We deliver another grab bag of funk, psyche and minimal, chaotically blended for your pleasure. Vintage bleeps, cutting edge electro, and the latest from techno’s grizzled veterans; Shallow Rave are all about the the wonkiest, weirdest and most out-there beats.

Tracklist

1. Skudge – Ursa Major (Cosmin TRG Remix) – Skudge
2. THP Orchestra – 2 Hot 4 Love – Butterfly Records
3. Marc Houle – On It – M_nus
4. Walton – 808 Vybzin – Hyperdub
5. Bernard Badie – Overjoyed – Mojuba
6. Sweet Exorcist – Test One – Warp
7. Karl Krak – Tin Tin – Unknown
8. Sweet Exorcist – Mad Jack (Jimi Tenor Remix) – Warp
9. Wes Montgomery – Tequila – Verve
10. The Slits – Newtown – Island Records
11. Psyche – Crackdown – Transmat
12. King Midas Sound – I Dub – Hyperdub
13. Todd Terje – Swingstar (pt 1) – Smalltown Supersound
14. Christian Vogel – Today’s Standard Form – Shitkatapult
15. Sixties Guns – Lightz – Unknown
16. Bering Strait – Surface – Apollo
17. Indigo – Sunrise – Apollo
18. The Black Dog – Bleep #2 – Dust Science
19. Nothern Structures – Session 4 – Sonic Groove 
20. Andy Stott – Ceramics – Modern Love
21. Echologist ft Spaceape – Mercy Beat (Cosmic dub) – Resopal Red
22. Alan Backdrop – Ramas – Motoguzzi
23. Oliver Deutschmann – Sadness Descends (Hiver Remix) – Vidab
24. Black Dog – Bleep #5 – Dust Science
25. Space Dimension Controller – Welcome to Microsector 50 – R&S
26. Space Dimension Controller – Music for Spaceports - R&S
27. Karl Sanders – Luring The Doom Serpent – Relapse

We promised, and here it is - a brand new two hour radio show from ShallowRave...

Radiomagnetic link.

Kode 9 - Black Sun

Kode 9 - Black Sun (Out Monday)

Yes, though the hype is absolutely through the roof over Kode 9 and the Spaceape's second album (over four years since Memories of the Future), it is actually as good as you want it to be. 'Memories was a barren, scorched record, full of empty, echoing soundscapes and sparse percussive frameworks; a low-end depiction of the wasteland after the apocalypse, where Spaceape's almost inhuman poetry growled across the emptiness. Jesus, Sine of the Dub consisted of a low-end rumble and an uncomfortably loud chord, with a few cymbals trapped in the high-end. Black Sun, despite the apocalyptic title, and Spaceape's ever-doomy delivery is a much warmer, richer record, reflecting the evolution of UK bass music in the intervening years, with tracks like the R'n'B inflected Love is the Drug and the reworked Black Sun (Partial Eclipse Version) brimming with richer percussion and evolving synth work. It's still dark and upsetting, with Spaceape spitting viciously about "the prophets taking liberties and re-arranging the words we say" and "a god who has underachieved", and Goodman crafting Bullets against Bone from the sounds of riots and protest. However, this feels like the place after the wasteland, a post-apocalypic, dystopian society - everything feels recognisable, but deformed and reworked according to a stranger set of values than we can comprehend.

It's a massively accomplished record, and far more accessible than Memories, without ever-losing the dread dub feel that the pair have made their own. Spaceape in particular has become a far more potent MC, combing the violent growling we last saw on Fuckaz with R'n'B aspects, hints of Roger Robinson's abstract rasta poetry, and even delivering a few bars in straight-up rapping. It's as broad and compelling a mix as we've come to expect from both Hyperdub and Kode & the Spaceape, and frankly is a good contender for album of the year already.

Out on monday.

Burial is Slack

The last compilation album I did was easy as it was just a matter of deciding what my favourite tracks I'd released was and putting them together – but the new one was difficult, because half of it is brand-new tracks, and of course everyone's busy, everyone's got their own shit going on. Hopefully you're going to get everyone's best tracks but people are releasing other stuff elsewhere, it's not their sole focus.
Certain people take longer than others, obviously – I mastered it a couple of weeks ago but I only got the Burial track this Monday, and I wasn't even sure until then that I was going to have a new Burial track. I tried to keep the door open for him as long as possible, but he's not really been finishing much stuff for quite a while now.

Kode9, interveiwed by Joe Muggs for The Arts Desk.

Fostercare, the new Burial tune: