This month for our Balamii residency we invited London based deejay and label owner Chloe Frieda down to the studio to share insight into her experimental record label Alien Jams.
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Premiere: Benoit B – Crystal Fuselage
Head operator of the rising Banlieue Records – host to a couple of excellent VAs featuring the likes of N1L, DJ Overdose, Tom Dicicco and more, to which you
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Visual Retrospective: Dave Huismans reflects on A Made Up Sound
Dutch producer Dave Huismans selects five label designs from his own imprint A Made Up Sound, revealing the original locations of where the photographs were captured and methods used to create the corrosive and industrial aesthetic that make up the AMUS discography.
Premiere: Black Manual – Mordendo (Cut Hands Remix)
Originally issued in 2013, ‘Mordendo‘ is the one and only release of Black Manual, a project born in 2012 after Jan St. Werner had heard the percussionists Valdir Jovenal,
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Maceo Plex, Robag Wruhme and Red Axes play Avant Garde
In the wake of the announcement of Maceo Plex’s forthcoming album ‘Journey To Solar’, set for release in November, London-based promoters Avant Garde bring Maceo Plex, Robag
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Shamos returns to Apron with ‘Games and Dreams’
After opening the new season of Apron Records‘ adventures with the promising ‘Road Works Part 1‘, the rather secretive London-based DJ and producer Shamos returns to Steven Julien’s
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Premiere: Fango – Metacarpo
Described by Michael Mayer as “the most insane Italian since Berlusconi“, Fango certainly makes for one of today’s most interesting and singular voices in the very calibrated world of
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Fabric & Houndstooth announce 111 track #savefabric artist compilation
After a tragic death on the premises, August saw Fabric’s license temporarily revoked and the subsequently suspended at a hearing the following month. While the greater
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Premiere: Jaures – Volto Notturno (qqq B. Jurnata)
Since they broke through in 2014, Jaures have been astutely navigating in the folds between industrial, no wave and techno, carefully polishing their craft whilst stacking up choice
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Premiere: Paolo Iocca – Xing (Nick Anthony Simoncino Techno Dream Remix)
Former lead figure of Bologna based post-folk band Franklin Delano, Paolo Iocca has lived many lives in one. As a solo artist, the Italian producer finally lets loose
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Premiere: DJ Après Ski – Après Ski
Over the years former Twisted Pepper resident Barry Redsetta has been assembling the pieces to a growingly rewarding puzzle, helping turn the rather stale Dublin club
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Shifted: Appropriation Stories
Appropriation Stories is one of the top Shifted works to date – providing everything fans and new listeners could want out of a techno album, while not trying to vacillate between the dancefloor and a headphone listen. It has terrific balance, exudes confidence and packs a mean punch with silk sheets surrounding it.
Johannes Reigner: Hilbert Space Remixes
‘Hilbert Space’ feels like one of those archival discoveries, released low key in the nineties and never dislodged from the collections of those intrepid jocks lucky enough to stumble upon it in some overlooked indie shop. From the second it hits your eardrums it sounds well-worn with warm familiarity, yet not over saturated through pastiche.
Premiere: Serena Butler – You Have Penetrated Me
Founded in 2012, Eerie was initially conceived to serve the sole output of Marco Shuttle. Since then, the imprint has extended its reach to an array of emerging Italian producers including
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Shinoby teams up with Hypnobeat on new EP ‘All Things Pass Into The Night’
On his first three instalments Omar Contri aka Shinoby surrounded himself with the crème of remixers: Madteo, MGUN, Samo DJ & Tzusing, The Analogue Cops and more recently
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Premiere: Albert van Abbe – Vision 01
Albert van Abbe has been bubbling up in recent times. After a string of releases on his ‘No Comment’ label, whose name aptly matched his understated
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