Archives 2010

Flying Lotus confirmed for opening night of 5daysoff festival in Amsterdam on 3rd March. And DOOM(yes MF Doom!!) first Europe show on 4th March. Both in paradiso club.

meetin' Katie.

Brainfeeder RBMA show in fabric on 10th March. Dream line-up.
http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.showDetails&friendid=249279&Band_Show_ID=38569532

Souls of Mischief are supposed to be in the good bits on 13th March!!
http://www.irishhiphop.com/forum/read.php?11,612257

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**Olan All City Records joins our 'Files' roster - supplying regular words on critical beats.**

What with June being a bit of a graveyard for decent releases - a bit like the ...

**Sounds of the Left side - a west coast exploration from Olan All City.**

Perhaps it’s the money or the availability of opportunity or the sheer scale of the country ...

**Stones Throw in focus with Olan All City.**

Two words were conspicuous by their absence in last month’s column: Stones Throw. The legendary LA label has a busy autumn ...

**In praise of HudMo, Rustie and Kode 9 - Olan All City on the environmental re-engineers. **

Who remembers [Gary McKay?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA5vwZxVzqw). A seminal moment for ...

**Olan, All City, talks Numero, Bandit and home schooled child stars.**

A reverence for the past and a respect for the lonely journey of the African American artists and record ...

**Olan (All City) talks Stones Throw, Madlib and the joys of the LP.**

With our concentration spans having taken a battering over the past decade what with facebook/twitter/blah ...

The first few weeks of any year can are a quiet time in the world of new releases. Not a bad time to reflect on the year passed and equally ...

Before getting into any new music, some recent festival-related activity worth mentioning.

First up, last weekend saw the return of the quickly-becoming-legendary BLOC Weekend, where a 5000-strong rave-hungry rabble descended ...

Every now and then Irish people - and the press - like to get overly excited about Irish music.

Sometimes it's unjustified and sometimes it seems like it's only us ...

This weekend the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, now known as Movement, hits its tenth anniversary. Over the last decade there have been many changes to the festival, some good, some ...

Kenny Hanlon gets his freak on - for the most part anyway - at Movement in Detroit.

I can't say I'd ever heard of Memorial Day Weekend until around 10 ...

Italo Disco is one of the more obscure and perplexing sub cultures within dance music, inducing a fanatacism that can, to outsiders, seem somewhat odd. After spending years on the ...

Kenny Hanlon goes Dutch via Chicago and Cork in his latest round-up.

As we pass the half way point of the year, it’s maybe not a bad time to ...

**Kenny Hanlon on the art of the revival.**

That one of the biggest releases of this year is the re-issue of Robert Hood's seminal ‘Minimal Nation’ long player ...

**Redshape and the repeat offenders.**

Enigmatic techno producer Redshape delivers his debut long player, the deep and sometimes off-kilter ‘The Dance Paradox’ this month. In a relatively short space ...

**Traxx steps up to the plate.**

With a name like Melvin Oliphant III one could be forgiven for thinking that this Windy City native is more lord of the manor ...

**Reissues and respect.**

It has been an interesting year in music for the cities of Detroit and Chicago. While they may never reclaim the lofty positions they once held in ...

It's been a while since the last column and even though the run up to Christmas and New Year is a time when people focus on spending their money ...

**Kenny Hanlon talks Rob Hood, the Mathematics label and his love of the mid-west. **

Quite a bit was said last year about a re-emergence of deep house in clubbing in ...

**A lost Armando classic, a Planet E hook-up and Levon Vincent representing the NYC new school…**

Thanks to a real fan of the old-school here in Paris, I got my ...

Although few might admit it, we musicians/artists/performers are, to a greater or lesser degree, narcissists. As such, the offer of my own monthly column with free rein regarding ...

**Hi-hats and chicken wings...**

**Hi guys, I don't have much time as I write today but I'm going to share two simple recipes which I'm sure you ...

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Just a few teaser images ahead of this Sunday, showing the sterling job Maser has done in transforming The Bernard Shaw for the exhibition. Check them out....

 

Onra - The One feat. T3 from Slum Village from Onra on Vimeo.

First ever video we've been able to make..might be of interest to some here..made by ...

Strut records have collaborated with Bill Brewster & Frank Broughton of DJ History to release a retrospective of one of NY's most revered producers, Bob Blank. Bob's Blank Tape ...

Mr. Terje has been busy spinning disco & house all over the world during the past few years. He's also been editing all sorts of disco records us povos may ...

Tyree put this out on DJ International in 1992, but judging by how cheap it is on discogs it doesn't seem to have done very well for him. I ...

Already on the fast track to being one of the best albums, or at least one of the most talked about albums of 2010, Gil Scott-Heron returns with his first ...

One of our favourite guests at 12 over the last few years, Dixon, co-founder of the Innervisions label, gave a very insightful interview to the DJ History website recently here ...

The little release with the big name, Jumbo was the very first release in 1976 on the now legendary Prelude Records. Jumbo were a European group about whom little is ...

Many thanks to Dazboy for this contribution to the ongoing 12 Edits series. This is a shortened version of The Crown by Gary Bird which came out in '83 & was ...

This is a handy site with every Essential Mix recorded since its inception in 1994 available to stream or download. Many of the artists featured have also done Bodytonic Podcasts ...

We've all seen clocks made out of records, but check these out. Don't mind the reviewer, he's an idiot. Choice quote "these artworks aren’t cheap but ...

Here's a quick edit I did recently of Lightnin' Strikes by Liverpudlian group The Real Thing. She's a simple one, just looping the good parts & ridding it of ...

Here's a simple edit of Young Americans I did last year by David Bowie. The edit takes nearly everything out & just plays with a couple of short loops. Surely ...

Mateo & Matos is a team of two deejays and house music producers, John ''Roc'' Mateo and Eddie ''E-Z'' Matos, both from from New York City. John Mateo started by ...

In Ed's latest podcast he takes the listener into his studio & talks his way through making a track with all his gear. Essential listening for the nerds.

Download it ...

Harry Thumann is known mostly for his Italo anthem 'Underwater' which came out in 1979 on his debut LP 'American Express'. 'Give A Little Help' is taken from the same ...

These photographs have been doing the rounds the last while, vinyl grooves under an electron microscope - a visual delight!

Get the full scoop here.

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Here are 3 versions of 'Get Another Love' by Chantal Curtis. The original, an edit and a housed up version - all ripped from vinyl. 'Get Another Love' was a big ...

The highlight of my Paddy's Day was when Aaron played this outside in the Bernard Shaw smoking area. Sure didn't we all lap it up! A yacht rock ...

I was listening back to this the other day and thought i'd share it here, it's a pretty impressive collection of tracks he put together back in July ...

So it's absolutely no surprise whatsoever that Greg Wilsons Soundcloud account is full of little and massively large gems...but listening to the mixes on it again yesterday I ...

The latest instalment of the 12 Live series comes from Test DJ Paudi Ahern, who is known nationwide for his superb selections and technical skills. This mix is a recording ...

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We are always on the lookout for new talent at 12, so if you are into the likes of Theo Parrish, Daniel Wang, Motor City Drum Ensemble, Benji ...

This Sunday at 12, we welcome back cut and paste maestro Hugo Johnson for one last set here in Dublin, before he jets off to London for good. Known for ...

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Ahu from Turkey started her musical odyssey singing in school bands and the Saint Antuan choir in Istanbul, before debuting her ...

After the glorious unbridled hedonism that was Airbound last August, I decided another trip to the Adriatic coast was in order and with Airbound not taking place this year in ...

 

After the Stop Making Sense and Elecrtic Picnic madness, its back to basics this Sunday with 12s best dancer and vocal/deep house guru, Aaron Dempsey back on the ...

As a build up to our birthday celebrations this Sunday w/ JOHN DALY & more, we will be posting some great mixes to get you warmed up ranging from the line ...

 

The countdown to the 3rd Birthday w/ JOHN DALY, continues today with a great recording from 2 and a half years ago when The Unabombers played at 12 (Justin ...

 

The build up continues for this Sunday, with more digging in the archives, this time with the recording from Mark E's 12 debut waaay back when in March ...

 

Yoyo,

The penultimate in our birthday countdown see's us feature an exclusive live recording from probably our favourite Irish guest to grace the decks at 12 in our ...

 

And finally we feature the man himself. With his 12 debut looming, no better time to feature, one of Irelands finest (and one of our favourites) John Daly. Known ...

Sad news was announced today with word that Detroit legend Aaron-Carl has passed away due to complications from cancer. Only 37, he announced the diagnosis only a week ago and ...

Yoyo,

Here is my mix from last Sundays birthday festivities, where I was warming up for the superb John Daly. It features tracks from The Gap Band, Billy Frazier, Ilija ...

 

Test Industries and honorary BTC member Paudi Ahern makes his return to the 12 tables this Sunday for what promises to be a monster blowout. Paudi is responsible for ...

 

This Sunday sees the 12 debut of Synth Eastwood first mate Simon Cullen AKA Laser Tom & The Blast Crew. Simons a fairly dab hand on the ones and twos ...

Mr Jones resident Shortie tears Osaka a new one on his recent trip to Japan.

 

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I was first made aware of The Dawn Chorus’s existence back in 2008 thanks to John Earls on the much missed ‘Planet Sound’ on Channel 4’s teletext ...

 

After a brief layoff due to the big swinging celebrations that were last week down the road at our siblings The Twisted Pepper, with 12Sundays favourite Francois K (See ...

 

After a fog of jet lag, Im back in the hallowed emerald isle from my soujourn to the Big Apple. Also making the trip eastward is Cork messers of ...

 

And there she went...2010 is drawing to a close and that measns only one thing: Its time for our annual New Years Day blowout in The Bernard Shaw ...