Well, they never actually got away, its more like they never actually made it there in the first place. And not from any fault of their own, just that we simply did not have enough time to do a full review. To make amends for our sloveness, here are the 6 LPs that we should [...]
Dec 24, 2010 | Categories: News | Tags: Arcade Fire, Caribou, Gilles Peterson, Nitin Sawhney, Pugs Atomz, Seun Kuti & Fela's Egypt 80, Shock Bukara, Simian Mobile Disco, Worldwide | Leave A Comment »
For us, this was the year of broken beats, disco re-edits and, of course, the cloud. We also managed a major design revamp which seems to have gone down well as our visitor numbers nearly quadrupled over the year. But we would be nothing without the music and the artists that made it… A whole [...]
Dec 14, 2010 | Categories: Featured, News | Tags: Alice Russel, Amplifetes, Baths, BBE, Belleruche, Black Lillies, Botany, Dimitri From Paris, Eskmo, Free The Robots, Freestyle, Gil Scott Heron, Harmless, Hidden Orchestra, Horse Meat Disco, Ladi6, Lady Daisey, Lobisomem, Lovers, Maddslinky, Natural Self, Pugs Atomz, Quantic, Royksopp, Simian Mobile Disco, Sonar Kollektiv, Space Invadas, Speedometer, Strut, The Bamboos, Thunderball, Tom Moulton, Tracey Thorn, Transatlantics, Tru Thoughts, Wildcookie | Leave A Comment »
Twice a year the Parisien label Kitsuné Music release a compilation of tracks from their own artists and notable songs from other bands that fall into the nu-rave/electronica/rock/dance crossover style. Number 10 is a bumper edition with two CDs of 25 tracks. There are some of the usual favourites, such as Digitalism, Two Door Cinema [...]
Dec 03, 2010 | Categories: Featured, Reviews | Tags: Beatacue, Black Strobe, Cut Copy, Digitalism, Flight Facilities, Hot Chip, Justin Kohncke, Kitsuné, Klaxons, La Roux, Simian Mobile Disco, Strange Talk, The Guards, Two Door Cinema Club | Leave A Comment »
Simian Mobile Disco were the flag-bearers for the nu-rave / electro-punk scene a couple of years ago (we featured them quite a bit in one or two of our mixes): a musical genre that went as quickly as it came. So, what better way to give us an update on what’s happening in the ‘dance [...]
Sep 22, 2010 | Categories: Reviews | Tags: Defend Music, Fixed, Hot Chip, Kitsuné, Simian Mobile Disco | Leave A Comment »