UE.33: CJ Weaver | Urban Essence

Let’s cast our minds back to a time when a certain popular music streaming website wasn’t digging its own grave or Public Enemy No. 1. It was one of those random Soundcloud b2b Football Manager sinkhole escapades that truly paid … Read More

Five Essentials: Gacha Bakradze

Another week, another Five Essentials selection. Stepping up this week is R&S/Apollo affiliate and co-founder of vinyl-only, Parisien-cum-Georgian imprint Transfigured Time – Gacha Bakradze. Difficulties with distribution has unfortunately pushed the label’s third release back to mid-November at the time … Read More

Five Essentials: Alexi Delano & Butane

Swedish producer Alexi Delano and Stateside’s Butane are certainly no strangers to the odd collaboration or two. The last few years have a seen the two combine for a handful of raucous, functional releases – firstly via Butane’s alphahouse imprint … Read More

UE.30: Kask

For the 30th installment of our podcast series we welcome a fresh Estonian talent who’s been making big waves of late: Kask. His latest release Homegrown via Swiss imprint Legendary Sound Research has placed this emerging talent firmly on the … Read More

Lifted Sounds: Pennygiles

Taking a particularly lo-fi, retrospective attitude towards production technique is almost certainly moving against the tide when you look at how Drum & Bass has evolved from Jungle towards the accessible digital era of DAWs and sample packs.

An artist … Read More

UE.29: Kruse & Nuernberg

Florian Kruse and Nils Nuernberg – otherwise known as Kruse & Nuernberg – are the dapper German duo making waves across the European club circuit over the last few years with a series of slick releases on some of the … Read More

Spotlight: Keita Sano

Keita Sano‘s stock has been ascending rather rapidly of late: appearances on Keep Up! and the effervescent Mister Saturday Night have made the Okayama-based producer one of the scene’s hottest new talents.

Berlin-founded, now Dalston-based Holic Trax has been building similar … Read More

Digging Deep: Doorly

Stepping up to the table for this week’s Digging Deep is Cajual and Dirtybird associate and all-round bass-house maestro Doorly.

Taking us through the most treasured records in his collection ahead of his appearance at Croatia’s Hideout this year, Doorly comes correct … Read More

Digging Deep: K15

K15‘s stock has been rising faster than most of recent times: a couple of stellar releases via Kyle Hall‘s Wild Oats and newly-founded No Room For Air imprints – the former, Insecurities, married sultry and danceable with an infectious vivacity (it’s … Read More

A Final Farewell: In Conversation with Southport Weekender’s Alex Lowes

We received the news of Southport Weekender‘s retirement with great sadness – a British institution with a decidedly worldly musical aesthetic and an even bigger heart that prides itself on living up to and surpassing its reputation as the ‘world’s … Read More