Son Raw’s going, going, back, back to Cali, Cali. Burial is an anomaly. You get the impression that the Mercury Prize for Untrue and the adoration from the Aphex Twin crowd were more bother than reward for a shadowy producer who grew up on Jungle and Garage on UK pirate radio and just wanted to […]

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 […]

Sach O listens to Hum & Buzz when he rolls. Ikonika’s Contact Love Want Have is still in rotation, a full length with definitive staying power whose shiny textures and laser synth lines go in perfect tandem with the spring air. A bridge between her earlier Dubstep-influenced experimentation and new all-post-everything sound, it’s the kind […]

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 […]

Sach O’s got this or Roc Marci for album of the year. Hyperdub can do no wrong right now. Even amidst a landscape of forward thinking labels constantly reinventing the genres they’re operating in, Kode 9’s imprint stands out in its dedication to absolutely bleeding edge sounds. This year alone has seen a synth colored […]

It’s appropriate that “Gold” premiered on Stereogum, a site whose taste triangulates Pitchfork and Paste for the pasty skin set. That’s not a knock. They offer competent white collar and flannel rock with the best, but you won’t find the latest Deep Medi 12″ or anything Hyperdub-related save for Burial, the token gesture for those […]

With Sach still smoking the strongest bubble hash on the continent, we’ve been slacking on bringing the George Jetson futuristic shit. Thus, via London’s LV and South Africa’s Kool Kat (no releation to MC Skat Kat) comes “Boomslang,” LV’s take on the Kwaito House sound of South Africa. It’s Hyperdub’s latest single, which doesn’t drop […]

Though he’s practically unknown on American shores, Terror Danjah is known overseas as one of the pioneering Grime producers. Understandably, grime never translated well to Yankee ears. Other than “Fix Up Look Sharp,” Wiley and Kano, to me, most of it sounds like 3 a.m. drunk yelling at a fast food drive-through, staffed by employees […]

Expect more words about King Midas Sound in the near future, I nabbed a killer interview with Kevin Martin and Roger Robinson and am currently mulling what to do with it. In the meantime, I beseech you: see them live by whatever means necessary. Though the group’s album “Waiting for You” remains one of last […]

Sach already articulated why Ikonika turned in one of the year’s finest bass music records, so there’s little need to reiterate why Sara Abdel Hamid provides definitive proof that excessive video game play is not necessarily a bad thing.  XLR8R asked the first lady of Hyperdub to lace them with a podcast and she drops […]