Matt Oliver

LUISDEMARK - Talum (Free Download) [Big & Dirty Records]

Slovakia’s LUISEDEMARK follows the marvellously murky ‘My French’, played out by Bingo Players and R3HAB, with the twisted tech house thunderbolt ‘Talum’. Whereas ‘My French’ got straight on the warpath and wouldn’t let go, ‘Talum’ is a more intricate masterblaster with a deceptively funky centre, spraying leaping bass-synths from one corner of the club to the next. Featuring a massive breakdown toying with emotions - slowing down, speeding up and dripping with menace to make any arena stand...

Ice Cream EP from Clarisse Records on Beatport

Clarisse waste no time in bounding into the next century of deep and funky club sounds by giving fans their just desserts with the introduction of Argentinean DJ and producer Gruuve. Siding with tribal beats and with his own MUUV imprint to match, Marco Carola, Stefano Noferini, Roger Sanchez,...

Estiva releases soul-moving two of a kind, 'Eclipse'/'Perpetual', ahead of new album | Armada...

Pablo Nouvelle

Press text accompanying new release on Armada Music

Fila Brazillia

Nationally distributed blurb via Darling Department accompanying greatest hits release

Our Daily Bread 382: Telemachus 'Boring And Weird Historical Music'

Album Review/Matt Oliver Telemachus 'Boring And Weird Historical Music' (High Focus) LP/Available Now His involvement with everyone who's anyone in UK hip-hop - Verb T, Ocean Wisdom, Kashmere, M9, The Last Skeptik, Jam Baxter and legions more - lead to The Guardian lauding Telemachus/Chemo as "one of those slightly obscure figures who has helped British...

Our Daily Bread 379: Ill Move Sporadic 'Drug Corpse II (Body Disposal)'

Album Review/Matt Oliver Ill Move Sporadic 'Drug Corpse II (Body Disposal)' (Starch Records) Album/Available Now "You never know when you might need to know skills/in body disposal, it's no frills" - Necro, 'Dead Body Disposal', 2001 Just like volume one, but more drugged up and expecting more cadavers on the slab.

No Stooge - Iggy Azalea

Man's not hot at Selfridges... Man's not hot at Selfridges... Kickass in the new Hyperflex+ jeans... Kickass in the new Hyperflex+ jeans... Admin / / / 06 · 09 · 2012 The white-skin with blonde hair has a striking, Eminem shock of the new to it, topped with a trademark ponytail that swings like a mace, recalling Madonna's Blonde Ambition with a smattering of Gaga meets Mira Sorvino.

My Precious: The History of The Akai MPC

At the risk of retreading an old argument to which there is rarely a definitive answer, who historically is the most significant trailblazer in hip-hop: Grandmaster Flash? Kool DJ Herc? Grandwizard Theodore? Soulja Boy Tell'Em? How about Roger Linn? Wait, who was that last one again?

Spotlight: De La Soul - 3 Feet High And Rising

Although they're very much an active rap act in the present day, there's no doubting that 's moment came at the first time of asking, when they released a debut album so striking, and so influential since, that everything that's followed has inevitably been measured against it.