Jan
24

Sach O: HGLDT – Climbing and Other Pursuits

Sach O went out partying this weekend despite his illness. Send him music to help his recovery. “Climbing and Other Pursuits” may sound like the title to a 1940′s guide to Alpine activities but there’s no doubting the song’s soul credentials. Anchored by a Footwork-style, chopped up R&B sample (by you know who) and a… Continue reading »

Nov
02

Sach O: Swing & Skip Podcast 001 (The Return of Garage)

Sach O doesn’t own a car, let alone a garage. MTL has a dope subway yo’. UK Garage never truly caught on the first time around in North-America. Too busy getting jiggy to our own, we didn’t have time for London’s champagne fueled dance craze: rap albums were selling 5 million copies! It didn’t help… Continue reading »

Oct
18

Sach O: Hissy Fit – Crosstrainers EP

Sach O throws tantrums not fits. At the top of the year, I wrote a post on an impressionable young man named Matthew Hiscock whose off-kilter beats, unlike most other unsolicited music I receive,  somehow managed to get into my iTunes playlist. To his credit, they were very good beats. Since then, Matthew has wisely… Continue reading »

Sep
07

Sach O: Redlight ft Ms Dynamite – What you Talkin About?

Best remembered by North-Americans as one of those female British rappers your local alt-weekly forced you to vaguely care about pre-M.I.A (at least she was better than Lady Sovereign!), I was surprised to find that Ms Dynamite actually still holds weight across the pond. The combination of Garage-era nostalgia and Funky’s need for dancehall inflected… Continue reading »

Mar
15

Sach O: Intoccabile – Future Garage Volume 1

With roots stretching back from first generation Jungle through Grime, Dubstep and now Future-Garage, it’s safe to say that Montreal Producer/DJ Intoccabile doesn’t need my cosign, not that that’ll stop me. Operating as the head of Fyutchaflex Recordings since 2001, all while playing countless gigs throughout the city, he’s recently moved towards a deep dub-techno… Continue reading »

Oct
22

Kode 9′s Bubble and Squeak Mix

In celebration of the 25th Anniversary Broadcast of Radio Lancashire’s On the Wire, Hyperdub kingpin Kode 9 dropped this Bubble & Squeak Mix, which thanks to XL8R and Hyperdub has been made available as a free download. Just a shade under a half hour, the mix focuses on vintage Garage and Two-Step made between 1999… Continue reading »

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