Hyponik: 2020 Highlights…Selected by Artists
At last! We’re on the homeward sprint. The end of 2020, the year of all years. Like always, this closing…
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DJ Earl selects 10 essential and effective footwork tracks
Much has been documented on the Chicago-born genre, Footwork. In recent years, the explosive genre has taken new and interesting…
SYSTEM’s Versa on his journey through dub and sound system culture
Releasing music on labels such as Zamzam, Cut Recs and Shanti Tone, as well as three outings’s on V.I.V.E.K’s legendary…
5 local acts to catch at Leeds’ Inner City Electronic 2020
With Freakenstein, Laura Jones, Zoya and more. Inner City Electronic is a 24 hour showcase of all that is magnificent…
Voin Oruwu selects 11 must-know artists from the Kyiv underground
When it comes to the flourishing underground scene currently bubbling away in Ukraine’s capital city Kyiv, Dmitriy Avksentiev knows a…
Label Focus: Noods Radio
As far back as the sixties when stations like Radio Caroline broadcast from ships anchored in international waters, to the…
Forest Drive West’s essential dub inspired jams
Joe Bakers’ Forest Drive West project has continued to progress from strength to strength. He spent years away from the spotlight…
Five of London’s best record shops
Despite the looming threat of the digital age and the ever-growing fear that one day we will all be bettered…
“No bullshit, no remorse” – smog on his favourite hardcore tracks
Kicking off the label earlier this year with an explosive four-track release of mangled electronics from Manchester experimentalist Daniel Ruane,…
Label Focus: Illegal Data
The Bristol collective give us a rundown on their new VA comp. Emerging just earlier this year, it hasn’t taken…
Shapednoise breaks down Aesthesis, his new LP for Numbers
It’s easy to imagine the kind of sounds that Shapednoise would be expert in conjuring, but nothing can prepare one…
DJ Richard: 11 tracks that informed the gritty EBM sound of Eraser
Step into the twisted world of post punk, black metal and hardcore keeping DJ Richard inspired. American born DJ Richard…