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A warm welcome to Spannered’s September mailout.

 

After a fantastic response to our last mailing (well, no one unsubscribed), we’ve decided to keep with the stripped down, no-nonsense format. So, here’s what’s new…


New in Radio Spannered

 

Cylob: Get A Taste
Cylob: Rock the Trojan Fader
The master of Braindance dishes out a couple of tasty freebies to mark the launch of his new virtual label.

Disrupt: Live at Glasgow Art School
Germany’s Jan Gleichmar, aka Disrupt, drops a killer set of 8-bit dub and twizzled laptop reggae flavours.

DJ Paulão: Então Tome! Feira Livre Vol. 1
Brazilian DJ and music researcher DJ Paulão gives Spannered a sniff of his sprawling record collection.

Hanuman: Crafty Butcher mix
Cheeky chappy Hanuman returns to Spannered with another sizzling laptop soundclash.

Jerome Hill: Some Of My Favourite Tunes…
Spannered resurrects a two-and-a-half-hour wonky techno marathon by Jerome Hill, recorded back in 2002.

Mungo’s Hi Fi
Glasgow’s Mungo's Hi Fi Sound System lay down nuff fine riddims from their arsenal.

 

New music interviews

Cylob: Cut the Middleman, Drop the Bass
Spannered talks to Chris Jeffs, aka Cylob, about his spanking new netlabel project.

Disrupt: 8-bit Babylon ‘n’ Ting
Spannered meets Disrupt, supernice co-founder of netlabel Jahtari.

 

Nego Moçambique: Freak City Funk
Spannered seeks out electronic music from the capital of the Aquarian civilization.


New music reviews

Benge: Twenty Systems
An advance peek at the debut release on Expanding Records' sub-label.

Dopplereffekt: Calabi Yau Space
Fallen into any black holes lately? Kone-R passes comment on Gerald Donald's latest work.

Luke Vibert: Mate Tron
The granddaddy of electronic beats gets his rave stabs and acid lines out, again.

Rustie: Jagz The Smack
Knightrider meets Scottish grime on this EP of hybrid electronics from Stuff Records.

Various Artists: Expanding vs spa.RK
Barcelona’s spa.RK crew reinforce their long-standing relationship with London’s Expanding imprint.


New in Spannervision

Transparent Sound: Variations of an Attitude
Up-and-coming filmmaker Adam Aiken joins forces with illustrator Eleanor Meredith to present a wartime tale of bats, squirrels and forbidden love.

Birdengine: Thoughts of a Falling Glass Man
Paul Blackford: Latitude
R3mote: Duel
The Mountain Goats: Slow West Vultures

Spannered is also pleased to host a showcase of work from Adam Aiken and fellow London-based filmmaker Shelley Revill.

 

Misadventure in the Middle East: Gallery
Artists Henry Hemming and Al Braithwaite serve up a gallery of photography and artwork from their trip to the Middle East.

Other fresh Spannersims

Gold-Plated Guns, Silver Linings and Bronzing in Peace
Who are the winners and losers in Rio de Janeiro’s race for global sports recognition? Greg Scruggs reports from the 2007 Pan American Games.

Henry Hemming: Misadventure in the Middle East
Two young artists take an expansive tour of the Middle East in Henry Hemming's first book.

RadioActive: Sending Out the Right Signals
Spannered talks to radio activist Max Graef about the pros of community radio broadcasting.

Sónar Festival 2007: Una Cerveza Con Limón, Señor
Kone-R reports from this year’s Sonar festival in Barcelona, where he had a jolly good time by the sounds of it.

 

Oddcast: Bristol Edition

 

Spannered has a special edition of the Oddcast soon to come out of the oven. Comprised solely of new music from the city of Bristol, UK, this was originally on the menu for earlier in the year, but now it's actually coming together — and once again we'd like to put feelers out for folk wishing to contribute. Stirring the pot is local scrote Punksi. He's been busy scampering around finding all the ingredients necessary to make a dish so potent it'll have Heston Blumenthal vomiting into his vats of varicose vein vol-au-vents. If you're a Bristol-based musician who would like to participate, you can drop him (Punksi, not Heston Blumenthal) a line via his Murdochspace or through Bristol's bustling Hijack forum. There's no restriction on style, though knowing his tastes you've more chance of winning him over with a C90 of klezmer covers than a CD of your latest psytrance poop.

 

Maga Bo's Brazilian music archive

 

Also in the pipeline, Spannered is soon to host the immense Sambacana Brazilian music archive, put together over the years by globe-trotting beat connoisseur Maga Bo. The series, that explores pretty much the entire geography of Brazil's music, was originally created for the Brazil Network site. Having been offline for some months now, the whole archive will soon be available to stream and download from Spannered. And hold tight, because there are new selections on the way. If you've not already done so, we suggest you check out Spannered's fascinating interview with Maga Bo from earlier this year.


Become a spanner in the works!

Would you like to write for Spannered? Or do you have video, audio or artwork that you would like us to feature on the site? Don’t be shy — drop us a line. Spannered is currently based in London and São Paulo. Wherever you are in the world, if you’ve something cool, current, kooky or mildly offensive you’d like to contribute, get in touch!

 

The Communist Party

 

The image used for this edition of the Spannered mailout is the The Communist Party by Tom Burns. You can check out more of his excellent artwork here.


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