Bit late on the draw with this one, but it’s still worth a post. I’ve had Scuba’s new album, Triangulation for a couple of months now and I’m still waiting for anything to top it this year. There’s been a few that have come close and bitten at its heals, but by and large, this [...]

Summer holidays were once about a genuine and sincere lack of responsibility. Most of them were spent pootling around on my bike through the spicey-scented English countryside. Occasionally I shifted the indoor/outdoor ratio around quite significantly. This involved the ritualistic drawing of the curtains during the day in favour of being able to see the [...]

I’ve just rediscovered one of my all-time favourite albums. Playing it now slides a dizzying whirl of memories into my mind. Back in the summer of 1996 Underworld could do no wrong. The success of the film Trainspotting (which stands as a masterpiece ode to the chemical generation) had been firmly ingrained into the growing [...]

It seems that winter’s relentless grip is at last weakening. There is a pleasant aura in March. The air feels clean – cooled by winter but slowly warming in the afternoons. The birds too have suddenly starting making noises at dusk and there is a watery pale blue in the sky for longer. There is [...]

“The music is different here.  The vibrations are different, not like planet Earth”. This little snippet has had me flummoxed for years. I’ve heard the distinctive stoned-out, deep-South drawl uttering these words on countless music tracks as a sample and although I had a rough idea who it was that said it, i didn’t know [...]

For a cruel afternoon in January there is little else that massages the mind in the way that Cluster’s Sowiesoso album does. It’s all skeletal trees, flickery lanterns, frosty marshes and perhaps a pagan animal hat peering from a  nearby holly tree. Sowiesoso has escaped me for years and finally I laid claim to copy [...]

I have been pointed into the direction of Ghostbox recently by a number of people and when I finally managed to get round to visiting their site and checking out their artists, I was was ultra-frustrated that I hadn’t come across them sooner. The label was created back in 2003 and is now host to [...]

Just time for a quick post before I hit the sack. I was writing a letter this evening and decided to embellish my handwriting a little by getting a little giddy to some 1920′s music hall jazz (possibly as some sort of legacy from my last post). I came across a suitable compilation called That’s [...]