July 2011
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Label of the week: Night Slugs
Let’s go back to 2008: video artist James Connolly (aka L-Vis 1990) decides to book Drop the Lime for his recently-started So Loud party, long after running a DnB night with Mumdance. Sometime after the show with Drop the Lime, Connolly comes up with the Baltimore-via-London ‘Change the Game.’ Grime selector Alex Sushon (aka Bok Bok) comes across the track on Connolly’s Myspace and hits it off...
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Featured artist of the week: Andy Stott
Andy Stott has been quietly producing his take on dub Techno for a while now, gaining respect and acclaim within the scene along the way. His blend of intelligent and dub techno, mixed with booming-ground shaking bass, and dark emotive textures make his sound easily recognizable. More recently he’s branched out into Dubstep and Juke productions - with his Juke tunes showing Stott’s versatility...
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Interview: Dro Carey
You’ve got quite an angsty sound to your work, what are some of the things that have influenced that?
Dreams, people and mental instability. I cannot try hard to be a cool artist. I cannot possibly muster the enthusiasm or delusion that what I’m doing is a suave, important product - that coincides with ‘building profile’ and all of that. You know like ‘interest is...
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Featured artist of the week: Jam City
22-year old Jack Latham has only been making music under the name Jam City for the last 2.5 years: before he quietly crept into the public’s conscious, he ran the Mount Olympus blog and built a rep with fellow Internet artists throughout the blogosphere. However, since Bok Bok found a folder of Latham’s material on his PC after a club night in 2008, his profile has steadily risen amongst the...
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Interview: Cairo
What first made you want to make music?
I don’t think there was really one major thing - I’ve always been into music. I started playing drums at 12 and just moved along doing the normal things, like bands and so on, but I never really got heaps into the band thing. Maybe it was because I never had any input into what was going on musically, people would just say shut up and play...
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Featured artist of the week: BNJMN
BNJMN a.k.a Ben Thomas is a talented guy. Before his latest incarnation as BNJMN he was known as Jackhigh, a beatmaker, who won acclaim from the influential and pioneering Flying Lotus. On his newest project, Thomas switches the Hip hop beats for four-to-the-floor House infused jams. His debut LP, Plastic World was released in March on Rush Hour. It’s a dreamy sounding album, mixing a...