Lakker || Update
Earlier this week, Dublin techno outfit Lakker announced that they have been signed by the Little Big booking agency, placing them inside a peerless circle of IDM musicians. The Little Big roster boasts such electronic heavyweights as Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Clarke and Autechre and is another sign that the duo have been anointed for success...
Rob Flynn || NOISE Paddy’s Day Mix
This mix contains music by the Irish electronic music community. About 4 weeks ago I put out a call online for any and all productions by Irish producers. Having been involved in this scene for a good number of years now, I thought I knew everyone making decent beats in Ireland, some personally, some only...
Eomac – Mnk Ep – Invisible Agent
Kaboogie flag-carrier Eomac has been busy this year. His side project Lakker has been getting some festival airplay from the likes of Aphex Twin, he had a track on the excellent Finest Ego compilation last August and his debut 10” just recently dropped on Maigret Recordings. The Mnk EP is his first release for Irish...
Surfin’ County Clare
Cold Pro Surf & Music Festival 2011 Ahh crap (festival canceled): http://www.coldpro.org/ It’s a reasonable enough assumption to say Irish people love a good festival. Whatever your thing is, there’s probably something happening at some stage in the country to suit your needs. If your buzz is music; you’ve lucked out. The last 2-3 years...
Jimmy Penguin – Thumb EP (Fusion Net)
This 6 tracker from Irish hip hop mainstay Jimmy (the Hideous) Penguin on Fusion Net recalls a lot of varying influences from electronica (and probably Warp Records) heyday. Thumb opens suitably with the hauntingly minimal Depiano, a beautifully-crafted sample composition which swells nicely, reminding one of many a post-rock effort minus the climactic drama. ‘7th...
Noise Mix – Volume 1
Noise mix – Volume 1 : by Rob Flynn by wearenoise So here it is, Volume One in the Noise Irish mix series and our Paddy’s Day present to our readers n’ listeners. I wasn’t quite aware of what I was getting myself in for when signing up for this. To date I’ve compiled something...
Seven: deadly dins
Seven is a producer tipped as the hottest thing in dubstep, from good folks across the genre, with releases in 2009 on Aquatic Lab and a prolific succession of fantastic 12”s in 2010. Highlights included his collaboration with N-Type and Youngsta, resulting in the two rave-infused monsters for the Wheel & Deal label and his...
Going the Distance
It’s a story that’s all too familiar to electronic music producers: Former rock kid (quite often metal) jaded with the marketing frenzy of modern pop music stumbles on to electronic beats and incorporates his past influences…and it’s a story exemplified by Greg Sanders aka Distance. His wikipedia page says he’s most notable for his massive...
There Is A Policeman In All Our Heads – mynameisjohn (Stress, Debt and Chestpains)
DJ Format coined the phrase “music for the mature b-boy” in 2003 and for me it came to mean an often dark, sometimes kitsch and humorous, sample heavy, complex layered and big beat sound exemplified by early Shadow, Cut Chemist and Kid Koala. The cutting edge of hip hop may have moved in a different...
Darkstar is fully operational
Darkstar take their critically acclaimed album on the road and find themselves in The Pavilion, Cork, on February 12th as part of the Dirty Weekender. I’ve long been a Darkstar fan. Their first release on 2010 records way back in the dark early days when dubstep wasn’t allowed to have any pop sensibilities entitled Lilyliver...
Eomac – EP One (Hsuan Recordings)
One half of Lakker, representing for the ever-influential !Kaboogie crew, Eomac is an Irish producer in ascendancy right now. His genre-jumping DJ sets, satisfiying my and many eclectic electronic needs, moved from his wonked-up release on Ghetto Quietly last September. EP One is a classy atmospheric affair of tender, effeminate future-garage with definite dancefloor possibilities....
