Bloc have produced a short video series with a selection of headliners from the 2012 festival, where they’ll tell us all about who – or what – has influenced them in becoming the groundbreaking artist they are. [Read more →]
Video: Amon Tobin Boxset
21.05.12
Over the last fifteen years, while other producers have come and gone, making a noise and grabbing headlines before failing to live up to or with the hype and fading away, Amon Tobin has calmly and quietly built a reputation as one of the pre-eminent electronic musicians of his generation. Today celebrates the release of the Brazilian producers extensive back catalogue of work from the past 15 years. Packaged in a beautiful high quality “bolt-fastened mechanical ‘press,’” the release includes seven CDs, six 10-inches and a DVD. [Read more →]
Omni Magazine Covers 1978 – 1995
20.05.12
For anyone who was raised in the ’70s, never had a date in the ’80s, and believed 2000 was going to look like a cross between an LSD trip and Tron, Omni magazine was essential reading but sadly these days the only place you’ll be lucky enough to find a copy of Omni for sale is in charity shops or for lucrative prices on eBay. For those unfamiliar, the magazine was a lushly airbrushed, sans-serif, and silver-paged vision dreamed up (surprisingly) by Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione and his wife, Kathy Keeton that ran between 1978-1995. It split the difference between the consumerist Popular Science, and the lofty Scientific American available at the time and is said to be “an original if not controversial mixture of science, science fiction, fantasy and the paranormal”. [Read more →]
Review: WNCL ‘Coming On Strong’/ Pangaea Rmx
15.05.12
One of the best releases of 2012 so far has landed from one of Inhabit’s favourite imprints and producers. Bob Bhamra aka West Norwood Cassette Library follows his ‘Collision/Detection v2’ EP (an interesting project from released via Front & Follow inviting artists to create a 4-track EP using audio submitted to a central pool by the wider group) with the beautiful ‘Coming On Strong’ marking the first release this year for his WNCL imprint. [Read more →]
Rumah Interview + Inhabit Mix 017
11.05.12
Sean Hughes aka Rumah first crossed my radar a couple of months ago after hearing his guest mix on Dalston internet radio station NTS. Since then I have witnessed him sporadically uploaded new tracks to his Soundcloud, each bettering the last. His productions are usually built around a four-to-the-floor referencing techno and house, coloured with with dark textures from across the UK spectrum. [Read more →]
Outlook Festival 2011 Video
10.05.12
Outlook Festival is the largest Bass music and Soundsystem Culture festival in Europe. Established in 2008 in Petrcane, a rustic little fishing village on the Croatian coast. In 2009 they took over a beach-front Superclub in Novalja on the Island of Pag. [Read more →]
Bloc Fetival 2012 Updates
03.05.12
Bloc will be utilising temporary structures and two permanently installed nightclub venues in the sixty thousand square metre site of The London Pleasure Gardens. Most of the venues are to be located at the water’s edge, and the site itself is adorned with the art and architectural folly [Read more →]
VNA presents ‘Birdz by Ronzo’
03.05.12
To coincide with VNA’s Ronzo interview in issue 18; João Retorta was given the opportunity to follow him through the process of creating and rolling out his famous birds on the streets of London. [Read more →]
