Booka Shade’s cosmic “The Sun & the Neon Light’ travels continue well into the year end with upcoming South America, Australia forays and for those lucky in London there’s a full on Physical evening at Koko together with M.A.N.D.Y and Heidi. In celebration of the support so far, the Booka boys are happy to offer [...]

The bass and the drums boomed and echoed at the ‘Behind the Skreening’ of DUB ECHOES at this weekend’s B-Oost Festival in Amsterdam. The new cinema at the OBA here did the director Bruno Natal proud with it’s deep boomin’ sound system, huge skreen and a full house gettin’ deep into dub’s journey and ongoing [...]

We’ve got one year to celebrate in a big way! Deviation takes on their first anniversary by creating a funkmosphere inside Gramaphone on Wednesday, October 1st with special guest Cali native dâm-funk. Stones Throw records have declared dâm-funk the official ambassador of Boogie Funk. His LA club night Funkmosphere combines the early [...]

What’s not to love about DUB – it’s deep – it booms – it’s all about the BASS and now for those that already feel it, DUB ECHOES is a reminder and then some ! For those new to Dub, well you’re in for a treat ! Young filmaker Bruno Natal has made a gem [...]

B-OOST, Space Sounds from the Eastern Docklands conjures up for me all sorts of crazee images – be it of Sun Ra, Pink Floyd or Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, I am definitely hoping for a cosmic journey! AND looks like we are more than in luck, what with the latest B-Oost festival upon us in Amsterdam [...]

Love the movies ! and love skateboarding ! I used to skate when i lived in LA and NYC and even though i have not been since living in Amsterdam, I’m still a fan and who knows. The immediate great news though is that we get to present the super dope skate skate film Deathbowl [...]

SEUN KUTI brings a new level of craziness to Afrobeat. The voice of Fela Kuti’s youngest son takes the renegade spirit of his father’s music and pairs it up with the swagger of today’s hip hop generation. Like his father, Seun continues to call out on the indignation that the world’s people face, as illustrated [...]

Ital is vital. One of the sweetest voices in roots reggae music, Horace Andy is bringing all his vitalness to the UK for two very special concerts. Horace’s earlier music career can be traced way back to the 1970s in Kingston Jamaica were he began recording dub folklore tales about the honest joys and [...]

Play us another song, piano man. Its not easy jumping from traditional jazz to hip hop to rock, but it seems Robert Glasper enjoys living right in the middle of these universes. It’s the kind of music that can be heard on the stereos of both Mos Def, Roy Hargrove and Thom Yorke. Robert grew [...]