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BosBos – And So To Bed
Another year, another Ninja Tune forum swap. Compiled for the 2009 Xmas Swap (hosted in fine style by the venerable Spunktrumpet), And So To Bed… keeps it low and lazy with sounds found at the blurred edge of dub & techno. If you enjoyed 2008′s NiteDrive, then this one will be right up your street. [...]
Strictly Kev – Kev’s Kraftwerk Kover Kollection 1-6
Kraftwerk should require no introduction. You’ve heard either their music or influence, knowingly or unknowingly at some time or another. Their reach has been so emphatically placed into the mindset of so many modern artists, it’s difficult to know where to begin when considering songs influenced by the German visionaries of the future, or just [...]
BosBos – NiteDrive
Nothing beats a late night drive. The rush hour has long since passed, people are off the streets, and most importantly, the road is yours for the taking. NiteDrive is here to hit your car stereo with some dub, bass and techno, ready to soundtrack a cruise under the cover of darkness. With the likes [...]
Vintage Solid Steel: DJ Food & DK – “Now, Listen!” (The Director’s Cut)
The year is 2000 and Ninja Tune is a decade old. To celebrate, a new compilation of the Ninja Cuts series is in production, featuring tracks from artists past, present and future. Also in the planning is the first volume in a new mix CD series based around Coldcut’s Solid Steel show, to be included [...]
Vintage Solid Steel: DJ Food – African Steel/Dark Star Sci-Fi Sex Up
This time round we’re back in the mid to late 90′s with PC and Strictly, aka DJ Food as they take an hour each with very different paths. PC’s mix, labelled ‘African Steel’ on the DAT mixes all manner of percussion together, both old and new, traditional and contemporary. Burundi beats and thumb piano collide [...]
Vintage Solid Steel: DJ Food (PC & Strictly Kev) – Solid Steel 97-99
DJ Food (PC & Strictly Kev): Solid Steel 97-99 DK’s choice this time round and he sums up these selections thus: “These are probably my favourite Solid Steel mixes, early days in the show for me and some great ‘moments’ in them….” He obviously liked them because as well as appearing on the 19/10/97, 06/06/99 [...]
Vintage Solid Steel: J. Rocc – Syndromes 2
Not much time to spare this time round, but don’t think this entry from the Vintage Steel treasure chest is any less special because of it. Don’t take our word – just peep that deliciously funky tracklist! J. Rocc has been doing his hip hop thing since the mid-eighties; starting out with PSK, he went [...]
Vintage Solid Steel: Double Dee & Steinski
Play that beat, Mr DJ! Yet another classic unearthed from the Solid Steel vaults/crates/someplace dark. Strictly Kev and DK take you on a lesson (1,2,3, etc etc etc) in hip hop history as they get together with Double Dee and Steinski for a memorable interview that, even if you think you know your lessons, are [...]
Vintage Solid Steel: Coldcut And The Return Of Alien Sphinx
Alien conspiracies! Faces on planets! Unearthed DATs! Yes, it’s all here. A bit of a special broadcast, this one (aren’t they all?) as Coldcut go offworld with the Alien Sphinx. Strictly Kev is your flight director at mission control, take a close read as he guides you through the Solid Sphinx story. ‘Return Of The [...]
DJ Krush – Suimou Tsunenimasu DVD review
When is the best time for an artist to be retrospective about their work? In most cases, it’s usually linked to the impending close of a recording label contract, when a lazily packaged ‘greatest hits’ compilation falls into place in the absence of any new material. For some, it can be a chance to cast [...]
