‘People’s Potential Family Album’ is a wicked compilation collecting together the best of the Peoples Potential Unlimited catalogue so far. All of the tracks on the album were previously only available on 12″ or 7″ vinyl releases and this is the first time that these obscure 70’s & 80’s soul, funk & disco gems have [...]

ZE Records, back in the late 70’s and early 80’s, released some of the best and most iconic No Wave and Mutant Disco tracks of the time. Not just from New York (such as the founders Partner, Lizzy Mercier Descloux) where the label was based, but all over. It pretty much died in the late [...]

I’ve been on an intense binge diet of The Artist when he was formally known as Prince. Everyone knows his hits, Kiss, Raspberry Beret, Purple Rain etc. but his early back catalogue reveals gold that far eclipses his later number ones. These tracks have literally been on constant rotation keeping me sane and dancing for [...]

Dead Mellotron hails from Monroe, Louisiana and is made up of one member, simply known as Frazier. He has made his debut EP, Ghost Light Constellation, available for free download in its entirety on the band’s website.
Full of sweeping distortion and epic spaced out drums, especially on Untitled, the EP gives me the same feel [...]

Flying Saucer Attack were formed in Bristol, England in 1992. David Pearce was the core member of the group, and Rachel Brook (of Movietone, another Bristol band) was a member for most of the band’s lifetime.
The band were marked by quiet vocals and sheets of feedback with similarities to contemporary shoegazing bands, or The Jesus [...]

Although there are only five boroughs, a number of areas near and far have been rhetorically identified as New York City’s “Sixth Borough“. Places to which the “sixth borough” appellation have been applied include New Jersey (especially Hudson County, New Jersey or Newark, New Jersey); Nassau County, New York; Philadelphia; South Florida and even Israel. [...]

I posted an old A Certain Ratio track maybe last week or so, and since then Ive been digging into their ‘newer’ stuff (like ‘82 still). I really am surprised that these guys weren’t bigger. They had all the elements: signed to Factory Records, 80’s punk-funk dance, and they were all seriously stylish guys.
This is [...]

Time for some impossibly funky synth and horn charged disco from the early NYC days.
MP3: Crown Heights Affair – Dream World

When you’re finding study a drag and all your favourite bands just remind you of how much you aren’t having fun and all your ‘chill-out’ music makes you want to do nothing but nothing, i find nothing hits the spot better than a bit of dirty, sweaty, bad-aaaaaaassss funk. The following is off the EXCELLENT [...]

Not much has been really catching my ears this year that hasn’t already been covered (Whitest Boy Alive, Animal Collective, Dent May) but here are a few tracks, new and old, that have been demanding my attention.
Harlem Shakes are a band whose debut i was eagerly anticipating and am a little surprised at what they [...]