Archive for the ‘Music’ Category

New Music

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Shook Magazine Back from the office I was pleasantly surprised finding the second edition of Shook magazine in my mailbox. It's a London based music magazine covering a wide range of topics, basically urban and black music. It has it all, from a short feature on Dutch d&b and dubstep producer ...

Good Old Days

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Well, sort of. Thanks to Last.fm I reminisced about the good old days of hardcore punk this week. Mostly 80s stuff actually. The similar artists stations provide an excellent service to listen to great music. And much to my surprise there were some real gems to rediscover: US bands like SSD, ...

Benga - Diary of an Afro Warrior [Tempa CD 010]

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

After Burial's seminal album Untrue from last year, I have bought another dubstep album, which was released last week: Benga - Diary of an Afro Warrior. The album features 14 musically very diverse tracks. From slow, bass drenched tracks like 26 Basslines to jazzy ones like the opener Zero M2 ...

Subvert Central 60×60

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

The internet is a great place. Someone has an idea, writes about it, then emails, forum posts, blog articles, comments,... are exchanged, and before you know, a new project is born. Some of those projects are never finalized, though, some better hadn't been started in the first place, and some ...