echo fest add more names


on top of the initial line-up announcement from echo fest hq, the croatian festival that runs 6th – 9th june has announced a second wave of acts.

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published on February 25, 2013 12:07 pm.
filed under: dial records, echo fest, john roberts, news, redshape

interview ~ lawrence


once again last year, lawrence’s dial imprint owned. not only did it release the full length excellence of roman flugel’s fatty folders, but so too did it offer up more oddness from pigon aka efdemin, whilst sub-label laid (see what they did there?) released possibly the best deep house compilation not to make it onto my year end countdown.

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published on January 20, 2012 3:28 pm.
filed under: deep house, dial records, house, interview

albums of the year ~ 2011

ok, here comes a list of my thirty favourite long players (including one re-issue and following my top 10 compilations) of 2011. like last year, i’m not that sure of the order beyond the first few, but these are the records which i’m still listening to, still enjoying and – in many cases – still astounded by. the only other thing to note is the lack of many bass/dubstep albums. efforts from kuedo, sepulcre and machine drum will all top many polls elsewhere on the web, i’m sure, but i just never quite sit comfortably when they are playing. necessarily then, in case you wondered, i’ve overlooked them. but it ain’t like i was short on choice…

 

 

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published on December 6, 2011 2:40 pm.
filed under: 2562, acid, chicago house, cosmin trg, deep house, delsin, deniz kurtel, detroit, dial records, dub techno, electronic albums of the year, features, house, martyn, omar s, ostgut ton, review, rick wilhite, robag whrume, roman flugel, smallville, steffi, techno, zomby

albums of the year ~ 2010

does what it says on the tin… (not convinced necessarily of the order of these – it’s too hard to sort – but between them they’re my favourites from the last 12 months, all of which are still on repeat.)

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published on December 16, 2010 1:48 pm.
filed under: dance music, dial records, dOP, dub techno, dubstep, electronic albums of the year, features, flying lotus, four tet, hotflush, house, scuba