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Music :: Feature :: Label 15 Dec 2008

Billy Hamilton: Contrary to popular belief, 1985 was a great year for British music. Amidst a spew of poodle-permed rockers and gak-snorting pop philanthropists (say hello, Band Aid), the remarkable One Little Indian (OLI) was conceived. Founded by various sects of Lo...

Music :: Feature :: Label 11 Dec 2008

Finbarr Bermingham: Rising from the ashes of Creation Records' demise in 2000, Wichita was the brainchild of Mark Bowen and Dick Green. Both had been at Alan McGee's side since day dot. “To me the crucial thing about Creation was that almost without exception, all t...

Music :: Feature :: Label 07 Oct 2008

Billy Hamilton: If variety is the spice of life then FatCat Records are piquant enough to have even the most resistant tastebuds burning. Established almost 20 years ago by Dave Cawley and Alex Knight, the label has developed into one of the UKs finest purveyors of m...

Music :: Feature :: Label 09 Sep 2008

Milo McLaughlin: Given the shared ethos and sound of the artists involved, Fence could almost be classed as a sub-genre in itself. For example, there's no doubt that Fence's relative success is to some extent down to the fact they are a collective as much as a record l...

Music :: Feature :: Label 31 Jul 2008

Dave Kerr: “Everyone here is counting the days until this is over,” sighs Megan Jasper. Fortunately she isn’t talking about any foreseeable end to the Pacific Northwest’s great cultural institution that is Sub Pop records, more looking for...

Records :: Review :: Single Review :: Label 16 Jun 2008

Jonathan Robert Muirhead: This is without doubt one of the most hyperactive records of recent times. Nary a second after hitting play, your ears are assaulted by a blitz of beats and riffs so hard they should come with some sort of health warning. In other words, this is an i...

Records :: Feature :: Label 01 Apr 2008

Colin Chapman: Glasgow label Wireblock is the brainchild of brothers Neil and Calum Morton along with Jack Revill, and released its first single last year. A joint project with sister label, Point.One Recordings, the P-funk electro of Dutch duo Bumper's Everybody Fon...

Clubs :: Feature :: Label 08 Oct 2007

James Blake: MNX is the partner label to a night fast becoming a Glaswegian institution, Monox at the Soundhaus. Label owner and main Monox resident, Dan Monox, started MNX in 2001 to release the kind of music he was playing to those crowds - a mixture of heavy as ...

Records :: Feature :: Label 12 Dec 2006

Milo McLaughlin: SL Records are one of the crown jewels in Edinburgh's somewhat skeletal music scene. Over the last nine years the label has released records from an eclectic batch of superbly idiosyncratic bands including Dawn of the Replicants, Ballboy, Saint Jude's ...

Records :: Feature :: Label 12 Nov 2006

Jamie Borthwick: Back in 1980 when the cornerstones for Dischord Records were laid, an 18 year-old Ian Mackaye is unlikely to have envisaging the passing of a 26th anniversary for the record company he co-founded. Yet still he speaks with a verve for music which cannot...