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Issue 83 / 2016
GUESTLIST
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Rewind legend. The one you
grew up listening to – he's back.
Craig David storms back into the
UK charts with a self-explanatory
new single 'When The Bassline
Drops', an eclectic mix of garage,
grime and dubstep. Nice!
Chemical brothers
Following was Manchester's rave
legends The Chemical Brothers as
they reintroduced their synthetic
type of alpha beta psychedelic
funkin' back to table with Born
In The Echoes. That's not to
say more of the same, on the
contrary it all felt very new and
different whilst being absolutely,
100% a Chemical Brothers album.
It's an incredible journey across
a soundscape of acid weirdness,
techno bumping, big room vocals
and general aural ecstasy.
Moda
It was Moda Black's Little
Black Book who brought
back another iconic act. Groove
Armada took the reigns of the
labels compilation series and
re-positioned themselves from
huge mega house act to an
after-hours, basement house act.
Baring two discs, one side is a mix
that includes 8 new records from
them – whilst the other holds
10 exclusive remixes of classic
Groove Armada material!
Leftfield
Leftfield also returned to the
musical sphere this year, a now
reformed single man job. Neil
Barnes reformed the innovative
project in 2010 to tour and 2015
was the year he decided to drop
all the new material he's wrote.
Compiled as Alternative Light
Source, the 10 tracked album
speeds the Leftfield style up
into the new age. It's a clash of
hefty techno cuts alongside the
weird more disorienting waves of
electronic music.
It's always an exciting time when an absolutely legendary producer or group release a new album and take the obligatory
tour. But last year some of the biggest and best rolled up and dropped new albums in a seemingly coordinated aural
assault
2015 WAS THE YEAR OF THE COMEBACK
Craig David
