This week the wonderful guys and gals at Outlook Festival did something very special. They revealed the BOAT PARTIES. Outlook Festival, the jewel of the Croatian Coast is an event not to be missed, like some wonderful sunset of the summer it comes at the end of August carrying us (not so) gently into september [...]
Over the last 12 months Cam Toman AKA Mad Brains has really risen up the ranks of the London rap scene. The 21 year old makes music that is welcome to many a tired ear, no gimmicks, no jokes, no stupid voices – just good tunes and blissful rhymes. With numerous scintillating live shows under [...]
Where I live it usually rains. In fact the north west of England, where I grew up, is apparently more rainy than Hawaii. But then again, I never thought Hawaii was that rainy. Anyway, today it’s sunny (sort of) and what suits the sunshine (apart from gin, juice and Bob Marley)? Drum and Bass! But [...]
Okay, let’s play a game, let’s think of what the most fun job in the world would be… Ice cream taster? Maybe but you’d get pretty spotty and fat quite quickly… Football player? Hmm you’d have a lot of money but 90% of the world would think you’re a bit of a prick. Actor/Actress? Amazing, [...]
Have you ever felt like floating round a room and walking up walls? It’s something I dream about on the regular, I mean, who needs gravity anyway, all that Newtonian apple schitt is overrated anyway. Sadly however, gravity is very much firmly a ‘thing’ so instead, dear dreamers of floatiness, I ask you to live vicariously [...]
So do we all remember when dubstep was good? you know, the old days of Skream and Benga, of Caspa and Rusko, those golden days of long ago when dubstep was dark, unnerving, intense and damn well bloody good. Now it seems that for those of us craving that bass-heavy sound of Fabriclive.37 are supposed to [...]
whasss goin my friends? Today we skip away from the bass-heavy riddims and enter into a more ethereal part of our minds with a new track from Airhead – and it is fresher than yo’ ma’s washing. London producer Robert McAndrews AKA Airhead is one of the most adaptable, diverse sound scientists around at the [...]
My Life Is Like An Island This. Is. Huge. Today I awoke and as per usual I began my daily trawl of the internet to find what sonic delights will soundtrack my day. And on my quest I found that overnight, whilst I was sleeping peacefully in my bed – Neneh Cherry returned. Neneh Cherry [...]
Mornin’ Afternoon and good evening. Here’s something to delight your day, that I just couldn’t let slip… Say hello to Manni Dee, a mysterious Brighton based badman, making interesting, genre blurring music that excites me more than Matilda in a Library. This is recent release on 2nd Drop records – featuring London Lad Deft. The track [...]
I think eglo records are my all time faves. set up by head honcho and diverse disc spinner Alexander Nut a few years back, eglo now play host to some of the funkiest folk around, from floating points, to fatima, to funkineven (I promise you, they’re not all Fs) The newest drop on eglo comes [...]
He back. Oh damn straight he back. https://soundcloud.com/factmag/joker-newham-generals Joker, one-time poster boy of dubstep is back. And he ain’t compromising. New Track ‘Newham Generals’ named after these guys is riot of bass and nosebleed synth with hard kicking drums that are worthy of GBH. Joker, more famously known for his big dubstep remixes of Beth Ditto [...]
Grime hasn’t had an easy road lately. With grime having slowly become a sordid affair known as ‘grime pop’ it would seem that the ‘badmen’ of yesteryear have drowned in the deluge of ‘funky bassline’ and ‘future garage’ – lost in the maelstrom of whiny vocals and bass-so-bouncy even thumper would get a headache… Yes, [...]
