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We’re buzzing to announce our collaboration with SoundScout Magazine, a digital mag that lives and breathes independence, eclecticism, and innovation in music, just like we do. This partnership sees us contributing monthly to their new column, On Rotation — a space dedicated to showcasing fresh tunes and spotlighting sounds that might otherwise slip under the mainstream radar. Every month, we dive deep into the freshest dubs, genre-hopping bangers, and tracks that deserve your ears and attention. Our DJs and contributors have been delivering curated reviews straight from the underground, sharing the music that moves us, and the response has been electric! It’s a proper platform to champion the artists and releases that keep the scene alive and kicking. Big up to SoundScout for inviting us in. Keep it locked, and check out our latest picks in On Rotation via SoundScout Magazine.
Back in the early 1990s a new sound was beginning to filter into the music scene with sped up breakbeats, low rumbling b-lines and samples taken from wherever and whenever producers felt like it. Tracing our way back through these pivotal changes we find one constant. Roni Size, who would go on to take the sound he was creating across the world. Don’t get me wrong, plenty of Djs were already flying the flag for Jungle, Hardcore and Rave on a weekly basis in every corner of the globe, but it was Roni Size who took things to the next level in 1997 when his New Forms album won the coveted Mercury Music Prize. The ground-breaking project was a critical and commercial success and contained acclaimed tracks such as “Brown Paper Bag” and “Heroes.” Its release was preceded in late 1996 with the Reasons For Sharing EP, which contained an addictive dancefloor killer called “Trust Me,” which had been tearing […]
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