Urlaubshits

Selected highlights from the last few months

I’ve been quiet over the last few months, but that’s for good reason this time -  I have recently taken up a new writing position over at the excellent Juno Plus. I’m honoured to be part of it and am particularly proud of what we’ve achieved over the last few months as a team. I’ll [...]

This month’s Blogdrone column is a live special, taking in performances seen at Lanzarote and BleeD over the last few weeks (who are both fast becoming London’s best promoters for all kinds of leftfield synth music). I begin with Lanzarote on Saturday 14th May at Electrowerkz, whose bizarre abandoned Quasar type vibes and copious UV [...]

One of the most intriguing tweets that I’ve seen over the last few months was delivered by Oneohtrix Point Never (@0PN), who simply tweeted the word “blogdrone”. Of course I can’t find the tweet now, so maybe it was deleted, or my mind is playing tricks on me, but whether seen in reality or simply [...]

Over the last few years we’ve seen a disco revival, then a classic house revival; now, there’s considerable evidence mounting that we are somewhere in the midst of a revival of 90s styles. This is evident in many corners; the broken beat leanings of Floating Points, FaltyDL and the like, as well as the resurgence [...]

And so on to the final part of my end of year round-up – my album of the year. There was never any doubt for me what it was going to be; from the moment I heard it this album has been on constant rotation. This album is Actress’ Splazsh.
Actress – Get Ohn (Fairlight [...]

And so on to a round-up of my albums of the year. Once again, they are in no particular order, apart from my favourite, which is covered more in depth in part 2. To be honest I’m going to keep this list shorter than the tracks, mainly because although I have listened to a lot [...]

And so we come to the final part of my round up of my favourite tracks of 2010. This installment deals with one track only, my absolute favourite of the year. To be honest, it snuck its way to the top of my list only in November after hearing it on the Night Slugs label [...]

Part 3 of my round up of my top tracks of the year is dedicated to what I am going to call the more “organic” music of 2010. This was a type of music not revolving around any labels, or scenes, but that evolved out of a consummate musicianship and a willingness to look for [...]

Part 2 of my round-up of my favourite tracks of the year is loosely devoted to house and dubstep, or more accurately, the point where the two genres have collided in the last year. It’s this category which has seen the youngest producers (there’s at least five names that I know of on this list [...]