Apr
18

Sach O: Kode9 & The Space Ape – Black Sun

Sach O is accepting invites for festival headlining gigs. For all of their academic & underground cred, I harbor suspicions that Kode9 & The Space Ape secretly want to be festival headlining superstars. How else can you explain “Am I,” a fist pumping headbanger of a Dubstep tune with the genre’s biggest hook since “Skeng?”… Continue reading »

Mar
16

Sach O: Kode9 documents the Apocalypse

Sach O is all about listening to dystopian shit in 2011. I’ll hold back for my full review but you need Kode9 and the Spaceape’s upcoming Black Sun. Universally ignored by a Hip-Hop underground, their 2006 debut Memories of the Future may have been the decade’s best slice of Afrofuturist sci-fi since Deltron 3030 and… Continue reading »

Oct
27

Sach O: Terror Danjah & Kode 9 take over Rinse

Sach O killed the Radio Star. He also has a Tumblr. Reading Jeff’s post on the wonderful (and nostalgiatastic!) Stretch and Bobbito reunion, I couldn’t help but think of my current radio listening in starkly opposite terms to the scarcity he describes. As a Rinse listener, I’m flooded with hour after hour of raw, uncut… Continue reading »

Sep
09

Beautiful Death: The Last Mary Anne Hobbs

The choice of Claro Intelecto’s “Beautiful Death” as the penultimate song on the last Mary Anne Hobbs show was intended to send a message that needn’t be explicitly articulated. The doyenne of dubstep is far too bright and self-aware to crow about how important she’s been to its ascent. Besides, she has plenty of others… Continue reading »

Jun
21

Kicking it With Kode9

Prior to becoming a label, Hyperdub was a webzine that published some of the finest writing on the web. Though it’s glory days occurred well before everyone had a blog, then a Twitter, then a Tumblr, then a migraine, the influence of web culture is everywhere in Kode9′s DJ Kicks compilation. Like everyone else capable… 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 »