New Albums & Singles Releases 02.04.12

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New Albums & Singles Releases 02.04.12 (in no particular order) [Artist/Title/Label/Genre/Format] New Album Releases: 01. AU ‘Both Lights’ (The Leaf Label) Leftfield Pop LP/CD 02. Lotus Plaza ‘Spooky Action At A Distance’ (Kranky) Leftfield Pop CD 03. X-O-DUS  ‘English Black Boys’ (LTM) Reggae CD 04. Vatican Shadow ‘Kneel Before Religious Icons’ (Type Records) Electronic LP … Read more

Sleep // European Tour Dates (Posted By Harry)

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Sleep: European Tour Dates. Sleep ‘Dopesmoker’ (Southern Lord) 04.14.12 – Tilburg, Netherlands – Roadburn Festival 05.03.12 -Wroclaw, Poland -Asymmetry Festival * 05.04.12 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Amager Bio * 05.05.12 – Oslo, Norway – Betong * 05.06.12 – Stockholm, Sweden – Strand * 05.08.12 – Helsinki, Finland – Tavastia 05.09.12 – Berlin, Germany – Berghain … Read more

DJ Brackles/ i-D Interview & Exclusive Mix (Posted By Harry)

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Exclusive Mix: DJ Brackles soundcloud.com/brackles Brackles is a shining star of the London club scene, renowned for his luscious mixes of house and garage with an RnB twist. A stalwart at Rinse FM, Brackles holds down his weekly show every Thursday from 2-4PM. Not just a DJ, he’s also a producer in his own right, … Read more

High Contrast Tour Dates (Posted By Rico)

High Contrast

High Contrast Tour Dates 2012. With big things to come, High Contrast is destined for the top 40 so it’s well worth getting your tickets as soon as… Tour Dates: Sat 03/03/12 Hospitality @ The Great Hall, Cardiff, UK Fri 16/03/12 – Mon 26/03/12 Hospitality USA/Canada Tour Fri 30/03/12 Hospitality @ Rainbow Warehouse, Birmingham, UK … Read more

The Field in NME’s Best Albums Of 2011 (Posted By Harry)

The Field-Looping State Of Mind

The Field #28 in NME‘s Best Albums List 2011 The Field ‘Looping State Of Mind’ (Kompakt) “When attention spans are increasingly shot to pieces, Axle Wilner makes music that circumnavigates the Tumblr-numbed brained, turning instead into some natural, eternal rhythm. On ‘Looping…’ he perfected his style of rich techno fastidiously built from loops of sound. … Read more

Meet the New Managing Directors at Southern Record Distributors.

Andy Slocombe (Left) and Steve P Collins (Right)

Southern Record Distributors Southern Record Distributors has expanded, whilst there has been the departure of John Knight, in his place happily joining the board is Andy Slocombe (left) and Steve P Collins (right). Andy Slocombe will be taking responsibility of Sales Director and Steve P Collins as Finance Director, with John Knight moving to a … Read more

John Maus Features in Guardian// CMU Approved// Art Review (Posted By Harry)

John Maus (Upset The Rhythm)

John Maus Guardian// CMU//Art Review Features John Maus ‘We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves’ (Upset The Rhythm) Busy times for John Maus, having features in The Guardian, CMU & Art Review. His ‘We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves’ has been described by Pitchfork as “walking the line between sincerity and surreality’ … Read more

K-X-P Piccadilly Records Pick Of The Week (Posted By Harry)

K-X-P "Easy" (Melodic)

K-X-P ‘Easy’ is Pick Of The Week at Piccadilly Records K-X-P ‘Easy’ (Melodic) “Hot on the heels of their eponymous debut album (released on Smalltown Supersound in March ’11), Finnish electro-rock-stomp trio K-X-P are set to unleash a brand new three-track EP to mark their signing to Manchester’s Melodic label. If the music contained within … Read more

Walls is ‘Song Of The Day’ on The Line Of Best Fit (Posted By Harry)

Wall 'Coracle' (Kompakt)

Walls ‘Raw Umber / Twilight’ is ‘Song Of The Day’ on The Line Of Best Fit “…Walls are also very good at channeling that straight-to-the-gut emotion… tracks like ‘Raw Umber/Twilight’ are all about simple, familiar, wide-eyed basslines…” Written By Josh Hall Read it in full here Walls’Coracle’ out on Kompakt on 26th September Walls ‘Raw … Read more

FoxyDigitalis Interviews Walls (Posted By Harry)

Wall 'Coracle' (Kompakt)

FoxyDigitalis Interviews Walls Kompakt will release Coracle on 26th September In 2010 Sam Willis of London DJ duo Allez-Allez came together with Alessio Natalizia of bedroom pop project Banjo Or Freakout to release the first, self-titled WALLS album. Released on Kompakt, the über-slick German label best known for records by The Field, Gui Boratto and … Read more