Tag: Leftroom

  • 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…

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    Various Artists Smiley Fingers 100 Smiley Fingers If you’re not already acquainted with the joys of Smiley Fingers then here is the reason to do so. Celebrating some three years of existence and their one hundredth release the London based imprint fires through its succession of heavy-duty grooves in fine style with this compilation. Kicking…

  • Matt Tolfrey (Leftroom)

    Matt Tolfrey selects and talks us through some of the music that has influenced him over the years. http://www.leftroom.com http://soundcloud.com/leftroom https://www.facebook.com/leftroomrecords http://www.beatport.com/#label/leftroom-records/1542 In no particular order… Schmoov! – Playground – DiY Discs I used to go and see Schmoov! play live every Thursday at a bar/club called Dogma and it really opened my eyes to how…

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    Mitchbal & Larry Williams Jack The House Still Music Chicago Seem to remember a quote along the lines of: You can’t move forwards for looking backwards – or at least words to that effect. But in music it seems you can only move forward by looking back. After all if it wasn’t for records like…

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    Visioneers Hipology BBE Not often an artist album comes along displaying not only valuable words but musical skills on this level. Marc Mac (also one half on 4Hero) who whose been producing music for the past couple of decades has arrived at this point, again, with his second Visioneers album, Hipology. Listening to this reads like…

  • Laura Jones interview

    What first attracted you to music? Which artists / songs are your earliest influences?   I started playing many musical instruments from an early age as well as vocal training in my teens so I was surrounded by a lot of music when I was growing up. The majority of this was classical but there…

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    Towards Green Last Page EP Buzzin Fly Records I did think of Durutti Column when I first heard Rivero Brito’s sensitively plucked guitar streaming through stereo and that’s of course a most welcoming experience. But, it’s also equally refreshing not to plant thoughts in your mind as this EP conjures up all sorts of people…