Author Archives: Jan Waeben

Mikkel Metal – Kenton

Copenhagen’s Mikkel Meldgaard started off his musical journey as a guitar player in various bands. By the mid-ninetees, he got into electronic music and started experimenting with beats and samplers. Towards the end of the century he found his sound in techno, heavily laden with dub influences. Nowadays we find him on Berlin’s Kompakt label [...]
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Babe Rainbow – Shaved

Dark and moody, atmospheric, haunting,… the adjectives just stack up for this one by Warp’s most recent addition. The slow, deep groove takes you on a cinematic trip down a dark passage. Vancouver’s Cameron Reed’s first EP, “Shaved”, dropped earlier this month. Below you’ll find the title track, my favorite from the EP. The video really [...]
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Geeneus – Ultrafunkula

London based Geeneus’ track Ultrafunkula, featured on Warp Record’s compilation of bass music: North/South/East/West, alongside Falty DL, Headhunter, Mike Slott and Warp’s own Hudson Mohawke and Rustie. Geeneus is the founder of Rinse.fm and probably best known as one of the producers of the Pay As You Go garage/grime crew. He was one of the early [...]
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Hot City – Hot City Bass

Recently featured on Fabric’s Elevator Music volume 1 with the bass-heavy tune “If that’s how I feel”, Hot City’s pushing out some nice bass-driven housy tracks. This one, Hot City Bass, was released last year on Ramp recordings, but it still sounds killer to me. On a side note, I just found out I missed Hot [...]
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