http://www.spannered.org/blog/ Music, art, film and literature from outside the mainstream bubble, a platform for writers. Spread a little mp3 love. en-gb Copyright 2007 Spannered. All Rights Reserved. Wed, 1 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT 240 http://www.spannered.org/images/skins/spannered/RSS.jpg http://www.spannered.org/ 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 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. Bo's debut full-length album, Archipelagoes, is dropping this month on Soot Records (head to his MurdochSpace for clips). He's currently gigging in North America, with plans to tour Europe this summer.. … Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spannered.org/blog/1384/ http://www.spannered.org/blog/1384/ Heads up Jahtari fans. Following on from a recent 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/blog/1361/ http://www.spannered.org/blog/1361/ As Randomoidz, father of 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/blog/1346/ http://www.spannered.org/blog/1346/ A warm Spannered welcome to Laurent Fintoni. Having relocated from London to Toyko in 2007, Laurent, a keen blogger and crate digger, recently contributed an excellent interview with Japanese music Goth Trad to the Spannered archive. So we decided to invite him on board for some regular words and music from his newly adopted homeland...   For my inaugural post I’ve decided to cover three tracks from my current place of residence, Japan. The tracks cover different elements of Japan’s music scene and history, a bit of old and some new too. First up is the new; a track featuring two Japanese producers who have made a name for themselves in recent … Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT