Curious about Blockhead, the Ninja Tune label’s relatively recent signee — the New York-based, big-eared, hip-hop-oriented producer, best known for his work with Aesop Rock on the Labor Days album? Head over to his newly launched website, at ninjatune.net/block, …
The BBC radio show of John Peel has posted a short’n’sweet streaming interview with leading techno producer Richie Hawtin. The Peel webpage for the show, with pictures, is here, and the RealAudio stream is available directly here. “I’m …
Chachi Jones bends circuits to his will. Well, not really. He does take sound-emitting children’s toys, such as Texas Instruments Speak & Spells and Touch & Tells, and mess with their innards. He adds switches to make them stutter, and …
The new album by Scanner, Double Fold, on the Slovenian record label rx:tx, is apparently inspired by Nicholson Baker’s excellent book by that name, which was an alarming study of how libraries have forsaken their duty as custodians of our …
It has long been standard operating procedure for 12″ versions of singles to include both the instrumental (which is to say, vocal-free) and vocal (which is to say, instrumental-free) edits of the title track. The rapper Jay-Z made the vocals …
The BBC’s website(s) is/are so enormous, so maze-like in their multimedia sprawl, that finding anything requires the navigational equivalent of a Freedom of Information subpoena. In any case, the Mixing It radio show, filed under “World & New,” located somewhere …
Speaking of musician Chris Coode (see yesterday’s Downstream entry on the fall of the house of 8bitrecs.com), his latest album under the Motion moniker, Every Action, is out on 12k Records, the label headed by Taylor Deupree. The 12k.com …