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 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...
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
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....
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...
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...
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...
Having been with Psyche rockers Apryl Fool and Folk rockers Happy End during the late 60s and early 70s, a then successful but still pretty conventional singer song-writer, Haroumi Hosono, famously put together the Yellow Magic Orchestra, recruiting session players Ryuichi Sakamoto and Yukihiro Takahashi, and in doing so changed the face of Japanese popular...
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
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...
COSMIC HOFFMAN / SPACE DISCO / EMOTIONAL RESCUE One side is Kriedler & Cluster, Von Spar & Froese, on a Tangerine Dream Kosmische Space Rock trip to the void. The other a Balearic Cosmic chugger that builds and builds without every really going anywhere. It doesn`t need to. A touch of the ‘Stop Bajon’s’ about...
Done with style…
This is a perfect mix for the weekend. Some of you may know Bing Ji Ling from his work with Incarnations and also the Phenomenal Handclap Band with next up a new release from his Paqua project alongside Paul Murphy and Alex Searle on the Claremont label. Some hot debuts on this mix – the...
Haven’t done a mix this year so happy to welcome Steve Kotey to get the ball rolling. I like the way when Steve sent the mix through he’d put the genre as ’1976 Porno Soundtrack’. If that doesn’t give you a clue where its going we are talking full on sleazy disco. Steve is pretty...
SUN ARAW & M. GEDDES GENGRAS MEET THE CONGOS / ICON GIVE THANK / RVNG ITNL. / FRKWYS VOL. 9 Innergaze’s Not Not Fun groove, Hype Williams’ post-Aphex melodies, shards of King Sunny Ade Ju Ju guitar. Shattered into Morse. ON-U’s gotta be the obvious reference. ‘Some Bizarre’ or The Missing Brazilians. Bim’s work with...
