Month: June 2015

  • Kevin Knapp (Hot Creations) Q&A

    Hello and how is life in Berlin in 2015? Fantastic at the moment actually, now that we’re into June and it’s so gorgeous all the time. In the winter things can get a bit rough and ironically not due to the cold, but rather, due to the fact that it’s overcast like 90% of the…

  • Navid Izadi (Wolf + Lamb/ Crew Love) Q&A

    How’s life as part of the Wolf + Lamb/ Crew Love collective in 2015. How important is it to you to be part of that? Life with the crew is like life with any family. There’s a deep love and connection that goes beyond just being label mates. That being said, every family has it’s…

  • MANIK Q&A

    Your recent release on Nice Age features the killer track: Buffalo Trace. What for you is the enduring appeal of Acid House? Acid house to me is just a simpler time. Less is more. The music was super basic but the vibes were next level. As far as the producer nerd in me, I love…

  • Ronnie Spiteri (Kenja Records) Q&A

    How did you find the process of setting up your own label Kenja Records, and where does the name come from? I had a dozen of tunes that were waiting to be released elsewhere and I was getting frustrated with release schedules that were given to me by the labels. As I work in the…

  • Reviews: 155

    FP-Oner (aka Fred P) 5 mule musiq In one of those revelatory moments Fred P literally transports your mind, body and soul into the cosmos care off this electrifying set of sonically charged, teasing jazziness. The Soul People Music head begins a trilogy of releases with this album, under his FP-Oner guise, for Toshiya Kawasaki’s…

  • Pablo Marco (Cadenza Lab/ VIVa Music/ Low to high) Q&A

    Your excellent new single: Deja Vu (with Hash Hendrex) is coming out on Luciano’s Cadenza Lab. How did the relationship with the label, and Hash Hendrex, happen? Well my relation with Cadenza started right when I when to London to study sound, I discover the Blind Behaviour of Luciano in Peacefrog and it did really…

  • Reviews: 154

    MARINI’S on 57 – Sunset Hours Volume Two Compiled by Chris Coco & Afterlife Secret Life I probably end up at this time every year thinking wouldn’t it be nice to have a selection of super chilled, emotionally charged music with just the right amount of uplifting melancholy. And low and behold here we are.…

  • Reviews: 153

    Single of the Week Sebb Junior Move It EP Madhouse Records Paris’s Sebb Junior debut on the Kerri Chandler’s label sees the artist reignite all the ingredients that made House in the early 90’s so timeless (in retrospect). The self-assured title track feels addictive with breezy, summertime jazzy keys looped over bouncing drums and chopped…