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Album review: Modern Studies – Welcome Strangers (Fire Records)
June 12, 2018 1 min read
Pastoral tunes You have to look away from the big cities to find new music in Britain today, it’s the only way for artists to escape from the pressure to…
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Soundtrack review: Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
June 08, 2018 1 min read
John Powell and John Williams inject youthful orchestral energy into the intergalactic spaghetti western heist that is Solo: A Star Wars Story. There’s no denying the important legacy of Star…
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Album review: Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids – An Angel Fell (Strut)
June 06, 2018 1 min read
A large scale recording with lots of rich tone and atmosphere Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids are something of a new old stock band, originally formed in 1972 they released…
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Album review: e.s.t. Live in London (ACT)
May 31, 2018 1 min read
Inspirational jazz Esbjörn Svensson died in a scuba diving accident on June 14th, 2008, ten years on the ACT label that released all but the earliest of the e.s.t. (Esbjörn…
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Album review: The Shacks – Haze (Big Crown Records)
May 27, 2018 1 min read
The Shacks came onto my radar last year when a record store owner recommended El Michels Affair, a band whose cheesy kung-fu artwork on Return to the 37th Chamber was…
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Album review: Cosmo Sheldrake – The Much Much How How and I (Transgressive Records)
May 27, 2018 1 min read
Weird and wonderful You don’t often come across original artists in contemporary music, in most cases it’s possible to trace the ideas heard in ‘new’ music back to an earlier…
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The ultimate spring playlist for T7 Wireless Bluetooth™ speaker
May 27, 2018 1 min read
Spring has sprung, meaning it’s time to get outside and enjoy your music. So we’ve put together a perfect playlist of spring-themed tracks, featuring artists like The Beatles, Aphex Twin…
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PX Sound Series: Atmosphere
May 27, 2018 1 min read
We’re embarking on a sonic journey to unearth the nuances in your music with PX. Over the course of three blog posts we’ll uncover tracks, which PX – through its…
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Steve Davis’s favourite tracks and top tips for Record Store Day 2018
May 27, 2018 1 min read
Steve Davis spun some his favourite records at the newly opened Stranger Than Paradise record shop in Hackney, London, and offered some top tips for Record Store Day 2018. ‘It’s…
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Record Store Day 2018: 7 great records you can only hear on vinyl
May 27, 2018 1 min read
In celebration of Record Store Day 2018, we pick our favourite records, which can only be experienced through arguably the greatest musical format in the world: vinyl. The way we…
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Sly & Robbie Meet Nils Petter Molvaer – Nordub (Okeh)
May 27, 2018 1 min read
Scandinavia is not the first place that comes to mind when looking for the power of dub so when Norwegian trumpet player Nils Petter Molvaer wanted to make a dub…
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Society of Sound: Low Island production notes
May 27, 2018 1 min read
When we formed Low Island, our main idea was to bring together indie songwriting and electronic dance music. We all grew up playing in bands and listening to guitar-based indie…
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