Release Roundup – February 2024

House Techno Breaks DnB downtempo releases February 2024

February 2025 was an epic month for releases which makes this one an epic post. We’ve got a modern classic revisited plus plenty of old skool vibes for the house heads plus the full spectrum of techno from introspective experimentalism right to up to industrial strength nose bleeders. There’s also a whole ton of big … Read more

Release Roundup – January 2024

January 2024 dance releases

Well, we got through it, the most boring month of the year, from here on in it’s just going to get warmer and hopefully more exciting. Unless you’re in Australia, in which case it’s going to get colder and there’s never a dull moment because all the fauna is constantly trying to kill you. Lucky … Read more

2023 Release Roundup

2023-2024

2023 is drawing to a close so best to recap it now before the New Year while we’re both still capable of processing the written word. Nothing too elaborate on this post, just some shout outs some of my favourite releases and producers for 2023, plus my pick for label of the year. For the … Read more

Release Roundup – December 2023

december 2023

Right so eeeh… Now that that’s out of the way, it’s time for the release roundup for December 2024. Boo-Urns Of The Month Maceo Plex joins prestigious names like the Chemical Brothers and DJ Shadow by becoming my boo-urns of the month. Recently I’ve been going flat out to commemorate all the classic hiphop albums … Read more

Release Roundup – November 2023

November 2023 releases

November 2023 was an exciting month for electronic music releases with some slick techno bangers, a compelling new release from Woodleigh Research Facility plus some ingenious acid, electro and jungle. Album Of The Month November 2023 My album of the month for November 2023 is Phonox Nights by Woodleigh Research Facility. Hard to believe we’re … Read more

Release Roundup – September 2023

Release roundup September 2023

Been another hectic month with lots of interesting releases, news of more exiting releases on the way, not to mention lots of 30th anniversaries I really wanted to make sure are covered here. But anyways, at the risk of sounding unpopular (perish the thought) let’s get this out of the way: So now that I’ve … Read more

Release Roundup – July 2023

July2023-Roundup

Some months are quiet release-wise, but this July has been bountiful. The weather might be shit but we’ve been spoiled with good tunes at least, including the first new official EP in years from Aphex Twin, Blackbox Life Recorder, plus my album of the month from Nntng. In the interests of time, I’ve jettisoned any notions of … Read more

Joey Beltdrives’ Bumpy Backspins – Beastie Boys – Hello Nasty (Released July 14th 1998)

Hello Nasty - Beastie Boys released 1998

There’s a line in Sure Shot, the opening track of 1994’s Ill Communication, that’s stuck with me for almost 30 years. Right near the very beginning MCA proclaims; “I’ve got more rhymes than I got grey hairs, and that’s a lot because I got my shares.” As a teenager it was incongruous to imagine that … Read more

Album Review: Optical Delusion – Orbital – Released 17 Feb 2023

Orbital - Optical Delusion February 2023

Optical Delusion – Orbital – Released February 2023 – London Records / Orbital Recordings Ireland hates Orbital apparently. Not the Irish people I should point out. No, we love them as much as anybody, but the Hartnoll brothers claim they’re cursed whenever they come here. It was certainly the case when my longest-suffering friend and … Read more