A warm welcome to Spannered’s
first mailout of 2008
NB, If you're looking at this in Gmail or this looks kinda
funny then click here to read this newsletter
in its full glory.
first mailout of 2008
NB, If you're looking at this in Gmail or this looks kinda
funny then click here to read this newsletter
in its full glory.
We've broken ever so slightly with protocol this mailing by sneaking a few names onto the list that didn't actually sign up (it’s not spamming, so much as spreading a little music and culture, really). So, if you're reading this and thinking 'get the hell out of my inbox', just ask us to unsubscribe you and we'll never ever send you anything ever again, okay? If, however, you're thinking 'looks alright but I can't be arsed with more email clutter each week', stress not — we can't be arsed doing a mailout more than a few times a year anyway.
Site relaunch!
Spannered reached the ripe old age of one year old in back in December, and to celebrate we decided to rebuild the whole thing. Our code gimps are still tinkering around under the bonnet, so please let us know if you spot anything in disarray (unless you're looking at it in Internet Explorer 6, that is, in which case just download yourself a decent browser). If you've any thoughts on our rejig, we'd love to hear from you.
So, without further ado, here's what's new on the site since we last bugged you:
New on Radio Spannered
Bobby Corridor — Reggae Source
Sick selector Bobby Corridor blows reggae-flavoured chunks.
Camilo Rocha — Disco Demolition Derby
Brazilian DJ and journalist Camilo Rocha proves he's got bigger disco balls than most.
Dub Boy — Reggae/Dancehall Mix
Bristol's Dub Boy mashes up the place with his reggae and dancehall flavours.
El Kano – Medication Time
Adverse Camber's El Kano slips Spannered a second mix of gruff bassline electronics.
Goth Trad — live on Resonance FM
Japan's Takeaki Maruyama drops dark electronic jams on London's Resonance FM.
Jerome Hill — A Tribute to Leonard Rossiter
The daddy of wonky techno records a special tribute to the late, great comedy actor.
Jim Petherwick — Spannered Mix
Resident with Bristol's under_score crew mixes up his recent techno/dubstep faves.
Kid Kameleon — Aim Low
Kid K rolls out part one of a dual mix release exploring the weird end of the dubstep spectrum.
Kone-R — Gets Spannered
Kone-R makes his Spannered mix debut with an on-point selection of deep techno tracks.
Rio de Janeiro's Lucio K contributes another cracking mix to Maga Bo's Sambacana Brazilian music archive.
Neil Landstrumm — Subs and Steel Mix
Analogue assassin Neil Landstrumm returns to Spannered with another bleep 'n' bass assault.
Point B — on Sub FM
Combat Recordings artist Point B plays new and unreleased material from his arsenal.
Skim — Circulation Mix
South London's Skim trawls through crunchy electro, heavy bass and delicate, cinematic moods.
Spannered Oddcast #3 — Brazilian Edition
Al Fresco pulls together a selection of tasty Brazilian nuggets.
Randomoidz unfurls a four-and-a-half minute contraction of his favourite ska numbers.
El Kano blurts out a mix of metal that’ll have the hardiest of superheros crapping into their lycra.
Gabriel Heatwave provides a mix of the hottest bashment to come out of Jamaica during 2007.
Chris Wood from Word The Cat blends grimey beats with Nepali lok pop and 8-bit mentalism.
A big thank you to everyone who contacted us with mixes since our last mailing. Apologies if we didn’t get back to you — we did give everything a listen! (Take it as a measure of our slackness that you didn't get a reply, rather than silent comment on your handiwork.) Keep those links coming!
Maga Bo's Brazilian music archive
As mentioned in our last mailout, Spannered has hooked up with Rio de Janeiro-based DJ, producer and roving beat-seeker Maga Bo to host his immense Sambacana radio show series. Originally put together for the Brazil Network site, the series explores pretty much the entire geography of Brazil's music. And to celebrate the launch of Sambacana on Spannered, we’ve a brand new mix from Rio's Lucio K for you. Word from Bo in Rio is that there's plenty more on the way in 2008, so hold tight!
New music interviews
DJ Paulão — Music According to...
Hot on the heels of his supercool mixtape, Spannered interviews Brazilian DJ and music researcher DJ Paulão.
Goth Trad — Mutation Man
Laurent Fintoni talks in depth to one of Japan's hottest electronic music producers, Takeaki Maruyama.
Kone-R — Vinyl Transmission
Spannered talks vinyl and distribution with Russ Parsons, co-founder of London's Uncharted Audio imprint.
Spannered's correspondent in São Paulo, renowned DJ and journalist Camilo Rocha, recently interviewed a bunch of artists for a piece on 'globalist DJs' for Brazil's biggest paper, Folha de S. Paulo. Due to constraints of space, much of the material he amassed didn't make it into the article; the transcripts, however, are excellent, and Camilo has kindly passed on Q&As with Wayne Marshall (Wayne&Wax), DJ /rupture, Diplo and Maga Bo for inclusion in the Spannered archive. Go check them out.
New music reviews
Autechre drop a new album that sounds nothing at all like Barnsley.
The Irish wunderkind digs deep into his vaults for this album of previously unreleased material.
Hand on the Plow proprietors Beckett and Taylor unleash the ultimate self-important R'n'B anthem.
The acclaimed Brit rapper drops his latest on Lex Records.
Richard Bultitude pushes grimey electronica and wonky 2-step on his new EP.
Kone-R catches the final Kings Cross party from the London Sunday institution, and checks out the founders’ debut mix album.
Subloaded — Underwater Dancehall Album Launch
Al Fresco surfaces from a night out in Bristol with sore ears and a severe bout of decompression sickness.
Libby Floyd serves up an album of bruising acid trax on Planet Mu.
Martin Longley in New York
Roving music scribe Martin Longley has been soaking up the sounds of New York's music scene over the last few months. In the first of many extended pieces for Spannered, he pulls together highlights from the NYC fest thrown by Lisbon's forward-looking jazz label, Clean Feed. Martin also takes a look at some of the acts who have been shaking up the city's jazz clubs in recent months, hops onto the city's global music circuit, seeks out oddball country and underbelly cabaret, and even takes in the sounds of Harry Partch's quadrangularis reversum. He’s also contributed a slew of excellent live reviews from recent shows around the city, featuring:
Bettye LaVette
George Wein & The Newport All-Stars
Junior Brown
Kronos Quartet/Kluster/Erik Sanko
Mark Murphy
Napoleon Murphy Brock & Project/Object
The Claudia Quintet/The John hollenbeck Large Ensemble
The Randy Weston African Rhythms Trio
The Vinicius Cantuária Quintet
Anton Corbijn — Control
Kirsty Matthewson reviews Anton Corbijn's film on the life and career of Joy Division frontman, the late Ian Curtis.
Cow Stories — #2
Dave from the Marcia Blaine School for Girls returns with the eagerly awaited second instalment of his bovine saga.
David Lynch & Donovan — Catching the Big Fish
Judith Evans spends an evening in the company of filmmaker David Lynch and folk musician Donovan.
Gob Squad — Super Night Shot, São Paulo
Al Fresco encounters giant rabbits on the rampage in the southern hemisphere’s most populous city.
Kone-R immerses himself the new collaborative audiovisual work from techno overlord Paap and video artist Pagano.
Spannered music blog
Spannered kicked off a music blog back in December, and some great contributions are already dribbling in from around the world. Go check it all out here.
Become a spanner in the works!
Would you like to write for Spannered? 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, but wherever you are in the world, if you’ve something you’d like to contribute, get in touch.
Unsubscribe
Spannered sends out a meagre two or three mailouts each year. If you do not wish us to soil your inbox in the future, please reply to this message with ‘Dear sirs, I am underwhelmed by the exuberance of your verbosity and wish you to be gone’ in the subject line.
Thanks for reading. Have a nice day.
So, without further ado, here's what's new on the site since we last bugged you:
Sick selector Bobby Corridor blows reggae-flavoured chunks.
Camilo Rocha — Disco Demolition Derby
Brazilian DJ and journalist Camilo Rocha proves he's got bigger disco balls than most.
Dub Boy — Reggae/Dancehall Mix
Bristol's Dub Boy mashes up the place with his reggae and dancehall flavours.
El Kano – Medication Time
Adverse Camber's El Kano slips Spannered a second mix of gruff bassline electronics.
Goth Trad — live on Resonance FM
Japan's Takeaki Maruyama drops dark electronic jams on London's Resonance FM.
Jerome Hill — A Tribute to Leonard Rossiter
The daddy of wonky techno records a special tribute to the late, great comedy actor.
Jim Petherwick — Spannered Mix
Resident with Bristol's under_score crew mixes up his recent techno/dubstep faves.
Kid Kameleon — Aim Low
Kid K rolls out part one of a dual mix release exploring the weird end of the dubstep spectrum.
Kone-R — Gets Spannered
Kone-R makes his Spannered mix debut with an on-point selection of deep techno tracks.
Rio de Janeiro's Lucio K contributes another cracking mix to Maga Bo's Sambacana Brazilian music archive.
Neil Landstrumm — Subs and Steel Mix
Analogue assassin Neil Landstrumm returns to Spannered with another bleep 'n' bass assault.
Point B — on Sub FM
Combat Recordings artist Point B plays new and unreleased material from his arsenal.
Skim — Circulation Mix
South London's Skim trawls through crunchy electro, heavy bass and delicate, cinematic moods.
Spannered Oddcast #3 — Brazilian Edition
Al Fresco pulls together a selection of tasty Brazilian nuggets.
El Kano blurts out a mix of metal that’ll have the hardiest of superheros crapping into their lycra.
Gabriel Heatwave provides a mix of the hottest bashment to come out of Jamaica during 2007.
Maga Bo's Brazilian music archive
As mentioned in our last mailout, Spannered has hooked up with Rio de Janeiro-based DJ, producer and roving beat-seeker Maga Bo to host his immense Sambacana radio show series. Originally put together for the Brazil Network site, the series explores pretty much the entire geography of Brazil's music. And to celebrate the launch of Sambacana on Spannered, we’ve a brand new mix from Rio's Lucio K for you. Word from Bo in Rio is that there's plenty more on the way in 2008, so hold tight!
DJ Paulão — Music According to...
Hot on the heels of his supercool mixtape, Spannered interviews Brazilian DJ and music researcher DJ Paulão.
Goth Trad — Mutation Man
Laurent Fintoni talks in depth to one of Japan's hottest electronic music producers, Takeaki Maruyama.
Kone-R — Vinyl Transmission
Spannered talks vinyl and distribution with Russ Parsons, co-founder of London's Uncharted Audio imprint.
Hot on the heels of his supercool mixtape, Spannered interviews Brazilian DJ and music researcher DJ Paulão.
Goth Trad — Mutation Man
Laurent Fintoni talks in depth to one of Japan's hottest electronic music producers, Takeaki Maruyama.
Kone-R — Vinyl Transmission
Spannered talks vinyl and distribution with Russ Parsons, co-founder of London's Uncharted Audio imprint.
Spannered's correspondent in São Paulo, renowned DJ and journalist Camilo Rocha, recently interviewed a bunch of artists for a piece on 'globalist DJs' for Brazil's biggest paper, Folha de S. Paulo. Due to constraints of space, much of the material he amassed didn't make it into the article; the transcripts, however, are excellent, and Camilo has kindly passed on Q&As with Wayne Marshall (Wayne&Wax), DJ /rupture, Diplo and Maga Bo for inclusion in the Spannered archive. Go check them out.
New music reviews
Autechre drop a new album that sounds nothing at all like Barnsley.
The Irish wunderkind digs deep into his vaults for this album of previously unreleased material.
Hand on the Plow proprietors Beckett and Taylor unleash the ultimate self-important R'n'B anthem.
The acclaimed Brit rapper drops his latest on Lex Records.
Richard Bultitude pushes grimey electronica and wonky 2-step on his new EP.
Kone-R catches the final Kings Cross party from the London Sunday institution, and checks out the founders’ debut mix album.
Roving music scribe Martin Longley has been soaking up the sounds of New York's music scene over the last few months. In the first of many extended pieces for Spannered, he pulls together highlights from the NYC fest thrown by Lisbon's forward-looking jazz label, Clean Feed. Martin also takes a look at some of the acts who have been shaking up the city's jazz clubs in recent months, hops onto the city's global music circuit, seeks out oddball country and underbelly cabaret, and even takes in the sounds of Harry Partch's quadrangularis reversum. He’s also contributed a slew of excellent live reviews from recent shows around the city, featuring:
Bettye LaVette
David Lynch & Donovan — Catching the Big Fish
Judith Evans spends an evening in the company of filmmaker David Lynch and folk musician Donovan.
Gob Squad — Super Night Shot, São Paulo
Al Fresco encounters giant rabbits on the rampage in the southern hemisphere’s most populous city.
Become a spanner in the works!
Subloaded — Underwater Dancehall Album Launch
Al Fresco surfaces from a night out in Bristol with sore ears and a severe bout of decompression sickness.
Al Fresco surfaces from a night out in Bristol with sore ears and a severe bout of decompression sickness.
Libby Floyd serves up an album of bruising acid trax on Planet Mu.
Martin Longley in New York
Roving music scribe Martin Longley has been soaking up the sounds of New York's music scene over the last few months. In the first of many extended pieces for Spannered, he pulls together highlights from the NYC fest thrown by Lisbon's forward-looking jazz label, Clean Feed. Martin also takes a look at some of the acts who have been shaking up the city's jazz clubs in recent months, hops onto the city's global music circuit, seeks out oddball country and underbelly cabaret, and even takes in the sounds of Harry Partch's quadrangularis reversum. He’s also contributed a slew of excellent live reviews from recent shows around the city, featuring:
George Wein & The Newport All-Stars
Junior Brown
Kronos Quartet/Kluster/Erik Sanko
Mark Murphy
Napoleon Murphy Brock & Project/Object
The Claudia Quintet/The John hollenbeck Large Ensemble
The Randy Weston African Rhythms Trio
The Vinicius Cantuária Quintet
Junior Brown
Kronos Quartet/Kluster/Erik Sanko
Mark Murphy
Napoleon Murphy Brock & Project/Object
The Claudia Quintet/The John hollenbeck Large Ensemble
The Randy Weston African Rhythms Trio
The Vinicius Cantuária Quintet
Anton Corbijn — Control
Kirsty Matthewson reviews Anton Corbijn's film on the life and career of Joy Division frontman, the late Ian Curtis.
Kirsty Matthewson reviews Anton Corbijn's film on the life and career of Joy Division frontman, the late Ian Curtis.
Cow Stories — #2
Dave from the Marcia Blaine School for Girls returns with the eagerly awaited second instalment of his bovine saga.
Dave from the Marcia Blaine School for Girls returns with the eagerly awaited second instalment of his bovine saga.
David Lynch & Donovan — Catching the Big Fish
Judith Evans spends an evening in the company of filmmaker David Lynch and folk musician Donovan.
Gob Squad — Super Night Shot, São Paulo
Al Fresco encounters giant rabbits on the rampage in the southern hemisphere’s most populous city.
Kone-R immerses himself the new collaborative audiovisual work from techno overlord Paap and video artist Pagano.
Spannered music blog
Spannered kicked off a music blog back in December, and some great contributions are already dribbling in from around the world. Go check it all out here.
Would you like to write for Spannered? 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, but wherever you are in the world, if you’ve something you’d like to contribute, get in touch.
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Spannered sends out a meagre two or three mailouts each year. If you do not wish us to soil your inbox in the future, please reply to this message with ‘Dear sirs, I am underwhelmed by the exuberance of your verbosity and wish you to be gone’ in the subject line.
Thanks for reading. Have a nice day.