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Pictures from some recent gigs we've hosted:

29 March 2013 - Brixton, London

Viv Albertine, VuVuVultures, Left Leg, Mickey Gloss, Big Wave, No Cars, Arthur Gunn, Simon Love (Pictures)

8 March 2013 - Lexington, London

R.Ring, Golden Grrrls, Slushy Guts and Equinox (Pictures)

On Our iPod

Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold (album)

Hard Skin - Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear (album)

Black Angels - Indigo Meadow (album)

Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin (album)

R Ring - Fallout and Fire 7”

Royal Headache - self-titled (album)

The Mariner’s Children - Sycamore EP

Can’s Ege Bamyasi played by Stephen Malkmus and Friends(album)

The Fall - Sir William Wray 7"

Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams (album)

Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds - Conjure Man 7”

Lightning Bolt - Oblivion Hunter

Robyn Hitchcock - There Goes The Ice (2x 12")

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Single/Download Review

Portico Quartet ft. Cornelia
Steepless Real World Records

Article written by Michael H - Sep 27, 2012

Like the best minimal music, Portico Quartet's new single 'Steepless' completely enthrals with a few bare ingredients. Gathering its elements together in the first few seconds: wood clicks, plangent piano chords and the beautiful vocals of Cornelia Dahlgren, it bursts into life with the addition of a three kicks and a clap beat which drops out temporarily to allow the tiny-dancing-angel details to gather pace, returning for a gloriously thumping end to an all too short 3 and a half minutes.

Solid remix work is done on the Capax mix in which the tracks parts are melted down into fractured dub techno. Two more mixes of another track 'Lacker Boo' by DVA and Luca Lozano are also excellent. DVA piles the sub bass high low for a dense build and release of tech noir. Luca Lozano tractor beams the listener onto the dance floor with a hypnotic cauldron of deep house movements and skipping two-step.

Links:
http://www.porticoquartet.com
http://www.realworldrecords.com