Here’s last week’s NeW IDoLs recording from 99 Hanover St in two parts. I was back-to-back with DD for the night.  DD is resident at Compakt and produces his own music as part of The Set Up. Part I runs … Continue reading →

Two Wednesdays back, I welcomed Jealouskid to play some of his personal favourites and NeW IDoLs with me at 99 Hanover St. He’s been pushing music he loves via a weekly radio show on Brap FM called The Gulshick for … Continue reading →

I recorded this set at the beginning of the month at my NeW IDoLs night (9-1, every Wednesday at 99 Hanover St).  This night is all about ‘NeW IDoLs and old favourites’ and this night was a proper nostalgia-fest, inspired by … Continue reading →

Chiptune, proper noun, aka 8Bit, Bitpop, Bitcore, Nintendocore Any tempo but generally fast (i.e. 130-180bpm), the sound of 8-bit and 16-bit micro-chips from classic arcade games from the late Seventies and early Eighties, hand-held computer games from Nintendo and other home computers. Origins: Tokyo … Continue reading →

Hard to believe that Donna Summer has just died of cancer, aged 63.  The Queen of Disco was probably the first disco artist i was truly moved by, when she had a top twenty hit covering Jon & Vangelis’s 1981 … Continue reading →

Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn, who died just over a week ago, was the bass player for Booker T & The MGs (pictured above, with Dunn second from the right), the world-renown house band for quintessential Sixties, Memphis soul label Stax and later … Continue reading →

There’s been a proper string of musical deaths over the last few weeks, starting with Adam Yauch, aka the Beastie Boys‘ MCA, who finally lost his battle a fortnight ago, aged just 47.  Yauch was diagnosed with cancer in a … Continue reading →

Cosmic (disco), adj/proper noun, aka Afro Cosmic, also Space Disco Originally an highly eclectic, down-tempo (90-105 BPM) style, which nowadays generally exhibits a lot of space, reverb and echo/delay in the production, bubbling synths, delicate keys, langurous guitars and percussion instruments more often found … Continue reading →