and more of a must have in our daily listening; there’s something so gratifyingly pompous about breaking out of a groove and into a prog suite. With that sprawling sense …
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Less talking, more music. The latest installment of our reignited podcast pact with online retailer Bleep.com just went live today featuring bits and pieces from artists like Koreless (pictured), Jimi Tenor and the Imposter Orchestra, Karen Gwywer re-interpreting some of …
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Ok, so full disclosure, I helped service this record to press, but there’s something so unanimously expectant about Akkord’s debut 12” on Houndstooth that keeps you coming back to it again and again. It’s undoubtedly the same reason that the …
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In what is a fantastically multinational collaboration, the Fine Grains collective links the dots between Aberdeen’s ¥oin and the Moscow-repping OL, with London-based label founder Uraki Riddim looking to Jersey/ NYC’s MikeQ and Divoli S’vere, Spanish don Noaipre and Oslo’s …
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Even on the internet, life is a concentric circle. As if you needed further proof but moments after Yahoo went and irreversibly spoil the leader in online photo gallery websites, flickr, making what used to be the simplest of functions …
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When people write about grime there’s a lot of focus on the music being raw and energetic, like the music being critiqued is this perfectly tempered example of urban street youth culture. And that’s fine. It’s largely an accurate observation …
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Eglo just unleashed another taste of their Strange U. project ahead of their label’s 4th birthday at Jazz Cafe in Camden on 2nd June and dropping with a track as strong as ‘Beta Wave Slave’ following the previous cuts, the …
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