Sascha Funke - Mango

CLUBLAND FEBRUARY

A slack gray sheet of cloud whimpers across the London sky, spluttering greasy grains of moisture on to my head as I await the bus that begins my morning commute. I push my ear phones deep in to my aural cavity, remnant drops of my recent shower suctioning loudly against the pliable rubber moldings. There’s only one way to blank the pressed humanity of London’s daily commute, the jostling throngs of scurrying maze-rats about tube stations, the weak pushed aside or trampled underfoot.
Music, the sunglasses of the ears.

Onur Ozer & Tolga Fidan

CLUBLAND


There’s no doubt that hip hop is well and truly a global phenomenon now. There are kids in almost every continent either listening to it or making it. In fact across nearly every genre the world of contemporary music has never seemed so small. Techno and house music is no exception. For a very long time the majority of my record collection has been made up of artists from America, England and Germany, but of late I’ve been noticing how many artists are emerging from the countries you wouldn’t necessarily associate with techno.

Anthony Rother

CLUBLAND

Having felt thoroughly ashamed at not having been out for a good London clubbing experience since I had relocated to the city I had promised myself to forget the crisp chill of the impending winter and head out to find a good gig.
It wasn’t too hard to come up with something and after browsing the various gig guides found that the best bet was the steadfast Fabric. With a lineup that made me fidget about like a small boy with a bladder problem I was counting down the days ‘til I could go see Supermayer, Geiger, Anthony Rother and Mike ‘Agent X’ Clark all on the same bill.

Swayzak

CLUBLAND

We’ve come a long way. Listening to some of the latest releases I’ve collected next to something I purchased back in the latter part of the nineties, it’s incredible how machines are changing the music we listen to. Those older records, though admittedly suffering from a few scratches and wear and tear sound down right muddy next to the pristine clarity offered by 2007’s batch of releases.

Clubland column - Copenhagen

Tales from the worldwide dancefloors, this time reporting from Copenhagen. Click the image to read the story.

Patrick Chardronnet & Connaissuer Grand Cru 2007

Clubland

It used to be that there was always a bit of a lull in the release of decent club fodder. Usually it was likely to happen around Christmas when producers would hang up their sustain pedals and induce forced hibernation upon their trusty mice. But often things would go through a bit of a flat patch for no apparent reason, the tide out in the ideas pool at indiscriminate times of the year. Though to be honest it’s been a fair while since I’ve been haunted by a lack of stimulating releases, lately the problem has been managing to keep up with the quantity of quality rather than finding it at all.

LCD Soundsystem

Sound of Silver was one of the best albums of 2007. I chatted to James Murphy over the phone for an hour or so. He was very open - it didn't really feel like an interview.

Justice

French duo du jour Justice issue a challenge to Kanye West. Click to read on...

Ratatat

Instrumental guitar math never sounded so good until Ratatat arrived on the scene. Come to think of it, it never even existed. Read all about it by clicking the image.

Clubland - Aux 88

Clubland chats to the inimitable Aux 88 from Detroit. Click the image to read the story.