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Fri, 9 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT 240 http://www.spannered.org/images/skins/spannered/RSS.jpg http://www.spannered.org/ http://www.spannered.org/blog/1407/ http://www.spannered.org/blog/1407/ Not content with making some of coolest dance music on the planet, Vienna's Stereotyp does a very nifty job of demo-ing Masayuki Akamatsu's iPhone app akaRemote and artificialeyes.tv's i3L midi bridge code. … Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/radio/1405/ http://www.spannered.org/radio/1405/ A diverse half-hour of contemporary Brazilian beats selected by Maga Bo … Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1403/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1403/ Laurent Fintoni takes a deep breath and dives into the world of bass operator Paul Rose, aka Scuba, the man behind the ever-evolving Hotflush label. … Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1398/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1398/ Electro-acoustic fireworks, headbanging afrobeat, Philippine gongs, New York jazz and a hearty dose of Zappa. Gig addict Martin Longley takes a springtime trek around his home turf. … Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1399/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1399/ Topical performance art, a new Philip Glass production and some very big lungs greet Spannered's Martin Longley on his return to New York. … Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/blog/1402/ http://www.spannered.org/blog/1402/ Mago Bo, Spannered's favourite Rio de Janeiro-dwelling masher of world styles, has a ridiculously hot new mixtape out as part of the current Blogariddims run. The selection is, in Bo's words, '50 minutes of transnational bass — dubstep grime cumbia hip hop ragga kuduro baile funk dub chaabi soca crunk'. Get in.   Tracklisting: Archetype — Innasekt Baile de Almut — Radio Tarifa Freestyle live on radio in houston — Dizee Rascal Punisher (Loef … Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/radio/1396/ http://www.spannered.org/radio/1396/ Spannered's sixth Oddcast is a rich mix of folk, Latin, hip hop, indie and electronica woven together by Mys-Elf, organiser of London's Guerrilla Zoo parties. … Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/radio/1393/ http://www.spannered.org/radio/1393/ Half an hour of crunchy 8-bit deepness from Japan's Game Boy dubstep wizard. … Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1389/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1389/ Spannered's Martin Longley sates his appetite for blues with a gig-going spree spanning both sides of the Atlantic. … Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1390/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1390/ After three decades of curmudgeonly scowling, has Mark E Smith finally earned the right to act like James Brown? Martin Longley treks to the UK's West Midlands to find out... … Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/blog/1392/ http://www.spannered.org/blog/1392/ Ok, so last week we finally got around to doing our first mailout of the year. If you missed it and feel left out, it's just here for you.   If you'd like a relatively bullshit-free breakdown of what's new on Spannered delivered in your inbox once in a blue moon, head over to the homepage and sign yerself up! … Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1385/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1385/ Martin Longley crams himself into New York's Knitting Factory venue for 2008's Winter Jazzfest. … Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/radio/1387/ http://www.spannered.org/radio/1387/ Combat Recordings boss Stormfield whips up a showcase of shadowy speaker-shredders from label artists. … Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1382/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1382/ What does Autechre's new album sound like? Nothing like Barnsley, that's for sure, says Dave Marcia. … Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/blog/1384/ http://www.spannered.org/blog/1384/ Heads up Jahtari fans. Following on from our last post, we received a supernice email a short while back from Jahtari artist Nicolas Volfoniq, telling us of the excellent Jam'in Sauce EP recently out on his netlabel … Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1374/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1374/ As part of his research on ‘globalist’ DJs, Camilo Rocha interviews maverick DJ, producer, blogger and radio presenter, Jace Clayton. … Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1375/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1375/ Brazilian journalist Camilo Rocha interviews much-in-demand DJ/producer Diplo about his musical ties with global subcultures. … Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1376/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1376/ For his article on ‘globalist DJs’ for Brazil’s most influential newspaper, Camilo Rocha interviews ethnomusicologist, blogger and DJ Wayne Marshall. … Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1377/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1377/ Camilo Rocha interviews Rio-based DJ/producer and music researcher Maga Bo for the fourth in a series of interviews exploring ‘globalist DJs’. … Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1379/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1379/ Spannered's man in New York, Martin Longley, takes in a dizzying array of jazz acts and clubs during the first month of 2008. … Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1380/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1380/ Bring the noise! Martin Longley catches Sonic Youth's ever-youthful Thurston Moore in New York at the recent showcase gig for his Ecstatic Peace! imprint. … Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1368/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1368/ Acid Sauna, the debut long-player from London-via-Chicago’s Libby Floyd, aka The Doubtful Guest, is a fierce onslaught of 303-driven rave pressure. Opener Slaves is a decent enough marker for what’s contained within: banging drum machine action interlaced with Roland tweakery, overlaid with forebodingly dark synths and pitched-down voice samples — a good example of the kind of thing she’s dropped in recent live sets and shows what she’s capable of. From here she moves through a selection of styles, fusing dub, drum 'n' bass and straight-up party gabba, but despite her background as a classically trained musician (she’s sung with Pavarotti, no less) it all seems rather underwhelming. It’s one of those albums that feels like a … Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1372/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1372/ Balancing Lakes is the third album from Barry Lynn, better known for working under his Boxcutter moniker. Lynn has gained recent critical praise for his dubstep-meets-IDM output for various labels including Mu, but this one is a trip into Lynn’s archives, a move which seems rather questionable as the material does often fall foul of wearing it’s influences perhaps a little too proudly on it’s sleeve.   The first couple of tracks are inoffensive melodic mid-tempo numbers — nice enough but they don’t exactly leap out. From there he moves through several sub-Squarepusher imitations — I’m not sure if anyone remembers the heyday of drill 'n' bass, or even if there was one, but this is straight out of that era. … Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/blog/1371/ http://www.spannered.org/blog/1371/ Want to give the one you love something truly special this Valentines Day?   Well, Spannered's mentor in all things to do with spanners, the delightful Sheila Dibnah, is Ebaying off a very special spanner given to her by her late husband, the great Fred Dibnah, as a Valentines gift in 1998 (the year of their marriage). Along with raising money for the worthy cause that is Bolton Hospice, the auction is also an awareness-raiser for the plight of Fred's memorial in his home town of Bolton. Get your bids in quick — why say it with flowers when you … Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/radio/1364/ http://www.spannered.org/radio/1364/ Ever had your cranium poleaxed? El Kano takes the reins for Spannered’s fifth Oddcast — a selection that’ll have even the hardiest of superheros crapping into their lycra. … Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/radio/1365/ http://www.spannered.org/radio/1365/ A mix of the hottest and hypest bashment to come out of Jamaica in 2007. … Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/music/1362/ http://www.spannered.org/music/1362/ Trickling minimalism from China's Tan Dun and the strange tones of Harry Partch's quadrangularis reversum fill Martin Longley's ears during his latest foray into NYC's experimental music scene. … Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/blog/1361/ http://www.spannered.org/blog/1361/ As Randomoidz, who put together Spannered's latest Oddcast recently said: 'What can you say about ska other than skabbado-bada-chika-sh-chika-sh-chika-sh?' Quite. Well, if you enjoyed that scuttle though his favourite ska tunes, you should orientate yourself towards the latest Jahtari Net EP — Atari-Ska L'Atakk. Coming out of the world's best laptop dub netlabel courtesy of Atari tracker legend Dubmood, the release comprises six tracks of the finest chiptune ska — and can be snaffled for the grand cost of absolutely nada. … Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/radio/1356/ http://www.spannered.org/radio/1356/ Randomoidz of London's Adverse Camber collective unfurls a four-and-a-half minute contraction of his favourite ska numbers for Spannered's fourth Oddcast. … Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/radio/1357/ http://www.spannered.org/radio/1357/ Grimey beats hovering around the 140 bpm mark, dashed with Nepali lok pop and 8-bit mentalism. … Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT