Back in stock - Super Limited copies!! *Quadruple 7" set featuring the following tracks : It's A Shame, It's A Shame Version, Youths Of Today, Youths Of Today Version, Try A Thing, Try A Thing Version, Tallawah, Tallawah Version* White Mice [born Allan Crichton] came up through the ranks on Sugar Minott's Youthman Promotions sound system, Jammy's Hi Power and the smaller Ticka Muzik sound from his birthplace - Montego Bay, rising to local celebrity whilst performing with Tenor Saw at Sunsplash 85. Surprising then that recollections of White Mice are scant - friends recall seeing him in Manchester on plymouth grove in reverential… Read more

Back in stock. Where to begin with this incredible twelve? The A-side features the much-hyped Hypnotic Brass Ensemble (with a lineup featuring the sons of Sun Ra trumpeter Phil Cohran) taking on Tony Allen's "Losun" and creating one of the most astonishing pieces of music we've heard this year, managing to sound like a school brass band touched by pure genius. Hard to over-emphasise how good this is, for sure one of the singles of the year - and that's before we've even flipped over. The B-side features Salah Ragab and the Afro-Egyptian Ensemble whom you might remember from the amazing "Presents Egyptian Jazz" reissue on Art Yar… Read more

Back in stock. Following on from remixes from Basic Channel's Mark Ernestus and Moritz Von Osawald, Carl Craig steps up for this absolutely killer remix twelve for the Honest Jons imprint. Craig features on two remixes - the epic "Kilode Remix" which utilises all the dancefloor savvy and careful vocal manipulations marked out on his finest and most sought after remixes of the last few years, while the "Straight Mix" keeps the original's template and delivers a fierce drum edit as good as his classic remix for The Congos a few years back. Awesome twelve, Buy!

Back in stock! Deary me, the best has very definitely been saved til last with this quite remarkable final installment for Basic Channel's 'See Mi Yah' series of remixes. Volume four goes way back to Basic channel's roots for a double-headed session that features one of Carl Craig's most astonishing remixes on the A-side and a simply terrifying, almost unfathomably deep spacious techno reworking from Basic Channel themselves on the flip. Short of Mark and Moritz resurrecting Techno's most infamous label and delivering the fabled 10th installment in its peerless catalogue, it really is hard to imagine anything else delivering qu… Read more

Originally released in 1956, More Moondog was the second album by Louis Thomas Hardin. The tone of this fragmented, wildly eclectic body of work tends to rest its focus on percussion, exploring the Eastern-influenced, gamelan-styled sounds developed by homemade instruments like Moondog's famed "trimba" and "oo". The majority of the compositions here are brief, often very intricate miniatures, which within the space of a mere minute or two instantly place you in Moondog's singular sound world, structured with difficult time signatures and populated by sounds that are quite unlike anything you'd hear anywhere else. It's hard to i… Read more

Back in stock! Rolling down from the heavens with a total shockout intro, Basic Replay dig deep into the vaults for another selection guaranteed entry into the front of your dancehall pile. Legendary keyboard whizz Jackie Mittoo is on fine tinkling form, riding the Ayatollah riddim with some hazy synthetic electronical embellishments atop a heavy heavy digital subbass rhythm. Mittoo version's the alltime classic 'Mash down Babylon' on the flip, installing a lush lick of African guitars and working the rhythm up with some driving organ chords in his inimitable style. KILLER.

BACK IN STOCK! The second instalment from Basic Channel's offshoot, Basic Replay, in something of a bumper week for the legion of admirers they've gathered in the last ten years. A reissue label convened to showcase prime influences and lesser known inspirations, the men from Berlin have selected and remastered a truly shocking follow up to Keith Hudson's 'Playing It Cool..' album reissued last year. 'Call me rambo' was originally recorded in 1986 and released on the Heavyweight label, an imprint formed by the Heavyweight soundsystem, based in the Wood Green and Tottenham areas of north London. Featuring Chester Roots at the con… Read more

BACK IN STOCK. OK, i'm not going to front, this 12" definitely wouldn't have penetrated my environs on the cold North East coast back in 1996, but f*ck, i wish it had. This is 100% solid gold early garage gear made by KMA productions and given a massively welcome repress by the good folks at Groove Chronicles. The A-side shocker 'Cape Fear' uses a naughty sample from the Scorcese film of the same name to set a dank and avant-garage atmosphere before licking up a devastating garage rhythm, but coming from 1996, this is far more influenced by the soulful US house style than much of the later 2-step stuff and rolls along on a kink… Read more

Not content with p*ssing all over the competition with a slew of scene defining records, Untold presents the primal-futurist swing of 'Flexible' on a 1-sided pressing for Brainmath. There's no second guessing his productions at the moment, apart from the fact that they are guaranteed to mess up your dancefloor in brilliant style. 'Flexible' meshes the hype tension of the Wiley's menacingly minimal Devil mixes with the sort of melodious thunk that Shackleton has locked down to programme a slyly experimental riddim made for DJs to screw into equally minimal gear or even find the right a capella to suit its itchy nature. Fans of Anstam, Joe, Ramadanman, and Roska gotta be quick with this one! Killer 12".

The latest addition to Hot Flush's swelling roster follows up his techy mix of Toasty with a plate of brand new gear. I guess this is what we could call the later artcore movement of Dubstep, centred around the rebranded Hot Flush, Hemlock, and Hessle Audio imprints, with shades of old style Peshay and Danny Breaks bringing more complex arrangements and jazzy touches to an upswinging and 2-step informed style of dubstep which has shed any real connection with the rawer and more vibrant Grime and Dubstep that preceded it. Martyn would also be a major touchstone for this release, from the jazz licked infiltrations and interlockin… Read more

Anthem time! After teasing us all with inclusions on various mixes, Untold's Hemlock imprint finally drops the massive remixes of 'I Can't Stop This Feeling' from Pangaea and "Stop what you're doing" from James Blake. While both mixes are outstanding in their own right, it's Blake's version that's getting the biggest response, both in the blogosphere and in the dance. He's turned the track into an electro-acoustic animal, sounding something like Joker jamming with Florian Hecker, coaxing out every last bit of visceral synthline bite to fill the groove with technologically enhanced excitement. Meanwhile, by no means letting his … Read more

Hemlock continue to represent the far left side of the dubstep scene in fine style with two abstracted steppers revisions of Untold tracks from Fantastic Mr Fox and Hyperdub's L.V. The Fantastic Mr Fox remix of 'Yukon' is splendidly odd, occupying a unique niche between Flylo style refunked slack beats and a slightly folktronica-ish grasp of melody for an intriguingly satisfying combination. Make sure you check this! LV provides a typically brilliant remix of 'Walk Through Walls' on the flipside, meshing quicksilver 2-step percussion with a ghostly 2 note organ refrain and perception alteringly spacious sound design making for … Read more

Exciting times for the Hemlock imprint with this debut twelve from James Blake (member of the much tipped Mount Kimbie) getting bountiful props for the last few weeks. There's a musical element to "Air & Lack Thereof" borrowed from easy listening/exotica with a cleverly utilised sampled hook imbuing proceedings with a much mellower vibe than usually associated with this sort of thing. It kind of sounds like Madlib if he made dubstep, except less complex and with a little extra space. "Sparing The Horse" over on the flip flexes Blake's vocal muscle with a bit of autotune thrown in to good effect, with a more robust squashed two… Read more

Seminal debut album from industrial techno overlord, Regis. Originally released in 1996, these two slabs of vinyl were pivotal moments in the development of Birmingham, and subsequently, World techno movements. It dropped in the same year as Surgeon's 'Communications' LP, marking the British midlands as a powerhouse of techno industry. 'Gymnastics' alloyed the harder edge and streamlined production of Detroit's Mills and Hood with a stoically dark and mechanical style, managing to steer clear of the pitfalls of crusty techno excesses but still kicking like a sleek black coalhorse. Legendary stuff.

A true classic from the Downwards archives courtesy of the shady O/V. 'Killing European Sons' was originally released back in 2003 and hits home with hard hitting percussion and gloomy atmospheres that you're not going to find anywhere else. Superb stuff.

Finally dropping on vinyl, Mosca's 'Square One' anthem hits the ground running, backed with the hyper-prismic 10-minute epic 'Nike' and a gargantuan Roska rerub. Launched from the prescient Night Slugs imprint, Mosca's Tropical style defines the labels club-scorching aesthetic with a potent mix of Basic Channel stabs, glittering R'n'B synths and a restless rhythmic heritage sucking up Chicago House Tom patterns, bashy Soca percussion and garage-licked Funky programming. On the flip, 'Nike' is an even more impressive affair, swerving from crunked-out half-step via flashes of hardcore breakage to Autotuned robo-funky anchored by … Read more

We've been waiting for this one to drop for a while, collecting some of the most obscure, eye-popping electronic pop/funk/psyche recordings made in Iran in the 1960's and 70's before the revolution and the overthrow of the Shah. Finders Keepers once again manage to educate and amaze with a prime selection of mindblowing obscurities - the production on so many of the tracks here just beggar belief. The music reflects Iran at a time when it was undergoing massive change, partly due to the influx of Petrodollars and the pervasive influence of modernity which created a tension between mystical Eastern traditions and the freedom … Read more

ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE ELECTRONIC SOUNDWORKS AND POP PASTICHE, SORT OF LIKE ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER CROSSED WITH ARIEL PINK AND ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, ALL FED THROUGH A 1980'S TELEVISION SOUNDTRACK FILTER AND RECORDED TO TAPE OVER AND OVER AGAIN. INCREDIBLE ALBUM - STRICTLY LIMITED PRESSING!!! The exceptional Olde English Spelling Bee label presents a remastered issue of Sam Meringue's out-of-print tape released in summer '09 by Not Not Fun, complete with full colour sleeve and a digital download coupon from the label itself. In a similar vein to the remarkable Ducktails material or James Ferraro's Skaters project, Matrix Metals make… Read more

*ONE OF 2009'S MOST ACCLAIMED ALBUMS, FINALLY IN STOCK* Ducktails is the lo-fi bedroom pop pseudonym of New Jersey's Matthew Mondanile, who also goes by the handle of Predator Vision on Not Not Fun. Over the last three years he's dreamt up a steady stream of largely cassette only gems which squarely fall into the Hypnagogic Pop style identified by the Wire magazine in mid-2009. 'Landscapes' is a remarkable collection of raw-finished pop reminisces with a vivid sheen of washed-out summery euphoria strongly reminding of Ariel Pink, but with a psychoactive chemistry all of its own. We've been a bit slow on the uptake with this stu… Read more

First product from the new Badawi and Dave Q-curated Index imprint is one of Raz Mesinai's finest, backed with a brilliantly gloomy Shackleton reinterpretation. In his Badawi guise, Mesinai has flirted with the dubstep scene via brilliant remix hook-ups with Kode 9 and that stupendous remix of Shackleton's 'The Rope Tightens' (a true Skull Disco essential!) on the limited 'Soundboy's Gravestone Gets Desecrated By Vandals' LP. With the Jodorowski referencing 'El Topo' Badawi creates a desolate scene with dry, emaciated percussion and hollow bass counting the time while towering, repetitive riffs cast an ominous shadow of psyched… Read more

D1 makes a very welcome return with an outstanding new twelve for Dub Police. Shockingly, one of dubstep's most underrated producers has been off the radar since '08's seminal 'V3' album, but it's obviously been time well spent as the thunderous shock of 'Jus Business' makes clear. We roll in off the back of a tense, dialogue packed intro and into a maelstrom of cross-bred dubstep-hardcore styles, cherry picking the finest elements of 20 years of rave, from euphoric piano chords to face-melting mentasms and junglistic percussion twisted with a dubstep torque. This is what Rufige Kru should sound like if they were still buildin… Read more

Wobble rinse-off from Cardopusher backed with a Scandalous Unltd remix. Cardopusher's original 'Gibold' is built for the rave kids with rampant mid-range strikes, while Scandalous Unltd up the ante with hard 4/4 pressure and flecks of junglist attitude.

Shortstuff is usually spotted alongside cohort Brackles, but he's going it alone for this deadly little release on Ramp with two left-of-centre post-garage movers. First up is 'Rustling', mixing a hard clipped garage riddim with scrunched 8-bit piping locked into strange African influenced melodies. 'Stuff' on the flip steps it up another gear with demented editing skills applied to a feverish 2009 style riddim built from churning low end and tuff syncopated patterns with the sort of finish you'd hear on an Untold production. Heavyweight wares, keep an eye on this man, massive twelve.

Hot Flush head and dubstep-techno crossover scientist Scuba, delivers one of his most diverse packages to date with the 'Aesaunic EP'. 2009 has seen impressive releases from the man with his killer 'Klinik' 12" and that awesome 10" for Naked Lunch not long ago, but this is the one you've been waiting for, featuring five tracks crossing tempo borders and stylistic bridges with a unified sense of sparse technoid futurism. 'Symbiosis' is the biggest jump, splicing halfstep D'n'B with the extra-slow pulse of Workshop style house, already getting DJ's like D-Bridge and Instra:mental quite rightly giddy with excitement. Title track '… Read more

Dubstep originator Zed Bias beams out the results of some extensive research from his Manchester based laboratory with the ace 'The Cauldron' featuring local vocal talents Jay Electronica and Ghost1. Reaching back to his twisted garage and broken beat roots, Bias constructs a dipping riddim reminiscent of cuts from 4Hero's Dego, Big Apple's Artwork, El-B or Steve Gurley and through to current mainman Martyn with some slinking syncopations and well crafted subs that should test any good rig and will operate very compatibly in a DJ set with tracks from the aforementioned heads as well as the newer skool gear from 2562, TRG and the rest of them. Recommended.

Back in stock. Another terrifyingly good new plate from HotFlush, as the remix series of Scuba's 'A Mutual Antipathy' reaches the next stage with Martyn and Jamie Vex'd on hand to turn the source material into two extra special variations. Martyn's 'Down' remix of 'The Upside' is his most technofied effort to date, dispensing with any jazzy licks or crafty edits for a straight and upbuilding construction rolling on a sleek dubstepXtechno chassis with layered synthlines making an ascent to the end point. The man can switch styles like no other and it's great to hear him openly experimenting with a different style. We really can'… Read more

Another long awaited killer from the man like Pangaea, dropping the much loved anthem 'Memories' on a crisp and heavy one-sided plate. You've doubtless heard this in sets from Martyn, Hessle Audio's Ben UFO, Blackdown and a ton of other jocks lucky enough to own a copy or willing to press up a dub, but there's nothing quite like receiving the full blast of that vocal played from vinyl in your own home is there? And it's all about that vocal. The man has a serious talent for pulling out armhair raising vocals from f**k-knows-where and winding them into robustly effective but gently spacious atmospheres. Just ask any Dubstep DJ a… Read more

Following his tremendous Fabric mix last week, Martyn offers some of his best beats to Zomby and Redshape for the first part of a killer remix package. Quite unusually, Zomby's mix spills beyond the five minute mark, giving us extra time to enjoy cruising alongside his Lazer-etched R'n'B synths and swaggering Kwaito/Funky percussion before we hit the rewind button another ten times. If you're of a dancing persuasion, this sh*t's totally vital! Meanwhile, Redshape does himself proud with the raw kink of his 'Seventy Four' remix, embellishing the warmest Detroit aspects with his arsenal of vintage FXs while keeping a rooted afro-… Read more

Back in stock! F*ck me, this is so heavy. Trust Loefah to deliver, here once again single handedly making every other dubstep twelve we've listened to today sound weak by comparison. "It's Yours" is just one of his absolute finest productions to date - minimal and unbelievably deep, the bassline almost impossible to take in : textured, padded, rumbling and endlessly deep, arranged alongside some beautifully clean, pristine hi hats and snap snares, the production so tight and minimal you could almost imagine this is what dubstep what sound like produced by Pan Sonic. Immense, peerless material - EXTREMELY LIMITED COPIES!

Back in stock. Steve Goodman continues to shift his style towards the Funky light wih two more brilliant cuts for Hyperdub further removed from his previous dread bass dubstep explorations. 'Black Sun' is quite the shocker, sounding like the mutant basschild of Drexciya and 4 Hero with rippling junglist/dubstep subbass wrapped around a bobbling square-wave bassline and tucked under the tidiest rhythm syncopations this side of Anthony Shakir. That's not to mention the unruly synthline that just owns the whole thing, sounding like James Stinson jamming with Quartta 330 with a seriously ear-worming effect that will hold any audien… Read more