DJ Nature At The Superstore
Quick heads up on this one. DJ Nature a.k.a Milo is in basement style DJ duties on Friday 30th March. This will be his first proper UK gig for a while (apart from a little lowdown session at LN-CC which saw the heads out and getting loose). You can see more on Milo in an...
181 / Tiago / Test Press Mix
We asked Tiago for a mix a long time back and here it is. Recorded and selected at home in the company of friends its one of those where he just goes as he chooses. You can hear Tiago in club mode here but the mix below is for your iPod ears. The man himself...
How Soft Cell’s Tainted Love Came To Be…
Ian Dewhirst, longtime Soul DJ and man behind Mastercuts and many other good things, just put this post on DJ History and I thought I’d put this up here almost so I could remember it. The thread was about Leeds club The Warehouse. Ian Dewhirst says… “Soft Cell recorded “Tainted Love” as a direct result...
Reviews / PROMO`D / 15/03/12
SHAWN LEE’S PING PONG ORCHESTRA / SAN DIEGO / AFICIONADO RECORDINGS Shawn flicks on his Casio and channels Laurel Canyon. Dreaming of sunnier climes. Memories of everyone dancing at The Castle Hotel, Manchester. Moon played it to me and I thought it was a Crosby, Stills and Nash cover. Phil (Mison) does a respectful (both...
180 / Balearic Social / First Birthday Mix
Andy Pye is the man behind Balearic Social, a one man balearic machine. He is far better than us at getting in touch with people and he’s getting results. His radio show is going from strength-to-strength and has had many guests since he last did a mix for us including The Seahawks, Jolyon Green, Sally...
178 / Jan Hammered / Your Place Or Mine
Jan Hammered (aka Ian Williams) has been doing mixes for us for some time now and have to say, as I’ve said before, they sit the line perfectly between music for the heads and music everyone can get. Here he is again with a new mix. Download While I have you Ian is soon moving...
177 / Salinas Jockey Club / Whispering Waves
Salinas Jockey Club is a new Soft Rocks related project from Chris Galloway & Andy Simms. They are currently working on rounding off their new material and have releases penned in with Soft Rocks label ‘Kinfolk’ and the Roots Unit house label ‘Vibrations’. Musically the project runs from beautiful ambiance to chilled house with some...
INTERVIEW / STUART LEATH / EMOTIONAL RESCUE / EMOTIONAL RESPONSE
Interview took place 13:30 GMT, 22:30 JT. One was about to go for a run, the other was opening a bottle of wine. Dr Rob (DR) / First question, who are Emotional Rescue & Emotional Response? Stuart Leath (SL) / Emotional Response & Rescue are me and Chris Galloway. It’s just me and Chris. Though...
XTC / Nearly Africa / Apiento Cut
Here’s an edit from the vault. Bit of a Baldelli cosmic classic. Would love to have heard this one in that time and place. Hope you like. Download
Nice Things In The Post / Kindness
So this one has been getting noticed. You may have seen people posting about this on Facebook or whatever as it seems to be a bit of a hype one right now. Whatever. For me its great to see major record labels doing good things and supporting left of centre music in the correct way....
Nice Things In The Post / Tusk 4
Its always good when the postman turns up with a new record you weren’t expecting. I liked these guys from the off. They got in touch and said can we send the record and I said send digital if its easier and they said ‘vinyl only with us’. Good ethos. Tusk 4 is the new...
News / All The Mixes / Bad Passion With The Idjuts
We had a bit of an issue with our hosting company telling us off for using too much bandwidth so had to archive loads of the mixes but we’ve moved to a new server (thanks Gareth, James and Neil) and we are all back live. They should all be on iTunes as podcasts as well...
Reviews / Promo’d / 19 / 02 / 2012
BLAKULA / BACK FROM MYSTERY CITY / BEAR FUNK Italian Horror with a post-punk funk edge. Metallic echoes of Levene. Wobble-like bass. Richard Sen’s Padded Cell with harpsichord flourishes, thigh-bone trumpets and the Jajouka’s rhiatas. Sharing Barry Adamson’s “Moss-Side Story”s obsession with the night and musicians in sharp suits, Cold War spy theme guitar riffs...
175 / Yozo / EAD Anniversary Mix
A while back we ran some anniversary mixes by DJ Yozo from Japan’s EAD record shop. We are happy to say he is back with a new one to celebrate this years anniversary. I get the feeling there might be some very expensive records on this mix. Download
What’s It All About? Balearic Beat In 2012.
I was asked to write a piece for a friend about something relating to the website, so I have taken the easy way out and opted to talk about the main musical genre we focus on and obsess about, Balearic Beat. Thought I’d share it here. It’s a musical scene that is both niche and...