Radio
Dub vs Dubstep Special w/ Mad Professor, Adrian Sherwood, Coki & Appleblim
Saturday, July 24th, 2010The invaluable Core News brings us a nice clean recording of a recent radio show: Rob da Bank 2010-07-24 Dub vs Dubstep Special with Mad Professor, Adrian Sherwood, Coki & Appleblim A very nice mix of new and old, does just what it says on the box. Post includes a link to the Hotfile download [...]
BBC coverage of Sonar 2010 – Includes DJ sets (Joy Orbison!), songs, interviews
Thursday, June 24th, 2010The Sonar festival in Barcelona has become a vital part of the European festival circuit. And by far the most important to the exposure of new electronic-based music. Billed as a festival of “Advanced Music and Multimedia Art”, the booking ranges far and wide (ie. it’s not just banging house and trance, or even just [...]
MAH, FlyLo, Roska, Joy Orbison – Sonar 2010 – Video
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010The Beeb has just posted a quick 8 minute video with Mary Anne Hobbs talking to the cats she brought with her to the Sonar Festival in Barcelona – Joy Orbison, Roska and Flying Lotus. Includes footage from the stage also. Of note: Flying Lotus making a point of mentioning the importance, to him, of [...]
Shock! Rage Against the Machine swearing on BBC Radio 5 live
Thursday, December 17th, 2009The UK Christmas Number One Single tradition has lead to all sorts of silly stuff over the years (Oasis vs. Blur for one), but the last few years have been dominated by awful, treacly pop songs spewing from the “winners” (or “indentured servants”, take your pick) of Simon Cowell’s X-Factor TV show. In the last few [...]
RIP Mister Magic
Friday, October 2nd, 2009He died this morning, apparently of a heart attack. A true hip hop pioneer, one whose show, “Mr. Magic’s Rap Attack“, I listened to religiously whenever I was close to the signal (and sometimes when I wasn’t). Somewhere in the stacks I have a beat up cassette tape of one of his mixes (this is not [...]