New Radio - Dam Mantle in the mix

Listen online, stream and download the Little Rock podcast every month on Radio Magnetic from the people behind Little Rock Records and the Shallow Rave blog.

In anticipation of their forthcoming NORAVE freshers ball, Team Little Rock present an exclusive mix from Dam Mantle, plus mini-mixes from The Niallist and Kid Ritalin.

Team Little Rock return, in the flesh, to the Art School on Wednesday 15 September, presenting Holy Mountain, Blood of the Bull and Ben Butler and Mousepad live. Dam Mantle, Molotov Disco and Team Little Rock will be occupying the DJ booth, and art instillations will come from a selection of Glasgow artists. Entry is free to freshers, £3 to anyone else.

www.soundcloud.com/dammantle

www.soundcloud.com/theniallist

www.soundcloud.com/kid-ritalin

myspace.com/holymountain

myspace.com/bloodofthebull

myspace.com/benbutlerandmousepad

Tracklist

1. Holy Mountain – Gunner – Winning Sperm Party

Dam Mantle – Superhybrid Minimix

1. Becoming Real - Fast Motion (DVA’s high emotion Remix)
2. Ramadanman – Fall Short – Swamp 81
3. J Treole – The Loot (Sully Remix) – Key Sound
4. Deadboy – If U Want Me – Nmbers
5. Jam City – Nswl004 - Night Slugs
6. Ramadanman - Work Them - Swamp 81
7. Anthony “shake” Shakir – Simpatico - Logistic
8. Gold Panda – Back Home -Avex
9. DJ Rashad – Space Juke – Ghettophiles
10. Puccini – Madame Butterfly Act 2

Ben Butler and Mousepad – Mousemat – Self-released

The Niallist – Bring The Noise Mix

1. Sepultura – Refuse/Resist – Roadrunner
2. Dizzee Rascal – Pussyole (Old School) – XL Recordings
3. Sleigh Bells v Busta Rhymes – Tell Em Busta (Flowmack) – Bootleg
4. Daft Punk – Technologic (Basement Jaxx Kontrol Mix) – Virgin Music (France)
5. Gold Blood – Hair – Human Shield
6. Tiga – What You Need – Different
7. Dead Prez – Hip Hop – Loud Records
8. Doctor P & Flux Pavillion – Stinkfinger – XS Records
9. The Prodigy – Everybody In The Place – XL Recordings
10. Public Enemy / Anthrax – Bring The Noise – Def Jam

Blood of The Bull – Flick – Winning Sperm

Kid Ritalin – Echochamber Minimix.

1. Burial – Raver – Hyperdub
2. Jonas Kopp – Michigan Lake – Ostgut Ton
3. Maurizio – M4_B – M-Series
4. Rhythm and Sound ft Cornell Campbell – King in my Empire – Rhythm and Sound
5. Andy Stott – Hostile – Modern Love
6. Mount Kimbie – Vertical (SCB edit) – Hot Flush
7. DFRNT – Landscape – On The Edge

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New Radio - Improbable Machinery

Team Little Rock once again lose their microphones and let the music do the talking, with brand new tunes from Vakant and Line Idle. Also new music from Matthew Dear, Kavsrave, Starkey and Female.

Techno, disco and minimalism all get an airing in the latest installment from the people behind Little Rock Records and shallowrave.com

Tracklist

1. Line Idle – Half Measures – Little Rock Records
2. Kid Ritalin – Junk Yard – Unreleased
3. Maurizio – MO4A - M-series
4. Leo Cavello – Magma – via bandcamp
5. Dewalta – Stringer Bell - Vakant
6. Matthew Dear – Dog Days – Ghostly
7. Nico Purman – Xpress Yourself – Vakant
8. Proper Soul – Next Stop Paris – unreleased
9. Female – Regis Edit – Sandwell District
10. Starkey – Sector 9 Shootout – via Amontobin.com
11. The Heavy – How You Like Me Now? (Joker Edit) – Counter Records
12. Kavsrave – P-Clart - Numbers
13. Morphamish – No More Funny Business – Black Lantern
14. DFRNT – Tenfold (DFRNT’s Less is More Mix) – via dfrnt.com

Team Little Rock - "Departures" EP FREE DOWNLOAD

The third and final installment in our third birthday music giveaway is here - the four track "Departures" EP. Featuring a track each from the core team at Little Rock, this is some straight-up, no-bullshit, dancefloor-aimed action.

So you get some plantfood-house from Dalai Dahmer, some shuffle-techno from Line Idle, a bit of swung minimalism from Kid Ritalin and an afro-funk groove from the Two Two Kru (aka The Niallist).

Lil066 Departures EP by littlerockrecords

The full EP can be downloaded from this link:
http://www.littlerockrecords.com/releases/Lil066_DEPARTURES_EP.zip

Big thanks to Peter Collins for the lovely artwork. Enjoy!

New Morphamish tracks

Here's some more Black Lantern Music-related business for folks to check out.



The Edinburgh-based producer Morphamish (who dropped the wicked Urge Mode EP on Black Lantern a few months back) has put a couple of new tracks up on his Soundcloud page.

Both tracks feature MCs, and the first to step up to the gauntlet is the well know Edi rapper Profisee (who recently took over Vic Galloway's New Music Scotland BBC slot for a show) with a remix of his track "Movin'". It's great to see these guys together, and the track is a wicked uptempo, slightly glitchy, double-time groover that will do as it says on the tin.

Profisee-Movin(Morphamish remix) by morphamish

The other track gets a big shout out from us featuring as it does Black Lantern/Weaponizer's Texture but also Shallow Rave's very own Kid Ritalin! It's more downtempo and even more glitchy, with a head nod feel helped by raps that reference the Invisibles (surprise!), Dark City and a general dystopia. It's called "Silver Age".

Silver Age-feat.Texture+Kid Ritalin by morphamish

Sublimacy Video

SUBLIMACY - Dr. Nojoke ft. Kid Ritalin from e on Vimeo.

Audio-visual artist Big E made a wee video for our collaboration Sublimacy... It's a club visuals capture, but makes me very happy.
His other works are linked from the page and are equally awesome.

Countdown to FUCKNO: Part 8, Dr. Nojoke ft Kid Ritalin

Dr. Nojoke Ft. Kid Ritalin - Sublimacy

Dr. nojoke's been given a fair bit of schpiel on this blog before (here, here and here), and Kid Ritalin is of course a major part of Team Little Rock. Sublimacy was born of a shared fascination with minimalism, experimental music, post-modernism and apocalyptic concepts - a dark construction of growling bass, metallic clanks and sparce rimshots backing scattershot flows. Straddling dubstep, clickno, hip-hop and spoken word, it's a complex and twisted peice of art.
Dr nojoke is a godhead of the creative commons / netlabel scene, having released on bleepsequence, Leporelo, Tropic and more, as well as curating the Unoiki experimental platform. His live and DJ sets can be accessed through the links, though we highly recommend the Techno For Food live set from earlier this year.
Dr.Nojoke - Techno for Food live set 2010 by Dr.Nojoke
Kid Ritalin appears on Black Lantern Music very soon and has two EPs due on Little Rock very shortly.

Dr Nojoke - Sublimacy ft Kid Ritalin

I was across in Berlin recently to record with Dr Nojoke. Obviously, I had a little extra time, so put it good use.Berlin's graffiti culture is awesome, and O2 World has become the biggest symbol of vapid capitalist culture. The Television Tower was the greatest symbol of totalitarianism; an overarching eyeball reminding east Berliners that there was nowhere for them to hide, and a raised middle finger to the west stating technological superiority.
There's a Starbucks around the base of it now.

The O2 arena is the capitalist equivalent; a fat, homogeneous beast crouching amidst the cultural vibrancy of the East; a white sprawl looming over the dense psychedelia of the Berlin Wall Gallery. It's a bland tribute to money and conformity, and in a city famed for it's club culture and experimental music scene, O2 world is the venue of choice for bland pop, over-wrought dinosaur rock bands and big-chain CD stores.

I'll post a few of the better images from elsewhere in the city later, for now, here's the finished Dr nojoke / Kid Ritalin collaboration, due to be released as part of FUCKNO, Little Rock Records epic compilation.
Sublimacy Ft. Kid Ritalin by Liam Arnold

Thanks again to Dr Ruth for the art.