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 After what felt like millennia of MySpaz trawling, we happened upon imagineIAM from Lafayette, Louisiana… there was an instant spark, a recognition of someone else who could bend diverse sounds into new shapes by sheer force of will and an entirely singular vision. imagineIAM is all about the leanest, barest, most stripped-down approach, about taking the simplest components of beat, bass and voice and constructing from them precision-tooled devices for exploring extreme possibilities of the human spirit. Read more… |
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 Laszlo Beckett and Steve Taylor have made rather a good name for themselves in the last few years thanks to several original dancefloor releases notched up on their Hand on the Plow label and also on Matthew Herbert’s Accidental imprint. People have used some rather flattering adjectives to describe Beckett & Taylor but luckily their steadfast british modesty has not allowed this to go to their head. They continue to pull their socks up and just get the job done. Slowly. Read more… |
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 Spandex has a knack of turning lazy mumbling into the funkiest dancefloor tracks out there. Tracks like Snakeskin Teeth and What’s Wrong With You do this brilliantly with burbling soul and stuttered blues funk, all wrapped up in his skintight production secrets. Spandex can also manage to squeeze so much slutty funk into a track like Too Tight that it is at risk of overflowing at times. Get your cups out, This is house music for the educated tart. Read more… |
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 Matt Southall and Richard Dytch met in Wolverhampton in 1991. Their initial burst of activity was intense and yielded many hours of shit psychedelia strewn with a few wonky gems. The following years saw Pleated Lemon fall into disuse, only choosing to record or perform when particularly drunk or maudlin, but in 2004 they decided to make it a regular thing again. A spectacularly ill-advised gig supporting John Renbourn persuaded them to spend more time recording, and the first fruit of that lesson is Surefire Hit. More will follow whenever they can be arsed. Read more…
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 Laszlo Beckett possesses barely any ambition, but bodges his way through his musical productions with great flair and style. Having been raised on Gregory Isaacs and Captain Beefheart, he flirts, through his music to the lover and nutter in us all. He was once declared a “sensitive juvenile tosspot” by a friend. After practising in his bedroom for ten years, Laszlo finally emerged to take control of something for a change and formed Hand on the Plow. Laszlo is also quite good at: cooking, swimming, camping, the education systems acronyms and punching holes in his hallways plasterwork. Read more… |
