Rowdy Superstar likes to show off. Hell, it's there in the name - anyone who decides to name themselves 'superstar' is never going to be a wallflower. Piecing together his debut album with Matthew Herbert, though, it's clear that Rowdy Superstar is eager to prove that their is substance to the pose. Hooking up with Accidental, new album 'Battery' drops later this year. Speaking recently, Mr Superstar made clear his debt to the influential producer: "Working with Herbertronic was literally a dream come true, we had so much fun playing with sound. He facilitated every vision i had for ...

“Up until the moment I put the needle into the outer groove of Flying Saucer Attack’s ‘Chorus’ I believed several things about recording. I believed that recordings were made in recording studios, and that recording studios were expensive, and manned by highly trained individuals with specialised knowledge of an obscure and faintly occult progress. Records were expensive to make but that was okay because recording artists sold loads of them, and anyway, record companies paid for all that stuff. Within the space of forty-five minutes I discovered that what I was listening to was made possible without any of ...

Over the last few years Dicky Trisco has been , in one way or another, behind some of my very favourite vinyl releases, the kind you play over and over and over. As you know he runs a number of labels, he makes his own music, he does edits, he does remixes and dj's all over the planet. His dj'ing schedule alone suggests the guy has an untameable passion for making heads dance. Most importantly Trisco does everything he puts his hand to with real style and an impeccable ear for truly memorable party music. For those of you ...

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“Considering Labi Siffre has had at least a couple of Number Ones, directly or indirectly, he’s maybe not an obvious choice as an outsider. From being sampled by Eminem for ‘My Name Is’ to the Madness cover of his song ‘It Must Be Love’, his fingerprints have been on popular music for many decades now. In typically modern fashion though, his actual voice is rarely heard. We may inadvertently know about what restaurant Rihanna is eating in tonight via Twitter, but we probably can’t note one important thing about Labi Siffre - one of the most important British musicians ...

Sunday Night Fevers is a brand new unmixed CD compilation of must play disco versions by Pete Herbert & Dicky Trisco… The hot batch of classic cuts is out this week and it features a number of their reworks from Disco Deviance plus some other tracks previously available only on vinyl… plus there’s a number [...]

“In terms of digestible nuggets of Harry Partch recommendations to listen to, I’d say the ‘Eleven Intrusions’ are a good introduction. My dad recommended it to me while we were out record shopping. I thought it was fucking weird. I literally hadn’t heard anything like it before and I think that’s what was so striking. It sounded completely cosmic and exotic. On the cover was this bearded old man, but I put it on and found this rich exotic sound. Harry Partch was just really before his time in a lot of ways. He’s interesting to ...

Music flits in and out of our lives at its own enchanted leisure. Sometimes these rhythmic discs bring other thoughts or open doors we’ve never seen before . We asked four artists who are true explorers of sound, Andrew Weatherall, Micachu, Matthew Herbert and Gravenhurst, to bring a significant album out on the street and unleash some noise around why exactly it is in their life, and what it means to them. Andrew Weatherall on G.G. Allin Micachu on The Music Of Harry Partch

“I once had the pleasure of interviewing a founder member of a Detroit-based militant electronic music collective and asked him a question that I thought he might answer in a way that would help me with an artistic struggle I’d been having since hearing the phrase ‘sell-out’ at the age of fourteen during the punk rock wars of 1977. “As you get older and possibly have to burden financial responsibilities such as a family,” I asked, “does it become harder to maintain outsider credentials and anti-commercial principles and pragmatism begins to take hold?” He listened politely and pondered for ...

Mr. Breslin was the brash publicist and manager of the tenor Luciano Pavarotti who described his philosophy this way: “Marketing an artist is basically like marketing a bar of soap.”

Herbert Breslin, the hard-driving manager who helped propel Luciano Pavarotti to international fame during the 36 years they worked together, has died, his wife said Thursday. He was 87.

Dicky Trisco turns in a discotastic mix for the “For The Love Radio Show” and you can get a taste of what the mustachioed disco head has got up his sleave ahead of the return of Disco Deviance at Queen of Hoxton on the 8th June. Pete Herbert and Dicky’s label bring in Rahaan who’s [...]

Already the out-and-out definition of a entertainment multi-hyphenate, poetry is something that also evidently flows in James Franco's blood, and is a world he loves to delve into for his film projects. Franco has made several shorts based on poems, including works by Anthony Hecht ("The Feast Of Stephen"), Spencer Reece ("The Clerk's Tale") and Frank Bidart ("Herbert White") before playing Hart Crane in "The Broken Tower" and Allen Ginsberg in "Howl." And it doesn't end there either. Franco has now shepherded a project for NYU graduate students that'll result in two poetry-centric anthology features:...

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Kwes Meantime [EP] [Warp; ] by James Parker Rating: This is Kwes’ first solo release since crossing over from Young Turks to Warp at the end of last year. I’m struggling to wrap my head around why they wanted him. Okay, so for a guy still in his mid-twenties, he keeps some pretty impressive company. Production work for Damon Albarn and Speech Debelle , official remixes for The xx, The Invisible, and the Portico Quartet, and a genuinely decent couple of mixtapes with Micachu, including original guest vocals from the likes of Ghostpoet and Dels. There’s even an endorsement from ...