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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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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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After first appearing with Helical Scans – a limited cassette only compilation of music from celebrated artists like WANDA GROUP, Dynooo, Microburst, Huerco S., Sagat and more – the Cleaning Tapes label return with a collaborative four track EP from …
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SR’s editor’s column on the Quietus returns with an interview with the Helsinki based musicians, Clouds, a duo who recently celebrate the release of their mini-albums, USB Islands on Ramp Recordings and Old Space, on their own Channel Zero label. …
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Yeah, he was one of the guys who sparked the dark 130bpm, grime-emcee-saying-a-certain-word-in-a-really-pronounced-manner snippet, but you still can’t really touch Wen for that sort of heavy, cloaked, densely wanton type of vibe. Akkord’s new work on Houndstooth is an obvious …
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Plagued with the ‘nightbus’ tag, probably as much as Burial was/is, it’s something that American producer Kid Simpl (pictured) has knowingly flipped to his own end. Sure, his tracks have always been atmospheric, sometimes to the point where that’s all …
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Back in February we commended the production work of Soosh and his Error Broadcast backed Colour is Breathe album at length, offering him the opportunity to discuss his processes. Later in the same month we also laid some praise on …
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Back in the groove… The latest installment of our reignited podcast pact with online retailer Bleep.com just went live today featuring bits and pieces from artists like Pomrad, Dabrye (remixing Paul White and Danny Brown), Lotide (who we profiled in …
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The enigmatic Laurel Halo returns to Hyperdub with four surprisingly direct techno experiments. ‘Throw’ establishes an ethereal piano to nostalgic effect before momentarily flipping into a purely rhythmic work-out, returning to the piano motif to conclude a cheerful if somewhat …
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To be honest, the hints were there. When we interviewed Kowton and The Kelly Twins ahead of their appearance at the Idle Hands hosted FABRICLIVE Room 3 the other week, they talked all about starting their own label. But after …
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The first release on Jon Rust’s brand new Levels label, named after the East London club night of the same name, comes from the delightfully understated Lord Tusk. Four tracks of ultra-compressed machine funk deep, the EP stands out amongst …
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It’s hard to try and not use these posts about our own label artists objectively when we’ve invested so much time, money and effort into making a product and promoting it. We were referenced in an article as a verb …
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A long time coming… The latest collaborative podcast between SR and online music retailer Bleep.com more...
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