9/10 Don’t let the uninspired title fool you, Nascain’s ‘Double Album’ is a serious piece of work. A 20-track digital only release that has spent 3 years in the making – rife with ups and downs with tempos spanning from 80 to 180bpm. I found this album browsing Reddit for more obscure Aphex Twin releases…
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8.5 Making her valiant return to the London-based imprint Whities, Avalon Emerson’s latest work ‘Whities 013’ is every bit psychedelic as you would imagine. There’s no surprise that artists such as Ricardo Villalobos and Ben UFO are cited as fans of her work with her distinctive synth-driven sounds and quirky melodies which send you on…
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My experiences with drum and bass lie within the realms of jump up and jungle – having only ever attended Playaz at Fabric (which just so happened to be my first ever rave) and Breakin’ Science. They’re the kind of events where you are likely to hear Bricks Don’t Roll and Mr. Happy get wheeled…
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Dekmantel Selectors has set the new benchmark of how a festival should be done. The incredible programming and production that Dekmantel consistently churns out, translated onto a beautiful beach location on the Adriatic; is an instant winning formula. Rather than give an extensive, long winded review of the event, we thought it better for all…
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Making his mark on the scene with his debut release ‘I Wanna Go Bang’, Bjarki has become one of the most dynamic artists who has remoulded the scents of breakbeat, rave, jungle, trance and IDM into sounds that are entirely their own. The Icelandic artist is an unstoppable force, releasing 41 tricks in one hit on трип…
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Only in its second year, Junction 2 has become the finest techno festival in London. Nestled in the West, the festival run by Drumcode and LWE brings together class acts from all over the world for one day of incredible music. Stepping things up a notch, the 2017 edition added two new stages – Sonus…
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7/10 The release of Max Cooper’s ‘Chromos’ EP follows on from his extensive ‘Emergence project’ – an ambitious amalgamation between audio-visual show, scientific research project, art installation and IDM record. ‘Chromos’ – also released on Cooper’s imprint Mesh Records – follows on with the scientific research aspect to Emergence, as the new EP was inspired…
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“You can’t understand the blues until you’ve had your heart broken and you can’t understand my music till you’ve had group sex on ecstasy.” Ministry of Sound, London, 8th April 2017. Although I will most certainly plead the fifth if you ask me why I understand DJ Harvey’s music, what I will tell…
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6.2/10 When we heard that Terry Francis, the steadfast overlord of Fabric’s revered Room 2, was dropping his debut album, we the 909 crew lost our shit. Francis, along with fellow Übermensch Craig Richards, has been a resident at the club since its inception in 1999, and consequently has been at the forefront of electronic…
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Oval Space, London, 27th January 2017. Over the last few years Oval Space has managed to cement itself as one of the premier nightspots in London, primarily through its consistently stellar bookings. As well as 909 favourites such as Ryan Elliott and Nick Höppner, the club has enlisted the talents of techno royalty Robert Hood and…
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