The Summersault music festival has remained a highlight in the memories of all who were there (and some who weren’t). It featured Beck, Beastie Boys, Bikini Kill, DJ Shadow, Foo Fighters, and more.
An art exhibition accompanied the tour, and so did several musicians from English trip hop label Mo’ Wax, with their DJs performing side shows alongside the main festival events.
Read the full article here.
Toshio Nakanishi, later known as Tycoon Tosh, or just Toshi, was a prolific Japanese musician who played in New Wave bands, helped bring hip hop to Japan, and spent time England working with Mo’ Wax and Pussy Foot Records in groups such as UNKLE and Skylab. When Toshi died in 2016 he left behind a large catalogue of music recorded across several continents.
Read the full article here.
The fourth issue of our print zine is now available to pre-order and will be shipped out early March. Pre-order now on Bandcamp.
Update 3 March: All copies have been printed and are now shipping.
Continuing our interest in Transition Records, with a feature on founder Tom Wilson and a complete Transition Discography. Today we’ve published a look at the life of Samuel Gary, a folk singer who recorded one solo album as well as others with his friend and collaborator Josh White.
Our next issue will be out early 2023 rather than this December. We can’t wait to share it with you in the new year.
Following our third issue, released in July and available to read or purchase now, we have published some new articles online.
Five of their best: Freddy Logan
A follow up to our feature article on Dutch/English jazz bassist Freddy Logan, we rounded up some of the music he recorded during his long career. Starting in the 1950s in the Netherlands, before he moved to Australia to form two of the best Australian jazz groups of the time, and finally his later years in 60s England. Read the full article here.
A newly restored live album presents Brother Jack McDuff at his best
Live At Parnell’s, originally recorded in June 1982 was released by Soul Bank Music on September 2 this year. Across two CDs, or three LPs, McDuff and his band play for two hours without intermission. Read our article here.
Five recent releases
Rounding up a series of recent releases by artists and labels we’ve featured in our zine. Mostly electronic, with 80s synth compilations, vinyl sampling novelties, and ambience mixed in with a mix tape of lofi rock, punk, electronica, and a piano ballad. There’s a bit of everything in these five releases. Read the full article here.
For our third issue we’ve looked at some of the recent releases we enjoyed while putting together the zine. There’s a bit of punk, jazz, and hip hop mixed in with whatever else caught our ears. Then we also reviewed books on the Medway scene, hip hop photography, and how an early American jazz tour brought out the worst in Australia.
Read all of the reviews here.
Parsley Sound are the duo Preston Mead and Dan Sargassa who released an early single on Warp Records as Slum, before signing to Mo’ Wax and releasing their debut album Parsley Sounds. Their album became one of the label’s final releases before it closed in 2003.
Now, in 2022 they have returned with a new album The Lockdown Locomotive by Shelton Street Orchestra, recorded through the 2020 lockdown.
Read the full interview here.
Rich Thair has been releasing music since the early 90s when he and Jeremy “Tuse” Tuson released two 12” singles with their group Sweatmouth. Those got the attention of James Lavelle as he was starting his record label Mo’ Wax in 1992, and a Sweatmouth 12” was planned as one of the first Mo’ Wax releases. It didn’t happen, Sweatmouth separated, and Rich has spent close to two decades as percussionist with Red Snapper.
Following the release of their eighth album Everybody Is Somebody, and a quick tour of Europe, Rich caught up with us for a chat about those Mo’ Wax recordings and Red Snapper.
Read the full interview here.
Since her work with Repercussions during the 1990s, Nicole Willis has released several solo albums and has collaborated across many genres with groups such as Leftfield, Death Hawks, and Umo Jazz Orchestra.
Born in New York, but now based in Helsinki, Finland, Nicole has recently taken the opportunity to return to university and is finding new focus behind the scenes of filmmaking.
Read the full interview here.