The 2nd issue of Trap Magazine should be in shops and on streets (not literally, though if it is, pick it up and read it) now. Harbouring an interview, penned by yours truly, with SBTRKT, a chart from Hessle Audio and selector general, Ben UFO, and assorted reviews it also features accomplished interviews with Jammer and Mumdance, Spectrasoul and Logan Sama and more.
You can read it online below, but grab a physical copy if you can. The paper quality is gorgeous.
Future Sound is a short documentary that looks into a small cross section of London's forward-thinking underground dance music scene, exploring some of the things that define and affect it as it moves into a new age of digital innovation.
Featuring interviews with Roska, Scratcha DVA, Blackdown, Mark Fisher/K-Punk, and the Wire's Lisa Blanning, plus footage from a live SBTRKT DJ set.
Dir: Jamie Whitby & Rachel Lob-levyt // UK // 2010
Round 2 of your Sonic Router x Bleep.com Podcast is now live.
Featuring a look back at the best of this month's releases from an SR perspective it contains brand newisms from producers like Tokimonsta, Fantastic Mr Fox, SBTRKT, 2562 and Daniel Savio. Stream supreme on Soundcloud, kop the direct download or subscribe to the whole podcast feed - which features other noteworthy shows from Allez Allez, Bleep themselves and Alex Wilson.
This Saturday sees the launch of the Lightworks imprint and club night at Cable nightclub, in Bermondsey, London. With a variant line up that revels in its eclecticism the collective minds behind it insist on providing good music and with DJ sets from Four Tet, Swamp81 boss man Loefah - whos pretty much responsible for the boom in 808 laced bass music thanks to housing releases from Addison Groove and Ramadanman - Cooly G, Space Dimension Controller with SBRKT and Sampha performing their live show too, you cannae really argue...
Room Two is hosted by PTN vs. Get Me so you can expect bastard funky from label staples Doc Daneeka, the criminally brilliant Hypno, Deep Teknologi and boss man Tom Kerridge, also known as the White Sugh Knight.
J Dilla produced 'Lightworks' and instrumental which also got spat over on the recent DOOM album, 'Born Like This,' but which producer did Dilla sample to make it?
A) John Baker B) Raymond Scott 3) Delia Derbyshire
Winners will be announced on Friday. Please make sure you can attend the event if you enter.
Made after a plague of delays, silent bus journeys and forced walks home, Sonic Router Radio turns 8 editions old in style with another selection of hardrive heet.
This episode should soon come to mixcloud.com too.
SBTRKT is giving away his 'Kaoss' track for the price of a couple of mouse clicks over at the fabric blog. In the accomanying interview the masked producer reveals a little information on his live performances and upcoming projects too.
Endorsed by the likes of KISS 100's Sinden, SBTRKT has just served up a delicious mpfree centered squarely on the junction where the axis' of "dubstep, techno and fidget house meet."