Party like it's 1989. A vintage display of TB-303 virtuosity mixed by Mike Dred at the height of the acid house scene
Freshly Spannered
Bristol's Ekoplekz makes a fuzzy elixir to pour in your ears, drawing comparisons with King Tubby's singed dub, the sci-fi emissions of the Radiophonic Workshop and Suicide's protopunk electronics
Rebel Intelligence operative agent2 crafts his first mix for Spannered, featuring the likes of Surburban Knight, Snuff Crew and Virgo Four
The mighty Bass Clef invites you (and your neighbours) on a tour of the influences behind his Inner Space Break Free album
Spannered's 13th Oddcast rolls into town courtesy of Australia's legendary Nam Shub Of Enki
Glasgow's Production Unit embraces the Oddcast ethos with a magnificent medley spanning jazz, industrial, gamelan... and the illustrious Bernard Cribbins
The audio equivalent of ice cream with pickled onions? Jerome Hill strings together a selection of sounds to sate the musical cravings of the childbearing lady (also compatible with other activities)
A darkly sculpted DJ set from Surgeon, recorded in October 2011 at Blackest Ever Black's London showcase
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- Word up. After six years of running the site in our free time, we've decided to call it a day before updates drop to the level of frequency you'd associate with a king penguin's breeding cycle.
The original motive for creating Spannered was to keep available content from our previous projects, Overload Media and Musicalbear, and that'll stay accessible right here, along with all the great audio, features and reviews we've gathered up since launching in 2006.
We'd like to extend a huge thanks to everyone who's written for Spannered over the years, the many artists who've let us host their mixes, live sets and exclusive tracks, all the spammers who have given us hearty belly laughs by letting us bait them, and of course, everyone who's bothered reading and listening to the weird, wonderful and occasionally banal stuff with which we've filled these pages.
Just before closing up shop we had a flurry of fine mixes drop into our inbox, so be sure to head across to our radio section to check them out.
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Cheerio :)
28 Apr 2012
Radio Spannered
Surgeon
at Blackest Ever Black
Spannered Oddcast #15
Jerome Hill's Music for Pregnant Ladies
Spannered Oddcast #14
Production Unit's Other Musics
Spannered Oddcast #13
Nam Shub's Spannered Sitars
agent2
Le Orme
Bass Clef
Inner Space Influences
Mike Dred
Acid Tape
Archive picks
Rephlex has spent two decades of rephreshing the parts other labels cannot reach. Kone-R tracks down co-founder and peerless player-of-tunes Grant Wilson-Claridge
As the closing feature for the Overload Media site back in 2003, Nick Doherty talked with legendary DJ and producer Theo Parrish
From the Casio keyboard to sonic warfare via Les Dawson and the streets of Croydon, smug git Gary Weasel spends an evening in the company of fellow Scot Kode9
Walter Salles
The Motorcycle Diaries
Aphex Twin
26 Mixes For Cash
Empire State
Why Climb The Highest Mountain?
Syntheme
Lasers ‘n’ Shit
Trurl and Klapaucius
Sing Sweet Software
Stuchka Vkarmanye
ILoveMummy
Zainetica
Escaping Dust
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