The Return of Rex the Dog

Rex the Dog is back in the game, returning to his musical home, Kompakt Records, with a stomping new EP ‘Sicko’ and free-to-download mixtape. The lead track from the new EP comes in at around the 31:30 mark. Get all over this – it’s as hot as hell. For the full Rex the Dog backstory […]

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Coyote (Is it Balearic) - The Socrates EP - Rothmans

Coyote – The Socrates EP – Rothmans

After our post last month on the Rothmans Record Store Day Marathon Session, we were given their latest release to check out. It is out today and available from any good record store. Though unable to make last months party ourselves, we heard it was a storm and are making an extra special effort to […]

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Red Laser Records - Kid Machine - Red Planet EP

Kid Machine – Red Planet EP – Red Laser Records

Manchester based label Red Laser Records have been flying the self titled ‘Manctalo’ flag since late 2012 and have released tracks from a range of electronic artists from Manchester and beyond. These include the likes of Ste Spandex, Starion, LeonxLeon, Kid Machine and label founder Il Bosco. They are a sibling label of Manchester institution […]

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Jamie XX – Sleep Sound – Young Turks

This new track from Jamie XX, released last week, unsurprisingly caught our attention at YAMB. His talents never fail to impress – The XX are one of the best UK bands that have emerged in recent years and his DJ sets always get crowds going. His remix work never becomes tiresome and his own production […]

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Vermont – Vermont – Kompakt

With the short crisp chill of early spring moving into longer hazy days, we were desperate for something new to while away the time spent dreaming of summer bliss. As if by magic this new self-titled record turned up from Vermont – a collaboration of Danilo Plessow (MCDE) and Innervisions’ Marcus Worgull. This is the […]

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Demian – With Love & Voodoo – (CLOUDED 017)

For the past couple of years, Matt Walsh’s Clouded Vision Recordings has been my go-to label if I’m on the prowl for solid, no-nonsense tracks. Matt has a knack for finding and putting out incredibly powerful productions on his label, and the latest instalment from Parisian producer, Demian, stays true to form. ‘With Love and […]

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Clark – Superscope / Riff Through the Fog – Warp

Chris Clark is an artist who has been releasing music for over 10 years and has collaborated with YAMB favourites Nathan Fake, Luke Abbott and most notably Broadcast. His last release, 2012’s ‘Iradelphic,’ was something which was labelled as a drastic shift in musical style, full of heartfelt vocals and live instrumentation. True to his […]

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Steve Cook – Tusk Wax 13

Tusk Wax can do no wrong and that’s certainly true of Steve Cook’s addition to the label, Tusk Wax 13. As you’d expect from the London-based label , the limited edition 4 tracker really packs a punch – expect some pretty heavy, thumping, slow mo grooves. Steve Cook is one half of Clouded Vision, so […]

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Dokta Venom – Burnt Roses EP – Five Fold

Five Fold Records is a new London based label looking to release quality dance music. They started strong with a jazz funk influenced release from AD Bourke, who worked his broken discoid rhythms into the labels self imposed lack of genre and tempo. Dokta Venom (Daniel Maunick) is up next here and does not disappoint. […]

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JOE’S BAKERY BAND – MMX202

Recently, we’ve really taken notice of French label, Macadam Mambo. If you haven’t already, we highly recommend you check out their back catalogue here. There’s a couple of exciting forthcoming releases, which we’ll be reporting on in due course, but before that we thought we should share a release from a few months back from […]

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Magic Wand Vol. 8

Magic Wand Edits – We Love Japan Brother Ninjas

Volume 8 of Is It Balearic..? side label, Magic Wand is out now and it’s a hell of a record. Extremely vibey disco edits from label founders, Coyote, along with Magellanic Cloud and Oyama. However, the stand out track is an uncredited edit of Frank Chickens‘ 1984 record, ‘We Are Ninja’. The original is brilliant, […]

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YAMB’s Top 10 of 2012

2012 has been one hell of a year and that time is upon us to reflect on the year gone by. We survived an apocalypse, Team GB cleaned up at the Olympics and some prick with NHS glasses won the X-Factor. With only a day and a bit left of 2012, I thought it as […]

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Octo Octa – I Can Feel You (Dub Version)

After hearing the deep and lush sounds of Brooklyn-based Octo Octa’s Rough, Rugged and Raw late last year, I knew there would be more sublime electronic music to come. If you’re not familiar with LA-based label 100% Silk, you should definitely check them out. Their releases are varied in style and inspiration and when I […]

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